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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.

maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

me, half an hour into the guys starting the bathroom reno, realising the banging and breaking tile sounds are setting off the perimeter alarm*: [insert winnie the pooh oh no meme here] *c-ptsd

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Scree-am @rampantpiracy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Oh your dad got bit by Dracula? Where was he? At the big castle?? The one that belongs to Dracula?? Your dad is mad he got bit by Dracula AT DRACULA’S HOUSE??? WHAT DID HE THINK DRACULA DOES THERE EXACTLY????”

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

D262,037 - issued in 1981 to Paramount Pictures for a design for a "calligraphic font." #DesignPatents

design patent for a typeface that looks very similar to the one used on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

i'd be telling big fibs if i said i was gen z but as a just slightly older* woman, god forbid i be able to walk to the co-op, kathy. the transphobia was a big giveaway but imagine putting down in words that you are so ungenerous of soul, and being happy to let people know that. how embarrassing. *😉

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I know the lawfare and financial threats are real but this immediate backing down is something they don't do for fucking *dictators*, doing it for JKR and her ilk is grim

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Standard Issue Computing @standardissuecomputing.blog · 27/06/2026

can’t delete this shit

A glamor shot I took of a Matrix DVD in a fat PS2

physical media forever

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Sigourney Weaver didn't sink a half-court basketball shot over her shoulder in Alien Resurrection so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 24/06/2026

HERE WE, HERE WE... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Let the national bumhole clenching begin

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

brutal 70ish minutes there 💀

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

not enjoying this 'wait til every blade of grass is pointing the right way before taking a shot on goal' strategy, are we sure that just booting it in a vaguely goalward direction repeatedly and often won't work out eventually?

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

scottish etsy witches pulling a double shift tonight trying to ensure the least number of points possible for all other teams in the group

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

How I Learned to Read Way, Way More

I had to rethink my relationship to attention

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

i would like fewer hardest battles. or just a little bit of spacing between them. this is a lot at once

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alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

we’ve got human beings on the dark side of the moon but microsoft word will still not let me add a comment to a footnote

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is very good, on how we got rid of all the middle-of-the-road stuff and will come to regret it. Via @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's also very good newsletter which you should subscribe to open.substack.com/pub/readfoun...

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They Killed Normal and Called It Progress

Julia Roberts, Applebee's, Bandcamp, your manager, and the death of everything in between. (Also, Sweetgreen is the A24 of dining and I will die on this hill.)

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies. I resist the bad ones, but when a "Congo" or an
"Anaconda" comes along, my heart leaps up and I cave in. "The Mummy" is a movie like that. There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it.

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

the slightly niche version of this that haunts me is the lack of almost any international newspapers in airports now

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

and people thought my masters in medieval and renaissance studies wouldn't be useful...

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

??????? - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELATEN WHO DOSENT KNOW WHAT THEY DID , " CANT REMEMBER MOST OF MY LIFE, CANT REMEMBER YESTERDAY" WHERE DID I GO? 2009? 2011? 2003? 1997? WHAT DID I DO? 2006? NOVEMBER? 2014? 1998? 2:00PM? 10:00AM? EVERY ONE OR JUST ME?????? - WELL WHAT IS IT AM I ALL FUCKED UP OR DOES EVERY ONE DO THIS AND IF I WAS THERE WHY DONT I REMEMBER, I KNOW I HAD TO HAVE GONE TO WORK SOME OF THOSE YEARS BUT WHAT WAS I DOING AT ANY SPECIFIC POINT??? ITS MY LIFE WHY DONT I KNOW?????? IS THAT REALLY GONE THRU DA "HOLES IN DA SWISS CHEESE OF DA MIND" - SEEMS UNFAIR IDK - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Repeatedly asking the supermarket staff for a 'chocolate battle pass' and feigning misunderstanding when they ask if I mean 'advent calendar'

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/11/2025

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetw…

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/11/2025

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

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Bethany~ @picklebee.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊 www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

A map with gritters on it called William Wall-ice, grit tok, Gritney Spears and The Grittist Snowman

A map with gritters on it called I've grit a crush on you, grit a bit, polar patroller, I want to break freeze

A map with gritters on it called bear chills, thistle do icely

A map with gritters on it called Gritallica, Olaf snow free roads, salt shaker and sled zepplin

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

i'm on what i believe the medical term is 'a fucktonne' of antihistamines, and having the most mundane yet bizarre dreams. i told my partner and he said 'have you considered writing vignettes or short stories' - god forbid anyone actually reads them, so i will tell you here:

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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

A vaguely vampiric mari tonight (inspired by the visual fest of coppolas dracula) I’m not sure its blood, most likely wine given maris perchant for booze

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

a colleague: i like grammarly, it makes such helpful suggestions that make my writing more concise me, with two masters degrees in literature: *staring down 'use the correct version' like ron swanson in home depot*

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

doing a book sale for local charities as we inch toward completion on the library - send me all your unwanted books please and thank you 🙏🏼

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Reposting this poem here for @thelabandfield.bsky.social who retweets it every winter. Yet again, I'm wondering where *is* my soup and hibernation?

