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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Times Square, 1933 Hungry people line up for a sandwich and a cup of coffee

Black and white photograph of Times Square a long line of people circling around the triangle at the intersection of Broadway and 7th and it looks to me like the line also continues around the outside of the square

Picture from the Great Tumblr account New York the Golden Age

Not only infosec material per se, but also the entire science fiction corpus. For example, the Kobayashi Maru in its various forms seems to be a lesson that’s deeply embedded

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026

"Fukuyama, properly understood, was not saying that events would cease after 1989, nor that there would be no further world-historical struggle. What he argued was that liberal democracy had become the only real game in town. Therefore, future battles would necessarily be fought in its defence…"

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The End of History and the Final Girl

Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Artist: Roz Chast from The New Yorker

The image shows a black-and-white cartoon titled "The Mind-Body Problem" drawn by Roz Chast for The New Yorker.
It depicts a person slouching on a couch who says "No" in a speech bubble while their mind or head, leaning back, says "Get up."

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s really just the title, and even that is mostly Hegel

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

RIP J. Todd Anderson The Coen brothers’ use of storyboards was integral to their creative process & the hugely talented Anderson brought their cinematic ideas to life since Raising Arizona.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 03/10/2026

"I thought you found me." Carmen let the sheet fall away. They smiled. Neither felt lost. Not anymore.

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, we got a lot of things to confess

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As far as I can tell, SpongeBob SquarePants now occupies the space previously held by, say, The Iliad

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Notice he’s not claiming that all of them DO return

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Honestly, much of it isn’t even this specific, it’s more “kids suffering and dying is bad”

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Psssssh I have no interest in silly vinyl t-Mordin! Buddy!

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m equal parts delighted and horrified that “Mecha Hitler” is now a perfectly well understood term of art

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 30/09/2026

an AI cannot meaningfully be horny therefore an AI cannot meaningfully make music

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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

American media: time to come up with the dumbest possible discourse about a Billboard hit British media: You are like a little baby. Watch this

Opinion - UK politics

What ‘Choosin’ Texas’ tells us about Burngam’s social care obstacles

Stephen Bush

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“How is my car getting real time traffic info?” I thought. “Why are Kia paying the monthly cell service charge? What’s the benefit to them?” This is why

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I also get really tired of the take “you ever think he’s the bad guy, huh?” as if that wasn’t a central ongoing theme of the comics

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think if this app never grows its base beyond “the nerds & the queers” that would still be an incredibly valuable and probably sustainable thing

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That detail, OMG. Judith’s face! In 15frigging97 I imagine this painting would have been the most incredible thing any viewer had ever seen

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Judith decapitates Holofernes with distaste but determination, 1597. By Caravaggio, born OTD in 1571.

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember, it's not gambling, it's healing your inner child.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning from Marcel Duchamp

"Not everyone is an artist, but everyone is a fucking critic."

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Completion of cycles. Eternally repeating symbols. The toys go back in the box, ready for the next game

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026

"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

buff.ly

“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know about the George & Marcia Lucas drama, what’s the other one?

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 25/09/2026

this is why, despite being pumped about AR and related tech, I have zero interest in owning any Meta offering they’d let mortuary vans bid on auto-detection of your grief once the pipeline exists

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being able to select text from a photo and plug it straight into the alt text is very cool. That’s all.

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

connection is my necessary thing and it comes to me in details — Cynthia Leslie-Bole, in “Feather & Fire”

Connective Tissue
connection
is my necessary thing
and it comes to me in details
fur coating the lupine pod
seeds on the strawberry like stars in a galaxy sun-yellow beak jutting from the junco's black hood gradations of purple to pink in the sweet pea blossom
sudden meeting of eyes in which someone is truly home looking out and seeing me, who is also home with hearth fires burning in welcome
ivy waving in the wind
egret flying with black feet trailing behind sticky monkeyflower sporting orange gullets dudleya growing squat with red spires reaching high my husband offering me cardamom tea and a smile
unrelated details yet part of the matrix that keeps me from dispersing
connections
meeting, merging, branching, extending and swirling me back to our common source

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 24/09/2026

The simple facts are: 1. OpenAI deliberately designed software for carrying out autonomous cyberattacks (they were training it on something called “ExploitGym” for heaven’s sake) 2. They left it on completely unmonitored 3. Exactly what you think would happen happened

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also that there is a set of cultural values (never precisely stated, usually including “fairness”) defining the English, hence making it superior to all those primitive race-based identities. (Note I’ve never heard this theory from a non-white person)

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I find it *very* difficult to believe that gay men are that picky about bi men

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 24/09/2026

NEW POST Human collaboration improves with feedback, but not obvious to do well. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips, based on the principle that both praise and criticism should be seen as positive. martinfowler.com/articles/hea...

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Healthy Feedback

A guide to exchanging criticism or praise in teams

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No Proscenium @noproscenium.com · 22/09/2026

NEW LISTING Nekomachi / Cat Town — The Return a town possessed by cats. somewhere behind shimokitazawa. Now in English as well as Japanese. Shimokitazawa, Japan. Sep 19 - Oct. 4. everythingimmersive.com/events/nekom...

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Nekomachi - Catville (2026)

Walk the night streets of Shimokitazawa. A 45-minute experience of sound and dance.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the single best quote from any @mcsweeneys.net article. It’s brilliance cannot be overstated. “Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they’re both extremely fucking real. Sorry if that’s upsetting, but I’m not doing you any favors by shielding you from this anymore.”

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apple uses Jabber internally (used to anyway) and I think they project outwards a little

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Will Morton @macavity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think there’s a sizeable “a plague on both your houses” caucus who have been incorrectly identified as anti-trans but who actually DGAF and just prioritize economic concerns. Mamdani is doing a great job - support for marginalized groups but also a relentless focus on immediate problems

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath v1.01: Added some mythical dungeons, materials, and related temple quests

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