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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Love the Easter eggs in his service records

Service record and commendations for Soldier 1998

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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 04/09/2026

This is one of my feelgood videos. "And Alexander wept, there were no more worlds to conquer!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMkY...

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Oreo CEO: Stop Making New Oreos

YouTube video by Dropout

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Some of the best information on the internet right now. For some reason this just feels comforting.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I went to a BioWare reunion of sorts last night. It was great to see Ray and Greg again, and see so many old friends. What I didn't expect was both Commander Shepards to be there as well. Great to see Jennifer Hale and Mark Meet in person again.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We used to be able to rent CDs in Canada. My friend and I discovered so much new music when we tried before we bought. We purchased so many albums. When CD rentals went out with NAFTA, my purchasing dropped off.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I was out driving last night. Spotted a couple of motorcycles that looked more like off-road bikes. Me: Why would you choose to drive a dirt bike in the city? Me, hammering 3 downtown Edmonton road construction potholes in a row: Oh.

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 22/08/2026

welcome to bluesky, where using meth is more acceptable than using claude

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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Fuck Adobe. I have been watching a co-worker try to get a new font. For 2 days. Fuck Adobe.

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 06/08/2026

📣 All our games are on sale! 💰️ Time to dive deep into our games at the best prices! 🐐 Caves of Qud ~ 20% off 👽️ Ostranauts ~ 20% off 📖 Six Ages 2 ~ 35% off ⛏️ Dwarf Fortress ~ 20% off 👉️ store.steampowered.com/sale/kitfoxf... 👈️

Kitfox Games publisher sale featuring four game panels labeled Caves of Qud, Ostranauts, Six Ages 2, and Dwarf Fortress, showing a caves of qud map, a spaceship UI with a fox mascot, a painted warrior, and a top-down fortress map.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Neato. What can I do to help kill it?

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Viggo Coyote: It's not what you did, son, that angers me so. It's who you did it to. Iosef Coyote: Who? That fucking nobody? Viggo: That "fuckin' nobody"... is Casper Wick. He once was an associate of ours. They call him "Barker Yaga."

Picture of a dog with some subtle injuries. Text says:

Farm herd Casper, a 21 month old, faced off 11 coyotes and killed 8 of them. He was missing for 2 days right after because he was tracking the remaining coyotes and finishing the job. His vet said he was lucky to be alive.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Changes made in updates, patches, or expansions are not designed or intended to break game mods.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I challenge the premise of these first 7 words.

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"Level 0" Luke Rideout @lukedrideout.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy birthday to my lovely wife. Happy Independence day to my friends south of the border. Crappy Independence day to my enemies south of the border. Happy Caturday to all the cool cats. Happy Saturday to those who are not otherwise represented above.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/07/2026

Historians Theorize Declaration Of Independence Started As ‘Twilight’ Fan Fiction theonion.com/historians-theorize-de…

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ah man. I am back in Edmonton, helping out my mom, and my son just called a little while ago and there is water in the basement of the house we rent back in Ottawa. My adult son is alone there having to deal with it all. Apparently there is all kinds of flooding happening all over the city.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

68 million is a failure? What an insane state of movie valuations we are going through. I won't be able to see it for another week or so. I don't care how much it has made or will make. What about the movie itself?

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What a fascinating number. I have done 27 complete playthroughs of Deus Ex, and I only stopped after 27 because on the 27th I hadn't found a new path, a new outcome, or a new choice. What an amazing game. I had always wanted to do a remaster of that game.

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Jay Watamaniuk @jaywatamaniuk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I hope this crazy AI spending results in a technology that does something other than making, like, 10 people more money.

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"Level 0" Luke Rideout @lukedrideout.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Not much, dog, ‘sub with you?

A photo taken from outside a Subway of a poster ad for their new “Subdog”, apparently a sausage in a sub roll

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/06/2026

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Really? I was popular? I appeared in 9 searches? Stop it LinkedIn, your flattery is making me blush.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I have been playing The Last Caretaker and Subnautica 2 a bunch lately. Really good games both of them, each with several things that one does better than the other.

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chris walla, ,, @calculizer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 10/05/2026

hi it’s mother’s day and i want attention i’m izzy, a trans mom who hasn’t had fulltime employment in games since i got laid off 2 1/2 years ago (just before my little friend was born) i’m funny and cool and everyone loves working with me. here’s a thread of cool and/or funny stuff i’ve worked on

me with my little friend who is holding a green MagnaTile toy under my chin and saying “mama likes butter” (they just learned the thing where you put a Buttercup under your chin)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/05/2026

Bollocks. One, hardcovers are selling great, especially the ones that these days come with sprayed edges and illustrated end pages. Two, ditching hardcovers would absolutely gut author and bookseller incomes. You want to fuck up publishing? Kill the hardcover. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The hill I will die on: Heavy, awkward and incredibly expensive – we don’t need hardback books | Larry Ryan

It’s an annoying choice: either lug around a heavy tome or try to remember when the paperback version is coming out, says freelance writer Larry Ryan

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"Wash day. Nothing clean, right?"

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Amy (1000 Big Brother episodes and she still won't shut up) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Yip yip yip yip yip spaaaaaaaaace yip yip yip

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I remember reading someone suggesting that all dog owners should release an album of all the songs they sing to their dogs. I think that is really sweet and has lots of potential. 1/

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My watch: Time to get up and move! Buddy. Can you check some more of your sensors? Do you see how you are not moving, but the GPS location is traveling at over 500 km/h? Now why might that be so?

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Riley🩸 @rileyisclass.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I don't want to own Dragon Age: Origins truck. Dragon Age: Origins truck should roam free across Central Europe. But I want to see Dragon Age: Origins truck. To experience it. To know such beauty still exists in our world, crafted by hands not so different than mine, to know it is able to endure.

A white a red truck coated in the box art of Dragon Age: Origins.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Playing in my casual D&D game tonight and the DM introduced an new NPC known to the locals as "narc in the park" and it was such a hard right turn after the past 10 minutes of intro that it pretty much shut us all down for a few minutes as we tried to recover.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Not sure this sign in the elevator about missing dishes needed to go this hard.

Sign with a drawing of sad looking plate with a word balloon saying "Have you seen my family?"
Heartbreaking.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I was making a post on Bluesky a little while ago, and I have concerns about my phone's word suggestions in this context after pressing the letter D.

Screenshot of the start of a Bluesky post with the already entered words "your potential swift and brutal" and the phone next word suggestions of "dubstep", "dildo", and "death" after the letter "d" was pressed on the keyboard.

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Derek French @derekfrench.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I have been doing a lot of driving over the past 4 days. I like letting people merge, giving space for people to exit parking lots, and generally trying to let other drivers have a better day. It obviously doesn't happen very often because I have been seeing a lot of enthusiastic thank you waves.

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Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Available now on our Substack for all subscribers is founder of Black Girl Nerds Jamie Broadnax personal battle with predatory law firms. There's the law and then there's taking advantage of a system designed to protect creators. Read Here: substack.com/@blackgirlne...

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Targeted: My Battle with Predatory Copyright Law Firms

When Protecting Art Becomes Extortion: Are Photographers Aware of How Their Work is Being Represented?

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

the other day my 8yo said Spanish was his third language. then he counted "uno, dos, tres..." all the way up to "nueve" and then said "uh, i forget." i said "diez?" and this kid straight up replied "diez nuts"

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