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@jgarlick.bsky.social
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We live on the frontier between the future and foolishness. Update: we have crossed the frontier

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 20h
A picture of a beige PC era screen with speakers and keyboard to suit, and the text "It's now preferable to turn off your computer"
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Painting in acrylics
Two canvases of black cats in silhouette in various poses
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They need to bring back Dukes of Hazzard properly this time so people will stop voting for Boss Hoggs
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Breaking: Man who invited vampires inside because he wanted to live forever suddenly concerned about being one of the damned.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 21/09/2026
et voilà, a portrait of Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock, rendered from leaked Flock license plate camera images. Plates were redacted before rendering.
Bust of a man, outdoors. In the background, sky, telephone pole, Flock safety camera and solar panel. Rendered from a mosaic of smaller images.Tight zoom of a mosaic of license plate camera images featuring a swath of red vehicles and an empty street in other areas.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I know this is not going to fix anything, but how much media coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think would happen if one of these dem candidates just said, once in their lives, what the fuck are you talking about you sound like a dumb asshole right now
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
wired.com
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There’s not going to be a $5000 check
Jessica Lange in “American Horror Story” informing us “there’s not going to be a swimming pool, you stupid slut”
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Genghis Khan was the original "Fear Mongol."
Drawing of Genghis Khan
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Peter Cullen, the legendary voice actor known for voicing Optimus Prime in the "Transformers" franchise, has died at 85
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'Transformers' Voice Actor Peter Cullen Dead at 85
Peter Cullen, famous for voicing Optimus Prime in the 'Transformers' franchise, is dead.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time
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Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Spider-Man, Spider-Man Fights the Nazis and the Klan Fuck around, you'll find out What his fists are all about Fash out! Via the Spider-Man!
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Cody @atiredgay.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is definitely in response to Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron’s post about turning down the show because of Rowling’s transphobia. So much of her transphobia stays on Twitter, this actually had news sites having to talk about it. She broke containment and WB is trying to do damage control.
Headline from the Hollywood Reporter:

Two Directors Reveal They Rejected HBO's Harry Potter' Due to J.K. Rowling

Directors Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron posted on social media that they turned down the series over J.K. Rowling's trans views: "Say 'no' to funding transphobia."

BY JAMES HIBBERD
AUGUST 14, 2026 7:32AMHUFFPOST headline:

Prolific TV Directors Claim They Turned Down Harry Potter Over JK Rowling's
Involvement

"Absolutely f**king not...

By Daniel Welsh
14/08/2026 11:50am BSTThe Telegraph headline:

Director says she turned down Harry Potter series over 'transphobia'

Ally Pankiw shares messages showing her rejecting offer to work on HBO
production.DEADLINE headline:

'Black Mirror' Director Ally Pankiw Roasts 'Harry Potter' TV Series, Claiming She Turned Down Gig: "Say No To Funding Transphobia"

Jesse Whittock
Fri, 14 August 2026
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Michael's reanimated corpse @thepmann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is a pretty good overview of what a crapfest Valnet is, came out last year: www.thewrap.com/valnet-labor...
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Valnet Blues: How Online Porn Pioneer Hassan Youssef Built a Digital Media 'Sweatshop'
The owner of entertainment websites Screen Rant, Collider, CBR and MovieWeb faces a lawsuit over exploitative work conditions.
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 17/08/2026
How to win at most all things:
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
England: Boy, we've gained so much revenue siphoning off talent from America's self-inflicted brain drain! So glad that country sank into a fascist quagmire and is now enveloped in bigoted filth. JK Rowling: We should also be a fascist quagmire! England: You raise some interesting points.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
this iran humiliation is revealing so much about the US. you can actually see how military coups happen, why there's a 25th amendment, why wars should ever be wages at the whim of one guy (especially a world-class idiot). the rot and the sclerosis are now apparent to anyone who wants to look
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
ICE is grabbing people on the road by my mother’s house. I hate this so much.
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Artifice @artifice.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
werwulf's got nards
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
For a deep dive on the Kahanists -- and their resurrection in Israel and the US -- read this: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...
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The No World Order
Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.
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OrbGazer @orbgazer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
me & the bad bitches I pulled by being gay & annoying
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GG TRIBUNE @ggtribune.com · 10/07/2026
OPINION: I Think I Know How To Solve the Video Game Industry’s Problems ggtribune.com/2026/07/10/o...
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A diarrhea parasite outbreak is what happens when you put a diarrhea parasite in charge of the Dept of Health and Human Services.
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Jumping on a band wagon sounds amazing. It has musicians playing on it? And all your friends are there too? Hell yeah, let's go!
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/07/2026
where 2 cop
a toy godzilla covered with tempura batter and cabbage on a plate behind a sign reading

Fried Godzilla
 ¥5,257,5000,000,000
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 30/06/2026
A vicious cycle of four steps surrounding a black cat with a thousand-yard stare and a dapper little tie. The four endlessly cycling steps read:

-going forward we're gonna need more of your data to make sure it's you

-ahaha youre not gonna believe this but we had a bit of a data breach

-your data is probably for sale online now

-that means someone could easily impersonate you
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AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Debbie Harry 1978 💛
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is my friend Stevie.
A brown and white domestic longhair cat
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The giant baby ↙️ The elderly baby ↘️
Large white and grey pit bull with intact earsWhite and orange Australian cattle dog
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is Winnie, she is a recently reincarnated killer whale.
A small black cat looking for trouble
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The crime varmint
Raccoon walking on the grass in daylight
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Adopting leftist politics does not stop you from being the kind of man who wants to pay for a lap dance in Kohl's Cash
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
My feed is filling up with 2017-style “this Dromph stuff is not NORMAL” liberal emotional co-regulation. Yeah we know, buddy, we know. So are you going to do something to cost his backers a lot of money, or…
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Night Hunter by Vitali Skvorkin
Artwork depicting a black cat  holding a demon by its tail in its mouth as if it were a mouse.
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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
me when my family enter the room: hey me when the cat enters the room: well hello there! hi! how are you? what a delight to see you. what are you up to? what are you up to? what's going on, eh? oh really, is that so? busy day eh? delightful. how delightful to see you. delightful, yes. absolutely de
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
girl are you Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey because you haven't even gotten here and a bunch of weird dudes are already whining that you weren't created specifically to meet their expectations
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
No
Stock photo of a middle-aged white woman in a business suit interviewing a similarly-dressed younger white man. 
Caption reads: it says here you are SYBAU certified. Can you give examples of times your bitch ass has previously shut up?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/05/2026
Some of y’all use revolution the same way some evangelicals use rapture.
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
To make a man like you, tell him he was right about something. For men who are wrong most of the time, this is messier to implement but the return is higher.
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Frank Ray Whitehouse (He/Him) @wheeltod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I named my dog "Nature" because he abhors the vacuum.
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
the vibe shifted when everything changed from naming our software and services from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy to lord of the rings
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John @jgarlick.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
For my birthday I’d really like there to NOT be a nuclear war tomorrow
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