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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 15h

MY BRAIN: hey here's that time you were thoughtlessly rude to a friend. remember that embarrassing gift you gave to your first girlfriend. once you ran into someone ME: please..I am begging you. Can we remember some fucking French. why did I come into this room MY BRAIN: nope. once when you were 4

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The craziest compound-impurity story I’ve ever heard:

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Now That's An Impurity Story

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Oregon Plates @plat.es · 28/09/2026

The Custom Oregon Plate ERROR was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=cu… #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #ERROR

Oregon Standard Tree license plate displaying the text "ERROR".

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What I am proposing as a model of understanding the US electorate is that most people aren't really very closely paying attention to what exactly is happening and as long as their lives aren't materially improving, will just keep flipping the switch hoping for a different result.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder how much of this is just a measure of conservative media consumption rates

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Minimizing friction, with the time saved going to [SCROLL]

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me, at a pub: the kind of person I want to meet is at home reading a book. My future spouse: eh, don't feel like going home to read yet, might as well stop for a beer.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CHEESE CURD BAR CHEESE CURD BAR CHEESE CURD BAR

A young man in a Sendik's T-shirt standing behind an L-shaped table with at least twelve trays, each tray is full of a different flavor of cheese curds. A woman on the right is nabbing some.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This specific graphic is my spirit animal.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The stone age didn't end because we ran out of rocks."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

thank you, Bluesky, for being my pumpkin full of frozen raw meat in my enclosure

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Which is that in most caste societies your role in the system is assigned by your father, but in America, because of our chattel slavery system, it was usually assigned by your mother. So women were assigned this kind of “keeper of status” role.

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The way racism and misogyny function in tandem to keep America shitty is actually a very interesting sociological phenomenon which I have never fully been able to explain, although I got an important insight from Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste:

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧵 holy crap that's a lot of oil infrastructure!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 25/09/2026

Today is Quintidi the 5th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate horses. #JacobinDay See today's page

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 25/09/2026

INSTEAD WE ARE GOING TO POINT OUT VERIFIABLE HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT THE KHANATE CULTURES AND THEIR ENCOUNTERS WITH THIRD GENDERS. BUCKLE THE FUCK UP JOANNE WIZARD SCHOOL IS IN SESSION AND YOU ARE LATE FOR A POTIONS CLASS.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) dir. Jane Schoenbrun

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only good thing about the Trump era is getting to see everyone who sucked up to him enjoy the fruits of their labor like this.

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Hannah C @95hannahlouise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Got a new phone and heard the camera was amazing. Tried it out on the dogs but all they wanted to do was sniff it 🤣

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Farmer, for whom "AI" means artificial insemination:

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

call myself a single issue voter but keep changing the single issue for each question they ask

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The Anti-Fascist Herald-Tribune @antifascistht.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll see your crocheted dog hats and raise you a kid in a crocheted xenomorph costume made by Grandma.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026

If you put ten children in a room with a single large red button that launches all nukes, it would be a genuine threat to humanity. But it doesn't mean children are a human extinction risk. It means the person who puts them near the nuke button is a human extinction risk.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Now I'm tempted to find an old GeoWorks or WordPerfect VM to play with.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 24/09/2026

i will not use it i will smash the computer before i penguin

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

GOP's gonna be spinning around pointing at random screaming OMG SCARY MINORITY for the next six weeks because that's all they have. Week after next they'll get to cis ginger ferret fanciers.

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

still one of my favorite art jokes in QC yeah, that's how it felt for me when I first got a vape pen lol

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It's Ryan! @construct.goblinmo.de · 23/09/2026

For no particular reason I would like to just say "that's none of my business" is always a valid response to anything you see online and I recommend deploying it more often than not

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today in 1979, a United States Vela nuclear-test-monitoring satellite detected the distinctive double-flash signature of a nuclear explosion over the South Atlantic Ocean. Although a White House scientific panel later dismissed the possibility, many speculated it was a clandestine Israeli test.

A color drawing of a Vela satellite orbiting Earth. Triangular and trapezoidal solar panels cover its surface. The satellite also has multiple antennas sticking out of it.

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Alexander Hamizdat 🇵🇷 @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At this rate we're going to be talking seriously about Blyoming by November

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 22/09/2026

Happy Erich von Stroheim's birthday!

Boris Karloff and Erich von Stroheim pose for publicity photos for Arsenic and Old Lace, as EVS was taking over BK's role.

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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Clint Eastwood in 1969, on a Norton Ranger 750 #readingissexy #clinteastwood #motorcycle #nortonranger

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Remember those cheap car alarms that would play six different siren/klaxon noises one after another over and over? That's the GOP message from now to November.

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Jake Schlachter ❌👑 @jakeschlachter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Important to understand the Trump regime as an occupying force designed to destroy American governance, so that it can be replaced by theocracy (Vought), fascism (Miller), or Elysium (Thiel).

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Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.

A small digger trying its hardest to dig out the Ever Given ship that has run aground. It says, “Structural Problem” on the giant Ever Given and, “Making different personal choices” on the tiny digger.

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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ironically mirrors an actual eagles' behavior

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Been taking time off to do different things and I enrolled in the PA Master Naturalist training program. Last weekend we did freshwater stream water quality assessment. Got to meet some fun new friends. Whirligig Beetle (Dineutus sp.), Crayfish (Faxonius sp.), Stonefly Larva (Perlidae Family)

A silvery beetle shaped invertebrate on the surface of water. It has a fun little mustache.

A warm tan crayfish sitting on some rocks in a tank full of water.

A brown insect with two antennae and long tails. It is standing on my hand.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of the reasons Mormon polygamy was so controversial in the 1800s was it was ok to get divorced. And women could initiate it. And did. All the time. That's why Las Vegas became a divorce tourism spot! Because its laws were set up by the Mormons who kicked off Anglo settlement of the area.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Take a right where the water tower used to be"

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Seems similar to how "guns don't kill people, people kill people" resolved the whole 2nd Amendment thing.

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