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if this fucker is going to spite us and live past 90 like his dad did he should at least get to experience the rest of us tearing his legacy down around his ears

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h

damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best argument I've ever heard for universal basic income (UBI). "The reason we don't call that work is because it doesn't make rich people money." 🎤Craig Fay

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 05/10/2026

He was extremely thorough and insisted every single part of the protest had to be as orderly and by the book as possible! To the point where he declared that drinking the mayor’s wine wasn’t looting as long as it was returned before they went home for the night. I NEED to find that account again.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I mentioned the other day that for the Mesopotamian rpg I was writing up Plato's Allegory of the Cave (from REPUBLIC) as if it had been written by the Iron Age predecessor of Lovecrafts' Abd al-Hazred. I did. Here it is, in a four-part post. Notes: Rúgúzid is the Iron Age al-Hazred;

2282. Near the end of this year, Rugúzid finished what he believed would be his last and greatest work. He had spent the previous fourteen months in deep thought, usually writing only a sentence or two every day and always following up by double- and triple-checking everything in the sentence or sentences, including the placement and appropriateness of the punctuation marks. When he had at last completed the essay and was satisfied that it said everything it needed to say as clearly as possible and in just the right words, he leaves his apartment, walks across Babilim to the headquarters of the Nam Abgal, and orders the scribes working there to make copies of the essay—dozens of them, on papyrus and linen scrolls, on clay and stone tablets, on wax writing boards, on moving stone tablets, and on every other material and item which the other Nam Abgal members preferred to read from. When the scribes have finished, Rugúzid paid the Nam Abgal couriers to bring one copy of the essay to each member of the Nam Abgal with haste, no matter how far away their homes were.
What he had written bore the title On Shadows, Forms, and Perfect Forms. For a few years, it was the most powerful thing Rugúzid had ever written. It had the effect of a thunderbolt, or shower of thunderbolts, on the members of the Nam Abgal, who were variously nonplussed, disconcerted, amazed, bewildered, or deeply, deeply impressed—but none doubted the truth of what he had written.
The most important passage of On Shadows was the

following:

Imagine a group of mortals—humans and other intelligent folk, like anthrōpotauroi and kéntauroi and brazen folk—living in an underground cave-like dwelling, with an entrance a long way up, which is both open to the light and as wide as the cave itself. They’ve been there since childhood, fixed in the same place, with their necks and legs fettered, able to see only in front of them, because their bonds prevent them from turning their heads around. Light is provided by a fire burning far above and behind them. Also behind them, but on higher ground, there is a path stretching between them and the fire. Imagine that along this path a low wall has been built, like the screen in front of puppeteers above which they show their puppets.

Then also imagine that there are some other group of mortals along the wall, carrying all kinds of artifacts that project above it—statues of various intelligent folk and of various animals, made of stone, wood, iron, and every other material. And, as you’d expect, some of the carriers are talking, and some are silent.

Would the prisoners see anything of themselves and each other besides the shadows that the fire casts on the wall in front of them?

No, they couldn’t—their heads are motionless because of their bonds. Likewise with the things being carried along the wall.

If they could talk to each other, they would all believe that the words they use to name the shadows were correctly applied to those shadows. And if the cave had echoes from the wall in front of the prisoners, the prisoners would believe that it was the shadows passing in front of them that were talking.

In all, the prisoners would believe that the shadows they were seeing were the entirety of those beings—that the truth lay in those shadows.

Now, imagine how the prisoners would feel if they were rescued, released from their bonds and cured of their ignorance by being shown the figures and things casting the shadows. When one of the prisoners was suddenly rescued and stood up, walked forward, and turned his head so that he could see the source of the light—his reaction to seeing the things whose shadows he’d previously been seeing would not be relief. He would be dazzled, yes, but also dizzied, discomforted, unstable, uncertain, and painfully vulnerable.

What do you think that prisoner would say if they were told that everything they’d seen while bound and fettered, all of the shadows that he believed were the reality, were all

inconsequential? What would the prisoner feel, what would they say, if they were told that they saw only falsities before, but now they are seeing correctly—now they are seeing the truth? If we pointed in the direction of each of the figures passing by and asked the prisoner what each of them were, and to name each of them, what would the prisoner say?

The prisoner would be puzzled and disoriented and at a loss and would eventually say that the shadows they had spent their life seeing were the truth and the reality, and the figures passing by were just lies and illusions. And if the prisoner were made to look at the firelight itself, its light would hurt their eyes, and they would flee from those who freed them and run toward the shadows, believing that they are the truth and that they will save them.

And if the prisoner were grabbed by their rescuers and dragged out of the cave, up the rough, stone path and into the open air and the sunlight, how would the prisoner react? They would be angry at having been grabbed and dragged against their will, they would be nearly blinded by the light of the sun, they would be dizzied by the wind and the many new smells they were experiencing—and they would not be able to recognize that everything they were seeing and experiencing were real and true.

