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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024

now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

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LYDIA ZANOTTI @phrisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

closing out #swordtember i just wanted to draw a snake 🐍

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Confirmed: the page just says Jerry in #1 in my browser

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You could even get a vanity callsign! (Also maybe use a PO box for your license because callsigns are tied to names and addresses in a public database)

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hadn't heard about three-cueing before, but when I saw the venn diagram on the Wikipedia page, my reaction was "oh no..."

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm partial to Prusa printers myself, though they are a bit more expensive.

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's a fun game! Challenging but neat mechanics (I am stuck trying to unlock more stars lol)

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*deep breath* When Northeast US cities were settled they were often located on rivers as far inland as possible, which was usually just below the “fall line” (think Great Falls near DC); I-95 connects those cities and thus runs along the fall line and that’s why the rain/snow behave the way they do

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"North and West of I-95" - why does snow in the Eastern US always seem fall to the West of I-95?

Why does it seem like the most snow falls North & East of the large cities of the North East United States?

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The Fiber Farm (Jen) @jjco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is also a good time to remind everyone of my favorite German insult “hobbyloses Verhalten” which is basically “hobbyless behavior” 😅

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

John Le Carré

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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 01/09/2026

Happy Bisexuality Visibility Month

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's giving me Midnight Diner meets the Taxi (1978) intro + jazzy sax!

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ooh Karnivool must have been really cool!

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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Quaker Oats: the only oatmeal named after a schismatic sect of the Church of England. We guarantee it.

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For everyone going through it right now 🖊️🦑

American traditional style pinup of Dolly Parton in a long pink dress and platform high heels, holding a cowboy hat, with the text “I Will Always Love you”

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 25/08/2026

important context

sign taped in a window reading

NOTICE:

We will not be open on the 25th of August because we will be closed.

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Fiona Creates @fionacreates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Trash bird.

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I like that the head is apparently just for show since it stays tilted back after faceplanting

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Watch out for the AT field! (Aperture Terror)

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Dog with a Biscuit and a Chinese Cup by Giovanna Garzoni, 1640s

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 10/08/2026

great narrative pacing

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Oof that rust... But a great looking result!

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Happy 808 Day to all those who celebrate it.

A roland tr-808 rhythm composer seen from above. Black box with gray text, assorted knobs and programming interface.

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🔚🔜 @voidstar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Research advisors will say “this is a good place to start reading” and then send send you:

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I remember being so impressed with it! I was just discovering demos and loved the aesthetic and music of Chaos Theory. It's still my favorite!

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is how you get a fursona. This is what happens to you.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Air to Ground Message: WE ARE GOOD UNLESS YOU ARE BORED Area: Jersey Shore, NJ, USA Type: Boeing 767-300 A: #a6e102b03ab F: #f1c140be2af

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m wheezing smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/spag...

Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
SERVINGS: THIS IS A PRIVATE MATTER
TIME: 20 MINUTES
SOURCE: SMITTEN KITCHEN

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Captain Captain Bain @captcaptainbain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My guess is an announcement next year, I think they're filming this year

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

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