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@365tomorrows.bsky.social I suspect your site's "Random Story" code is broken, as nearly all pages' suggested "random" story is invariably "Dan Huckabee, Hero", except for when you're actually on *that* story's page, which always suggests "Fleet of Ages" instead. cc: @rafellin.bsky.social

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Roughly 350 years ago, the Great Tirethian-Auralian War shattered the Tirethian Empire and decimated the ranks of the Auralian Zefraloi (elite mounted riders). Auralis believed that the Empire had grown too big for its britches, and had sought to bring it to heel.

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"What is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times?" Probably "The Ten Commandments" as it was an annual tradition growing up.

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Moses Parts the Red Sea

Alt: Moses (Charlton Heston) parts the Red Sea

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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am the Gatekeeper.

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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am the Keymaster!

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Re-reading flash-fic "Fleet of Ages" 21 years later makes me think of would-be creators relying on AI to reap the unearned. 365tomorrows.com/2005/08/10/f... "We were able to progress without the work of it. We were going to be gods before our time." @365tomorrows.bsky.social @planetx.bsky.social

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Fleet Of Ages - 365tomorrows

I’ve been expecting you. You’re going to ask me if I’ve heard what the Fleet of Ages found on their return trip. I have. Wasn’t surprised when I heard it, either. I never could wait. That was my probl...

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would seem that strange people are following me today. 👤

A screenshot of a Bluesky notification, the text "Strange people followed you (16 hours ago)" along with a button, "Follow back"

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No one, no matter how strong or wise or great, can rightly own and use another.

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Indigo Caldwell-Caron ♿ @skyliting.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I want someone to record "I'm sorry, Mr. President but that is false.” on one of those novelty key fobs and then give one to every person in the press corps. And let them all just keep hitting that button.

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh man, he wasn't that much older than me.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sep 18th 1999 - After defeating Agent Smith with his new found abilities, Neo makes a telephone call promising the machines he will show the human prisoners "a world where anything is possible". 📽️📅 The Matrix (1999)

$3 Screenshots from the movie "The Matrix" (1999): First, a black screen with green computer text displaying “Call trans opt: received. 9-18-99 14:32:21 REC\:Log>.” Second, cascading green digital code with the words “SYSTEM FAILURE” highlighted, subtitle reads “I know you’re out there. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin.” Third, a man wearing black sunglasses and a dark coat walks through a crowded city street, looking serious as blurred pedestrians pass behind him.$

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A good rule of thumb is to assume there's at least one Nazi/Groyper working on every Republican campaign in the country. That is what the Teenage Republicans/College Republicans/Young Republicans have become. It's been this way for almost 10 years and people still don't get it.

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

youtu.be/HE51miXmw5M Posting Deodato's "September 13" on September 13 is an annual tradition.

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September 13 (Album Version)

YouTube video by Eumir Deodato - Topic

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Introduce yourself as the meaning of your first and middle name." Hi, I'm Resolute Divine Endowment.

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My new co-op #gameidea: "You're responsible for filling a TV network's schedule. Unfortunately, someone separated all the show titles from all the show descriptions. Nobody knows why. The executive presentation is in an hour. Make a television schedule that looks good enough to keep your job."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026

You have rights as a patient that far exceed the rights accruing to a mere customer. Same goes for other professions: Teachers have pupils, librarians have patrons, lawyers have clients. "Customer" is a demotion from all of these. 24/

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 30/08/2026

Photo of a part of the sticker wall, near the gum wall in Seattle. A large glued poster of a cat holding a sign reads, “A.I. IS DẠTA
& CAN ONLY LOOK AT WHERE WE'VE BEEN.
CREATIVITY IS TRYING TO SEE WHERE WE CAN GO.”

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

[spelling bee] JUDGE: your word is "redacted" KID: ████████ JUDGE: correct

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026

The Lake America thing really drives home that the fundamental divide in this country isn’t left or right, it’s who sees the world and acts like an adult, and who wants to still be a child, throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way. It just happens to map well onto a partisan axis these days.

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Test any subplot: remove it. If the main story barely notices, it was filler. A real subplot crosses into the main plot and changes it, hands the hero what they need, twists the knife, reshapes the ending. Make the threads tangle. 🚦 🧵 📖 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips #InkBreaker

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nailed the ending on this one 😉 Join us on InkBreaker! ✒️📜

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If losing Hayden Panettiere shortly after a solar eclipse isn't a sign of the times, I don't know what is.

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are playing a tabletop roleplaying game, with various miniatures, a dice tray, and terrain scattered across a playmat.
Blue: And so, our heroes make their narrow escape by the mercy of a dice roll.

Green raises an eyebrow in confusion as Blue pulls out a large sturdy rule book.
Green: Are you sure we've been playing right? We keep only surviving by luck.
Blue: Let's see... Oh. Huh.
Green: What?

Blue and Green look at each other.
Blue: We were supposed to spawn six new enemies every combat turn.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/08/2026

Rooting for one social network to win is like hoping everyone eats at the same fast food restaurant for every meal. I had Shake Shack last night; it's a great fast food burger. But people shouldn't eat fuckin' fast food cheeseburgers for every meal! Do not aspire to be a fascist slop platform.

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In May 1950, Ray Bradbury wrote "There Will Come Soft Rains", a story about a lone house that stands intact in an empty, ruined city. In the story, the automated house starts by announcing (to no one), "Today is August 4, 2026..."

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Nick Bentley Makes Games @nickbentley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For every art, it’s more valuable to try to improve than to try to be good, …because improvement can be operationalized more effectively. This includes game design. 🎲✂️

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.

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Corrina @corrinalawson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We Went from free tv with commercials to paying for tv with no commercials to now paying for tv and everything also has commercial. I fail to see the improvement

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

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Welcome to a gentle world. @a-gentle-world.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Morning brings sunlight spilling through curtains. A jogger leaves a jar of blackberry jam by your doorstep.

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A 36-word #microRPG: Throw RPS. Interpret symbolically, e.g.: • Rock = stability, pressure, force. • Paper = emergence, drift, invitation. • Scissors = focus, severing, urgency. Winner shapes, loser colors, ties dominate. Each player responds with one sentence. Repeat. Third tie ends the game.

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Shower thought: I've got to wonder whether anyone's trained their (mundane) pets to understand High Valyrian commands and phrases. Followed by: But then how would one even say "play dead" or "roll over" in High Valyrian anyway? #gameofthrones #conlang @dedalvs.bsky.social

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm here for this ongoing thread in which "A.I." in news headlines and advertisements is replaced with "Cocaine".

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Readers can feel when you’re protecting your characters, when nothing bad is allowed to happen and every loss gets undone. The tension goes quiet. Take the rails off and let them get lost. That’s where the story lives. 🧭 🗺️ 🥾 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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Orrery Golden, Professional Storyteller @orrerygolden.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The true magic of Sesame Street is that it treated children as people.

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Count von B. 🐝❌👁️ @bxi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Everyone thinks they're the hero, and unfortunately they're all partially right. One of them learns that saving the world doesn't count if you ruin it first. A bunch of cosmic theater kids scramble backstage to keep the plot from falling apart. The normies stay busy meditating and drawing on rocks.

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Welcome to a gentle world. @a-gentle-world.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A dreaming cat is here, reading some picture cards.

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Egregious Philbin @scottowilliams.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Listening to a song from 1996 in 2006: You have summoned the ancient chants Listening to a song from 2006 in 2016: Omg a throwback! Listening to a song from 2016 in 2026: Holy shit, where did this new stuff come from?

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Welcome to a gentle world. @a-gentle-world.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A carefree bunny is here, pondering an old glass bauble.

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