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Three girls at the bus stop plotting in-depth how to take a "candid" photo

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AC/DC, the Cassandra of our times

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Who made who, who made you? Who made who, ain't nobody told you? Who made who, who made you? If you made them and they made you Who picked up the bill, and who made who? Yeah Who made who Who turned the screw?

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The databank know my number Says I gotta pay 'cause I made the grade last year Feel it when I turn the screw Kicks you round the world, there ain't a thing that it can't do Do to you

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The video game says "play me" Face it on a level but it takes you every time on a one on one Feeling running down your spine Nothing gonna save your one last dime 'cause it own you Through and through

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The problem with miracles is that you start counting on them.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is (partially) a joke, but more seriously, I have actually found my game designs get better the more I reject conventional wisdom, and explicitly design around my personal strengths I just struggle to give that advice to novices because, weeeeell, your instincts aren't that good yet probably 😭

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Living long enough to become the villain

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone recommended Vurt. How have I not read this?!

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The team within the team within the team. On a need to know basis. The need to know person got fired 2 years ago.

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Damage I've taken on the current project that makes me a worse person. * I hate perforce. What a POS * I hate slow loading times. A waste of life * I hate extended handoffs. What should be days takes months. I don't want to live in that world.

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't live without it! Brain is wired for the Grid ❤️⬛

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am going to request the most michael moorcockian yessongs-ass gossamer axe-coded cover for this new book and yes the breasts will be embossed

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes the hardest part is giving yourself permission.

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TBH, there are nicer ways to be called Sherlock

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can’t spell happiness without pines

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This year's Polaris notebook. Dot grid on the inside.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I bet you can buy naked sculptures of clowns in that place." "Oh yeah. But that's probably anywhere."

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Fixing culture is very much not like fixing a computer. Just reboot, you say? Turn it off, turn it on. "Turning it on again" can take generations. If you are lucky. Or it might simply never come back. "My bad" says the tech bro used to iterating quickly.

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The answer is yes. Quite beneficial. But real life connection is markedly better. But not always achievable without societal-level changes which I (sadly) don't have control over.

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Okay, hear me out. Take like, I don't know, 20 billion out of AI and invest in the following: * Bidets * Heated floors * Thermostatic faucets Bonus: * Well insulated houses (this would pay for itself!) * Competent interior air quality. Voom. Standard of living skyrockets.

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droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ah, back home in North America, land of insultingly primitive bathroom technology.

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pretty low bar, 'make art that doesn't disgust me', but i think being confronted by the visceral notion of having been complicit in something that i briefly held such a strong emotion towards was very strong!!! if i can hold onto this realization for a moment, it really felt like actions mattered

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In other news, I recently discovered Finnish baseball, which is playing on a z-shaped set of bases. And the pitcher stands next to the batter and tosses the ball straight up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pes%C3%...

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Pesäpallo - Wikipedia

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I also found that hard to believe

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I have been informed "the pickle plant". Because pickles are clearly vegetables.

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