No Talk, I’m Sleepy
Unfortunately, the spotted garden eel.
With regret, the lark. My apologies,
the dark bleating of winter, the vice-like
grip of my heart. How language deserts
me, its most faithful engineer, its very best
silly sod. There is altogether too much
of everything. The light is only pretending
to get out of bed. Where is my soup
and hibernation? Why am I expected to be?
I have become a dormouse. Undisturbed
until spring.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 18/10/2025

Nine Inch Nails “Art is Resistance” flyer (2007), with some thoughts on what it means today that came up in my recent Q&A. #NoKings ✊

Nine Inch Nails "Art is Resistance" flyer, 2007. The Art is Resistance flyer, designed by 42 Entertainment with art direction by Trent Reznor and me, was plastered around cities to draw players of the NIN “Year Zero” ARG to real-world gatherings, secret meetings of “the resistance” in the Year Zero fiction, but also a very real mechanism to plant the seeds of real-world activism into a story about what the future might look like if more people didn’t “wake up and give a shit.” Unfortunately, the future turned out almost exactly like what we imagined in Year Zero, but the message - that art is resistance, and you have a voice - is more important than ever.

Question (u/tiktock34): What do you think is the most powerful combination of art and music today, given our political climate? Im thinking of movements similar to the "Art is Resistance" type of message. Lots of
music and lots of artists but its clear you are passionate about the blend.
Also, thanks for the years! Huge fan Rob Sheridan: I think about this a lot, and wonder what the role of art should be in this particular moment of resistance. It's weird to look back at the NIN Year Zero ARG and "Art is Resistance" campaign from 2007 and see that the future took the bad path anyway, almost eerily to a tee. Not that I expected an album to change the future or anything, but at the bleakest of times I couldn't help but second-guess if art did matter anymore in terms of actually affecting change; if I should have been more involved with organizing or with direct action, if we were deluding ourselves in thinking
we were doing anything more than a cool art project. But then, year in and year out, again and again, right now included, fans tell me - more than any other project I ever worked on, by far - how much Year Zero meant to them, how much the Art is Resistance campaign inspired them, how it changed the way they viewed the intersection of music and politics. They show me the AiR flag tattoos, their numbers from the ARG, the friends they made through the process, the paths they took after - some even met their future spouses! And it reminds me that yeah, what we did mattered, because a lot of fans were radicalized by that experience to be more politically-aware and think more like activists, and a lot of
artists were emboldened to speak out more.
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These days artists/celebs are expected to have an opinion on everything and will even get called out for not speaking up on some things, but back in the early 2000s there was this real cynicism about music being "political." Bands would get so much backlash and told to "stick to music" if they voiced political opinions. I'm proud I helped NIN be one of the bands of the era to really break through that barrier on With Teeth and then demolish it completely on Year Zero, and help a lot of fans come around to how
fundamentally intertwined art and politics have always been. And today? I don't think there's any right or wrong way to combine art / music with message, because I think just making art - any kind of art - is a crucial part of the resistance we need right now. At the core of the fascist project is the removal of intellectual and artistic freedoms, and that tells you all you need to know about how much art matters. Between the billionaire techbros & CEOs showing how much they revile creators by racing to gut their livelihoods, and the grotesquely ugly, unfunny, uncreative anti-aesthetics of the right-wing movement, a systemic disdain
for the arts and sciences is stronger than it's ever been. In a moment like this, we all have to keep making human art and connecting around human art, whether it's aggressive music that calls the fuckers out directly or just cute drawings of cats that make people smile. I know artists who are making very direct and provocative protest art; speaking truth to power loudly and directly is important, but it's not
everyone's lane and it's not the only way to use art right now.
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I also know musicians who are just carrying on with their shows without really speaking out specifically, because they know how many vulnerable people are in their audiences going to their shows for strength and community, and they don't want to put additional targets on those peoples'
backs. Protecting your community matters, too. For my own part, thinking about all of this over the past year was a big motivation in doing my art book right now. The feeling of not being sure who I should be or what I should say as an artist in this moment, how much it matters, and finding along the way that some of the art I was making that was really connecting with people and helping them, was art that wasn't literal with a specific message, it just honestly evoked the way I was feeling and the way I think a lot of people are feeling. The catharsis of feeling together, of knowing you're not alone in the way you feel, of seeing artists who matter to you also feeling the same thing; that gives
strength, and strength is power. It's okay to check out to take care of yourself. And it's okay to find joy in music, art, movies, games, books, sports right now. I'd say it's crucial to find joy, more than ever. They're counting on you sacrificing joy, because
then you lose hope, and then you lose the strength to fight back. Art is resistance, and joy is defiance. If your little drawing of a cat brought you or someone else some joy today, that matters. They want you
to give up. Keep. Making. Art.
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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/

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WHO @who.int · 28/09/2025

Today is International #SafeAbortion Day. Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls. As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.

Abortion should be regulated like other health services so that women and girls can access safe, timely and respectful care.

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

there should be a d.a.r.e programme for "public intellectuals" that's just 'isaac chotiner interview: not even once'

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

reading this and immediately getting up to unshrimp, my physio will be sending marie le conte a fruitbasket

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

ok what has happened to the ScotRail voice announcements?

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

my soul leaving my body when i read the report for the committee im addressing this week which says there are no PSED impacts, despite them being given a list of ways the issue would impact protected characteristics 5 months ago

meme of dennis reynolds from it's always sunny saying I have contained my rage for as long as possible

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

introducing the reason i've had about 3 hours sleep since thursday - meet gaia 🐾🖤

Photo of a cotralian puppy snuggled into a tartan pouffe.

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ill-boo-mi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

they should invent unprecedented times that are good

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maxiboose @maxiboose.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

what was the book, wrong answers only ⬇️

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