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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by ‘Nazis’

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Curt @neoriffic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The purpose of a system is what it does," was coined by Stafford Beer in 1979. The bottom line is, it doesn't matter what a system is intended, advertised, or "supposed" to do. What matters is what it actually does in the real world, what behaviours it influences, and what outcomes it produces.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My first choice is "zero billionaires," but if I can't have that I'll take "billionaires with night terrors of guillotines trying to buy off the public."

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

An unexpected bonus to offset all the annoying things about living in Utah: Less than two weeks to go and there's still front row tickets available for Wu-Tang!

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Flock's security is worse than the worst case scenario I might have imagined.

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Malimar @malimar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trumpism is a heresy against the American civil religion.

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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy birthday to my eldest son Gabe who turns 22 years old today! He did not listen. www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/1...

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Mindcraft - Penny Arcade

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fuck the haters, this bread is bitchin’. Sprouted wheat is the best but they don’t have a bad flavor. It was my condolence prize for having to move back to Utah for work.

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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This meme has never been more relevant

Woman with glasses and short brown hair saying "what a week huh"

Man with a suit responding "lemon, its Wednesday."

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Typical big-government liberal! smh

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Funny how a turn-of-the-century pop art image can give you sudden flashbacks to losing your virginity in college in the backseat of a Honda Fit to the sound of accordions

The original old-timey postcard that inspired the cover art for In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Funny how a turn-of-the-century pop art image can give you sudden flashbacks to losing your virginity in college in the backseat of a Honda Fit to the sound of accordions

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh HELL yeah I am strapped in for this journey

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

HELL yeah. Been playing Geoguessr every day for 3-4 months now. This is the best score I've ever gotten in a daily challenge and the closest I've come to a platinum medal. #Geoguessr

A screencap of Geoguessr showing a score of 24,792 out of a 25K maximum. All five location scores are >4800 with one 5K. Locations this day were Mexico, Columbia, Kenya, Malta, and Spain's Basque country.

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Z. Claude @zclaude.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast he talks about his Great Idiot of History Theory. Every world-historic revolution is caused not by the success of some brave and pious revolutionary but by the failure of some dog-brained aristocrat who can't leave well enough alone. Donald Trump is such an Idiot

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Nate Tenczar @nineczar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

looking at the last 50 years of american governance

Mike in breaking bad telling walter "we had a good thing you stupid son of a bitch"

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

That's just a Nevron from Expedition 33, you can't fool me

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Facebook is serving me the weirdest stupid right-wing slop completely unasked for. Rent control is not a violation of the 8th commandment, you absolute dumbass!

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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

18. TALKING HEADS ALBUM RANKINGS Stop Making Sense The soundtrack to the best rock concert film ever made shines even without the visuals. The definitive version of lots of these songs, thanks primarily to the presence of late keyboard genius Bernie Worrell who makes them into a genuine funk act.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss.

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My accountant: How do you see yourself spending retirement? Me:

A still from The Great Mouse Detective with Dawson dressed as a pirate drunkenly dancing with burlesque dancers

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i had no idea this would become so literal

tweet https://x.com/patdubois/status/1590006089541914624?lang=en
from @patdubois
reads "as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days"
along with an image reading 50.1% "Everyone Gets A Puppy" vs 49.9% "Diarrhea Forever"

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

L: The Definitive Beloved Millennial Cinderella adaptation R: The Definitive Beloved Millennial Cinderella adaptation, White Edition

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella featuring Brandy (1997)

Ever After: A Cinderella Story with Drew Barrymore (1998)

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

L: The Definitive Beloved Millennial Cinderella adaptation R: The Definitive Beloved Millennial Cinderella adaptation, White Edition

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The opening number to Disney’s Beauty & the Beast is about a French village coming together to make fun of the autistic girl.

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If he is indeed still alive, I hope Mitch reads every single thing we've said about him.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Its what happens when marginalised people are so powerless that the death of an oppressor is a rare case of an actual reduction of oppression. If there’s nought to do to stop powerful bigots, their death is a win, the only one available actually

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Damn, Esquire coming in with the Monty Python obit

Whether or not Mitch McConnell has ceased to be, expired and gone to meet his maker, or is a stiff bereft of life and rests in peace, whether or not he has rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible, it must be comforting for him to know, here or in the Beyond, that Republican legislative ratfcking never sleeps.

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just at a loss for words at all of this. What the fuck???

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Neil Bhaerman @neilanalien.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I stand by the wisdom of the pit

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"I'm jaded, full of anomie, & have a difficult relationship with the values & symbols I was raised with!" Of course you do. You're 37.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"Why did the casting of a Black actress cause so much controversy?" because small gangs of slobbering gutter racists aided by an unprincipled media landscape in the business of selling outrage have been allowed to run wild. there is literally nothing else to discuss.

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chrisb @boscolo.co · 04/07/2026

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

When my very Mormon family visits the morning after smoking a ton of weed in the basement:

Simpsons meme:
Millhouse: (crawling out of a bunch of disgusting used mattresses) It smells funny in there.
Homer: No it doesn’t.

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Apologies, we for got the alt text! Here it is.

This is unfortunate news for those who still prefer buying games on physical media, and is certainly a hit to consumer rights, the resale market, and game creators whose businesses rely on the physical market. But from the perspective of professional preservationists, this doesn't have as much of an impact as you might expect.

The reality is that the vast majority of video games produced over the last two decades were not made for dedicated home video game consoles, let alone pressed to physical media. And even when they were released on physical media, a day-one digital patch was all but guaranteed, meaning that even though a disc is preserving data in an accessible way, it may not represent the game that people actually played. Museums and archives have been preparing for this future for a while, with the expectation that putting discs on a shelf isn't going to be a long-term solution for preserving new games.

What continues to baffle us is what the industry expects institutions like ours to do about it. If platform owners are deciding to eliminate physical media and older digital storefronts, then we'd also like to see trade groups like the Entertainment Software Association offer meaningful solutions for archives and museums to legally preserve digital-only content and make it accessible for research. Everyone agrees this is a serious problem, but the ESA has repeatedly opposed the efforts of cultural heritage institutions to reform digital copy protection laws to make it easier to do this work. The industry needs to meaningfully come to the table on this issue, because asking museums to download a copy of Grand Theft Auto VI and hope it'll run in 50 years is not a preservation solution.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 30/06/2026

Do people who've never lived in Washington have a sense of how titanic a labor it is to get the Mall this empty, especially near the Fourth of July? Normally the monuments and Smithsonian would look _carpeted_ with tourists right now. Even 'Gigli' didn't chase people off like this.

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Cognoscente @cognoscente.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I had a magnificent Father’s Day. And tomorrow my boy turns 2 years old. Life is great.

Me enjoying Beef bourguignon over creamy mashed potatoes

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