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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cregger's Resident Evil is a good example of "Fast Body Horror." In the 80s, a lot of Body Horror was "slow" because in order to execute a special effect, there was one gimmick per shot, so transformation sequences had many cuts and emphasized the mechanics of the gimmick.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 25/09/2026

New career goal: get condemned by name at the UN.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

watching the lindsay ellis cruise video and i *have* to assume that someone on the Disney team is now monitoring prominent YouTubers and giving free upgrades after the starcruiser fiasco

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 21/09/2026

I don’t know much about Star Trek but they always seem to be going at warp speed. Is there a maximum warp speed they can go? It could be an interesting episode if they ever went faster than fast, like if they went beyond warp 10

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 20/09/2026

Here’s my compromise position on trans sports: if it becomes an actual problem whereby trans athletes are crowding cis women off the podium, we can talk. But right now this is naked bigotry masquerading as a solution in search of a problem, and anyone pushing it can fuck off.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One bizarre misconception about chess from people who have never played is “a total novice can beat a master (or some other v. strong player) by playing random moves to confuse them, because they won’t understand the strategy“. PMO so much I’m tempted to hire a chess master for a video to debunk it

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

also they said 10% chance of total human extinction by 2030 - so when it doesn't happen they can be like hey - we did say 90% chance we'd be fine

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1) This is due to venues refusing to allow the gig to go ahead if Macklemore is the opener 2) Asking Ed Sheeran to reschedule or cancelled an entire stadium tour just for Macklemore is not reasonable 3) Ed Sheeran still should have fought for Macklemore more

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As someone who worked at a British dev studio in the north of England who made superhero games for Acclaim, this post is spot on.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the most important types of accounts you can follow is something I call "The Dipshit Barometer." If there is a fearmongering, apocalyptic take going around, check in on the dipshit barometer to see if they affirm it. If they do, you don't have to worry about it.

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TheRealJims @therealjims.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Ralph Wiggum is saying he is good at sleep."

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10/09/2026

Goddammit I’m never going to not think of this now www.tumblr.com/dungeonmaste...

Tumblr post from user dungeonmastersconsortium: dungeonmasterscons...

Saw a comment that Elizabeth Holmes looks like a mouse wished to be able to commit wire fraud and now I can't unsee it

With a still of Elizabeth Holmes from the documentary

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Eamonn Binman @dunphitydunph.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the thing that still fucks me off about Holmes is she was convicted for harming investors, but not for harming real people.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just to be clear, since I haven't seen a lot of people say this: He is lying. Black Hollywood is not so touchy and flush with good roles that he couldn't cast his movie. He is just cheap and cranky.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is why I, Emily St. James, must reverse decades of trends across all arts and entertainment sectors to write a book series with an even greater cultural penetration than Harry P. People keep coming up to me on the street and asking this, so I guess it’s time to do it.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hearing about this thing initially: pfft, who cares? Finding out I'm currently in 7th place: (Goku Voice) Brazilians! Lend me your energy so I can mog the menswear guy! bsky38.com

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38 Most Influential Bluesky Posters of 2026

Vote for the 38 most influential Bluesky posters of 2026.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 03/09/2026

a lot of people doubted how much the british media genuinely cared about integrity in academia and now is a great chance for the british media to prove that they’re not just gullible racists!

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lott @lott24m.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What happens a lot on social media is when someone (Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman now Ed Brubaker) has allegations thrown at them people tend to leap out the woodwork saying "their work was never good." That helps no one as it's irrelevant. What matters is their actions and what they did.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

“this person is bad so their work was always bad” is also a really dangerous view to take because it leads to - unconscious or not - a bias towards “but I do like this other person’s work, ergo they must be a good person” which, as we have seen over and over, is simply not true

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 04/09/2026

Well that’s a new height in “why did this need reviewed and rated.”

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How it feels after an autistic meltdown or CPTSD Emotional Flashback

Hulk lying face down in some grass at the edge of a plain saying “Hulk sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up everything that has made Hulk tired will be changed”

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

my main piece of advice to aspiring video essay type youtubers is: Make less ambitious claims. You don't NEED to tell me about the direction of society as a whole. You don't even need to tell me a big story about how some person or text is all one way or all another way. just tell me what u see

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

a prominent member of Film Twitter told me to "Suck his dick" just because i said that my favorite movie is the tv show Scrubs

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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Some great band names in this ad

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“We didn’t have autism back in the day”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”

Mary Shelley

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Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Been watching a lot of the newer comedians recently, and based on their hard work I’ve been able to update my list of contemporary references to write jokes around. Thanks all. x

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026

"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"

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Area Man @areamancm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t do a lot of TikTok but quite honestly, hats off. A masterpiece

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dad's comment about Dolly Parton is that she was very good at writing great lyrics that were direct and in vernacular language, which in his opinion is much harder to do than writing good fake-deep or self-consciously clever lyrics

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When you’re looking for a still for your film review that will really help readers grasp what the movie’s about …

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is how British public figures behave when they’re asked to take some responsibility for their action in *one specific case*, in which a man has died.

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WHAT PREVENTS THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE PEOPLE?
The hired journalists who shamelessly mislead them.
WHAT CONCLUSION FOLLOWS?
That we should proscribe these writers as the most dangerous foes of our country, & circulate improving literature.
Robespierre (July 1793)
10:58 • 20/08/2026 • 28K Views

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 24/08/2026

“What if an egg did a crime” is of course just the plot of Silence of the Lambs.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 23/08/2026

I still can't remember which Prince is Harry and which one is William. I guess Harry is the rebellious one? If he wants me to remember him, he really ought to go by Hal and find a best friend named Falstaff.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 22/08/2026

Credit due, Mark Millar’s suggestion that Grant Morrison name one of their cats Eartho “as a mark of respect for our homeworld” a la Krypto is fucking hilarious.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Apparently this is the list of British films included in the booklet accompanying the British Citizenship test. Unfortunately, if familiarity with the films on this list is one of the criteria for being a British citizen I think we're going to have to deport everyone under the age of 50.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Can’t spell Hugh Laurie without Huge L

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