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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 30/09/2026

Whenever I write about old software, it still strikes me how absurd it is that it’s easier to run software from the 90s and 2000s on a modern computer than it is to run an iOS app from 15 years ago.

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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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Some Gora Boy Named Rob @mathochist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"I said I wanted an Oxo Rapid Brewer!"

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Explain how that happens" is a legitimate request! And critique! I am happy to explain all sorts of ways LLMs could hurt humanity, but all of those explanation involve careless people doing careless things. Not rogue software. I do not like this moment in time where nobody cares how things work.

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to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A megaphone is 10¹² times the size of a microphone

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binary phase diagram @phasebinary.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this lowkey sounds good

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Some Gora Boy Named Rob @mathochist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hi, I'm Rob. I brew coffee and take photos. I love the Bonerama cover of Radiohead's Paranoid Android, especially the "Rain down" part played as a funeral dirge. It hits me right in the elder millennial New Orleanean ass. Would you like to introduce yourself with a small song moment you like?

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 30/08/2026

could a handful of billionaires owning the means of production of all knowledge/creative work revive socialism

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/08/2026

my 5yo said she was making a sign for her fort and I was expecting like "no boys allowed" or whatever, but in fact it said:

Rainbow lettered sign "everyone alowed in this fort"

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:

Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points:
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry

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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME

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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 26/08/2026

"what a week, huh?" / "lemon it's Wednesday" meme

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When the Gatlinburg Wildfires happened in 2016, Dolly gave impacted families $1,000/month to help them get back on their feet. This included my father-in-law, who lost everything in the fire. Dolly gave children in TN free books each month, from birth to the age of five. She was a goddamn saint.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Read it to the end.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also, I highly recommend the amazing podcast Dolly Parton's America, which is full of tremendous reporting and unusual insight, as well as a terrific interview with Dolly: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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Some Gora Boy Named Rob @mathochist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Universal Basic Income in Dolly's name, now!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 15/08/2026

Game of Life on Penrose tiles

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HEALTH @health.band · 15/08/2026

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Copy of Woke_FINAL_FINAL_FINAL2_USE THIS ONE 03.docx

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Embarrassing that Chicago is only in 7th place in transit ridership, shows how much room there is for improvement

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Matt Damon at the end of The Odyssey [getting in his boat]: I Odyssey about a girl.

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/08/2026

This what pivot_wider() was born for

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🅱️oofessor Killosk 👻🔪 @professorkiosk.wtf · 22/07/2026

who do we want? the funk soul brother when do we want him? right about now

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Some Gora Boy Named Rob @mathochist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It feels like this sign is designed to make you feel like you're doing well translating German to English until it hits you upside your head with the last word.

A sign reads, "Wir informieren Sie persönlich über Allergien und Lebensmittelunverträglichkeiten."

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026

So if you were around when I first criticized Platner you might remember me and a few other female vets talking about this being a likely reveal. At the time one of his earliest defenders insisted it was our bias. No, it was our experience www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/g...

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Platner Senate campaign taking 'time to reflect' on path forward after sexual assault allegation

Platner and his campaign denied the accusations made by 41-year-old Maine resident Jenny Racicot in a POLITICO article published Monday.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I haven’t seen so many ineffective crosses in Mexico since Hernán Cortés couldn’t convert the Aztecs in 1519

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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John Breen @breen.tech · 12/06/2026

The quote is advice for children. It’s not telling adults to look for helpers. It’s telling adults to be helpers

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 07/06/2026

That these photos could have been better doesn't mean people shouldn't enjoy what they have to offer. It just makes them a bit ephemeral. That's the default state of media in a social media age. But asking yourself "why doesn't this work for me?" is necessary if you want to do better next time.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 29/05/2026

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

A close up of captain kirk getting his eyes scanned. It is cut off above the eyebrows and below his mouth.

The same image in a thumbnail for Star Trek, the wrath of Khan. But AI has painted the rest of the image so that Kirk is a balding man in a business suit.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This one’s for you, @rachaelstott.bsky.social

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/05/2026

"too big to fail" walked so that "too rich for consequences" could run

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

How to Be a Real Man, 2026 GOP Edition: -Drink whiskey, smoke cigars, make sure it's on camera -Claim you'd kill for your kids, but barely parent -Say you could beat up a bear -Say an out-of-shape 80-year-old can beat you up -Express pants-wetting fear of cities -Be an asshole to women -Whine a lot

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