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Mackenzie (he/his/him)

@catmetamackenzie.bsky.social
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Cataloguing librarian & games enthusiast. Ever learning & growing, views are mine but sometimes I'm wrong.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4h
We subsidize private car ownership *so much*, in so many different ways We should subsidize the service that acts as a safety net for households to own fewer cars, too—&, right now, come thru w emergency $ (Want to talk about affordability? Hard to save more in one fell swoop than dropping a car!)
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 4h
One of the best pieces I’ve read on the perverse administrative worldview that leads to things such as wide scale adoption of AI in the classroom: there is no process btw faculty & student into which a profit-seeking intermediary cannot 1st be inserted globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators
Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?
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Blair, The Crimson Crest(20$/200$) @blairingmysoul.bsky.social · 8h
Truly boggles my mind that there aren't 18 people out of the 2.5k people following me that have 10$ to donate.😭 180$ left to go on this request for aid.🙏 Anything helps! All donations & reposts appreciated!👏
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 10h
Exhibit 20331 that Ai is in a death spiral. Ai companies selling Ai product while burying the fact that it's Ai in the FAQ and not mentioning it anywhere else.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 19h
The Cockroach Janta Party had called for a protest in Mumbai at 4 pm, but demonstrators were not allowed to assemble near Shivaji Park and were being detained from Dadar railway and metro stations. Some were detained even for walking in the area. Tabassum Barnagarwala reports
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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 11h
We're in the final 15% of funding for NOVA 2! If you love mechs and hate the sun, this one is for you. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
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NOVA 2
Pilot mechs on a sunless world in this exciting second edition of the NOVA TTRPG!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h
I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15h
huge if true
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 18h
This is not limited to the USA.
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Tom the Dog @tomthedog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Well, damn. Every sentence after that first one is a real fucking bummer. I had to look this up: the movie is called PAWN SHOP, it mimics the Renée Good murder in graphic and defamatory fashion, and it's a Ben Shapiro production. Fuck everyone involved with this shit stem to stern, and fuck ICE
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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 18h
Last year Twitter charged us for ads it claimed we ran in 2017, on an expired credit card. Refused to back down, and we had to get our CC company involved. Do not, under any circumstances, give the Nazi app your credit card info.
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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026
I am feeling attacked
The ADHD urge to be excellent at solving other people's highly complex problems while letting our car registration expire for 8 months while actively thinking about it every single day.
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Aspharon @asph.me · 10/10/2026
dont make me tap the sign
tumblr post by carbomcoco

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence
they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

reblog by aphony-cree

people always go "Instead of spending all that time on a study they could have just listened to us when we said these thing happen"

they did listen, that's how studies work, they asked people about their experiences and put all the data together in a nice package that can be cited
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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
For the record, since this story says media was denied access, I also tried to attend and as I was waiting in the hallway for an organizer (who said go away) I saw a certain scribbler from this very paper leaving the main room and was told he had an arrangement with the premier to hear her speak.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
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A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026
this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better
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WereBrawl🦊 @cantaffordbrent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Blooper Reel is live, and I'm pretty sure it fully cured my depression. Go. Sign up. Give this one a chance. He's a good egg.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"
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LolotovCocktail @lolotovcocktail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh wow, it happened immediately after more age verification bulshit? Again? Almost like it's deliberate
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everyone should be fighting for Universal Healthcare and disability rights. Health is fragile. You can become disabled or chronically ill in an instant. It’s not a moral failing. It can wipe out your savings and leave you destitute. Healthcare is a basic human right.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Y'all denied her tenure
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Jasper (they/them) @octopusowl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Truly our parents sold out every generation since their own for their stability. The Men who sold the world.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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DriveThruRPG @drivethrurpg.com · 03/09/2026
Take control over what you see on DriveThruRPG. You can now manage your AI-generated content preferences from your Account page or the newly added option on the bottom left of the front page. This new option should work whether you are logged in or not.
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Last year, every* gender studies scholar in the US was spammed with a hardcover copy of an "academic" book by some TERF from a big publisher. (I opened it to a random page and gave up after 3 factual inaccuracies, I didn't get to the next page.) I wonder why I am reminded of that all of a sudden!
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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oct 20 in Ottawa, join us for Anti-Fascist Economics: @avilewis.ca in conversation with @isabellamweber.bsky.social on building a collective economic future that brings power back to working people. Tickets & Infoℹ️ broadbentinstitute.ca/events/anti-fascist-economics
Anti-Fascist Economics Avi lewis in Conversation with Isabell Weber

Photos of Isabella Weber and Avi Lewis - Broadbent Institute

The Broadbent Institute hosts NDP Leader Avi Lewis in conversation with economist Isabella Weber on building a
collective economic future that brings power back to working people.

