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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I hope there's nothing bad about this because it's great minesweeper.mikelacher.com
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Triple-A Minesweeper
Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How is this different from, say, Rwanda in 1994?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026
I'm sure the NY Times tomorrow will have another story about Hasan Piker, and not a mention of the VP's "intellectual guru" saying this...
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
With all this talk of estranged parents and grandparents, it's a good time to revisit this seminal work on the topic, The Missing Missing Reasons. issendai.com/psychology/e...
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The Missing Missing Reasons – Issendai
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
crazy how accurate this is
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Welcome!
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
jfc
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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fits, therefore: sits.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dumbass colonists
The breakfast scene from Aliens.
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OutsideTheGarden @outsidethegarden.com · 02/10/2026
RANGERS GOAL: #NYR 5-1 TBL THIRD PERIOD: 17:26 G: Igor Shesterkin (1)
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is an hugely important point. But I'd go farther & state that the fate of the hostages, were at best, an afterthought. As I've written here before in 2024, Israel (should've) had 4 strategic objectives in the wake of the 7 OCT 2023 attacks. 1/
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Tomlins Minecraft city
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's this incredible doc called Scratch about the DJ movement and one section is about crate digging and finding the perfect break no one has heard before. It's an art form. It's about taste. It's stitching together something new from something old. Here's DJ Shadow.
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DJ Shadow featured in the movie Scratch (2002)
YouTube video by Aaron Coe
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Doug Farrar @dougfarrar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New WTF of the Week on @athlonsports.bsky.social: Receivers are being rewarded for flopping, and unless the NFL wants to become too much like soccer and basketball in one ridiculous aspect, it needs to stop. athlonsports.com/nfl/flopping...
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WTF of the Week: Why Are NFL Receivers Rewarded For Flopping?
In Week 3, two receivers sold contact to draw late pass interference flags against the Rams and Ravens, and the NFL later told Sean McVay that the Rams call was wrong. If flopping keeps working, the l...
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwAl...
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Midnight Cowboy (Theme From)
YouTube video by Faith No More - Topic
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thethinblackduke.bsky.social @thethinblackduke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It doesn't matter how much Bezos tries to kiss Trump's ass with the WaPo, he'll still get screwed in the end. Also, literally the opposite of helping consumers, but that's just too complicated to explain in *checks notes* a national newspaper.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Backpfeifengesicht defined
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just saw another one of these "paid for by the US government" Trump commercials. Different from the "communism" one. Just blatant propaganda passed off as "public service announcements". He really believes he's an asset to the GOP in the midterms. host2.adimpact.com/admo/viewer/...
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Final Battle
US Government started airing this Positive ad about Trump for President on 09/27/26 in the Trump Issue 2026 election.
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
anyway, one last Friday afternoon plug for the strange (but fun if you're a particular type of sicko) thing I wrote earlier this week about historiography in Star Wars keithpille.com/preface-to-l...
The emergence of the materialist Gilroyist frame of reference serves to throw some of Lucas’ material into a different context. Lucas’ first documentary, eventually titled A New Hope, depicts actions occurring directly after the end of the Gilroy team’s materials. Viewed through the Gilroyist perspective, a large, diffuse coalition of secular activists and agitators worked at great cost to establish a Rebel military and intelligence operation and used these combined operations to acquire crucial military intelligence about the Imperial Death Star project. Then a farm kid from the outer rim showed up at the decisive moment, helped to fill out a fighter squadron depleted from the just-completed Battle of Scarif, and managed to strike the decisive blow, with or without the supernatural aid of the Force. The New Hope footage is (mostly*) unchanged, but it tells a slightly different story with this added context; Skywalker is just one hero among many, and if he can strike harder than some before him it’s because he’s standing on the shoulders of giants, none of whom had anything of consequence to do with the Force.

*Subtle changes to different editions of Lucas’ documentary materials remain an ongoing frustration of serious historians.

