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I need to learn to sew and make everyone I know cute plush

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Gary Birdshirt @garybirdshirt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Plate-swap! They’ll never see me coming…

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seems like most people i know are feeling like this lately love you all

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Weekend adventures included a trespass to find the source of the Charles River. I am so delighted that I have friends that know “Hey I was looking at a map and…” will get an instant YES

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Firr @firr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Working late tonight someone knocked on the door to the office and my boss opened it and the adjoining mayors office was pitch dark and empty. She acknowledged “maybe a previous mayor” and we went on with our chat.

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You are not a heartbeat. You are not a breathing pattern. You aren't an array of positions in a room. You are a messy and complex intersection of thoughts, emotions, feelings, love. Art happens when that mess comes together and has something that it -wants to say-. It doesn't happen passively.

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Firr @firr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's just like. Boring. The experience is technically impressive, but the message that "you're making art right now" also makes whatever you're seeing unimportant. Your input doesn't matter. The art machine is going to make art whether or not you're a part of it.

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Firr @firr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ok so like I get it. I get that like, Refik Anadol wants to make you feel like anything is art. That mundane data like your heartbeat can be a line on a spreadsheet or a generation seed that creates a uniquely beautiful piece of art. It is absolutely something interesting you can think about.

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san @sanmiasha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mom, I want you to meet my friends. Yea they’re very responsible, no we won’t be drinking behind the gas station…mooom NO we’re not shoplifting slushpuppies again c’mon!!!

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Participated in the #BasisLoadTest this evening! really cool to see how an open source platform can push 1500+ in one instance 🤯

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Well that was the most fun I’ve had in VR in a while. No official numbers for you but finally crashed somewhere north of 1600 simultaneous clients. Those of us using the peer to peer networking just got to chat lag free anyway

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Pishock giveaway, just sayin’ Currently at 213 at the moment ❤️

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 18/09/2026

What’s fun about supporting 1k+ users is that I didn’t even notice when the instance crossed 150. NBD.

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every day is fox day if you're not a coward

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 18/09/2026

Welp, my eyeballs have rolled up into my skull and I don't have time to sort this before the event tmro, so just assume I'm on serious drugs. See you soon!

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 17/09/2026

Hey, you've been meaning to check this out, I know it... (please come and invite your friends!)

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Bastard Angela @werewolf.pizza · 16/09/2026

Money is for two things. Reducing entropy and having experiences. If you are a millionaire or a billionaire you fucked up so bad. You have to spend that shit to help people and then go see a metal show or buy some art at a gallery show or something

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fox noises @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am LOSING MY SHIT at how much I love this commission I got from @mustachemutt.bsky.social 🔞 We got everything. EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING IS HERE. Foxes. Tired. Cawlin. Synthesizer. It's my soul.

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 16/09/2026

Plus I’m like a registered fox now

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 16/09/2026

My first week at City Hall. Trying to build pro-social technology in the context of a private, for-profit platform was one of the most infuriating experiences of my career. Excited to be doing it IRL this time.

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𓃡 @doginyard.ca · 14/09/2026

old

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 14/09/2026

I love that every fur I know clocked this as “AI slop, not today satan” in about two seconds flat

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 13/09/2026

Does plonderphonics hit like it used to? If The Avalanches “Since I Left You” dropped today would anyone recognize it or just think it was AI? youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE?...

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The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by TheAvalanchesVEVO

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Ån (Fox) @foxriot.com · 13/09/2026

I picked up this record from 1989 yesterday and it blew my mind, dedicated to the founder of the chaos computer club likely murdered by the CIA during the Cold War.

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When the world felt uncertain, Boston gave me a place to become myself

Here's a lovely personal story that got me actually thinking about my 9/11, sent by a close friend who helped made NE home for me: "the same city that taught me I was not alone also taught me that a place can choose to be brave before its people are ready" www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

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“It is a strange thing to arrive at your own life in the middle of a national grief,” writes Dimitrios Aletras, Jr. “The city was jumpy and the news was apocalyptic, and alongside all of it I was quie...

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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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I used to believe that the companies/people instrumentalizing social media didn't know their data was all bullshit, but I came to realize not only are they extremely aware, they are working to normalize the idea that facts are irrelevant. The truth is whatever you say it is online.

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As a concrete example: one of the early HCI studies on social media and sentiment analysis leaned heavily on reading the uptick of fear and negativity online shortly after the 9/11 attacks.

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My overwhelming memory of 9/11 (I was in my 20s, and had just moved to Boston for grad school) was watching, in real time, the powers that be transition from “we’re all really scared and confused and nobody knows what’s going on” into “oh wow, we can weaponized that for the next 30 years”

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