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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

But the helmet has gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that work stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026

just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Prison in movies rules apply: first day, they need to find the biggest guy in the prison yard and smash his teeth out. Nationalise Space X and ban Twitter in the inauguration address. Arrest the DOGE people. Letting him keep Tesla might count as cruel and unusual punishment, though.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 06/10/2026

I've read the Doctor Who Mr Men books. You can't scare me with canonically disruptive children's stories.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 06/10/2026

If businesses want people to have particular skills, there's this thing called "on the job training" and this other one, "paying for training courses". The purpose of education is not to teach people to be employees, it's to teach them to be *people*.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 06/10/2026

Measuring education's value by earning potential is fucking stupid, but also bean-counters are notoriously bad at counting beans.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 06/10/2026

THAT IS NOT THE ONLY THING EDUCATION IS FOR! IT ISN’T EVEN THE MAIN THING!

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026

The problem with social media isn’t the social or the media — it’s the billionaires.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you’d do it for their sports team, whether or not you even liked the sport they picked, you can do it for their deepest hearts and souls.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 02/10/2026

Right now, Nvidia is undertaking a round of stock buybacks. That means they had free cash just sitting around. All this time they could have been like "Yeah we'll use our AI profits to subsidize our retail goods and keep the public happy so they embrace the tech." They didn't. Remember that.

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think you can tell these people are unserious because it's never "acknowledge our machines are conscious so we can give them self-determination/rights/pay." There never seems to be a call to action other than "give us less oversight and more money"

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Damn! Are you the danger room? Because I'm not sure I would last very long inside you, but I think I could improve with practise."

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Raven Song Farm @ravensongfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is something deeply wrong with trying to kill a person twice, then sending her to a hospital for life saving measures so that they can try to kill her again.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book.

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is very much my thinking on generative AI. Right now, it’s a complete nonstarter—built and maintained through unethical means and environmentally calamitous—but somehow remove those issues, and it seems like a thing that still largely takes value away from the world and that I don’t want.

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a better description of a potential harm from AI than the sex cult has ever produced.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026

he's bored and angry and all he wants to do is stand in front of a crowd of people cheering for him that's why he did the midterm convention, that's why he's doing this, and he's well beyond giving a shit how it affects any other republican candidate I love that for all of them

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026

I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“We’re losing billions and we’re making a product that’s an existential threat to humanity” is a hell of sales pitch www.ft.com/content/c768...

ft.com

Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus

Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

the right spends an inordinate amount of time whining about the birth rate and while making our system more parent-friendly won’t actually change that - it turns out wealthy countries just have less kids - they could absolutely put real money behind their preferred lifestyle but they won’t

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*"Farmers" in this case of course meant "aristocrats who owned big estates." But 21st century farm policy is not THAT different from that, so

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Funnily enough, "bread prices skyrocketing >> the French Revolution" happened bc the French monarchy put "helping farmers"* as their top priority, over "keeping food prices sane." The things you can learn from history!

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

the thing i think a lot of americans don't really understand is that even once trump is gone a lot of the world will take a generation to trust them ever again. you did trump twice, after doing bush twice!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times

“But there are causes worth dying for,” said Butterfly.
“No, there aren’t! Because you’ve only got one life but you can pick up another five causes on any street corner!”
“Good grief, how can you live with a philosophy like that?”
Rincewind took a deep breath.
“Continuously!”

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For years we were asking, "Why do the Tories keep beating Labour when it comes to ethnic diversity?" And the answer was always, "Because white people LOVE being told they aren't racists, especially by Black and Asian people."

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 24/09/2026

Top tip: whenever reading an alarmist article about AI, swap "AI" with "abacus". "The abacus has broken through security." "Amodei says that the abacus will become self-aware imminently." "Analysts project that all middle-class jobs will be replaced by the abacus...real soon."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

the thing that's helped Trump deal with a lot of his other scandals is that they are self-inflicted and he can make them disappear from the headlines by stopping whatever stupid bullshit he's pulling but he can't do that here, there's no "oops let's return to status quo" that ship has (not) sailed

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apartheid: "a policy of political, social, and economic discrimination against the non [ethnic] majority in the" state Democracy: "political, social, or economic equality : the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges."

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"trans people require medical care for the rest of their lives" is the craziest anti-trans talking point because everyone requires medical care for the rest of our lives.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 22/09/2026

In the case of WeRBlighty, if you give these brexit-faced military cosplayers £1, 70p will be kept by the gammon who took it off you and 29p goes to 'administration' ie the boss. The fate of the other penny remains a mystery as they have no record of doing any actual charitable work.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 22/09/2026

We've got those bloody WeRBlighty fake charity scammers set up in the high street right outside M&S. They have a history of giving the numbers of real charities to persuade prestige supermarkets to let them collect out the front. I have emailed the head office to suggest they tell them to piss off.

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Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apparently episode one was first broadcast on the BBC 50 years ago today. Still one of the most remarkable television dramas ever. I Claudius

Scene from opening credits of the BBC TV series I Claudius (1976)

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 22/09/2026

GOOD. This kind of shit cannot be tolerated.

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