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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 16/08/2026

Terminally online culture is a particular kind of obsessive, FOMO brainrot. People who just live in Twitter/BS/Reddit are chasing those little dopamine hits of bite-size info drops and micro-outrages. They fundamentally can’t understand those who don’t feel compelled to be plugged in 24/7.

Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 16/08/2026

One reason I’ve faded back from the nerd-fandom space is that too many people wrap their entire identities around that one series/franchise/IP they love. For them, to reject that fandom is to reject them. It’s basically religious thinking. And, I’d argue, a sign they have very little sense of self.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there's this sense that every opinion exists along the spectrum of a political alignment chart so there's genuine stakes involved in having one, and i think partly that's because the microblog medium actively resists conversations any more complex than that

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 15/08/2026

There’s no justifying this. There’s no forgiving this.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I also want to add that every single time ICE has physically hurt me, they have grabbed me by my chest. Most of my femme friends have said the same. I will not be surprised if / when we find out about twisted sexual assaults conducted by ICE agents with these gloves.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For about 5 years, my wife sold and shipped out nerdy crafts. She got her supplies from ULine because she knew them from her job in small business operations. Then one day we looked at the front matter of their catalog and were like "uh, these folks are FUCKED UP"

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

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Most frequently, she refers to her boyfriend’s haircut as his “new fuckass bob”. I am not trying to listen. But I do not know what these words mean in this combination. My imagination paints several pictures in response. They are all hilarious, or painfully cringe-worthy. Poor bob-boy.

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Sitting at a restaurant, a pair of college-aged girls in the booth behind me. One of them has, cheerfully, used the term “fuckass” in their conversation more times than I’d previously heard collectively, ever. This is what you miss when wearing headphones. This is the music of the people.

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Joe Don Baker is… MITTENS

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Man, the Phantom was my absolute favorite as a kid

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Some future US president, and really every one of us, should travel the world begging forgiveness for these unpardonable sins, and exacting righteous fire and brimstone vengeance upon their perpetrators.

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 10/08/2026

This wasn't even something I thought about until we started looking to buy a house. I was walking about one, starting to comment on what I liked and disliked, and my agent shushed me, pointed to a camera, and said not to say a word until we were outside lest the sellers use it when negotiating.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/08/2026

This article is great. It says it all. Read it and share.

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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 08/08/2026

Another AI casualty. 😕 An entire anthology was cancelled and *an entire imprint* was shut down because they were flooded with AI stories and couldn't fully verify which ones were written by humans. 😭 RIP, "Tales From Sherwood Forest." RIP, "Myths & Legends" imprint. 1/3 🧵

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"Thank you for your submission to "The Gren-Wode: Tales From Sherwood Forest". It is with sadness that I am writing to you to let you know that we will not be moving forward with the anthology (or with the "Myths & Legends" imprint in general).

The landscape of open submissions for fiction and poetry has shifted over the past few years. No more so, in our experience, than with this anthology. We have been flooded with a large volume of clear AI/LLM submissions. We have also received a lot of submissions that feel like they are in a gray area where they are likely AI/LLM created or assisted. The increased volume may be timing and the state of submissions in the fiction world right now, or it may be due in part to the fact that we were focusing on characters and stories that are already in the public domain and have a large volume of material already scraped into generative tooling. It is a simple thing to spit out variations, and it seems that many people out there have realized this.

It is a core part of our mission to support human expression and connection; not commerce, not clever machine rearrangement, etc. As a result, we have come to the difficult decision to cancel this and future publications from this imprint. We appreciate your time, your interest, your support, and are very sorry that things have gone this way.

Best wishes,
Sloum"

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Spider-Man: Pre-owned Day @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

we should be telling more bluesky users "I don't think you should be talking to me or anyone else like that"

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Chris Maze @chrismaze.com · 08/08/2026

Happy 40th to Transformers: The Movie! A childhood favorite that still “hits like a truck.” Revisiting my old Criterion-style design from the Bendis Board era (IYKYK), with updated art from my archived 2021 TF: The Movie print called, “Negative Space.” Til all are one!

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"You have no way of knowing how much your life and your actions mean to other people. It's one of life's mysteries that we go around helping and inspiring each other, often in ways we are totally unaware of. You also have no way of knowing what you will create or what your creations will lead to."

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 08/08/2026

SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. Multiple calls lately, looking for scarce books. "The cheapest copy online is $200!" Book prices are artificially inflated now due to AI purchasing 🚨 An INDIE BOOKSHOP can tell you whether the current price is reasonable or whether you should wait for the market to stabilize.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For some reason all these "moderate" groups think after losing a primary they're in a position to issue demands.

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Sarah Sunfire @sarahsunfire.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

upping this again because a few more of these slop accounts just followed me and I see that a lot of my mutuals follow them too, GUYYYYYS

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My first dvd player was so unreliable that it eventually received the Office Space printer treatment from me and my roommates.

I usually just stack my Sandman Slim books vertically when I need to add a bit of shelf space.

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Make shelf space. I have it and it is quite chonky.

There’s an anthology edition

Cover of “The Best Way of Uncanny” anthology

Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 04/08/2026

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One of the most true things printed here on Al Gore's internet.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 04/08/2026

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

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Mister Sheridan DJ @mistersheridandj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I saw someone on IG say that the appeal of the political right to dipshit men is that, if you get on board, "you get to be 14 forever." I can kind of see that now. It's an even more toxic version of Peter Pan.

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WILLIAM😎 @williamstlucia.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

HERE'S WHAT AI IS BRINGING TO OUR FUTURE🤯

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 02/08/2026

Maybe James will stop sending me fundraising emails then. Nothing says “Dems aren’t interested in winning” more than continuing to listen to and propping up this guy.

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 02/08/2026

I got one of these enormous AI email’s about a 12-page kid’s comic I self-pubbed in 2014. It wove in several paragraphs about my old podcast Nerd For A Living. It glazed me and this way out-of-date work to egregious levels, while missing anything I’ve done recently. Hilariously pathetic.

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 02/08/2026

That’s where I do it, every time. It always comes back.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.

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‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating

The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 01/08/2026

It wasn’t worth losing Mother Love Bone to get Pearl Jam

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Adron Buske @adronbuske.com · 01/08/2026

Ignoring the greatness of “Burn” is a criminal offense.