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@lurkingteapot.bsky.social
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here for fandom. right now, that mostly means Thai BL.

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? 

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Unmitigated: A FFXIV Kink Zine @ffxivkinkzine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Surprise announcement! Applications are now open for Volume THREE of Unmitigated: A FFXIV Kink Zine! Both new and returning participants are welcome to apply, and we will have applications open until October 25. forms.gle/iTX9y5zitMhy...
Unmitigated: A FFXIV Kink Zine
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Nonplussed @nonplussed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rose Landry is coming to the cottage...but the problem is leaving! AKA, the #Roselana Time Loop Fangame (ft. #Hollanov) 🔃 Fully voiced visual novel--your choices decide the story 🔃 Rated M (for half-naked Hollanov) 🔃 Vague spoilers for TLG archiveofourown.org/works/893208...
cover art of the Heated Rivalry Visual Novel, titled Cottage (En)core. Rose Landry is blushing and surprised in the centre of the screen, and heart shaped buttons saying 'start', 'load', 'settings', 'about', 'trophies', and 'help' surround her
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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is something I'm thankful for my parents talking to me *specifically* about as a kid. This is part and parcel of the consent conversation. And it's a convenient "in" for talking about cycles of abuse and guilt and the trap of "well you're guilty now too." Systemic problems.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you.
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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cartoon by Hergé. CAPTAIN HADDOCK: Wat een week, he? TINTIN: Kapitein, het is woensdag."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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maureen @twigofwillow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
waiting for the NHL to realize what it means to piss off romance readers like
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Bill Hader as Keith Morrison Eating Popcorn
ALT: Bill Hader as Keith Morrison Eating Popcorn
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gogomi 🎀 hotarucon @gomi.moe · 29/09/2026
i doubt that anyone remembers or cares but i posted the original viral sleeptober image in 2023 because i can never sleep more than 6 hours i still can't sleep more than 6 hours and i will not be doing the challenge this year because fuck that i can sleep when im dead
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Lee @aliasmarionette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's funny to me that execs in China and Thailand etc have figured out there's a massive audience for BL and are acting accordingly (in the case of China they're even doing so in the face of government policy) and yet in the West: this.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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lurkingteapot.bsky.social @lurkingteapot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*looking at yesterday's messages* wow I guess it really IS Residual Grief season again and the body remembers
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lurkingteapot.bsky.social @lurkingteapot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"if you don't have ~community of course you're not gonna enjoy fandom" yeah thanks never occurred to me to perhaps just be better at people/finding people who like the things I like. My bad.
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lurkingteapot.bsky.social @lurkingteapot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me: forgets they have bsky for months at a time Also me: what if I made a separate bsky acc for hockey stuff tho.
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gogomi 🎀 hotarucon @gomi.moe · 08/09/2026
so anyway does anyone want hockey yaoi stickers? #heatedrivalry #stickersheet #hollanov
Heated Rivalry sticker sheet with quotes from the TV show, as well as little stickers of the cottage, shane and ilya playing hockey and swimming at the cottage, exactly 8 burgers, a tuna melt, a blackberry with a message from Lily, and a stupid canadian wolf bird
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What a surprise, the organizers of the covid cautious dyke bar hated the article, rejected its framing, and is defending their covid cautious patrons and performers. Anyone who joined in on the viral harassment campaign started by Jesse Singal wanna say oops or…? recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...
Current and former owners of Last Ditch could not be reached by phone, email or social media. However, Last Ditch did share on Instagram that the Globe story allegedly misconstrued statements from Noire, and urged community members to stop harassing Noire.
"It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack a Black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar," the Last Ditch statement reads. "There are so many misconceptions due to the disorganization of the Globe article. He did not call for the bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless.
"As a result of this abysmal journalism, he has been getting additional threats, slurs, harassment, and is being reported to the police over something he did not do," Last Ditch continued. "This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is, at its core, anti-Blackness hysteria."
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's very "funny" this is happening at the same time the AI companies got away with stealing everyone's books
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naye🕸️ @naye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to do many more amazing films" (except "films" is crossed out and "TV SHOWS" is edited in). - South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho giving a speech, Golden Globe award in hand.
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah the bar having to make a financial decision and trying to please everyone doesn’t bug me, as you said, that’s reasonable. The people, including the Boston Glob reporter, using it as a full on excuse for a little Nazi come laugh at the freaks party is the problem.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s so cute to see everyone having fun with this,you might enjoy the other story about Covid this morning, about a young mom with long covid who killed herself, possibly partially because her husband describes it as her being “obsessed” with her health and “refusing” to get out of bed. Funny, yeah?
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Copper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My friend got a picture of them all together.
Sailor Moon cosplayers in a Mexican themed variation
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Mharwyb @ GWF! @horsetuna.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
just a guy, once / references to canonical-equivalent sexual assault in ishgard
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026
What it should actually tell us is that we haven't established the thing properly in the first place, and our writer brain knows it. If we'd done it properly, we wouldn't feel the need to repeat ourselves.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026
When we have our characters chew over and over the same thing (their tragic past, how hot the love interest is, why they are Not Worthy To Be Loved, whatever), we may think that will help the reader believe whatever it is. It doesn't.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026
I have also read and given up on three popular m/m romances recently. In all three cases I got intolerably bored, because in all three cases the characters were perseverating. ("the repetition of a response or the inability to switch tasks or ideas")
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ames @ world peace thru yaoi @brofisting.net · 08/06/2026
realpersonfashion.com 1) pretend there was a sign-up link there the whole time 2) pretend the sign-up link isn't just a google form. it's a pre- pre- pre- sign-up link so i can send you one (1) email when this is a real website
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RPF THE LABEL : COMING SOON
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🍂 Jo (a swarm of) Bee(s) 🦇 @jobeeart.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
thank you for this thread! i had an off-the-cuff comic turned into a meme and it's such a weird feeling that my art is just being spread out there without any credit here's a version with my name on it, im fine with people using that one :)
Six panel comic. In the first panel, a guy says, "I don't like thing". Then, a heavenly light shines on him and an angel descends. The angel hands him a note and flies away again. In the last panel, we see the note just says, "OK".
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mocca ♥︎ comms open @cupmoccaa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
yes very much so
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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Just throwing it out there that the lane is wiiiiiiiiide open for a tech company to get insanely rich by just replicating the 2010 version of big websites like Google while explicitly stating that they hate AI.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info
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What a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?”
Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.”
Snowy aka Milou is very excited about the drink he has found.

