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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 2h

“Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 2h

Magician goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. The Great Work is available to you. Go study it. That should pick you up.” The magician bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor… as above so below.”

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 3h

… so yeah, Trump’s brain is still in the 70s and will never, ever, ever leave. (When not looking at him through rapist/intimate partner terrorism lens, looking at him as someone who peaked in the 70s and is still mad about it becomes remarkably useful.)

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 2h

You know what really freaked me out doing that Bee Gees episode? Realising that Maurice and Robin were younger than me on the infamous 1997 Clive Anderson TV appearance.

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 2h

Your bonus episode on People! mentioned Scientology’s role in breaking up the band. How many other bands did Scientology break up?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 16h

If you need any more evidence that: 1. Twitter is the hitler site 2. You, as a socialist, should not be on the hitler site 3. Social media in general, here included, cultivates a lot of people, you included, into emotive reactionaries and should not ultimately be where you shape your ideas.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 3h

You dont understand until you see this happen first hand that no matter what Republican have to lose. Cox proposed free transit in 2021 and in 4 years he packed the state supreme court. He said Trump was chosen by god. LGBT people really thought he was going to try.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 3h

This wretched man fundamentally broke something in me. My late parents felt hoodwinked by Cox We saw a man stand up for a hyper vulnerable minority in Utah. Cry they just wanted to live their lives. Then in a year he threw them under the bus and the national press fucking cheered him as sensible

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 4h

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3h

First thought is the final episode of The Strange World of Gurney Slade.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 4h

actually i recently discussed this trot on my patreon podcast. good question. IN THEORY it is a really fun idea but in practice it just does not work. imagine an author soliciting half-clothes photos from their readers. just kind of NOT THE TROT

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 4h

I've not seen anyone say the Bible yet, but I *really* don't think there can be any competition

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 4h

My current standard for musical badness is: does it sound like AI slop

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 5h

idunno I think if you believe llms are conscious and continue to use them, you’re just saying you’re down to be a bad person? thats the logical conclusion of winning the debate? like what am I missing

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Filbi (they/them) @filbi.bsky.social · 5h

the thing about Garth Marenghi is that he's a hack and a bigot, but he really does want to write good books. he's not just in it for the money, he really believes that he has something important to say and wants to share it with the world. and I think that's kind of inspirational.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 6h

This reminds me of this bonkers story from the Marshall Project: www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/f... ... which was also told on the podcast Crime Show: open.spotify.com/episode/0MfW... Anyway. It sort of shifted how I think about DNA evidence.

themarshallproject.org

Framed for Murder by His Own DNA

We leave traces of our genetic material everywhere, even on things we’ve never touched. That got Lukis Anderson charged with a brutal crime he didn’t commit.

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David Groenewegen @groenewegendave.bsky.social · 5h

Always feel like Talmy gets a really bad rap for the sin of making a ton of classic records, being quite good at it, and expecting to get paid as contracted.

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 5h

Alan Moore by Brian Bolland. #comics #art

Black and white illustration of comics great Alan Moore with a drawing of a hand up top like it's holding it up.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of guys I'm seeing are mentioing that they aren't saying anything because they're afraid to come off as "performative". Guys, please be performative. Please be cringe about it. That fear you have to look bad is the same fear that shut the 50 other group chat members up. Say something

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

absolutely the fuck not

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 19h

Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 5h

I strenuously oppose the "class reductionist" leftists who claim that trans rights are a distraction from Real Proletarian Revolution, but damn, when the boss sacking you by email has pronouns in signature, you begin to see how people think like that

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 5h

Oates: well, if you don't like that idea, maybe you'll like this one Oates: i've got this golden apple here for the fairest Roberts: please! we weren't born yesterday Roberts: there's no way we're falling for THAT obvious bait Roberts: i'll just take that thank you very much Hill: hey wait a minute

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 5h

Roberts: um Roberts: wow joyce Roberts: that is certainly a take Roberts: wow Colleen Hoover: i'm going to murder you, joyce carol oates Roberts: colleen! Hoover: i'm going to murder you and feast on your bones Oates: oh people say that to me all the time

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

1st minute of “Rat In Mi Kitchen”: god what a banger this is, perhaps we’ve been too harsh to UB40 3rd minute of “Rat In Mi Kitchen”: firmly on team rat, may it gnaw on their bones

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 6h

It is almost incomprehensible. California’s Habeas Corpus Resource Center (a state agency) reported in May of this year that the death penalty costs the state over $200 million a year, meaning California spent at least $6.8 billion on its death penalty system between 1978 and 2025.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 6h

