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Mr. Irrelevant! The Criterion of Embarrassment! Poet in Motion! I fight every fight like I can win! I am a fictional character with no basis in reality!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's funny the way the books Dracula and Frankenstein got associated via horror cinema, because Frankenstein is a good book and Dracula, if it were released today, would be guilty pleasure genre fiction. Like, very good guilty pleasure genre fiction, but not an important book.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This was only a matter of time. In a very real way, the net effect of networked license plate readers is more like putting a GPS device on a car than it is like driving past individual security cameras. And if police wanted to track you over time w/ GPS device or your phone---they'd need a warrant.
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026
My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*hacker voice* i'm in
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Social mobility has been declining for decades but that's fine, we don't need the talents of 340 million people as long as we have the several dozen children of our stupidest oligarchs
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
“So I think one of the reasons the entire tech industry is so eager to fit these passive surveillance devices into the same kind of mental framework as smartphones is so that no one has to question whether there should be a new social etiquette for these devices.”
theverge.com
What Mark Zuckerberg needs to answer about Meta Glasses, Muse, and teen safety
It’s a big week for Meta, and for Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s what we think the CEO of Meta needs to answer about the company’s product strategy.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
Man standing in front of big neon sign that says “is that good?” As the crowd chants the same. Art by Mattie lubchansky
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026
interesting how the more desperate the GOP's mid term chances become the louder establishment Democrats are signalling there should be no accountability or reprisals for their crimes
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is bad that the White House demonstrates casual disregard for the rule of law.
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/09/2026
dear every e-commerce website: I am trying to LOOK at your SHIT to see if I like it, please stop *blocking my view* with full screen pop ups offering 10% off or whatever- WE ARE NOT AT THAT STAGE OF THE RELATIONSHIP YET
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
Winners of bird photographer of the year 2026 – in pictures
theguardian.com
Winners of bird photographer of the year 2026 – in pictures
Photographers from all over the world entered more than 24,000 images into the world’s largest bird photography competition, with an image of a northern gannet bursting through the ocean’s surface taking the grand prize
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
People keep saying gerontocracy is this pervasive social ill that's rotting our institutions from the top down by empowering decisionmakers who do not understand and will not suffer the consequences of their decisions but hey you at least have to admit my congressperson is looking good for their age
The Cryptkeeper of Tales from the Crypt fame seated and clad in loungewear
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Democrats will be like "i'm the only thing standing between you and Trump!" and then don't stand in the way of anything
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan
newspaper headline: "Mets Blow a Save and Fan 18 Times in Opening Loss"
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 19/09/2026
Older adults, people with accents, and people with disabilities struggle to be understood by AI agents. This affects their access to health care, transit, and other essential services. This is an existential risk for them. It is happening NOW. And it needs to be regulated.
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This Ganon guy talks a big game but you know that in the moment of truth he's just gonna vote for Trump a 4th time
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
This depends on a view of the general electorate as something wholly distinct and separate from “minorities” which is why it’s being deployed to argue against speaking up for trans people.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No we don’t have any presents. Or what was it you said? “Gifts”? No we don’t have those, why would you think that. Why are you being weird
Photograph of an airport store called “Gaslight Gifts”
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Roses are red High soars the lark
Telegraph headline: Aggressive goats, with taste for human urine, are airlifted out of park. Image shows mountain goats in slings dangling from a helicopter over trees
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
youtu.be/F5LkGKJDc3Q
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Billy Joel - New York State of Mind (Official Audio)
YouTube video by billyjoelVEVO
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whoa Kamanyan really doesn't mess around
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Okay so we saw y2k coming in time to fix our computers but we've somehow been blindsided by ten dollar a gallon diesel before gas station sign technology was ready to meet the moment smh
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just leaving this here
Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
youtu.be/vF157bFQG04
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cursedking.bsky.social @cursedking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
These people keep getting a printer to print out “boo” and they keep screaming when they see it
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Trish K @tkaz99.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Not the tofu! Yes, tofu too.
local12.com
Tofu recalled in 29 states, including throughout Tri-State, for contamination
Tofu was recalled in 29 states, including throughout the Tri-State, because it may be contaminated with ink.
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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John Connor: We're Not Gonna Make It (Terminator 2)
Alt: John Connor: We're Not Gonna Make It, Are We? (Terminator 2)
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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A 1993 Kellogg's Apple Jacks promotion for Super Mario Land 2 contained a score sheet for the game, to "keep track of points". Somehow they missed the fact that the game does not have a score system, rendering the sheet profoundly absurd and, fittingly, completely pointless.
