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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 14h

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 17h

In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty.

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Brenda Shaw @felisbufo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In college my best friend asked me which team I played for, and I said I was open to possibilities. She continued with the baseball metaphor and called me a free agent.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you can vote early, PLEASE do.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

According to Stephen Fry the first joke he wrote with Hugh Laurie was about a character who is told to always say "lavatory" instead of "toilet". So he makes small talk: "Did you realise 'T.S.Eliot' is an anagram of 'lavatories'?"

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🎃 Found Star Trek Episodes 🎃 @foundepisodes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#StarTrekTNG "Flicker" After recovering from a deadly spore infection, Dr. Crusher experiences terrifying visions of her evil Mirror Universe self every time the lights flicker. Worf is excited for Fat Targ Week. Transporter chief: Zach Galifianakis.

A partial clipping from an old TV Guide reads as follows:

Goldblum) teleportation device goes horribly wrong when Moe, Shemp, and Curly try to use the invention on themselves.

7 PM channel 13 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION(CC)—Science Fiction; 60 min.
After recovering from a deadly spore infection, Dr. Crusher experiences terrifying visions of her evil Mirror Universe self every time the lights flicker. Worf is excited for Fat Targ Week. Transporter chief: Zach Galifianakis.

[SCI] MOVIE(CC)—Science Fiction; 2 hrs.
“John Carpenter’s Dune.” Kurt Russell. Adrienne

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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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Brenda Shaw @felisbufo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Times like this I understand why people join book clubs

The book "Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Whit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

A welcome sign with a tabby cat and behind it are the ruins of Largo di Torre Argentina

One of the cats who lives at the sanctuary hiding behind some bushes

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Boo-ly, Little Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Herb Solow always scared me.

EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE: OF PRODUCTION
HERBERT F. SOLOW

He's a puppet!

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Androgoneous Spacecraft docking because neither the US or Russia wanted to be the "Female" docking part. I know a lot of stupid Space shit, but I was today years old when I learned this.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Chehalis tribe of Washington State just south of Olympia have retaken possession of land along the I-5 corridor. This is how they repurposed the billboard facing the freeway.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have you ever heard of Gabriel's Horn? It's a mathematical shape, a deceptively simple "solid of revolution" that will melt your brain. It's also one of my very favorite things of all time. Oh my yes, you'll love this: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-geometri... 🧪

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A geometric shape that will destroy your brain

Gabriel’s Horn is bizarre and literally unrealistic. It’s also super cool.

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Brenda Shaw @felisbufo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the biggest and laciest thing I've ever knat. 88" wingspan, 912 yards of DK. It took all summer because there was a lot of tinking. I learned a lot about tinking and also patience and perseverance. #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026

Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This change (back) means COVID vaccines are covered by insurance.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So….the bridge too far for the press was…silencing the press. Hmm.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So….I typed the word “accountable.” It was highlighted as wrong. Why? Apparently, the right word is “acvountaboe.”

Part of a post that reads: “above the law until held accountable.” Corrected to “acvountaboe”

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

lol so many people signed up to download the KAPOW Handbook that it crashed our Dropbox link, waiting for for their tech support to call us back. In the meantime, you can sign up (again) at this link to download from a different platform: kapow.solidarity.tech/download-the...

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Download the KAPOW Handbook - KAPOW

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Brenda Shaw @felisbufo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Me: the only contexts for the word 'supreme' anymore are dictatorships and fast food tacos @tgebriggs.bsky.social : Diana Ross? Me: okay fair

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people. Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

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Brenda Shaw @felisbufo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If I ever plant my own fruit tree

Four unripe pawpaws on a kitchen counter

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/09/2026

13/12 headline. No notes

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We just got Roman Space Telescope's first astronomical image from space! And it's a bit of a mess, but never fear; that was expected. I explain it all right here for you: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/nancy-grac... 🔭 🧪

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s very first image released!

The "first light" shot is weird but hints at amazing things to come. Plus: Mercury has more shrinkage than thought

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

GEFILTE PHISHING

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny

Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's easy to think of the arts as frivolous entertainment but never forget a lot of artists get into this line of work because they are loyal to something other than money

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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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