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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 4h

A bus hijacker with a knife starts toying with his captives, demanding that they provide an answer for why they believe killing is wrong. Totonou takes him up on the thought exercise, going on a nine page & counting monologue about the ethics of killing that makes the hijacker regret he ever asked.

From right to left: the hijacker wide-eyed listening to murder special interest armchair detective have a one-sided debate on the ethics of killing, Totonou goes for another "that said..." digression, and the hijacker screams JESUS! THERE'S MORE?!

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19h

Sniffer Dog, Simon Drew. 1981.

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Lizstar @lizstar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A ferret, a mink, a stoat, and a weasel are starting up a new band called Weezel

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Jason Prime @blazingwaters.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Crossposting this here to spread awareness Someone (Pale) stole Life Bottle Production's work for Phantasia Narikiri Dungeon X, used AI to fill in the rest and is trying to present it as their own They also reportedly did this [shitting out AI crap] for a month straight

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TV's The Good Conrad @rdaweso.me · 05/10/2026

And it's not just "ooh I have a problem, OK someone will help me," it's the TRUST that when a problem arises, people will help you. It's seeing people you care about who would struggle and knowing you can help them. These have HUGE effects on your ability to tackle stresses

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TV's The Good Conrad @rdaweso.me · 05/10/2026

I'll tell you this, if you look at all the problems in your life you have to solve, they can feel pretty insurmountable sometimes, but if you build community with other people and you share in their problems as they share in yours, if you do this sincerely, all those problems are way smaller

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 05/10/2026

Scammers are impersonating Goodreads groups, w/ writers invited to "reading challenges" or group discussions--for a fee. This "12-month residency" is most elaborate I've seen. See tiny text I've underlined in red. Yes, this is yet another iteration of the AI-generated scams driving us all nuts

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
OVERVIEW
12-Month Managed Reader Experience
Goodreads Community: The book you like
most
Lead Moderator: Tom
📍 TOP 100 Goodreads Group 👥 51,155+ Active Members 📚 Vision & Story Project Hub
What Is "The book you like most" Community?
We are a global Goodreads community of over 51,000+ active members. Originally established as a dedicated hub for
the "Vision and Story" project and centered around motivational and self-help literature (such as Between Every
Silence), our platform has evolved into a premier destination for deep reader engagement, book recommendations,
and active reading challenges. Our members join with high buying intent—they are avid readers, book club hosts, and
collectors seeking their next great read.
HOW OUR 12-MONTH MANAGED RESIDENCY WORKS
1 Dedicated Feature Thread
Your title receives its own permanent thread on our general
board for reviews, Q&As, and discussions, driving ongoing
views long after creation.
2 Moderator Endorsement
Introduced with authority by group leadership, carrying
trusted weight across our 51,000+ members who recognize
our curation.
3 Thematic Shelf Alignment
Positioned naturally within key ongoing themes:
motivational/self-help, thrillers, general literature, and
annual reading challenges.
4 Active Community Prompts
Structured reading prompts encourage deep engagement,
key takeaways, and member shares across external book
clubs.
5 Permanent Bookshelf Indexing
Cataloged directly into our group bookshelf and discussion
archives, securing organic backlist discovery and sales for
years.
6 Peer-to-Peer Recommendations
Organic word-of-mouth momentum as members
recommend your title inside high-traffic daily discussions
and rating threads.
Why This Matters for Your Book: Standard promotions disappear in hours. Our residency embeds your work
directly into an active, living reader ecosystem. You aren't interrupting readers—you are contributing to what 51,000+
active book buyers are already searching for, genera…

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.”

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 05/10/2026

when i was about 11 the coolest possible idea to me was megaman battle network. i loved sharkman.exe and wanted him to me my friend. now everything has some kind of digital assistant and it completely fucking sucks

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geographyofrobots @geographyofrobots.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NORCO is $5 on Steam until Thursday October 8th.

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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.

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European Commission - Have your say

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A Spiced Pumpkin Sergal 🎃🍂 @adorablesergal.neocities.org · 05/10/2026

Cohost was like LinkedIn for Ideas That Are Actually Cool

An Adorable Sergal posts "Kobolds piloting battlemechs" to which Ceryl the Pretty responds with an "Everyone Liked That" fallout-style dialogue response.

