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My friend was visiting and while we did not go to see Busan's new, apparently determinedly self-domesticating shark (it swam into a canal and now WILL NOT leave)... she DID sing about it. And now every time I hear about Bukangi, I hear in my head that awful refrain, "Busan shark ddururu dduru..."

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Maren 🦎💚 @rennerei.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

what if she likes being a girl what if she likes girls

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have decided, I think, to name the little cat shaped spoon rest that lives beside my coffee maker so that I always have somewhere to set my stirring spoon, and the bright side of living alone is that absolutely nobody can stop me. Henceforth his name shall be Purrcalator.

A small black and white and brown cat-shaped spoon and chopstick rest, in an elongated loaf position on a speckled gray counter next to a black coffee maker.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm down for everyone to get a universal basic income. I still want to see every model erased and every data center destroyed. You don't get to rob us and then just pay us so you can keep doing it. The models and data hoards have to go, and the harm has to stop. That is what justice looks like.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My favorite thing about my new microwave is that it has a built in ADHD defense function. If you forget to open it and remove your food when the timer goes off, then after a minute it will beep again LOUDER. It will keep doing this at intervals until you pay attention and get your food.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have given this cat playtime, and gooshy, and kibble, and fresh water, and a clean litterbox, and multiple rounds of steppies, and even standing up over the shoulder cuddles (which he only rarely even wants). So WHY is he still meowing in my doorway at 2am? What more can he possibly need?!

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Y'know, historically, populations do not tolerate an excessive sense of surveillance. Governments can get away with it for a little while, maybe a couple of years, a decade or so if they ramp it up slowly enough, but historically populations are quicker to revolt when they have no sense of privacy.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would like to be fully informed regarding the criteria and evaluation system, because both Leverage and Galavant were made this century, and yet somehow neither of these brilliant shows appears on this list. "Most popular" I'd believe, but "best" is a judgment you'll have to defend.

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey, vendor booths and exhibitors at cons. Real talk. If you have artwork as part of your booth decor, or as products that you sell, And your answer to the question “was any of this artwork made by AI” is “I don’t know” That’s unacceptable. Credit your artists, and don’t sell slop art.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I still quote this regularly and people ALWAYS look horrified... Unless they know the reference. Then they usually just say they love the show.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am fully in agreement with all the rest of the old school webcomics folks who say to publish on your own site. I was there for the Keenspot exodus to independent sites, it happened for a reason (or many). BUT, I also live in Korea, and I have to tell you... Internet here does not work that way.

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Remember the LMAO @ass.golf · 22/09/2026

I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is a very young child having an absolutely screaming meltdown outside, and I can tell from the way the screams are bouncing off the buildings that they are being pulled away. There are crying kids, and then there is whatever was ending that kid's entire world, and the two DO NOT sound alike.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Astoundingly, you can apparently just walk into a doctor's office here in Korea and get your TDAP booster? Just like that. 50,000원 and I am all set for the next 10 years. Amazing.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me, waking up at my usual time instead of early for the first time in a month: Blrghle wha—? Remembering that breakfast and coffee are things that must happen promptly but lacking the necessary energy to do them: Isn't there a Krispy Kreme in my neighborhood? I'll just order breakfast for once.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today my visiting friend and I did a Certified Old Person thing and took our beach chairs and paperback books and went to the beach to sit near the water and read. We did also swim, but we're getting to the end of the season for that so we only spent maybe 40 minutes in the water, if that.

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Kathryn Salamander 🦎✨ @transsalamander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trans women aren't biological men (or biologically male) anymore than adults are biological babies

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My old friend is visiting me here in Busan, and in the process of browsing for souvenirs today, I found these plates and got so excited I chased him down at the other side of the store and started explaining the inspiration for the art on them, which is the Japanese 12~13th century Choju Giga.

Small plates in blue and white with art very clearly inspired by but not directly copied from the Choju Giga (鳥獣人物戯画), a 12~13th century set of scrolls depicting cute animals carrying out courtly activities and sometimes credited as the first ever manga. Some of the rabbits from the original have been replaced with cats, and in the case of a plate depicting a cat showered by elephants, the cat was never in the original work, and neither was the water, yet the elephants still strongly resemble the original.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Part of the reason a lot of us back in the day invested in large banners with art on them was because we were trying to keep up with the sheer amount of visual noise those booths produce. Big arrangements of colorful, recognizable stuff tend to drown out a table full of indie books and prints. 🧵

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026

we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I dunno who all needs to hear this, but this is one of my favorite recent finds for typography in the wild.

