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Kot (he/they)

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***WE WILL BLOCK YOU IF YOU FOLLOW US WITHOUT ASKING FIRST!*** Library Cat (Ook!), Malbork Castle tour guideperson. Mascaron spotter. RPG geek. Dreamer. Utopian socialist. AuDHD neurodivergent. Nonbinary pan/grey-aro-ace.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 13/09/2026
The way you change a candidate’s mind is by withholding your vote from them until they adopt a position acceptable to you. Once you’ve made it clear you’ll vote for them even if they throw you under the bus, they’ve lost all incentive not to throw you under the bus.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And Science Fantasy is when they have both. :)
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Possibly the greatest event in human history.
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If by 'woke' we mean something like 'opposed to oppression wherever it exists', socialists need to be 'woke' because literally the whole point of socialism is to, um, oppose oppression wherever it exists.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
@firefox.com, when do we get the option to delete something from the search options list in the settings menu? Especially perplexity and other LLM slop, which nobody wanted there in the first place...
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. #filmsky #moviesky #cinema
Animated GIF: Nausicaa with her hand on the "head" of the baby ohmu she freed, a breeze is billowing her tunic-dress and hair.
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Bougie Leftists: You have to concentrate on populist economic issues to appeal to the working class because they don't care about anything else. Workers: We want social, cultural, racial, bodily, sexual, gender, and national equality as well as economic equality. Bougie Leftists: Elitist snobs.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If someone's identity is in danger of being erased by diversity... Good. It should be. The sooner the better.
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Well There's Your Problem Podcast @wtyppod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
new EPISODE about TRASH and specifically HAZARDOUS TRASH
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If Jenny Racicot were a Republican, the 'Platner left' would still be calling this a frame-up and calling her a liar. And the point isn't partisanship. It's misogyny and rape culture, slightly mediated through the aesthetics of party politics as curated for their particular paying audiences.
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The online progressive left have revealed a widespread moral and political bankruptcy in l'affair Platner. We've witnessed a squalid orgy of casuistry, misogyny, and conspiracism. And for what? Milquetoast reformist electoralism with the Dems that they talk about like its the 2nd coming of Marx.
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Platner situation just demonstrates, yet again, that the stuff you hear about the left not being sufficiently welcoming to white straight men is utter horseshit. In fact Platner demonstrates the opposite. A worthless candidate was chosen and then defended long past reason. And we all know why.
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Shawn Lenore | How to be a Werewolf webcomic @shawnlenore.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New page! howtobeawerewolf.com I'm taking a break this week for my birthday, but here are some summer vibes to fill in the gap :D #howtobeawerewolf
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Shawn Lenore | How to be a Werewolf webcomic @shawnlenore.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New page! howtobeawerewolf.com We're wandering in the woods, we're chatting, beard guy was fine #howtobeawerewolf
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
They misuse labels people think mean good things. Being a centrist is utterly immoral. Being a liberal means serving the rich. Being a social democrat means nothing when you're neither of those... Democracy is a good idea. We just cannot allow the right to play, they always cheat and ruin the game.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Tim Ferriss Atul Gawande Charles Duhigg Julian Castro
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
At the university level it would be the (exclusively right-wing) political theory lecturer who decided to take their frustrations out on us. We didn't even get a word in, he just rattled the questions and then failed us in the same breath. Us being a budding socialist was probably a factor.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Yeah, journalism has been dead for a while. This is just the bloated decomposing corpse twitching due to gas and maggots.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 21/04/2026
Absolutely over the moon about this. If you've not read my HUGO NOMINATED book-length essay on Sandman, it remains free to all at www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
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The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
4/21/26: Since this is getting some new eyes, I feel like I should probably offer a bit of context. This essay is part of a larger work, Last War in Albion, which traces the history of the magical war...
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The US needs to change, to become a real democracy, not an oligarchical and dictatorial parody of one. If one leader elected by the elite minority can decide on laws and policy without actual checks or balances... It's not a democracy. Doubly so if the people's right the vote is infringed on.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
@support.bsky.team, why is the block user function missing from our account? Why are scambots able to follow and repost us even if we don't allow that in our settings?
