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Symora

@glitchesbrew.bsky.social
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aesthetic appreciator, overanalyzer, and ostensible writer - she/they️‍⚧️ - ever finding the loveliest common denominator

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 22h
Solved a Hilbert problem, invented the computer, defeated the Nazis AND, we now know, wrote erotic fiction staring himself. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/alan... The perfect human being.
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Alan Turing’s gay short story reveals ‘fun, cheeky’ man
A racy short story by the ‘father of modern computing’ rips up Alan Turing’s ‘isolated mathematician’ image, revealing a playful man overcoming trauma and defiantly embracing his homosexuality.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/10/2026
Just a girl and her* airplane 🥰 * actually it is emphatically the Canadian Aviation Museum’s airplane but they do let me fly it a lot
Me standing on the wing of a yellow De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk, on a sunny afternoon. I’m wearing a flight suit and aviators and trying to look cool, which may or may not be effective, but the lighting is really good at least
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pen and watercolor 

A pack of witches dance around a fire circle summoning a massive demon in the flames. One of our witches is down though, reader. She lets her sisters know that she won’t be continuing the circle. “Gotta sit this one out, sisters,” she says. “Rolled my ankle.” 
 
I played around with adding a lot of detail to this scene (more shadows, trees in the background, etc.) I think the simpler version works but I’m not sure how I feel about the fire demon drawing. I think I like it. Was having trouble getting the composition of the scene set up with a text bubble in the bottom right. I do like the purple against the black dresses and little boots.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026
Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
maybe if I'm feeling bold I'll send them a meme or other low stakes interaction that doesn't indicate anything about what I'm feeling or what I want from them, just to test the waters. but if that doesn't work it's clearly over. perhaps more over than it has ever been
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ah, they never responded to me... while it is possible that they were busy , or that they also struggle with executive dysfunction & keeping up with correspondence, I think I'll play it safe & assume they hate me & want nothing to do with me. I should respect that & never reach out to them again
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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026
incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
like tears in rain
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While hentai (until now, I thought it was called manga) was on screen as part of search to prove 2 my wife tentacle porn exists, what....(1)
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...some to show her it was real. But I couldn't find any - & ended up w/ this. My family reads my twitter feed, so they know this is true.
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Sigh. Ok, I'm a dumbass. Believe it or not, my kids & I were trying to convince my wife that "tentacle porn" existed. I tried to find...(1)
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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The survival rate for all cancers has gone from 50% in 1975 to about 75% today and continues to rise more or less linearly. This total includes some kinds of cancers going from “death sentence” to “more or less curable”
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
how are you doing > badly, how are you doing badly > yeah yeah
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't think you can truly understand the trans panic of the past decade without appreciating how many men badly want to fuck us, while also having no idea how to sanely accept that fact about themselves: some would rather scourge us from the earth than simply confront their real desire.
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arachnocapitalist @arachno.capital · 01/10/2026
at last, we have invented the cum taxi, from the famous 1976 Scorsese film Please Don't Cum In My Taxi
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ballpoint pen, watercolor, colored pencil, a little crayon, and charcoal pencil. 

Our guy pulls up deep in the forest on his 2-speed bike. He’s flanked by tall dark trees and his path is blocked by a massive spider. He lets the Big Fella know it’s on. “Big Fella,” he says. “I fixed my 2-speed. You still wanna race.” Reader, you know Big Fella wants in on that action. Next slide.Against a starry night sky we see silhouettes of Big Fella and our man racing down a hill. It’s unclear in the drawing who will win but Big Fella is likely about to pull away.
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Lexi ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
love your friends more than you hate your enemies
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when you & your friends are all doing badly it's like haha hey, everyone staring darkly into the void in private again today? haha yeah, I figured, good luck everyone
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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996
A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[rolling a cauldron of burning oil up to a murder hole] the hell it isn't
YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE

Love is not a castle you build.

Those walls you've built might keep pain out, but they trap you inside. Someone wants access to the real you, not the fortress. Drop your defenses for five minutes today. Watch what happens when you let someone in.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026
person talking to computer, saying "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
computer replies ">you got it, boss"
person replies "oh my god."
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NainRouge420 @nainrouge420.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This should be as well known/discussed/understood as ‘free as in beer’
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evvv @mrrp.lol · 29/09/2026
so much will be lost in the future when discord shuts down for good
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 29/09/2026
also you can go to atlas.jazco.dev to get a picture of how broad the *real* discourse is on this site, and not just this one issue that has people aggro. go find a discourse that brings you joy, not sorrow or anger.
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A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Increasingly concerned re: people offloading vital cognitive processes by using GIF replies. Expressing snark with words is a core part of being human, don't let some GIF picker widget a startup preloaded with clips of mid range TV shows take that from you!
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is what I actually believe btw people are out here regressing to a glyph-language of meme-snippet references that's more dystopian than anything Fahrenheit 451 could have predicted and to them I say: Stop That
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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026
im very busy
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Carbonadoks @carbonadoks.com · 27/09/2026
Thread of interesting wikipedia edit histories en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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List of edit wars on Wikipedia - Wikipedia
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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
scuba is the chillest activity and unironically this is a big reason why
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The thing about videogames as a medium is that you spend so many hours on one game that a game can be a meaningful answer to "Where did you grow up?"
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[to myself in the mirror] do a breakthrough. make no mistakes.
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026
perhaps soon we will finally be forced to confront how godawful our culture's understanding of intelligence is
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
one aspect of the experience of women in the workforce we understand very well: trans women often know firsthand what the unearned respect afforded to men feels like & can usually tell you precisely when we realized we were no longer receiving it.
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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everyone you know is fighting a battle you know nothing about: A terrible war against tiny elves
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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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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oliver @eikopf.com · 19/09/2026
someone smarter than me has probably already written about this, but there’s this deep-rooted and strongly christian view in our societies to see messing with the human body as profane, because we were divinely created or whatever
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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 19/09/2026
me when my "complete the task no matter what" machine completes the task no matter what
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, acrylic paint, black & white charcoal pencil.

One of my favorite pieces from my new book, Spooky Pants. Coming out this October.

A small cabin in the snow surrounded by trees. Two cabin people stand outside holding mugs of hot cider. One of them shouts out, “Big Fella, we got hot apple cider happening over here.” On the other side of the page we see Big Fella, a massive spider emerging from the forest. 

Artist’s note: The spider only has 6 legs.. I made a mistake. However, I did read that some spiders can lose their legs in battle so maybe that’s what happened. Also, this drawing was probably directly inspired by the game Limbo. I love the art direction in it.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
anyone who's danced this dance a couple times & is still in the game is probably tough as nails & a strong hire, for what it's worth. because you have to be.
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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
transhumanists 🤝 trans people - we should get along famously - we should exit the circumstances god / nature put us in asap
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aegisi👻ndure @1v.lc · 17/09/2026
it’s kind of crazy that there’s an anti-transhumanist movement in 2026. like, we haven’t even done anything yet
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.
Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When you touch grass you have to bring back a little grass window for the screen people.
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