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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 21h

Hey gang. I am loath to post this, but I once again find myself in bleak financial circumstances and could really use some help. If I've ever made you laugh or scream-puke and you can send a few bucks my way, I'd be so grateful. Venmo: @mshippyx Cashapp: $anaximanderx ko-fi.com/mxdshipwreck

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

💔 Please don’t let Ahmed die alone. His abdomen is still open. He cries in unbearable pain, and there is almost no time left for the surgery he desperately needs. We are terrified this may be our last chance. 🙏 Even $5 could help save him. Please, help Ahmed now. chuffed.org/project/mahm...

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Has Chuck Tingle ever written a book where a sentient foodstuff tries to order a drink at a bar and is told “We don’t serve food here”.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New York at Night, 1932, by the great Berenice Abbott.

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thinking about Dario Agger again. I love this bit from Agger's Marvel wiki page. Imagine if, more than a decade after his debut, Dario suddenly revealed he could turn into a duck.

A cropped screenshot of Dario Agger's page on a Marvel wiki site. (Specifically this one: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Marvel_Database.) There is a heading named "Powers", followed by a bullet point that reads: "Transformation: Agger can shift between a human form and his Minotaur form. He has not revealed if he can transform into other forms."

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Luthor is a good answer. But the best answer is Dario Agger.

A panel from “The Immortal Hulk” #27. It’s a close-up of Dario Agger’s face. He’s in his minotaur form. He says “OF ALL THE MANY PRODUCTS WE SELL, THE MOST PROFITABLE AND POWERFUL…IS NARRATIVE.”

A cropped panel from “The Mortal Thor” #11. It shows Dario Agger being interviewed on a talk show called “Late Nite with Rick Turk”. Dario is in his minotaur form, but he’s missing most of the flesh on his head.

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man who’s delaying joining the FBI because he doesn’t want the suspicion of signing up immediately after they relax bestiality restrictions.

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 21/09/2026

Elon has already spent over $5 million backing Ken Paxton. Nearly all of it is filling Texans' feeds and mailboxes with vile anti-trans slop. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.

One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mistake.”

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The book is “Borders: A Very Short Introduction“ by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen.

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m reading a book about borders from 2012 and this excerpt kind of depressed me. The world turned out very different!

A cropped screenshot from the aforementioned book. I’ve highlighted an excerpt that says this: “Examples of contested boundaries and border-related issues abound but ironically exist today amid a growing sense that borders are diminishing in importance. Greater mobility among general populations within and between various countries and provinces, the development of regional and supranational institutions, and increased cross-border economic activity point to at least partial de-territorialization of human identity, state sovereignty, and national economies. Some even declare the end of geography, meaning that a world of flows is erasing the world of places and will ultimately give rise to a homogenized, borderless landscape.”

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All-timer lack of self-awareness in this Linda Harvey retrospective on 9/11:

Cropped screenshot of the opening of Linda Harvey's article "The Day It All Changed: My Escape from DC on 9/11". It reads:

"All was calm, until it wasn’t.

And all because people are taught to hate us. And then they act on that hate.

It was a beautiful mid-September morning when I boarded my flight to Washington Reagan Airport from Columbus. I was attending a quarterly meeting of the National Pro- Family Forum on Homosexuality, formed..."

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Horrifying thought: Is "Taskmaster" reality TV?

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Third Avenue El, New York City, c.1955, by Elliott Erwitt.

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I do enjoy the first track on this album. Makes me think of some nearly empty prehistoric ocean. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkfN...

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Beautiful Disorder - H₂O ( Full Album )

YouTube video by Beautiful Disorder

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I saw “Princess Mononoke” at the ACMI. Good movie!

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My poem “The Archival Age“ is available to read in the latest issue of SpecPoVerse: specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-iss...

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Specpoverse

Join us in our mission to create a multicultural vision of speculative poetry.

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Miguel O. Mitchell @miguelmitchell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SpecPoVerse, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (2026) is available: specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-iss...

two hprseshoe crab-shaped spacecraft flying past three planets

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grant @grantpardee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"

Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol delivering the line "And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die"

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"maybe Scrooge was right" Scrooge wasn't real! He was invented specifically for the purpose of being wrong!

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nothing says ”I’m winning the argument“ like asking something else to come up with a rebuttal for you.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

post by leyawn

jester, roast this peasant child for saying i have no clothes on. more vulgar, jester. use the forbidden words

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’m guessing “Mad Max: Fury Road“.

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Turning on the hotel TV to soak up some local culture, and it’s Taskmaster Australia with Finnish subtitles

A TV screen showing the two Toms from Taskmaster Australia with Finnish subtitles. I believe the Nordic countries bloody love Taskmaster in every form.

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Greetings, non-Jews in academia! As we start another semester, here's your regularly scheduled reminder that the Jewish High Holy Days are coming up. If you wouldn't schedule an important meeting or exam on Christmas or Easter, don't schedule one on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

View Of St Pauls From Ludgate, lithograph, 1913, by Frank Brangwyn.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 21/08/2026

Victoria has begun vaccinating about 5,000 little penguins at Phillip Island and St Kilda to protect them against the deadly H5 bird flu, in what is believed to be the world’s largest vaccination program involving wild birds.

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 27/08/2026

uh. no. it is not.

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Yayoi Kusama didn’t fill entire rooms of museums with penises for this slander. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/man-3

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Man

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh fuck! I saw a Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the NGV and it was amazing. Even if you're not into modern art, you need to give Kusama a try.

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m wondering if the Harry Potter child actors going back to the franchise is because being a global celebrity is hard to give up or the world’s worst case of typecasting. Eleven years old is no time to be locked into a career for life.

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lachlan-r.bsky.social @lachlan-r.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Michael Caine: Oh please, do not show me that Christmas. Ghost of Christmas Past: I WILL show you that Christmas! Fuck you!

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The George Washington Bridge, New York, c.1930, by Maurice Bratter.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just cancelled Mongolian publication deal for something of mine because the translation would have been done by AI.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Man's Canyons, by Samuel L. Margolies, 1936.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Aren't woodland footpaths brilliant?

A beautiful lush footpath on the edge of Dartmoor in early June.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We 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.

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KeepSkeletonsFighting (hehehe) @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fun reminder - in two weeks Sony is going to delist 500+ digital movies. If you bought one, they’re going to vanish from your library too. Oh, and no refunds, you didn’t actually own them in the first place www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/06...

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Sony Will Permanently Delete 550+ Movies You Already Paid For

"I won't be back"

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The QE2 prior to launch, John Browns Yard, Clydebank shipyard, Glasgow, 1967, by the great Oscar Marzaroli.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The world’s first giant anteater reintroduction appears to be succeeding: more than 200 giant anteaters, locally called yurumí, now live free in Argentina’s Iberá wetlands. They are now self-sustaining and have started attracting wildlife tourists. Noticias buff.ly/9EnvSiF #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Corrientes celebrates 19 years of the giant anteater reintroduction project in the Iberá Wetlands - Noticias Ambientales

La Fundación Rewilding Argentina commemorated the 19th anniversary of the giant anteater reintroduction program in the Iberá Wetlands. The species,

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