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Marc G.

@gootmu.bsky.social
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He/him. For anything you could possibly think, there exists some They that want you to think it.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the said democrat Rove is voting for

I am here to fight against the anti-trans bill HB25. It's an attack on transgender, intersex, and non-binary youth at a fragile point in life.  

We should fix our energy grid and fight Covid-19, instead of dealing with a made up non-issue that hurts our precious kids.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
one of my favorite Chinese religious beliefs is that there's a prominent deity called the Horse King, who is the protector of equines, especially for draft labor. Sometimes around the late Ming, a conviction arises that the Horse King is *Muslim* - and therefore you sacrifice lamb, not pork, to him.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Had some fun trying to think about how to dramatize voters' choices in the 2024 election, so I pulled CES data and let you guess how respondents (validated voters) actually voted (or said they did) in 2024. profmusgrave.github.io/votergame2024/
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Who did I vote for?
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This joke is so on target it splits its own arrow, which was also on target.
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Dr Pamela L Gay @starstryder.space · 02/07/2026
Here is the image directly: use it, share it, print it.
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Bella Fascendini @bellafascendini.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/06/2026
Never ever do this. Close the tab. The website has been compromised.
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RoxieFandoggo (⭐Comms open) @roxiefandoggo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Started learning to program game stuff :> #gamedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #coding #programming #godot
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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
What a coincidence to see this pop up after I posted about sand mining not long ago
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16/05/2026
Superb work from Birdbox www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHR...
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The Close | Adult Animation Comedy Short Film - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
a king may move a man, a kitn may claim a cuddlespot but remember even when those who move you be Kings your soul is your keeping alone When standing before God you cannot say "I was told by others she already ate" or "kitty’s second breakfast was not convenient at the time" This will not suffice
king guy from kingdom of heaven as a cat, painting
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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Dispatches from the further degradation of quality on the internet.
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The Wrongternet: how did mistakes become a digital commodity?
In my other life as TV critic, I have become something of an unexpected influencer on the subject of Married at First Sight Australia. The show is a fixation for me – its raw nastiness is unmatched in...
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
@mg4h.bsky.social arranged for me the best birthday celebration I have had in a long time. To everyone I saw today, thank you for sharing it with me. To everyone I didn’t see today, you are in my thoughts and I hope we shall see each other soon. To Marybeth, you are the best part of my life.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/03/2026
Pittsburgh (semi-unexpectedly) is one of the great world centers of robotics research, it all checks out
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
a year ago i wrote a story that went viral over here about how republicans could create a de facto national care ban for trans medicine to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would today, they stopped it
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Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
And now, I can move on.
The "World Conqueror" achievement from Europa Universalis 4. It was achieved today.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Uhtred GIF
ALT: Uhtred GIF
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This year I’m going to be kinder, more positive, work harder, and put more faith in myself until the very first minor obstacle throws me off for the next 350+ days
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Excellent!
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Matt “We’ve Talked About This” Ringel @ringel.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is not a place of honor Fa la la la la, la la la la
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
finally, we've created a natural language interface that will make the awesome power of computers accessible to everyone, not just a highly trained caste. any problem we want them to solve in business, ordinary users will just be able to ask. pic unrelated
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Katarina Hunt @katarinahunt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh @pghguild.com · 10/11/2025
BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 16/10/2025
Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality. This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀 diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
Abstract
We investigate a phenomenon which we have experienced as common when dealing
with an assortment of Italian public and private institutions: people promise to exchange
high-quality goods and services, but then something goes wrong and the quality delivered
is lower than had been promised. While this is perceived as ‘cheating’ by outsiders,
insiders seem not only to adapt to, but to rely on this outcome. They do not resent
low-quality exchanges; in fact, they seem to resent high-quality ones, and are inclined
to put pressure on or avoid dealing with agents who deliver high quality. The equilibrium
among low-quality producers relies on an unusual preference ranking which differs from
that associated with the Prisoners’ Dilemma and similar games, whereby self-interested
rational agents prefer to dish out low quality in exchange for high quality. While equally
‘lazy’, agents in our low-quality worlds are oddly ‘pro-social’: for the advantage of
maximizing their raw self-interest, they prefer to receive low-quality goods and services,
provided that they too can in exchange deliver low quality without embarrassment. They
develop a set of oblique social norms to sustain their preferred equilibrium when threatened by the intrusion of high quality. We argue that high-quality collective outcomes are
endangered not only by self-interested individual defectors, but by ‘cartels’ of mutually
satisfied mediocrities.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16/09/2025
they are profoundly unpopular and they are raising the volume and the threats because they know they are profoundly unpopular
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
OK, hear me out...A LORD OF THE RINGS remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Two ELIZABETHANS sitting below decks on a boat, not on which they have frequently been. The one on the left is dressed in black, and is worried that something terrible is about to happen. The one in the right is dressed in tan, and is resigned to the knowledge that something terrible is in fact about to happen.
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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
Screenshot of a tweet: 

