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mike mccool

@bluemccool.bsky.social
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cat and car enthusiast. worked at netscape before it was cool. made a game of dogs playing poker and wrote a book called sleepernet. go buy it

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 22/09/2026
Oh-oh
Star Trek Online
 
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Captains - there are two bugs in the new mission that we're working on fixing. One is locking progression at a certain point - details in comments to avoid spoilers. The other is Moopsy. Moopsy can eat a boss and break the mission. Do not bring Moopsy.Moopsy from Star Trek: Lower Decks. It's a cute small animal and it's clamped onto someone's neck while it is drinking their bones.
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You have to admire this guy's dedication to keeping it tight, despite being marooned on a desolate planet for 15 years. Ceti Alpha V didn't have food or water, but that didn't stop Khan from waxing his chest every day so that he could hunt Kirk 'round perdition's flames, tits out for revenge
Khan from Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. He's wearing some kind of space barbarian outfit that is technically a kind of shirt but it doesn't cover his chest at all. You can see both nipples. But if I were his age and looked in great shape, I'd rock it too.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
me: hey, aren't you jack reacher? reacher: poster. mid-tier, by the look of it. you were on twitter until it became x. now you're just on one of the knockoffs, most likely bluesky, because you don't have the self-confidence for instagram or tiktok. me: ok t— reacher: peaked in the buzzfeed era.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/09/2026
Poster of Disney's The Three Musketeers, showing four musketeers. Below, screenshot of Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, being told by his Cardassian captors that there are five lights, when in fact there are four.
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.
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Pistol Shrimp Games - Demo OUT NOW! @pistolshrimpgames.com · 02/09/2026
The Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo launches on September 8th at 9am PDT. If you missed our Kickstarter, we're re-opening physical pledges for a limited time (or until we run out of stuff!). Get the deets here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...
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Update 53: Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo Releases on September 8th · FREE STARS: Children of Infinity
The Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo is releasing on Steam and GOG on September 8th at 9am PDT. You’ll be able to play our remade Super Melee experience from Children of Infinity with 38 t...
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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 01/09/2026
I feel like this is really good UX. It communicates the rule very clearly AND the reason why you want to follow the rule
Sign that says PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE FOOD UNATTENDED and a picture of a seagull
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
DEMOLITION MAN (1993)
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Holly Bear ʕ e ᴥ eʔ 📄📚 @bearhybrid.art · 20/08/2026
Don't feel bad if your first inclination is to go into 'Fix it' mode. Even a "That's rough buddy" is a good start to getting your friend out of their funk. Listen, ask em about it rather than comparing it to a problem you had/have. I have to work on this too #Oldbearcomics #TheBearMinimum
Text reads: It is a kind impulse to want to fix a friend's problems, when they come to you upset. Offering advice to someone struggling can be very helpful.
Art depicts: friendbear approaching Holly with a cloud of gloom hovering over their sad expression. Holly is concerned and worried about them.Text reads: However people often want their feelings validated and to be comforted first. This can lead to more frustration and misunderstandings if you jump right into 'fix it mode'.
Art depicts: Friendbear looking worse with a darker cloud as Holly bear offers solutions blindly goinf through a checklist saying: 'if its like this you could do that, or...'Text reads: Taking some time to listen and commiserate can really make all the difference
Art depicts: Holly hugging friendbear and listening to their complaints while their sad cloud diminishes.Text reads: Once their mood has improved a little, it is easier to plan and find solutions, if they are in need of them.
Art depicts: Holly bear asking if friendbear is ok through picture inference, Friendbear nodding in agreement the same way.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Honest to God, don't think I've been inspired by a YouTube video like this in my life. What a weird savant.
youtube.com
America’s largest grocery store should be out of business
YouTube video by Morning Brew
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I admire our government's new commitment to honesty.
A real tweet from the Department of Defense that says "It's not an option" above a meme that just says WINNING.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 18/06/2026
“Detractors might scoff at Musk’s ambition to die on Mars, but at least the dying part would be easy.” — @henrywismayer.bsky.social #mars #spaceexploration #spacex
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The Mars Delusion | NOEMA
Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?
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mike mccool @bluemccool.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
this is the martian history in richard k. morgan’s thin air
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emily s. @emily.news · 18/06/2026
UI means user interface and UX means user exerface
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK
Back Of Gatorade Bottle Features Recipe For Gatorade Casserole @andrewfleer.com actually collecting the ingredients for this for some reasonIt's so wet

An unbaked Gatorade casserole 
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Update: 30 minutes later, it's still very wet.

