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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 11h

After a several month hiatus, the muzak radio station at work has put the "Fucking in a Van Song" back into rotation. Now you all must suffer too. Seriously, it sounds like a Ninja Sex Party song, played completely straight.

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chevy van

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 21h

I mean, they explicitly note this role may not fit someone living in the US, but I'm still vaguely curious anyway ...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21h

Whatever it takes. Keep on reading.

A man reading a newspaper next to a howling dog and a cat.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imperium, screenshot, dos (1990) www.mobygames.com/game/3786/im...

a decomposing skeleton corpse (still some hair on head) in a white robe, sitting on a stone throne between two pillars.
on a marble rectangle, font below reads:
your body can take no
more you die of old age

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Got the day off tomorrow! Which means I am staying up LATE, past ... TEN PM. Just barely, though. Gonna lay down now.

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first word balloon is the only good AI.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"It says here you're going to die soon. That you need to remember the inevitability of death and accept it with good grace. That you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Go well. This has been MEMENTO MAURY. Thank you, and good night."

A picture of Maury Povitch reading from a cue card.

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am way behind schedule, as it's nearly October and I have no idea what I'm gonna dress up as for Halloween. I've got three weeks to get my shit together before my friend's annual banger of a party. It doesn't help that one of my first thoughts is "What if I buy some chainmail?"

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Went out for lunch with a friend of mine, only to find there was a farmer's market set up right next to the bar, and now I've got 4 lbs of frozen rabbit meat. Do I know how to cook rabbit? No. Will this stop me from trying at some vague point in the future? Also no.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Posting this one to help out anyone researching the complicated systems of underclothing that a knight would wear beneath their armor.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

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Doug , Space Wolf @ebonscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Persona 5 out here with narrative scenes so long I can build minis while I listen

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 27/09/2026

Be patient and kind to those who are making art right now. We're all self-funded and the richest, worst people in the world are trying to plaster over and erase our hard work.

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looks like a fun book (and I kinda like the concept of the X-men being Big Damn Heroes while the Avengers are slacking). But who's the one dude next to Firestar on the right, there? Guy's got Gambit's headpiece but the eye color's wrong. It's not, like, Shatterstar, is it? This vexes me.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On the one hand, I'm not sure how this ties into the continuity of Don't Breathe. On the other, this may be the best giant spider movie since Big Ass Spider.

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DON'T MOVE | Official Trailer | Starring Lyndsy Fonseca | On Digital October 13

YouTube video by Well Go USA Entertainment

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So in the span of a month, I have a international vacation, a wedding, a concert, a funeral, and a convention all on my calendar. Plus, y'know, a Real People Job. Kinda looking forward to when things theoretically quiet down?

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When you're a techbro and you imprint on something that isn't Ayn Rand or Snow Crash.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The main selling point of a #TTRPG is not mechanical. It is PREMISE. What do you do in the game? Why? This is why "genre-less rules engines" like GURPS have not slowly consumed and spit out the market leaders. "It can be ANYTHING!" "NO! In #Dnd you go in holes and murder things for gold."

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Mr. Incredible Frustration Meme

ALT: Mr. Incredible Frustration Meme

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's officially the first day of fall, which makes this the perfect time to remind you that #FirstDraftFall - our answer to NaNoWriMo - starts very soon on October first! Check out the full details of the challenge by following the link below:

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#FirstDraftFall - Weeknight Writers

The Weeknight Writers answer to NaNoWriMo, #FirstDraftFall is a challenge to write a first draft in October - December.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thank you bisexual dice polycule

image of a swirling purple background with light blue dice floating in the air they all have faces and look DANG GOOD. the text says 'congratulations. if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the bisexual dice polycule. they have cleansed your misfortune hexes have a wonderful day'

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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My birthday is so on brand. 🤣

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The French are the best at superheroes. JUDEX delivers his menacing note to the villains via poodle. That's style!

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh hello, #SpoonieAuthChat! Since you ask, I write swashbuckling clockpunk mecha fantasy. It's a niche (that's within another niche).

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 18/09/2026

I like lowbrow sci fi as much as anyone but this plot is a mess and the main characters are almost all extremely unlikeable

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just got back from a wedding! (Not my own). And because I am both old and nerdy, a significant percentage of the songs the DJ played I only knew on account of various Weird Al parodies thereof.

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My historically accurate version of the Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I hoped.

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X-men Wolverine

ALT: X-men Wolverine

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is like three kinds of anachronistic but the sentiment still hits exactly the way it should.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Once Brit tv escaped PBS, it was basically over. My rule of thumb is that if a show appeals to a certain threshold Americans, I avoid it. It’s probably royalist, twee or some combination

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On the one hand, this isn't coming out 'til 2027. On the other, that will give me time to binge-play Control: Resonant in the meanwhile (once, y'know, that comes out).

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Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement - Official TGS 2026 Trailer

YouTube video by Indie Games Hub

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/09/2026

"You'll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn't real, the Tooth Fairy is imaginary, and there's no such thing as the 'invisible hand of the market.'" buff.ly/KM3opmg

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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”

“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In other news, I just re-watched #AvengersEndgame for the 1st time since I'd seen it in theaters, way back when. And I dunno if it holds up? Like, the final battle is fairly impressive, yes. But everything else is meh? Nebula, however, is the best thing about the movie. Maybe I am just old.

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The Wyzard @thewyzard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you look at only the first two Ant-Man movies (the third one is crap), his primary superpower is actually identical to Carol's. They're both actual fucking grown-ups.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I see middle aged people trying to debate whether they are cringe. Dears. If you have to argue with the youths, you’ve already lost.

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Ellen Aim and the Attackers will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

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Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Who needs that Korean guy? Or even Mr. Beast? WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN SQUID GAME." I liked Netflix better when they were just releasing a ton of 90's anime.

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