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Marc G.

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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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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Important breaking news update
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The White House comms office has a habit of photoshopping sombreros onto their political opponents.
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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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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Logan Lucky!
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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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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I am now pondering the exploits of a dessert-themed gangster named Mars Capone.
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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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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A generated title card for the original Star Trek series, showing the starship Enterprise orbiting a blue-green planet with clouds. The title text reads - "ANOTHER ONE WHERE THERE'S A PLANET THAT'S BASED THEIR CULTURE ON A PARTICULAR PERIOD IN EARTH'S HISTORY 
EXCEPT THAT THIS TIME IT'S SOMETHING WEIRDLY SPECIFIC LIKE BYZANTIUM DURING THE REIGN OF ANASTASIUS THE FIRST 
SO WHEN SPOCK FIGURES OUT WHAT'S GOING ON EVERYONE ELSE KIND OF SHRUGS BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF IT"
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Washburn A Mill disaster was actually caused by attempts to create the first semiscuit.
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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 · 01/04/2026
Today it's A Feast For Odin, for making scoring its own minigame.
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
And many thanks to @jaydotdice.com for all the work to make the day as special as it was. Especially the German chocolate cupcakes which were beyond phenomenal.
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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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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
In the message, Leia says 'My mission to bring you to Alderaan has failed' which to me implies it's the other way around. Her trip was supposed to be a simple run to Tatooine and back, only on the way there she stumbles upon some Rebel spies who send her the plans as their own Hail Mary.
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I'm guessing it's the assessment of the text written along with the link. So sharing it with 'They murdered her' would code left, sharing it with 'Totally exonerated' would code right, and sharing it with 'You have to watch this' would code neutral.
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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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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A woman in a fuzzy pink coat confronts a man in a suit about his ignorance. The text reads "The central message of marxism is not 'Every man for himself'"
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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...
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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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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @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
ROSENCRANTZ: I mean, just because it's a fire in the same place doesn't mean it's the same fire. GUILDENSTERN: I think it's different for mountains, I don't think their fires go out. R: What, someone just keeps chucking wood into them? G: No, it's geological. R: Doesn't sound very logical to me.
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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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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
As the output is a percentage, there are two questions. The numerator is “have made it without becoming divorced or widowed”. The denominator is “*could* have made it without becoming divorced or widowed”. I think the denominator needs to include those who divorced and remarried, and it doesn’t.
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Wouldn’t that exclude people who got married 50 years ago, got divorced, and then remarried? I’d think you’d want those in the denominator.
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
X-Files (NXT Games) - Send your FBI agents to mystery locations and overcome threats in order to ask questions of your opponent and deduce which X-File they’re hiding in this game of competitive Clue. Or just keep playing the rare card that lets you skip all that and go straight to the questions.
2 cards from the X-Files CCG. The first depicts a man wearing a suit, headphones, and holding some kind of surveillance gear up to his face. He is aptly named Crew Cut Man, and he is an Adversary. The second card depicts an elevated view of a small town street near a body of water, labeled Coastal Northwest Oregon, where you can conduct an Alien Investigation.
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Marc G. @gootmu.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
On the Edge (Trident) - Based on the RPG Over the Edge, assemble a team of hitters, blockers, and power players from every type of conspiracy you can think of, and amass enough influence to control the city of Al-Amarja. Another game where card position matters. Lasted long enough for 3 expansions.
Two cards from On the Edge. The first depicts a dour woman with short brown hair wearing a leather jacket and white shirt named Fabrissa Melors, who is apparently a Kergellian. The second shows part of a tight ring of people clasping hands with those two spaces away, forming a chain of interlocking arms. This represents a Bolstered Heart.
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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.
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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
Battletech (Wizards of the Coast) Use factories to build mechs to destroy your opponent’s deck. Faster mechs could bypass blockers unless they were specifically defending your target. Played it a few times, got severely beaten each time.
Two cards from the Battletech CCG. The first depicts a light, hunchbacked mech with a sideways oval head and short lasers for arms ( a Jenner). The second depicts a mech assembly plant (Earthwerks Limited)
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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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