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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tell you kids that this is Char Aznable.

Hugo Gernsback, turn-of-the-century editor and namesake of the Hugo Awards in Science Fiction / Fantasy publishing.

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cari •ᴗ• @caridescent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

on my puter 🐟

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ISetSail 𓅇 @sixscales.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

awebo

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 25/09/2026

mc escher is old news, have you seen ｓｈｉｎｊｕｋｕ　ｓｔａｔｉｏｎ　ｍａｐｓ

A neon wireframe of Shinjuku Station hangs in a black-violet void. Purple streets stretch toward the horizon above a white-and-cyan knot of platforms, tunnels, and intersecting passages. Corridors cross themselves, divide, and return at heights that no longer agree. The streets describe a flat city; the station beneath them describes something considerably larger. There are no solid walls, only the exposed edges of an interior that has escaped its building. In the upper-right corner, a small control panel offers checkboxes for floors 4F through B3, suggesting that the geometry might become possible again if enough of it were hidden.

An intricate blue-ink drawing unfolds Shinjuku Station into an impossible architectural dissection. Orange, lavender, pale-blue, green, and pink passages weave between banks of railway platforms, diving beneath streets and resurfacing inside structures that should be outside the station. Stairways stitch together overlapping planes. Buildings stand along the edges of the cutaway, but the deeper the drawing goes, the less certain it becomes which space contains which. Tiny Japanese annotations patiently catalogue the contradiction. A smaller explanatory diagram occupies the lower-left corner, offering another station inside the drawing of the station. The white paper between the corridors could be daylight, solid ground, or further rooms.

An exploded diagram of Shibuya Station arranges disconnected floors in white space like an Escher staircase equipped with public amenities. Platforms and concourses hover above one another, linked by dense flights of stairs, sloping escalators, and blue elevator shafts. The labels descend from 3F to B5F, although height appears to be negotiated separately in each part of the image. Several places claim to be B1F. Patches labelled “ground level” occur partway through the machinery. Red accessible routes trace a meticulous course through the impossible structure, passing toilets, ticket machines, and numbered exits. The legend at the bottom explains every symbol except how to get outside.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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Mack Crawford @mackinspace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Saturn II (INT-18) was a proposed derivative of Saturn V, eliminating the S-IC. A modified S-II would become the new stage 1, augmented by Titan SRBs. The study considered various configurations, with 5 or 7 J-2s, stretching the S-II, and 2 or 4 SRBs with 4, 5, or 7 segments

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2. Selaco I am once again telling you to play Selaco, it is one of the best out of all the oldschool FPS games you could possibly play, it's just phenomenal. The developers have put so much effort into making the game world so reactive to the moment to moment firefights, it's like a John Woo movie.

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Selaco is a brand new original shooter inspired by classics, featuring thrilling action set pieces, destructibility, smart enemies and a fleshed out story taking place within an immersive game world.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1. HROT Yeah, I absolutely adore this game. It starts off very Quake, with a distinctly brutalist Soviet architecture vibe going on, but gets spookier than you'd expect. There's some moments in this game that scared me more than many full fledged horror games. I hope to do a video about this soon.

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HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the g...

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

PARCAE ocean surveillance satellites.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In Mario Kart Wii, asphalt is slightly shiny, reflecting a band of light ahead of the player. This is implemented cleverly by leveraging something that the Wii is already doing, allowing it to not need to use any sort of additional lighting or post-processing.

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Castlevania Bravo @castlebravoli7.gobirds.online · 15/09/2026

“But castle bravo what if they’re in central time” not my problem! Get a real time zone!

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...

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Matt Mlodzienski @cobaltwolf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People should watch Animarchy’s breakdown of the Clancyverse. I came into it, having read the first couple Ryan books and seeing this interview, remembering he had a healthy respect for Muslims. Turns out they’re one of the few groups he had nice things to say about.

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At its core, arguing against the concept of "insanity" as a legal defense attacked the very heart of the concept of mens rea - "state of mind" - in criminal justice. State of mind is everything to crime - What was the person thinking? Why? Under what conditions? It matters... a lot.

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pushfreight/tyeagg @pushfreight.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

here's another issue i managed to find

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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Skylab, as it was meant to be, with intact meteroid shield and both main solar arrays.

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Peyton @gee-man.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Priority subject for termination, high on the list." Happy belated 3 years to AC6, the game that made me a believer again. Here's the full version of the art I did for the AC zine, Records Analysis @armoredcorezine.bsky.social. Glory to the Planetary Closure Administration. #ArmoredCore

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

250 million birds flew across America last night, tracked by radar. Migration season is upon us, and it’s wilder than you could imagine. Birdcast’s live migration maps and forecasts (from Cornell Lab of Ornithology) are brilliant, and you can find them here. birdcast.org/migration-to...

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Zach Anderson @zepzach889.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Map of Europe c. 1910 in the Washington Burns Timeline. There is no WWI; instead, there was the Great European War from 1899-1904 (fought on the continent, with Britain preoccupied with simultaneous risings in Ireland, India, and Japan). #alternatehistory #map

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Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Meanwhile...

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Meet me by the rotating Death Star projection in Dark Forces.

