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Computers have always been so dumb as to be funny, but I've noticed a definite uptick in "new kinds of stupid" since vibecoding came in.

Security question: What is your pet's name? Answer: Doug. Error: Answer must be at least 5 characters.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These things really bother me because games journalists are always saying they're pro-union. Well, Japan's game industry doesn't has mass layoffs because of the work of labor unions! Of strikes! But here we are, rewriting that history into "Japanese CEOs are nicer". Kill the neoliberal inside you.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

dark gritty santapunk world where the Great Powers of Europe both mandate celebration of Christmas and encourage their subjects to be as naughty as possible to preserve unlimited access to coal and continued industrialization.

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 38m

I liked Ioane for center when we drafted him; I still like him now that we've lost every other available option. Yeah, he's young, but he's smart.

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 1h

I like social media very much, but I do not at all like the aspect where it turns into a laser cannon that shoots out the highly refined and coherent byproducts of people's clinical depression

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 45m

NFTs were the first time I realized high-paid executives and pundits were reinventing solutions that gamers had considered and rejected—for free! on their own time!—decades earlier. The "metaverse" was the next instance. We're now going through the same cycle with LLMs.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 56m

one future we could begin experimenting with right now is: when, as a way to deal with a problem, we are invited only to invent better ways to punish people, we can refuse

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 54m

The horror of slasher films isn't the bogeyman or the demon or the alien. It's the apathy of the suburbs. It's the idea that you could scream for help and no one would hear you, or, if they did, they wouldn't come. It's projected alienation.

Michael Myers looming from around a hedge on a sidewalk in HALLOWEEN.

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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 1h

i'm old enough to remember when SI generated swim suit editions consensually

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Ben Says Abolish ICE @justanotherben.bsky.social · 2h

The myth of the meritocracy in general has not survived social media. For, I should think, obvious reasons.

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 1h

wup, left my earbuds at home! And my phone doesn't have a headphone jack, heh heh. No worries, I'll just keep myself occupied using the power of my imagination to AH SHIT FUCK SHIT DAMN IT GOD SHIT.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 2h

Well, about 275 years ago, a territorial dispute in the Ohio River Valley led to the Seven Years War, straining the Westphalian consensus and making space for a new locus of geopolitical power on the North American continent in the form of an uneasy alliance between Puritans and plantation owners.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2h

Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4h

Who remembers those comic ads for gross snacks?

A comic page which is a parody of comic ads for Hostess Fruit Pies (and other Hostess snacks):
ADVERTISEMENT
Val in SWEETENING THE DEAL

VAL (circa the Val Cannon mysteries, mid-to-late 90s) is walking on a sidewalk. A guy (Apparently JACK) is sitting on the steps of a house.
JACK: Hey Val!
VAL: Hey Jack

JACK: say... you wanna messa round?
VAL: Not if you still fuck like you did last week.

VAL (walking away): CAll me when you lear to eat pussy.
JACK: How about if I sweeten the deal...

JACK: ...with some Duchess® Cream Pies?

JACK: They've got flaky, tender crust and delicious filling!
VAL: Hmm

VAL is on a mattress with no sheet, with no pants on, looking a bit irritated. Her pants are there. We see JACK's butt as he is apparently passed out on his stomach. VAL is reaching for a Duchess® Cream Pie.
VAL: Well, he still doesn't know what he's doing...

VAL, about to bite into the pie: ...but let's try one of these things.

VAL, chewing a bite of the snack: ...it tastes like chemicals!

AD COPY at the bottom of the panel in a banner along with three Duchess® Cream Pie packages (cherry, banana, and berry): They taste like chemicals

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 11h

There are no US forces in Iraq for the first time in two decades I need people to remember this when some folks say deploying troops to Iran or Yemen will be a six month op.

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US forces exit Iraq after two decades, leaving opening for Iran

The departure is celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 5h

I was not in a fraternity at Cornell. In my experience, there were two types of people who joined fraternities at Cornell: rich kids whose fathers had been in the same fraternity at the same school, and people without social skills who sought a built-in friend group. Both populations are kinda rapy

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 4h

Amid reports of a bloody altercation *between the pilot and copilot*; a key detail left out of the lede there.

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Gooseberry (ready for Spring 🌷) @eisforenkidu.bsky.social · 5h

It's time. It's time everyone. It is officially "sweatshirt + gym shorts" season in the beautiful city of Boston and the surrounding metropolitan area.

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Jeff @gojeffgo.com · 4h

No one in the neighborhood is happy about my Premium Subscription Little Library.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 13h

When I taught at Colby College years ago, the trustees abolished fraternities, which dominated campus social life & were notorious for sexual assault &rowdiness all around. “Donations will decline,” cried the fierce opponents.Their threats never materialized. Before long it didn’t seem that frats 1/

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small general strike @spice.bsky.social · 6h

I can instantly tell when someone is an infant

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 7h

for any liberal that tries to argue that Biden was better on restraining Israel, just ask them if they know what his floating dock was used for.

