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That the bedroom recording versions of Blame It on Cain & Mystery Dance aren't marked as previously unreleased makes me suspect that's the tape that used to be known as the honky tonk demos. And yeah, they're super fun

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 5h

It's the 20th Anniversary of the wonderful @clarkesworldmagazine.com. I'm privileged to join a slate of amazing writers with a story in this issue! clarkesworldmagazine.com

clarkesworldmagazine.com

Issue 241

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 5h

If I recall correctly, she tried to do similar in the 2014 campaign as well: delaying her launch even though everybody knew she was going to run Though in that case she was forced to register earlier once murmurs started that someone else might take the progressive lane if she didn't soon

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 6h

I was about to say "I'm pretty sure I walk faster than this subway train is going." And then we slowed down even further. So, no, I definitely walk faster than this subway train.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 7h

The more I think on it, the weirder it becomes & the more it enforces the popular perception of him. It's a view of the job of a politician as simply being figuring out what the people want & offering that back, rather than to trying to convince them that your positions are the correct way forward

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 7h

Sometimes the plane just *wants* to crash. And who are we to say its desires are invalid?

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 7h

Yeah, I remember them winding up with a very large library of board game rights by buying up publishers during that period. I didn't know they had done the same with video games though

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 7h

There's a margin of error of 4.5% for their Texas poll! What are they even doing here?

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 7h

Me: "What ever happened to Spectrum Holobyte? [short Google later] Hasbro... Well, at least it's not EA."

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 8h

"Tetris 2" here is really just Tetris. It's "2" because it's the sequel to Tetris on the Famicom. What the rest of the world got as Tetris 2 was called Tetris Flash in Japan.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 8h

#RandomGameSaturday Super Tetris 2 + Bombliss Gentei Ban Did you know the Super Famicom got 5 Tetris games? Two of which were called Super Tetris 2. "Gentei Ban" means limited edition & it changes the puzzles compared to the other Super Tetris 2. It's also not really any rarer than the original.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 17h

There is a connection between this group & Nanny, but I can't recall if it's a retcon that was added much later or not.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 17h

I was looking up some albums from sort of the peak CD era a few weeks back, and was astounded by how many were 60+ minutes long — a double album by vintage standards!

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 18h

All the Elven kingdoms in Middle Earth are merely gwaith o thar i aear of Valinor

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 18h

Maybe not a super long tradition, but there's been a thing at least online of some black fantasy fans trying to claim orcs for at least the past 20 years or so

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 18h

Take Flea's Honora (great album btw, thanks again to @danlehner.bsky.social for getting it on my radar) If you're listening to it digitally, it just kind of ends in a collection of covers. But if you're listening on vinyl, the main album is the 1st LP. And the covers are all on the other record.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 18h

It's kind of fun to come across albums that are still 100% being sequenced with vinyl in mind

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Brice @faranciaabacura.bsky.social · 20h

How are we supposed to compete?

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 21h

Look, if there's an alignment problem that means you need to stop the printing press and adjust the plates

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 23h

Perhaps most surprisingly, it doesn't ping any of the detectors. It's possible someone actually wrote this

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 23h

The Peel Police press statement about the hit & run the other day in Mississauga included a bit about how they were checking to see if the pedestrian had entered the crosswalk after the countdown had started

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 02/10/2026

Forget the missing camera image for a moment. I'm amused by the different call locations. von der Leyen & Carney calling from offices. Meloni, the press room. Merz looking like he's working from home. And Miliband with the saddest last minute decorating of the spare storage room

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 02/10/2026

For a very expensive definition of "the road" Protected bike lane? They need to get somewhere. Share the road Sidewalk? Where else do you expect them to park. Share the road

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it’s the first Friday of the month so all proceeds go to artists today — check out my trio True East’s debut full length that came out this summer on cmntx records! trueeastnyc.bandcamp.com/album/this-p...

trueeastnyc.bandcamp.com

This Place is a Message, by True East

10 track album

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 02/10/2026

Someone mentioned the other day that this is also the sort of body shape you can get if you take HGH/steroids/etc and don't exercise And I suspect it's a bit of both: protein loading because of the circles he's in, plus some chemical assistance

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 02/10/2026

I'm still fairly convinced he's going to eventually try price controls

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 02/10/2026

Uncanny Valley AI lesbian gooner bait ad. The future is here and I would like to return it

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps.
1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says:
"Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!"
2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!"
3rd panel: "Good ol' Charlie Brown..."
4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, "How I hate him!"

