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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.

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Yuri Gnu @yurignu.com · 08/09/2026

loving the new look

Link in the new Ocarina of Time remake and totally not Elizabeth Holmes looking completely normal on the new You Can See Everything documentary

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026

"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Information game where you have to navigate a cursed "AI-powered" game engine and figure out how it works from hallucinated documentation that no one has ever read

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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

New from Kathleen Stock: I am too dumb for climate change

Climate change discourse leaves me cold

Kathleen Stock
AUG 14 2026
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Inevitably, the usuals are using the fifth heatwave of the English summer to hammer home their preferred theories about the origins of about climate change. But I can't be bothored to attend, and it isn't just because of the brain fog. *I find it impossible to navigate such large-scale intellectual terrain, where the very nature of the problem is radically contested, let alone the solutions.*

Whether apocalyptic or deflationary, every point in this area seems to be delivered with identical confidence, in
equally technical language. So who do you trust? A popular way to negotiate the thicket seems to be to pick the political side you hate most, then lampoon everything its representatives say on the matter, and conclude the opposite must be right. Unfortunately, though, I dislike Right and Left equally for different reasons, so that doesn't much help.

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁭󠁸󠁣󠁨󠁰󠁿 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

60 Minutes is the textbook example of when enterprise value consists almost entirely of human capital, and the owners of that value can walk and leave an empty shell behind. Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales, "The Governance of the New Enterprise" (NBER, 2000).

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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 @softrains.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ambrosia Sky: Act Two is now available + you can grab the game for 20% off! 🎉 In this update: 7️⃣ Seven brand new levels to explore ⚙ Updates to crafting + progression 💜 Dalia's mission to find Maeve continues ➕ Cloud saves, Simplified Chinese localization, and more! More info: tiny.cc/acttwolaunch

tiny.cc

Ambrosia Sky - Act Two is now available! - Steam News

Ambrosia Sky: Act Two is live! Check out this post for launch details and patch notes.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Travel deep enough into the Backrooms and you will find Bjork.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

it's sooo funny that the marvel movies eventually replicated the exact thing people disliked about the comics and preferred the movies for: overstuffed event crossovers that intimidate readers, demand you look at a whole bunch of other shit to know the story, and don't even tell a good story

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

on this day in 1799 the "Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign." This Stone was a key to translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs, "unlocking 3,000 years of lost history and culture."

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

mandatory reading

"SAM NEILL
- If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it?
- It's got to be big! No slipping something into someone's drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast..."

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

watching/playing pokemon with my kids has given me a new appreciation for the insane transmedia strategy this IP had right out of the gate. a banger video game series, CCG, and a solid tie-in anime in the same 12 months? could a company in 2026 ever hope to pull that off???

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Phenry Ewing @hoverbird.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My 5 year old found this cool translucent snail shell and he wants to know if anyone can identify it. Found in WNC. “Looks like a gummy bear” Our only guess so far is an Amber Snail, but we’re not sure. He says “if it’s a new species I’m calling it Ashawkaka”

A small, unidentified translucent snail shell sitting on a rotting wooden step.

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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

this is what it feels like to make a game

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You should get one mega-RT per year that forces your entire feed to read it. Anyways here’s mine.

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 25/06/2026

We all have that one follower whose Like feels like this:

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What an interesting game

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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 25/06/2026

Literally just saw a Waymo car almost run into the side of the bus we're on. No thanks, I've played enough of @hoverbird.bsky.social's Neo Cab to know where this is going.

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REVY @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/06/2026

Just sharing this again at a time of what's happening in Australia. In Event Horizon Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047

Sam Neill in the movie Event Horizon.
Wearing a flag patch that has the Australian flag but thr union jack is removed to have the Aboriginal flag in its place

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dan @danabra.mov · 19/06/2026

"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer

overreacted.io

There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted

Like RSS and Google Reader.

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Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.