This is a 1993 official Kellogg's Apple Jacks/Super Mario Land 2 promotion.
It contains a score sheet for the game. "Keep track of the points you earn", it says.
"SUPER MARIO LAND 20: 6 GOLDEN COINS
While you're helping Mario track down the six golden coins, keep track of the points you earn in each zone of Mario Land."
Super Mario Land 2 does not have a score system.
Like Super Mario Bros. 2 before it, or Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario Bros. Wonder after it, it simply does not have "points".
If the writer somehow meant something else the game does track, like coins or enemies defeated, this is a failure of communication as the game or its manual do not call them "points", nor do they function as a score in the way points do in other Mario games.
It is much more likely that the writer simply assumed that all Mario games have points, and did not check the specific game in question.
Source: eBay user "altaircollectibles", ebay.com/itm/178239934327
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.americanprogress.org/article/weig...
americanprogress.org
Weighing Priorities: What U.S. Spending on the Iran War Could Fund Instead
The House of Representatives took the first step toward passing a bill that would provide the Trump administration $73 billion to fund its already costly war in Iran. That funding, if better allocated...
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ᵉʳⁱᶜᵃ ˢˡᵃᵘᵍʰᵗᵉʳ· 𓂏☠︎︎ @abatt0ir.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
// I have numerous criticisms of Skybound's Transformers run, but the earlier parts of that book really were incredible. These two pages really are peak Optimus to me, as simple as they are. Do not grieve. Soon, he will be one with the Matrix.
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Tanya @tanya.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
i actually read the Odyssey in the original greek. complete waste of time, i have no idea what those symbols mean
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
[sighing to my wife at the table of a nice restaurant] No no no, milkshake ducks are just for racism. if you're complaining about fascists or homophobes, that's a drone metal orthodox priest guitarist. You don't think it makes a difference, but I'm saying it does. I am not raising my voice.
Drone Metal Orthodox Priest Guitarist Responds to Fascism, Homophobia Accusations
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So a word of caution to those who think socialists pose a danger: If you oppose those who want to fix problems too quickly, who think too broadly, who set their hopes too high ... you will probably defeat them, because they are not in power, and dominant power is aligned against them. Then what?
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Okay so wait we just kinda called it operation economic outcast out loud without blinking
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/08/2026
(pulling a handful of posts backward in time from tomorrow) -i didn't know Sentient Beam of Light was still alive. his work meant so much to me as a kid who grew up in the dark -Sentient Beam of Light was a warm presence in so many lives -bit cliche but the world is a little dimmer this morning
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/08/2026
important piece of how journalism works right here www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...
The Post, a truly immoral scumbag tabloid that is simultaneously the most skilled tabloid journalism publication in America in a way that we can all learn from, ran the story, and then it was picked up over the next few days by other right wing outlets making essentially the same “hey this left winger is a rich kid” joke, and then yesterday the story was picked up by the New York Times, which had profiled Gordillo earlier, and once that happened it instantly became acceptable fodder for non-right-wing reporters and pundits. This is a textbook case of how to shepherd a shallow partisan smear into the mainstream news cycle. You may find it distasteful, but you should admire its efficacy. Any competent cutthroat political communicator must be able to replicate this process on demand.

(When I worked at Gawker, we frequently played a similar but less political role in this general process, by writing about stories that the Times was interested in but considered disreputable, which would then allow them to write follow-ups framed as “People are talking about this thing,” which provides them an entry point to feed their readers salacious news while still maintaining an analytical, hands-off pose. Once you understand this dynamic you will see it all the time.)
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I just watched American Psycho and spoiler alert but at the end of it Bateman confesses to everything after increasingly ludicrous open murders and because the system has negative incentives to recognize the murders nothing happens.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
DSA member Angie Nixon was outspent 36:1 and did not receive an AOC or Bernie endorsement, and yet she won the Florida Senate primary by more than 12 points
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 15/08/2026
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
*to the tune of "Eleanor Rigby"* Robocop sequels Half of him man, half machine, adding up to all cop He'll never stop
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lilya @lolifer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
too late; i've already portrayed you as the shame faced crab and myself as the sexy anemone shrimp
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Maybe some of the reporters who think the full extent of their job is to do whatever it takes to get on that plane will give this some long hard thought But I doubt their bosses will so eh
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
A+ headline
gizmodo.com
Flock is Trying to Find Out How Much of the Surveillance State You'll Tolerate
Turning a big dial that says "invasion of privacy" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval.
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