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­­ ­ ­ the­ ­­ ­ ­ ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 24/09/2026
i like last week tonight because john oliver gets upset and angry while talking about things that are upsetting and angering and thats so refreshing to see tbh
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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
More breaking news from 800 AD.
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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We have just had proper rain here for the first time since June - and I have just come to realise that the purpose of Test cricket as a ritual in England is TO MAKE IT RAIN IN THE SUMMER. We have angered the gods with The Hundred and we must return to the old ways.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’s the thing about Y2K, the ozone layer, etc. The most leftist—in the sense of *valuing labor*—thing you can do is reject the brainwashing that tells you that heroism is running into a burning building and not the slow, patient, boring, unglamorous work of *preventing* disaster.
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie from the year you turned 18?
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Kitbashcat @kitbashcat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The EHRC guidance slipped its way into law by default overnight. Do not self-police and do not let toilet weirdos and changing room weirdos dictate how you go about your life.
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JP Bradley @jpbradley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Your email finds me three weeks out of Portsmouth. The Sighthound is light at only eighteen guns, but quick in the water, even laden as she is. The Atlantic lapping against her hull she is making steady progress westward to the Caribbean, the men restless to do their duty for King and country.
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Wil Cornish @wilcornish.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
*standing up on plane* "It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass…
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I accidentally made the Light of Eltharion look slightly more like the Green Power Ranger than I meant to 😂 But I’m pretty happy with the attempt at doing cloth of gold for the cape.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i find it very funny that, canonically, the last character in this comic strip would be required by his belief system to murder you the instant you admitted to having used any kind of AI for any purpose
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
You can tell that this game will destroy at least one nation's psyche and that's what sports are all about baby
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lilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊
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Jackson O'Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/05/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
That's a nice song," said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.
"It's an old soldiers' song," he said.
"Really, sarge? But it's about angels."
Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits.
"As I recall, they used to sing it after battles," he said. "I've seen old men cry when they sing it," he added.
"Why? It sounds cheerful."
They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/05/2026
and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all
An illustration of the Glorious Twenty Fifth of May, with a banner saying Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced love! And a hard-boiled egg!

the background is a lilac blossom, a hard boiled egg and an ankh-morpork city watch badge
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It is the glorious 25th of May. How do they rise up?
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Once again, ladies and gentlemen and everyone inbetween... Don't give up the ship.
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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’ll say it once more. Warhammer is fucking funny. This is the hill I will die on. Torn apart by horrifying aliens in service to an uncaring empire ruled by a corpse.
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Painted my first Battlefleet Gothic ships this month. Two Imperial Navy cruisers from the old box that I got a year or so before the game ended and some corvettes from Battlefleet Galaxy. Now I just need GW to bring the game back! #BattlefleetGothic
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
D&D 5e Avatar Legends Fantasy Flight Star Wars Star Trek Adventures (1st ed) I enjoyed all of them but I don’t think I *got* Avatar
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I'm sorry, WHAT
Model rocket instructions I don't know how to transcribe effectively
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Inspired by @anniegg62.bsky.social here is everything GW I’ve painted so far this year! I’m already well passed my total for last year, turns out moving house slows your painting down! #paintingwarhammer
A group of Warhammer miniatures, there are two units of 16 High Elf Archers and two units of 16 High Elf Spearmen. One of each of those units has been painted with orange trim and the other with purple. In the middle is a unit of 15 Lothern Seaguard with spears and bows painted with blue trim. Behind the Seaguard is one Gandalf the Grey model
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Annie ☀️💫 @anniegg62.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Here is everything I painted for the GW Million Miniatures challenge this year. Ultras, Votann, Gloomspite, Gondor and a Chaos Knight Super proud of everything I made, my return to the hobby after ages! #paintingwarhammer
Everything i painted for the million miniatures challenge
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Due to popular demand, here's every Space Marine legion from Warhammer 40,000 as a document in our collection. I: Dark Angels Obviously, they're this photograph of a tree in Burnham. Why this photograph? The tree has Fallen.
An image of a Dark Angels legion Space Marine in black power armour.A black and white photograph of a fallen tree in Burnham, cracked and crumbling on the ground.
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Bees 🎃🍄🍂 @voiceofkosh.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy." - Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men GNU #TerryPratchett Mind how you go.
Terry's hat. Screenshot from the Good Omens series.
