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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 15h

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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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?

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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 once again feel compelled to ask: who finds him remotely entertaining or informative? I've grown to hate Stephen A., but he can at least be entertaining. Do so many people hate watch McAfee that it juices ESPN numbers, or am I just woefully underestimating what the average viewer wants?

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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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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I always marvel at the obvious amount of time and care that went into capturing nature so perfectly. Like painting a photograph. So many of these are masterful lessons in the use of color.

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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

This is the most important message I'll ever send. I'm reaching out exclusively to supporters like you directly, Name, because I know you care deeply about our democracy. Now is the time to stand up together and show Trump we mean business. All we need is 52 donations of $20.26 by Friday night.

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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

Aside from a prolonged veg session, I'll sometimes pull up games that can be an outlet but not too difficult. Dynasty Warriors, etc. You can mow through enemies, get some catharsis and turn your brain off.

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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

DW3 came out around, well, September 2001. I had just started college. Me and a guy picked it up and it kindled a friendship that's lasted to this day, and a love of musou titles and Chinese culture that's never left me. I love this series so much.

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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

When the U-boat's commander, Metzler, found out, he decided to keep it because it was funny, and the crew adopted "the laughing cow" as its war cry. So there's your bizarre connection between "woke" cheese and the far right.

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

The 7th U-Boat Flotilla of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, of which U-69 was a part, adopted a bull as its insignia. The U-69's new XO had not seen it but found a Laughing Cow box and had its logo and motto, "la vache qui rit" (the laughing cow) painted on its tower. A Nazi ship with a laughing cow.

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

When the U-69 was first commissioned, it was given a ship's emblem consisting of the word Horrido (tally ho) and three flag signal groups representing the letters L, M, and A -- or "lick my arse", attributed to Goethe's character Götz von Berlichingen. But later it was given a second, hilarious one.

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

U-69 would sink nearly 20 ships for the Nazis before it was eventually rammed and sunk itself by the HMS Fame in 1943. None of its crew survived.

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

On May 21, 1941, the German U-boat U-69 sank the SS Robin Moor, a U.S. cargo ship. President Roosevelt branded Germany "an international outlaw" and closed all German and Italian embassies in the U.S. This was months before the U.S. would enter the war following Pearl Harbor.

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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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Benjamin Waldrum @happilybearded.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We make our own meaning. We have to if we want to survive. Clichéd maybe, but it's true. The wonderful thing about humans is, as much capacity as we have for darkness, we have so much more for the light. We find beauty and soul and meaning in the smallest things. That matters.

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