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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

sidebar, i (weirdly) find that people treat me better with the cane than when i didn't have it and had to use the seats in museums etc., but perhaps it's just that most people aren't absolute rending arseholes like kathy and her pals. hard to say 🤷🏼‍♀️

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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...

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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 had a roll and fried egg with potato scone for breakfast 🍳

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

i met a journalist who was having the same predicament, seeing an oddly aggravating play and then finding no food. at several points i thought, this is fucking ridiculous, but everything had the appearance of places and things that i knew, and when i woke up, felt more like memories than dreams

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

ah, but the dog is a regular, they said. so i wandered into the lobby, ravenous. there was something happening in the grand hall but it wasn't clear if it was a wedding or a wake, so i was too scared to raid the buffet. it seemed late, but when i found myself walking outside it was still daytime

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

a man at the next table was rude to the staff, and i berated him, hoping this would earn me even a packet of crisps. it didn't. a stunning woman came in with a setter with the manner of an afghan hound. dotingly, the staff made it a ham sandwich. please, i begged, you've just made that dog some food

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

the staff changed every time i asked for food, snacks, anything, and always a different excuse. there was food only between 11-3, and it was now 8, even though i'd been there for hours. it was a turkish restaurant, and somehow no food was the custom. they brought me a pint I'd ordered hours ago.

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

i realised i was alone, and hungry, and wandered into the lounge of an old-fashioned hotel that i felt like I'd stayed in before. the bartender gave me a double whisky without asking, but, really, i was hungry. for a while it seemed like i was alone, then suddenly the tables around me were full.

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

it was daytime outside the theatre and i walked out with a girl i both knew and didn't, trying (badly) to describe how the staging had been meant to look like a human skull, as though that explained anything. when she spoke she only referred to things and people by initials i didn't recognise.

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

i dreamt i was at a beckett play with too many characters, and at the final curtain, one was robert carlyle. he was disappointed to see me in the crowd. women in the next row were angry after, as if they'd been ambushed by something they hadn't expected, stormed into the lobby and demanded refunds.

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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