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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 28/09/2026

when the term "third space" was first coined in 1965, shopping malls were just starting to take over america. you could make an argument that the mall killed the third space and now we can't even imagine it anymore

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 24/09/2026

I feel so vindicated lmao they're just saying it out loud. Wild that anti-AI and pro-AI people can both go through the exact same process of reasoning and then conclude opposite things. "AI is like cars" so true bestie we should abolish cars too while we're at it.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

realizing that happyness by age chart is just the social security retirement age lmao

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 19/09/2026

it's so funny to see "communism doesn't work" people in 2026. I think that ship has sailed y'all!! Now you have to justify why your economic strategy is superior to the CCP's strategy, and that only seems to get more difficult with each passing year.

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Call of the Winterluna @sorrowsoftheluna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

thinking of that guy bragging how his illiterate grandpa was safe from communism lol

tweet that reads "'literacy' was always the most basic tool of totalitarian propaganda. if you are not literate you can't be fed communist propaganda. the most steadfast anti-communist i knew in my childhood was my maternal grandfather who was illiterate. communist propaganda did not reach him"

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 19/09/2026

Communism is a scientific discipline and tomorrow's strategy must be an improvement, correction, or refinement of yesterday's. Anything else is america's favorite pastime, anti-intellectualism

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City Observatory @cityobservatory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Carmageddon does a no-show in Portland. Closing the I-5 freeway increased AM peak hour travel times about five minutes compared to normal conditions. cityobservatory.org/wheres-my-ca...

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 18/09/2026

ever since I learned that accurate cartography was a tool specifically invented to serve colonialism I haven't been able to see the fantasy genre's obsession with maps and video games' need to have a linear coordinate system to represent space the same way

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 18/09/2026

Fire is invented.

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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

would you believe one of these shocking posts is literally "Taking my mind off of my pure hatred for the Portland police by watching 1989 hit The Wizard, starring Fred Savage and Jenny Lewis on VHS with my wife" lmao

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 15/09/2026

humanity perfected music when it invented funk and all music that comes after must live in its shadow

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 11/09/2026

makes "at least three" and "don't play games with me, kid" look pretty good by comparison

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 11/09/2026

man this is a really bleak lineup here outside of TKL/Morillo. I don't think we're getting a third progressive in d3.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 15/08/2026

the regime is able to predict and prevent potholes before they happen, but strategically leaves 4 rotating potholes in every urban center, 3 of which it immediately fills upon being asked so as to test its comms network, and 1 it deliberately neglects to ensure a baseline opposition to the regime.

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One thing Berry understood is that ecological wisdom and the fight for freedom have always been intertwined. "Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias."

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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges v0.4: When you die while confused, a confused version of your name is no longer recorded with your score.

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 19/08/2026

thank god we set down elden ring to play some more big walk last night

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 15/08/2026

have started testing my handwriting as part of my kanji flashcards. feels good to actually be able to write this stuff.

a fountain pen by a journal full of handwritten (print, not cursive) kanji. it does feel like my handwriting improves as it goes along overall.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the kind of person who thinks the moda center is the heart of portland culture lives too far away from the nearest dispensary. truly grow up. that place sucks ass and it's crazy that taxpayer dollars are going to sink into a soulless black hole because officials have no idea what fun is

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 09/08/2026

Big Walk is a game where you sit on a bench next to your girlfriend at a light rail station as you wait for daybreak.

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 10/08/2026

marxism and anarchism are best friends ☺️

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 10/08/2026

the omelas kid is a lightning ground wire. they connect the heaven to the earth. without a fatal flaw in the design of the utopia, we can't imagine our long-suffering souls having any place to reside.

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 07/08/2026

Portland's new city council system does such a beautiful job of really bringing the city's unique diverge perspectives & voices to the table and it *could* be an opportunity for us to finally have difficult conversations and find common ground but instead we're entering total warfare

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 07/08/2026

I need yall to hone your anger at AI with an actual power analysis. otherwise your moral panic will be twisted against you by the people with actual power.

