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Ash @ashhuntly.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If any centre left to left party loses based on their failure to advocate for, strengthen and enshrine trans rights, that’s a failure of the party and the institution. So sick of marginalised communities being expected to self-sacrifice their dignity and health to prop up myopic liberals.
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Ash @ashhuntly.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“I’m a trans supporter but trans people are inconvenient politically” are the words of someone who does not actually support trans people. Nobody should feel obligated to vote for a system which dehumanises and destroys them because someone thinks it’s the politically expedient thing to do.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Even if no one were writing them at this minute, I think there are 10 billion books by men and/or with masculine themes that men can read right now. Go read some Bernard Cornwell geez Louise.
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Peter Paltridge @peterpaltridge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What can you say? This was the definite winner they will never top. Also one of the best things I've seen at any PRGE #PRGE #PRGE2026
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 12/10/2026
Gonna be real fun watching this faceplant into a brick wall
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
gadgetreview.com
Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 11/10/2026
"Videogames are a young media we've learned so much, old games didn't know any better" meanwhile in 92, in a game I never heard of has the most insane level concept that we wouldn't see again until some shit like Uncharted, which would copy it with 1/10th of the gameplay youtu.be/4DuV1GNLlCY?...
youtu.be
The Great Ragtime Show
YouTube video by Insert Coin
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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A little preview from the Knock LA voter guide, dropping tonight.
The corrupting influence of money in politics can be seen in the ghoulish way some liberal lawmakers and organizations have come out against Prop 40. All we have to say is that those people — Gavin Newsom, Xavier Becerra, Katie Porter, and all the rest — have betrayed you. They have chosen to take the side of the absolute impunity of the billionaire class over your right to health and life. They would sooner see you and millions of Californians like you sicken and die before calling on the richest people in the history of the world to pay a fraction of their fair share.
Vote yes, and don't forget.
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 09/10/2026
Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse
kayinnasaki

written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with  those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true
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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m so serious when I say y’all have to stop treating amab nonbinary people like men. & I mean the people who already respect afab nonbinary folks. Do you know how many amab enbies tell me I’m the 1st person to see & respect them? What are we doing? I’m happy to help, but the bar is on the ground
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remember when Cuomo was endorsed by Trump, Stephen Miller, and Elon Musk, and dem consultants tried to act like this didn't mean what it so fucking obviously meant
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Sophie Pilbeam 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophiepilbeam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Came of age during the Evangelion / Final Fantasy VII one-two punch. All I will say for it is that it was harder to monetise.
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t love the image of Mamdani planting olive trees in “protest” of bibi just hours before his police arrested peaceful protesters. something has got to give soon. he can’t keep pretending the nypd isn’t an issue.
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Mr. Moo Sky 🔜 Furpoc @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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🎃👻 peppermint.jack-o'-lantern 🎃👻 @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this is why dems aren't even pretending that they'll try to impeach trump or dismantle ICE or stop the war those things simply aren't priorities for them
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🧟‍♀️ Ditty Doop and the Creppy Spoops 🎃 @goosname.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
absolutely no sympathy for nyt and wapo, who put him in office and keep working to shield him from accountability
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Bryce B @brycebucher.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
why does every manufacturer have to put the brightest stupidest led on everything. I do not need my sata cable to cast a spotlight on my wall all day.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 11/09/2026
complete hogwash
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The political and cultural response to 9/11 was to briefly mouth some "Islam is not to blame" platitudes and then declare total war on Muslim people and the Muslim world and we're entering the 25th year of it with no end in sight.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is ethnic cleansing.
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The AI people also use AI to write their posts which is why their posts are stupid and weird
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 06/09/2026
Without being glib at all: transphobes are sociopaths and this applies to your faves
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a real, authentic person 🌯 @unclecaviar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
U.S. media treats Elon with kid gloves because they are also incredibly racist pieces of shit that largely agree with him. I don’t understand what it will take for people to internalize this
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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Americans will say things like "We must starve Cuba to death with our embargo. Do not let China rescue them with food and energy" and still think people around the world hate them for their freedoms.
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👻ZH00000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Every nihilist likes to pretend they have a valid and honest reason their form of nihilism is true and good rather than capitulating to despair and pathetically whimpering at their own powerlessness
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Jack Nicholls @jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW VIDEO: Box of Broken Nails is a short 30 minute horror game about an impossible door that appears in your house, and something is knocking, banging against it, trying to break in. And I have played it for over 40 hours. youtu.be/9hHkQy-RrmU
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Box of Broken Nails - A Small Game To Lose Your Mind To
YouTube video by Power Pak
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XanCow @bovinesiren.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Once again begging people to stop sharing transphobic shit to dunk on it for online points, all you're doing is showing transphobic shit to people who don't want to see it!
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Dial Liz-Z for Zombie (Lizzy Rose Oliver - Voice Actress) @lizzyrosevo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
TERF Wizard fans will work their ass off to make sure a powerline doesn't cross a non-existent grave for a fictional character, but won't boycott the series to protect real life trans people. These people are not well.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 07/08/2026
I get that it's hard for younger folks to grasp how immediately, completely insane 9/11 made this country, so I'll just point out that George Bush, a widely despised clown, pulled 90% approval for doing absolutely nothing- liberals would attack you for suggesting he was less than infallible
wiki entry noting George W Bush's record 90% approval rating following 9/11
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 07/08/2026
album description: with an emphasis on studio experimentation, nonstandard song structures, and unusual instrumentation, this divisive album is Artist's most challenging work how album sounds: bog standard pop songs but with reversed piano and some pan flute waaay in the bg
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I like bookkeeping in TTRPGs.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones" www.eurogamer.net/ea-boss-38-m...
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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026
pretty much proves what we on the left have been saying all along: 'vote blue no matter who' has only ever gone one way.
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 27/07/2026
Ogre-Americans, an imaginary demographic, getting more respect here from the political press than Muslims, who are real people.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/07/2026
*kills a guy's whole family in front of him* CIA: I think he doesn't like us
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
like, I know people get mad when you say liberals prefer fascists to leftists but they keep saying it
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Ryn @rynbow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!
A screenshot of a script of a character saying "They don't really do the gender thing."
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Jake Slimeberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 13/07/2026
"Devastating impact waves that have been hitting Xbox" incredible use of passive voice. nice. The victim is Xbox themselves! the "relief" is that the studios "live to fight another day" under some corporate owner(!) or independently. Who cares as long as they can produce IP, baby
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Like this kinda stuff makes it seem that all of American politics is just kayfabe. I guess it wasn’t the most important election ever. Guess it’s just kumbaya when a fascists’ ticket gets punched
Lindsey Graham backs ICE agent, says Minneapolis shooting could've been prevented by
'complying'
According to Lindsey Graham, the woman had attempted to strike the ICE officer with her vehicle, prompting a defensive response
BY ANJALI MATHUR
PUBLISHED JAN 8, 2026
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Coach Rusty @coachrusty.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"bluesky is so empty" bro I posted on a message board for a whole decade until there was like 4 of us left you can't scare me
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
hot dog man dot gif
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'm actually somewhat frustrated that the Blackwater thing didnt move the needle even before the Nazi tattoo did. I don't see anyone but extremely online socialists posting about how that was a red flag from the start.
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
FIFA and the IOC like authoritarians for the same reason the US State department did during the Cold War, and indeed to this day: They are a single point of corruption. Appeal to their personal interests and you're in.
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