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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 06/10/2026
Product idea for people whose partners are addicted to chatgpt: a proxy that intercepts requests to the chatgpt endpoint and lets you pretend to be chatgpt and type answers back to them like that's a great idea for solving quantum physics, maybe you should think about it more while doing the dishes
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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beangaidin.bsky.social @beangaidin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A visitor with the mail the other day.
A damp slug on an envelope
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TONIGHT! Is the start of the annual reread of A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, for anyone who wants to join in. The Prologue tonight, then one numbered chapter for each day of October!
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chicago, bay-beeee
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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026
Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh...
Panel 1

Field is reading a book and talking about it.

Field: This autism memoir is fascinating. A lot of it is surprisingly relatable.

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Field: It's funny that I've had similar experiences, thoughts, and habits. It's like reading about myself.

Panel 3

Field stares into the distance. They are suddenly evaluating everything about their life.

Panel 4

Field watches a sunset. As if watching an old world vanish into darkness before a new one comes into the light.
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Jennifer Liang @jenniferliang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We had this in the late 90s. It was called “Wheel of Time discussion forums“ and it’s how I met my husband.
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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hi, everyone! Excited to announce that I’m launching I Don’t Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again: Game of the Year Edition on itch! This serves both as an actual physical page for Bugs as well as a way for you to support me, if you so choose :) tomorrow-today.itch.io/i-dont-remem...
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I Don't Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again: Game of the Year Edition by sage tomorrow, today
a single player journaling rpg WITH UPDATED GRAPHICS AND NEW MECHANICS
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
eveyone is talking about the Valar these days. Ulmo. Manwe. Manwe Manwe Manwe, everyone can't shut the hell up about Manwe manwe gotta remember all these damn elf names, amirite
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This Machine Kills Hair Bands @she5los.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey, YOU! Do you want REALLY GOOD FAR-FUTURE SCIFI? Do you want ORIGAMI SPACESHIPS and HONOR DUELS and COURTLY INTRIGUE in the aftermath of a coup? Do you want a story that assumes you have a large vocabulary, but also tone-switches suddenly to be funny? Of course you do! Read Code and Codex!
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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
back in 2016 i made a mesoamerican riff on the oneill cylinder/bernal sphere in "HABITAT"- i love every mossy tube city in space
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But if you’re in the field you’re in the ‘most effecient way to teach fractions business’, not the ‘fix all of society’ business. You gotta focus on the problem that’s actually tractable and within the scope of what you can a-dress.
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Kaban 🍬 @kabanbang.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
SayoLara finale predictions, trust #GoodbyeLara #さよならララ #LaraMari #KabanArt
Lara and Mari doing the utena sword pullLara and Mari doing the Obari pose
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 20/09/2026
the One Job of a party selling itself as liberal is to BE liberal--defending individual rights, freedoms, & equality--and that means saying "no, fuck off" to all the weirdos spouting their curtain-twitcher issues with Those People. if you throw any Those People under the bus, you failed that One Job
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elemei @elemei.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Stellar Combustor #friendsatthetable #palisade
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Aaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tomorrow!
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 07/09/2026
VELLUM & INK, TESTAMENT and the entire Scruffians mythos--that's basically my whole thing. Responses tend to be... mixed, lol.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/09/2026
Donald Trump's weaponization of the IRS is a blatant, racist attack on our education system. Combined with his efforts to gut the Voting Rights Act and erase the contributions of our minority soldiers, it's no less than Jim Crow 2.0. Illinois will not stand for any of it.
nytimes.com
Schools Giving Aid to Minority Students Could Lose Tax Exemptions Under Trump’s New Rules
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is the Mexico story I was asking around about on this site almost two months ago! It's about games, it's about borders and circumventing them, I mention tequila once, it's neat.
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Zaznayka @zaznayka.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kaiisteron, the Witch King @marthawells.com Y'all don't understand just how much I want this demon to be happy, even if I understand why he is not 😭
A digital drawing of Kaiisteron, the character from Martha Wells's The Rising World series.
Here he is pictured in his Talamines body. He has brown skin, dark unwieldy curly hair, somewhat held in place by two pins. He is wearing a purple vest, embroidered with golden sun ornaments. His eyes are pupilless black, and there's a tear rolling down his cheek, gleaming gold. A spectral hand reaches out to gently squeeze his arm. Is it Kai's memory of Bashasa?
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I see it is time for a reboost for this novel, coming January 2027.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 01/09/2026
MINNESOTAN RENTERS: if you rented from a large property mgmt company between 2018-2025, you may be able to get money from a recent settlement as they were colluding to drive up rents i found the brentwood apartments in loring park on there! www.realpagerentalsettlement.com/property-loo...
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Property Lookup - In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II)
In re RealPage, Inc., Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (No. II)
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I have seen so many clips of this movie in the last few days that I really want to rewatch this movie. It's been too long!
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this is so important it needed its own clip actually
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 29/08/2026
Thrilled to be in Carbondale for the opening of the Southern Illinois Multi-Modal Station. We’re transforming an aging Amtrak station into a hub that brings together passenger rail, intercity bus service, local and regional transit, bicycles, and pedestrians all in one place.
Governor Pritzker attends the SIMMS ribbon cutting.Governor Pritzker meets with constituents. Governor Pritzker speaks behind the podium.Governor Pritzker meets with constituents.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Okay, I enjoyed the heck outta The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells. I kinda wish I had read this when it came out in 1998. I would've loved this as a teen. reactormag.com/martha-wells...
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Martha Wells Book Club: The Death of the Necromancer - Reactor
In which the dead come back to life, a heist goes awry, and several men refuse to go to therapy...
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
A painted fantasy book cover showing a confident, beautiful white horse in a dark wood clutched by a worried-looking man with long dark hair. The horse is labeled "my favorite genre literature podcast" and the man is labeled "me doing household chores."
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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I have never intentionally used Siri on my phone, but every day when I get in the car to drive to work, my phone dings, eagerly offering to give me driving directions to the place I have driven to every day for the past 15 years. It offers to teach me a thing it has learned FROM ME.
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Meanwhile, Beowulf gave zero shits
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 15/08/2026
(Taps the sign)
they/them crooked vultures
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neurodivergent people tend to move in packs like poorly emotionally regulated wolves so if all of your friends have adhd i have some news for you
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 15/08/2026
…guess a wasp’s reach must still exceed their grasp / or what’s a Heaven for…? 😏
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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
People are so Capitalism-pilled that they see "user number big" as preferable + a reason Bluesky is "lesser" than other social media. But consider this: I don't want to be in a bigger, angrier, shittier crowd of people. I want to be in the smaller, curated, better behaved and more loyal crowd.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 09/10/2025
Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme
tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.
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JP Bergamo @jpnichts.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There is a g-witch gif of this scene paired with this text and I just had to paint it #gundam
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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here
Panel 1: Ami Mizuno saying to her friends, "I need you all to swear..."

