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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have I heard this song people are talking about, in the sense that eight bars of it slipped into the background of my brain for twelve seconds while I was looking at bananas? Maybe! But I wouldn't notice, I wouldn't know the singer, and I certainly wouldn't know the title.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I pay *zero* attention to the music being half-piped in the background at the grocery store, though. Even if it's a Top 40 station (and most of the stores around me play Classic 90s), if it's not a song that I already know well, I'm not going to remember a single bar of it after the fact.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congratulations, that's awesome!

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can tell you who has a problem with someone liking Buffy: the elitist snobs that he associates with, who see anything that smacks of 'genre' as lowbrow and thus unworthy. Doubly so if it's a show with a woman as the lead. He's trying to justify liking the show to other terrible people.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The first few episodes can be a bit abrasive, so if you watch them and aren't sure either way, push through. It's not entirely clear where the Mariner/Boimler dynamic is going, and I think they front-loaded some of the more R&M-style humour to try to draw in audiences who like that sort of thing.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I definitely see why people saw it as a Rick and Morty thing to start with, but it's more of a love letter to all of the weird and goofy parts of Star Trek, from writers who both know how nonsensical that stuff was and loved it anyway, and are putting both the nonsense and the love on screen. (1/2)

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but being post-2000 rules out both TNG and DS9. And while I've enjoyed most of the Discovery-and-beyond Trek, the only one of those that I think belongs in Top 100 territory would be Lower Decks and the only animated show on this list is Bojack Horseman.

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Dan LK, WXXT Morning Show Host @2ndlevelbard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This has been a good year of making stuff for me, but I'm especially happy with this one: 2ndlevelbard.itch.io/the-dreadful...

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The Dreadful Citadel of Urzengotz by 2nd Level Bard Productions

A Weird Mini-Setting for MÖRK BORG

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/09/2026

if I was Mario I would have at least tried to make friends with the turtles before just stomping on them

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a rule, when someone uses the term "with all due respect", what they mean is "what the fuck is wrong with you". Because the word 'due' is in there, you're only saying "I speak with the respect that I think is due to you". Which can be "some, but you're talking wild right now" or "fuck you".

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes, I launched NOVA 2 today. But! I want to draw your attention to some cool projects made by friends. First up, Dead Net by @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social This is a cyberpunk/hacking version of Dead Belt, one of my favorite solo games. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...

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Dead Net - A Solo Tabletop RPG for High-Tech Low-Lifes

Dive the Dead Net, snag the paydata, survive the churn.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"First they came for the Communists, and I did nothing because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists."

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another hypothetical: A Democratic candidate wants to support trans rights and reproductive rights, and also wants to use atom bombs to kill every person in Palestine and give the entire health care budget to AI, and if you vote for him other Democrats will follow his lead. Do you vote for him?

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's not complicated. It's not triage. It's a simple case of "we want you to help elect the people who will kill you, because the alternative would be that we would have to elect the people who won't kill you and we don't want to do that."

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The entire premise of your argument is that if one side wants to kill everyone, and one side only wants to kill *some* people, the people who are going to be killed either way have to go and support that second side so that the people who aren't going to be killed don't have to save them.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm not American either. Understanding what's going on doesn't require you to be American, it just requires you to understand the basic premise of "once you say human lives are negotiable, the other side will keep negotiating until every life is gone."

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you care so damn much about protecting people, why aren't you pressuring the people who want to feed other people into woodchippers instead of asking the people being fed into the woodchippers to use their final moments to make your life a little bit easier?

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Will you vote for a democrat who will take away trans rights and reproductive rights and support increased funding for ICE as long as they say they're in favour of court reform? What is the acceptable number of children to feed into the woodchipper for your personal comfort and convenience?

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you don't give a shit about them why should they give a shit about you? Like, where is your line? Would you vote for a democrat who wants to take away trans rights and reproductive rights if they say they'll fight ICE?

