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John Breen @breen.tech · 08/10/2026

Man, this answer from Ta-Nehisi Coates about how he felt about Kamala Harris saying that she wants to have “the most lethal fighting force in the world” is really good. He talks about why she might feel like she has to say that, but gives most of his response to the victims of that lethality

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A daye wythout anachronisme ys lyke Oscar Wilde wythout hys cyberdeck.

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

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

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Velociraptors are funny because people are like "They weren't actually that scary because in real life, they were about the size of a goose" and my friend, have you ever been AROUND a goose? That just makes it worse!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is solarpunk art

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build and help them pull up the ladder” Fuck. Shut up being right

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.

An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

I feel this in my soul

A screenshot of a tweet reading: The best email signature l've ever seen:
"It is normal for me to take 2 days to read my emails and 2 more days to reflect on the matter and respond calmly. The culture of immediacy and the constant fragmentation of time are not very compatible with the kind of life I lead."

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Give this kid an academy award.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 03/08/2026

Situation was apparently more extensive than we thought. Our podcast also went rogue and is spreading our stories in audio form. We continue to investigate how it managed to escape our sandbox, but suspect that this modern RSS technology is exhibiting signs of awareness. The industry is concerned.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Orange Guy standing at a stall with a sign that says “Shit Sandwich, £500”
Pink Guy walks up to the stall, Orange Guy gestures excitedly at the sign.

Panel 2:
Pink Guy continues walking past the Shit Sandwich stall. The Orange Guy looks dejected

Panel 3:
Orange Guy says “Wow. That guy can’t read”

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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

SUCH a lifelong dream to get to work on a new game set in the Myst universe. ♥️📖 Still hope we’ll get to see it through someday, but I’m thrilled we can share the trailer:

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m on my holidays this week, but I tell you what - there have been three bumper reviews at SH nonetheless! 💥 @hanacarolina.bsky.social on the perils of the genre mash-up 💥 Phoenix Scholz on the short fiction of Bora Chung 💥 @erichendel.bsky.social on politics in the work of Allen Stroud

strangehorizons.com

20 July 2026

Visit the post for more.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026

I love going to modern websites. You’ll be looking for a pancake recipe, and then the pancake recipe site will hit you with “by looking at pancake recipes, you have agreed to arbitration”

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

this should be mandatory reading for the entire country

But what was known in 1964 was largely abandoned in 2024, and what was offered instead was a questionable survivalist theory of democracy-one that proposed to erect a shield over one group while providing weaponry to destroy another.
For reasons moral, pragmatic, and perhaps mostly ancestral, the next black presidency will have to think bigger. To its list of adversaries-which include a renewed white supremacy, a rapacious billionaire class, an energetic Christian nationalism-it must add another, perhaps more formidable than them all: empire.

But for many Arab and Muslim Americans, "America before Trump" meant returning to a time when FBI informants sought to entrap them, when police agencies spied on their mosques, and calling a presidential candidate a Muslim was a slur. Seemingly blind to this trauma, the Harris campaign followed up the Democratic National Convention snub by deploying Bill Clinton to Michigan. There, in the state with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, Clinton told an audience that Israel had been forced "to kill civilians" by Hamas, and that the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea belonged to the Jewish people because "they were there first." Meanwhile, Harris welcomed her endorsement by Dick Cheney, who was not a very popular vice president but was a zealous defender of torturing Muslims.
The cumulative message was not "We don't need your vote." It was "We don't value your life

In 1965, the year of the Voting Rights Act's passage, Coretta Scott King stood before an anti-war rally in Madison Square Garden and rejected survivalist democracy:

Have you often wondered as I have, why it is that the same president Johnson who speaks so eloquently for civil rights, and who has been so moved by the struggle for the right to vote and the anguish of the poor, can be so callous about the Vietnamese and so apparently
thoughtless on foreign policy. I think it is because we permit him to be.

And that story forces a very basic question: What was the point of all this?
Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer? And did the advocates of this collective pedagogy imagine their children rising to heights of power, only to view the darker nations of the world through the same violent lens as their oppressors? And if they did not, if they believed that the "poor and needy" meant those within the empire as well as those without, then what moral mandate does that place upon their children?
And if their children have come only to praise, not check, empire, then why have they come at all?

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I specifically requested no more metaphors

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Excitinge to fynde the filme reele for the famous lost Trek season one episode!

A title shot of the original Star Trek series shows the Enterprise near a planet, with the episode title "Pink Pony Club"

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Our multi-billion-dollar software that provides responses based on the enormous dataset it’s trained on, gave a response based on the enormous dataset it was trained on.

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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

A scruffy looking brown dog with hair coming out of his ears

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Titanic, heading for the iceberg. Captain Sam Altman: ‘Some people may die, but the ship will become a god that will transform all icebergs into money.’

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I absolutely love this animation showing Artemis II's path from Earth to the Moon and back, especially because it shows the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field. Video Credit: NASA, GSFC, Artemis II, SVS apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26040...

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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 06/04/2026

Artemis II today.

scene from lord of the rings
"this is it, if I take one more step it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social really deserves consideration for all awards. It's a weird, cerebral, fun book about a writer who becomes entangled with her fictional characters. It seems like a mediation about the relationship between what is written, and what is read. It's excellent.

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. Features a black silhouette against a pattern of circuit boards.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is still the greatest action setpiece in cinema history. Sorry Fury Road.

Storyboards to the model train chase in The Wrong Trousers

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/03/2026

I never used Grammerly, because it never did really understand the point of grammar and just...used a bunch of rules. Grammar (and punctuation and even spelling) is actually really squishy and alive and changing.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

escape time loop escape time loop escape time loop escape time loop escape time loop escape time loop escape time loop escape time loop

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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @ BLFC @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Oh this is a really important win. So you know people who use AI generated images and then copy that as a physical painting? This means that as it has no copyright protection (because AI does not), if it's too similar to the existing art AI ripped off, it is easier to fight back legally.

A screenshot from Threads user @Zemotion

I won. I won my appeal.

The Luxembourg court has ruled that Jeff Dieschburg infringed upon my copyright when he used my work without consent.

Using a different medium was irrelevant. My work being 'available online' was irrelevant. Consent was necessary. 1/

With an image side by side of their photograph of an asian woman with a drooping outfit, and an oil painting of the identical woman, canvas flipped.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a Nebula Award finalist for Best Novel. And look at the powerful company it’s in. Still kind of stunned by this book’s journey. 🥹

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Nebula Award Finalist
Best Novel

DEATH
OF THE
AUTHOR
A NOVEL
Nnedi
Okorafor

Our Nebula Finalists for....
BEST NOVEL
When We Were Real Daryl Gregory (Saga)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
The Incandescent
Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
Sour Cherry
Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire)
Wearing the Lion
John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

How I solved the trolley problem with this one simple trick; SUSPENSION RAILWAY!

A suspended monorail in Japan, it looks like an upside down train

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"Spooky" Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 09/03/2026

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 26/02/2026

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Someday after humanity is extinct, millions of years from now, this statue will be the only surviving proof of our existence. The alien archaeologists that discover it will name our species “the exalted ones” for creating something so beautiful

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Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

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