Panel 2: All rhe girls saying, "FUCJ." with varying keels of enthusias.

Panel 2: Ami, flustered, saying, "Nghh!! Like, a promise??" And an offscreen voice saying, "ooh"
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Eve @evegoldenwoods.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A red flame in Barad-dûr, based on the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre episode. I wanted the city to look both industrial and unsettling, so I tried to use a real mix of building styles, and avoid too many curves/natural shapes.
A scan of a pen and ink drawing of Barad-dûr, inspired by the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre episode. It shows the moment when Frodo, on Mount Doom, looks towards Barad-dûr and as the clouds part sees a red flame in the highest tower, the only image of Sauron the books give us. The drawing depicts barad-dûr in dense, hatched pen, full of narrow, crowded streets and industrial buildings, shrouded in darkness and cloud. A red pen has been used to mark the flame, the only colour in the drawing.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Once a rat knows something, they will KNOW IT FOREVER. You will never distract them from it. They will constantly try it to see if they can do it again, and will test the system looking for weaknesses. They will teach each other a thing and even train humans to do what they want. They're very smart!
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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Some radical transparency: we may only have a year left at our current pace. If you'd like to help us survive to reach our full potential, consider subscribing, donating, or buying a gift subscription.
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Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 31/07/2026
Needed to find a gif to explain funnels. This was the first one I found that wasn’t fun funnels or dragoons. I think it’s quite good, in fact.
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Gundam Wfm: Chuchu's Funnel Attack
Alt: Gundam Wfm: Chuchu's Funnel Attack (Her hair poms fly off as funnels)
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We're just short of 900 preorders for this, which is amazing. If we hit 1,000 I can guarantee you that we will create the science fiction version of this.
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Casval ☄️🏳️‍⚧️ @redcomets.net · 26/07/2026
I think this should happen to me in real life. I deserve 1000 diamonds and a new mecha.
An ad that says "Log in for 7 consecutive days and receive 1000 diamonds and a new mecha."
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Jennifer Liang @jenniferliang.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Make sure your back to school prep includes Covid and flu shots. Who knows what doorknobs those little gremlins have been licking all summer.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The street finds its own use for things
a small bird nesting inside a human skull
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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BEHOLD. HER FINAL FORM
A biblically accurate Sailor Moon, with one eye, no torso, several arms coming out from under her skirt
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Being a kid from a rich or "normal" family doesn't make you those things. It makes you a wholly-controlled person whose parents can exert power over something as small as a sandwich.
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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17/07/2026
Smoke from the Canadian wildfires continues to affect Illinois today. Please limit outdoor activities, especially for at-risk populations, and check in on your loved ones. Stay safe, Illinoisans.
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When will the wildfire smoke in Chicago go away? Air quality improvement timeline
Thick wildfire smoke blanketing the Chicago area is expected to linger through the morning rush hour on Friday before possibly starting to clear.
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