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Breana Navickas @breanimator.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There's a lot of new people here following me suddenly! Hi my name is Bre. If you like Black Magical Girls mixed with Witches and Vampires and Romance and queerness you should check out my Pilot Animatic for The Three Tomes On youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fXF...

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Personally I would not pick this fight with the youtube guy who demonstrates all the ways he can nail you with an arrow at 200 yards using his feet while wearing 12-inch Pleasers, whose wife can also kill you with her bare hands, and has 9 billionteen followers who are all trans women with swords.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is also why he thinks 300 is so gay: because if you ignore all of the messaging and politics and plot, the *aesthetics* of 300 is very homoerotic, and that is the only part of the movie that he thinks is sending a message.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes, Snyder has always struck me as a very nice person who exclusively views the world in terms of aesthetics. This makes him very vulnerable to repeating fascist propaganda because fascism loves aesthetics and he doesn't get that that's what he's doing.

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here is the piece I was happy with (alongside the mecha I just posted). Its the new art for the Variant Humans in Orbital Megastructure, showing some of their starting gear. I want to draw two exemple of each of the playable character personas. I will also add more game text alongside the items.

a variant human in carbon gel puffy armor with drones and a bug and a folding shield

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The thing is, this isn't really a fight about digital games. It's a fight about digital *ownership*. Steam spent a lot of time and effort convincing people that they would retain digital ownership no matter what happened to/on the platform. Sony has spent a lot of time and effort on the opposite.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 10/09/2026

we interrupt this program for important breaking news

A CAT IN A PINK BOWTIE MAKING FOR CUTE FACES LIKE IT'S A PHOTOBOOTH IT IS SO ADORABLE

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

To be perfectly honest, if you believe that there is anything like a functioning guardrail on any major commercially-available LLM system today or that any of these companies care about putting one into place I don't think we have anything else to talk about.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh yes, I agree. You can see that in how the editors *responded* to slop on their platform, in contrast to how certain modern companies respond to inaccuracies and hallucinations spreading across the Internet. When the creators saw a problem, they fixed it instead of shrugging and pushing it harder.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm pretty sure that if the Wikipedia editors had sat around yelling "actually Wikipedia is good and we should use this model for everything and let peer-review determine all news going forward" while continuing to not put those models into place, it would not have ended up respected or popular.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's not a bad comparison, because Wikipedia actually was deeply unreliable and should not have been used as a primary source when it launched. The editors spent years carefully instituting guardrails and moderation and really strict editing rules before it became a reliable source of information.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What they didn't do was yell at anyone claiming that Wikipedia was unreliable and insist that actually it was already great and didn't need any refinement or guardrails or new methodologies and everything should be run by peer-editing with no mechanisms to prevent abuse.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I *do* remember when Wikipedia specifically was considered slop, because it didn't have a large enough editor base to catch people messing around with it and as a result it was generally considered a deeply unreliable source. Because it was! They put a lot of effort into making it less sloppy.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wow. I knew it was bad, but the details are truly impressive.

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I cannot wait to see this movie

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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

it keeps coming back to this

Screenshot of a 2016 tweet from "Brooks Otterlake"
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A lot of the internet is 10000 people bullying someone who deserves to be bullied by maybe 1 to 3 people

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(we are all going to be banned for dogpiling the safety account)

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dogpiling or harassing *white cishet* users. Harassing marginalized groups is still fully acceptable to the Safety team, as seen by the number of repeated harassers still active on the platform.

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Baldi🍉 @baldikonijn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Didn´t post this guy here yet.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have to say I’m really enjoying the “fuck Johnny Depp’s new Scrooge movie” side of bluesky today, what a pop culture moment uniquely suited to bring us all together

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 01/09/2026

FYI Outlier players—since they deleted their whole bsky account just now in an attempt to stop people from noticing this

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh, I don't know about that chart. The personal finances percentage is the number of people who say they're "Living comfortably" or "doing okay", and the economy percentage is "excellent" and "good". I'm not sure that most people consider "doing okay" to be equivalent to "doing good".

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Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

*the world's most exhausted sigh*

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