Tuesday, October 20
7 pm ET | Ottawa
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
in Brazil if you use a social media platform to explain how criminal Flavio bolsonaro is, the platform either take it down the content or hide it. Brazil right now is a major laboratory for the far right cleptobros. and if they succeed the whole world goes to shit
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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thrilled that Bingo Card XP was included.
Binxo XP Card
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Far too many people simply hate children for existing
Neighbor blasts an ultrasonic device audible and painful only to children whenever they pass on the public sidewalk.

Was riding bikes with my daughter and a friend to school this morning. We passed a house and they both started yelling, "Ow! It hurts my ears." Really strange, right? Then I hear a voice play through a speaker who says, "If it hurts your ears, ride your bikes somewhere else!"

Now I'm angry. Literally doing nothing but riding bikes to school, probably one of the most wholesome activities a person could imagine, and...I can't even get my brain around it. 

It's apparently not loud, but it is tuned to a frequency higher than I can hear. If it's low enough for my children to hear it, it's going to be almost useless as an animal deterrent. It is specifically designed to cause pain to humans and serves no other purpose.

How is this legal?

Location: Minnesota, Twin Cities suburb
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is really compelling
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lol affleck being like “I don’t want to break the illusion so I won’t tell you where I used ai” joke’s on you bud bc you already broke the illusion I was gonna see this movie (Semi related: bring back special features that show us how things were made. We liked it actually)
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Ben Affleck Says He Used AI for ‘Lots of Things’ While Directing His Netflix Movie ‘Animals’
Ben Affleck announced that he used artificial intelligence ‘for lots of things in’ his new Netflix thriller ‘Animals,’ which he directed and starred in with Kerry Washington.
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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bill C-34's social media ban for under-16s blocks an entire cohort of Canadians from expressing themselves on social media and requires millions to age-verify to access lawful content. Four months later, the government hasn't issued a Charter statement. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/10/the-...
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The Missing Charter Statement: Why Hasn’t the Government Explained How Bill C-34’s Social Media Ban Complies with the Charter? - Michael Geist
Four months ago this weekend, the government introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, with the headline promise to establish a social media ban for those under 16. The bill has attracted enorm...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
objectively pro-diarrhea regime
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No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 09/10/2026
There is only one way out of this Wes, sorry I mean mess. We need to organise local campaigns in their constituencies to get bigots unelected.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrent... Miller knows, just from glancing at the last century of US history, that the US doesn't punish its Berias
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Lavrentiy Beria - Wikipedia
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The US is so catastrophically bad at actually punishing its monsters that it fully gave up on Reconstruction in under a decade. Miller and all those other dipshits can look back at generations and generations of history indicating they'll be totally fine for the next half century.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Stephen Miller is 40. He fully, absolutely expects to still be around in 2065, living in wealth and comfort and offering his influence on government policy, just like *every single one of the monsters that preceded him*
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Stephen Miller fully expects to live as long as Kissinger, and there's literally no evidence he is wrong. When was the last time the US *didn't* reward the architects of genocide with a lifetime of comfort, wealth, freedom, and continued influence on policy?
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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thread.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 08/10/2026
💕💸
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's never too late.
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kruger @kruger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey! Here I am yet again with the offer! I can draw you a spaceship, vehicle, mech, aircraft, static or in a dynamic pose, with the best rendering and detailing i can offer, plus a complex background of your liking for 200 USD, like the examples!PM me here or via valahor@gmail.com if interested
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Stephen Conway - The Spiel Foundation @thespiel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Spiel Foundation is so excited to have a booth at SPIEL Essen October 22-25, with a great lineup of game demos/designers from Brazil, South Africa, and Nigeria. Welcome to... The United Nations of Play! thespielfoundation.com/the-united-n...
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AFNarratives @afnarratives.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
If you're interested in learning to code: www.w3schools.com is super helpful! My background before Games Writing was IT and just understanding how code works (if statements, loops, etc) helps me visualize how narrative decisions function both in game and in code!!!
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W3Schools.com
W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.
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