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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Data's over here like "not me, suckas"

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The question is not whether I should kick the puppy. The puppy is innevitably getting kicked. The question is whether I can kick the puppy in a sustainable, inclusive and empowered way. How can people be supported in kicking puppies for good? Let’s stop the puppy kick gatekeeping already.

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

What is an episode of Star Trek that has a bad reputation but you genuinely enjoy? Any series, any episode. No judgement. Personally I go for Home Soil or The Vengeance Factor

scene from TNG episode "Home Soil" where the tiny bright light of a non-carbon-based life form insults the crew, calling them "ugly bags of mostly water."

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

profanity, like most things, just takes practice. You'll be sore for a few days but come back better at it

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Nightwell Games @nightwellgames.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Our new demo is out now! Play the first three rooms of Deductopia--Chess Game, Sandbox, and Bring Your Pet To School Day--100% free! store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...

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Deductopia on Steam

Explore the scenes, find clues, and sort out people, pets, and belongings in this cozy slice-of-life detective puzzle game. Fans of Duck Detective, Little Problems, and The Case of the Worst Day Ever ...

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

waveform visualization gives you some advance warning the new Carly Rae Jepsen is gonna be banger after banger

waveform image of Carly Rae Jepsen's track "On Wires" showing a pretty standard lyrical intro with variations in amplitude, followed by an absolute wall of sound with all the frequencies and amplitudes blending together.

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your résumé? John Crichton: a radiation wave hit and I got shot through a wormhole. Now I'm lost in some distant part of the universe, trapped on a ship, a living ship

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your C.V.? Professor: Well, it was only supposed to be a three-hour tour

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

iTunes may have put an album onto ipods and iphones without permission back in the day but OneDrive just stole all my music without asking so congrats, Microsoft, you are clearly the most obnoxious

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Amanita Design 🔧 @amanita-design.net · 08/10/2026

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me, seeing a half-inch of rain on the forecast for this weekend:

man with bushy eyebrows and a shirt that says "sickos" standing at the window, saying "Yes... ha ha ha... YES" in twisted enjoyment of whatever he is looking at.

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sexy georg is an outlier and should not have been counted. Did I say georg? I meant Wilt Chamberlain

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 07/10/2026

I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender.

A stack of business cards reads in English and Korean: Generative AI is unethical, annoying, and anti-art. Anything it touches will fail, and be a mark of shame on human history. I do not wish to discuss this further.

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

oh definitely - I grew up in the south bay and know that really, nothing good happens north of mountain view (and nowadays Google's mostly ousted that too)

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

an amazing true tale of how "By the time Mark Zuckerberg started dressing like Jake Paul and Jeff Bezos pulled his newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, it was beyond clear that the good feelings of Tech 2.0 were gone."

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The great vibes divergence

Why does San Francisco feel so weird during this tech boom while Oakland is more or less still Oakland?

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I majored in Chemistry. Maybe you've nerd of it

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had a PS3 as media box for many years, it works great, just the right amount of blu-ray playing, networked filesharing with your other computers, and 5.1 sound

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New game: Best Cat Butt Angle. Here's Tawny measuring in at a respectable 40 degrees! Can we get to 45?

Tawny with her butt angle drawn on. It is very steep.

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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

JUDGE: How would you envision that looking, then? PROSECUTOR: What part? JUDGE: The part where I appoint an independent person in the interest of justice to investigate the Department of Justice, and that person is being supervised by the Department of Justice www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Judge to begin inquiry that could lead to criminal contempt charges in ‘Broadview Six’ case

A federal judge on Thursday said she’d initiate a “fact finding” process to determine whether potential criminal contempt charges are warranted against prosecutors in the “Broadview Six” case.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Over at Thinky Games, I wrote about Shroom and Gloom, @allwillrise.bsky.social, and @mycard.utustudios.com, three innovative deckbuilders that rethink the genre's fundamental rules.

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Palmer Luckey's into personal quadcopters so that's gonna be a hilariously ill-fated era

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Deductopia will be participating in Steam NEXT Fest in October! ...Aaaaaand releasing 2 days later. Look, you work with the schedule you got, OK? store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

since we've just gone through budget forecast season, I can say: if you need to "massage" the data to make the case for your funding, that gunshot wound isn't getting treated

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

but that's only like $20k per neck!

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

as I've heard @gwenckatz.bsky.social say, "The problem in publishing has never been a lack of words."

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I call BS, no one who keeps chickens could POSSIBLY care about gravel neatness that much

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The humans had always considered the ocean tragically deficient in both advertising and imaginary whales. At last, technology had solved both problems.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

tv and coffee; these should both be Good things to talk about, how have we strayed so far

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the words "firmware update" should never be associated with anything in my kitchen, bathroom, or bedroom

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

all I want in a fridge is that it keeps food cold and maybe comes in a color other than stainless steel. Challenge rating: impossible

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if my experience with chickens is any measure, the chicken ordered more than one. Bunch of inebriates

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

I'm of two minds about this information

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

highly illogical, we let our females wear clothing, storytelling, idealistic, ugly bags of mostly water

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

seems accurate, especially in light of Maven deciding a school with 150 kids in it was a good target for two tomahawk missiles and nobody bothering to double-check

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constructive iconoclast @ador.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

personally my takeaway from this latest season of Reacher is that people who use AI are the same folks fine with using chemical weapons

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again they have discovered a new cat that looks like an ocelot but smaller AND THEY DID NOT CALL IT THE OCELITTLE

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