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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kinda fucked up that “Star Wars Zero Company” doesn’t have a colon but “Star Wars: Galactic Racer” does. I won’t even get into “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order”

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

boycotts are easy to understand! when the union says "please boycott this company until they give workers a fair shake," we just don't go there any more! we can stop by the picket line and donate lunches or money, too! solidarity is fuckin awesome! with enough of it we can change the world!

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you will never, in your entire life, make as much money as the people who are incapable of coming up with ideas like "Miss Piggy flirts with Ryan Gosling" or "Pedro Pascal tries not to laugh at Fozzy's dumb jokes" make in a year

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Neph @nephblackburn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Me, while running my Fabula Ultima mini-campaign: Gosh I really hope some of the fights I throw at the party make some kind of sense FF8: Here's a random encounter against a bunch of evil demi-human hockey players called Slappers

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MattTS @mattts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some of those that work forces, are the same that block portses

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kvconner.bsky.social @kvconner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🎁Gift Article Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project By Alex Reisner July 14, 2026 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project

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Ben Minarelli @italianplastic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Picked up some hotly anticipated sequels this week. Can't wait to get stuck in! @robertrath.bsky.social

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tina @christinag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I heard one of the questions they ask at the GIC these days is if you've finished painting your Leviathan box set yet or not.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/08/2026

Saber Interactive's CEO Matt Karch can get in the bin: aftermath.site/saber-interact...

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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 11/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky, here’s your copy of the Communist Manifesto and here’s your first Warhammer 40k box set.

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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 08/08/2026

Periodic reminder that Chrome is bad software. It's a personal data collector cosplaying as a web browser. Use other browsers, my personal recommendations are Safari (if you're on a Mac) and Vivaldi (works anywhere). Orion is worth a look too (no Windows version yet).

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Shinra Middle Manager @shinramidmanager.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

All the people who are anti-Chadley or want to mute Chadley, I have one question: If Chadley disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through Final Fantasy VII without him or the Chadley menu? Imagine Chadley was suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give him up?

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our Age of Bronze is collapsing, Liz Lemon

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026

You may recall the case where Lynne Freeman sued Tracy Wolff for writing a YA set in Alaska where the male lead was hot and broody, just like in Freeman's book. This litigation went on for three years before a judge finally read both books and said there was zero infringement.

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Tfw mothra gave you power of attorney

Two besuited men, one with a mustache and one with glasses, looking sorta to the camera, and the one on the right with the glasses is kinda smiling and asking "Mothra gave you power of attorney?"

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 23/07/2026

This scene better be in Doomsday

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 17/07/2026

Fallout didn't make itself aftermath.site/fallout-5-beth...

an abandoned power armor helmet lying in fallout's wasteland

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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 25/11/2024

in england, they don't say i'll kick your ass, they say i'll see you on the

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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KZ @kzxcellent.live · 23/06/2026

Many people I know.

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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

An illustration of the Fellowship, reimagined with Chinese-style period outfits.

An illustration of armors of Gondor, Rohan, and Rivendell Elves, reimagined using different periods of Chinese armors as concepts. On the top right are three side profiles of Rohan man, Gondorian, and Elf with different Chinese hairstyles. On the bottom right is Aragorn's banner redrawn with Chinese influence.

A concept art of Bag End reimagined as Chinese court houses, with tall stone gates, round wooden doors, curved roofs, and open courtyard, nestled in a hill.

A concept art of Rivendell in the style of Chinese painting. Next to it are several props drawn in Chinese style such as Fellowship brooch based on gingko leaves, lembas in the shape of mooncake, Elfstone as round jade, Galadriel's phial in a green jade bottle, and shards of Narsil.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 14/06/2026

This looks like bond is hunting the Beatles down.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Xenoblade Genesis Final Fantasy VII Revelation Dragon Quest Deuteronomy Super Mario Leviticus

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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

A chef insisting that his cake made with diarrhea is perfectly fine to consume.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happy Pride to non-binary folks! When I asked the friend who sent me this image how they wanted to be credited they said, "a cute thembo." So, extra happy Pride to all my thembo friends!

a non-binary Pride flag that reads, "Be They Do Crime"

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RPG towns @rpgtowns.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Rabanastre Final Fantasy XII 2006

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Chris Kindred @chriskindred.com · 20/05/2026

You in your 30s mf time to play xcom

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

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phil @philjamesson.com · 17/05/2026

wrote about my frustrations with the VRA piece, which i believe are tied at the hip with the framing of the social headline.

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The New York Times’ The Upshot newsletter has good news: non-partisan, race-blind redistricting would result in fair representation for the…

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

However crazy you think this Ken Whitman Print-on-demand story is? My brothers in dice, it's waaay crazier.

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My gift to you for following this account

You've been visited by the permit crab you can do one bad thing today

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV @en.finalfantasyxiv.com · 24/04/2026

Where there is light, there is shadow. Shadowbringers will officially be added to the FFXIV Free Trial on Tuesday, April 28! Play up to and including Patch 5.5 for free!

Slide text reads expanded free trial to include Shadowbringers. Behind the text is a close-up of the Warrior of Light from the Shadowbringers trailer. To the right is an artwork commemorating Shadowbringers' addition to the free trial; key characters from the Shadowbringers story are depicted above the Warrior of Light, who dressed in dark knight gear. He is posing dramatically with his back to the viewer, reaching for the greatsword standing to his left.

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mors @mors.games · 22/04/2026

"MOON CHILD FE" IS OUT!!! A modern source port of the original 1997 version of Moon Child, available for Windows, Linux, and browsers! Comes with a save system, controller support, and more! PLAY HERE: mors-games.itch.io/moon-child-fe The story is TRUE!!!

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