And so now we come to the crux: which of these frames is the correct one? Clearly, they must coexist to some extent. Documentary materials from both interpretative streams unambiguously show supernatural Force-based abilities, so they clearly existed; but the Gilroy materials’ recontextualization of early Lucas provides a strong hint that the old master was letting his biases get the better of him when he moved the Force more and more towards the center of his documentaries.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That was a lot of fun to read! Now I want to watch Andor again.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The White House indicated before Kelly's decision that it would appeal the ruling, but it can't legally appeal the ruling for the next two weeks." Is this the first time they've just out and out refused a court order, as opposed to weaseling out or around one?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes having our fertilizer shipped from a Russian proxy dictator half the world away is surely a better way to arrange things than getting it from our democratic, once-friendly neighbor here in the North America
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Precisely the vibe I get from this
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Centipede! Galaga probably a close second.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The falling domino meme, with the text:

"Lowtax bans hentai from the SomethingAwful Forums"
"Donald Trump destroys the American Empire"
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As a kidney stone haver, I second this. If MAHA chuds want to fuck up their renal system to prove their manhood, go for it. Every mother I've spoken with describes kidney stones as "worse than childbirth". Hit the desert and let's get dry for Bobby! /s
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Same! Really hoping I can get mFLUSIVA when the time comes. Sure, part of it is thumbing my nose at RFK jr and his anti mRNA crusade, but it really does appear to be even more effective.
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sam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 15/09/2026
IT'S FUCKING CALLED BABA O'RILEY YOU FASCIST GOD DAMN SWINE
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yeah, I distinctly remember that period in W's second round when "independent" meant "embarrassed republican" Moreso than usual. Probably due for a reprise of that phenomenon, to be followed in a few years with "nobody voted for Trump" as the nation crumbles to dust.
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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is what actual voter fraud looks like: developers colluding to swing village elections involving a few hundred voters tops, in a state where registering to vote at your second home where you don’t even live most of the time is totally legal jewishcurrents.org/welcome-to-l...
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Welcome to Lammville
How the Hasidic housing crisis led to the largest case of federal voter fraud in modern American history
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
High of 66 here. Feels good, don't it? 😀
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 14/09/2026
none of this is *good*, the effects will be bad for *everyone*, but MBS and the kingdom learning why everyone else on the planet knows not to trust trump *is* kind of funny
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Skip hop jump Blue Dolphin🍀🐬🐚🐸🐾 @bluealways.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An elegant fix for one of America’s deadliest road problems Highways weren’t built for animals. That’s starting to change.
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An elegant fix for one of America’s deadliest road problems
Highways weren’t built for animals. That’s starting to change.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Calling it tax money is a stretch - it'd be more debt. Since of course deficit spending doesn't count when Republicans do it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.
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‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yup. It all comes back to The Apprentice. www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I promised to post a bit about this & this is really the best place to start. The mission & intent for the Human Terrain System (HTS) was to help commanders & staffs make better decisions that would lead to less lethal/more effective actions to cool the temperature w/the host country nationals. 1/
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Rosetta Stone?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from me: what would a grand coalition for government reform look like post-Trump? It should include both people who care about democratic backsliding and state capacity. But right now these groups aren’t really talking to one another. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-could...
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What could a post-Trump governance coalition look like?
It should be being built now
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 12/08/2026
"At a moment when Americans were as frightened as they’d ever been in their lives, one party told them very plainly that, if the choice was you staying alive or a little inconvenience, to be perfectly honest you might as well die." @mobute.bsky.social
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The Corona Mind-Virus
Why conservatives can’t accept that the government helped millions of people in a time of national emergency.
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 12/08/2026
Find the data here: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
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California was mostly solar-powered in May — a global first
No major economy had previously received over half its electricity from solar across an entire month. Thank the mild, sunny spring weather, and batteries.
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Formica @formica.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Been quite a while since I thought about Testament. Whew
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