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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026

Douglas Adams: > Anything in the world when you're born is normal, ordinary and a natural part of the world. Anything invented between when you’re 15-35 is new, exciting and revolutionary and you can get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things. 1/

A blasted wasteland with a mushroom cloud rising over it. In the foreground are swarms of drowning people climbing over each other to escape into the limbs of a dead tree, and a crowd of agonized skeletons. All sourced from Dore engravings illustrating the Old Testament.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026

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mjs @the-silver-lining.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I thought a career in dot comes would be fantastic, and it was, until the bust. Yes, I worked in it for a time afterwards, but I'm so glad I was able to find a way out of soul-sucking corporate America, particularly tech.

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chicaattack.bsky.social @chicaattack.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Love your stuff. I have been saying for years that "nothing works anymore." When you find a product that is worth its price and a company or service that helps, it feels like finding a unicorn. If I am getting good customer service and value of my money, it's inevitably from a small local business.

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LucieRigaRaï @lrigarai.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

guessing the naked bodies on the picture are what prompted moderation to label this WTF

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Coffee Roasts @realcoffeechoco.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

More on-point: "Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin." -DNA, So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish

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✨Grimm Reaper Librarian💀✨🗽⚖️🇺🇸 🌬️🍂🎃 @weeklyreader.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

lol

A skeleton on its back, labeled, "ME", mired in the ooze of an apocalyptic wasteland pushes away a rectangular object over it that is labeled, AI.

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