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Creature Wizard @creature-wizard.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"How can someone believe such a wild conspiracy theory?" Well you see, it's a power/control thing. They're trying to demonize someone they feel threatened by so they can gain dominance over them. #ConspiracyTheories

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Creature Wizard @creature-wizard.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We have got to start talking about conspiracy theories as a power/control thing. Too many people are still confused why people spread conspiracy theories. You know how people will spread lies about someone they want to assert dominance over? It's that. It's exactly that. #ConspiracyTheories

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solstice @devouringlight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

starting a callout post with "I was offended when i was called gringo and weeb" sure is a decision

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You're Telling Me a Hat Boxed This April? @hatboxapril.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

welp this is becoming part of my vocabulary forever

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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

People who are most likely to believe in conspiracy theories tend to share a specific blend of political views, pairing a desire for left-wing economic policies with conservative cultural values, reports Karina Petrova.

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The exact political location where conspiracy theories thrive

A new study mapping European political attitudes reveals that people who favor left-wing economic policies but hold conservative cultural views are the most likely to endorse conspiracy theories.

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mirror 👁️🪞 exhausted changeling @mirrorslament.art · 06/04/2026

very very very small wha spoilers / / / / the way they animated characters holding their dip pens was what got me btw. that’s the thing that made me cry. because it is something so small but so much love was poured into it. i use fountain and dip pens daily. and it just… i just…

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Laura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC @lauritadianita.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

🧵1/ For young men confused about how to be a good, non-toxic man while also being "masculine" or for parents wondering how to guide their boys towards role models who are good allies to women & gender minorities while retaining hetero masculine street cred, I recommend u look towards Ryan Coogler.

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan attend the premiere of "Sinners" in London on April. 14. Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It is so weird when younger people think that getting older means ceasing social participation This is also why so many of you fear aging. You think that you will be forced away from life and society

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Humanity runs on spite lmao

How Your AI slop bores me works lmao this is incredible I love it:
your ai slop bores me in a world looming with the threat of ai stealing your job, save humanity by stealing ai's job. each text or image prompt costs 1 credit. to earn credits, switch to the AI tab and answer someone else's prompt.
if you're broke and the queue is empty, you get a free credit once per hour.
you can cancel while waiting, but not once someone picks it up.
send in a prompt and revel in your zero water Waste.
be nice. this is not grok.
bugs or feedback? hi@youraislopbores.me

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Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932” Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York Image: Avery Library Architectural Trade Catalogs Collection (Columbia Univ.) via @archive.org; archive.org/details/lino...

A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.

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Dusty Ray @sloppjockey.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

sentinel. graphite on paper, 2018

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coma @doomedsarcoma.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

we were hungry before we were born

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Dusty Ray @sloppjockey.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

slabtiger. gouache painting from 2017, 8x10 inches

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Xeni Flowers | Horse Destroyer @xeniflowers.com · 17/02/2026

happy lunar new year of the horse! 🐴🔥 #art

Digital color illustration in warm to purple tones. Title at bottom reads: Unfettered. The entire canvas is filled with massively long, undulating strands of hair, generally flowing from top left to lower right. An equine creature jumps up and away from the mass, some hair strands twisting and flowing around and from it. Its long neck is made up of smaller twisting hair strands, and more hair flows from its head, withers, and fetlocks. Its face is a smooth full-face mask shaped to fit a human's face. The center of the mask is mostly covered by a large, sideways simplistic eye with a pinpoint pupil looking forward.

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Phoka（フォカ）＠4568 @phokatoritori.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

ゴシック風な衣装の4568

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/02/2026

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake And a happy year of the whores to you all

BBC News screenshot with the subtitle "Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate..."

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

was looking over some of my @failbettergames.com Fallen London gear and this image appeared fully formed in my mind

screenshot of a Fallen London item tooltip:
"A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural
There's always a rational explanation — if your system of logic is expansive enough.
The Firm Conviction is a Hat.
Watchful +1; Persuasive +8; Reduces Nightmares build up."

crop of the previous image: "The Firm Conviction is a Hat."

"Is this a pigeon?" meme except it's Failbetter Games gesturing to various Fallen London items — Sebastian the Nocturnal Smotherer (a cat), Song Stuck in Your Head (music), and A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders and A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural (abstract beliefs) — and saying "Is this a Hat?"

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Like. Fallen London is WAAYYYYY better than doomscrolling

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Papaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Might I also submit:

A screenshot of a single button from the browser game Fallen London. Text on the button reads: ACK

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Rabauker @aggropop.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

this week on "i know this word because i'm playing fallen london":

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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

New podcast alert! 🎙️ Tune in to #FutureKnowledge — a podcast from @archive.org & @authorsalliance.bsky.social exploring how knowledge is created, shared & preserved in the digital age. Listen & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! futureknowledge.transistor.fm

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solstice @devouringlight.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

its funny that the most common scent associations for me are wood, smoke, and resin then i turn around and wear a fougere

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綿貫芳子 @nobarahanabusa.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

［週末自由帳］ハロウィーンの頃に描きたかった、殺人鬼に仮装した織座と刑事のような甚八。ぬるめの流血表現があるので、念の為センシティブ設定しておきます。 Oriza dressed up as a murderer and Jinpachi as a detective, which I had planned to draw around Halloween. There is a little bit of bloodshed, so I've set the sensitive setting just in case.

