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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 6h

Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.

YouTube. Video with title

I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains

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Leon Barillaro is UNIONIZING @barilleon.com · 5h

If you want to support our efforts at United Wizards of the Coast, the absolute best thing you can do is sign and share our petition asking the company to voluntarily recognize us! Together we can change the games industry for the better! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 6h

Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

actionnetwork.org

Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't talk about my work here often cause I don't need random term searchers to come at me, but I'm in this.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do not usually mind the extra time of using the bus to commute to work, but it does suck when I realize midway that I left my badge at home.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Numerous people have already been pointing out for days that western reporting on this is an embarrassingly inaccurate game of telephone, so I'll instead reiterate that it doesn't cost that much to just have a real translator on standby to vet such reports. I know budgets are tight, but come on.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can meditate sometimes, but also if I'm successful it's like 70% odds I'll just fall asleep. Brain is like "great, some peace and quiet"

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was an extra closet door in my grandparents foyer that lead to his cave.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gollum in the Rankin/Bass Hobbit (more accurately the read along book and record version) didn't scare me at the time, but did lead to a series of the first disturbing dreams I can remember. I would have been 4 or 5.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah, that's what everyone thinks until they get in the ring with her.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 02/10/2026

wake up babe new way to commit corporate sabotage just dropped

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 02/10/2026

basically, the whole TLDR of this - Clean Label Project is an org that doesn't peer review or make fully public its 'studies,' it relies on scientific misinfo, and its sponsored by orgs that cozy up to RFK & MAHA and in at least one case are explicitly antivax.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 02/10/2026

so i saw this and panicked and started researching other cat foods, but then i decided to dig into the clean label project. spoiler: they are not a trustworthy source gonna dive into it in a thread now because i do public science communication also no shade to OP, i was sharing this worried too!!

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Nobuhiko Obayashi on the special effects of House

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Xiaoyi @cleefouti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday at work

A comic made of four post it notes about people asking me if I'm afraid I'll be replaced by AI. The first panel asks "aren't you afraid AI will replace you at your job?". In the second panel I start thinking about a skull on a pedestal I saw yesterday. In the third panel me and my colleague are standing in front of it. My colleague asks "whose skull is that???" As I say "do we have a skull cleaning kit?". In the fourth panel I'm back to the present conversation and answer "I mean bitch can try."

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps.
1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says:
"Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!"
2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!"
3rd panel: "Good ol' Charlie Brown..."
4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, "How I hate him!"

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This feels like the next series for @johnnybarnstorm.bsky.social's Bear in Games Neo channel

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I thought we watched it when we were back in the house. But time blurs together

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cannot for the life of me remember why I went with her for Bsky instead of one of my previous icons. I don't think I was doing a PGSM rewatch at the time.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

See, this is why I am Dark Mercury 365 days a year.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The number of these where the "trick" is as basic as "someone kicked the table" is shocking.

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 01/10/2026

Did passport thieves approve this message?

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It would be a shame if anyone downloaded those. wink wink

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Sam Feldman @srfeld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm a fan of efficient writing but this is in fact too much to fit into one sentence.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Part of me is suspicious that the Copilot bug is so obtrusive in some programs is to goose the use numbers with accidental clicks.

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most satisfying ending to a book by a long shot.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love humor that transcends language

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is extremely encouraging to know the Youngs understand Bookshop Girl is an erotic icon. Some things *are* eternal.

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Jacob Strick @jacobstrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Despite everything, you’re still the powerhouse of the cell

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do think a lot of the SV fear / overwhelm response to AI comes down to "they've built a machine that's very good at eating their jobs *specifically*"

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Masamune Shirow was a guy who seemed to be fascinated by guns and swat teams and counter terrorists, but also knew ACAB. So instead of breaking his brain and becoming a weird reactionary he transitioned to doing pinups and porn [please don't shatter my illusion if he is also a weird reactionary]

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Andy Smith @errantpedant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am usually in favor of anime following the manga closely, but I do feel for pacing purposes Daemons of the Shadow Realm should have rearranged some events. S1 should have either ended sooner after the Ivan fight or somehow got to the next major backstory info dump.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I listen to country music. I don't know that song either. I absolve you from reacting to that Rolling Stone article.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the main reason i find fantasy lacking as a genre is that there is exactly one fantasy plot worth telling and we already got to it with Tolkien and it is "satan ran across the icy tundra, pursued by the giant spider who wanted to eat all his diamonds"

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Kevin Church (Spooky Remix) @beaucoupkevin.com · 24/09/2026

sure is a nice article you put on substack, the nazi-friendly email platform and blogging service shame you put it on substack, the nazi-friendly email platform and blogging service

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New Washington state point-in-time count data shows that homelessness grew everywhere last year, including in Pierce and Snohomish Counties (adjacent to Seattle's King County)...which is so weird because I was told all the homeless people come to Seattle for the easy living and free drugs??

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