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 6h

StubHub: Did you take pictures at the Craig Robinson show? Me: Like at all shows, we were *specifically asked* not to take pictures, StubHub. WTF, guys?

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rainy jorbo ☔️ @bookenj.bsky.social · 15h

mayors and city councils have near-unlimited power to make life miserable for anyone within their sphere of influence. university, corporation, federal government. doesn’t matter. if the mayor wants to fuck up your day, he will. i wish more municipalities were willing to exert that power for good

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 6h

Ma'am, sorry for your loss, and I'm sorry your husband neither explained it nor figured it out while he was with you, but that is a front.

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 12h

Like don't lie seeing a bunch of rapists like this would rock lol

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 11h

sometimes you have to be the person other people think you are

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 12h

literally been putting this off since 1994 & ngl i am six episodes in & having a good time that is also a very different time than every joyless asshole who ever talked at me about jim kirk made me think i was going to have. eat a big sack of my old dental fillings, joyless assholes of fandom.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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bleary (feat. Akon) @bleary.off-the-records.com · 9h

Thinking about the movie RRR and I feel we need an Irish version. Completely over the top, ahistorical story of Irish independence. James Connolly battering Lloyd George with nunchucks. Michael Collins taking out 200 black & tans barehanded. Dev defeating Monty in a dance-off. Let’s do this.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 15h

The bosses have made it perfectly clear what they expect out of AI and what they want to get out of it and yet there are still people on 'the left' who think we can use it for good

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 16h

In another world Israel's offensive in Gaza petered out in November/December 2023 as they expended their entire strategic stockpile of aerial bombs, as the US followed its own laws and moral obligations and did not provide new supply.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's a striking moment in time. really hard to even get ones head around it. virtually everyone in a decisionmaking role has decided to shrug their shoulders and unleash automated processes with unknown function on the world with the best case scenario being: ending all human endeavor

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 19h

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 20/11/2023

My favorite way to destroy things? From within.

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 17/01/2026

"Pikachu is my favorite Pokemon." Oh really? Let me guess: you're also a fan of the Dodgers, the Chiefs, the Warriors, and the University of Miami? Uh YAH, that's what I figured. 😏

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 07/04/2025

my favorite Zelazny trope is Supernatural Protagonist Gets Caught in Obvious Lie About His Supernatural Origins by His Girlfriend, Spins Some Bullshit, Gets Called on Bullshit, Spins Some More. It's always back and forth for at least a page and it rarely works.

a fairly modern cover of Roger Zelazny's JACK OF SHADOWS, depicting a translucent silhouette over a rocky alien world.

The first edition cover of Roger Zelazny's THIS IMMORTAL, depicting a gaunt robed figure on a red world behind a mottled yellow sun. Nothing quite like this appears in the text of THIS IMMORTAL.

A paperback cover of Roger Zelazny's TRUMPS OF AMBER, depicting Merlin in classic fantasy wizard/barbarian garb grappling with the spokes of a ghostly wheel.

The cover for Roger Zelazny's THE DOORS OF HIS FACE, THE LAMPS OF HIS MOUTH, depicting a mechanistic sci-fi cityscape. While the title story doesn't feature the trope I'm lampshading in the original post, I'm positive one of the stories contained in this collection does.

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 25/08/2023

PET PEEVE: when science fiction settings use "marines" to describe a military force that conducts assaults in space rather than in amphibious settings.

A Space Marine from Warhammer 40K, who is not assaulting a coastal position from a waterborne vessel.

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 10/02/2026

It is a useful measure of this admin's incompetence that they're fucking up "cruelty to The Other", this country's favorite pastime for 400 years straight.

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The Looks of His Face, The Maxx of His Mouth @johnperich.com · 20h

Who's your favorite Embeth? Mine's Davidtz but I'm open to suggestions.

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Crispy-Ghee✨️ @crispy-ghee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE One of my favorite scenes from O Brother Where Art Thou. I figured I should try to draw all 3 of the Soggy bottom boys, why not. #art #comic

🍳 A messy comic of a scene from O Brother Where Art Thou. Delmar and Everett are in a movie theater looking behind them in their seats. Delmar is saying " We thought you was a Toad" to a confused looking Pete (surrounded by question marks).

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 20h

every single AI company was racing forward betting on being the only AI company left standing. I don't think that's gonna work!

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21h

Who's funding Question 8, the ballot question to roll back the legalization of marijuana? An out-of-state dark money group founded by George W. Bush speechwriters, alleged to be bankrolled by the liquor industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Vote NO on 8.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 20h

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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Meghan O'Keefe @megsokay.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, hey, Decider's hiring a new part-time weekend writer! (NB: The hours listed are flexible, but it has to be, ladies and gentlemen, the WEEKEND!) dowjones.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/New_Yo...

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 22h

“What, you've never seen a man getting a panic attack before?” (Try to keep breathing.)

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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 23h

One new org which absolutely *must* be investigated when we turn a corner from the current bullshit is Axios, which has morphed into Spy Magazine Presents Der Stürmer.

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