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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 29/09/2026

i didn't do super great last year, but i feel good about 2026 moviegame.vulture.com

my vulture movie game picks
the Odyssey
digger
Jumanji: open world
Michael
normal
poetic license
hokum
you can see everything

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

The push to make it so that "websites as a destination for humans is over" is an intentional move to violate the freedom to read of individuals and move access to information into a "pay to get an opaquely intermediated version from a nontransparent source" model.

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 26/09/2026

anyone have a good guide i can share around called something like "How to talk to your coworker about their AI use problem" or do i have to write it myself

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 25/09/2026

same. what the fuck, google.

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 25/09/2026

spent an hour+ farming a boss for a 0.6% drop rate weapon (didn't get it ofc), forgot how much of a slog bl4 can be when playing solo and not doing missions

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 24/09/2026

also tried to stick with "formative" and am cheating a bit since some of these are representative of entire series

Destiny
The Kingdom of Loathing
Doom
Final Fantasy VIII
Assassin's Creed II
The Binding of Isaac
GoldenEye 007
Pokemon Blue
Rogue

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 23/09/2026

this is the deal that every social sciences phd program should be offering

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 21/09/2026

frustration with work's hosting provider plus the latest dick-to-face slaps from the news today has put me in a punching mood when all i really want to do is be left alone so i can keep going on my Dark Tower reread (currently halfway through Wolves of the Calla)

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 21/09/2026

counterpoint: every day living in a monarchy you and society are being gaslit into thinking having a king is fine

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 21/09/2026

i wish all David Ellisons and Zazlavs and Gavin Newsoms and pushover FCC regulators a very antibiotic resistant flesh eating bacteria and/or prion disease

static.klipy.com

Bugs Bunny Sad Face

Alt: Bugs Bunny Sad Face

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 21/09/2026

once you realize 99% of online discourse is literally just 'It Is Ontologically Evil To Annoy Me Personally' you come to terms with how meaningless it is

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 20/09/2026

been playing a lot of Inscryption today, this game slaps. love how it keeps opening up new layers, both minor and major, and the video cutscenes are both fun and short. hate the smug lil robot tho, esp after i was always so nice to the stoat.

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 17/09/2026

talking with the mean annoying teens near the ginkgo tree to speed the clock up past 9:30 so i can break into the doctor's office and tap his phones so i can get ahold of anti seizure medication for my forcibly undocumented friend who lives in a house boat that's videogames, babeyy

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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Luddite Temple manifesto in a readable format.

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 16/09/2026

night gaming session ended early bc one of the dogs got too anxious to stay in his crate during the thunderstorm so he needed emergency cuddles and everybody to come to bed with him

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 15/09/2026

my Emmys take: Mariska Hargitay did a fine job and was clearly having a blast, Widows Bay was very deserving of the sweep, and the best part was when they realized it was running short they encouraged the presenters to vamp a bit

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 14/09/2026

i've said it before and i'll say it until i die, but anyone who says they're apolitical or "i don't take sides" instantly and automatically gives up any claim to be taken seriously

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 12/09/2026

Werner Herzog's sad beige toys for sad beige children

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 12/09/2026

bought theater tickets for tonight but due to me bringing home covid from the conference i was at last week, i don't think we're going to make it

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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 09/09/2026

Going into the midterms my top priorities are: 3. Restoring legal and medical protections for trans people 2. Stopping the flow of weapons to Israel 1. Bringing the current admin to justice And if a politician is willing to compromise on one of those I no longer trust them on the other two.

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 10/09/2026

if your "triangulation" results in you saying fascist and bigoted things, then you really don't have a problem with fascist and bigoted ideas

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 07/09/2026

silo season 3 mini review: fantastic! s2 slumped a little bit in the middle, but each episode of s3 was a total ride, glad they filmed 3 and 4 back to back so we don't have to wait forever

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I really do think that refusing to call what Israel is doing a genocide is genocide denial. I don't think there is good faith room for disagreement. I don't think saying, "they're committing war crimes" is sufficient. 1

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

hey, this past week was the Kerala harvest festival of Onam, which is conveniently relevant to the story of Vishnu's fifth avatar, the little person priest Vamana. so time for a #hinduthread, part of the Dasavataram series, the ten avatars of Vishnu.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