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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 20/02/2026
AI is going to make it nearly impossible for anyone to afford a new PC, phone, or gaming console -- all in the name of a future that will never come to pass and a present that will just make a few dudes rich. This is unacceptable
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Once more it is paint and football time! If I’d planned this properly I’d have a Skycutter* so I could paint a real #Seahawks figure, but a Seaguard will have to do. *or possibly an owl
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JP Bradley @jpbradley.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The NHS saved my life. I spent 4 1/2 months in hospital and it didn't bankrupt me. Britain cannot believe so little in itself that it would accept the loss of the NHS. There's so many lines being crossed but surely it has to wake people up. Right?
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Just going to leave this here youtu.be/a3HEePMLAVU?...
youtu.be
The Briggs - Control Alt-Right Delete (Audio Only)
YouTube video by The Briggs
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JP Bradley @jpbradley.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
There's nothing I can say that isn't being said better by hundreds of other people, but I can't be silent at a moment in which we see the president's pet militia murder someone in cold blood in the street and know that they will suffer no consequences for it. Anything but abolition is collaboration
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Got my @highrollersdnd.bsky.social 10th anniversary pin! It’s significantly chonkier than I anticipated (in a good way)
A collection of pin badges on a black pennant. Notable ones include a High Rollers DnD crest, a warhammer purity seal, an outline of Palestine and a “trans women are women” badgeA close up of the High Rollers DnD anniversary pin. It is a quartered shield in black and gold flanked by a dragon on the right and a manticore on the left. Going clockwise from the top left the quarters are a shooting star, the High Rollers HR initials, a crown with dragon horns and a starburst. The years 2016 and 2026 are written on the bottom and a box saying “High Rollers” is in the centre of the shield
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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/12/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/12/2025
deep down, he believes we are all good chaps and he believes it hard enough that everyone wants to live up to it, just a little, just for him
Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson from Discworld, in armor and holding a flag while he stands on the moon
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar. Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet. Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵
Painting of a middle-aged Collingwood in blue admirals jacket, resting his had on his chin.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My goodness, this poem. A beautiful, savage, blunt explanation of why we study war and conflict and also why military history is not and should not be just 'for the boys.' The poem is moving in its unwillingness to whitewash the many tombs of war, as we should too should be unwilling.
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Laurence Bianchi-Phillips - Hardy Roach Games @hardyroachgames.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Interested in historicals but worried about accuracy? Don't be! I write about accuracy and historicals, with the new player in mind. www.goonhammer.com/historicals-...
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Historicals Essentials: How Accurate Do You Need to Be?
Today in historicals, HardyRoach pops in to take a look at how much accuracy matters on the table in historical games — and where to prioritize it.
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
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Author Terry Pratchett was an unflinching trans ally, say the trans fans who met him
Claims that the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett would've been anti-trans have prompted a flood of transgender fans to share their happy memories of
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Raf ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ @rtorrubia.com · 13/08/2025
Beyond delighted to share the cover for The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver. Kerby Rosanes is a wizard. If you think the cover is beautiful, just wait until you meet the wild, heartbreaking adventure inside. The good folk @gollancz.bsky.social await your preorders. Link in bio, as they say.
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books 1. Terry Pratchett 2. J.R.R Tolkien 3. Adrian Tchaikovsky 4. Ben Aaronovitch 5. Robert Jordan 6. Bernard Cornwell 7. Brian McClellan 8. Kevin Hearne 9. Steve McHugh 10. David Eddings Probably at least one BL author but I’m not doing the maths
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
If you see this, quote repost with a sword. I really should finish this lad. It’s just his shield and base to do.
A head on shot of the Warhammer 40,000 model Lion El’Jonson. He is an armoured figure walking forward with a sword held down to his right. He is wearing dark grey/blue armour with red and silver decoration with a purple hood and cape. He is carrying a large sword painted bronzeA right side on shot of the Warhammer 40,000 model Lion El’Jonson. He is an armoured figure walking forward with a sword held down to his right. He is wearing dark grey/blue armour with red and silver decoration with a purple hood and cape. He is carrying a large sword painted bronze
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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. 

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Ideally, the festival rights should be sold to the highest bidder who then cancel all the less profitable elements and deliver a vastly degraded experience for the same money. It's what she would have wanted.
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Bertie @bnehls.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
QRT with something red? I’ve got a few red things
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