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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 02/10/2026

translator's note: "keikaku" means plan in japanese

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 19/08/2026

There’s a very obviously asymmetric demand on queer fictional characters to make themselves legible in a way cishet do not have to. Like, Witch from Mercury and people just kinda… deciding it’s not gay despite the lesbian marriage is the obvious stand out, but it really cuts across queer rep.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

I'm not commenting on the cop in the story, but instead how it illustrates how much money cops spend without public knowledge-the original flock cameras, 5 internal investigations, who gets unpaid & paid leave; this unregulated spending is another reason to defund the police. They are defunding us

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Colin McInerney @colin.how · 18/08/2026

great turnout btw, join your local union

an image of a large group gathered near the zenimax sign outside their corporate hq

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/07/2026

Anyway, Wurman's post is this meme exactly.

Post from @InternetHipoo saying: "New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now""

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

ME: So yeah, the Post Office ran great for a long time until this one political faction realized having a wildly successful and popular government agency undermined their goal of hollowing out all Federal agencies. Sorry about that. BEN FRANKLIN: Yes, yes. So this service is only for fans, you say?

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 04/08/2025

My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head

Vinny from "My Cousin Vinny" in Ace Attorney style. Dialog reads "Everything that guy said is bullshit"

The Judge from "My Cousin Vinny" in Ace Attorney style. Dialog reads: "Are you on drugs?"

Mr. Tipton from "My Cousin Vinny" in Ace Attorney style. Dialog reads: "I don't know, I'm a fast cook, I guess."

Mona Lisa from "My Cousin Vinny" in Ace Attorney style. Dialog reads: "A little? You've been thrown in jail twice!"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

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Jade @ap.jade.ellis.link · 31/05/2026

The three genders (nonbuynary)

What is your gender?
Please select one.

Male
Female
I have no plans to purchase a new vehicle

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

gonna coin the term "heritageslop" here (with the full nationalist/nazi implications) because i really don't think what they're peddling is usefully described as deep-diving any actual extant mythology as this unicode nerd post helpfully illustrates: bsky.app/profile/eirv...

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

happy pride

tumblr post reading:
Anonymous asked:
can you trigger tag 'lesbians' please
yeehawlw answered:
no but i can hit you with my car

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The problem here is all of these people know they're in a race against the clock to get all of this done before the tide turns. And by "all of this," I basically mean the destruction of anything that could criticize the post-Constitutional technofeudalist society they're hastily trying to stand up.

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

apparently there's a mod to remove gay marriage in skyrim like bro you're literally the only person who gets married at all in the game and if you need a mod to prevent yourself from getting gay married that says something about you

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Insightful

The problem Bari seems to be coming up against is that she’s so used to being surrounded by Yes Men—and saying Yes to powerful men—that she finds dissent intolerable. Whereas she could ostensibly bend the team at the Free Press to her will and tell the fat cats what they wanted to hear to get what she wanted, a newsroom of seasoned journalists won’t go so quietly. And so they’re being crushed.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Going to think about this every time people try and act like WotC is somehow a "progressive" company or that D&D has become a great "queer game" somehow

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy pride! We're back with a new bundle, majority transfem and majority lesbian, with contributors from Ukraine, India, Thailand, and more. Feed and house queer creatives this month and get amazing, well-curated art! #lesfic itch.io/b/3691/brigh...

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BRIGHTER THAN STARS

32 novels, novellas, and audio fiction for $20.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, I did what I have always done— and was expected to do — as a public voice and columnist on race, gender, and culture: I commented on America’s racial double standards in public discourse when it comes to political violence. bsky.app/profile/kare...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

NEWS: In September, the Washington Post fired me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. This week, after eight months, I'll be heading to arbitration against the Post to challenge my termination. karenattiah.substack.com/p/my-case-ag...

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My Case Against the Washington Post Goes to Arbitration This Week

Eight months after challenging my termination, my case against The Washington Post will finally be heard by an arbitrator.

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[LVL 36]Alsvid Wotansdottir🧿 @alsvid.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I would laugh but this is genuinely how these people post. It kills me.

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month!

I THINK GAY PRIDE IS MY FAVOURITE OF THE SEVEN GAY DEADLY SINS.

