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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 1h

personal computing, magazine, cover (1977) archive.org/details/Pers...

einstein, wearing a green top, sitting cross legged at a computer with pong on the screen, looking back at you. he is holding a cassette and other cassettes are aying about. he has tiny angelic wings and looks to be sitting on a cloudy surface with light shining down on him. the computer looks as if has just been unwrapped as there is scrunched up paper under it and a bow still sitting on top.
prominent text: intelligent video games are here

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4h

I have noticed that the obnoxious STEM-lord shit has lead to an equally stupid negative polarization among some humanities types about how the brutish crypto-fascist ape-robots of STEM could never hope to understand the true subtleties of art or theory or whatever

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 9h

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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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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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 3h

masonic temple, 6th street, seneca, kansas, 1988

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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 3h

There's a new Past/Present column in The Guardian! Peter Prince and (Waskam) Emelda Davis explore the High Court's backing of ethnic cleansing in 1906, forcing the expulsion of 4-6000 Australian South Sea Islanders as "aliens". Follow the link to read more! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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In 1906 Australia’s high court backed ethnic cleansing. That historical wrong and error of law must be put right | Peter Prince and (Waskam) Emelda Davis

A disturbing precedent that branded British subjects ‘aliens’ is made even more dangerous by the rise of populism today

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7h

Real “make fetch happen” areas

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 7h

"In fairness to historians" don't worry, we probably deserved it

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 23h

Time seems to gather in the gables at the beautiful Turton Tower in Lancashire. Carved timber, quatrefoiled plaster and ochre sandstone jostle together in one glorious whole. A visual delight.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 9h

Sometimes fake history looks pretty awesome ;)

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PhilthyAvnurd @philthyavnurd.bsky.social · 17h

Supermarine 352 Spitfire Mk.Vc (trop) EE853, South Australian Aviation Museum, Adelaide, 11 October 2025

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 20h

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Flare fire at night, on the Western Front, in WW1 (1917). 📷 Unknown

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stowmariesgwa.bsky.social @stowmariesgwa.bsky.social · 21h

The period between 28 to 30 September 1917 saw some of the most concerted attacks from Gotha bombers on both London and Dover - the model is from the Jane Collection. On 29 September, 40 people were killed and 14 more on 30th. Pilots from 37 Squadron responded, but mechanical issues hindered

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Doug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social · 22h

This message from the NHS App gave me an amazing feeling of accomplishment, achievement, and completeness… until I realised that it was taking a very narrow view of what I have to do.

Screengrab with heading “Things to do”. There is a subheading “To do”. Beneath that it says “You have done everything you need to do.”

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Microfiche catalogue system at Sydney University's Fisher Library in 1985 – the state-of-the-art microfiche catalogue superseded the library's card catalogue for all items acquired after 1983 (University of Sydney Archives) 🗃️

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OpenAI has apologised for hacking Australia’s Medicare statistics system in a blog post that revealed the intrusion was broader than first known.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

The fact that the preferred political movement of the free speech set immediately set about establishing “western civics centers” while gutting the rest of the humanities and supports for marginalized students really does tell you what the source of their concerns really were

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A happy book update. Got a very positive reader report back that used words like "an exceptional book" 😭😭 have made some big edits and will do one more round with a developmental editor in the coming weeks. But we are almost there...

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now I understand a bit more about how that very weird Holiday Inn I had to stay in once came to be It was a very disheartening introduction to Leicester

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm going to tell you a story and then, at the end, I'm going to ask you if anyone happens to have the niche knowledge I need to help... The story begins, as so many of my stories do, in an ancient church in the middle of a city. But it's not now. And it's not hundreds of years ago. It's the 1960's

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#OTD 28 September 1943. 'Some of the officers and crew of HMS Unison seen here on deck with their jolly roger flag, after 16 months patrolling in the Mediterranean Sea.' Photo: Lt J A Hampton. (Daily Mirror via @findmypast.bsky.social)

Black and white photo submarine conning tower with crew displaying jolly roger flag with symbols representing victories.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026

there is only one major kind of business today and it is stripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society to buy more money before the world ends

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"President Donald Trump suffers ego injury from mild-mannered Canadians, initiates geopolitical standoff with Canada and issues annexation threats" is a mid-tier South Park plotline from 2005 unleashed on the world

