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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall” is such a nice quote that you can almost forget that it comes from a book about disillusioned rich people committing vehicular manslaughter
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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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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That Top 100 TV list is outrageous! How can it not include <TV show you loved when you were 15 that no one else has seen and if you watched it today you'd want to tear your own head off out of emabarrassment>??!!
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Liking things rules, actually.
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Uneasy Writer @uneasywriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The whole thing about Star Trek computer voice was it just answered the question, it didn’t prepend everything with “that’s a really great question, Captain Kirk!”
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.
A tree - possibly an ent - with legs, arms and an unusually large bellybutton.
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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title reads, "Suddenly Finding A New Obsession".
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, in front of her computer. She has a bored expression on her face.
In the second panel we zoom in on her face. She looks suddenly alert.
In the third panel we zoom in even closer on her face. Her eyes and mouth are wide open in intrigue.
In the fourth panel we zoom out and see Sarah in front of her computer again, but this time she is dressed in a frog costume, surrounded by frog toys, and has an "I heart frogs" poster behind her.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
She is made of but cardboard, so her time on this mortal coil will be brief, but I hope she entertains and educates many during her stay. Wish her luck, everyone. 🫡
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
perennial email format: hey that obviously one-time purchase you made? want to buy another one?
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026
Never let a writer help you move
A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
they should invent a bluesky you can scroll that makes dinner
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/08/2026
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 30/07/2026
is it whooshy airplane week in seattle
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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
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Tucker Jones @tuckerjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'm watching in germany. The German commentators kept quiet for nearly the whole thing until suddenly the shot widened and we just hear with a German accent, "Oh, Miss Piggy"
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 29/06/2026
Notice: Characters acting in ways you think are stupid is not "a plot hole".
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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Car mechanic looking at car with crazy stuff under the hood: “here’s your problem: the cartoonist has no idea what the inside of a car looks like.”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
members of the Norway men’s national football team on a rocky shore, styled as a fierce group of ancient Vikings. They are dressed in elaborate historical costumes, including fur-trimmed capes, leather tunics, chainmail, and armor pieces, while holding traditional gear like circular wooden shields, spears, axes, swords, and blowing horns. In the background, longships rest on a calm body of water that cuts through a vast, dramatic fjord. The rugged landscape is framed by massive, steep green mountains, with a thin waterfall cascading down a cliff face on the left, all under a cloudy, overcast sky.
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work
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Nathan and 99 nerds gummy clusters @scientistnathan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Captain Hook with a speech bubble encompassing the quoted post
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My hottest parenting take is that Raffi is not only the great to ever do it, but he’ll probably never be bested. Michael Phelps-ass children’s songwriter.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Everything sucks and there’s slop everywhere, but it’s still an amazing time to be a reader. Good job, authors. Keep at it.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Why should I stop using em dashes? Why should I stop listing things in threes? They’re the ones who suck
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Which pop cultural artifacts will endure? There’s real value in having shared cultural touchstones. And we're losing that. This week's newsletter
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Which pop cultural artifacts will endure?
There’s real value in having shared cultural touchstones. And we're losing that.
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 03/05/2026
15 favorite tv shows is too many for gut instinct. your memes are too demanding
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Austin @wittyrodger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We need some more Aragorn shit in our lives
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Maybe I had been watching too much media.
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately, so it feels like a good time to share my painting "Steady".
A giant ox walks through a valley, it carries a city on its horns.
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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Cartoon: Line art. The Owl and The Pussycat. One of my favorite childhood poems. I did the sketch for this back in 1998 and never finished it. Just a pleasant evening of inking. Hopefully it won't take me another 28 years to colour it :D
line illustration of The Owl and The Pussycat. An owl plays a lute while looking lovingly at the Pussycat. A large smiling crescent moon dips down behind them into the waves. Stars fill the sky.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 26/02/2026
january: man will this month ever end? february: WHOOSH
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JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Instead of sheep, I’m counting things that make me angry before I go to sleep. Should work out well
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I feel like people think "birds are dinosaurs" is a weird fun fact that is "technically true" but I don't know how to emphasize that there are tens of thousands of species of theropod dinosaur on the planet with us right now. People keep them AS PETS. WE EAT THEM.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I hate having emotions about reality; I’d much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.
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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*
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Alura @alura.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Shoutout to the Sammamish, which has a lovely biking trail that runs along side it that we’ve used many times over the years. That said, there’s a part of my mind that immediately jumped to my childhood home river, the Schuylkill, even though i haven’t lived near it in over 30 years.
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Amy the Amazonian @amytheamazonian.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I love iodized salt. I love fluoridated water. I love enriched flour. I love public health tools that save lives and improve quality of health just by silently existing. They're amazing.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 06/01/2026
We had no choice but to hear you. You stated your case time and again.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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KevTheRev @kevtherev.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Years ago, I used to occasionally DJ at a goth club. I once played"Conjunction Junction" in the middle of my set and you have not lived until you've seen a group of Goths merrily bopping along to Schoolhouse Rock. 😂
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I can't think of a single restaurant I miss more than the classic Pizza Hut situation from when I was a kid. You got your own little pizza. You didn't have to pay for it because you read books, which seemed magical to me because I read everything anyway. They had video games. It looked fancy.
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Naomi Novik @naominovik.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game is coming to Kickstarter in early 2026! I've been working closely with Magpie Games to bring the world of Temeraire to life in this exciting new RPG. Follow along & be among the first to take to the skies when the project launches! www.kickstarter.com/...
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