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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 15h

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lol

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 30m

Oakland: "You have to want to live here, you don’t just show up here." This is spectacular, sharp and true. Oakland and San Francisco have never felt more different than they do today. For every problem the East Bay has, it five times as much community and humanity. The vibes here are alive.

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Breaking Mews/Ruff Translations @breakingmews.bsky.social · 7h

This is Dion. There’s something a little fishy about his expression. Is he guilty? Was he trying to impersonate @fishtopher.social.bsky? Bring him to your home for questioning. www.baltimorecountymd.gov/departments/...

A tabby cat with a very goofy expression.

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Chris 🧠 talk with humans @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 23m

people fluent in web development effortlessly using browser developer mode to just delete chunks from the website of ads and email sign in requests and newsletter popup layer and autoplaying corner videos and changing stuff causing the page to jump until text left on the page can be read by a person

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Shaquille O'Neal's No Bad Vibes Dance

Alt: Shaquille O'Neal's jcpenney commercial wearing sweater smiling swatting away floating words like negativity anxiety bad vives drama.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 2h

The “Cornell 7” framing rubs me the same way described in this thread. We usually use that language for people falsely accused of crimes. Personally, I’ll be going back to “the Cornell gang rapists.”

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 47m

Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 1h

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

I love the tech industry and their cool new product: fraud

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 1h

I think this new shirt design is an important statement in these trying times, and may heal the world roryblank.bigcartel.com

A cute drawing of a tiger wearing a little hat and trousers and a shirt, fishing on a small island, with text saying "I don't actually have to do anything at all
I am perfectly contended living without purpose"

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 2h

You may have noticed that while the vibes in San Francisco are fucked beyond all belief, Oakland is still good and chill. We dispatched @redford.bsky.social to make sense of it. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/the-great-vi...

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The great vibes divergence

Why does San Francisco feel so weird during this tech boom while Oakland is more or less still Oakland?

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Shannon Ellery Hubbell @brundlefly.bsky.social · 1h

He’s aiming for “Patton” but landing on “pitch for pyramid scheme.”

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 3h

elevated snuff films are on their way out, cozy snuff films are going to be the next hot thing. people want low-conflict murders they can watch without stressing out too much

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 4h

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Chris 🧠 talk with humans @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 20h

people thinking if they can use chatgpt to do a skill devalued by chatgpt doing it for them imagine they'll now be rich or famous like people who did the skill before everyone could have a computer do it for them, also misunderstanding how most people who did the skill before were not rich or famous

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That's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works!

Alt: That's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works! says woman standing and seeming frustrated flapping arms a bit, addressing two other women in a house one who was standing before her the other on the couch.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 20h

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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MFSTEVE @mfsteve.bsky.social · 8h

MF looks like Baba Yaga's house

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 9h

A CT scan of Trump's brain probably looks like a QR code by now.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 7h

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Create a disaster plan for your cats via Alley Cat Allies

Create a disaster plan for your cats
One: stay alert. Enable emergency alerts on your phone or other devices.
Two: have a disaster evacuation plan.
Three: create a disaster kit. Keep emergency supplies on hand, including carriers for each cat, food and water, dishes, and medications.
Four: store important documents. Keep up-to-date photos, descriptions, veterinary records, ID tags, and microchip information in an accessible location.
Five: microchip your cats.
Six: identify and prep a backup caregiver.
Seven : make a list of local resources. Include clinics, organizations, disaster shelters, and people you can contact for assistance.

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Shannon Ellery Hubbell @brundlefly.bsky.social · 6h

"The Emperor of Shangrila Rides a Triceratops Past a Volcanic Range" gouache painting by Chesley Bonestell from 1977.

Painting of a fancy looking guy riding a decorated triceratops through a field. There is a mountain range in the background.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/03/2026

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

user abbiistabbii:
The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14h

these are deliberate aesthetic choices. they are intended to overwhelm your senses, to unsettle you, to make you question the nature of God and the goodness of man.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

we’re entering our Bannon Era

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12h

Huh weird, someone should tell the President, who just signed an executive order to address out of control shark populations.

America.gov correctly explaining that shark population status varies but many species are threatened

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Bunch of Einsteins By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels.

PANEL 1

A bearded man in a red cap is recording a video of himself.

JAKE: Why should taxpayers be on the hook for science research with no real-world value? If their research were worth anything, private industry would already fund it!

PANEL 2

Jake’s rant continues over a cross-section of the landscape, from farmland and suburbs to a city; his voice is coming from a little cabin. A fiber-optic cable runs underground all the way across the panel.

JAKE: Believe me, these researchers aren’t a bunch of Einsteins!

CAPTION: There wouldn’t be high-speed internet for this doofus’s videos without fiber optic cables!

PANEL 3

Under the ocean, a fiber-optic cable runs along the ocean floor. Word balloons coming from the fiber optic cable contain the icons of many internet-based services — Facebook, Zoom, Discord, Netflix, Minecraft, and more.

CAPTION: Without fiber optics, the internet would be far too slow for how we use it today.

PANEL 4

CAPTION: So where did fiber optics come from? Well…

CAPTION: 1966

In a laboratory break room, an excited scientist throws his arms wide while another scientist eats at a table.

