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Bob the Janitor @krillerpenguin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Schmitt: But isn't Caitlin Clark's employer, CNN, based in Atlanta? And shouldn't she smile more?

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Edum @edumblue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Senator Schmitt and family attend a Stanford Cardinal game

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Brett Witty @brett-witty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Check out my Interactive Fiction Study Course. It's a free resource of writing, design and implementation exercises, each focusing on a great or instructive IF game. games.brettwitty.net/ifcourse/ #interactivefiction #writing #design

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Interactive Fiction Study Course

An online, self-paced course exploring notable works of interactive fiction. The goal is not to just consume classics but to take them apart to build up your own craft repertoire.

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Bob the Janitor @krillerpenguin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm OK with this as long as it's not Enes Freedom

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all

wikihow tutorial illustration with a man in baseball cap and pink shirt partially crouching, hands on thighs, and pivoting counterclockwise as shown by red arrows. Caption reads, "how to discretely get your balls unstuck from your thigh"

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's me on that Simon Shuster piece in The Atlantic. The reason why I think it struck a nerve is his sympathies are quite transparent. He spends two paragraphs at the start fawning over the grandeur of CCP state ceremonies

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Kevin Wilson @kevinwilson42.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's that time of year again, when dozens of free short text adventures are available to play, all competing in a contest I helped start way back when I was attending UC Berkeley. You should check it out! There have been many amazing entries over the years!

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The Interactive Fiction Competition @ifcomp.org · 01/09/2026

🎉 The 32st Annual #IFComp is live! 71 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!) Dive in at ifcomp.org/ballot!

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Look on the bright side, Julius Caesar put his face on Roman coinage declaring himself “dictator perpetuo” (dictator for life) in early 44 BCE. A few weeks later came the Ides of March.🔪🗡️

Photos of two Roman coins:

First Portrait Denarius of Julius Caesar - issued in January, 44 B.C.
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A denarius of February or March, 44 B.C., on which
Caesar displays his title "dictator for life."
Click image to enlarge.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

📌Google maps. These sniveling tech companies and the billionaires who own them are grotesque — geographically and morally lost. We must never forget who surrendered to hate and fascism.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026

Trump Pushes To Rename Sexual Attraction To Children ‘Americaphilia’

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Scrabble Grams Passages @sgpassage.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Why do you insist on taking ASPIRIN? It can DISRUPT proper clotting. Better pain relievers ABOUND!" "I'm not FINICKY - just a traditionalist. You can have my ASPIRIN when you pry it from my cold grey stomach ulcers!"

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Cobie Cipher Triangulation Agency @cobieef.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm not saying 'Heroes' was real. But the cheerleader died and then Dolly and Tim Curry died... Fail to save the cheerleader, fail to save the world.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I unpacked Supreme Court mail-in ballot ruling @outfrontcnn.bsky.social ⤵️ - The Executive Order is still blocked under a totally separate court order. - States should win quick victories now that USPS has "final rule" (SCOTUS simply held it's premature before that final rule issues). Explanation:

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

As Canada is learning (the hard way), the "art" of all of Trump's deals can be summed up in a single word: "renege": pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 1/

A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

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Bob the Janitor @krillerpenguin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My friend had the flu. He watched an old video tape while resting. He got a phone call. It cleared up seven days later.

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Scrabble Grams Passages @sgpassage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every year, me and my TACITURN, former PRODIGY friends get together and start QUOTING the movie "GROUNDHOG Day." "I'll have a turkey with PROVOLONE." "Pitch me some BITUMEN." "Trick question! Lemmy HEADBANGED more than anyone could ever HEADBANG." "Pay no attention to the man behind the CURTAIN..."

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Bob the Janitor @krillerpenguin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I recently read the old story about how the USS Reliant in The Wrath of Khan was made with its nacelles under the ship because producer Harve Bennett approved the design looking at it upside down and the production team went with it. I guess this is unrelated because that was an accident.

