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Jackdawman

@jackdawman.bsky.social
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Proud owner of two black cats and way too many books, RPGs, and boardgames. Any/All

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h
I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead
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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You're doing a lot of doomscrolling for someone who has a bunch of unread RPG books on their shelf 👀
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since so much of it is out there at the moment…

I’ve seen the take that rape is “a fate worse than death” a lot. This is usually from well-meaning people who want SA to be taken as seriously as it should be in a society that regularly sacrifices victims at the altars of Men With Bright Futures.

But it’s wrong. And it’s damaging and dangerous for victims to hear. You are not better off dead than raped. 

After your assault, you’ll navigate the feelings of betrayal and anger and hurt. You may experience suicidal ideation. You probably will. But you are not better off dead than raped.

There is a whole life you will live after SA. It may be different than the life you once saw stretch out before you, but it’s no less valuable. You will heal and grow and change. You will know more happiness than you could ever imagine from that dark, angry, fearful place you once inhabited. 

Your life has beauty and value and it is bigger than what SA took from you.
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Rantasmo @rantasmo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I would LOVE to never have to hear his voice again. Newsmax should just do an impression of what they think he must be saying, MST3K style.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Swolesome is tired 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @swolesome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Welcome to the Far Left, where your vote is somehow powerful enough to determine the outcome of an election, yet not valuable enough to appeal to through campaigning or policy changes.
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Really tired of having LGBTQ rights brought up as a bully stick by Islamophobes. "If you lived in a Muslim country-" well I don't, man. The vast majority of the people who hold institutional power in any western country are Christians, and guess who's best represented among people trying to kill me?
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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ranma
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Famous authors asking you out
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
hey, I was born in the 80s or 90s and I'm looking for a morally acceptable way to continue to like Harry Potter?? you see, I have this special condition where I just... stopped. somewhere along the way, i let the growth inside me die and i gnawed a hole in the past, and there i sit, and there i rot
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026
Never let a writer help you move
A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night
As the flight neared final boarding, another ICE officer accused Laurie of interfering with the operation and pressed her to help locate the passenger. Laurie declined to say whether the woman was on the flight's passenger list and told the officer he would need to contact the airline's corporate security department for information. "You're going to need a subpoena," she said. No arrests were made at the gate that day.

The next day, the passenger called her.
She had made it home. And she was with her child.
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Jackdawman @jackdawman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Now is the time to make your thing. Stop motion with LEGO, webcomic, walking sim game, weird Halloween costume, backyard water feature, container garden. This is your sign. Make your thing. Stop waiting. Do it.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 10/08/2026
Line up behind the candidate who promises to fund health care and promote modernized infrastructure development with every cent taken from prosecuting white collar crime.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 10/08/2026
things customs inspectors have said to me while looking at the boxes of books I'm attempting to ship into the country: inspector, attempting to deduce what is happening here: are you donating all this to a library or something? me: no, no, these are mine. (explaining) I am not a good person
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
So historically, instead of just standing up for themselves, Democrats join their bully in attacking themselves, and convince people who want obvious answers to desperate problems that they don't stand for much of anything. And their reward for it is they're still painted as dirty Commies.
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Gabrielle Emerson @hyperestis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In Tarot you sometimes will get the same reading over and over. When this happens, take heed. The universe is trying to tell you: you are not very good at shuffling.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
as both a former marketer and someone who deals with ai a lot now in my professional life: you also have to really consider that a hefty amount of the time people see ai content that is obvious enough for them to recognize, they are dealing with scammers
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/08/2026
GTA 6 feels less like a game and more some kind of totem for a certain kind of dying gamer identity, that cannot economically or culturally sustain itself anymore. it represents a million different things and seemingly the least important of them is that it is an open world mission based video game
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Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Deciding that, of the three groups of people with a vested interest in companies (customers, employees, and shareholders), only shareholders actually mattered sure did fuck things up.
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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"NOW SEE, DARKSTAR! My Rotational Device is now spinning EVEN FASTER, thus indicating an even GREATER degree of power! IT MAY EVEN BEGIN TO VIBRATE!" "My God, you madman!" "WITNESS as the lights slowly turn on one by one. In a CIRCULAR PATTERN!" "No, not—" "SOON, I WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE!"
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mikey neumann @mikeyface.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I'm disabled and I somehow edit all of my videos and write all of my scripts without generative AI. Support artists that make stuff! We are youtube.com/filmjoy
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Love movies again. Movies with Mikey | Deep Dive | You Should See It | Portscenter
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...
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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
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nda🔞 @ndasfw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I am urging liberals to please fucking stop using AI to make political images. I know you don't actually care, but it is a fascist tool that only serves to benefit fascism.
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Eschire Cat-tle, MSc @escherbug.art · 28/07/2026
She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.
Lt the black cat wearing a champagne colored ribbon ruff and a suspicious expression.
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Zombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I think the core of my opposition to right-wingers and their ideology can be summed up as this: Right-wingers consciously oppose happiness on general principle. I can talk about tons of other shit regarding right-wingers that's abhorrent but it all boils down to this.
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rat dad ==> GATEway Fate @splinterhamato.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
oh god oh fuck
A bluesky notification reading “Tonberry followed you”, from three minutes prior.  Their icon is a picture of a Tonberry from final fantasy, a weird little green dude in a brown robe with a featureless face consisting of only two yellow dot eyes.  It’s holding a lantern, for being spooky, and a knife (for ending your life). It offers me the option to follow the tonberry back, which is generally not how this works, but can be useful in getting through the ARR bonus dungeon Wanderer’s Palace (Hard).
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
KITTEN CAM
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Maps

PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA
Introduction

PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA
I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage
II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots
III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump
IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land
V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony
VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break
VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant
VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie

PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY
IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right
Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity
Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle

Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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Jackdawman @jackdawman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
That one guy who yells about needing a licence to use your own toaster was just very convincing.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Gary K. Wolf •  
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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JonS253 @jons253.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I don't encourage children to read HP because it encourages bigotry, acceptance of slavery, and poor naming conventions. If you want to encourage witchcraft, I recommend Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 12/07/2026
People say you can’t love others if you don’t love yourself, but that’s not true Everyone has times when they can’t love themselves. Even then, you can still love someone else deeply If you can’t love yourself right now, please don’t worry One day, you’ll be able to love both yourself and others🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 14/07/2026
feel like taco bell is a scapegoat for a diarrhea outbreak caused by an incompetent government. i guess it could be both. the government. the taco bell. a combination government and taco bell.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
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New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Conservative ideology is rare at universities because it is an intellectual failure. It provides no useful insights and produces no technological advances. It failed. In the biggest free market for ideas ever created, the market chose the productive route of real scholarship and real research.
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