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
So, @safety.bsky.app, why is the blocking accounts feature missing? We get a bunch of hatebots and scambots following us, and we DON'T HAVE THE OPTION TO BLOCK THEM.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is the way
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"Effective altruist" is a double oxymoron.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
So @support.bsky.team, where is our account blocking feature? It's missing, and there's a bunch of scambots we need to block.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A photo-story about abolishing ICE because it has grown to be a menace on society, and needed to be removed to protect their health, and also public property. We wish it was that easy for the US to follow suit.
A snow-covered view out of the library window with a huge menacing icicle hanging from the roof.A snow-covered view out of the library window without a huge menacing icicle hanging from the roof.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We love our job, so we try and try again to use our creative hobbies for running small events. Hopefully we'll get to do something bigger this year. No, not the mini-con during the Siege of Malbork fair. That one is already set in stone. Something that happens on a regular basis.
A desktop with plastic frames containing an unassembled dragon miniature and the box it came in. An already cut out base for the miniature and a pair of players are laid beside it. In the background you can see the clutter of a computer desk at the Library. In the upper right corner a glazed ceramic cat-among-books adornment can be seen on a pile of paper book catalogue cards.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Old Prussian stone figure, or "baba pruska".
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Shawn Lenore | How to be a Werewolf webcomic @shawnlenore.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New page! howtobeawerewolf.com WE'RE BACK! With a side story about Vincent and Elias, because I need some space for these nerds to navigate dating that doesn't involve the Chapter 14 werewolf potluck from hell. #howtobeawerewolf
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Legalkimchi @legalkimchi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The response to the latest video has been lovely. The comments, aside from literally only 2-3 hateful ones out of hundreds, have been thoughtful, considerate, and insightful even when they disagree me.
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We Don't Know How to Talk About Problematic Stuff
YouTube video by LegalKimchi
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, (...)" is a very fitting verse to describe the whole trumpian propaganda machine. And any fascist disinformation, since as we can now tell by looking at the shambling corpse of goebbelsian narrative looming at the keyboard of the US regime.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
It's amazing how many synonyms for nazi they can crank out with a vocabulary as small as they can muster.
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Shawn Lenore | How to be a Werewolf webcomic @shawnlenore.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
#meetthewebcomic Time to catch up on How to be a Werewolf! (howtobeawerewolf.com) Malaya Walters was bitten by a mysterious wolf as a child, leaving her human family to navigate her lycanthropy for decades. As an adult, she's faced with the opportunity to finally learn what she's capable of.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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a man standing in front of a monster with the words " it 's afraid " above him
ALT: a man standing in front of a monster with the words " it 's afraid " above him
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Low-effort paid tabletop RPG games have successfully displaced the traditional community gaming in Polish fandom spaces. At least on fashbook they did. Because of course every kind of leisure has to be turned into low quality products and monetized, even social storytelling games like RPGs.
Face of an annoyed and/or angry mascaron with simian features from the Malbork Castle, placed at the end of a vaulting rib flow in a brick niche of the monastery gallery at the second story of the High Castle.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"Assume a perfect AI" seems to be the starting point for all this. It's the "perpetual motion" or "free energy" of our age. And by all means, we can talk about it... When they actually have it, and not a day before.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"How can you conflate nationalists with nazis!? That's an attack on real patriotic folks!" First of, easily. Second, please explain what the word "nazi" is a shorthand for. We'll wait if you need to look it up.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 17/11/2025
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
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On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Trans women are women, pass it on.
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"US needs a protestant franco". ˙ǝǝɹƃɐ ǝM
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
@wtyppod.bsky.social, this is in your trackhouse. :)
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
@danielharper.bsky.social, @timescarcass.bsky.social, you're going to enjoy this one. One of the Polish parliamentary libertarianazis just got caught red-handed stealing a bunch of stuff from Ikea. Including a frying pan, because nazis have a soft spot for Swedish steel. ;)
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Sharing a talk by David McNally from 2012. Monsters of the Market: Vampires, Zombies, and Global Capitalism. Happy Halloween. #GothicMarxism youtu.be/nEXDA5dPqPs?...
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Monsters of the Market - Zombies, Vampires, and Capitalism - David McNally 2012
YouTube video by Jack Graham
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We have managed to find a decent source on some etymology literally three months ago. It's impossible to find it now. Even when we still remember enough bits and pieces of the article that it should just pop up. Especially since it was the one source we could find (luckily it had a bibliography).
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Kot (he/they) @bibliotekot.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
We smell a new @wtyppod.bsky.social episode... ;)
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 25/10/2025
Grover Whitehaus
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