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Time Extension @timeextension.com · 22/08/2026

The Making Of: Starflight - "Don't Let Me Die Until This Game Is Out" - An Oral History Of The Trailblazing Space Sandbox Sim. (Repost)

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The Making Of: Starflight - "Don't Let Me Die Until This Game Is Out" - An Oral History Of The Trailblazing Space Sandbox Sim

"I borrowed $5,000 from a friend so I could survive"

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 17/08/2026

The Games for Scholarships Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 324 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Games for Change! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3847/games...

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Sky @skybox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For people who haven't seen it, there's a great YouTube vid about the art and history of Chinese menus. Way too short, it's super interesting. youtu.be/ofkdTv39hyw

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Chinese Takeout Menu

YouTube video by RocketJump

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Bob the Janitor @krillerpenguin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Somewhere in the multiverse, on episode 2 of Stephen Fails to Save the MAGAVerse, Pete and Donald are writhing on the floor from their shock buttons, unable to say anything nice to get past Melania to the device in the Kennedy Center as she insists they are closed for 2 years of renovations.

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Resistbot @resist.bot · 19/08/2026

The Justice Department still hasn’t complied with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and the bill written to force it has sat in House Judiciary since July 15. H.R. 9694 would give survivors and state attorneys general standing to sue DOJ over withheld files.

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Co-Sponsor HR 9694 and Force DOJ Compliance on Epstein Files

Co-Sponsor HR 9694 and Force DOJ Compliance on Epstein Files. Co-sponsor HR 9694 and use your platform to demand the DOJ comply with the Epstein Files…

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Resistbot @resist.bot · 19/08/2026

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act orders the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service to sell more than 2 million acres of public land in five years, and leaves 258 million acres legally eligible for sale. 3,680 people want Congress to protect them for good.

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We want our public lands back and we want them protected for good.

We want our public lands back and we want them protected for good. They cut almost three million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. It…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

You don't have to believe AI "art" is good (I don't), nor do you have to that AI "art" *can* be good (I don't) to understand the reason that the capital markets are putting trillions into AI is *they* believe they can fire workers and replace us with AI: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 1/

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:

Symbol for Amazon’s VGT3 operation which depicts a T rex with its mouth open over an open booky

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There's a personally meaningful gaming anniversary today: the 40th since the release of Binary Systems' Starflight. Starflight is one of the great early free-roaming space exploration games that laid the template for many more after it. Very much the Mass Effect of its time. 1/2

A photo of the Vinyl LP album release of the IBM PC version

A photo of the contents and a developers photo with them dressed in NASA-ish jumpsuits and in a cockpit.

A gameplay snap showing the UI interface and a pixelly starship and a sun

A snap of the communications window with an ant-like alien and different attitudes to take and statement/question

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Bob the Janitor @krillerpenguin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Was Billy McFarland appointed to a position in the Navy?

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I just open my email and had like six party invitations from friends of friends and felt so included! And popular! And then I realized it was all phishing.

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 11/08/2026

When I first moved to Boston for college, I was told the following phrase to remember John Hancock Building weather beacon colors: Steady Blue, Skies are True / Steady Red, Rain Instead / Blinking Blue, Clouds Move Through / Blinking Red, Snow Instead / Purple, Get the Fuck Out of Town

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 12/08/2026

This is a dangerous amount of nostalgia, it should come with a warning label. The video selection captures what it was like to use a TV in 1993 better than any nostalgia site I’ve seen. ilovethe90s.app

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I Love the 90s — 90s TV, music, games and a chat room

90s TV, music, games, sites, and a chat room — channel surfing like it's 1999.

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Bob the Janitor @krillerpenguin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You actually cannot spell American Flag Blue without the letters A-L-G-A-E.

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Scrabble Grams Passages @sgpassage.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

After months of INACTIVITY, I CHANNELED Lin-Manuel to write and direct a musical about the Crusades in which each pro-war TROUBADOUR performs DANCEHALL. I really thought this juxtaposition was OPTIMAL, but found I had to TOUGHEN the performers to handle IMPENDING fruit and an occasional BRICKBAT.

Painting of a troubador playing a lute (or something)

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"In just four months, the borough’s four police officers have pulled over and checked the status of dozens of motorists — mainly commercial truck drivers — and turned over 32 arrestees to ICE" important @willbunch.bsky.social dispatch from area where I grew up www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...

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This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch

Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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