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I have long speculated that I am not a Cruise Person and this cements it. Lindsay Ellis brings this story at great personal sacrifice and has the Minions drinks package t-shirt to prove it.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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Now playing on the #MST3K forever-a-thon, it's THE SCREAMING SKULL. With the "Robot Rumpus" Gumby short, which I love so much.

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Watching #MST3K forever-a-thon and it's currently DEVIL FISH. It feels like it was made a bit earlier than 1984, but that could be the pull-tabs on the cans. I forget they persisted until 1983. Love this riff: "It looks like that thing that comes out of the Wizard of Id's cauldron."

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 27/09/2026

I've been turning this over in my head most of the afternoon and it explains why everyone is mad about some forgettable song, iced beverages, or how you should park a car. Easier than contemplating the obscenity that is this administration, their policies, the war on the environment, etc etc etc...

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To this day, my phone lock screen is a collage @lubellwoo.bsky.social made of this lil’ demon guy. He’s followed me through three phones now, as he is always lurking in the shadows of my mind.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 27/09/2026

Enjoying a quiet afternoon in the backyard with the smol dog. Brain decided that today’s idle activity is generating a litany of “times I was horrible” events for my review. Thanks, brain. Thain.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 27/09/2026

Tonight on the #MST3K every-episode-in-order-a-thon, it's DEVIL DOLL. There's at least one Twilight Zone episode with ventriloquism in it. There was also a film in the 70s that just the preview scared the pants off of young me. Doubt either of them has as many ham jokes as this experiment, though!

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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Strictly Ballroom (12/12) Movie CLIP - Love is in the Air (1992) HD

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjKh... Strictly Ballroom is one of my all-time favorite films. "New steps! New steps! NEW STEPS!"

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YouTube video by Movieclips

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This reminds me that 1) I still need to play the first Control, I've heard so many good things about it 2) Yoku's Island Express (another metroidvania, this time combined with pinball) was a delight that needs a sequel.

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Instead of turning my crank to Frank (More Reba! Winona!), my brain decided today’s inner soundtrack is nonstop “Trip Like I Do” by Crystal Method.

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Sega Saturn - Saturn Bomberman (Intro)

Saturn Bomberman! Amazing multiplayer and you could ride a dinosaur that would yell "Buuuu" at the bad guys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsYX...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tonight on the #MST3K every-episode-in-order feed, it's Samson vs the Vampire Women. Favorite line: "The wrestling program in Hell is second only to Iowa."

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Starbucks launched with the explicit intention to emulate the coffee-n-conversation third space of European-style cafes, and American less-for-more capitalism has whittled it down to a sugar water firehose aimed at customers out of a hole in the wall.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Turns out "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is actually slightly less scary than "I'm a rich pervert who wants everyone to die".

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this is a poster from the african-american museum in dc calling on black americans to join the civil war vs the south. so yeah, broadsheets baby.

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Those are some skills of an artist to portray @pftompkins.bsky.social as anything other than immaculately dressed! Great poster. Get on it, Los Angeles!

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PNW folks: Is it me or are Juantonio's (nee Juanita's) a lot more salty than they used to be? Yet oddly the Chilipeno are less spicy than before...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our smol dog is very frustrated that we can't go outside and goof around in the backyard. Little friend, it's going to rain any second now and you hate your raincoat! Welcome to fall in the Pacific Northwest. (I wonder what the doggie equivalent of a latte and a scone would be. Ideal rain combo.)

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Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Be right back, acquiring a set of increasingly elaborate tiki cups and perhaps a small freezer to store dry ice.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 24/09/2026

The hints of our future are all around us if we want to look.

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Every company has to relearn the lesson of Erin E-surance.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 24/09/2026

Reading these reviews is like watching John Henry race the steam drill, except the steam drill in this case is just another regular hammer that John Henry also has to operate. www.todayintabs.com/p/meta-s-new...

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Meta's New A.I. Agent For Losers

Also: "fast as hell and built for sickos?" That's what they called me in high school.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 24/09/2026

Not doing much to disprove the “having a billion dollars is like being kicked in the head by a mule every day” hypothesis, I see. Knowing how many houses you have or where you live is for the little people!

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✨trash✨ @dollarpbr.gay · 23/09/2026

there’s nothing i want more than to witness Random Scalper Attempts To RICO The Pokémon Company International we’ve all earned this

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 24/09/2026

Those of you of a certain age will remember when one of the only things that made sense was Get Your War On. David Reese is doing a liveshow for the 25th anniversary to celebrate. calendar.elysiantheater.com/shows/get-yo...

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GET YOUR WAR ON 25th Anniversary *LIVESTREAM* — Friday, October 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM — The Elysian Theater

A nostalgic night of horror and hilarity! David Rees started his Get Your War On comic strip shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The strip satirized the War…

Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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From my new essay about the new social contract AI/AGI is actually meant to force us to sign: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef...

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We need to reintroduce the distinction between software company and tech company. a software company makes and sells software and may enjoy some economies of scale a tech company creates a software front-end to labor exploitation, is extraordinarily costly to run and requires regulatory capture

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 22/09/2026

The administration has decided the only way to win is to drive their popularity so negative that it overflows its integer and becomes positive again, I see.

Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 22/09/2026

One of my favorite gags in Arrested Development was Mull taking off a disguise and saying, “Gene Parmesan, how you doin?!” to Jessica Walter’s delight. Isn’t he the best?!?

Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 22/09/2026

Nobody gives a damn about Buc-ee’s. Now if we could get Casey’s, then at least we could have breakfast pizza.