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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 14/08/2026

Man, it's really wild to read that cartoonists union statement that opens with "we're disappointed SPX chose not to kill itself."

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 13/08/2026

Wildest thing about human bodies is that reliving the physical symptoms of anxiety by, say, using the heating pad I got for my bad back, also helps the mental symptoms.

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 13/08/2026

"People like it," the Matrix co-creator said of her new script The Hunted. "But they really don’t want to make it because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast." www.avclub.com/lilly-wachow...

avclub.com

Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood won't make her new action movie because it has an all-trans cast

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 13/08/2026

The first time I ever remember buying a comic (or having one bought for me, I suppose) was at The Back Porch, which was quite possibly the only newsstand left in Bloomington-Normal in 1990. I always thought of newsstands like the one in Watchmen, like kiosks. This was more of a convenience store.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 13/08/2026

Re: this, is anyone actually using Northsky? I got a reminder that they finally sent me my invite

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 13/08/2026

I would kill to be able to block all “back to school” type posts and ads. Yes, I know what time of year it is, my anxiety at losing ~50 hrs/week of time for myself is not lost on me.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’ll be tabling at Small Press Expo next month! Any of my artists cronies gonna cronies gonna be there?

Beetle Moses will be at SPX (Small Press Expo, Bethesda, Maryland. September 12 & 13) Hope to see you there!

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 13/08/2026

Final Fantasy. Yes even that one. And that one. Managed Chrono Trigger alright though.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 13/08/2026

I’m waiting for one of the Potter actors to claim they somehow had no idea about Rowling’s bigotry and blame their agent

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Desecrate the grave anyway

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

aiddata.org

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Only one type of Potter-y you should support amirite amirite www.roseschmits.com

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 12/08/2026

Remember that the safest way to view Eclipse Comics is in the discount section of your local comic shop.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 12/08/2026

I am so close to just buying 5 black dress shirts so I don’t need to think about what to wear to teach ever again.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Devastating repost

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Ben Collins O @bencollins.bsky.so... • 35m
It's me!
Peter • @notalawyer.bsky.soc... • 2h must've been terrible to date AOC as a regular man because one minute you're dating a bartender who's a bit out of your league and the next there are tabloid stories like "you're not gonna believe how ugly this guy is"

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 11/08/2026

Your work will be called "porn" the moment it is convenient to power to define it that way. Solidarity is our only useful option.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 12/08/2026

Found myself on Letterboxd for some reason, noticed a really bitter half star review of Camp Miasma and fell down a rabbit hole of skimming the bad reviews, most of which were young men who have substacks, still use twitter and likely will never have any awareness that they’re film bro caricatures.

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's my birthday today, but you get a gift. “Walt” is a new 16-page comic drawn by @illusclaire.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it in its entirety below or download a high-res .pdf on a pay-what-you-want basis at the link: hagaipalevsky.itch.io/walt (1/2)

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 10/08/2026

It is astonishing how many people think "running a business" and "running a website" are skills every writer has or wants to have, that doing so doesn't take massive amounts of time away from the actual meaningful work of writing. And that's to say nothing of the skills needed for fundraising.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 10/08/2026

Looking for classroom decorations and god is it annoying that I can't tell if some of this shit is just mediocre design or AI.

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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 10/08/2026

The reason Harry Potter Adults are so bad is because for a long time there were totally normal Harry Potter Adults who did things like use their fandom to raise money for charity but then Joanne went absolute horses and all the normal adults ditched the fandom so the only ones left are total ghouls.

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Good Old Claire @illusclaire.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Did u read Walt yet

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 10/08/2026

Yes, posting this on the butterfly app means I am currently mostly unpointed 😅

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 10/08/2026

I can't overstate how important it feels for The Children to be discovering Lain. I'm sure there's a lot of Millennial and Gen X folks who are fueling this, too, but it's one of those cyberpunk shows that feels so very relevant and I barely knew anyone who was into it when it came out.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 10/08/2026

I will never get over how different it feels to be medicated and pointed at something I want to get done vs. unmedicated and/or unpointed.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

*sighs as I exit the time machine* I'm here to stop a children's book.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Someday soon, everyone will claim to have known this all along.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...

rogerebert.com

Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set

The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It has been clarifying, to say the least

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 04/08/2026

This is the brand that wanted to charge you $18/month for heated seats. Stop buying their fucking cars.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 04/08/2026

One of the things I love about Dropout is that I’d never expect something like this but making art I love more accessible is exactly what I’d try to do if I had the money

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 04/08/2026

Not only are these fuckers taking credit for a man they tried to sabotage, they haven’t said word fucking one about Chicago’s massive drop in crime under a Democrat who is relentlessly dragging city Dems toward progressive ideas.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 04/08/2026

I groaned when they did this. I liked when Superman and Lois did it with Action #1 though. Something about it just felt weird here, and I don’t quite know what it was.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 03/08/2026

I’ve been stupidly stressed and imagine I will be for a while still, but I get to see Camp Miasma tonight with my fiancé.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 03/08/2026

I need yall to do this to Rahm, too. Not enough people do this to Rahm. I can’t overstate how badly he should have been out of a job after Mayor of Chicago and he kept getting jobs in politics

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/08/2026

"Nicole Russell is a columnist at USA TODAY and a mother of four who lives in Texas."

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 03/08/2026

Ben Folds Five, Whatever and Ever Amen, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Or Tallahassee, We Shall All Be Healed, The Sunset Tree

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 03/08/2026

God, am I gonna buy necromunda stuff I won’t be building or painting for months…

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 03/08/2026

I wanna say Kirby, but I worry that the years and his influence would make it harder to recognize him. Sienkiewicz maybe? I can spot Sophie Campbell’s art a mile away. Zoe Thorogood, too.

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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 03/08/2026

Computer? That’s gender. Science and engineering? That’s gender. This meme? Oh, you better believe that’s gender.

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Normal Human Despair @bairfanx.neocities.org · 02/08/2026

If you were cool like me and preordered, you might already have it!

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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

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