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 02/10/2026

The posters kind of overplayed it a bit, admittedly

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 02/10/2026

Me, watching the video: "You know, I somehow never noticed how much this feels like Air Zonk." Me, checking the development credits after: "Ah."

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Goh_billy @gohbilly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Attaching Marco from Metal Slug to my fan to bring out some Heavy Machine Gun action.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 02/10/2026

One of Rob Ford's major bugbears that he constantly went on about when he talked about how he was going to "stop the gravy train" was that the city paid people to go around & water flowers

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 02/10/2026

A constant of Toronto in the almost 17 years I've lived here is a spendthrift distaste towards paying for the maintenance of public spaces There's usually money for new ones — though they may quietly remain half-finished once attention lags — but after they're built? Where's the attention in that

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 01/10/2026

Oh. The city silently updated the webpage for it over the summer. At the end of May it still said "late 2026." And now? Well, what's the only thing more Toronto than running past your promised completion date? Refusing to give one, of course.

The Wayback Machine archive from May 25, 2026.

The Cloud Gardens is closed "until late 2026 due to planned restoration work."

The current web page. The text about restoration work has been deleted & it simply declares it "closed until further notice."

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 01/10/2026

But a fenced off public space with both a no trespassing sign AND the ubiquitous no winter maintenance sign on it? Now that's Toronto in a nutshell

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 01/10/2026

Had to walk by the Cloud Gardens today, 4 months later & 4 months before "late 2026" passes No visible change since spring, other than more trash in the fountain & taller weeds growing up through the cracks

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 01/10/2026

Kraftwerk & Kraftwerk 2 I can take or leave. But I really wish they'd officially re-release this one

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 01/10/2026

Oh, to have the confidence of someone declaring that passing the Equal Rights Act would have prevented overturning Row v Wade

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This quote says it all: “Everybody thinks their dog is better than their dog really is,” he said, “and nobody wants to keep their dog on a leash all the time.” Everyone thinks their dog is better than their dog really is...and everyone thinks they have better CONTROL over their dog than they do.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 01/10/2026

Just heard a government ad for the tunneled 401 and Jesus Christ, they're still going through with that absolutely idiotic idea?

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 01/10/2026

Larp of larp, says the preacher, larp of larp! All is larp.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 01/10/2026

The supreme leader writing an introduction to a compilation of words from the minister of defense? No, sorry, I think that's backwards

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 30/09/2026

Begging people to look at what Nixon actually did vs. what Congress made Nixon do before claiming he was somehow to the left of even the more moderate Democrats

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The not-that-surprising skeleton key for Toronto politics.

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 30/09/2026

There are certain names, mostly directors, that it seems impossible to generate a bad picture using

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 30/09/2026

I feel like this set of panels are the first you've posted from this issue where someone might react with "wow, this guy on art has something going on." As opposed to any scene of people standing around. Where it's more of a "what is going on with this guy on art?"

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 30/09/2026

Rogue apparently going to the same stylist as Feral when McFarlane's in charge of the art

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lete lyre@C108乙 @letelyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

『転生したらSpiders Georgになって蜘蛛1万匹を食うチートスキルでなんと平均をめちゃくちゃにした件』

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And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.org · 29/09/2026

I seem to recall a few "[WRITER] was the only one who knew what was going on with [MYSTERIOUS FIGURE]. Then he got fed up and left without telling anyone his plans" as well.

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