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Alex L

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 5h
I still say the reason Qanon style thinking keeps spreading in very online spaces is cause its native to it and its origin is online TV fan forums
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 4h
I just used the USWDS in training _today_ to talk about how design systems encode ideological goals this is _bad._ Like, i know everything is bad, but this is _bad._
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026
Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube
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merritt @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026
here are my top 9 v tubers who shaped me: -baby tittymonster -doopy doop batmom -normal steve -scrungo childbreast -the vtuber formerly known as 'dragonpants' -racehate janice -[unintelligible high pitched squealing] -inugami korone -jungulo succubus, crusader for greater serbia
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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 22/09/2026
I'm basically a soothsayer. Comic from 2007 which was NOT 9 years ago turns out
Weedmaster P: Americans can't build a car that stays together or a shoe that costs less than ten thousand dollars but boy howdy we sure can build one hell of an internet huh Jeffrey: Yeah. Jeffrey: America invented the internet because they were afraid Russia would drop bombs on us from outer space. [[A bomb falls]] Weedmaster P: Maybe some hype shit will get made because of the global war on terrors Jeffrey: A vast computer network that believes in "evil", costs a billion dollars an hour and says the same 5 phrases over and over. {{Underneath}} Instead of showing you pictures of cats Internet 5.0 will question your patriotism
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.
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Drake @trailerdrake.com · 25/09/2026
Good god. Not sponsored, but @sweetshop.app kicking off its launch with a Massive-Verse bundle at this price is insane!
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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pick this up! sweetshop.app/bundles/its-... #Hellboy #comics
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It's ya boy!
If you wanted a lot of Hellboy, we have a lot of Hellboy and some friends he made along the way.
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Dirty Rectangles @dirty-rectangles.com · 26/09/2026
A spectre is haunting Southern Ontario--the spectre of 『DIRTY RECTANGLES』!!! Hope to see you there for our usual October spooktacular <Count Floyd Werewolf howl> T̵̖̏̀ḩ̴̢͚̞̗̜͕͔̉̐̂͆͝͠e̷̘̙̐͒̔̅͒̽̍̐̚͠ý̸̪͑͂͒̅́͆͝'̷̣̫͋̊͆̇̌͛͘̕͝r̴̤̲͔̻̥͙͇̆͂e̸̻͕̮͂̀͠ ̵̝̝̣̰͔̞̲͐̈͗c̴̢̝̫͍͒̇͒̏͛̑͝o̴̯͎̜͈̙͋͑̐́́̅͝͝m̸̨̼̞̫̜͓̣̃͑̾̅̄̈́̀̽̑̏i̸͕̰̳͑̏n̶̼̋̈́̎̾̍̌̊̀͂͝g̵̨̡̠͈̝̼̀̄͆͌̋̄͒̂̅͝ ̶̰̞͕̐͒̅͆̂̒́̕t̶̡̥͈̠̩̔̾̈́̀̃͋ő̵͖̮̠̦̮̰͍͆͜ ̴̝̰͈̘͈̱̝̐̚g̵͖̠̝͉̺̲̝̪̣͒̒̀̅̌̄̐̈́̚ḛ̶̞̭̖̺̩͙̐̄́̈̈́̉͗̀̽ṱ̴̬͕́̕ ̸̛̫͇̝̩̮́͂͋̅̆̀̓̚̕ẏ̴̨͎̻̮̟̀̎͐̅̒͋̎͂ō̵̗̭̤̘͚͎̬̗̄̏̏̈̀͜͜͝u̶͍̮͑̿̑̓͌̈̄̓̕ To come to Dirty Rectangles on October 14th!
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/09/2026
when I see a bad take
detail of 'Myojakdo (Painting of Cats and Sparrows)' by Byeon Sang-byeok, who was famously nicknamed "Byeon Goyang" (Byeon Cat) for his lifelike depictions of felines

a cat crouched on the ground beneath a tree eyes fixed with maniacal intensity on a bird perched on the trunk singing
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
was literally just referencing this—the “who is having the most fun, the player, the designer, or the computer” question—earlier today. it’s such a core concern when making something heavily systemic or relies a lot on procgen
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
you see a product at a store one day and it's uniquely revolting. you turn it over in your mind and finally come to the conclusion that "not everything is for me." within an hour you realize that nothing made by industry is For You. all products in all stores are For Oppressor
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
I’m sure some people in academia have actually studied the remarkable US shift from optimism about tech to intense pessimism, and I’d love to read that research if anyone has links.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Dolly Parton Day! For this 9/25, the Bitter Kitten Movie Club is diving deep into "9 to 5," with a podcast talking about its queer influences and liberal polemic and a costume post outlining all of the tropes and motifs you might have missed: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/bitt...
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Bitter Kitten Movie Club: 9 to 5 (1980) - Tom + Lorenzo
9 to 5 (1980) Directed by: Colin Higgins Starring: Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman Costume Designer: Ann Roth Happy Dolly Day,
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Felt Mistress @feltmistress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A few making of photos taken in my chaotic studio
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is one of the best essays I have ever read.
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
today i once again learned we have _no clue_ what insta's worth to facebook because they don't disintermediate it or whatsapp in their 10K filing truly i would like the SEC to make 'em! my "the phone makes the content becomes the ad sells you things through the phone" lecture is missing a step!