Viñeta de Tintin
El capitán Haddock, sentado a una mesa y con aspecto de estar agotado, dice: "¡Menuda semana, ¿eh?".
Tintín, a su derecha, le dice: "Capitán, es miércoles".
A la izquierda, Milú mira muy contento la bebida que está en la mesa.
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vin; androgyne @hologramvin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
rare example of actually decent apology / reversal on "adult content" rules. unsurprisingly, payment processor pressure behind the scenes central to what happened at all
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 19/05/2026
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
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lurkingteapot.bsky.social @lurkingteapot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Train stopped without information regarding how long the delay is gonna be. My stop is cancelled. I was hoping to get home in time to get food before everything is closed ... ahhh welllll. Guess I'll at least get half my fare back if the delay makes more than an hour of a difference.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
this has been knocking around my head for a while, but for real: Sports get people prepared for the bullshit of politics like few other things can channel-6.ghost.io/everything-y...
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS YOU ALREADY LEARNED WATCHING SPORTS
Sports fans already know how to translate the language of power into the truth. They don’t, most of the time, but they can.
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lurkingteapot.bsky.social @lurkingteapot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The House Fortemps crest ring???? SOBBING don't mind me 😭
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sandra @sandorara.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My FC has two EU fanfest codes available. If anyone is looking for tickets let me know
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This is why even in non-written media, you see people having a difficult time perceiving subtext, context, the idea that the writer is writing for a specific audience with a specific idea in mind, etc. Because becoming functionally literate is *how* you learn to perceive all that stuff.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such. What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc. Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Think about authors having to explain that they should not *have* to have the villain stop periodically and go "what I am doing is wrong, I am doing a bad thing. I am the bad guy, here" because being able to figure that out is part of what it means to be functionally literate.
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Eliza @artbyeliza.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
For ppl who aren't aware: Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut. They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures. You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!
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Shousetsu Bang*Bang @s2b2.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Fuck censorship. Fuck AI. Fuck age verification. Fuck marketability. Fuck respectability. Signups are now open for our unmentionable April issue, [REDACTED], at www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/prosp... .
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AO3 Status @status.archiveofourown.org · 02/03/2026
[update] Monitoring: We have applied a fix, and #AO3 is accessible again for users. Potential slowness remains and certain VPNs may still be blocked until we verify everything is fully stable again.
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AO3 Reachability Issues
We have applied a fix, and #AO3 is accessible again for users. Potential slowness remains and certain VPNs may still be blocked until we verify everything is fully stable again.
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AO3 Status @status.archiveofourown.org · 02/03/2026
[update] Investigating: #AO3 will remain down for at least several hours until we can consult our database vendor's support team and resolve the underlying issue. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.
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AO3 Reachability Issues
#AO3 will remain down for at least several hours until we can consult our database vendor's support team and resolve the underlying issue. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.
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