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

I think I've just lost all patience for people pretending a complicated thing is simple, even more so when it's clear that such a framing is beneficial to them.

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

Yes, I know it's more complicated than that. That's sort of my point.

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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...

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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

I guess it’s not fair to say the neighbor was creepy so much as he gave me the creeps. Not his fault aging and death are unnerving to a 5 year old. I don’t think my dad knew him, aside from living in the same building for a little while. And this is why I don’t write narrative fiction. The end.

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

On the way there, we’d head out the back door of the building. Before going down the rickety ass stairs, he’d knock on a creepy old neighbor’s door to see if he wanted anything from The Back Porch. I remember nothing about the man, save that he was white and looked like death to my young eyes.

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

I explicitly remember buying the Archie TMNT comics there when my dad took me on a Saturday morning so he could get a copy of the Chicago Tribune and a pack of Marlboros. It was maybe a quarter mile walk from an apartment that he eventually stopped paying rent on, doing work for the owner instead.

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

But all I remember them having is newspapers, magazines, cheap candy, cigarettes, and a Ms Pac Man machine in the back. And comics on a spinner rack. That’s the whole point of me posting some shit out, right? The comics? It feels anachronistic to be a millennial who bought newsstand comics.

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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

The frequency with which GASHUNK will just pop into my head

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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

Yep, I think so. The first teaser felt very WWI era, but could definitely be earlier too

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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

At least part of the appeal is in cultivating a sense of mystery among the students.

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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

I loved Miasma but immediately knew there were people who would be disappointed by it. Like what you’re gonna like, but idk how you get into that theater not having some idea what you’re in for. To choose that and vomit a thousand words of disdain is just fucking wild to me.

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

To be fair, I would guess that every language is bad at this. I just have the most experience with English, and from what I've learned about Spanish, Japanese, and Latin, other languages tend to be more structured and less awful.

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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

My favorite part of my MFA was excitedly telling people that I was studying poetry because I hate English and that it's an awful language and that poetry is the only way I know of to even come close to taking the electricity in my brain and replicating it in someone else's.

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

The kinds of people who do this are also the kinds who think that because they can type they can write, and man do I wish we had better distinctions in English between "connect letters and words" and "create art with language," cause calling both of those things "writing" is fucked.

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

I just went to look up what the Harry Potter Alliance renamed themselves, because I couldn't remember and figured their impact has likely dimmed since then based on the lost name recognition alone. Found out that Fandom Forward shut down 2 years ago.

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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

Yeah, there was a good 10-20 years there where it just wasn't available easily anywhere. I've got a blu-ray from a while ago, I think you can legally get it digitally in a few places now. Looks like Sloppy Seconds has a bootleg, too. sloppysecondsales.com/product/seri...

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Serial Experiments Lain TV Series (1998) | Region Free 2-Disc (Blu-Ray) Set – SloppySecondSales – Home of Cinema Dream Network

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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

Like, my friend group had one copy of the tapes a handful of us would watch. One person bought a bootleg of the soundtrack from Mitsuwa back when they had a bootleg anime store. That people are discovering it now 25+ years later is nuts to me.

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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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Mad Scholar Frights @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...

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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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