K D Val aka ilrak

K D Val aka ilrak

@ilrak.blacksky.app

They/Them | Theater Nerd Half of @Tonedeafmusical.bsky.social | 37 | Married | Black/Italian | Nonbinary | Bi | #Alterhuman | Raven and Ceratosaurus Stelliferoforme in a human suit |

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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Dolores Huerta, United Farmworkers co-founder and civil rights icon, has died, her family says.

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Molly Moth 🏳️‍⚧️
@molly-moth.bsky.social

Replying to @ahhhhhhhhhhhhhha.bsky.social

Republicans as a whole are incredibly unpopular right now. Gas and grocery prices are through the fuckin roof. No one can afford rent or Healthcare either. The only reason to run on transphobic policies right now is because you actually hate trans people.

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱
@oddoblivion.bsky.social

It’s always a guy with family annihilator eyes.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Yesterday, Josh Turek released one of the worst anti-transgender ads to come from a Democrat this election cycle. It called for a federal funding ban on gender affirming care, which would impact countless trans Americans. Here is our article on the ad you have all undoubtedly seen by now.

erininthemorning.comIowa Dem Josh Turek Releases Anti-trans Ad Calling For A Federal Funding Ban On Trans CareThe impact of Turek’s proposal would be profoundly harmful for transgender people.

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Quest 64 Official
@quest64official.bsky.social

See now we're fucking talking One of the only weapons we wield in this fight is our money and attendance, and if everyone involved with an event says "I'm not going unless you stop using AI" there's only two outcomes: *No AI or No Convention* Conventions are made by and for the community

dexerto.comFighting game legend SonicFox pulls out of gaming event over AI-generated art - DexertoThe competitor was advertised as a special guest at Nexcon 2026, taking place November 14–15 in Norman, Oklahoma.

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Rabb for Congress! (PA-03)
@chrisrabb.com

The U.S. has no moral authority to execute anyone. Not when our own history includes public spectacles of racial terror, carried out with the blessing of the state and as savage as anything we condemn abroad. #lynching #deathpenalty

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com
@coreybrickley.bsky.social

lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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Kasey Gifford
@kaseygifford.bsky.social

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Notorious B.A.Bs
@babsiwuff.bsky.social

Furaffinity cannot die. It’s one of the most important creative outlets furry has. Please consider subscribing to FA+ or donating to the site.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆
@chiitan.love

Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Linda McMahon: "AI is definitely a tool used correctly. I've seen it in action. I have visited the Alpha School in Austin, Texas, where they use AI for the first two hours every single morning. The students have their headsets on, they are watching their computers ... it is incredibly effective"

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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social

A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison.

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Gillian Branstetter
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social

i've seen this ad three times already today

K D Val aka ilrak
@ilrak.blacksky.app

(This is the result of about 17 frenzied minutes in Clip Studio paint armed with the eraser tool, a brush tool, a pic of kirk, a pic of Wayne Hylics, and a cursed mental image that wouldn't leave my mind until I did this. Now I am Free. But at what cost?)

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óÓÒò ¥€€₦ óÓÒò
@spottedmenace.bsky.social

It's hilarious because movies based on historical figures where there literally were no good white people involved, they have to invent a white savior -one of the good ones- just to get the movie made.

The Playlist@theplaylist.bsky.social

Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

dlvr.itPaul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”Just days after Paul Schrader revealed that he plans to make his long-gestating crime noir “Three Guns At Dawn” entirely with AI-generated performers, the filmmaker has explained why he abandoned human actors in the first place. According to Schrader, Black actors rejected the original version because all three of its Black protagonists were criminals. His solution? Make the movie without them. Schrader has spent the past week gradually clarifying his plans for “Three Guns At Dawn.” As The Playlist previously reported, the filmmaker originally conceived the South Central Los Angeles noir around three Black brothers—a corrupt cop, a drug trafficker, and a third criminal—with Antoine Fuqua attached to produce. Continue reading Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People” at The Playlist.
K D Val aka ilrak
@ilrak.blacksky.app

If you're at othercon, swing by my table (ilrak's roost)!

Othercon 2026@othercon.bsky.social

Othercon starts this weekend! Here are instructions on how to join: 1. Use the invite link available here: othercon.org. 2. Wait! Regular attendees get in starting on August 13th (US East). There is a deadline!!! (read more below) #alterhuman #althsky

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Tone Deaf: A Theatre Nerd's Guide for their Spouse
@tonedeafmusical.bsky.social

K has a table there again this year (and is selling their playwright/screenwriter services!)

Othercon 2026@othercon.bsky.social

Othercon starts this weekend! Here are instructions on how to join: 1. Use the invite link available here: othercon.org. 2. Wait! Regular attendees get in starting on August 13th (US East). There is a deadline!!! (read more below) #alterhuman #althsky

othercon.orgOthercon | Home

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave
@wolven.blacksky.app

As someone with ADHD who very often needs both friction & tedium reduced in order to, y'know, function, I've definitely come to rely way too much on the workflow of canvas/instructure & other LMS environments, which makes their whole "increasingly evil & increasingly pervasive" situation suck a lot…

Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social

Folks seeking to divest from Canvas - are you going completely old school (paper only syllabus, assignments, etc) or have you worked out a hybrid plan? Can anyone point me to resources that will surveil me and my students less?

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@theradr.bsky.social

RETURN IT ALL

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social

"Among the 18,000 skulls and human remains stored in the basement of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris are those of Guinean anti-colonial fighters." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

lemonde.frGuinea asks France to return skull of Bokar Biro, who led resistance against French colonizationGuinea is seeking to reclaim the skulls of the last ruler of the theocratic state of Fouta-Djallon and those of three of his close companions, nearly 130 years after their murder by French colonial tr...