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Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social · 21h

Have been researching a very specific EPCOT Center attraction and am resorting to shouting into the ether for help. So please ignore this if you don't know or care about EPCOT Center. But if you do...

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 21h

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the AI board game startup www.rascal.news/you-do-not-u...

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23h

we're 4 weeks into the season at this point. has any broadcaster done the bare minimum of saying "Watson was accused of sexual assault by 20+ women" instead of merely saying he was dealing with some sort of indeterminate "issues"

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 23h

I heard an anecdote once, probably apocryphal, in which Beethoven performed a new piece for his patrons. When they asked him, “It’s beautiful, Herr Beethoven, but what does it mean?”, he performed it again

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A thing about BoardGameGeek: it's all one massive database, so if people are reviewbombing a game because (say) there's a black character in it, you can click through and see who they are, and note their ids, and then every time they post on the BGG forums in future you can reply "STFU you racist."

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 01/10/2026

I listened to the audio book, and there's one chapter, you know the one, that highlighted the sound editor in a way I've never heard before

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 01/10/2026

Aw, I enjoyed that ending. Thought the whole book was mindblowing. Maybe a bit of authorial "cheating" towards the end, but I felt it ultimately worked.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Bunch of Einsteins By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels.

PANEL 1

A bearded man in a red cap is recording a video of himself.

JAKE: Why should taxpayers be on the hook for science research with no real-world value? If their research were worth anything, private industry would already fund it!

PANEL 2

Jake’s rant continues over a cross-section of the landscape, from farmland and suburbs to a city; his voice is coming from a little cabin. A fiber-optic cable runs underground all the way across the panel.

JAKE: Believe me, these researchers aren’t a bunch of Einsteins!

CAPTION: There wouldn’t be high-speed internet for this doofus’s videos without fiber optic cables!

PANEL 3

Under the ocean, a fiber-optic cable runs along the ocean floor. Word balloons coming from the fiber optic cable contain the icons of many internet-based services — Facebook, Zoom, Discord, Netflix, Minecraft, and more.

CAPTION: Without fiber optics, the internet would be far too slow for how we use it today.

PANEL 4

CAPTION: So where did fiber optics come from? Well…

CAPTION: 1966

In a laboratory break room, an excited scientist throws his arms wide while another scientist eats at a table.

SCIENTIST: Now that lasers exist, we can use ultrapure glass fibers to carry light long distances!

OTHER SCIENTIST: How does that do anything?

PANEL 5

CAPTION: 1960

A scientist proudly holds up a diagram of a newly invented device. Another scientist sits at a microscope.

SCIENTIST: I call it a “laser”! It’s based on the old theory of stimulated emission.

OTHER SCIENTIST: But Theo, what use is it?

PANEL 6

CAPTION: 1917

Outside a university, a pompous-looking man gestures indignantly as he reads a scientific paper. He's speaking to a young Albert Einstein, who rolls his eyes.

MAN: Albert, where’s the practical value in this “stimulated emission” drivel? It’s a waste of taxpayer money!

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

Between the pitch clock and the long-overdue ABS system, the game is in such a better place than it was a few years ago.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

WHAT With Mark singing?

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

Love this song. Seeing them in a couple of weeks with Secret Chiefs 3 opening. Great bill. A less-aggro alternative to Igorrrr is Corpo-Mente. Similar personnel, but they go for a more lush, ‘70s European film score vibe youtu.be/96EeSx60gYw?...

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Corpo-Mente - "Corpo-Mente" [Full Album - Official - HD]

YouTube video by BlooodMusic

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

anyway, if dems brought Nader in before he's on the ballot or made an effort to court Nader voters, there might be room to complain. but if a candidate gets votes by appealing to a segment of the political spectrum that you won't touch and in fact scoff at, then in what world are those your votes?

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But We Mustn't Ruin HIS Life By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

Four-panel cartoon with a tiny kicker panel below.

PANEL 1. A Black delivery worker stands beside her van, holding a package. She looks downcast.

WOMAN: Everywhere I went I was terrified I’d run into **him**. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t concentrate…
WOMAN: After I failed two classes I lost my scholarship.

PANEL 2. A girl in pink sits on a bicycle on a residential street, looking down.

GIRL: He sent the video to everyone in school. **Everyone**. I had to be homeschooled until I could get into a different school.

PANEL 3. A woman sits in an apartment armchair, holding a baby who pats her face. She looks sad.

WOMAN: It’s been ten years… My therapist says PTSD isn’t ever cured, but it’s something I can learn to manage.

PANEL 4. A hand holds a phone showing a male podcaster at a microphone.

MAN: Nobody feels worse than me about what happened — but we can’t ruin these young men’s lives!

KICKER. The podcaster speaks with Barry, the cartoonist.

BARRY: What sort of thing would “ruin their lives”?
MAN: Being expelled. Or being publicly criticized. Or made to switch dorms. Or to switch a class. Basically, anything he might notice.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

(This joke won't work outside the US, apologies)

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

Petition for the Fever, once per game, to be able to declare one of their successful free throws as worth 0.6 points

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

Don't forget, this is hypothetical; I won't know for sure if I actually need staff help until about a month before the show.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

Badge yes, housing unlikely, I'm afraid.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

You'd get a badge, a solid stipend, and a copy of the game. I won't know if I'm accepted into the Showcase until late October/early November. DM me if this sounds interesting!