British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak...
[Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
home."
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
A few weeks late for the trend, but time is an illusion. 1 like = 1 random CCG I have squirreled away somewhere in this house.
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Doing an old NYT crossword reprinted in the Sunday press with @perchperchson.bsky.social and that’s how I learned that “Marisa Tomei” is an anagram for “It’s a me, Mario.” This feels impossible, correct, and like an Italian American hate crime all at once.
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austin @aparker.io · 12/07/2025
I got 9 questions in before rage quitting jsdate.wtf
jsdate.wtf
new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ooh, really neat play-by-post wargame, replicating some of the ways that professional war games are conducted (separate rooms, messages and information mediated by referee, etc). Delightful to see my writing play some small part in the creation of something cool!
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 12/06/2025
this is a cool project! in addition to automating offsite repo+blob backups, it has a web UI for registering PLC recovery keys (which you keep in a p/w manager, not remote service), and doing the adversarial PLC recovery process (eg, if your "old" PDS is unavailable) solid step for own-your-data
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Eddie Current @cheatlines.co · 28/05/2025
Got me craving a flagon of ale i tell you what
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one. www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-new-cr...
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The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one
Liberals and libertarians should make common cause against it
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jw 👻🎃🕷️😘 @farwent.net · 12/05/2025
This is a very fun read.
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It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong.
The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The state of Utah voted to ban pride flags so Salt Lake City Council decided to make official city flags that incorporate the progress pride, Juneteenth, and transgender flags so they can fly them without breaking state law
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Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Pittsburgh, in case your food all went bad in your fridge from the outages, keep this in mind: www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
Giant Eagle announced they will be offering a 15% discount on all purchases made in its Pittsburgh-area supermarkets on Sunday, May 4.

All Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington, Westmoreland, Greene, and Indiana County Giant Eagle and Market District locations will be participating, according to the release.
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I have trouble believing this game could possibly be as good as the trailer for it, but goddamn what if it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=efMg...
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Low-Budget Repairs Trailer
YouTube video by gray2rgb
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Information overload is THE problem of the modern world. In "The Unaccountability Machine" @dsquareddigest.bsky.social draws on the lost legacy of management cybernetics to explain how the world stopped making sense & the neoliberal class war fueled global chaos. 1/22 www.salon.com/2025/04/26/w...
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Why the world stopped making sense: How the neoliberal "class war" fueled global chaos
Dan Davies' "Unaccountability Machine" is a highly unusual management book with a revolutionary message
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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hey everyone, I'm following up on my first hit (re)post here with some more of these, as Andor's dropping NEXT WEEK. WHAT? FINALLY. OK, so I'm just going to go through the Aldahni heist gang today. Here's our leader, Vel Sartha.
Vel Sartha, looking nervously over the dam says "I've signed a 1 month pact w/ my wife which grants her the right to viciously berate me online, as long as she watches & supports my Stream's"
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Dani Wenner @daniwenner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It strikes me that one way @cmu.edu can support our students who are being unfairly persecuted by this administration is to make whatever allowances are necessary to ensure they can complete their degrees whether they are able to be physically present in the US or not
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Kenneth Hite @kennethhite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The lovely @robowieland.bsky.social has interviewed @mytholder.bsky.social and @shadowlands.bsky.social and ME about our upcoming TERRAFORMING MARS TTRPG should you crave more hints and affirmations: www.forbes.com/sites/robwie...
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Terraforming Mars Transforms From Board Game Into Role Playing Game
Terraforming Mars is one of the most popular modern board games. I spoke with the desiners hoping to turn it into a role playing game.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Abraham Lincoln is often quoted for saying: "As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” But the passage I think of daily from the same 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois is this one. (don’t get hung up on his use of the word genius)
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/02/2025
good morning. no new DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS today, though i'll have a summary of what i've published out later this afternoon. however, if you've enjoyed WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, i have some good news: we're back up for the first time since october.
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Kathryn | Emergency Vet
I have never really wanted to do anything else. Have you ever read any of the James Herriot books? All Creatures Great and Small? I wanted to be him.
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