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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 4h

Going to apply to the @failbettergames.com writing gig with this as my only submission

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Do you remember proper binmen? Remember when they'd fight your dad? Then they'd win & become your dad, and your old dad would have to become a binman. Then next week another binman would fight your new dad & you'd never remember which one yr real dad was so you'd always look in the mirror & wonder?

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 5h

Love this way of looking at life In universe terms, we are all meaningless specks of dust, a brief spark of existence and extinguished as soon as we came into being I find this so calming And have you noticed how the people who are desperate to be remembered are often the worst people?

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

[To the tune of 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' by The Beach Boys] 🎵Wouldn't it be nice 🎵To eat a Minion 🎵Holding up a towel to hide from god 🎵And wouldn't it be nice 🎵Though quite forbidden 🎵Savouring the yellow flesh of Bob

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 6h

"You may think you are the good guy, but you are the villain. [Something about undermining trust] A real dirtbag" This has to go in the "every accusation is an admission" hall of fame

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 8h

I genuinely do a version of this. When I'm spiralling I do my level best to imagine what a Toby jug of Hulk Hogan would look like. Possibly one made by someone without a tremendous amount of skill.

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 13h

Can anyone recommend a new-ish phone that's not wholly and entirely AI? I have a Samsung S21 Ultra where the battery is dying and there's a patch of dead pixels slowly spreading. Any decent equivalents in the last couple of years that won't add my nudes to some vast AI dataset?

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Cuckold dating app called Near Missus

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Stuart Gipp @stuartgipp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

From my comic Sonic: A Life Wasted

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 14h

If you're playing along at home, today's answer to "what did Guy forget to pack in his gym bag to wear to the office?" is "a belt"! Specifically "a belt for one of his looser pairs of trousers"!

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Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social · 14h

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 14h

Bird on a wire.

A photo of a small brown bird sat on a wire. Water drops on the wire, grey sky behind.

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 15h

The ability to instantly gamble on your phone, and consume staggering amounts of nicotine without having to smoke, can only be additive to society

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 15h

Saw someone playing a 3Ds on the tube. Dammit! I could have brought mine and got a streetpass boink!

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🎵This is a warning that the 🎵Caves are precarious 🎵Caves are precarious

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thread of what I've been up to today, if you want to read the adventures of a man getting his own blood injected up his nose

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Wardy™ @tdward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pharaoh Khufu explaining where they should start building:

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm really glad that google assistant has been replaced by google gemini on my phone, without me being asked and with no way to restore assistant. Why would I want my phone to function like it always has? "Set an alarm" / "I can't do that. Would you like to know what I can do?" Great 👍

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ten minutes in and me and the tattoo artist are starting to have doubts about my |L|L|A|N|F|A|I|R|P|W|L|L|G|W|Y|N|G|Y|L|L|G|O|G|E|R|Y|C|H|W|Y|R|N|D|R|O|B|W|L|L|L|L|A|N|T|Y|S|I|L|I|O|G|O|G|O|G|O|C|H| knuckle tattoos

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is there anyone I can talk to who has experience of running online ticketed events?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I helped make something Very Serious

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 29/09/2026

I launched ButtyStock over 7 years ago, never doubt my commitment to a feeble joke

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 29/09/2026

Soon the misery of being unable to find crisp sandwich sound effects will be over

ButtyStock screenshot showing in-development sound effects section; “Crisp, crunchy sound effects, browse now"

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@emmasouthon.bsky.social hello! I don't suppose you know of any specific offerings/rites regarding Sterquilinus off the top of your head?

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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sorry if this is too far but... Smellvador Dali

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This will be the first exam I have ever failed

An envelope reading "British smell identification test"

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The goal has been met, and I am on my way to my first injection. I am wildly anxious, and not letting myself hope! I am leaving this up in case anyone has a quid to spare towards the "a nice thing to look forward to after the inevitable disappointment" fund

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a "nearly crying at an innocuous bit of Pratchett on the train" morning. Update your records accordingly.

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much like your posting @mlyp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm doing this in the corner of living room at the party later

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fucking hell it is MUGGY out. Just had to swim up the stairs to the train.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On the subject of I’m a person and I need money, but also woo, art, smashing! I do still have lots of pylons in my shop. www.chloecumming.com/inkwater

Leaning ink pylon with watercolour, browns and greens

Two small staccato pylons on a green hill with pink in the sky

Windswept pylon in golden autumnal place

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bent Pylon. A small ink drawing

An ink drawing of a bent pylon, kind of cloudy and overcast , loose and expressive

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hang on. Cats are obligate carnivores. Why would they WANT to has cheezburger?

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 28/09/2026

A very funny thing is happening where our lovely autistic audience is so horrified with the weird numbers that everyone’s trying to fix it at once, causing further weird numbers. Have we accidentally stumbled on the world’s most neurodivergent marketing strategy???

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