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Not your average garden gnome

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Michael Pusateri @cruftbox.com · 11/07/2026
The hard facts on augmented reality by @reckless.bsky.social and @davidpierce.xyz on the Vergecast.
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Dotan Dimet @dotandimet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
תוהה אם "נדיר" היה enabler ל"נודר"
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Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com · 02/07/2026
This so-called museum is a romantic image and argument made by Woolley that @moudhy.bsky.social details in her book "Between Two Rivers". This was not a museum as we experience these institutions today. Rather, cuneiform culture and its millennia of history had always been important for elites.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 02/07/2026
"Mommy, how long was the N64 account creation, multi-factor enrollment, update process, and new user experience when you got it on Christmas?" Matilda is distracted and scoots away, so missing your hand over the saucepan, wooden spatula shaking like a wet dog. Oh god. What world did we build?
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Dotan Dimet @dotandimet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
השיא שלי היה בקורונה, כשמחוץ לחלון חדר העבודה המאולתר השכן החליט לקצוץ ערימת עצים להסקה עם מסור חשמלי
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Dotan Dimet @dotandimet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
ואף שכן לא משפץ? פינוק! (ע"פ מערכון four yorkshiremen למונטי פייתון)
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/06/2026
here’s one write-up, it’s pretty interesting
theconversation.com
Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
A higher quality discussion emerged among commenters allowed to use personas instead of their real names.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/06/2026
every single study done on this shows that the actual best behavior is done under consistent pseudonyms and people behave worse under real names it’s counterintuitive but at this point the real names thing is willful denial of evidence
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Loved this photo so much when I first saw it during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Boxer Roberto Durán embracing his terminally ill rival Esteban De Jesús in an AIDS ward in 1989. They were fierce rivals, fought three times in the 1970s. Still brings tears to my eyes.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Mini #FolkHorror thread for you. This morning I found this old confectionery box from the 1940s or 50s in a charity shop. I did some delving and found that the horned, devilish character is called 'Der Fulehung' or 'Lazy Dog'. He was supposedly the...
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Confiserie F Steinmann. Thun
Box with illustration of the horned, devilish Fulehung
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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Following on The Guardian's 100 Best Novels list I've decided to do one of my own. ground rules: 1. These my personal favourites, not trying to represent / create a canon. 2. Novels and novellas only, no short story collections (sorry Borges). 3. One book per author (sorry Donald E. Westlake)
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Giraud, basically @giraud.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A spotify playlist of various artists where all songs are either “running up that hill” or “rolling down the hill”
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Ran (abu_hobbit) @abuhobbit.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
זכינו בארוויזיון! youtu.be/fh9YulpDrfc?...
youtu.be
גזוז - המנון ליום חול
YouTube video by Guy Alon
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
And you maye aske yourselfe "Why ys thys bow made of burninge golde?" And you maye aske yourselfe "Wher are my arrowes of desyre?" And you maye telle yourselfe "These are not my spear and unfoldinge cloudes" And you maye telle yourselfe "Thys ys not my chariot of fyre"
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Dotan Dimet @dotandimet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
התשובה למילואים עובדת גם עם שגיאת הכתיב.
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רו"ח, מין, הון @rohminhon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
היום למדתי ש: בחריין, קטאר, ועירק איבדו למעשה את כל הכנסות המדינה שלהן עקב המלחמה ונמצאות על סף קריסה. בשלוש המדינות מדובר באובדן הכנסה של כ-16, 160 ו-350 מליון דולר ביום, לא טייפו, שכמוהם כחמישה, חמישים ומאה מיליארד דולר בשנה של רווח כמעט נקי.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
tl;dr: Norway had a bunch of oil money and put it in non-oil investments so it can be prosperous in a post-carbon world. Canada is going to put its oil money in… pipelines
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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Everyone else: whatever you do, avoid Stalin's attention at all costs Mikhail Bulgakov: Excuse me, I would like to register a complaint!
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
RIP Gerry Conway, who was co-creator of the Punisher and absolutely *hated* how law enforcement and other groups co-opted the character's skull logo. www.denofgeek.com/comics/punis...
denofgeek.com
Punisher Co-Creator Seeks to Reclaim the Skull | Den of Geek
Gerry Conway, the Punisher’s co-creator, is trying to take the symbol back from white supremacist-adjacent bootleggers
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Dotan Dimet @dotandimet.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
הינה לינק מתנה לכתבה. תמיד היו יהודים בחלל. אז למה כל כך קשה למצוא ישראלים במדע הבדיוני? www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/gall...
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תמיד היו יהודים בחלל. אז למה כל כך קשה למצוא ישראלים במדע הבדיוני?
