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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 3m

Happy 'we meet Bill the Pony' day for all who celebrate.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

the single rarest skill on social media

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 14h

Ugh, why is bluetooth always the most annoying technology?

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MJ @discountfaramir.bsky.social · 18h

Many people on the so called left need to brush up on their disability studies, bc the last couple weeks i have been seeing ableist rhetoric that would make rfk jr’s heart sing

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 19h

SCOOP: Posting named the eighth deadly sin

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 21h

ICYMI, Asterisk recently gained: - CLDF import / export (suggested by @philaut.bsky.social) - explicit dark/light mode toggling (suggested by @lodomerian.com) - a symbol palette for hard-to-type characters (suggested by @clyde.eurosky.social) asterisk.jtauber.com

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Asterisk

A workbench for comparative philology.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Latest updates on Bobby Jr’s neverending fight to MAHA: - cinnamon now gives lead poisoning - sugar in now spiked with allergens - clams are now giving hepatitis a

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 29/09/2026

Happy 'the Hobbits first meet Strider' day for those who celebrate.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 28/09/2026

I'm watching @trueconsolation.bsky.social's latest video, and she's absolutely right about tech leaders following a new syncretic religion reinterpreting traditional religious categories through the lens of technological progress.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 28/09/2026

Happy 'Tom saves the hobbits from the barrow-wight' day for all who celebrate.

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 28/09/2026

asterisk.jtauber.com now has some Romance data and a tutorial

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Asterisk

A workbench for comparative philology.

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 27/09/2026

I'm making it possible to add your own cognate lists to Asterisk and also am adding Romance examples. Also, it's now at asterisk.jtauber.com

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 27/09/2026

Married to me with my inattentive type. I promise I didn't lose my partner. They're around here somewhere. Or maybe running laps, idk.

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Aaron Tinsman @atinsman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People who live in glass houses have made several bad decisions before we even get to the throwing of the stones

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

General views of Hagia Sophia

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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yah babe you didn't see them voting, paying rent, peeing, snaking a drain or using social media either, because they're characters in a children's book and their presence is dependent on and in service to the ✨️fictional✨️ child's experience

Screenshot of FB post: "Motherhood becomes so much more peaceful when we simply exist alongside our children instead of treating childhood like a marathon to complete" and then a bunch of Beatrix Potter, Christopher Denise, and Jill Barklem art with captions like "I never saw Mama Bear doing 75 hard" and "i never saw Mrs Rabbit tracking wake windows"

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i love fan art

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Double rainbow AND sunset?! In this economy?!

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 25/09/2026

We talk about the potential Einsteins and Mozarts who will never be recognized because they are stuck as subsistence farmers in a developing country but we never talk about all the potential Jerrys and Darths who will never be recognized because they are stuck in a Teams chat in an All Hands

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JJ 🏳️‍🌈 @jjr222.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Them: It's fall, y'all! Me: The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.

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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jane Austen characters × Parks & Recreation quotes, a resurrected Mashup Thread from long-ago Tw*tter days. Mr. Darcy: "When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't care about them."

Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice 1995

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

can't believe mayor mamdani just dropped a timothée chalamet diss track

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Sarah M @lore.house · 24/09/2026

Wa pa pa pa pa papow!

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 24/09/2026

🎵 But there’s one sound // that no one knows 🎵

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it

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Meredith Claire @merofthemeadow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Settle in, folks; it's Bluesky story time!

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Shawn Connolly @divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Next, brush your Jerry lightly with melted butter and season with authority. Don't do the Emeril Lagasse BAM, though, it will make the Jerry laugh and lead to uneven distribution"

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Fibonacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Wayside School stories by Louis Sachar are some of the best absurdism in American literature, adult or otherwise. Oulipo would've loved that shit.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

And then her book won and I took second and I felt pretty darn good about that. I had written an excellent book and she had stuck the landing on a series that redefined an entire fucking genre and our rankings, you know, reflected that whole reality.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

I remember the year The Collapsing Empire was up against the final book in the Broken Earth series at the Hugos and people asked me if I thought I was going to win, and I was all, fuck no, Nora's gonna take the threepeat and if I won it would be embarrassing for everyone involved.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

I don't know, maybe all those non-"straight white dude" people won their awards because their books were actually really fucking good, how about that as a hypothesis

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 23/09/2026

Long long ago, I memorized Beren's song when I first encountered it in The Lay of Beleriand. "Farewell now here ye leaves of trees / your music in the morning breeze". Today it occurred to me that, while beyond my skill level, it would be amazing to set it to music and work in the dies irae.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

stand up for trans people: it is the right thing to do and it just will not hurt you, not now, not in this environment and maybe folks can start to relearn that trans people are pretty fucking cool, actually

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 22/09/2026

I'm a game with a singular protagonist, I refuse to do the evil path. In EUV, I'm playing Castile and am busy colonizing. And don't even ask me about some of my Stellaris runs.

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New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed) @nffr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Moxley's Rentals makes a return with this sharp story by @brentwaggoner.bsky.social in #NFFR Issue 42. "Whetstones, pull-throughs, grinders, diamond rub, angle-grinders, clamps, vices. The workshop of a sharpener is foreboding to outsiders. Not me." newflashfiction.com/thursday-was...

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Thursday Was the Sharpest Day by Brent Waggoner | Issue #42

Monday is for vacuum cleaners, tubes clogged with hair and paperclips. Tuesdays (two-days) people remember that they only had one copy of the will.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 22/09/2026

Excellent 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Lordle of the Rings #1726

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 22/09/2026

Happy Hobbit Day, everyone! Have a poetry reading to celebrate! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Mythopoeia - YouTube

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"That poll has Trump being assassinated as unfavorable, clearly they don't want him to die" Correct, the average lib wants to see Trump rot in prison while everything he built collapses around him and everyone under his thrall backtracks and insists they always hated him

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The only people loudly identifying as "Heritage Americans" are people who seem to have nothing to be proud of except their ancestry. 😬 Start a hobby. Grow a garden. Knit a blanket. Build a shed. Paint a picture. Accomplish something *yourself* to be proud of.

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Stephen May @idhrendur.com · 21/09/2026

Well, I thought some team members were using ai coding effectively, but I just found unit tests that validate results by copying elements of the results then comparing the copies to the originals. With no execution steps between.🤦

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