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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There are two types of people

Megatron saying: I suffered! Why shouldn’t they?

Optimus Prime saying; I suffered? Why should they?

Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nothing like a 10-minute sneezing fit to start the day. I inherited both my mom's occasional sneezing fits and my dad's loud sneezes. Good thing I live alone.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'dear rax, how do i make this guy like me?' www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...

I'm bullying you the tiniest bit because I want to jar you out of your fucking head, where no doubt you and this guy have starred in a storybook wedding ten times over. There's nothing like a crush for dominating your life, but mark my words: when this one fades, which it will, you'll regret devoting this much time and energy to it. That's not true of every crush, but it's absolutely true of every one-sided crush on a person who has rejected you repeatedly and clearly. A crush is sort of like prayer. It's worth doing as long as you can name what you're getting out of it, but a specific result is never promised—only whatever pleasure you can take in the process.

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

An extremely frustrating week means unintended but fulfilling pizza, Deadlock with friends, and watching bisexual classic The Mummy.

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't get the inspiration to write poems very often, but when I do it's usually when I don't have time to think it out. Like right before a long workday.

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Fights🏳️‍⚧️4🇵🇸Love @hyenagirl64.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republican: “my opponent is not a piece of shit like me” Democrat: “how dare you! I’ll have you know I’m almost as much of a piece of shit as my opponent is”

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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@nikitabier • 2h

Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 03/10/2026

I'm happy I have VO work, but when every job is me taking one look at the footage and playing spot the tranny, it does make me wonder how long this career will last for me. Like, authentic casting is good, but if it's the only time you consider a marginalized actor, it's not worth much at all.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s October and the neighbors are back with #SkeletonCrew. Strong start!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And 'colón' comes from the Dominican 'Bartolo' which means "miraculous unathletic longevity."

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Mr. Boo Boo, would you consider yourself a revolutionary?" "Well, no. But I do believe corporations rob us of our dignity and independence, and that these systems must be ripped down, burnt down, or leveled by any force necessary." [audible gasps] "But that's just one little bear's opinion."

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🌻Bree Williams🌻 @larkspurns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

shout out to all the Warcraft Ambience uploaders of, like, a decade ago, because I don’t think I’ll ever play again, but yes I DO need to sit in Teldrassil for three hours at a stretch while drafting

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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The Constable @theiconstable.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this reminds me of one of my favorite posts about Gundam ever.

post by “darthcontusion“

classic gundams will have the most devastatingly poignant depiction of a woman you've ever seen in your life and then she'll turn awkwardly to the audience and say something like "maybe it really is a woman's
fate.. to be shopping.."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jon always kills it. Happy he got to write this excellent piece about Karl, and thrilled for Towns and his family. He is one of the NBA's Good Dudes and he deserves all the love he's finally getting.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 01/10/2026

Absolute banger today from @aemccarthy.bsky.social on how Tabasco became the world's default hot sauce, and the consequences of that. Come for mysterious backstories, stay to argue about which hot sauce is actually the best. www.weareravenous.com/how-tabasco-...

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How Tabasco Accidentally On Purpose Became the World's Hot Sauce

The hot sauce made in Louisiana can now be found all over the globe. How it got there is complicated.

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 01/10/2026

TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on what we’ve seen in the men of Cornell University. “I want to diagnose it. I’m the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.” flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...

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Gentlemen and Scholars of the Ivy League

I heard the two men talking, this morning, before I saw them. Then I saw them, and then they saw me, walking up the steep ramp toward them to the pedestrian bridge over the expressway. Their talking s...

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man. Dynasty Warriors 3 Remastered is everything I could've wanted. Kept all the original content but enhanced the graphics and added subtle but significant touches from Origins. Only online co-op would make it perfect, and that's coming next year.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026

DraftKings has argued that its ‘responsible gaming’ system provides adequate safeguards to protect customers from spiraling out of control. So I decided to find out: If I bet like a compulsive gambler, would DraftKings stop me? by Jake Pearson

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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sam @samsam090.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Mae Reill, puppyshell 🏳️‍⚧️🔆 @maeday.dumbdolls.online · 28/09/2026

honestly I think this post is swag

A screenshot of a tumblr post by pixelguzzler that reads:
"yall i don't CARE if Lilith is "stereotypical" that's my name. I don't walk up to dudes named david or steve and tell them their name is stereotypical. Stop telling trans girls their names are stereotypes"

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just learned about the Laughing Cow "controversy". Aside from the usual, here's why it's funny: the company has a (completely unintentional) connection with fascism dating back to World War II. 1/

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olyester 🌼 @cco00oo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

on sale

A digital painting of Leafeon

A leafeon naps in a basket of peppers at a produce stand bathed in sunlight. Partly eaten peppers sits nearby, while the price tag has been replaced with a half-off label: "leftovers" They're a bargain, so pepper stir-fry it is tonight. Now then... let's make sure we don't wake the little sleeper

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...

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The Free and Unfree Press

Journalism, and its adversaries.

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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#BlueSky, the third Chaos Section Poetry Project #chapbook has launched online, free to #read. This timely and deeply moving #anthology is dedicated to all of those harmed by police brutality during the #Trump administration. We hope you'll take a look. And VOTE!!! #booksky #poetry #vote #NoKings

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Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival

Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival gathers poets writing about ICE enforcement and immigration overreach. Read free online or download the PDF.

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Tamryn Spruill @tamrynspruill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Awaiting the arrival of your copy of THE W: A HISTORY OF THE WNBA (Abrams Press)? Get started with this excerpt, published by @theflytrapmedia.com. www.theflytrapmedia.com/the-w-tamryn... ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🤎 🤍 🖤

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 25/09/2026

WE MADE IT, WE REACHED OUR GOAL OF 200 NEW SUBSCRIBERS!! Thank you, everyone <3

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bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

god I love getting into discussions that are just like...

crop of The School of Athens by Raphael, closing in on Plato and Aristotle who are wearing a chiton and cloak with "sickos" written on them

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And AZ is Arizona and AB is Alberta, Canada. This is why I prefer the old AP style abbreviations: Ark., Ala., Ariz., etc. Alaska and Alberta stay as-is. Much easier to understand.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026

For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...

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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth

The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it’s deeply stupid every time pols who are supposedly on trans people’s side throw them under the bus because right wing dipshits are making extra loud points. those points are hateful. you’re meant to reject them not play bipartisanship chess with people’s lives

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sometimes you write a bizarre whale screed that everyone hates and then centuries later you’re still ruining lives with it

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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reading Moby Dick is either 200 pages at a sprint OR I get stuck for months because Ishmael won’t stop measuring a whale. I’m miserable. I’m obsessed. I want to throw myself into the sea. I want to give Herman Melville a wedgie

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The state of the Democratic party is this: the candidate is great, but they love to eat human flesh. Wow, that seems questionable! But hey, do you want to beat fascism? Well I guess you need to be happy with a cannibal.

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Faolan Astreia @flareflareflarestar.etheirys.social · 10/09/2026

recipe: use 1 clove of garlic me: use the entire garlic

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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been joking for the past decade about how retirement is going to be a niche concept for millennials and later generations, and every year it becomes less joke and more fact. I'm not planning for retirement because I'm convinced I won't be able to.

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