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Researcher, teacher, writer, tinker-er. Paladin (oathbreaker). Really didn't think "care about other people" is a radical position, and yet.... He/him. 33. 🌈.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 04/10/2026
Oh yeah Tinashe kinda rules
An old Twitter interaction from 2022. JK Rowling (saying her author name so people who muted mentions of her can have peace) tweeting some nonsense about how Labour will be Big Evil by referencing something in her kids’ books, and Tinashe just replies, “Oh my god, SHUT UP”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One would be tempted to call Friedersdorf a useful idiot, but I don’t believe he’s ever been useful.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question
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pablo @morepablo.com · 01/10/2026
smol bean Raytheon employee absolutely broke me
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Josh vs. Evil Dead @jdkrach.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
interviewer: can you explain this gap on your resume me: yes that is when I carried you
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You'd be like hey man if your computer is telling kids to kill themselves just unplug it. And their very first reflexive response will contain a wizard. "But what if it is a wizard who can persuade the person who tries to turn it off, with offers of priceless gems? What if no one can turn it off"
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 24/09/2026
COME, ALL YE WHO ARE TROUBLED I SHALL BRING YOU BLOOD THAT DOES NOT WORK
A woman stands with her arms outstretched in a 3D photogrammetry scanning rig. She has wavy light brown hair, wears a neutral-toned sleeveless top, and looks directly forward with a calm expression. Surrounding her in the foreground and background is a complex network of metal truss towers mounted with dozens of small cameras and wiring pointing at her from multiple angles and heights. Behind her, two large rectangular softbox studio lights illuminate the scene against a cool-toned studio background.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...
popsci.com
The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever
Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nathan for you meme with him in Ed Sheeran hair saying "The plan? Hire all Irish openers and then both sides a colonial genocide and see if they stay on tour."
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GP @generalplanet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The thing about Hanania is that on the one hand he's a vile gutter racist and on the other he is very, very stupid.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 15/07/2026
created an infographic to explain why arguing the hypocrisy of fascist talking points only helps erode your point. don't fight bad faith with good faith. don't engage with their point. don't meet them where they are. they're killing people. eat their frame.
an image using sprites from Kirby's Adventure from the NES

two series of animations

1st series. Kirby standing still and then runs into a star and gets injured. it is captioned "negating a frame reinforces it"

2nd series: Kirby encounters a star, eats it, and then blasts it out as a fireball. it is captioned "eat their frame"
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/11/2024
Warhammer is Precious Moments for people who hate God
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
look, the fact is, a lot of swing voters looooove torturing the omelas kid. they want to put more kids in the hole, actually, yeah. but not YOUR kid--oh, okay. well. still, big picture, thinking about the electoral map--
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh shit
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Screenshot of a headline and quote from the Financial Times following the 2024 election. The quote reads:

“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled… it’s a new dawn.”
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Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since Doug Ford likes signs, I made a few 🪧 💸
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Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since Doug Ford likes signs, I made a few 🪧 💸
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Whimsy is actually a form of resistance against a world that wants us to be miserable. Says Skeletor trying to keep the whimsy even when the world is truly miserable.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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Nɪɢʜᴛ Exᴄɪsɪᴏɴ🔪 @nightexcision.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, The Girl Whose Only Dream Is To Storm Heaven and Kill God.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text
Image of a page in a book with text reading as follows


THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO:

Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957. a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year-old American on her way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, "You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life."

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I've done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you.
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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore
a screenshot from the upcoming remake of Tomb Raider 1. lara croft is looking at her phone in the middle of an ancient ruin, and it's showing her a generic crafting menu, and a png of saucepan of stew that apparently her phone lets her cook for "Damage resistance" if she has 6 potatoes
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
“Every Rose Has Its Porn: Optical Character Recognition and the Middle English Problem” is a title for an article that I don’t even need to write. Please cite this post.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/09/2024
the three genders
three squeeze bottles of sauce labeled 
special, Halloween & Mild
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I guess thats one way to fill up heaven
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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 28/08/2026
eventually they came for the formerly gay nazi and i did not speak out because if i'm being honest that specific one was pretty funny
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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Guardian did a funny.
Two header boxes from The Guardian. 

L: Aditiya Chakrabortty - "Does Farage know what people really think of him?"
R: Psychology - How to spot a psychopath
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month
Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain!Sam Neill saying “I would have liked to have seen Montana”
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
everything really is gender (even if Craig will deny it kicking and screaming)
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I can’t explain it but it came to me fully formed- Donald Trump and Tim Curry will die on the same day
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people are so universally beloved that I think we shouldn’t be told when they die. Let us figure it out eventually but never receive confirmation. We should always be able to idly speculate that somehow there’s a chance they *could* still be alive
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.
Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I do think this is the best answer from a cis politician on trans issues since Biden's "at least three."
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Carolyn 🇨🇦 @carolynp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Meme from Lord of the Rings. Gimli: never thought I’d die fighting side by side with Doug Ford. Legolas: I’m gonna rip out all the bike lanes. Gimli: Christ alive you’re the worst.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 24/08/2026
the way of the future | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE is looking down. A SECOND PERSON is on the ground.
MATTIE: WHAT ARE YOU DOING DOWN THERE?
PERSON: OH I'M MOVING AROUND LIKE A LITTLE WORM.

PANEL 2: Closer in on the PERSON, who smiles beatifically.
MATTIE: SEEMS UNCOMFORTABLE.
PERSON: IT'S THE FUTURE! ALL THE BIG MONEY IS ON IT, MANY ARTICLES AND LEADING FIGURES ARE SAYING IT AS WELL.
PERSON: WHO AM I TO ARGUE!

PANEL 3: MATTIE puts a hand to her chin.
MATTIE: I JUST DON'T SEE THE BENEFIT. FOR MY OWN LIFE.
PERSON: YOU CAN EITHER GET WITH IT OR PERISH IN THE FUCKING DUST, OLD WOMAN.

PANEL 4: The PERSON holds up their phone. On it is a photo of a tech CEO-looking guy on the ground, being interviewed by a journalist
TEXT: DAVOS 
TEXT: CEO OF SquirmX SAYS WRITHING AROUND WILL ACCOUNT FOR 700% OF US ECONOMY WITHIN 2 MONTHS
PERSON: THAT'S A DIRECT QUOTE.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Single panel cartoon

Top of image: A tweet from “Deep_Thinker” that reads “Once again, I am being persecuted by bluesky meanies for simply promoting healthy debate.

Bottom of image: A screenshot of Deep_Thinker’s bluesky account. He has posted a photo with the caption “this is important”. The photo is of him leaning on a stool with his trousers around his ankles. He has written “Race Science. Good or bad?” in his own shit on the wall
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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If your allies are telling you "We want you to use a fraction of your political bandwidth to say that you support us for reasons beyond maximum treats for hogs in Iowa" and you roll your eyes at their poor grasp of your domestic politics, I don't think they're the ones with a poor grasp of IR.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It also needs to be stressed that when we talk about revolutionary potential for AI in certain fields, we're not talking about LLMs. Fields like medicine and climate modeling aren't asking LLMs to solve problems but leveraging AIs insane processing power to rapidly analyze truly colossal datasets.
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