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thought it was a Cyber Truck for a second

A dumpster that looks like a Cuber Truck

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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Argonian cop named Turns-Off-Bodycam

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 21/08/2026

I cannot stress enough how cute the illustrations are 🧪🔭💙📚💡

Internal page from The Universe: a graphic guide, with an illustration of the Bell Labs telescope and two cranky looking pigeons. The text above reads “The CMB was first detected in 1964,* by a pair of scientists working at Bell Laboratories - Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias. They had at their disposal a very large microwave antenna, and they found that there was background noise no matter which way they pointed their antenna.
Suspecting all sorts of instrument failures, they also trapped and evicted a pair of pigeons* that had taken up residence inside the instrument, thinking perhaps the droppings were doing something (they weren't. What they had discovered was instead the afterglow of a very hot early Universe.
They were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1978”

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You know who else wasn’t fully healthy while carrying a heavy load to Cleveland?

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Lizzy (borden 🪓) @ditherwitch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

arctic exploration (4 colors) #pixelart #art #ドット絵

pixel art scene of a futuristic exploration vehicle parked in snowy mountains. 3 crew members are walking in front of the vehicle. 320x180px, 4 colors, white, red, blue, black.

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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

started watching Babylon 5 and this show rules, it's like i'm watching an FMV cutscene from an old PC game but the FMV never ends

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

the little legs kicking

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 14/08/2026

josh shapiro has to respond by working the hoagie station at wawa during the lunch rush we cannot allow texas to surpass the commonwealth in gas station food content

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Cirenzi @cirellan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Becorns have names, personalities, and always seem to be on a quest. What followed is an entire tiny world of wonder. The story behind these is almost as wonderful as the Becorns themselves. newengland.com/living/desig...

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Harvesting materials and inspiration from the woods near his Rhode Island home, Becorns creator David M. Bird captures otherworldly images of wonder.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just sent in my LANYARD part 2 article along with a couple of dozen photos. I was looking for a good opener photo for the article. Could not find something great, but then stumbled across these images that I scanned from a Douglas Thor promotional booklet from the mid-1960s. I'm using one of these.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A couple more images of the KH-6 LANYARD camera system. One image shows both the film supply and takeup reels at the front of the camera. That takeup reel would have been mounted inside a reentry vehicle. Other photo shows the image reflecting mirror that looked down at Earth, and the camera lens.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

𝔅𝔢𝔶𝔬𝔫𝔡 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔦𝔢𝔩𝔡𝔰 𝔚𝔢 𝔎𝔫𝔬𝔴🍂 An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits. A compendium of the supernatural creatures, forces, and genius loci of the American Midwest, from Up On Goblin Hill. Exclusive first-looks now appearing on my patreon! patreon.com/upongoblinhill

Photo: a brown leather scrapbook, square and worn at the edges. Embossed on its cover is the crest of Goblin Hill; a small pointed shield supported by tangles of ivy.
A piece of paper bearing the legend "Beyond The Fields We Know, An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits." is attached to the cover by wax seal.

Cover image: an elaborate landscape illustration of the Midwestern prairie. Papercut scrollwork frames the title of the book.

Interior image of the Alamanac showing its scrapbooked elements of paper and illustration, stained by age and water damage.

Interior image illustration of the Lightning Dogs of Tornado Alley.

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Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today is the NINTH ANNIVERSARY of CTC. This was a big year - from Food That Built America on the History Channel to Good Morning America to some huge McDonald's buying trips. I'm motivated to make the final year of my first decade the best one yet, so stay tuned!

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A Viking art related footnote... Author and flying saucer photo fabricator Billy Meier, in a video represented as showing photos from his space voyage, used stuff from books as things he claimed to see on a 'space trip'. One of these was a painting of the Viking orbiter that I did in 1975 for NASA!

A bizarre tale was brought to my attention not long ago about a European flying saucer evangelist who claimed he had been taken aboard one and transported through space and time. Normally I wouldn't have found such a claim worthy of notice but while looking through a referenced 'extraordinary claim' video I noticed that Billy Meier shamelessly used various images from NASA in his presentation of still images he claimed to take on his 'space trip'. One of these was a painting of the Viking orbiter that I did in 1975 for NASA. In his video presentation he shows photos made off a TV monitor of images from books taken with a camcorder.
I am amused that one of my works was ID'd as an alien spacecraft. It is astonishing that he thought no one would call out such a blatantly fabricated presentation. In the early 1970s that fellow faked a bunch of photos of flying saucers apparently using models etc. against European countryside, which were published in a big coffee table book I remember seeing in bookstores in the early 70s 'UFO...Contact from the Pleiades'.
I remember being amused at the amateur quality of the flying saucer photos in that book. They were defocused enough to cover some sins of fabrication like strings, or were consistent with thrown models. It would be informative to examine the original negatives of his camera photos to see the ratio of used vs discarded photos of thrown models. The sheer quantity of his claimed flying saucer photos is suspicious, as if something extraordinary was going out of its way to be repeatedly photographed by him.
Here is the video presentation if you want to suffer through it. It's a poor quality video of Billy Meier flipping through a photo album of photo prints apparently photographed from a TV screen showing camcorder views of varied space images, mainly from NASA releases. At 0:47 my Viking orbiter art appears. At 5:01 a Pteranodon painting by Zdenek Burian is unmistakable.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

i'm convinced that the reason this shit happens is because investors, the people who actually run companies under capitalism, are fucking stupid and don't understand that a thing not changing is actually good, it means the thing works

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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Even more visitors will be flocking to Iceland for the solar eclipse, so here’s a much-requested phrase in Icelandic (“Hello. I am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”). Icelandic pronunciation tips: youtu.be/ivLPqkEaKOI

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