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@demos.zone
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Tiny curtains open and you hear the tiny clap of little hands, a tiny man tells a little joke and gets a tiny laugh from all the folks. (he/him)

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 26/09/2026
I like to think in the spirit of you eating something at the interview that you are forcing the interviewer to cook the meal
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Stephen @demos.zone · 05/09/2026
unlike the rest of my bedtime tricks, it requires no controlled substances
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Stephen @demos.zone · 25/08/2026
I think an important thing people miss here is llms are very reactive and malleable as tools. it’s hard to make generalizations because people’s interaction models tend to be very idiosyncratic I can tell it “build x” and it will, but it’ll be opaque. I can tell it “walk through x” and I can learn
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Stephen @demos.zone · 22/07/2026
tfw it’s the happiest day of your life
Jimmy stares slightly below your eyeline with dead eyes, considering how he can devour your soul for more views.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 21/07/2026
that spider must have infected you. next you will start spinning webs behind your bike as you ride
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Stephen @demos.zone · 17/07/2026
people are correctly dunking on this, but wouldn’t it be neat if transit was efficient and frequent enough that it could be a part of emergency services
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Stephen @demos.zone · 30/06/2026
we hebben een serieus jooke probleem
Several skeets in a row referencing or screenshotting the tweet by Geert Wilders (a dutch politician) saying “we hebben een serieus probleem”
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Stephen @demos.zone · 09/06/2026
Or maybe they think I am Hawaii. sorry to disappoint
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Stephen @demos.zone · 09/06/2026
I think the state of hawaii just called me
Iphone screenshot of a voicemail that says “Is Hawaii? Can you hear me?” From an unknown number.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 06/06/2026
let’s look at every historical event as if the people then had the same political valences as they do today. the romans built Hadrians wall to prevent the spread of Scottish communism
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Stephen @demos.zone · 04/06/2026
you coming up with the idea for this one
A comic where the character wakes up at 5am, saying “just had such a good idea, gotta write this down” groggily. The next morning they look at the page and all it says is “cross-dimensional face wash”
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Stephen @demos.zone · 03/06/2026
caves of qud
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Stephen @demos.zone · 03/06/2026
oh my god. i finally understood the name of that bot i thought it was just nonsense
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
heterosexuals. you have 8 hours
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Stephen @demos.zone · 30/05/2026
alright quit it space, we’ve got enough going on down here
Screenshot from the article listed in the quoted post above: Scientists with the American Meteor Society have also documented an unusual increase in large fireball events and sonic booms during the first months of 2026.
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Gabriel S. Pumpkins 🎃 @gsjphd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I think there's a connection there to how their worldview on industrial regulation went from "pro-industry, even if it's bad for the environment" to "anti-environment, even if it's bad for industry". (Case in point: Trump's war on water efficiency standards.) They're like Captain Planet villains.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 30/05/2026
I was mad there were 61 names for governor on my ballot until I discovered a man whos legal name is apparently LivingForGod AndCountry DeMott is running which made it all worth it
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Stephen @demos.zone · 29/05/2026
I just opened my ballot for the California primary and how are there so many people running for governor. there are 61 people on this thing. what the fuck
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Stephen @demos.zone · 24/05/2026
I was in college when a lot of these were just starting and it was crazy having to set up new accounts on all of them. the best one was early on all my friends had those square credit card readers that plugged into the headphone jack and we would all swipe our cards to pay each other
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Stephen @demos.zone · 14/05/2026
we couldn’t tell if he was begging for food or just enjoying the sun. probably both
A small red dog laying in the sun in front of his food bowl, looking at the camera with an innocent expression, like he isn’t begging desperately for food at that very moment.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 14/05/2026
my dogs name is Koopa and it would be so awkward if we got body swapped into mario world like what happens in the mario movie (I assume I haven’t seen it)
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Stephen @demos.zone · 09/05/2026
it’s gotta be a certain nostalgia niche for a demographic of people who have a hard time distinguishing low effort slop videos from real, right? they probably just shotgunned it at first and then leaned into anything that got high engagement
