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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 17h
I am Princess of all cats
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am completely and genuinely serious when I say that the Anime Sickos podcast is one of the great historical examinations of our time
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
papers please style game where you are in charge of the little metal detector station at the front of the Federal Department of Control and have to stop people from bringing in banned material like "any form of branded packaging" and "apples"
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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I can’t even remember the last time I caught a fish in my talons
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
touch grass is a psyop to convince us that grass lawns are a natural and acceptable form of groundcover. touch local flora. touch the face of someone who loves you. touch the edges of your own subjectivity. you are a bee, searching for the things that your body knows would be here, in a softer world
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
his one brain cell is entirely focused on stealing his sister's dinner. nothing on earth can stop him. no processing power is wasted on dignity, consequences, or the fact that he was fed twelve seconds ago. he is a specialized supercomputer designed solely for dinner crimes.
an orange and white cat has his paws crossed, concentrating intensely
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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore
a screenshot from the upcoming remake of Tomb Raider 1. lara croft is looking at her phone in the middle of an ancient ruin, and it's showing her a generic crafting menu, and a png of saucepan of stew that apparently her phone lets her cook for "Damage resistance" if she has 6 potatoes
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Keeping a Parisian apartment cool during a summer of record heatwaves, without air-conditioning, is no easy feat, @mireio.bsky.social writes. Learning how to passively regulate the temperature of your home can provide a valuable introduction to global energy management and planetary care.
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Not Cool
Keeping a Parisian apartment cool during record heatwaves can teach us how to more sustainably manage the energy flows of cities, economies, and the planet.
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Superbloom Digital painting
of California poppies growing by an old disused factory of some sort
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Cereal eating skull @cerealeatingskull.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Je remet ça là, pas au hasard
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/08/2026
☠️☠️☠️
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greg2hats @cyberbadboy.com · 14/08/2026
ive been on an irregular workout schedule and i keep thinking "chest day was yesterday. or the day before that, i dont know" like the beginning of The Stranger. maybe the first person ever to have this series of thoughts.
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
To me, the foundational tension of modern AI is this: If the stated goal is to create a human-level intelligence that can replace human workers but lacks human rights, then the real aspiration is slavery; but if human-level intelligence is impossible, then the industry's stated goal is a lie.
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'm pretty sure this is the cheesesteak that Ashitaka kills at the beginning of Princess Mononoke
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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Oregon legislators go from saying "maybe we shouldn't give data centers big tax breaks?" to "BAN THE SUCKERS FOR THREE YEARS". "The ground's really shifted.” Indeed. WOOOHOOOOO!
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Democratic lawmakers propose three-year moratorium on new large data centers in Oregon • Washington State Standard
Oregon would join 15 other states that have proposed data center pauses in the last year.
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CTHUEL HURAMCHEK 🎃 @greaterrealityarea.net · 18/07/2026
I think there'll come a day when the internet as we know it just burns. The posts and ideas people remember will transform into aphorisms, idioms, and folklore. People will say they can't be killed in a way that matters, or that they'll walk backwards into hell, and it will just be their parlance.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.
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Nathan Fowkes Art @nathanfowkes.com · 03/08/2026
North Carolina swamp.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
I think about this a lot and for me the *extremely* simplified answer to this is that some people approach art to think and some approach it to feel, and if you're mostly in the latter category there's a lot about the text that will go right by you (or you'll just ignore) as you bathe in the vibe
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Ren @ivoryandblue.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Brb I have an incredible tattoo idea
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”
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Ren @ivoryandblue.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fascinating analysis of LeGuin's Omelas not as much of a moral/utilitarian allegory, but as a discussion of the possibility of happiness without suffering and our ability or inability to conceive of it.
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Eleanor from outside @theboatfromjaws.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
THEY'VE BEEN FOUND, THEY'RE SAFE, THANK YOU EVERYONE
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Ren @ivoryandblue.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My friend and roommate is missing, please share with Portland folks
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🌑 @fell.energy · 24/07/2026
tarot is a billion times cooler than astrology to me one is a roguelike poetry/advice session and the other is haha hey what if the circumstances of your birth were insurmountable wouldnt that be cool
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
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Ren @ivoryandblue.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Waiting in the bathroom stall for everyone to leave for feminine reasons (so no one knows I brought a stray chicken strip in here with me)
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amber renee 🐐 @ambercxc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
this is so sweet. i teared up a lil. great short read
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Dang they really got a category for everything
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The Hollywood Reporter *
@THR
Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations
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Ren @ivoryandblue.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
How I imagine Gideon the Ninth's room in the beginning of that book
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Great piece. These magic bullet solutions are usually flawed. Interrogate, analyze, read source material, train your brain to need and expect complex solutions not simple ones.
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
once columbo is out of cooldown you are all fucked
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Ren @ivoryandblue.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
HyperfixationTM
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026
A devastating example of the fallacy in the quest for neoliberal solutions that promise ethical consumption under capitalism is that the most avoidable manmade environmental disaster of our time that kills the vulnerable was made possible by the subsidizing of a mass produced zero emission vehicle.
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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Sketches on the plane-
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026
WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣
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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would kill or die for Larry
A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/06/2026
in a presidency defined by living metaphors, burning down D.C. during a poorly-planned fireworks show could take the cake
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the most typical @jazzpomegranate.com · 24/06/2026
dsa give us a green new deal to work on in the 2030s challenge
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
this is like the time i got a new label maker
Road sign for Big Mountain with an arrow that points to the mountain behind it.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/06/2026
Me: its time to open up this pit! Construction Contractor: please, no
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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 04/05/2026
I wrote an article for @readlux.bsky.social about the need to archive vintage porn instead of sharing decontextualized, 'aesthetic' excerpts. It's something I care deeply about!! Gift link: lux-magazine.com/article/scan...
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Take This Sex Magazine and Scan It
A manifesto for archiving everything.
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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Keep fighting. We are winning.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/06/2026
A lot of high-minded theories about what's animating the Trump administration to do the things it does and what that might mean for the near future. But I think "how would the Bluth family from Arrested Development deal with this" is probably a pretty predictive rubric
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/06/2026
Is it carbon monoxide
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Betty Brader (1923–1986)
Dancing women in a clean line art style.A stylish drawing of a woman half-sitting on half-leaning against something.A thin woman dressed as the pop culture version of a Viking.A colorfully dressed woman playing a stringed instrument.
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🌈Wally ~ Meditating in her Cave🌈 @wallyaurora.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING
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