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M. Blind

@mdotblind.bsky.social
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foundling raised by a feral tribe of sarcastic suburbanites || Hyperfocus for hire · Gamesmith, wordwright, rules wrangler · Fan of scifi & fantasy, lover of books, former bookseller || Interpuctgames.com, personal blog at rocketbomber.com || 52. He/him.

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Cincinnati Zoo @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social · 2h
Rozi the cheetah purrs 😻 Sound on for beautiful cheetah purrs! Cats can either roar or purr, they can’t do both. Lions & tigers can roar, but they can’t purr. Cheetahs can purr, but they can’t roar.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 2h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 2h
content warning: pupper www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayt1...
youtube.com
Today I Met The World's Most Gigantic Puppy
YouTube video by Girl With The Dogs
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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 3h
re last repost. AI is another tool, another computer application, another "thing" but I don't think it's a new class of thing. The interesting bits of AI, to me, are: . That big lump of training data. Oh man. I wish they'd make *that* available and searchable (with like ctrl-F, or 2010 google)
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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 3h
& thread. my own thoughts in a following, re last repost
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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 3h
1. Google never knows what to do with its own products 2. On long enough time scales, Google will cancel everything. Google is a company that kills its own. Even popular things. Even good things. 3. Android and ChromeOS both are just unix variants/branding arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
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Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034
Google support maps out how Googlebooks can take over where ChromeOS left off.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 5h
Research project on correlation between ghost-hunting projects and really nice little B&Bs….
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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 4h
most haunted place on earth is some hill in turkey that's only a hill because people kept building in the same spot for 10000 years. most ghosts per square inch, anyway. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_(a...
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Tell (archaeology) - Wikipedia
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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 5h
Its funny that the "most haunted place in X" is always some tiny village you never heard of and not some city that is centuries or even millennia old. Like I refuse to believe Rome produces less ghosts then some dinky ass village in the English countryside that has like 10 families living in it.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 5h
Except voters were warned again and again about what would happen if they put Trump back in office, and Trump voters told them to stop catastrophizing and exaggerating.
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Pru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 6h
I appreciate men speaking up on the Cornell thing. Truly. Make sure you're centering women's voices, too, please?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19h
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h
Page One. @wsj.com
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 6h
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue is calmly sitting on his computer when he is startled by noises that sound somewhere between coughing and choking. Alarmed, he rushes to investigate.
Blue: Green? Are you okay?

Blue finds Green on his back on the floor, evidently shaken up but otherwise unharmed.
Green: I somehow swallowed spittle wrong.
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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 8h
...why hasn't Clooney won an Oscar for a Karloff biopic yet? LOOK AT THAT GUY. LOOK AT THE CRICKET JUMPER HOTNESS BEING SERVED. HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S ABOUT TO PASSIONATELY ARGUE FOR A CHILD'S WELLBEING BEFORE BEING CHASED UP A BURNING WINDMILL BY A GROUP OF ANGRY VILLAGERS!
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 7h
“Freelancer” - weak, exploitable, foolishly leads with “free” “Angle grinder” - tough, grindset, implies you’ve already got a Take
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 7h
OMG I LOVE HIM LOOK AT THIS MUPPET OF A BIRD
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 7h
Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.
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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 7h
The magnificent goober. Regal, enormous, just wants a cuddle and a whole rabbit and a nap.
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Ironlily @ironlilyart.com · 7h
Sometimes you need to choose word carefully around your reenactor friend.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8h
unpopular opinion: food almost everywhere was worse 250 years ago
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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 8h
Imagine reading without spaces between words. Now imagine an entire culture built that way. The invention of the modern page changed not merely how knowledge was recorded, but who could read it, how they read it, how they did science, and how they thought. 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/1733-the-w...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
Took my son to see AC/DC in Philly last night and I can report that Angus Young has fully transformed into David St. Hubbins from Spinal Tap
An old man in a kids uniform rocking out
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J¡m Vaughn @jiminyspigot.bsky.social · 17h
This cat knows how to basket.
A grey diluted tortoise shell cat, curled up in a rectangular basket, filling it almost entirely.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 20h
you are invited to her gallery opening
A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h
taps sign again
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21h
America.gov runs off of Gemini and Grok (of course), by the way: www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/t...
cnbc.com
New AI-powered government website uses Gemini, Grok, Trump official Gebbia says
Trump called the new website, America.gov, "a restoration of America's founding promise."
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good morning via @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social
Bear: I need to forget the past. Get a fresh start. Kevin, how's your mindwipe machine coming along?
Bird : it's still just vodka.
Bear: I still am cool with that.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 29/09/2026
I fail to understand why squirrels are not the top trending topic at all times
Two gray squirrels in a tree hole
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Brian Eno on how Lula helped the poor, which in turn stimulated small businesses.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i think one of the problems i run into is people try to place me in a box in their heads. im either an unapologetic dem cheerleader or a chaos agent trying to kneecap the dems. reality: im a progressive democrat who wants a better america. that means pushing dems but also challenging dems.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 29/09/2026
"I'm just so incredibly pathetically straight." "Except for Gillian Anderson." "I mean, obvs."
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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The stealthy wealthy, the "landed gentry", "main street" millionaires, the "middlegarchy" 989 Billionaires but even the top 0.1% is way more than just 1000 people. spoiler: they're also getting tax cuts. www.npr.org/transcripts/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y8F...
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Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs | Planet Money
YouTube video by NPR's Planet Money
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Spooky season is almost here. #soon #skeleton #october #humor #humour
giant skeleton holding up a sign that says "soon"
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026
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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a timeline where American democracy is destroyed by a reality show contestant does imply, weirdly, a timeline where Regis Philbin saved it
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 29/09/2026
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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Strip mining the corpus of knowledge.
japantoday.com
Tons of used books in Japan being bought up by someone or something
There is perhaps no better example of an independent business than the neighborhood used bookstore. But like many such businesses these days, it can be really hard to make ends meet as they compete wi...
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes life doesn't send you answers. It sends you a cat that lies down next to you and makes everything a little easier.
Jinx the tabby bobtail cat with her two front paws curled under her belly.  She’s sound asleep.
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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026
You catch that big video essay last night?
coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's ~a whole story here~ and none of is in the article I'm morbidly curious www.bbc.com/news/article...
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New York Times executive fatally shot by elderly in-laws, police say
Jonathan McKinsey's in-laws, who are both 77 years old, face multiple charges including first-degree murder.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 29/09/2026
Today in "decisions in kerning"
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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
re last repost The shows of the 2000s, 1990s, 1980s -- those live on physical media, the big entertainment companies made sure they had releases (on whichever format, and often updated for new formats) because those releases made money. TV shows of the streaming era?
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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
The ongoing framing that actually owning your media is "low-tech" is disingenuous and sad. In a world where the powers that be are trying to destroy media ownership, we should be embracing and supporting it instead of snarking about how it's "outdated"
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 29/09/2026
Why social media is not actually social These platforms have become a very different thing #socialmedia #disinformation See the full video that talks about how influencers really aren't your friend at youtu.be/q5gvoorgX3E
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