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm at the gambling den. I'm at the loan shark hut. I'm at the combination gambling den and loan shark hut.
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
any time i hear something has unseated All I Want For Christmas all i can hear is Topic Of Professional Interest: how are the bots doing it is it: - clear channel radio capture or - algo push through spotify
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Defector @defector.com · 22/09/2026
After a nine-month campaign, the Ellisons have won the right to dictate the future of American entertainment and media. defector.com/states-settl...
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States Roll Over And Show Bellies To Paramount, Will Allow Warner Bros. Merger | Defector
On July 13, California state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that he would lead a 12-state coalition in mounting a supposedly bold legal challenge to the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros.…
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
So what *is* WIRED Women? It started as a joke at our weekly happy hour; we laughed at the idea of turning a historically dude-loving publication into a women’s rag—a tongue-in-cheek way to highlight the sorry state of women’s advancement in fields like tech and science.
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Welcome to the WIRED Women Issue
No one wants to talk about women in tech. So we will.
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 21/09/2026
If you want to judge people for moving to your city wrong you should have been born in DC
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
rabbits, an accurate depiction
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mcc @dryad.technology · 20/09/2026
Yeah, I feel that
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
If you get why it’s bad when people feel *pressured* to attend sex parties and engage in other sexual behavior to advance professionally, then you understand the core problem with the rationalist AI Silicon Valley culture.
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Want something startlingly original to read? Opioids and Organs by Arizona O'Neill is a stunning piece of work. Deeply researched yet warmly funny, it's worth your time if you ever considered where your bits go once you're gone. There's a lizard in it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/854181...
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Opioids and Organs by Arizona O'Neill: 9781770468450 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A heartwrenching memoir of a daughter losing her father and a scathing indictment of the medical industry Arizona grieves at the hospital bed of her father, a man she hardly knew, brain dead after a ...
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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The KS for Rigsby Book 2 had 588 backers — it would be great if book 3 could get close to that number. It’s just as good as the last book, I promise!!!! At 300, it’s over halfway there. Grab a copy and help it get to it’s first stretch goal — a 🌟fancy cover🌟 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
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Rigsby WI - Volume 3: Flux by SE Case
Volume 3 of SE Case's Eisner-nominated webcomic is up for grabs! Welcome back to Rigsby, Wisconsin!
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Clue Characters Say Hello
ALT: Clue Characters Say Hello
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Elias Thorne @truebe.horse · 15/09/2026
So the torment nexus was a kink thing this whole time huh
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is most of the problem with teaching interaction design post-2014, especially with AI integration you cant like just assign Sorry To Bother You and be done with it its not actually extreme enough
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
B2B software is named either Andromeda or Thing Doer. Andromeda uses cutting edge AI, is endlessly configurable, has a huge sales team, and loses tons of money because at the end of the day it does fuck-all. Thing Doer makes Excel files regulation-compliant, and earns 300 million dollars per year.
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
lol of course on accessibility-is-a-legal-standard week
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 15/09/2026
aaaaaaand we're back to Mark Carney selling the country to his rich buddies for pennies on the dollar, we took a couple weeks off for trade war but we're back
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the patron saint of maximalism. think of him every time you’re tempted to paint a room beige. majestically unafraid of being called “tacky.” we should all live our lives this boldly. make exactly what you want to make, no matter how bonkers it seems, and the Cher it is for will find it
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
wild to me that the plot of coyote vs acme and the madoka magica film are the same if the bad cat (extremely bad) were instead a good-ish dog
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Picked up 24 Hours in Mount Zion by Robert Ullman at #spx yesterday - if you're at the show today it's a really sweet and well-drawn book!
24 Hrs In Zion by Robert Ullman, a staple-bound mini zine
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
today in "things i should have already seen" puella magi madoka magica its very clear about what is happening - generationally important innovations in animation c.2011 - trash fire garbage cat!!!!! - Very bad!! Cat!!! - CAt bAd!
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I guess that sounds better than “Condoleezza Rice, whose fault a LOT of this was”
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't have any work on the Data Physicalization Wiki, but there are three projects here that came out of my classroom at ITP which makes me 😍 dataphys.org/list/
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List of Physical Visualizations and Related Artifacts
This is a chronological list of physical visualizations and related artifacts, maintained by Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen. Thanks to our contributors. If you know of another interesting physica...
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
took me this long to get through gquuuuuux it was so, so beautiful and i can confidently say i have not one single idea what happened, just zero comprehension
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Magic costs $3.25 a pop but if you cast 10 times in a 7 day period, the rest of the spells that week are free
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
this is truly why teaching Interface Programming as a design practice sucks so much it is all How
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 09/09/2026
would you like to start a conversation with the customer service chatbot. would you like to use the doctor’s self-service phone system. do you reject the warm touch of a lover. do you long for the cold embrace of steel. will you replace your soul with hydraulic fluid
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"I just want Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians to march across the country and put all these guys in cuffs." every once in a while harpers, the magazine for making you sad, really nails it
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Scooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So scary when you reach the end of an LRB article and there's still room to scroll which means someone wrote a Letter about it
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