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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 18h

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Clark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social · 20h

Hey dads my age who have sons in college: do anything you can to keep them from joining a social frat. Make it clear that the shit that goes on there is unacceptable. Don’t fall for the propaganda.

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 29/09/2026

Speaker Johnson really making the case the MAGA-GOP can’t be allowed to control Congress for two more months, much less two more years like the past two.

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 29/09/2026

There are more cisgender men accused of rape at Cornell than there are transgender athletes minding their own business playing college sports in the country.

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Robo is done playing around with the mysterious monster www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/1...

The last three panels from today's page of ATOMIC ROBO AND THE NEO GENETIC EVOLUTION with art from Scott Wegener, colors by Tess Stone, letters by Jeff Powell, edits by Lee Black, and brilliant dialog (not currently on display) by me, your host, Brian Clevinger.

Panel 4:
Tight view on Robo ejecting the spent shell from his previous shot.

SFX (small):
poomp

Panel 5:
Tight view on Robo loading a fresh shell.

SFX (small):
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Panel 6:
Tight-but-less-tight view of Robo closing the breach and lookin' mad.

SFX (small):
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Submissions remain open. We are looking for science fiction and fantasy stories 5000 words and under. Although our keyword is fun, don't self reject - our readers and editors have a very wide definition including tragic elements - if the story is good translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

translunartravelerslounge.com

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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it's nate! @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure

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Ironic Star Wars Moment

Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."

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Ben Austwick / BiggusBennus @biggusbennus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still find it astonishing that Sir Ian Livingstone is the only person knighted for services to the UK games industry. Film, TV and sport are constantly recognised with knighthoods, yet one of Britain's biggest creative industries has had just one.

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Lord Chris Hanrahan (He/Him) @chrishanrahan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This kinda 'optimisim' is what will get people complacent. Just go vote. Don't let the promise of a land slide keep you home assuming someone else has it covered for you.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe @theskepticsguide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Trump administration's attempts to erode our science infrastructure was stopped. Our scientific institutions are still struggling, but this is an important reminder that there are still some avenues where we can push back. theness.com/neurologicab...

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Setback For Trump’s Tampering With Science Funding - NeuroLogica Blog

This is a tiny bit of good news it what has been a horrific story for American science over the last almost two years. Trump has backtracked on his attempts to politicize science funding at the NIH, a...

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Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you're watching a martial arts movie and this dude shows up, you are about to be treated some of the sickest shit you've ever seen:

A picture of Indonesian martial artist Yayan Ruhian

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 28/09/2026

Every time Trump says "the polls are fake" remember he's going to be shouting the same thing about our elections in a few weeks.

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will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a universal feature of the game designer working on a long project is that their next game wells up inside of them until it is physically painful

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Includes our recently released (and yet somehow cult classic) Don't Rest Your Head. 👇

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 28/09/2026

I got in SUCH an argument with one of my grad school professors over this. Education has value far, far, far beyond how it affects your monetary earnings. (And this was, mind you, in a **Shakespeare studies** program, so, like...... limited direct vocational opportunities, there)

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.com

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026

You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character theonion.com/you-can-be-anything-yo…

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Emily Heller @mremilyheller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the evidence is mounting that drugs might be bad for you

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Given Wizards' abandonment of D&D fiction, it's great to see Hachette Partworks bringing back 100 classic D&D novels—even better, all in a gorgeous HARDCOVER format. If they were more easily available in the US, I suspect I'd be looking for shelving to fit 100 books. 🧵1

dungeonsanddragonsfan.com

UK Publisher Brings Back Over 100 Classic D&D Novels

UK-based publisher Hachette Partworks has just unveiled its new Dungeons & Dragons Novels Collection, which features over 100 classic books from D&D history.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026

"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money

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Peter Clines @peterclines.com · 28/09/2026

OH HEY SAN DIEGO FOLKS Completely forgot to mention that I'm going to be at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social tomorrow night chatting with @seananmcguire.bsky.social about the latest October Daye book-- A DIVIDED DUTY. Swing by and ask questions. Get answers. Buy books and have them scribbled in.

A Mysterious Galaxy event poster for SeananMcGuire (in conversation with Peter Clines) Monday, Spetember 28th, 2026 at 7:00pm. The posterhas both our headshots and the cover of A DIVIDED DUTY

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you could avoid the atlantic and read my essay about the right's attack on empathy instead, if you wanted. therevealer.org/what-we-can-...

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What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy” — The Revealer

Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't know that anyone who needs to hear this will, but if you ever find yourself thinking "I know that every kids-these-days take in history has been terrible, forever, but THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT" then please, please, please do ANYTHING other than record yourself.

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Kris Straub (كريس) @krisstraub.com · 27/09/2026

seen on an otherwise plain and unadorned minivan

rain-covered back window of a car, with a bumper sticker that reads “unvaxxed sperm is the next bitcoin”

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 25/09/2026

Never underestimate American racism.

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gem (real name) 💎 @gemcitygem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

me: hi gimme a large pizza pizza guy: any appetizers? me: what do you have? pizza guy: we've got fried cheese with no sauce or crust, crust with no cheese or sauce, and crust and cheese with no sauce me: gimme crust and cheese with no sauce pizza guy: and for your dip? me: sauce

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026

Q: Mr Sununu, would you have voted for a war powers resolution in the Senate? JOHN SUNUNU:🚶🚶🚶 Q: Would you admit that Trump’s war was a bad decision, or are you just going to do everything that Trump tells you to do? JOHN SUNUNU:🚶🚶🚶

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026

The Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger By The Numbers theonion.com/the-paramount-warner-b…

90%
Increase in probability that DoorDash driver once wrote an episode of The Pitt

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

why? when we already have bluesky??

discussingfilm's post: Netflix has announced a new reality series titled ‘THE NEW STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT’.

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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“You cannot engage with Newsom in good faith, because what faith can you have in a shell of a person who so baldly pursues wealth, power, the next shiniest thing?” Nice work. His first Chronicle quote in 1991 was bragging about giving wine discounts to his wealthy benefactors. Has anything changed?

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If many Kansas voters weren't completely deranged, this would be the final nail in Marshall's career's coffin as a senator and as a doctor.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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BedWords @snacklesbian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'm still seeing this get shared so just a reminder, this article is wrong in many places and london daily is one of those fake ai newspapers

screenshot of the london daily about page. it says:

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic.

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Photo credit: Evan Vucci, @reuters.com

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