A store sign with a vaguely old west woodblock style typeface, except it's Cyrillic and it's located in Chinatown in Busan, South Korea.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For the record, I can absolutely get used to not owning my games. The question is can game companies get used to me not spending money on their products, because I don’t rent games. I have limited entertainment dollars and I’m not spending them on exploitive rental ware.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

People don’t fake disability … they fake being well. They play through the pain. They say they’re “fine” when they’re suffering tremendously. They do this because our capitalist, ableist society demands it. Disabled people are discriminated against & told to “try harder” 🧵

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So Sasang Station turns out to be a small nightmare to navigate the first time, and I'm glad I allowed extra time for it. Now waiting at the airport for an old friend I've not seen in 9 years.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My house is clean, my plants are watered, and I have successfully repaired my 20 year old fourth hand multifunction oven rather than buying a new oven. I DID test the repair while standing by with a fire extinguisher just in case, though.

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Ryn @rynbow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you love a webcomic, consider doing two things: 1. Personally recommend it to one other person 2. Comment on pages You have no idea what these small things do to help a comic grow! Peer-to-peer is how a fan base is built, and comments boost engagement, setting the comic up for more success! 💖

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of the reasons I have a unique fandom-specific email address is that I have such severe inbox overwhelm that I needed a completely separate and refreshing email to check instead. That's why I have a separate fandom bsky, too. I just need a little breathing room for my fandom bubble.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

All my friends have kids celebrating their 18th to 21st birthdays now, and this is an unacceptable degree of time distortion because I was definitely celebrating their parents' 18th to 21st birthdays only, like, a few years ago at the most.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Researchers found “striking biological similarities” between 5 illnesses once viewed as separate: ME/CFS, Long COVID, PTSD, Rheumatoid arthritis and MS. Despite different triggers—viral infection, trauma or autoimmune responses—they share fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep and autonomic dysfunction.

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The main headline reads: "Scientists uncover shared biology behind profound fatigue in five major illnesses."
Below the headline is a photograph of a middle-aged man with a grey beard wearing a green sweater, looking exhausted and resting his head on his hand at a desk with a laptop, a glass of water, and medication packets.
A caption at the bottom states: "The findings suggest that chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as ME), long Covid, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis (MS) may be driven by common underlying mechanisms."

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 01/09/2026

Yeah just gonna repost this for Letterer Appreciation Day again, because duh.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

- Write 100 words about the interiority of the first thing you see. It's a simple but potentially revealing writing exercise to dip your toe into writing fiction, and it's entirely free. - Show up to a board game cafe and play whatever is open. It's not FREE, but you would buy that coffee anyhow.

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Dane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.com · 29/08/2026

DO NOT APPLY TO OR ATTEND THIS SHOW. I don't care if it's in your backyard. You can bet that every convention runner is watching this and the bad ones are salivating at this idea of $150 application fees, plus jacked up booth rates. If it works for this show, they WILL try it at theirs.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fire alarm went off, and then immediately stopped with presumably a rapid explanation in Korean. But I couldn't parse it because I was already in emergency mode getting ready to leave, which then spiraled into a full blown panic attack when the alarm stopped because PTSD did in fact break my brain.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bay Area friends: A friend found these small kittens behind a gas station and we've been trying to find them a home for almost two months. For now, they live in a small bathroom. Would you consider adopting? They are vaxxed, neutered, and incredibly affectionate. Please help!

Photo of three kittens. Two are orange; one is black.

Photo of two orange cats, one black, and one dark gray.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you cannot be this kind of person, you can do what I do instead: spend a lifetime befriending all of them you ever meet and then listening attentively while they talk about their interest. Then you can do the whole "I know a little, but better yet I know a guy" path for understanding anything.

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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton AND Tim Curry? God DAMN. Check in on your gay/Gen X theater nerd friends, gang.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One small example of what it's like to be disabled with both CFS and ADHD is that I consider remembering to take out the recycling and then mustering the energy to actually do it for a whole month without interruption to be a noteworthy achievement. It is a once a week task.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don't know how long it has been since I last heard anything about the US that made me significantly homesick instead of just profoundly grateful not to be there, and that is a sad realization. There must be something worth missing other than my people, but I only seem to hear about fresh horrors.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today has been better. I ate some breakfast, for a start, and have now completed a handful of the tasks that I need to complete before I will be able to go out and do Errands which are on a deadline. The Errands will still be a tomorrow problem, but at least now they CAN be.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I mean, I could say books but I think I do not in fact own enough books. I still have open shelf space on the 3 extra bookshelves I bought when I moved! What I will say instead is cute ceramic cat chopstick/spoon rests. I own 13 of them, currently, which is an awful lot for one person living alone.

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