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 04/05/2025

I always tell this to my research assistants: if you use AI to summarize and write for you, you don't need to be my assistant. You don't need to do research at all. Research should be selfish: *you* (not a machine) learn how to read, write, innovate, and dream. Otherwise, what is the point?

Should you use ChatGPT to understand a paper?
No.

If you have an assignment due, getting ChatGPT to summarize something can be tempting for completing that task. But learning isn’t just a task to complete, you need to be the one who acquires knowledge and really chews on big questions.

For the same reason it wouldn’t make sense to ask a robot to lift weights for you at the gym, it doesn’t make sense to ask an agent to “learn” papers for you. Learning how to think creatively is one of the hardest (and most valuable) types of things you can do. So if it feels hard, that’s because it is. For these reasons though, I highly caution against using LLMs too much. Any use of an LLM can risk reducing the overall “reps” your brain should be putting in. And you need practice. So really try your best to answer the questions I listed above on your own before going to an LLM to answer and learn for you.

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chimera aunt @strangelittlevine.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

the reflexive guilt center of my brain when I have to turn at the same lights as the car in front of me twice in a row:

edited screenshot from Fallen London. the bold upper text says "You are a Stalker now." and the lower, small italics text said "You are now a Stalker." the text in between these lines that describes what the in-game career called "Stalker" does has been blurred

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Starlight @segastarlight.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

pokemon evolution

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Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Look...everybody likes a good shortcut. But LLMs aren't one. They're a longcut. They appear to save time, but they take away control. This isn't even touching on the many, many ethical and environmental concerns (others have done that). This is about integrity of data.

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solstice @devouringlight.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I have two modes when it comes to recipes: 1. the vaguest instructions ever, bc i was working on the fly and grabbing whatever was on hand 2. shit has been measured to the 2nd decimal, movements and hand positions described

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LexiTheWulf @lexithewulf.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is a brilliant post about how small, 'performative' moves—like a pride mech in a Discord banner—aren't empty at all. They're cheap, easy ways to force fascists to reveal themselves and bounce. It's zero-cost community protection, and honestly? Kinda vital. www.tumblr.com/noctumsolis/...

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/04/2025

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

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綿貫芳子 @nobarahanabusa.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

［週末メモランダム］エイプリルフールに乗り遅れて投稿されなかった「甚八と織座の性別を反転させたらどうなるか」というお遊び。性別反転ネタが苦手な方もおられるよな〜とは思いますが、ブルスカはどうもセンシティブ設定ができなさそうなので、そのまま流します。・ This is a play on “What would happen if Jinpachi and Oriza's genders were reversed?” that was not posted in time for April Fool's Day.

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solstice @devouringlight.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"why do you know so much" i try out a lot of stupid things in stupid ways then end up needing to try out another stupid thing to clean up my stupid fuck up

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solstice @devouringlight.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

we need more representation for non-monologue thinkers

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 29/03/2025

moving from forums to social media was one of the greatest internet mistakes we made as a whole and i will die on this hill

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solstice @devouringlight.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

i will read a book so i can argue with it in its margins DO NOT TEST ME

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solstice @devouringlight.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Mars spell of "kicking my own ass"

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Charlie Claire Burgess (they/them) @thewordwitch.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

THIS THIS THIS. Using gendered language to describe energetic dualities *literally* reinforces the gender binary and, even worse, elevates binary gender to some sort of cosmic or divine truth. Not only is it cis-heterosexist, it’s false. Sex isn’t binary; gender is a construct. Use better words!

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This stuff affects people. It affects the way that they think and how they live. These choices in language are not value-neutral.

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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

“When I say masculine and feminine or male and female I’m not talking about gender, or anything to do with gender. I’m talking about energies.” THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU USING DELIBERATELY GENDERED LANGUAGE FOR THOSE ENERGIES

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solstice @devouringlight.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

new elemental familiars: - fire: candle - water: beverage - air: vape/cigar - earth: ??

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solstice @devouringlight.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

i want to like sleep token so bad but in 80% of any of their songs i just find my interest drifting away, snapping back to attention for that good 20%, only to get an anticlimactic release

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(🖬🖫). ₍^. .^₎⟆ @a.very.sleepy.galactic.furball.discatte.com · 14/03/2025

You can batch save urls using google sheets, a bit faster for those important sites =^^= archive.org/services/way...

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Batch process Google Sheets using archive.org services

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 11/03/2025

What a creative, inventive, detail-oriented community we have. We're blessed.

A young woman in Victorian grab, with chopstick-style hair fastenings, posing to resemble a cameo portrait from the game Fallen London.

A grotesque anthropomorphised bat-man-skull, in a red shirt and cape, smeared in blood, standing in the snow.

A person wearing real-life appropximations of the outfit that would get you the maximum scandal in Fallen London: red stockings, a barrel on a pair of braces, and a hideous necktie.

Reflecting the 'change my mind' meme template, a young man sits at a desk looking down the camera with a smirk, behind a sign saying "I am the Jovial Contrarian, change my mind."

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 11/03/2025

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Fallen London 15th Birthday Cosplay Competition, all of whom received a Rubbery Plongeur companion 🦑

Two sinister figures in front of a brick wall. One, taller, is cloaked with glowing red eyes. Their taloned hand is on the shoulder of the other, who wears a dark suit, white cravat, and a grotesquely frowning red mask.

A cloaked figure in a basement, surrounded by bottles, candles and trinkets.

A young woman dressed head to toe in lilac, including her hair and jewellery.

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