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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 12h
Need to bring back "death and devils" as an exclamation.
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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 15h
"we don't have the money for that" and yet we have trillionaires now! wow i wonder where the money went, what a mystery
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Fishing Boat at Sea botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
A Fishing Boat at Sea
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
blog.documentfoundation.org
Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Deputy Fire Chief Oswald Dragon" (from the Daily Hampshire Gazette)
100 Years Ago
Guys supporting a trolley wire in front of the city hall broke this afternoon at about one o’clock. The wire swung low over the street and blocked traffic for a short time. Deputy Fire Chief Oswald Dragon did traffic duty until he was relieved by Police Officer Harry J. Kelly.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him
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Archfey of SLAY 🔪💋 (MechaSatan Occult Heresy) 🐊🐺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @spicyfey888.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is why the internet was created
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
After the first five, this became a brutal winnowing.
My 9 Books I'll Never Forget: Middlemarch, The Brothers Karamazov, Main Street, Native Son, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Hobbit, Dune, Murder on the Orient Express, Robur the Conqueror
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When I was a kid decades ago I think there was a company that would print custom books with your child's name as the main character and that sounded really lame to basically all of us but the few imagination challenged narcissist kids now have all the money and power
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ishmael: did you and Ahab stay in touch The whale from Moby Dick: I never really felt like I knew him, I don’t think any of us did Guest Jason Manzoukas: what’s up jerks
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jesus, at least try to have some dignity.
Spam text from the Dems reading, "Will you please please please please pretty please pitch in $15 to Sherrod Brown's campaign today?"
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Adrian Chiles is the Gallant to David Brooks' Goofus.
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Counterpoint: yes, I do want to hear it.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reflecting on it, Musk getting into government and making a beeline straight for USAID is one of the most depraved acts in human history. A relatively small department with a relatively small budget but mostly focused on saving the lives of Africans. It’s the first thing he destroyed!
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We're really getting to the point where it's most accurate to say, "Rosalind Franklin, discoverer of the structure of DNA."
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty sure a lot of folks make the racist assumption that "banana republic" means "any tropical country, which we assume to be lawless," and not "country where US business demolished law and order." But I don't know how the clothing brand fits in here.
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unironically, youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0?...
youtu.be
William Shatner - Common People
YouTube video by dsjkhd
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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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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Style guide tip: names of decisions by the Roberts Court should be followed by an asterisk, like statistics for Barry Bonds.
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah, if you hear this and don't immediately think, "Well, that's obviously a crime," I'm sorry, you've gotten stuck inside the criminal's framing.
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Huh.
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I appreciate that in Supergirl, they apparently had a post-credits scene, but then just made it the final scene of the movie because it fit well there.
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is what we lost in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Now that I have the powers of a fly, no one can stop me! Unless there is some man with the powers of a spider, I suppose."
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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters
The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast
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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 06/10/2026
Watching The Wire for the first time, and I like how the show is incredibly grounded, until suddenly they add this guy who feels like he’s from a comic book. Like, this is a guy Batman would have interactions with.
Brother Mouzone from The Wire
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Published by Sterling in Captain Flash #1-4. She's secretly Janie Jackson, a seemingly-demure 10-year-old & daughter of a police lieutenant, who goes out and fights crime as Tomboy.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Warty gourd in graphite
Pencil drawing of a bumpy gourd
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My only real question for the new app that's replacing Marvel Unlimited is are they finally going to digitize the rest of '90s Darkhawk?
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woe platinum @esvrld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i think the root failure of liberal politics over the past decades is the assumption that there is such a thing as an apolitical, neutral, context-free body of facts that require no interpretation and are obviously true to anyone once they've simply been pointed out
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Niche comic book complaint, but the past several volumes of Doctor Strange love to have him say that his magic always has a cost, but then never depict any discernible cost.
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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 05/10/2026
If you can, please consider helping Force Works and Iron Man artist Tom Tenney as he enters his final days. www.gofundme.com/f/help-marve...
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Donate to Help Marvel Artist Tom Tenney Thru His Final Chapter, organized by Christina Durbin
Imagine spending more than 30 years bringing heroes to life on… Christina Durbin needs your support for Help Marvel Artist Tom Tenney Thru His Final Chapter
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026
no....no!!!!!
lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is like how in the novel (and a Christopher Lee film or two), Dracula has a mustache.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'd sum up this show as a bunch of really talented actors delivering lines of dialogue that all sound good individually, but make absolutely no sense as a whole.
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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
imagining the Highly Sexual Brother-In-Law discourse if this site existed when HELLRAISER (1987) dropped
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Indiana Jones
Alt: From "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," Walter Donovan aging into a skeleton after drinking from the false grail
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI COMPANIES: “People who don’t use AI agents just aren’t aware of the vast power they possess to do anything.” NORMAL PEOPLE: “Wow, okay, wow. Sounds great. What can they do? Give me your top example.” AI COMPANIES: “The hardest task of all: Checking you into a flight!”
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can tell the economy is doing great by how every other ad I get on a streaming service is for a different payday-loan app.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 04/10/2026
its genuinely so fucking funny to me that all the "uhm all modern art is shit, what happened to having artists get classically trained for 25 years to paint religious art in the style of the old masters" guys are pro AI slop now
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it is in fact a moral and societal imperative that you not pretend the people attempting to end democratic pluralism are just people with different opinions within the frame of democratic pluralism
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🎃 #31daysofhalloween #Gothtober
Vintage Halloween card ‘May LUCK
AND LOVE
MEET you on 
ALL HALLOWE’EN’
Witch with broom in pumpkin hot air balloon flying over bats flying over a silhouette of a town, a black cat rides on top of the pumpkin.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this
Triangular diagram labelled The Introvert
Hierarchy of Needs. 

Top: Self-actualisation - A completely empty house. An arrow pointing to the house says “Nobody needs anything. Nobody is coming home for hours. Phone on silent.” 

The next level is Esteem - Plans getting cancelled. An arrow here says “‘Sorry, we're going to have to rearrange.’ Oh no. That's terrible. I'm devastated.” 

Next level: Belonging - One person you actually like. No group chat. No networking. No "let's go round and introduce ourselves." Just one person you can talk absolute shit with. 

Fourth level: Safety - An escape route. Own car. End seat. Knowing exactly when the event finishes. A believable reason to leave early.

Bottom of pyramid: Physiological needs - Being left the fuck alone for a bit. Food. Water. Sleep. 45 minutes where nobody speaks to you.

Created by Lee Harding, @theintrovertedrecruiter
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am once again asking anyone who interviews Wes Anderson to please finally ask him about Showa Era Godzilla.
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
113 years later, you rarely see a racist sack of shit who has reasonable views on tax policy.
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In The Mark of Madness @markpaglia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Racist, thou deem me? I see not color. I care not if thou be white, black, green, or purple, if a sperm whale thou be, I hate thee equally."
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