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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
dig through the TINKER and burn through the TAILOR and slam in the back of my SOLDIER SPY
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/08/2026
hey just making sure everyone knows tom hardy put out a rap album where he does the “"now is the winter of our discontent” monologue from richard III in the bane voice on one of the tracks. okay have a good weekend
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Press clippings!!!!
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
4 panel comic

First two panels are entitled “Journalist Visits Twitter”

Panel 1: Journalist is skipping happily through Twitter. Behind them, two people shout “Black people suck!” And “gay people suck”

Panel 2: Journalist continues to skip. Two more people shout “trans people suck” and “immigrants suck!”

The second two panels are titled “Journalist Visits Bluesky”

Panel 3: Journalist skips into bluesky and someone immediately shouts “YOU suck”

Panel 4: Journalist is crouched on the floor, absolutely devastated. In the foreground is a piece of paper that reads “Today, I went to hell”
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Z. Bill @zbill.itch.io · 17/08/2026
Never Gonna Stop this Ape on Mars! My snake-tossing cryptic retro adventure, Encroacher: Snakes, is OUT NOW!
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Bex @bexg93.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨 The archived version of the suppressed Amnesty report into the anti-trans network operating to dismantle human rights in the UK has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine. JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.
A screenshot of the Wayback Machine page when trying to access the suppressed Amnesty report into anti-trans organisation and networks in the UK saying "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine".
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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HotPocketHPE @hotpockethpe.neocities.org · 14/08/2026
Essay on the terminals in classic Marathon (spoilers). It turns out text is a very useful tool in games, especially if you frame it well! hotpockethpe.neocities.org/essays/marat...
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For The Love of Terminals
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
RIGHT: we're poisoning society to death so it can be replaced with one that exists only to enable our violent fantasies LEFT: we must strengthen society by expanding social services and expelling those who seek to kill it CENTER: so... the right gets what? nothing?? come on. let em kill it a little
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/07/2026
really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people
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Jeremy Jayne @jeremybjayne.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
MMO/MUD/sandbox game fans rejoice, the 2nd Noclip doc from my Raph Koster interview is now live! sort of a pre-history/history of MMOs and their predecessors (back to the 1970s!) from one of the most legendary designers of that world. we go deep on this one, don't miss it!
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Wraith Games @wraith.games · 15/07/2026
After Microsoft fired 136 of id Software's 185 staffers (+ over 3000 other Xbox jobs), producer Andrew Willis is saying worker-owned studios are "the only way to fix the video game industry"! As one such worker-owned studio, we couldn't agree more! www.gamesradar.com/games/after-...
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After "incomprehensible" Xbox layoffs, id Software producer says worker-owned studios are "the only path forward"
Microsoft is planning 3,200 layoffs total
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Patrons voted for this bonus video to go on the main channel, so we have released it to all. Just a little morsel about place and a movie that I love. youtu.be/29K0R5S-v_k
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Belle and the Meaning of Place
YouTube video by Folding Ideas
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KinoFabino 🇵🇸 @kinofabino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Reposting because of the sony news
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Yeah, that’s the America I grew up in. When I say the anti-trans playbook now is the same playbook as they ran in the 90s against gay people, I mean the SAME
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 11/02/2026
did a blog post about how i am gradually switching to linux. hashtag bitching hashtag moaning www.joewintergreen.com/fuck-windows...
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It really is unnerving how much Twitter is just accounts trying to do radio rwanda but in a way that’s impossible to understand unless you understand a language of bizarre ideological shibboleths (these are not dogwhistles, because they aren’t intended to hide the bigotry)
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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
tutorials in modern games are like if the first 50 pages of every novel was dedicated to teaching the user how to read
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sure let's attack get out the vote efforts in NYC. What have they accomplished recently, aside from electing the most progressive mayor the city's seen in ages, just last year.
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Jesse Boo-rascia 👻 @jesseguarascia.com · 19/06/2026
Starting to wonder if these Gacha games are creatively bankrupt
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 17/06/2026
Here's an updated version for this week.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/06/2026
The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.
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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Wait, Farscape's just up on YouTube in (seemingly) its entirety? Huh! ... Iunno watch Farscape it's pretty good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQl...
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Farscape S1E1 FULL Episode | Pilot
YouTube video by Farscape
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Topher Kai @topher.gay · 12/06/2026
If socialism is so bad why won’t the US let its adversaries implement it on their citizens even once as a treat
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Always pointing out that Elon Musk has deliberately murdered hundreds of thousands of people mostly in the global south and it is estimated that he will have murdered 14 million people via DOGE alone in the next 5 years.
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 29/05/2026
This is how I used to make backgrounds for my art lol god look at that UI. I remember it so clearly.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/05/2026
This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/05/2026
"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...
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Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Oh wow really
An article titled "Groundbreaking study finds no evidence that trans athletes are a threat to women's sports
Trans and cis women Show similar levels of p physical fitness in competition, according to the first neta-analysis of the published research"
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A thing about the heaviest users of chatbots is that they acclimate to cloying obsequiousness. Like a billionaire and their entourage of viziers, it becomes normal to them. Any interaction that is *not* abject simpering they'll now perceive as a slap to the face, an aggressively violent outburst.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/04/2026
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
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Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz
There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
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Cosmo D @cosmoddd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Moves of the Diamond Hand - out now! store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...
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Reason to Doubt @reasontodoubt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
To everyone who insists that voting doesn't matter and it can never make a difference: Hungarians just voted out an autocrat who had been in power for over 15 years. Voting works.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹
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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
At this point women in gaming should be able to join a class action lawsuit against YouTube Twitch etc for monetizing hate raids on targeted individuals. Private citizens shouldn’t have to fit the bill for fighting YouTubers and streamer legal fights when YouTube profits from harassment traffic.
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Babybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 29/03/2026
The bluesky address is @attie.ai and it really needs to be in the top five accounts blocked on this platform. This is honestly some of the most tonedeaf shit I’ve seen from BS and thats saying something
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“The term ‘third place’ was coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his book The Great Good Place, which explored the role of places like cafes, parks, & libraries in societies. He argued such places were not only important for mental health, but were essential to democracy & a sense of community.”
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'Elevates the mood': Third places providing a space away from work and home
In an increasingly digital world, Brisbane residents are still heading out to enjoy third places to take a break, enjoy life, and expose themselves to new ideas.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
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