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From one of a handful of influential 70s feminist critiques of science fiction -- Susan Wood's “Women and Science Fiction” in Algol, ed. Andrew Porter (Winter 1978-79) #scifi #sciencefiction

“Women have their great and proper place, even in a man’s universe,” conceded the crusty old spaceship captain who narrated “Priestess of the Flame” by Sewell Peaslee Wright [Astounding,
June 1932).
“Women, when handled in moderation and with extreme decency, fit
nicely into scientifiction at times," wrote Isaac Asimov in the letter column of the November 1939 issue ofStartling Stories. He was nineteen.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone working on English historic buildings or with any Historic England image resource might be wondering why it's all broken. Wonder no more. An IT screw up of the first order. #Skystorians

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Railway workers report the signal box at Lugford as haunted. Talk of a constant presence, of being scrutinised as they work. Talk of objects being moved, levers being pulled. Odd voices down the line. A place not haunted by dread, but by unwelcome intrusion. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There must be a German word for the feeling that historians get when they realise that a hard copy source that they used extensively in their past research is now digitised and easily searchable/accessible. Spent so many hours looking through old copies of THES. Now it’s all online!

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

No...for reenactments to be...realistic, there need to be people being horribly maimed and killed. Everything else is sanitized cosplay. And you don't need Nazis for cosplay. The Clean Wehrmacht is the cockroach of historical myths.

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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Origins of the First World War lecture to 2nd year undergrads today. Every year I wonder if my joke about the heir to the Habsburg throne and a Glasgow rock band will meet mass incomprehension from students who were not born when ‘Take me Out’ was released. So far, so good, but: is this the year?

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 28/09/2026

APRIL — 1975 BREZHNEV IS MASTER OF EASTERN EUROPE ONLY THE AMERICAN FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jumping Tower for the Training of Polish Parachute Troops at Largo, Fife, by Edward Bawden, 1943. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3147)

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

It works!! This site - wragge.github.io - created by this template - github.com/wragge/z-profile - pulling data from this @Zotero collection - www.zotero.org/wragge/collections/M… Yay!! Now to do more testing & write lots of documentation.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

privatizing air defenses is like peak shadowrun

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

STARWARS/DSTAR.GIF

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 28/09/2026

That's why I never listen to them

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure what lesson to take from this. In 1942 Britain was still reeling from the loss of Hong Kong & Singapore. Rommel was advancing on Egypt, & German armies pouring towards Stalingrad. Trying not to actually lose the war was the best we could do.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s far too early to speculate what’s going on down there, but it’s obviously posh kids, a dog, and lashings of ginger beer.

Five arrested for alleged terrorism offences after
'major incident' near RAF
Fairford.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All my cards are imaginary; he has actual cards. Who allowed this??

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the space tablet, print ad, imagery (1982) archive.org/details/byte...

prominent text: welcome to the third dimension
underneath: an image of a kinda george lucas-lookin' mf (wearing a black cape), using a very small space shuttle on a space table to co-ordinate the 3d image on his apple II screen in wire frame. he is looking back at you intensely (away from what he is doing), giving the whole image a twilight zone vibe.

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Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 @nafnlaus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My variant is slightly different.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

found a new type of guy

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u/IntrusiveGas • 6h
AITA for correcting my girlfriend's family every time they mispronounce my turtle's name?
I have a turtle named Geoff. Yes I know Geoff is normally pronounced Jeff. His isnt. My girlfriend's family knows this and still calls him Jeff basically every time his name comes up.
His name starts with /dz/ instead of the normal American English J sound /d3/. So regular Geoff/Jeff is roughly /dzef/ and his is /dzef/. They are similar but they are NOT the same consonant. /d3/ is a voiced postalveolar affricate and /dz/ is a voiced retroflex affricate. Basically you make the beginning of "Jeff" with the tongue farther back/retracted, which gives it a harder, deeper "dzh" sound.
I'm really into etymology and historical linguistics so the spelling was intentional too. Geoff is already a weird spelling from a modern English perspective because gives you basically no reason to predict /dzef/ unless you already know the name. Obviously I am NOT claiming medieval Geoffrey was pronounced / dzef/. I

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm a day later than I should've been, but those of you back home in NZ are now five hours ahead of me in Perth rather than four, and as is tradition I'm reupping my thread about NZ's innovations timewise If you got up for work at 7am today, that would have been 5:30am on NZ's original mean time

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