After some time, the former prisoner would still see shadows, but they would have adjusted to their new circumstances

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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The Hearth (1/21) A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.

An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

just another day in a country too corrupt to pass a privacy law, regulate data brokers, or adequately fund its regulators things are going to get wild

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
9.8K Retweets
32.7K Likes

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The drink is called "The Slop" Tanqueray green bottle gin (for nvidia) with a wadded up $1 bill at the bottom of the glass. The drink is $1 so you hand the wadded up bill back thus going in a circle the entire night while the venue quietly goes bankrupt to the notice of no one except Ed Zitron.

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Adam @adamid82.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another rough weekend for these two.

Two cats lay side by side on a couch. A brown and black one is already asleep. The younger grey and black on is about to follow suit.

A grey and black cat sleeps next to a brown and black cat on a couch.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

you would need two wheelbarrows full of Teapot Domes to purchase a simple loaf of bread people are burning Crédit Mobiliers for heat and wiping their asses on Whitewaters

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Lan ⛈️ @aquapunked.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Meet my comic THE TITAN! Looking for a romance that lovingly takes the piss out of the action thriller genre? Or how about a post-apocalyptic world grounded in reality? Or what about a stealth, straight, middle-age trans male MC? I gotchu covered: titancomic.net #MeetTheWebcomic #ComixCleric

Comic chapter cover with Ansel and Ren in bath towels, walking away from each other. Ren is hunched over self-consciously and blushing while Ansel strides away with confidence. Text blurbs are scattered around the image: "T 4 C transhet" "shared trauma" "post-apocalypse if it were just boring and funny". One points to Ren and says "smol bean secretly an insatiable adrenaline junkie" and another points to Ansel saying "California's most dangerous man secretly just very tired". A final blurb points to them both and says "both not so secretly into each other".

Ansel and Ren walk down a street in the late afternoon, heading back to their motel room.
Ren: What the hell was that anyways? You wasted that guy like he was nothing!
Ansel: He was nothing.
Ren: I wasn't even in any real danger.
Ansel: It sure looked like danger to me!
Ren: I couldda just slugged him in his stupid face but go on, Slab McChuckRoast.
Ansel: Is that a reference I'm supposed to get?
Ren: No. So let me get this straight. Twenty minutes ago you were drying my tears and then you... do this.
Ren's next line catches him off-guard. He frowns and blushes.
Ren: Did you have some wiggles to get out or is big bad Dune finally warmin' up to me?
Ansel: I contain multitides.
Ansel: You ready to hit the baths now or what? I'm pretty ripe and I'd like to wash this blood off.
Ansel: That shit corrodes, you know. And it's probably full of hepatitis too.
Ren: Shit, baths? Like bathtub baths?

Comic page with three panels. In the first panel, a farm truck has lost control and has careened right through a guardrail on the side of the highway. There's a slope on the other side, not too steep. The driver inside the cab is yelling" Lord Jesus take the-!"
Inside the back of the truck, Ansel gathers up a panicking Ren as dates go flying around them.
Ren: Oh my god, we're going to die, aren't we?!
Ansel: We're not gonna die!
Ansel has secured Ren in his grip and holds his pistol between his teeth as he readies himself to jump out.

Comic page with 5 panels. Ansel and Ren sit next to each other on the ground in the shadow of a large bush as they talk.
Ansel: Maybe it's better that way. You never wanna meet your heroes.
Ansel: 'Cause then you might find out they're like me.
Ren: Shut up. You're only half bad.
Ansel pretends to get mad at her.
Ansel: You're supposed to say not half bad.
Ren, quoting somebody: Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
They pair bust up laughing.
Ansel: Oh fuck off.
They settled down and in the last panel Ansel is giving her a warm and maybe flirtatious look as Ren blushes and draws her shoulders up coyly. She lets out one last little "heh".

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm telling you guys, you gotta put killcodes in the games you make now and hold them hostage. Day 0 patch set to automatically apply and delete everything if you aren't there to manually pause it. Go full Pandora Tomorrow. Your bosses don't know anything about coding, they can't fix it!

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The best parts of the elder scrolls (skyrim, oblivion, morrowind) isn't the weird mythology or the out there cosmology or anything like that, no, it's the fact that they have the Warhammer Fantasy History Nerd Brain where everyone has a simplified idea of their people or nation or region

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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

babylon 5 is incredible

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

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hot dogs are charcuterie sandwiches @riothobbit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

butter is good. really good. your diet has so much fat in it i can't even explain how good butter must have tasted back then to people who were constantly almost starving. holy shit, incredible stuff. hail satan, give me more butter.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Dr. RawheaD @rawhead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean assassination is too bleak (and implies unrest). Dying in sleep is too gentle, too benign. Doesn't deserve it. They should've asked "died of a burst aneurysm going absolutely bonkers over negative news coverage on FOX" as an option. Bet would've gotten a 79% positive response.