Published by the Boston businessman and abolitionist John Murray Forbes, in consultation with Charles Sumner. Their tiny form is part of their story

Truly miniature (hand for scale) these could fit in pockets and be easily tucked away. Though they were apparently printed in great numbers, very few survive today. Now Boston Public Library m.2026.59.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time

"Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses." One star out of five.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Probably my all-time favorite quote about editing is, some clueless individual asked Martin Scorsese's editor Thelma Schoonmaker how such a nice lady could edit such violent movies, and she replied "Marty's movies aren't violent until I edit them."

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Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 20/05/2026

Phonopolis is out NOW on Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store 📣 We hope you have fun playing with the cardboard city! All links here 👇 amanita-design.net/games/phonop...

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Phenry Ewing @hoverbird.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Any #gamedev / #narrativedessign mutuals going to Narrascope this year? Thinking about making the trek for the first time; knowing who else will be hanging out would really help me make the call! narrascope.org

narrascope.org

NarraScope 2026 | A Hybrid Conference on Interactive Narrative

NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/05/2026

this is huge!! crankboy lands in catalog!! it even comes with four great indie gameboy titles, in addition to any game roms you may own! play.date/games/crankb...

play.date

CrankBoy for Playdate

Full-speed GB emulator (games included!)

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

When I post, I enter a state of mushin (無心), thinking only of my duty to post, much like the 17th samurai Suzuki Shōsan who unhesitatingly decapitated a child lord at the Battle of Osaka. This is an extreme comparison, but a poster must cultivate “posting energy” and be ready to post at any time.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Welp. Tao verifying means this is a big milestone in AI, but a problem where every prior mathematician had made the wrong move at step 1 is a pretty substantive result in its implications for how much of basic concept space we as a species have actually explored in our path-dependent graspings.

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I think most game dev teams underestimate how damaging slow workflows are to the ultimate quality of their game. If it takes 5 minutes to launch the game and see your changes, I think your game is going to be MUCH worse than the alternate timeline where it took 1 minute

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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 10/04/2026

Tons of stuff in here -- as well as Neil Innes there's also Ray Davies, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, the Bangles, the Sugarcubes, TMBG, Jonathan Richman, the Replacements, Kirsty MacColl, Nick Cave, Continental Drifters, Mojo Nixon, Alex Chilton, Jad Fair, Roky Erickson, Robyn Hitchcock...

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meetar @fjord.style · 09/04/2026

enjoying a flight of directed acyclic graphs at the Innsmouth crafthouse

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The left has to pivot ASAP from parroting "the stochastic parrots are totally useless" and embarrassingly made up fake numbers about water and heat, and instead recognize the already-actually-existing apocalyptic power that's rapidly being concentrated right now in the hands of a few.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

calling for the 25th amendment is saying you actually don't want to do a single thing. not a damn one. 1

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Yeah. The grunt work is the juice. That’s where you start getting good and if you’re lucky you only do that part for like 5 years until you get another job doing slightly different grunt work but similar learning curve

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Interesting to see this 1947 test screen with Marlon Brando for the film "Rebel Without a Cause." Brando, of course, would later epitomize mid-century American masculinity. He was 23-years-old here.

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droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

i think games shouldn't give points or rewards for good play. for the best interactive experiences, it isn't necessary: we participate in activities because we choose to. i want to "kill" the existing cultural expectation that it is expected or even acceptable that games will tell us what to desire.

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Kitty Crawford @kittycrawford.com · 20/03/2026

Helllllo I could use your help! We're trying to create a new steam tag, and that requires a bunch of people tagging our (and games like it) with the same tag. If you could pop over to our store and put in 'Fake OS', that'd be super appreciated! pls share =] store.steampowered.com/app/4253020/...

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Duncan Fyfe @duncanfyfe.net · 18/03/2026

For @remapradio.bsky.social, I wrote about the worldbuilding business, and the apparently irreconcilable lore of Bethesda's ELDER SCROLLS games. This is about people who love lore, people who make it, people who break it, and those who do all three. remapradio.com/articles/who...

remapradio.com

Who Cares About the Lore?

The creation and imperfect preservation of The Elder Scrolls' intentional incoherence.

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Phenry Ewing @hoverbird.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This is no garden variety trapper keeper. This is a SuperColor Trapper Keeper®️

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