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A Spiced Pumpkin Sergal 🎃🍂 @adorablesergal.neocities.org · 04/10/2026

Cohost was host to many eureka moments.

Cohost's walking mirage writes, "i looked up 'trackball lubricant' and learned that the universally accepted solution for a trackball that doesn't roll smoothly is to take the ball out and rub it on your forehead or the side of your nose." with a quick follow-up post that simply says, "I'll be god damned"

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gina @ootheca.net · 04/10/2026

they are tools btw

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 04/10/2026

bowling is such a genius social event. the exact balance between like 10% activity to provide purpose to the 90% hanging out and drinking. bowling was the original friendslop

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the bedrock principles about journalistic ethics at most major papers is that people be aware of what they are commenting on. No surprises. Debatably, using your answer from an interview in one context for a story in a completely different context doesn't meet that standard.

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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apothecary Diaries??? In MY Jojo Fridays?????

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Paradox 🫀🦐 @corrodedparadox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Close enough #art

A small white cervinae standing in the middle of a rainy window. There is an outline of a bigger deer around it that looks like rain streaks on the window

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

chubmarine cute so chubmarine yawning must be cute

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 01/10/2026

i'm looking at pictures of wasps on the computer

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 01/10/2026

hey this is what i use to make textures for animations and games i work on. check it out. cheap and powerful. def give them support!!

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hunter (comms open!) @hrpixelart.com · 01/10/2026

Sorry to keep bringing this post back, but I haven't had consistent work in months, and my most recent offer fell apart after I mentioned needing to be paid money. So if you want to pay a pixel artist with over a decade of industry experience, that's me! 📧 hunter@hrpixelart.com 💻 www.hrpixelart.com

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

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Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it

In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site

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Errai @errai.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Oh man I (washes hands) love cooking so much (washes hands) and it’s so easy to (washes hands) make anything you want

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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cola @colamander.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

(driving through a lot of fog) haha this is just like silent hill (i see a representation of my biggest error in life tailgating me) oh fuck

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great and powerful vincent @getmoneyghoul.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i like this post so much ive thought about it everyday since seeing it so i wanted to draw it #fireemblem

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I hate it when they call me a biter. I have a vast and rich interior life. I am not defined by my biting

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Ike Makos @ikemakos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Born to circle back on this. Forced to lick their own butt.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How many people have an accurate understanding of what LLMs are, and aren't; what they can and can't do? The true costs and benefits? That's a result of the relentless hype big tech has been pumping out for years. Now that it's causing backlash they're bemoaning uninformed criticism. Sowing, reaping

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I should be able to bonk my head to my dog's little head and download his thoughts that way. What kind of god doesn't put that feature in

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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ItsFlanoy @itsflanoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The hoal deer fam damnly haff camped demselfs in mine yardt arownd de wadder bowl. Momb not put owt any frutes fur 2 weeks! Dey juss keeb comink fur de drinks!!

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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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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hate talking about AI every day but I recognize the active danger it represents to nature and the human inspiration that has made my life worthwhile. I cannot overlook the end goal the obscenely wealthy have always had for this tech: to squeeze the rest of us even further out of a modest living.

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 ☽⛤☾ ℌ𝔬𝔴𝔩 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔢 @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who are KVLTGAMES? Well, according to a German-only Wikipedia page... Nazis. Like literally neo-nazis who made a Turner Diaries simulator that got their previous publisher banned from Steam.

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Chris Harvey @chrisharvey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Putting aside all the skeezy stuff, AI also makes no financial sense. Remind people of this next time someone says “it’s inevitable.”

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August, like the month @month-of-august.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"France's defining fantasy/science fiction odyssey of the 21st century—" "Cult Classic and One of the Inspirations for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" "—epic scope and visionary world-building are commonly compared to the universe of Dune—" Horde of the Counterwind: An Epic Voyage to the Upper Reaches

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Horde of the Counterwind: An Epic Voyage to the Upper Reaches: Cult Classic and One of the Inspirations for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

France's defining fantasy/science fiction odyssey of the 21st century, the basis of the award-winning video game Expedition 33 and now published in English for the first time, celebrates twenty-three ...

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