SCIENTIST: Now that lasers exist, we can use ultrapure glass fibers to carry light long distances!

OTHER SCIENTIST: How does that do anything?

PANEL 5

CAPTION: 1960

A scientist proudly holds up a diagram of a newly invented device. Another scientist sits at a microscope.

SCIENTIST: I call it a “laser”! It’s based on the old theory of stimulated emission.

OTHER SCIENTIST: But Theo, what use is it?

PANEL 6

CAPTION: 1917

Outside a university, a pompous-looking man gestures indignantly as he reads a scientific paper. He's speaking to a young Albert Einstein, who rolls his eyes.

MAN: Albert, where’s the practical value in this “stimulated emission” drivel? It’s a waste of taxpayer money!

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Fani Grande 🍉 @fanigrande.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Evolution of the Human Brain", by Arcadio Esquivel @cartoonmovement.com

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man, 80s computer books made even non-relational databases look fun. (Source.)

The cover to the book, "Writing Your Own Program: Creating A Database: Adventure Game." Each line is in its own font. The computer (a black affair with rainbow keys" depicts a scuba diver swimming, handcuffs in hand, as it is attacked by a giant cross octopus; the painted octopus is literally bursting out of the monitor. A tiny little banner in the corner states: "For Commodore 64 And Apple IIe Computers"

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 17h

Move fast and break things

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 17h

illustration, creative computing, magazine (1977) archive.org/details/Crea...

computer equipment stacked high. a very excited looking dude with wavy hair, has a foot and a hand on a keyboard and another foot and a hand on joysticks/controllers. a printer is spitting out paper with indecipherable text.
text font box: the ultimate computer freak

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18h

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18h

I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask?

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Before Portal, there was, well, Portal. Activision's 1986 'computer novel' is one of the examples of the kind of entertainment software being developed for the Commodore Amiga in its first year. High concept, artsy, and tapping into the creativity-focused marketing for the computer.

A scan of the box from Mobygames, with an almost completely glossy black cover and the worlds PORTAL and the computer novel tagline at the top. Ghost-like faces can be seen at the bottom of the cover. In the upper centre: an evocative premise.

Homer, A Biological Computer. The Final Link to the Past and the Only Conduit to the Future. But Homer is dying and access grows weaker moment by moment. Will you discover where everyone has gone or will to the doorway to humanity close forever, leaving you totally alone?

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 19h

personal computing, magazine, cover (1977) archive.org/details/Pers...

einstein, wearing a green top, sitting cross legged at a computer with pong on the screen, looking back at you. he is holding a cassette and other cassettes are aying about. he has tiny angelic wings and looks to be sitting on a cloudy surface with light shining down on him. the computer looks as if has just been unwrapped as there is scrunched up paper under it and a bow still sitting on top.
prominent text: intelligent video games are here

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026

I can't believe these are street legal

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22h

I would die for the Weird Puppies at the Sacramento SPCA

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey, remember how us radical trans extremists were warning that you have to go on the attack against transphobic Dems immediately because otherwise other politicians will take the lack of consequences as permission and the bigotry will spread? Yeah...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment

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Shannon Ellery Hubbell @brundlefly.bsky.social · 23h

I’m down with more Republicans accidentally doing the “Gru giving a presentation” meme in real life. This has been a nice respite from all the murdering they’ve been doing.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I posit as a trans man that the reward is that you get to fall peacefully asleep at night instead of lying there mortifyingly aware you could have intervened and did not.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Check out the Fango Fall Class of 2026 🫡❤️ www.fangoria.com/godzilla-min...

FANGORIA
FALL 2026
VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 33:
Publishers
Tara Ansley & Abhi Goel
Editor-In-Chief
Phil Nobile Jr.
Creative Director
Jason Kauzlarich
Senior Editor
Meredith Borders
Contributors
Sean Abley
Cullen Bunn
C. Robert Cargill
Brian W. Collins
Barbara Crampton
Scott Derrickson
Ahlissa Eichhorn
Amelia Emberwing
Anthony Everitt
Isaac Feldberg
Shane Tea French
Todd Gilchrist
Michael Gingold
Greg Greene
Ethan Hawke
Britt Hayes
Amy Kuperinsky
Richard Newby
Brandon Streussnig
Tony Timpone
Josh Turi
Michael Varrati
Jessica Zerby

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The charismatic Coppersmith Barbet for datubooty on tumblr! Thank you for the donation! 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt The #Waymakers Challenge raises funds for @theyoungcenter.bsky.social to help immigrant kids in the US! Donate by Sept. 30 - only a few days left! youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi...

Illustration of a Coppersmith Barbet, a large-headed, large-billed bird with a clown-like face pattern of red, black, and yellow. The bird otherwise is mostly green with spots of turquoise on the nape and wings. It is perched with its back to us on the branch of a fig tree, and has a piece of fig fruit in its beak - likely torn from the broken fruit on the top of a cluster to the bird's right.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sure Google, that's the take away here.

Google headline: Senator Eric Schmitt accuses Jack Smith of
perjury during hearing

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