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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We should call ourselves something to inspire fear into our enemies! What about...GOON SQUAD?" "...we'll workshop it."

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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The final fight is the survivors gathered around the Fallen Hero, and he shoots them a smirk like "oh really? a group of you, and one of me?" And they're like "watch what happens when we don't take turns, dipshit" and they fuck him up choreographed to a cool music track

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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

STORY PREMISE: five mooks from different genres (80s action, spy movies, kung fu movies, FaF superhero car movies, etc) are friends and stay in touch through their home dojo. But when their Count Dante-esque Karate Master is killed by a "Hero" gone rogue, they team up to bring the fight to them 😤

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Stephanie! 💜✌🏻 @craniatology.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

LEMME BE CLEAR House cats do not have any business free roaming and y’all should know where I sit with that………but not even I am immune to the rush of endorphins as a result of being hugged by someone’s cat that rushed off the porch of their house and over to me while on my morning run. 🐈🏃🏻‍♀️

Top-down view of a solid white cat literally hugging my leg. I am petting the cat with the back of my left-hand fingers. I’m wearing purple running shorts, green and orange ASICS running shoes, and green injinji midcalf-length running socks.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

dear james wokeshop, i shall write Ciaphas Cain but for Skaven - endlessly honorable, kind and just skaven who keeps accidentally doing evil schemes and being respected as the most talented schemer in the whole of the Under Empire

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

“join the gestapo! beat up grandmas! murder your neighbors! turn every nightmare you’ve ever had about a girl catfishing you so she can mock you to her friends and ruin your life into reality!”

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

fun fact, not only is the "Holding out for a Hero" scene #1) the best scene in Shrek 2, #2) one of the best scenes in an animated movie ever, but it is *also* the scene that taught me how to run fun, intense "storming the castle" sequences in D&D that don't get bogged down in combat

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Adam @adamid82.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Oregon Caves. Or as I like to think of it: a Cythonic journey.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

genuinely giving a shit about the nuts and bolts of governance - really, seriously, trying to make it work properly - is the real mamdani superpower the charisma is of course a cheat code but it wouldn't be enough if he wasn't actually following through

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hot dogs are charcuterie sandwiches @riothobbit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Breaking: The Good Ol Boy's Rhythm and Blues Revue has dropped out of their opening spot for Ed Sheeran and made off with their advance

the blues brothers performing in a country western bar

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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 29/08/2026

Going forward, you should probably assume anyone working for the FBI has engaged in bestiality until proven otherwise

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

the reason my likely presidential candidate tier list has two people at the top - Ossoff and AOC - is that they are by far the most effective messengers of I Am Fucking Furious And There Must Be Consequences, which is the most deeply held conviction of the Dem base

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

my dream is to one day see Sam Alito’s seat filled with the wokest rainbow-haired trans lesbian puppygirl imaginable

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◢ RED ◣ @rrh-art.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

So the last Del-verse vote (back in Halloween) Tied between 40k and Despace, so I figured it was worth giving Despace the win this time round so I could do both! Dead space Del: Chief Delijah Leach, head of security, and Necromorph 'Sleeper Mimic' #myart | #oc | #del-verse | #deadspace

a person in armor opening a set of draws prosing that the monsters are gone. A light on her armor is uplighting her face.

The person opening the drwas turns into a monster, with pincers comming out of their mouth.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.

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hot dogs are charcuterie sandwiches @riothobbit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

george miller made a deal with satan, that's the only explanation.

fury road, saturated with color, beautiful to watch

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Centrists like Ed Sheeran feel they are outplaying the exhausting weight of morals by becoming a spineless mass to be shoved into whatever hole comes with the largest paycheck. Let the $ decide. Bill Burr got that Saudi bag. Jack Black traded his oldest friend for a life of Minecraft movies.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

IT ticket, Miskatonic University ITS: [Analyst] at [Lab 11] in [Basement 03] in [Science Hall] Problem: My core sample of Antarctic murals keeps getting jammed in my computer's core sampler. [IT notes: That's your CD player. The core sampler is in the Tyner Science Annex.]

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CarsonDrewIt @carson-drew-it.com · 14/09/2026

Baphelion, Watcher of the Threshold #2026sketches 19 #art #illustration #b&wart #darkart

A digital illustration of a veiled figure sitting atop a steed that is horse-like in silhouette only. it is made of faces, skeletons, plates of armour, and flaps of flesh instead. Hidden in the landscape below them, an armoured knight and 3 robed figures hide tentatively from the rider's eyeless gaze.

Although the horse-like thing has many eyes. So whatever. They're hiding though.

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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if you're not inclined to be a mark, here is a good prior check: •is donald trump known for telling the truth •when's the last time trump paid up •if laws were real (or even vibes at this point), wouldn't this be a comically illegal electoral inducement •wasn't this your money to begin with

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