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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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darwinwoodka.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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dansinker.com
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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explaintrade.com
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.
October 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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ultralaser.bsky.social
terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.
October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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usili.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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veiledshore.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
August 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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blackle.bsky.social
[ Bridge to eQualia ]
cyber-noir webfiction
14.1k words, CC0 1.0 Universal

Maggie, a security researcher moonlighting as a internet sleuth, uses her unique set of skills to investigate a case of online vandalism.

Please share with a friend if you like it ^w^

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Bridge to eQualia by blackle
A security researcher/internet sleuth uses her unique set of skills to investigate a case of online vandalism.
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June 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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remysiu.com
Our Peabody speech for 1000xRESIST.

“This art form is barely unearthed. It’s too early to define it. Fund the indescribable.”
On behalf of sunset visitor, Nhi and I want to thank the Peabody board for this huge honor. We put so much into this game, what we wanted to see ourselves. We yearned for stories of the Asian diaspora to be allowed imagination. For diversity to include diversity of form. For our stories to contain risk and experimentation. As people of colour and artists, we wanted to see our whole selves represented – and for this not to be sanitized or erased to appease soft power or timid tastes. We didn’t know if we’d have another chance. For people like us, sometimes we only get one chance. I want to say to the game industry, resource those on the margins and seek difference. Take chances again and again. This art form is barely unearthed. It’s too early to define it. Fund the indescribable. Always be moving, transforming. Be water. Thank you and hekki grace. Remy and Nhi backstage at the Peabody Awards. Behind them, a sign says “quiet please.”
June 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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blackle.bsky.social
dragon lady next to me at the second life rave was too close and her wings kept clipping through my player model. I didn't mind but she apologied each and every time it happened. chat was filled with hundreds of variations of "oop sowwie >_<!! xoxo" and "uaah! not again! orz" by the end of the night
May 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
he swam so fast and furious
May 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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ztul.bsky.social
on destroying the internet
when i talk about "destroying the internet" i guess it should be read in concert with the comparison to iconoclasm, which did not destroy images entirely, but attacked images *in specific contexts* to argue their presence there was unnecessary or harmful. similarly, my ultimate desire would be to "destroy" the internet by changing the shape of it: a general end to ubiquitous computing, for instance, with the understanding that while connection and communication is good, yes, great, there are places where computers and the internet do not need to be, or even places where they should not ever be. as someone who's been online for a while, i've seen the shape of the internet change a ton, and i know it's going to change again. in fact, i think the primary appeal of the internet to the capitalist class is how quickly it can be changed, how quickly it can be made to move, how many situations where access to it can be made compulsory, and how significantly your life is impacted if something happens to even one of three or four websites. so if i say "destroy the internet" i say it with the knowledge it will certainly be destroyed, is already right now being destroyed, regardless of what we do, because profit can be extracted when they shake their ant farms and wait for us to generate more culture in the ruin. but i think there's a utopian horizon somewhere in there, because the protean nature of the internet also means *this doesn't have to be* what the internet is, and *this doesn't have to be* how we live on it.
May 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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building470.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
March 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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sharxiii.bsky.social
A radical skeleton telling you "Just start. You don't need permission. Art, craft, 2nd book, cake, writing, that show, any new skill, making friends. If it sucks, ask for help. The time will pass anyway"
March 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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sofiaajram.bsky.social
Trans Rights Readathon is March 21-31 🏳️‍⚧️
and since it is especially needed this year, I made a booklist of trans horror authors to seek out and discover (myself included). These are exceptional works of fiction in a variety of formats, so please—take your pick (but do!)
March 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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josie.zone
Sometimes you just have to lay down the law
texts: You don't find there to be any kind of magic in the way the randomness collates into something tangible with generative Al? 14:40 D Nope 14:40 None 14:40 It's an evil technology 14:40 く It iS the enemy, made by the enemy, and it kills us a little every time it is used 14:40 There is magic in random juxtaposition, and that's why tarot exists 14:41 く Tarot doesn't require destroying the biosphere and stealing from creatives 14:42 I'd take entrail divination over generative Al 14:42 / Generative Al has as much value as cancer 14:42
February 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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mericmoir.bsky.social
Ke Huy Quan from Everything, Everywhere, All at Once saying “When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how l've learned to survive through everything.”
February 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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brainmage.bsky.social
Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist
February 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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discoelysiumbot.bsky.social
That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.
January 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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cait.bsky.social
there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off
January 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM