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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

Reacher Gilt is on my very short list of favorite villains in Discworld (I’ve named video game characters after him) and I think the reason he works so well is that he’s the exact kind of bad guy that Moist would be if he fully embraced his dark side and, ultimately, that’s why he doesn’t

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026

I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

nevertheless many are impelled in that direction, because one supposes it has the neat feature of dividing up the world into good guys and bad guys, and that makes thinking easier. stupider too, and more incorrect. but easy

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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I increasingly feel that Shoebridge is a test for #Auspol that we haven't become too jaded that we can't recognise sincerity in politicians anymore. We see it in this guy and the Independents but not in partisan pollies. I hope we pass the test. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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Move over, Hanson — Labor has a new thorn in its side

David Shoebridge wants to hold Labor's feet to the fire. He will be a thorn in the party's side rather than a deal maker.

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Maq @maqusan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s pretty much how I run every game that focuses on scene resolution. We ALL talk about what we expect the outcome of a roll will look like before the dice are picked up — usually with me asking the player first how they want this to go down and then setting the stakes.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

The fossil industry has simple motives: maximising fossil fuel combustion (more that = more $) Climate is simple too: the more combustion, the worse it gets (more so for each new tonne burned) so...the fossil industry supports the things that make climate change (and our lives) worse, consistently

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026

This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reacher absolutely encapsulates this, in part because Reacher as a character is a man without a social community or a social life. He kills and moves on, leaving his ties behind, never considering possibilities other than death for those he considers his enemies.

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Flintlock. Why do all these nerds follow me? I'm not a nerd. @flintlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of designers don't seem to realise that "5% chance of fumble" is slapstick levels. (If you want your game even vaguely heroic 99-100 at the *most*)

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Some guy @internethuman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And yes, there is no way we can force people to act more ethically or to consider history in their decisions. But we can at least make sure students have a grounding in history, in ethics, in moral philosophy so that they are equipped to make those decisions whether they choose to do so or not.

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Stacy Fakename @tellmewhatsreal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some high schools have absolutely been neglecting liberal arts education. But the real value of college is that it’s not taught by your parents. You can homeschool your child pre-K via HS. More broadly, the real struggle of college is that it has to teach whatever your parents missed.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This from @modernlockey.bsky.social is far more thoughtful than a lot of the things we've had from ex-Starmer peeps and I agree with the core expressive politics arguement + his lessons/issues for Burnham. But I think he also misses *why* the vibe was off.

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What is politics for?

Do we still live in a material world?

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Gregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s Sable’s 5th Anniversary! I’ve written some reflections on what the game means to me, and to celebrate I’m delighted to announce that @lostincult.co.uk are reprinting the Sable Design Works Find out more here: www.eteogames.com/sable-turns-...

eteogames.com

Sable Turns Five with a Design Works Reprint

Reflecting on the Five-Year Anniversary of Sable, and announcing a reprint of the Sable Design Works art book.

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The idea that a state government is poor or unable to find the resources to create a national park is just an absolute lie...It's a lie that has been manufactured and socialised and normalised by these discussions around how do we make national parks pay for themselves."

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Connor Crowley @croweleycf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kruschev on architects. "Fuck your vibes, build." archis.org/volume/indus...

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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No!! ChatGPT doesn’t know shit. It’s being programmed. They hire people to correct the chat bot. These aren’t intelligent machines. They’re programmed to do harm. And at best in some circumstances, they’re NOT programmed to do what’s ethical and good. I cannot believe we’re ignoring this.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Estimates for the death toll of US and British strategic bombing, for instance, range from 300,000 to 600,000 in Europe and around 330,000 in Japan (including the atomic bombings). Which is both a big number and also literally a rounding error on total civilian deaths.

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NME @nme365.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There’s a reason why crimes against peace are one of the most serious crimes a state can commit. Unjustifiably starting a war makes you culpable for *the existence of a state of war*, not just the casualties your forces directly caused.

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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have a lot of other thoughts about mechsploitation in general in relation to western war stories, particularly the fact that it is telling stories *within* the industrial war machine still, but I fear I'm not well-read enough in the genre to do those thoughts justice in a post 😅

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 22/09/2026

“Go where the jobs are” okay but I would like to have kids and I don’t want to go to jail or die if I miscarry. Call me a dreamer

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

Too many have forgotten that the civil rights movement was fought over, among other things, bathrooms and locker rooms

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Higher Education is not just about training workers, but also about training citizen leaders and good citizenship in part means thinking that the details matter, that getting them right matters, because it impacts some of your fellow citizens. "It only matters if job" is poison to citizenship.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely lost my shit at this co-op mode for Hearts of Iron, which you play as the Army, Navy, Emperor, and Government. All have their own win conditions aside the Government, which lost the game automatically in 1925. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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True Imperial Japan Experience

True Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi...

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

By the way, it’s not normal. Not meant to be anyway. If it happens in a case, that it took them years of investigating just to find nothing, it’s generally a failure on their part. It can happen but it’s not what you expect as standard practise for an anti corruption commission.