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Stephen @demos.zone · 07/05/2026
nice
The wikipedia page for the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, where it says “The American Kennel Club ranks the toller as the 69th most popular dog breed." Nice.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 29/04/2026
this is so fucking depressing. just no reason to do this.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 29/04/2026
this one in particular is fascinating, the way it will randomly stop to apparently take increasingly long and chaotic drinks of water between sections of “wha wh whaa” feel like a tim and eric bit or something
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Stephen @demos.zone · 28/04/2026
I try to live my life in such a way that people can’t say “I guess at least he is not as bad as Hitler”
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Stephen @demos.zone · 27/04/2026
I used to work at a summer camp in the woods and some nights we would drive into town and just wander around Walmart and mess with things to entertain ourselves
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Stephen @demos.zone · 27/04/2026
A tweet with the text: david attenborough: [mumbling] skip. i dont like this animal. skip it.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 25/04/2026
it’s bad for your bones and your joints and your body to click that wishlist link
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Stephen @demos.zone · 24/04/2026
I can’t wait until he finds out about Zone Theory
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Tim and Eric's Zone Theory
YouTube video by Tim and Eric
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Stephen @demos.zone · 24/04/2026
this was almost word for word my first thought on this whole thing
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Stephen @demos.zone · 21/04/2026
I like that they clearly kept adding new instructions to that page over time when people did things that annoyed them
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Stephen @demos.zone · 17/04/2026
finally, a worker you can sexually harass as much as you want with no repercussions!
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Stephen @demos.zone · 14/04/2026
more jobs means less unemployment. having two jobs means you are negative unemployed and cover someone else who doesn’t have a job. eventually we will get to our goal of 200% employment
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Stephen @demos.zone · 07/04/2026
is that good?
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Stephen @demos.zone · 07/04/2026
my theory is everything is either a soup or a sandwich hot dog? sandwich cereal? soup lasagna? sandwich (multilayered) spaghetti and meatballs? soup pizza? sandwich (open face)
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Stephen @demos.zone · 03/04/2026
I don’t think I would have guessed which ones were fake if you gave me a million tries
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Stephen @demos.zone · 03/04/2026
I bet you disagree with this..
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Stephen @demos.zone · 03/04/2026
like this post you cowards
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Stephen @demos.zone · 03/04/2026
oh they are only doing a moon flyby? more like artemiss
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Stephen @demos.zone · 02/04/2026
my favorite version of this is in foundation where they manually pilot ships in the first books, since it was written in the 50s, but then the fourth book, written 30 years later after we invented computers, he goes “and now foundation also invented computers and they are obviously way better at it”
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Stephen @demos.zone · 02/04/2026
to be fair, they never said they wanted to _win_ elections, just _vote_ in elections. once they vote they are off the hook and it is everyone else’s fault when they lose
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Stephen @demos.zone · 22/03/2026
oceans 4k
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Stephen @demos.zone · 21/03/2026
I think this is true but I also wonder how representative spotify alone is here. I don’t think I have talked to anyone about podcasts who use spotify for them
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Stephen @demos.zone · 20/03/2026
But we need to pack everyone on earth into the virtual town square!! How else can you have “discourse”
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I wrote a review for a Mexican-Irish fusion restaurant in Jersey City, but also wrote about American identity in an empire in decline ☘️ johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/everyone-i...
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
Everyone Involved Needs to Be Arrested
A review of San Patricios, Jersey City
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 03/03/2026
facebook is trying desperately to figure me out
Two notifications in the iPhone notifications center from the Facebook app.

The first reads:
A group where we all pretend to be moths
You might like A group where we all pretend to be moths.

The second reads:
Things with Faces
You might like Things with Faces.
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Stephen @demos.zone · 28/02/2026
my pokemon fight the same way I do. covered in piss
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