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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Parenting is deleting your Animal Crossing Island (built during COVID), so your COVID baby can start her own. Goodbye to my orange grove.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whether it’s Democrats giving students the day off for Martin Luther King Day or Texas Republicans reducing school to 4 days a week to finance more tax breaks, both parties have cut the number of school days.

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yoooo it’s skeleton time let’s post skeleton art

A three of cups tarot card but with skeletons. Theee skeletons dance in a circle wearing Laural’s and carrying mugs. Around them are piles of apples they’ve harvested.

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Marie Bilodeau @mariebilodeau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My latest novel is out! And it’s a BATTLETECH ROMANCE!! It’s full of action, angst, and yes, spice! Do your weekend a favor and grab a copy! 💖🎉 books2read.com/BattleTechRo...

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

BattleTech Romance: Hearts of Iron by Marie Bilodeau

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Derek @derekmahr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m so old, I remember when the Republican governor of Iowa threw open the doors of the state to wave after wave of refugee immigrants, welcoming them with welcome arms to become Iowans and let their cultures enrich the lives of all of us.

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh man. I played a few 4th Ed. games 25 years ago—I still have the cardboard stands—and that dredges up some fun memories!

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah. I would love to; I'm still looking for an FLGS that holds a BattleTech night. (I also have Scouring Sands on delivery)

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When you become middle-aged, you have to get into smoking meats, World War 2 history, or painting tiny giant robots for a game you'll never play. Anyway, I really like how the red on the underbarrel gives the illusion that this Rifleman has a pair of pump-action shotguns. #battletech

A basic Rifleman 'mech painted in red representing House Kurita. The underbarrel of the second gun on each arm is painted to look like a pump shotgun.

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David Naylor @profcedar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Iowa State football is here for your halftime entertainment, whether you asked for it or not.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

???? READ ALT TEXT - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKLETEAN WHO CANT REMEMBER WHAT THERE SUPPOSE TO BE DOING , AT WORK , AT HOME, IN A GAME, DOSENT MATTER, HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO KEEP EVERYTHING STRAIGHT, EVERY DAY 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD DO AUTOMATICALLY AND 10 NEW THINGS YOU HAVE TO FIT IN YOUR DAY TOO, AND NOW A GUY IN TOWN WANT'S ME TO GO TO SOME OTHER AREA AND RETRIVE AN ITEM FOR HIM???? AND IDK THE GUY AND IDK WHY HE WANTS ME TO DO IT????? HE LOOKED AT MY DUMB ASS AND SAID THIS IS THE GUY TO FIND A MYSTERIOUS AMULET IN THE WOODS AND BRING IT BACK TO HIM , WHY WOULDENT I KEEP IT? DOES HE JUST THINK IM TO STUPID TO STEAL THE AMULET? WHAT COULD HE PAY ME THAT WOULD BE WORTH MORE THEN A AMULET????? ANY WAY DA TEXT "I FORGOT WHAT MY FUCKEN QUEST WAS, PROBLY SOME TREASURE? FORCED TO FIGHT RATS EVEN THOUGH ITS THERE CAVE, RETURN AN ITEM TO A GUY OR A PRINCESS? A GUY I DONT KNOW WHATS ME TO KILL A SECOND GUY I DONT KNOW? GREAT A STEARCASE THAT GOES DOWN TO A HARDER LEVEL " AND THATS ONE MORE THING I DONT CARE WHAT KIND OF FANTASTY WORLD IM IN ,DO NOT ASK ME TO KILL ANOTHER GUY, THE BEST FANTASY I HAVE IS KILLING NO GUYS, THE WORST NIGHTMARES I HAVE ARE WHEN I HAVE TO FIGHT A GUY, ALL I WANT IS 1 FUCKEN QUEST WHERE I CAN JUST BEAT SOMEONE AT CARD'S AND THEN I GET THE ITEM I WANT, ITS NOT REALISTIC TO ASK ME TO COMMIT ACTS THAT CHANGE MY LIFE FOREVER JUST TO PROGRESS A STORY , AND AFTER ALL THAT I DONT EVEN OWN THE FUCKEN VIDEO GAME? THERE SAYING I HAVE A LICENSE TO PLAY IT BUT I DONT OWN IT?????? THIS IS THE LAST ADVENTURE I GO ON - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

After their largest and longest strike yet last November, unionized Starbucks workers say the company seemed ready to bargain for a moment, but then went back to stonewalling. The union is now calling for a nationwide boycott to turn up the heat.

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Starbucks Workers Are Calling for a Nationwide Boycott

Hoping to pressure Starbucks to finally sign a contract with its 12,000 unionized baristas, Starbucks Workers United has called for a boycott of the company. It is asking individuals as well as organizations and unions to stop patronizing the coffee giant.

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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Once again, I am asking you all to play Star Wars: Outlaws. It's been on serious discount at least once, so pick it up the next time round? And, remember, you can disable the lock picking mini game in the expansive accessibility settings if it annoys you after the first time.

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Star Wars Outlaws: Kay Vess and Nix High-Five

ALT: Star Wars Outlaws: Kay Vess and Nix High-Five

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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026

Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.

Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's Leo season so why not STAY GLAD started in 2012. It became a sticker. It became a tattoo. Now it's becoming a giant sticker again, plus an 8×10 print for Print Club. www.patreon.com/cw/catrocket...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/08/2026

"This was never about saving women’s sports. It was always dehumanizing trans people and using them as a societal scapegoat and cudgel against Democrats, who still haven’t figured out how to effectively deal with this non-issue." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social

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Transgender athletes are a red herring

It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 15/08/2026

In a world of New York Times “news analysis,” be a Wikipedia editor.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Alternate universe where FFT was the property that got the big budget movie adaptations, theme parks and merchandising and we're all complaining about "Ivalice Adults" instead of Harry Potter

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

in case anyone is wondering how it's going over on Etsy

a screenshot of my stats page that says all my stats -- totall views, visits, orders, and revenue -- are down 33-43%. Neat

a screenshot of the graph from my stats page that shows my order rate compared to last year. it's bad. line go down make sad.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/08/2026

let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Loot drop after defeating me: - child potty training supplies (diapers, wipes, travel potty, snacks) - nervous dog supplies (leash, treats, fluoxitine, peanut butter) - a deck of 120 tarot cards - a computer with 1,121 unread emails (cursed) - Tresette cards (+1 to CHA around the Adriatic)

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's summarily cruel, early on a Saturday morning when my kids were up an hour early, to air the episode of "Work it out Wombats" that centers on an adult, Duper, who is in desperate need of sleep.

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"I helped destroy USAID likely causing millions to die because my brain is cooked from the social media company I own where I propagate racist conspiracy theories. Oopsie" This drives me nuts. There are so many things one must do to atone for the harm one causes. "Oopsie" isn't one of them.

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Having a $6 moving sale! Would like to clear out some of my inventory before packing up. Head on over to the shop and pick up some zines & prints at $6/ea!! Maybe snag an original piece of art while you're there :) perplexingruinsshop.bigcartel.com/products

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eshpur @eshpur.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Me, watching PBS Kids with the fam: Why does everyone think Carl [the Collector] is autism coded? He is a totally normal kid dealing with normal kid things. Spouse: 👀 PBS Ad: Carl is explicitly autistic. Spouse: So interesting. Me: What? Spouse: What?

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Live your life so that when you die, those who knew you and those who didn't wish for your memory be for a blessing.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 07/07/2026

Oh it's worse from the front.

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Anyway, that's what it's like to have kids. Just explain some of humankind's oldest and most important rituals using words a precocious 5-year-old could understand, while doing your own emotional processing, but before the hot dogs are done.

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We had to talk about the numbers on the urn, my grandma's birthday, and how old she would be today, and that she would have really enjoyed seeing her great-grandkids, especially their curly hair, but it wasn't meant to be.

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"Oh. Can we open up the urn?" "Traditionally, that's a thing that we don't do without a really good reason. We like to keep Grandma safe and together."

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Fair question. So I had to explain that people were turned into ash after the fire part. And that the ash was smaller than the person Then I had to explain Ceremonies: "Like a birthday. People like to mark special moments (we don't have parties every weekend!). Ceremonies can be happy or sad."

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I then had to explain the difference between a casket and an urn, the ceremonies associated with cremation, and that we sometimes set dead people on fire. The pink marbled urn is about the size of a big lunchbox. "I thought grandmas were taller"

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I showed her my grandmother's urn, and my 5-year-old kept coming up to me throughout the night asking to "go visit her [great] grandma" So after she visited a couple of times, my 5-year-old wanted me to come down too and explain some stuff.

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Once we got to my parents' house, my 5-year-old was still talking about the graveyard and memorials, so I let her know that my grandmother is still on the bookshelf downstairs. My grandma died right before COVID, and so we haven't yet had a chance to bury her in the family plot several states away.

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We had to explain the special section of children that we walked through. Sometimes children died, and that made people very sad. Children used to die a whole lot more than they do now.

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

First off is one of respect, "this place is important to a lot of people, so you have to be quiet, and the stones are not for climbing, no matter how neat they look." My wife did a good job of explaining that people die, it makes people sad, and sometimes dead people are put in caskets and buried.

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

So this weekend, our Airbnb was right across from a graveyard, and the fastest way to get to my parents' house was to walk through the graveyard with a 5-year-old and a toddler. The questions start to roll in: Time to start explaining stuff.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real

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Ken @kenthedm.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Submit. Them. To. The. Fair.

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eek @eke.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

this is so insane

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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Big "smoke 'em if you got 'em" energy today from SCOTUS

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Bashere, Stormcast Jeskai Windrunner @leekingmemory.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Ursula K LeGuin was spot on with the commodification of fantasy. I'm so tired.

An image of Emperor Palpatine as a video game character. He has an assault rifle in his hands, and a the background is a red outline of the Death Star with blue Silhouettes of three X-Wing fighters approaching it.

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth- telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great story-tellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

somehow I forgot to mention this huge mural we're in the middle of on Patreon. So, here's a progress report with images and videos all in one place: www.patreon.com/catrocketshi...

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I can't believe I haven't posted this here!!! | Cat Rocketship

Wow, I have let y'all down. I've been sharing stories on IG -- and even a few posts on Blue Sky -- and I haven't even posted this mural's co

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