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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 3h

TIL that before English adopted the word "giraffe," it was called a "camelopard". I shit you not, that is literally the archaic name for a giraffe — bc Romans thought it looked like a camel covered in leopard spots... #thanksihateit Even the scientific/Latin name for giraffe is Camelopardalis. 😭

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ayeeeee what a legend! (Will is p cool too ig)

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m looking to speak confidentially with WB Games workers to corroborate some information that has come across my news desk. If you’d be open to chatting, please reach out via Signal (kerrblimey.43) or email (chris.kerr@verticalslice.news). DMs also open.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just tried watching Love is Blind with the english dubs on, and oh god the Netflix show I *actually* want to watch is the behind the scenes of the abysmally awkward voice actors recording them.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As clean and simple as possible to minimise distractions! The only "distractions" allowed on my home screen are my Finch reminders and Duo's daily 2-min chess puzzle :)

Screenshot of my phone's very simple home screen, showing only 5 colour-coded folder-icons and 2 tiny widgets (Duolingo and Finch) at the bottom, over a muted black-&-white photo of my partner and I from the first week we met.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My algorithm begged to differ! I've never wanted a desk so bad... 😩😍 youtube.com/shorts/yAabR...

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We Built the Product Apple Gave Up On...

YouTube video by HTX Studio

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cool visual of a hot planet by @RyanWeather. Watch the Bell Curve slowly wobble from the left of the chart to the right side and think about what this means for your region (glance at the map too). Source: buff.ly/lgXQKFA

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm guessing it's because they know that if someone is so invested that they're willing to pay $600 for just merch — they're guaranteed to be willing to pay for the game separately as well.

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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 24/09/2026

After calling for a multi-union strike against the company, Candy Crush developers at King in Sweden have officially won a collective bargaining agreement. kotaku.com/candy-crush-developers-w…

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Candy Crush Developers Win Contract After Strike Threats

'Without the fantastic engagement of our members at King, it would have been much more difficult to reach this agreement'

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We can put robots on Mars, and we can have wireless charging pads for our phones... so why can't we have tables that wirelessly charge our laptops? 😤

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ahem. It's only called a Disorder if it's debilitatingly ruining your life. Otherwise it's just sparkling ADH.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No but for real though. It's absurdly difficult to quantify to neurotypicals the sheer impact of what a lifetime of knee-jerk mental self-harm that we've somehow hardwired ourselves into, actually causes. Silently. Invisibly. Yet painfully palpable nonetheless.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ADHD brains: The computer is running, but nothing is being written to disk.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Storage? In this attention economy?!

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ahem. It's only called a Disorder if it's debilitatingly ruining your life. Otherwise it's just sparkling ADH.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My usual responses: 1. Everyone gets a little depressed sometimes too. That doesn't mean we all live with debilitating clinical depression. and 2. That second D stands for 'Disorder'. Everyone *might* have a little ADH — but you don't qualify for D if it's not debilitatingly ruining your life.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Holy balls. This is hands down my favourite new snack ever since this same company first came out with the Fizzy Bottle Flavoured Dates three years ago that everyone else in Sweden then copied.

My hand holding an opened (and unexpectedly quickly emptied) pouch of Dave & Jon's new snack, "Drips", which once contained mouthful-sized chonks of dried mango covered in drizzles of dark chocolate.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Holy balls. This is hands down my favourite new snack ever since this same company first came out with the Fizzy Bottle Flavoured Dates three years ago that everyone else in Sweden then copied.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you make video games it is absolutely vital that you be a complete sicko about something else as well

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We, in fact, also get to eat pizza ON a rock, dangling in that uncaring void of space. Also, burritos. 😋

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

two different paragraphs, two different sections but encourage you to click and read the unsealed (pink) of both of them together. And stop and think about the impact and harm to news media and civil society. /8

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Meds upgrades me to a Windows Vista with 512 MB RAM for a few hours. Sporadically & unreliably brilliant — but not enough to actually run all its heavy demands properly, resulting in slow file operation & frequent crashes. TECHNICALLY booted & executing, but unsure if anything's actually happening 😂

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Absolutely. I tell non-ADHDers all the time to imagine that while their brains are all running on modern gaming PCs, I'm over here desperately trying to keep up on a janky 1987 setup that only came with 512 KB of RAM... 😭

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"I should write this down quickly before I forget!" 👇 "In a second, as soon as I'm done doing this..." 👇 [immediately get sucked back into the task and forget there was something I needed to NOT forget] 👇 "Wait, what was it I was gonna write down earlier?" 👇 Forget the learning. Repeat ad nauseum.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ADHD brains: The computer is running, but nothing is being written to disk.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I'm to assume good intent, it might be related to their scales getting battered by thousands of people slamming heavy suitcases onto them every single day for years on end, and perhaps eventually dislodging something somewhere that makes the scale slightly inaccurate over time? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah this happens constantly! I've found it to vary between different desks at check-in too though, so next time you're asked to pay $124, it might be worth asking to verify on a few different scales... 👀

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Capitalism is the greatest system ever devised because it lets the best price win, unless someone offers a better price, in which case I’m suing you because you’re mean.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maple would like you to know that you may boop her nose — on the condition that you give her a treat afterwards.

Close-up portrait of a gorgeous Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever sitting patiently and staring intently at the snack being held directly above the camera. The photo has a short depth of field with just her big boopable nose and sparkly eyes perfectly in focus.

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NOTHING MATTERS 🪰 @nothingmattersug.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

currently shopping for a desk chair for someone trying to make a game and work full time while also having a family and mortgage #GameDev

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Mighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"I believe that we have reached a stage at which we can find solutions to most of our problems that don't involve training educated minds to kill and be killed." This teenager got it.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

A 10 in the streets, October in Google Sheets.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nope, certainly not almost all! And it's not that it's old or crappy either — I live in a modern apartment (built 2016) with a built-in Siemens microwave. And yes, I checked the user manual. None of the microwaves anywhere I've lived have ever had this option unfortunately.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Mine doesn't have this function, unfortunately... But I also don't want it to be completely silent so that I accidentally forget about it — I just don't want to be *screamed at* by my appliances ☹️ bsky.app/profile/anna...

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hahahaha yeah I figured. But yeah, that one was infinitely cuter! It's not ideal, but still a thousand times better than the nightmare appliances the rest of us have...

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Case in point. Wouldn't it be lovely if those noisy appliances had options.

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Anna Brandberg @annabrandberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I understand that some feedback might be required for safety or whatever, but dear god, can we not at least be given the option to have it be a soft, gentle ding rather than having the machinery alert every neighbour in the entire building every time it's used?! 😭

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