Maybe 20 more minutes?







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We're going to try just a little longer. 

For the record, it smells horrid

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After an hour, I think this is the best we're gonna get

Baked Gatorade "casserole" 
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Gatorade casserole soup in a bowl 
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It smells like hot tuna, with a lingering sweetness of the Gatorade
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/06/2026
Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.
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mike mccool @bluemccool.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
i’m in this picture and i don’t like it theonion.com/salad-suppli...
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Salad Suppliers Pledge To Continue Including Just Enough In Bag That Some Will Go Bad If You’re Single
SALINAS, CA—In an effort to maintain stringent industry standards, salad suppliers nationwide pledged Monday to continue including just enough greens in bagged salad so that some will go bad if you’re...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We’ve got the Onion Newsvan circling the cursed UFC fight outside the White House.
Onion can: FBI Agents Watch in Silence as Kash Patel Gets Ass Kicked by UFC Fighter
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videajames (on vacation - comms reopen 10/1) @videajames.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
do u see the vision
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mike mccool @bluemccool.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Glen Cook’s The Black Company.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
DO YOU SING?
Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"For a mere $10 million gift, you can help us remake the intellectual landscape by endowing a prestigious chair in an underrepresented subfield, such as geocentric astronomy, high-energy phlogiston physics, or patriotic history." Well played, @mcsweeneys.net. Well played.
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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/05/2026
Questions Grow Over Mystery Of Missing Legislative Branch
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
What so many have experienced personally has been confirmed by a new study: AI has been a disaster for working artists.
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The AI-inflected crisis artists are facing, in 4 charts
An alarming new study reveals the dire impact AI is having on artists' livelihoods. It does offer some hope, too.
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/05/2026
when i show up in your mentions
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/05/2026
Can't wait to hear from the VC bros who supported Trump because of Biden's "tyrannical" attack on AI... on how they feel about Trump recreating Biden's policy, only way worse and more controlling.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Somehow Elon Musk has binged Iain Banks & not realized he’s Jolier Veppers.
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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Frame #13400 from S02 -E01 - Girls Festival-627704
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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-t...
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Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote?
AI-generated code copyright explained for builders.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20/04/2026
top to bottom redesign of itunes
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
what else can we get JD to do this weekend
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
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mike mccool @bluemccool.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
unexpected guffaw
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Alex Trebek in Dogs Playing Poker by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
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mike mccool @bluemccool.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
this keeps getting funnier the more i think about it theonion.com/pete-hegseth...
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Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer
WASHINGTON—Saying he had finally found a military commander whose character was worthy of the U.S. Army, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that he was replacing ousted top general Randy ...
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Oh no wait actually it’s
Bluesky post by an account called “rare body oils” (@lowbeetle.bsky.social):
TREBEK: Feel free to ask these diminutive spirits for sexual favors, but don't say "guten Tag" - they're not actually German!
me: who are the slut gnomes of false berlin
TREBEK: Bizarre little men. You're still in control of the board
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I wrote some stupid, angry jokes about the stupid, angry video game layoffs this week.
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How Is Tim Sweeney So Bad At This?
Sweeney's apparent well-meaning follow up to laying off 1,000 people doesn't actually help anyone.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
From Texas to Virginia to Minneapolis, people at No Kings protests agree: It is probably not great news that The Onion is doing so well right now.
Minnesota sign: "So tired of living in an Onion article."Virginia sign: "So tired of living in an Onion article."Austin, Texas sign: Tired of living in an Onion article.The Onion Should Not = Reality sign
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/03/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.”
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea
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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 09/03/2026
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
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mike mccool @bluemccool.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
i stg we could be getting taken over by aliens and it wouldn’t look any different
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.
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Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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