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@kwoc.bsky.social
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writing, reading, running, not necessarily in that order 📚🏃💻 kwoc.carrd.co

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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 04/10/2026
how to weaselly tell them apart
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BOOyotomi HAUNTejoshi @theyfab.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
my mom: yaoi.... that's, like, another name for god, right?
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Definite recency bias here, but so it goes
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026
Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do
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Hourly Simpsons @hourlysimpsons.bagpuss.org · 04/10/2026
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S10E03 Bart the Mother (5F22) 27 September 1998
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“I find that my relationship to cucumbers is entirely context dependent.” “Tweet that. Tweet that now.”
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
foul balls are a huge concern for major league baseball. fans typically keep the ones they catch, and there's not exactly any good reason to buy a ticket to a baseball game if you have your own baseball at home you can look at anytime you want
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Angry Scooter @angryscooter77.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jets on rails always are a good time.
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember back when Clippy was a thing, and we were all pissed off about Clippy interrupting us while we were trying to do a simple job? Imagine being told at the time that one day, every website and app would have its own version of that, and that none of them would know what they were doing.
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Hourly Peanuts Comics @esnupi.me · 03/10/2026
Peanuts by Schulz: Wednesday, March 1, 1978
A Peanuts comic strip, drawn by Charles M. Schulz, originally released Wednesday, March 1, 1978
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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
episode 055
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
me: applies for leave to enjoy early spring the spring: a month's worth of rain in 48 hours
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why am I so tempted to spend literally $50 on a history of early New Orleans 😭
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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 01/10/2026
This. Is. So. Cool. :) You don't even need to be a sci-fi nut to appreciate this wild, far-out concept: we cannot prove that there *wasn't* another technological civilization on Earth, millions of years ago. Material traces don't last beyond 2 million years. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
theatlantic.com
Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?
A look at the available evidence
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Been getting through many, nay all workdays without AI because I actually like engaging my brain 🤷‍♀️
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
cue long dark hours of trepidation, also known as, "bin night when it's very windy"
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
in the end, it aged terribly
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026
Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Pumpkin hoop
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
tempted to try and drop "squircle" into a serious email
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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sweet reader, the girl was barely able to live to tell the tale.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Life with cats: my wife just wearily called "whatever's going on, it shouldn't be" downstairs after the sounds of a scuffle
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alternatively, you could use WordArt

I'm not even joking!
This is literally cooler, aesthetics be like that

AI art is so rancid it caused a cultural inversion
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Spaghetti Night.” Pen and copic gray marker on paper. 

Our man is in the kitchen making spaghetti for his guests, who have become increasingly rowdy as they wait for dinner. More on them in a moment. He speaks into his landline phone with his oven mitts on, “Everybody’s pretty riled up for spaghetti night.” He is correct because sure enough we see his riled up dinner guests in the background. Two men play wrestle as a woman raises her hand to spank one of the wrestler's cheeks. She’s got great leverage on the windup so those cheeks are about to be pummeled, reader. Another man finds himself being carried by a woman with a crew-cut. Her strength is on display here because despite the man’s weight she’s able to effortlessly run around the living room with him slung over her shoulder like a ragdoll. Behind them we see another spaghetti night guest pumping his fists and shouting to the ceiling. Perhaps howling. 

Artist’s note: One of my favorite drawings. Love seeing the whole group having a great time together.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new favourite Smaug dropped
the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
iced coffee is junior level. the real power move is bringing a corn on the cob to your interview
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kylie Minogue. 11/10 performance. no notes #AFLGrandFinal
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So very tempted to reread the Mars trilogy but my tbr is already multiple pages long 😫
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
fwiw I reckon Dockers by a goal today
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Hourly Peanuts Comics @esnupi.me · 25/09/2026
Peanuts by Schulz: Tuesday, October 26, 1999
A Peanuts comic strip, drawn by Charles M. Schulz, originally released Tuesday, October 26, 1999
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I am just saying, there is often a connection from postreformation Europe to The Simpsons.
The crazy cat woman from the Simpsons.the cat man from the pamphlet.
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2vast 2trunkless
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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President Werewolf G. Harding @popeawesomexiii.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
First day as a vampire hunter: This is easy lol First night as a vampire hunter: oh no
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.
scientificamerican.com
How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
autocorrect is a pain in the area
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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 21/09/2026
Today is the 89th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. Here's a thread on interesting glimpses the book gave us into the legendarium Tolkien had at that stage already been working on for over twenty years but which readers at the time would have had no sense of.
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Working as a conductor on the ghost train was all tickety boo.
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Luke Bones 🦴🦴 @lukemeister.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wonder about some of the astroparticle physics papers.
Paper titled WIMPs with Enhanced Annihilation from a Feebly Interacting Unstable Partner.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17672
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Every Noun, Pumpkin Spiced @pumpkinspicenoun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pumpkin Spice Conservationist
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Out of Context Mickey Mouse Comics @oocmickeycomics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Vol. 1: Hoppy the Kangaroo

Mickey and Minnie are walking down a sidewalk.

Minnie: You mean you'd let our kangaroo fight with a gorilla?

Mickey: Why not? Who cares WHAT happens to a gorilla?
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
love the endless debate between tolkien and cs lewis as if they were two different schools of fantasy when if you plot them on the graph between cave paintings and romantasy they are basically touching butts together somewhere in the middle
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered
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kwoc @kwoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I both keep forgetting to post things here and forget the content I was intending to post. "Oh that'd make a good post" I think, and immediately forget what it was
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