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“Getting smashed into a paste by capitalism that has long since stopped following its own rules” is such an excellent and succinct description of The Horrors

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 13h

I guess “funnel” is the more common name. We had lots of these growing up! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageleni...

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Agelenidae - Wikipedia

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 13h

Definitely *looks* like the work of a tunnel spider.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 28/09/2026

I feel like this video raises my blood pressure each time I see it come across the feed

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 28/09/2026

Your weird little e-reader is so cute

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 28/09/2026

I need to lie down (I am already lying down)

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 28/09/2026

My cat has gotten out by accident more than once and is in absolute panic mode as soon as it happens. “Oh god I thought I wanted this. What have I done.”

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 27/09/2026

Bieber fever, it turns out, is no laughing matter.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 24/09/2026

“Back by popular demand” could honestly apply either to the magazine or witchcraft itself

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I keep telling people about how the Christian "Left Behind" books, literal fantasies about the apocalypse, were super, super popular in the late 90s/ early 2000s. I used to read them. Major disasters, while terrible, were also framed by evangelical churches as titillating...sexy almost.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 23/09/2026

Converting your opponent’s rage into life-sustaining energy is an extremely mono white thing to do

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 23/09/2026

You’re creating local news from first principles and I honestly love that

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 22/09/2026

It’s cute! You should let it stay!

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Guys: all nuances and logic aside, you give an inch they take a mile. You know that right? Don’t be stupid. If you can’t be tough on the little things, how do u expect to do anything when the chips are Really down. Act accordingly

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Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

btw everyone doing this was also homophobic until that suddenly became gauche in like 2013

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 19/09/2026

Hello, giant owl in Melody’s back yard. I love you!

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 19/09/2026

God damn now I want a torta

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 18/09/2026

Posting my work on Meta platforms again to appease the content gremlins but I'll share here too since I like y'all better anyway. Here we have a little watercolor sketch of Cricket Cafe, which is the first place Kaytee and I went to eat the week we moved to Portland.

A pen and watercolor sketch of an old commercial building, blue with a terra cotta red roof, two stories. The first floor corner has a sign which reads "Cricket Cafe" and another that reads "Brunch". Outside someone walks a dog on a tree-lined street.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 17/09/2026

I still listen to this album often. Late night with the windows open? There’s nothing better

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 16/09/2026

I don’t mean to sound like a doomer. It just breaks my heart, honestly.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 16/09/2026

Knowing that people entered a grove of giant sequoias and thought to cut them down is why I don’t have much faith in any inherent goodness of humanity.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 16/09/2026

Journaling the other day.

We see from above: a mug of coffee, several pastels, a ruler, pens, and an open sketchbook with a collage which reads “Begin Again”

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 15/09/2026

It’s a real dumb movie

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 14/09/2026

CEO and ranch enthusiast

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 14/09/2026

Sunday Scaries Monday Morbids Tuesday Terrifieds Wednesday Worries Thursday Thoughts (bad ones) Friday Fearfuls Saturday Sadnesses

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 14/09/2026

This is an integral part of my routine.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 11/09/2026

Not sure why my alt text disappeared

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 09/09/2026

I don’t imagine we’re on the Terminator timeline, but I expect the more infrastructure they give these models / agents access to the more opportunities there are for things just getting more broken than they already are. So they just contribute to the existing suck.

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 09/09/2026

Did you put them in the hospital? Like how dare they

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 09/09/2026

He’s wrong a lot but he’s like…especially wrong this time. My quote finger is twitching

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 09/09/2026

Also fwiw I can’t help but read it as “slaptop” which just makes it more funny to me

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 08/09/2026

Grifters only know how to do the one thing I guess

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 08/09/2026

This post prompted me to watch it for the first time and I was not prepared for how unsettling it is

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legalized gamboling @ohtazer.goblinmo.de · 08/09/2026

the "funny" thing is, many figured that this was already the case, and the great thing about US privacy laws is that they're based on a "reasonable expectation of privacy" which means that every shift in public perception of privacy erodes our actual rights

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 08/09/2026

The capitalists and politicians that control the media and the political institutions are more fearful of the rising left then they ever will be of fascism. Make sure this gets into your thick heads

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 07/09/2026

My high school bff drove an MX-3 and I loved it so much

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

this is one of the many things I resent about the Trump era. for decades if a person had truly terrible opinions you had to work the night shift with them for weeks before they started airing it out. 2026 is all the worst on-call night shift coworkers insisting that you give them equal time

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 06/09/2026

So excited to see this one

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