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Michelle @catfi9ht.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

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Microsoft keeps reinstalling Copilot, so I found a way to rip it out of Windows for good

You can get rid of all those stubborn AI components for better privacy and performance.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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Universal Public Frenemy @cromage.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

FIRE’s cherry-picked statistic also conveniently omits the fact that conservative organizations donate *enormous* sums of money to universities to establish vanity institutes for themselves.

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

They made her a cake at work lmao

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A lot of autistic burnout recovery advice is just “how do I become productive again as quickly as possible?” This is hugely problematic and misses the point. The question is “how I build a life that stops destroying me?”

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

this article is full of views so alien to my own it might as well be from medieval times

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is something I come back to a lot as a writing coach. Many writers I work with are looking to level up their game; but as many are searching for ways to do things like re-find joy in their work or shut up their inner editors long enough to get a draft down. (cont'd)

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Holy shit these in particular are spot-on.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sorry most gay men older than me were dead by time I came out so a few cranky fuckers were who made it and, yes, I’m glad for those I met even if I had to disagree with, fight, and even part ways with them later — often, for my part, in defense of trans rights.

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Shit Nonprofits Say @nonprofitssay.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Following an inclusive, iterative process led by a consultant who engages the entire staff, the executive director will ignore everything and write the entire strategic plan over a weekend.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Thank you Cheezo.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

baseball discourse on bluesky dot app today

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VeeTeez @vanessatse.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Love this for them #subnautica #videogames #gaming

Screenshot of a Bluesky post by Kevin Beaumont mocking the CEO of Krafton, who reportedly consulted ChatGPT for advice on how to avoid paying $250 million in bonuses to Subnautica 2 developers if the game launched successfully. The post notes that the CEO executed the ChatGPT-generated plan, was subsequently sued by staff, had the chat logs entered as evidence in court, lost the lawsuit, and now faces paying more than the original $250 million while being publicly embarrassed by his own employees. Embedded within the post is a quote from journalist Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) stating that Subnautica 2 launched 20 minutes prior and that Krafton would be forced to pay the bonus it tried to avoid via ChatGPT's advice. Below Schreier's text is a Steam charts screenshot showing Subnautica 2 with 293,164 concurrent players, matching both the 24-hour peak and all-time peak recorded 53 seconds prior. The post is timestamped 16:22 on May 14, 2026.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Sometimes people wonder which sport has the dumbest athletes and I gotta say baseball is the only one where the guys regularly fuck up counting to three despite there being an elaborate on-field system in place to ensure they don't fuck it up.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 15/05/2026

"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born" www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old... This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.

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The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

this is why i hate "representasians" imagine talking to tony leung like this. you should be taking notes from him but instead "it's marvel"??? holy shit www.vulture.com/article/tony...

You finally made a Hollywood film with Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. I imagine that was quite a different production from the Hong Kong action films you'd done.
The production was much bigger than what I had experienced before, and the people were very professional, and we had to finish everything on time every day. It's very efficient, but you can't improvise. You can't change even a word. At the very beginning, I argued with the director: "If a guy comes from a thousand years ago, the way he fights must be a combination of all martial arts, like MMA today, because he lived through all that time." And the director said no. I said,
"Why not? Why just typical kung fu in the
'70s?" He said, "This is Marvel." I said,
"Okay," and I didn't argue anymore.

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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"In the interests of maximum verisimilitude, we here at Hasbro have decided your D&D characters need to pay rent as well."

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It’s no secret that working class men are struggling. I spoke with Jimmy Williams, IUPAT union president and fourth-generation Philly construction worker, about how the labor movement can help. www.playboy.com/read/politic...

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We Need to Talk About the Blue-Collar American Man

Fourth-generation union member James A. Williams Jr. opens up about the worrying state of the working class.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

its just bizarre to me to say that bluesky is a siloed off bubble detached from real debate when everyone over here hates the president with a 30% approval and everyone over there thinks things are going so well that we have entered a 1000 year conservative reign

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Totally aside from the class inequality issues at work in the discourse, I think this is a genuine shame—aesthetic work is artistic work, creative work, and skilled labor. That absolutely includes fashion

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