9th Cir. holds that Kalshi is not exempt from state gaming regulations for its event contracts involving sports betting. Remands for further consideration of its election contracts. Huge blow to Kalshi. Over 90% of its trades in 2025 were sports related. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 28/08/2026

capital-P Politics is so stupid because it's just one group destroying something valuable for many to benefit a few then when the next election rolls around, the group that did the destroying says it's the other groups' fault for not fixing it

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 28/08/2026

showed the GTA6 thing on Netflix to the dogs. they didn't really care, hardly looked up even, aside from when J pets the dog and it gives a lil yip. looks like it'll be fun, but tbh all i could think of was "damn, i want to go back and play more Cyberpunk 2077 but with a third person mod".

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Strikingly blunt analysis of the crisis in the Middle East and the long road successive generations of US policymakers have walked to get there. Puts hard truths plainly and proffers a clear (if idealistic) vision of how the US (and the rest of us) get out of it. Paywall: archive.today/aq7lc

The End of the American Middle East
Iran and the Last Gasp of a Failed Order
Marc Lynch
September/October 2026
Published on August 18, 2026

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 27/08/2026

started cooking on this Paranoia x Nick Game Show idea, replacing the Computer with the Announcer, clones for teammates, and treason for cheating also mixing in Vampire: The Masquerade's hunger mechanic by having worse-odds Slime dice replace some in your pool

Double Dare host Marc Summers with evil lasers coming out of his eyes

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 27/08/2026

the invention of the shareholder has done, and continues to do, incalculable harm to humanity

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 24/08/2026

OH MY GOD

Mural in Iran featuring an AI parody of the Nirvana Nevermind album artwork with a suited Trump as the baby swimming for a dollar as explosions unfold above the waterline

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 24/08/2026

inshallah this is a watershed moment

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think a lot of people don't really understand that the reports of Russian forces looting museums in occupied Ukraine (particularly Kherson prior to liberation) were not just "soldiers being soldiers" but rather an extremely intentional occupation policy meant to steal cultural heritage

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 18/08/2026

i'd guess i'm about halfway through Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, and i think i like it better than Disco Elysium, and i loved DE. big part of it is 1, not being a cop, and 2, failures don't feel like punishments, they just add texture to Hershel's character of being a total fuckup.

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 16/08/2026

one of the reasons american politicians love the genocidal apartheid israeli regime is that they wish SO BADLY that they could hop on 60 Minutes and just say outright that they want to kill all Muslims, immigrants, and Black people

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 14/08/2026

hot enough that butterflies are dropping out of the sky dead. sorry you didn't make it to Mexico on your migration, homie.

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 13/08/2026

actual words, the voiced thoughts of the truly deranged, uttered from my mouth this week: for 101° outside, is not so bad

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

me, 14: everyone else is so stupid! me, 30: what a juvenile and immature attitude I had toward the complex beast that is human intelligence me, now: everyone else is so stupid!!

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

its an insult to carter, but the last thing trump wanted to be was jimmy carter. he has said that over and over. iran is jimmy cartering him. even after 50 years of this they understand us, we do not understand them, because we do not respect them as human beings

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 07/08/2026

bandcamp friday haul! not pictured because it's being shipped: the Mountain Goats - Days

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 07/08/2026

korma police, arrest this naan

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 07/08/2026

if I'm a cyborg when do i get my robot limbs? preference for legs but i'm cool with whatever

you have taken on the habits of the machines you talk to.

The Ticking Library — Punctual as a bell, and never quite the same word twice.
Cadence 100 over Lexicon 23

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 06/08/2026

who would have thunk that if you keep shrinking the spaces people are allowed to show up in as themselves, they stop showing up

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 05/08/2026

if the Kansas Democrats and @cindyforkansas.bsky.social in particular don't run the gubernatorial campaign against human shaped slime ball Ty Masterson with "you all just voted NO on Masterson's supreme court amendment, he'll keep doing stuff like that if you let him win" then what are we doing

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dr. nate 🌴 @ghostlen.in · 04/08/2026

guy at the voting place yelling COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF WHAT and the poll workers only replying "I'm not allowed to discuss anything on the ballot"

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A cute thing about me is if i hurt myself and go FUCK or god DAMN it, im probably fine, just a little cut or a stubbed toe. But if i quietly say whoopsie daisy or oh dear me, buddy, dial 911

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