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

I'd need you all 3 days of the show; being there Thu to learn the game would be a bonus, but otherwise I'd include you in the Fri morning demos, so you can run solo in the afternoon. You'd do about 4 hours a day in the booth, not including learning the game.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 30/09/2026

OK, so: HYPOTHETICALLY, if I were to be accepted into the PAX Unplugged Rising Showcase, would anyone be open to helping me at the booth to demo Rough Roads? (boosts appreciated!)

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 29/09/2026

I'm sure it has a stomach, which means it has intestines, which means it has... oh god

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 29/09/2026

Another thing about this: I'm 100% positive that Schmitt doesn't care, in an objective sense, about perjury. To someone like him, it's not a bad thing, and if he or his friends do it, it's a valid strategy. It's only a "bad" thing if the other team does it. Offense vs. defense.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 29/09/2026

HAMLET: I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a Hawk from a Hawkeye.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 29/09/2026

Also, "containment" here means a sign saying ALL OGRES MUST STAY RIGHT HERE, partially obscured by a tree

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 29/09/2026

No sane country “defends itself” this way.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 29/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/name...

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 29/09/2026

If only they colored the actual tissues red

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 28/09/2026

I have a solution for you. There's this podcast, Party of One...

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 28/09/2026

Oh! I'm curious to see what's different about Beijing. ItYotD is notorious for its system being so aggro against the player. One of the most deliberately unforgiving systems I've seen.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 28/09/2026

Really not hard for these senate candidates to say "transgender girls deserve to play with other girls and state interscholastic sports agencies can step in if there's eligibility issues gone through proper channels."

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 28/09/2026

ECONOMISTS: When handling money, we expect people to be completely rational ME: When I'm inserting quarters into my building's washer or dryer, I must remember to use all the loose ones before opening a new roll, because I don't want any going stale

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 28/09/2026

Which brings up the dilemma from the original article. In this environment, how a new author break through? Especially a marginalized author?

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 27/09/2026

Some incredible work here, tackling a difficult situation with honesty and clarity.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 27/09/2026

NoMeansNo! They’re so good.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 27/09/2026

Unctuous Mixtape #10 features a crime against music. I'm not sorry and I will do it again www.mixcloud.com/unctuous_mix...

10 mixtapes in, and still all bangers. Nomeansno's opening salvo here grabs me by the lapels in a way that few other songs can. Which is why !
usually wear tshirts. Anyway.
Nisi Period were a band out of Boston, another from my college days. I heard a live tape of theirs once, recorded well after this album came out, where they did this awesome tacet before the chorus, so I took the liberty of editing their recorded version to match. Earlimart checks in with one of my favorite breakup songs; in fact, its opening lines are about as devastating as any opening line to a breakup song I've heard.
Ahh, the cover of "Fratres".
• The version for violin and piano, especially the one performed by Kremer and Jarrett, is 12 minutes of heaven on
earth. This cover is one that, like the Shostakovitch cover a few mixtapes ago, was rattling in my head for years before I picked up a DAW ano started making it real. It came out better than I could have hoped. Once again, I'm sorry and you're welcome.

Tracklist
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Artist name
Track name

Nomeansno
It's Catching Up
2
Nisi Period
Entropy Happens (Unctuous edit)
3
Zohra
Were Burning
4
The Velveteers
On And On
5
Atarimatt
Commuter
6
Black Math Horseman
Bird Of All Faiths And None/Bell From Madrone
7
Oneohtrix Point Never
Russian Mind
8
Earlimart
Happy Alone
9
The Scaramanga Six
The Towering Inferno
10
Simon O'Connor, Michelle O'Rourke
From the water (Song of Muriel)
11
Arvo Pärt
Fratres (Unctuous cover)

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

All this illustrates is that music critics source Spotify for take ideas the way reporters still source Twitter's trending topics for "news." Algo journalism.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I still think the hottest beatle was Gregor

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 27/09/2026

Yes! Apparently there's a documentary about the band that they seem to be touring in support of. J Robbins opening makes it even jucier. I've never seen Lucy Darling's magic work, only her crowdwork, so I'm excited! She pretty much lives on the road, so I hope you get to see her soon.

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 27/09/2026

The critters were getting under the dishwasher, so we ferretproofed it. Now the door only opens to about a 45º angle. Makes loading and unloading interesting, because Freddie always comes by to "help"!

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 27/09/2026

Artists I'm seeing live in concert in the next couple of months... * Sunn O))) * Igorrr (with Secret Chiefs 3 opening) * Sugar (with J Robbins opening) * Lucy Darling It's going to be a fun couple of months!

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Alligators have a running speed of 20MPH. Anyone want to guess the running speed of former alligator handler Gavin?

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 26/09/2026

A linguistic whipping boy. Except we'll call him a "whiping boy" to curse him with eternal shame from the jump

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Gil Hova @gil.hova.net · 26/09/2026

(Not strictly true, but sometimes you have to vent)

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