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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An all-timer thread of all-timers.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's been a pretty big couple of weeks for the "AI doomers are acolytes of a cult" headline, but @zachweinersmith.bsky.social knew about this back in June. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/speech
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Speech
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Speech
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
psyching myself up to actually answer a phone call (please don't call me)
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
when someone asks me a question on a zoom call but I wasn't listening
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
PEOPLE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE IN THE SUPER 8 EITHER, MARKERWAYNETH
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The good guys are never the ones who put a THREE YEAR OLD on trial.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's good to see that Phineas Gage is still enjoying his life at age 203.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2 Pretty 2 Woman
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AI detection is a coin flip. Always has been, and that's been proven.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I feel like a long-running subplot of this series might be that somebody finds oil in their country and the Secretary of Defense is *desperately* trying to keep the news from getting out.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You gonna try to tell me that these aren't art? This is the art-iest art that ever arted, and they're both illustrations created for books (and both more than a century old).
An illustration from between pages 76 and 77 of the 1911 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island," illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. It looks distinctly like a renaissance oil painting, with considered light, subjects who look almost posed, a yellow cast, and a subtle vignetting at the edges. The illustration depicts the galley of the "Hispaniola" as it rocks on the waves. The entire image is tilted at about a 15° angle to the right; ship's cook Long John Silver sits back in his chair against the downhill wall, smoking a pipe, his missing leg hidden beneath his apron, considering Hawkins surreptitiously. Meanwhile Jim Hawkins braces himself with one leg while he looks up at Silver's parrot, which hangs in a cage overhead, tilting with the list of the ship. Hawkins seems unaware of Silver's gaze, though his correction for the ship's tilt does leave him unwittingly leaning away from the man, as if he doesn't trust him entirely.

The caption beneath the illustration reads, "To me he was unweariedly kind; and always glad to see me in the galley".

The book and its illustration have been in the public domain for decades and can be found at https://archive.org/details/treasureisland00stevGustave Doré's illustration to Dante's "Inferno." An engraving of Dante discovering that he is lost in the woods at the very beginning of the story. Darkness surrounds him, with many of the trees overhead seeming to lean in and loom over him. The roots coming from the embankment that he is walking past, as well as the vines around his feet, seem to be reaching to grab him. Ahead, the way seems at first glance to be completely impassible, further inspection reveals a very small and very overgrown footpath leading into the denser part of the wood, which is even darker. The last vestiges of light shine upon Dante from behind, a shaft of light that traces as a sunbeam from above due to the angle at which it illuminates his surroundings. Dante himself, clad in the humble garb of a wanderer, looks back with concern and fear on his face; the way behind him is closed, too.

The caption reads, "Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / For the straightforward pathway had been lost. --Inf. 1, lines 1-3"
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How many unprocessed sexual assault kits do you think this department is sitting on while they larp as the most uncool squares from every 80s movie?
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 11/12/2025
louintotheocean on tumblr: "The neurodivergent experience is talking about your brain as if it's a separate entity from your self" pasted into an image of Krang from TMNT.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wait, are you serious? This is the messaging they're going with? "We know we really pooped everywhere, but I promise we'll turn it all around next time?" They're granting that premise? This needs to be in every Democrat ad until the GOP is finally destroyed.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't remember this version of the Hero's Journey
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The power of this office is crazy." Well what do you know, Trump and I *can* find some common ground. (...sorry, what?...mmhmm...oh. OH! Ohh, no....) Ahem. Um, I've been informed that he thinks of this as a *good* thing.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall; but the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow."
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yesterday I was watching the Pokemon anime with my kids when an episode came on about a zombie infection. One by one, the humans fell to this madness, each of them losing their minds and shambling after the survivors. Even the Pokemon were becoming thralls. Finally the last one was infected, too.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"...and also it's actually a Popeye game...wait, where are you going?"
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 13/09/2026
tawked on tumblr:
"Superman desperately scanning the street during a fight to find the most morally acceptable car to throw at his opponent, knowing that not everybody has insurance, and loss of transportation can ruin a life -

A wave of incredible relief washes over him as he spots the hard geometric lines and silver paintless sheen of a Cybertruck.

#comics #dc comics #dc #superman #anti elon musk"
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There's so much about this that's laughable, but maybe my favorite part that no one else is talking about is that it seems like they forgot a line in their prompt to the AI---aren't regressive memes like this usually supposed to make the feminists look comically *unattractive?*
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why did they put a G on both sides, a V on both sides, BUT NOT A T ON BOTH SIDES? T is the second most used letter in English! It appears twenty-seven times in this post, and I've come to it from the spacebar (both sides), from the N, H, U, I, and O (right side), and from the S and E (left side).
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 07/09/2026
incomingalbatross on tumblr: "There's a post somewhere out there about Smaug being a one-hobbit problem and the War of the Ring being a four-hobbit problem, and it is a very good and funny post but I would like to refine it further. No single event in the War of the Ring was so cataclysmic as to require four hobbits. It's just that they had several hobbit-level problems simultaneously, and even the best hobbit can't be everywhere at once.