Barker: that is a great take, joyce Barker: you should definitely go write over to the romance writers circle and tell them that right now Oates: do you think so? Poe: don't do that Barker: don't listen to edgar, he's a hater Barker: you should DEFINITELY do that

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 6h

Oates: this whole AI thing Oates: why not let it write the romance books? Oates: since that's an inferior kind of writing Oates: not like the kind i do Barker: ha ha ha!! Barker: YES! Barker: masterful trolling! Poe: is she trolling tho? Barker: we'll never know Barker: that's the beauty of it

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 6h

Joyce Carol Oates: you know Oates: i have a take Barker: oh shit Barker: oh shit this is gonna be good Poe: how do you figure? Barker: edgar Barker: it's a joyce carol oates take Barker: they're always good Poe: i don't know about that Barker: they're good to me, edgar

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aly @aly.codes · 6h

One of the reasons AI began to be used in moderation everywhere is because in the 2010s there were atrocious articles describing the absolute hell human reviewers were going through and how they all had PTSD

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Lino @lino.io · 6h

Had a discussion the other day where someone told me that I'm paranoid and suffering of psychosis and should be locked up because I think that Elon Musk is in fact a nazi.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 14h

I had no idea this was an option.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

Increasingly, I am coming around to this position on the AI debate

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 7h

Judith Butler Apology Form
Date:
Reason for behavior:
( ) The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s
( ) I miss not thinking about gender
( ) I was jealous of their nonbinary swag
( ) I never actually read their work
( ) I didn't realize how much of society is built on gender
( ) Mercury was in retrograde
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( ) I will hereby respect Judith Butler and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 7h

Note - this isn’t how Bayesian statistics work, but it’s why they say things like “AI has a 10% chance of killing all humans.”

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 7h

it's really hard not to speculate here, but she is in critical condition and my best guess is that she is on a ventilator and other life-saving devices and medications with a poor prognosis

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Wesley Osam @mwosam.bsky.social · 7h

The Humble Bundle site has had a lot of SFF novel bundles lately, and the latest is a Gene Wolfe bundle put together by Tor:

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Humble Book Bundle: The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library by Tor Books

Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase!

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

mods are asleep, post bean hole

diagram of method to cook pork & beans in a pot covered in embers and buried in a bean hole

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 9h

i would rather remove my eyeballs than witness an AI tingler cover

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drmaB🎃🎃!🍁🍂 @drmag00.bsky.social · 8h

I loved the little aside that the breakup of the Bee Gees gave us Queen. Maybe everything does happen for a reason.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 16h

just found out a thing photoshop has been doing and driving me insane for 2 years that i thought was something wrong with my computer was a FEATURE OF THE PROGRAM. Tim Adobe i will find you in this life or the next and Hurt you

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 8h

Oh wait can we count every social media post that uses "Orwellian"

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 8h

After listening to this excellent podcast I put on my playlist that I made a while back when I went through a Bee Gee phase. What a strange, unique and fascinating group of people.

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Beest of the Gees

Playlist · poor_old_belver · 28 items · 2 saves

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 8h

I get radical left "Council Communism" apparently. Also in morality "No ideology in the catalog leans as far toward progressive as you do."

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 8h

Johnny O’Keefe! Col Joye! Jimmy Little! Dolly Parton! Bill Gates! (not that one) Rupert Murdoch. Manx to Mancs! The Batley Variety Club! David Bowie! Cucumber Castle! Sophia Loren! Englebert Humperdinck! Brian Epstein! Lulu! Elton John! Nina Simone! Disco Tex! The Sex-O-Lettes! Rod Stewart!

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 9h

If you haven't heard. Be prepared for how *not* like 'I'd Like To Teach the World to Song' it is

youtu.be

BEE GEES _ Coca Cola 60s Commercials

YouTube video by B.G's

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 9h

I'm rabbiting holing the Bee Gees early stuff thanks to @andrewhickey.500songs.com and I'm losing it at the Coca Cola ads

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12h

not me, but growing up my best friend was the vicar’s daughter, and I vividly remember one day overhearing the vicar’s wife imploring him to NOT refer to their lunch guest as “the baby eating bishop of Bath and Wells” because “we have established that he does NOT find it funny”.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 9h

I used them from about 2021 to 23. Gave up. It is indeed an absolute hellscape. I am told it wasn't always, but enshittification took over. I imagine it's got even worse with the growth of GenAI making fake profiles even easier to create.

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