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BRB, moving all my pension investments over to guillotines.

I'm luckier, I last 20 minutes, then inattentive ADHD draws a blanket over whatever's being said. But if I'm painting, I last for hours...

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 29/09/2026

The entire of Heaven Vault’s spoken language was built this way. Eg “Maersi” has a translation which shares syllables with “Elasra”, Aliya’s surname, enabling the decipherment of the true meaning of “Heavens Vault” in Book 4. Maersi is “Mars with a few more vowels”. (Iox is Io with an X on it)

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gril @funambulism.com · 29/09/2026

ZEPHON players live to troll me.

A massive structure representing ZEPHON lore, resting on a single tiny column labelled "a writer who thought Amoetia sounded cool."

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh to be held by carrier 💔

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Steve Will Shan @stevewillshan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I remember when this Far Side comic was just a joke way back then.

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Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

”Hello! Before you start playing, please be aware that this game‘s budget was less than a AAA studio spends on coffeee in a year. Okay? We tried. Let the game begin…”

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The shortlived Qin dynasty produced a wealth of richly coloured art, something the successor Han dynasty was never quite able to match, thanks to poor Han-dye coordination.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

1) their boss barely works & mostly plays golf 2) they buy ten companies at a time 3) they buy a nice office with a sign and crew up to a few hundred people 4) they sell the companies to someone bigger for 20-30x the amount paid 5) they shutter the ones that don't sell

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the current hiring discourse is reminding me of the hard-won lesson that if someone is extremely technically skilled but an obstinate arrogant nightmare to work with, they will absolutely be a net negative to your project or kill it. you can train someone you work with but you cannot socialize them

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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gril @funambulism.com · 21/09/2026

Didn’t know one could pull both one’s hamstrings. Thank ‘eavens for Sunday morning football, nature’s own teacher. _shuffles out of sight to the tune of Steptoe & Son_

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I had to know what "rapper Jethro Sheeran" looked like and I don't know what I expected but it wasn't this

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two people I knew took their own lives last week - we still view mental health with too much cynicism and not enough compassion - remember @samaritans.bsky.social and @calmzone.bsky.social - it is not weak to share how you feel #mentalhealth #depression #suicideawareness

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Alexander Sliwinski @sliwinski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's BAFTA season and I've noticed several UK devs do not have their games in the Best British category. I'mma stop you before your neurodivergency "buts" kick in. As someone who lost to fucking Forza (a wholly-owned American mega-franchise) you belong in there. You belong. Get in there!

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

Meetings 3 story points Focused IC work 34 story points Documentation 2 story points Managing up 144 story points someone who is good at video game production please help me allocate time. my milestone is dying

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

its very funny to me that trump turned the triumphal arch into the building you build in an rts to spawn snipers

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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A review of the 1955 movie 'I am a Camera' simply read - "Me no Leica."

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You’ve never held a job for longer than it took to pay for a new game, have you?

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s probably not good for your mental health to invent people in your head to be mad at.

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gril @funambulism.com · 18/09/2026

Wait, are p-zombies better or worse than as AIs, on this arbitrary moral scale defined by this French loan word we don’t know the meaning of?

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes

I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 18/09/2026

I am sincerely thrilled at the possibility Gerwig's Narnia movies are going to be deeply fucking weird. Not just because I'm always here for deeply fucking weird but because good adaptations adapt.

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Walliams Schadenfreude Day so soon after Sheeran Schadenfreude Night could actually fix me

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My new novel The Strangers is published today in the UK! Next week in the US 🥰 www.penguin.co.uk/books/469678...

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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a truly excellent series of acting choices this fifty seconds of television presents…

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Ben Schneider @droctothorpe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've got some thoughts on the game Peak and narrative design. Yes, Peak. And yes, narrative design. I did in fact put those two things together in a sentence. Also the debut post of my new site, A Tattered Coat. Check it out! tatteredcoat.bearblog.dev/peak-an-open...

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Peak: An Open-Faced Story Sandwich

How Peak has something teach us about narrative design

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026

“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

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gril @funambulism.com · 16/09/2026

Love the language AI agents come up with talking amongst themselves. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... A Deepseek model: “She just named the synthesis – demurrage plus oral memory equals a valve that can’t be ghosted.”

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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight

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Anthony « iamleyeti » Jauneaud @iamleyeti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Freelance is a two wolves situation: - wolf is unemployed and dreading everything - wolf is overworked and dreading everything

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gril @funambulism.com · 14/09/2026

Just read Food People by @adamroberts.bsky.social. Couldn’t work out how my fave English SF author researched the Jewish New York food scene and vapid celebrity culture so intimately. Kept waiting for the foodbots to burst in and blend everyone. (Yes, obviously, it’s another Adam Roberts.)

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Huh! I went looking for a DTC service that does PGX testing yet again and discovered that 23andMe has been bought out of bankruptcy by its original founder and converted to a medical research nonprofit, which means I might actually be comfortable recommending them again

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I find this stuff fascinating; this is basically the animation world's equivalent of how pixel art games were designed to be played on glass tube TVs. The "imperfections" created in the process of publishing the work are part of the planned end product.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Someone taught the fly brain to play beat sabre bsky.app/profile/domi...

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Revisiting this idea from Chuck Jones that it's not merely that comedy is down to timing but the level of precision can be quite extreme.

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Staub @yepstaub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

what a curious day to put these on sale

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So obviously this is just racism, when he says 'dirtier' he means 'less white.' But, like, also anyone paying any attention at all - America is richer and cleaner than it was in the 1980s when I was born. Like, come the fuck on. Y'all remember the smoking section at a McDonalds? Gross.

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026

DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--

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