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Tim Hunter @heterarchist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is Star Wars to a tee. Surprisingly, Durge from original Clone Wars animation miniseries and comics is the only exception I can think of. Murderous, sadistic bounty hunter, with biological immortality and anti-lightsaber muscles. His homeworld? Pacifist isolationist monks.

A still from Star Wars Cone Wars miniseries. Obiwan in battle armour wields a lightsaber faces a hulking monster. The monster (Durge) is masked, with body exposed of pink muscles. The background is rubble and smoke.

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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

scifi has one hard rule: the first member of an alien we see will define the traits of the entire species. Weird purple guy is stopped on the street for directions? His people are now known for their navigation abilities. 3 armed guy stabs the protagonist? Their entire culture centres on knives.

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Tim Hunter @heterarchist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

DnD 4e My beloved. You died before your time. So that Lancer could live after yours.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm reading JW Rinzler's Making of Star Wars, which is astonishing. The thing I love the most about it is that it's not a book about making a Star Wars movie. It's a book about making movies in the 1970s. It's fascinating. In 1975 they had no idea what a Star wars movie was, or how to make one!

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

(In fact, lab techs, who essentially do the work a grad student would but without the educational component, are one of the core prototypes of intermediate professions, together with nurses, social workers, and primary school teachers. In the US I'd classify secondary teachers that way too.)

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Your good friend, Chris Normal @heythatsmyleg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I work for every advertising company in Australia. I'm in my late thirties or early forties and that terrifies me to my core. I wear RM Williams to my office in Ultimo. My new pitch is taking the song "Im On A Boat" by the Lonely Island from 20 years ago and making it about whatever the client sells

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Iron Man in the cave but he's allied with the Houthis and instead of concealing plans across blueprints he's just got four Claude Code sessions up.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If the President asks the military to reach the moon by jumping, it is not the fault of the officer corps that they do not have the ups for it. It is the fault of the president and through him, fundamentally, the fault of the voters. The voters chose this, the callow fools.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026

"It turns out then when you do stuff quickly while shooting guns, people are really bad at coping with that. Just really don’t know how to handle it." still the most accurate sentence ever written about warfare

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 12/09/2026

(it was a claw deck)

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

⚠️ "People receiving an income support including disability, unemployment or carers payments had an average mortality rate more than nine times higher than people who did not access the welfare system." What an epic waste of human life. Raise the rates. 7news.com.au/news/shockin...

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'Profound' increased death rate for Aussies on welfare payments

‘Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.’

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And look, no specific university has a particular 'duty' to hire me but it feels like if I am producing material - for free - that is commonly being used in their classrooms - for free - then somewhere, in theory, some university should be supporting this. And no, my current institution doesn't.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

While privateering, piracy and commerce raiding all get banned. And that may seem cynical - it is - but it's also the only way to get the rules even minimally followed. If you make international law that hurts great powers, they will ignore it and you end up back at maximum violence.

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 08/09/2026

But at the same time: none of these fucking bozos ACTUALLY believe the computer is alive or a person. Or if they do, they believe it is alive only in the way that slave owners believe their chattel is alive.

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

But also medieval joinry is really different in part because it uses axes and splitting wedges more than saws or dozens of specialized planes, which are affordable to carpenters only when steel gets cheaper. Just small things like ‘yeah people didn’t have as many saws’ changes everything.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As long as there was somewhere where escaped enslaved people could go to have any legal status, the South was going to regard it as a threat, which was why they pushed through the fugitive slave laws that spat on northern sovereignty and helped drive opinion against them

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trying to manage these people as if they're standard participants in a multicultural democracy misses the point, because they have no interest in multicultural democracy or being one component of it; they want a system that treats them as a privileged class lording it over everyone else.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026

right. when thinking about slavery as a system i think it is important to foreground the fact that this was an astonishing wealth production machine. to paraphrase barbara fields, the point of slavery was to produce commodities; white supremacy was the ideological superstructure of the whole thing

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 07/09/2026

Like this may genuinely be an issue but I want better evidence than NIMBY residents looking for any way to stop new flats being built near their homes.

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the senior public servant's equivalent to a sovereign citizen's email to the Federal Court or a Facebook chain post 'withdrawing' Meta's consent to use your data

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is one of those skills that we expect graduate students to pick up but rarely teach explicitly. But basically, most (all?) academics learn to read in a way that lets you extract what you need from a text as quickly as possible, because we have to process a lot of text as part of our jobs.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The RBA, 3 years late to the party, last week confirmed profits drove the sky high inflation in 2022. In 2023 they attacked our research, & briefed media companies about how we were wrong. I guess they'll apologise now? Me for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

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RBA's own research shows that profits drove post-pandemic inflation, not wages

Last week, research by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) confirmed that they were wrong in 2023 to criticise research by The Australia Institute, which showed rising profits were the significant cau...

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