אף על פי שיהודים היו ממכונני ז'אנר המדע הבדיוני, נדמה שהקמת המדינה מחקו את הסוגה מהיצירה העברית. ייתכן שזה עומד להשתנות
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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy. "Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."
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'An Iranian missile landed on him': Sky News speaks to son of expat who died in United Arab Emirates
Saleh Ahmed, 55, was delivering drinking water when he was fatally struck by debris after a missile attack on the first day of the war. His son tells Sky News he does not believe his father knew the c...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process. The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail. So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
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Christopher Schmidt @crschmidt.net · 01/03/2026
yup, I specifically came to say that I still randomly have "just follow the lights, they go from white into red, but keep in mind the nearest exit door may not be ahead" drift through my head (especially during flight safety introductions, but even at other times) www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1A5...
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Todrick Hall - Virgin America Safety Video #VXsafetydance
YouTube video by todrickhall
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 27/02/2026
Wise words
A grey hoodie with text which reads:

“Buy a man eat fish,
He day, teach fish man
To a lifetime.”
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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Have seen some pages from this. Looks really good. @jpjordan.bsky.social ‘s done a cracking job.
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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Mornington Station is a title for something.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/02/2026
this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
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that genehack guy from that dead bird site @extremely.website · 13/02/2026
RT for truth
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Dotan Dimet @dotandimet.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In my first job as a technical writer I refered to the * as an "Asterix" throughout all the manuals, because I'd learned the term when my mom explained the naming puns in the comic to me. Needed a lot of find&replace once I realized my mistake
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Dotan Dimet @dotandimet.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I think splatbook predates 3E and the OGL product rush, I first saw it used in connection to World of Darkness and other 90s games where there was a treadmill of supplements covering each PC clan/tribe/sect/class. The point was marketing supplements to players rather than just GMs
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I think Brin's The Transparent Society is fantastically underrated as a book. Not for the discussion about surveillance (which is important), but for the clear defence of the open society.
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Jacqueline @notjack.space · 20/01/2026
wait are they STILL using that israeli signal clone that the guy at defcon last year hacked????
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Gadi Evron @gadievron.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
ROFL. Perfect. And yeah - I know this makes fun of me too. x.com/vicvijayakum...
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Dotan Dimet @dotandimet.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Inflicted it on my daughters' ipads yesterday. Their reactions flicker between "look, bling!" and "what is this shit dad you have ruined my life"
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
In seriousness: actually doesn't help. People are idiots. My one serious glazing injury was someone slamming open a door FULL OF BROKEN GLASS SHARDS that I was LITERALLY removing. I was in high vis. There were 4 warning cones/signs. 3 tape barriers they ducked under. One person shouting at them
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
i blame the guys with the glass. Zero reason to be carrying a sheet of glass that thin around in public. Even pre-laminate that should be 8 mil. So she'd just bounce off. It seems like 4 mil. INSANE to carry around in a sheet like that. It'll flex, shard and you'd hurt YOURSELF before she got near
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.
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אייל 🏴 @eyalk.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
אני לא מאמין, מתברר שההולנדים אוכלים מצות בשגרה, מרצונם החופשי. זה כנראה הניכוס התרבותי הכי נוראי שנתקלתי בו.
מצות
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 23/12/2025
The guy in the article who is like, he couldn’t have done it, the police cleared him. Yes, the LAPD, who always get their man.
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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I have just received the most perfect d20
Large d20, with faces that say things like “no, and” or “yes, but”
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Regarding Reiner, I have known a lot of musicians and been in bands myself. I can’t overstate the importance of This Is Spinal Tap in adjusting the self-importance of musicians. Everyone knows the movie, everyone has identified Spinal Tap moments, everyone is humbler and funnier as a result.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I Sat Down to Dinner With Rob, Michele and Nick Reiner. It Was Heartwarming and Jarring. With the son suspected of murdering his parents, recalling an hours-long session at a Toronto restaurant 10 years ago and the light it sheds on a dark dynamic. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
hollywoodreporter.com
I Sat Down to Dinner With Rob, Michele and Nick Reiner. It Was Heartwarming and Jarring.
With the son suspected of murdering his parents, recalling an hours-long session at a Toronto restaurant 10 years ago and the light it sheds on a dark dynamic.
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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
If Gary Gygax had written APOCALYPSE WORLD, sex moves would be called "coitus strategems." #TTRPG
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I wrote this in jest, but now I wanna read it: "New York, 1965: There's been a murder in the Marvel Bullpen, and only Marie Severin can find out whodunnit!"
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dan @danabra.mov · 07/12/2025
deployed some polishing ux fixes to sidetrail.app, in particular embeds (to other trails, to bsky posts, and external links) should no longer be "jumpy" when they load unlike with "native" bluesky iframe embeds, i'm doing resolving on the server so it's immediately available if the data is cached
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