So, the scale as I understand it:

* Smaug: one-hobbit problem
* The Witch-King: one-hobbit problem
* Denethor: one-hobbit problem
* Saruman: honestly could have been a one-hobbit problem but having two hobbits on it made them both less stressed
* The Ring: two-hobbit problem

(Although then of course there's the Scouring of the Shire, which, judging by hobbit involvement, is a whole new category of Problem.)"

sweetcardamom: "From @melliabee 's tags:

#Elrond: I'm sending you with four hobbits. use them wisely. #Gandalf (who only initially planned for one): this is gonna be bigger than I thought"

scleroticstatue: "I would like to point out that the Witch-King was actually a two-hobbit problem, because the Witch-King almost killed Merry and Pippin had to search for him to fix him up."

luminous-warrior: "I would also like to note that the One Ring actually turned out to be a three hobbit problem, considering the involvement of Gollum."

scleroticstatue: "Correct! Which means we have a spectrum!

* Regular kings of any size: 1 hobbit
* Supernatural kings of any size: 2 hobbits
* The devil himself: 3 hobbits"
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oops, accidental forced perspective
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Worth reminding people again that 21% of Americans don't like apple pie. Mamdani is within 7% of the thing that ends the sentence "as American as...".
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@dropout.tv , you've GOT to stop predicting the future.
Dropout.tv cast member Raphael Chestang, wearing a U.S. Military dress uniform, standing on the "Smartypants" set in front of a slideshow which says, "THE UNITED STATES MILITARY SHOULD BOMB THE MOON."
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So is performance improved by DLSS5? No, it's much worse. But does it look better? Also very no. But! Is it cheaper? Still no. But consider: is it easier to develop for? Listen up buddy you're asking a lot of questions
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 03/09/2026
Stone cold classic: 
[fuck the moon (@fuckthem00n) on Twitter: "fly me to the moon 
let me kick it's fucking ass 
let me show it what i learned 
in my moon jujitsu class". 

A reply from the same user reads: "wow this blew up. wish the moon would."]
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
i hate this thing they do where they pretend like they are fulfilling some long and pent up demand. just own that you’re engaged in naked idolatry
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have never regretted following more painters, cartoonists, and photographers on Bluesky.
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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Revision request: update shots-missed stat to 'you miss 100% of the shots you think about taking but decide against because you're a scared widdle baby, just shoot the ball you scaredy-cat, kitten emoji, basketball emoji, bicep emoji, bicep emoji"
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is horrifying. One of those things you see in a history book and ends up with an ominous name like "The Fedida Justification" or something similar.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Well, *I* don't think we talk enough about how JD Vance is just a terrible politician. A generational talent for inability to read the room. Absolutely virtuoso levels of fail-son energy. Staggering intentional obliviousness. This is a man who doesn't like *DONUTS* for crying out loud.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As a software engineer, I find some additional humor in the fact @mapquest.com put this out so quickly. So when they were building the Gulf of Mexico one, they abstracted the specifics away so they could easily add new ones with different locations, because they knew he'd keep trying this nonsense.
Map view of Lake Ontario, which has been renamed "Lake If-You-Name-Everything-America-It-Just-Ends-Up-As-Meaningless-Noise." Toronto, Kingston, Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Niagara Falls are all visible and labeled. This has been created using the MapQuest generator, and bears their logo in the bottom left.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you like to talk to tomatoes
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
1 Corinthians 12:21, illustrated: xkcd.com/3290/
xkcd.com
Trade
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people are so universally beloved that I think we shouldn’t be told when they die. Let us figure it out eventually but never receive confirmation. We should always be able to idly speculate that somehow there’s a chance they *could* still be alive
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The one and only thing that everyone can accomplish.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Every baby born from today on is at a disadvantage now. The rest of us are going to have to fill that gap.
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's because the Balrog was basically Gandalf's cousin (option 2). "Derrick, I've got Grandpa on speed dial and my .22 right by the door. You can't come in. No, I don't care that you brought your machete, you're drunk. Go home! YOU...CANNOT...COME IN!"
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You cannot convince me that's not a Rami Malek texture on a Channing Tatum model, and a Bella Thorne texture on a Helena Bonham Carter model.
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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026
AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Not content with being The Lamest Man In This Reality, rich man creates six minutes of increasingly lame Realities to also be The Lamest Man in
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Now do one for a colony on Mars
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snarls wickens @ilinamorato.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I guarantee you that it is not doing such a thing
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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.
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