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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Let's talk about Versailles.
Renderings show an ornate and gilded interior that departs from the simplicity of the original White House and echoes the look of the ballroom at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, a look he has said was inspired by the Palace of Versailles in France. 

Source: https://archive.is/NIWLl
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
James Dean was in three movies. Three. None of them were great. You guys can try to build your legacies through a lifetime of meaningful achievements if you want. I’m going to continue focusing on what really matters: looking awesome
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
addressing a room of male vegans: lentilmen,
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: The Marzipan Volta
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hope this Ishmael finds you whale
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I haven't posted about this in a while, but I made 2 free creative writing courses: the Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp & the 100 Day Writing Challenge. Each session, you listen to a short podcast & do a 10 minute exercise. The timer is included in the episode. www.timclarepoet.co.uk/couchto80kwr...
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Free 8 Week Writing Course by Podcast - The Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp
The Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp is a free writing course by podcast. Want to write a novel? Low on motivation? 8 weeks of daily 10 min exercises.
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I really wish that people would spell others' names correctly. I don't want to have to mute every possible permutation of someone's name to avoid hearing about them.
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theo || shark wrangler @expressionbean.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#artsky #ocsky A little guide on why alt text is important and how blind people may perceive/interact with your posts, from a low vision person
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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
10 minutes huh?
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: C Movie
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Interesting MTG Art (scary version 💀) @interestingmtg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Okay, one more, for the road. I haven't proxied the grail before now, and I got inspired. Good night, y'all 🖤
BLACK LOTUS
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(IT'S AN ARTIFACT, BUT IT DOESN'T SAY THAT HERE, WHOOPS)

EFFECTS: TAP, SAC, ADD 3
ANY COLOR YOU WANT, BAYBEE

FLAVOR TEXT: THE WORLD IS YOURS
POST MALONE, BUY THIS FROM ME FOR $50,000 USD

(This is a proxy by me.)
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Years ago, I came up with a taxonomy of creative writing teaching styles. It's a series of archetypes I've encountered over decades, in myself & others. You can think of it as the creative writing teaching Fighter Select screen. Here goes:
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh FUCK RIGHT OFF.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You guys won’t fuckin believe how fast a car can do it
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Joy Addition
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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 19/08/2026
A cynical person might suggest that the petitions system was created as a mechanism to redirect the public's energy away from action that could meaningfully change anything
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's depressing how cheaply they can be bought.
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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
An increasingly pervasive element of modern life is having a machine in your home or a phone in your hand that is constantly trying to do things that you do not consent to.
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Ferret @ferretjunkie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Everyone in the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be required to play The Campaign for North Africa
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12/08/2026
“Well I’m a man and I never know when I can say something without being accused on mansplaining!” Okay it’s real simple so let me explain. Does the post contain the words “I would like advice” or “can somebody please explain”? If it does, go ahead! If it doesn’t, do not go ahead.
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Peer Sylvester @peersylvester.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Last night I couldnt sleep and made these cryptic clues for boardgames (so no pool or billards). Except for one the games are all well known. Dont know if they are fun or difficult, but goi nuts
1.)	The other side of ham
2.)	The Greek edition of John Crowley´s Little, Big
3.)	Mc Cartney´s Band´s kitchenware
4.)	Soups and friendships belong together
5.)	Captain Picard lived here a full life 
6.)	People thinking of cinnamon or cinema, might think this a game about Satan
7.)	The Empire where the sun never sets. Or rises
8.)	This spinoff of about high ranking military personnel is set in Britain’s second city 
9.)	The person who works the fishing gear on a trawler
10.)	∙--∙ ∙ - ∙ ∙-∙, ∙--∙ ∙- ∙∙- ∙-∙∙, -- ∙- ∙-∙ ¬-∙--
11.)	Port after dark
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
THERAPIST: you need to give yourself some grace. is that how you would talk to a friend? ME: if she was a dumb bitch like me yeah
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 11/08/2026
The silver lining is they are almost always failsons who relative to the potential gains they could make are costing their families money and the industrial system of sport they belong to is phenomenally good at wringing rich morons of their money to force it back into circulation.
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 11/08/2026
Its worth emphasising, racing is very much a rich man's sport drivers are always the kids of industrialists, economists, investors, bankers, that sort you should never consider them heroes they come from the ruling class
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is almost poetic in its capacity to symbolise how fascism is destined to repeatedly re-emerge from the harms and destruction of capitalist expansion, and will keep doing so until those underlying conditions change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Nazi shipwrecks emerge from the depths as Europe’s Danube dries up
Unexploded ordnance and a military motorcycle also recovered following record heat and drought conditions
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I don't think the world would be improved if certain people got to read/hear what others truly thought of them *before* they died, but it would be very satisfying for me.
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
As a prof this is how I dealt with the person in the group project who everyone else complained privately about because they did no work come presentation time: “Nice work, everyone! For the Q& A, why don’t you start us off [Obvious Fuckup Name]! Can you tell us a little about [creative choice]?”
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Organisations and institutions will not fight the good fight.
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janetTHEmcadams @janetthemcadams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And of course he’s ‘Nolan’ while she’s ’Emily.’
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2026
hey man, sorry for what i said earlier, when i was right
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You are not arguing with a fascist incel chud. What is happening is not an argument. You are not in an argument with them. They specifically derive pleasure from seeing you acting as if they are arguing with you, as if you are both having an argument.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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scary angel drags you to heaven @shiningangelx.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
girl who says bruh bf x boy who says uwu gf
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Justin Harwood @sdhero.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"but what if this shit I made up in my head happens?" That's not a plan, that's an idea for a novel.
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Brosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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Jimmer Cork-Bottle @jimmerthatisall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This day in history. 1439. In response to the Black Death king Henry VI banned kissing in England. "Go straight to third base," he said, "you're all going to die anyway."
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Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Anyone else have this problem? It just keeps happening :(
1. I am beautiful and terrible as the dawn 

2. Everyone withers from me as though blinded by my radiance

3. I assume they don’t want me around 

4. Tales of my aloof manner and ethereal beauty echo in legend

Repeat
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
One ring to rule them all and in the darkness mogg them.
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
there once was a gent from South Caroline who could sure run his mouth something fine talked his way into the Senate stayed so long he died in it now he’ll finally reunite with his spine
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Zero Expectations @mcdsy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Anyone had a twenty minute conversation with bluesky recently?
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/07/2026
"Does that mean he hates his own wife" So, here's the thing about heterosexuality.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My dad was a poet so I could never really join in when the other boys would argue about whose dad could beat up the other dads, but I was confident that my dad could make your dad feel seen in ways that would quietly devastate him.
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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A short comic about Lenny #TheSimpsons #comics
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What would happen if the world found out a major US security agency was infiltrated by Nazis?! Well, first of all, bold of you to think it would require any kind of "infiltration".
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026
There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
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