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Brian D. Clarke

@bdclarke.bsky.social
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The Mad Canadian. Generalist. Ronin Librarian. Research Magpie. Unexpected Textbook Co-Author. Host, Forthcoming Podcast Project Also; not a Russian bot, and BLM. Needs to be said.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a perfect library joke 📚
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. So manye hues of greene. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.
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Good Squiddance @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Trek galaxy is fundamentally a place of wonder and beauty, not a Lovecraftian horrorscape mankind should be terrified to enter.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 22/09/2026
today is an absolutely fantastic day not to work in crisis comms for susan collins
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Russell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!
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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
friend told me a story about her dad’s college music class where they wrote different examples of classical compositions John Williams ripped off and John Williams showed up for a masterclass one day, saw it, went over to the blackboard and started adding more examples
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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
“Every time a Trump official utters the two words ‘flexible realism’ (which stand in for the proposition that whatever the United States wants, it gets), the rotational velocity of the late Hans Morgenthau’s cadaver increases by another few centimeters per second.”
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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jim'llpaintit
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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
VHS, por Glen Brogan
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Bluedy Moos @bluedymoos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kind of lost for what to do this evening so I'm going to post some tunes...
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Nice To Be Here
YouTube video by The Moody Blues - Topic
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Georgie Sunset ⛺️ Cosy Camper ⛺ Vtuber @georgiesunset.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is COMPLETE! I fully intended to only go for 3 hours or so but it would. not. stop. being INTENSELY thrilling. 5/5 game, easy. Special mention to the scene that made me viscerally uncomfortable...you know the one. PLEASE check it out yourself!!
A character grips a railing with a determined look on her face.
"Sunset! What the hell's going on?!"
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As a man, it is a great honor both to have the tea spilled to you and to be called "girl" by the woman who's spilling it.
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Brian D. Clarke @bdclarke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Fraser/Nechako junction
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy
Young Anton Chekhov, the playwright, looking super hot in his 20s
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.
Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish
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delusions of personal superiority @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
💀 who made this?
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Brian D. Clarke @bdclarke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
...until the dairy nation attacked
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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 09/09/2026
One more repost. I'd appreciate a read. I went more personal than usual on this.
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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"So Bobby sends out our record with the dead f**king rat in an envelope, and they land with a thud on the desk of every preeminent DJ who immediately refuses point blank ever to play the Boomtown Rats in their life.” www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Rat Trap [1978] (Original Video) - The Boomtown Rats
YouTube video by The Boomtown Rats
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
you would have a much better chance of winning a fight locked in a room with darth vader than going a typical 1940s cartoon length vignette with bugs
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Cathy Leamy @metrokitty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Holy smokes, what! I saw Pet Shop Boys live once and had a blast. If they tour live with this, I’m in!
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Brian D. Clarke @bdclarke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Isabella Rossellini moulted??!
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Brian D. Clarke @bdclarke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Someone handed in their placeholder copy because a deadline hit, didn't they
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Zenopus Archives 🧙‍♂️ @zenopus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🔥 Watch this discussion with Shannon Appelcline to learn about TSR's unpublished ED (educational) series of D&D modules. I've known of these for a few years but this is a great overview of a lost piece of TSR history. The part on the ED modules starts at about 32:30 ⤵️
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Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com · 04/09/2026
In good news, one of my favorite Pet Shop Boys projects is getting a proper release. www.petshopboys.co.uk
Pet Shop Boys are pleased to announce the forthcoming album release of “A man from the future”, along with a special listening and conversation event in Manchester to mark the occasion.

Created in collaboration with Alan Turing biographer, Andrew Hodges, and performed by Pet Shop Boys and the Manchester Camerata Octet with narration by Juliet Stevenson and string arrangements by Sven Helbig, the work explores eight significant chapters in the life and death of Alan Turing, the pioneering British mathematician and cryptanalyst who laid the foundations of modern computing. The work has been revised and updated since its first performance at the BBC Proms in 2014. This new version, produced by Pet Shop Boys and Sven Helbig, will be released as an album on October 9th via Parlophone Records. It is now available to pre-order in various formats at the link below.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
and as always, help @rsagarcia.bsky.social as she battles through cancer! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
by artist Ginny Robbins
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Lucas @lokified.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have a new sign to tap when I need to tap the sign
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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.
Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"
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Brian D. Clarke @bdclarke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
An amazing good read with a sting in the tail.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 31/08/2026
Remember that time someone in bluesky bought me a tiny cute saw??? I AM FINALLY USING HER AND I LOVE HER
An Itty Bitty ryobi saw just the right size for cutting small boards
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
40. CITY OF GLASS by Paul Auster Would have been a foundational piece of my personality if I’d read it in the late 80s; coming to this story of deliquescing identity now is like hearing the KLF for the first time in 2026 - it’s a banger but the context is gone forever
Me holding up a copy of The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster - a man in a hat surrounded by floating signifiers and the backdrop of NYC
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bedtime Mom was right about a lot of things but now we all eat poop because Fun Dad promised us all the slurs we wanted
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Nora Germain 🎻 @noragermain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Watch until the end 🩷 Dolly was a genius, and a comedic genius too!!!!
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Saving for future use in case I ever make a joke on bluesky dot app.
a beared white dude looking in the mirror, hand on the glass: Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series.
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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
reason 8 trillion Wrath Goddess Sing whipped & more people should read it
post reading "I've seen a lot of people bemoan the notion that fantasy authors and TTRPG devs can't conceptualize the divine as anything other than as societal constructs anthropomorphized.

... sorry to say-

Neither can you. None of us can. It's not the 16th century anymore."
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I begged Woman’s Hour to cover Gamergate in 2014, when it was the NYT front page & UK women in games were living in terror. Gamergate became the model for MAGA. They said they didn’t think it was an important story. That week they covered women mountaineers of the 19th C & new ways with aubergine
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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’ve bought cokes more expensive than this. Do yourself a favor! books.apple.com/us/book/the-...
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‎The Edge of Space-Time
‎Science & Nature · 2026
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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
mediterranean food is my fave tbh. tried tadhig for the first time tonight, know what i did wrong, nailed the kefta & salad & sauce
an unevenly colored & broke tadhig, flanked by lamb kefta, herbed labneh, olive salad, and feta/tomato/cucumber salad w/pomegranate molasses
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Hypno-Scream (Comms Open)💛🤍💜🖤 @hypnoscream.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You are not wasting your life playing games, watching shows, or making art you love. There are currently losers parading around signs demanding that the Tate Brothers be free and calling them heroes. THAT is wasting your life.
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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hey guys, we talk big about promoting animation from other countries & ive been following this project since its concept trailers. Please please help share it & keep it seen & going. South American animation DESERVES to be seen too. I want this project to live so badly.
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APUKUNAPA KUTIMUYNIN PV2 - El Despertar de la Ensoñación
YouTube video by Ninakami Estudio de Animación
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21/08/2026
honestly so fun watching American Catholic elected officials reinvent protestantism from first principles
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
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Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this thread is amazing
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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Open calls for "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings" are posted - aanpress.com/submissions.... - Please do note we will need to launch a KS campaign 8/4 to fund these. The submission period for both books is September 1-30, 2026. All submissions will be randomized and anonymized b4 reading.
Cover layout with the title horizontally spread across both french flaps, both sides of the cover and the spine. The image is of a medusa snake headed techno god with their arms spread wide and torso dissolving into pixels, floating over a lone hero standing on a rock outcropping.Cover image: All gray and red tones, a figure stands bleeding in the middle of a road of red swirls in a busy city of traffic. Text blocks isolated in black.
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