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Gaziter @gaziter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

what if she had an even bigger blade...

My fox girl warrior character, now with an even bigger blade

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 02/08/2026

realtime logging is a feature that I don't see out-of-the-box in many engines but that I find extremely essential for debugging. it's been fun this time around to take advantage of Ruby to make it super extensible so I can render arbitrary widgets instead of just text.

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 31/07/2026

my challenge to everyone is to spend more time imagining & engaging with utopia

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 31/07/2026

sorry I don't believe that "litrpg" is a genre. that's an isekai.

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 30/07/2026

fun fact, the arabic bazaar (our prototypical free market) had no legal concept of a corporation and considered all interest-bearing debt a sin against god

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 29/07/2026

The debate over "the working class" just comes down to: liberals want a term to describe a narrow band of who "deserves" support (hence a consistent obsession with means testing), while socialists (like Zohran here) want to to unify the proletariat.

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I think it’s interesting that contemporary Hobbit adaptations always go “well surely all the dwarves would’ve been armed to the teeth”

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Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com · 28/07/2026

I've been trying to write this page since … 2015! Each time I try, get frustrated, quit, start over. But this time I think I might have gotten the page to a good state … www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/...

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Red Blob Games: Improving Heuristics

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 28/07/2026

it's funny that people are like "wilson owes nolan because he put her on the map" when it is actually much more the case that nolan owes wilson because he leveraged the existing popularity of her odyssey translation as part of the PR circuit to give himself legitimacy

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 28/07/2026

I've been trying out jpdb.io as a kanji flashcards replacement for wanikani (which I completely fell off of) and so far I'm liking it! Construct learning plans based on input text to give yourself a concrete goal/reward for progress (I tracked down the OCR'd text of Yotsuba ch. 1)

jpdb.io

Powerful Japanese dictionary and an all-in-one learning system for kanji and vocabulary.

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 27/07/2026

If I wanted a review of Nolan's Odyssey's filmic techniques I would go to a film crit, but I do, in fact, think it's interesting to someone who has adapted the Odyssey (a translation is an adaption!!!! translation is art!!) talk about why they dislike a different adaption.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22/07/2026

tiffany nailed it as perfectly as possible.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 21/07/2026

Meg is understating that the project REALLY deserves to hit its final stretch goal — rules for playing ON BlueSky or other microblogging/social platforms. I for one am VERY CURIOUS about what experimental work she’d dream up…

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 20/07/2026

I started playing Elden Ring with the seamless co-op mod (www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mo...) with @wick.works yesterday and it's basically the perfect Elden Ring experience tbh.

nexusmods.com

Seamless Co-op (Elden Ring)

Overhaul to the co-operative aspect of Elden Ring's multiplayer

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 17/07/2026

do you think any real human has ever dodge rolled. like some guys coming at you with a sword and you're like "uh oh... time to summersault"

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 16/07/2026

keep seeing people be like "degrowth doomers were wrong, solar is saving the world and will replace fossil fuels!" but like. annual C02 emissions are still rising every year? I would super love for my doomer anarchist ass to be wrong about this but... yknow?

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 15/07/2026

still find it wild that it's apparently easier for governments to change our definition of time than it is to adjust standard working hours seasonally.

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 15/07/2026

if this vision of the future is too radical for you then my counter offer is "gay sex on public streets // raze the suburbs // criminalize interest-bearing debt // melt down every car // mao was right about landlords". take your pick.

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 15/07/2026

INALIENABLE RIGHT TO LOITER CUTE LIL COFFEE SHOPS ON EVERY CORNER NATIONAL DEBT JUBILEE CAR-FREE URBAN CORE NO MORE EVICTIONS EVER FOR ANY REASON UNIVERSAL HUMAN DIGNITY

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Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 15/07/2026

Bowling Alone pins the start of the collapse in 1965. the era of third spaces in america is literally exiting living memory. no wonder people think it's mythological.

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