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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 6h

actual hot take: y'all, generally speaking, are not interested in supporting BIPOC and queer authors when they are not writing about Hurt and Trauma because it's not educational to you. even if the books have BIPOC and queer casts and are in new settings.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With alt text. I yelled

INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works.

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind.

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast.

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The Democrats don't have any income" is going to haunt me, I think.

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if my research is right, I THINK she's the youngest grandmaster, period

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Shan Bennion @anonbeadraws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Miss Elyse, my Curse of Strahd OC, I'm so excited to play her! #anonbeadraws #digitalart #myoc #elyse #Curseofstrahd #cosoc #daggerheartclank #art #illustration #mycharacter

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No kink shaming except for Roko's basilisk weirdos.

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dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

[0011631] Migrant "opposed to life", attacks other migrants immediately

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh look, it is brainlike! Must be intelligent 🤔

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026

These people love the whole "but it's brainlike" but never for a moment think that's an utterly unscientific claim without minimally some definition. Superficial appearances matching and this being seen as something deep is core pseudoscientific knowledge. More below.

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

nominating for the Bsky Threads of All Time listing

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The Victorian Archivist @victorianarchivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The universe has granted us a perfect skeet.

A screenshot of sarah jeong's last two posts. The bottom one says "I will NOT be doing that. See you all in portland in 8 hours or something. Or in greenland. Or in hell." It is post 66/66 in the thread. 66/66 is circled in green for emphasis.

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You ever see someone you deeply respect and admire turn evil in real time

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THAT'S JUST YURI and as such I already own the wig

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is wrong on a fundamental level

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

HOTEL ROOM hunger games has evolved to: PREREGISTRATION HUNGER GAMES ie the Magfest site is 502ing/504ing and it's making me neeeeeeervous

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Almost let the day pass without posting this one!

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 08/09/2026

A joke that, like many good jokes, has a core of truth (too many of y’all suck at mentorship and other forms of paying forward)

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/09/2026

Enjoyed this post, especially this line: "doing finance bro shit in artistic spaces closes more doors than it opens."

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thirteen Years Ago Today: The first appearances of Marriott Carpet Camouflage at #DragonCon THE LEGEND BEGINS

A man in a camouflaged uniform stands in the Marriott Marquis hotel in Atlanta. The camouflage is a wild pattern of yellow lines on blue backgrounds which matches the carpet on which he is standing.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Bad news for publisher HarperCollins: The book-buying subset of MrBeast fans appears to be vanishingly small. Two people close to the project say The Most Dangerous Games is on track to be a historic bomb…”

$Semafor: Good news for the subset of MrBeast fans who love to read mystery novels: The YouTube giant's collaboration with James Patterson is out Tuesday, accompanied by a flurry of marketing on MrBeast channels. Read My Book, You Could Win $1,000,000, promises one short. Bad news for publisher HarperCollins: The book-buying subset of MrBeast fans appears to be vanishingly small. Two people close to the project say The Most Dangerous Games is on track to be a historic bomb, with preorders numbering in the four digits as of last week, a tiny fraction of what the publisher will need to justify Patterson's and YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson's hefty fees. It was at a limp #20 on Amazon's new releases list by Sunday. Publishers chasing digital audiences is a tale perhaps as old as time, but this one will go down as a demonstration of that strategy's limits.$

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

at the very least, let us share these precious few moments of grief before he bleats something horrible and ruins it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

1, 2, 3 and 5 I can get anywhere. 4 is why I come here

trending:
1. Natalie Harp's letters to Trump
2. Reports of ICE detaining people
3. Gary, Indiana, lacks power after a storm
4)Debate over "spreadsheet people"
5. Harry and Meghan move back to UK

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Jeremy Bearimy @satyric.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“Yes sir, that was the last thing he read before he quietly put all his devices on the floor and walked into the forest.”

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Eklärbär @viycoffin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

mutiny is rare. scurvy is abundant

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"But what if your supply lines are cut and it's reaalllyy embarrassing it's ok to not feed your soldiers then, right?" Sun Tzu's ghost:

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Cute Goose Honking with Goslings on Path

Alt: Pissed off Goose Honking with Goslings on Path hissing and chasing

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you followed or signal-boosted the claims a few weeks back by the historian who said the graphic novelist had done an unauthorized adaptation of her work on Charity & Sylvia, a lesbian couple from 19th c Vermont, please read this essay from someone who fact-checked these claims in detail.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 15/08/2026

I just want to share the funniest possible update to this, which is: a full two years later Saber finally revoked my Steam key for this game today

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

we are 👏 gettin’ 👏 into 👏 it

Despite Mira saying the demons have to "die," the movie doesn't show them actually dying. They're just sent back to the underworld. If this is allegory, this isn't really death. So what is it?
This scene is showing you that society has trained these three, who are aware of trans people, that the response to us should be violence. This includes legislative violence, this includes gaslighting us about our existence, this includes not believing we are who we say we are, and so much more than actual physical violence (which is also a very real problem). See THE CONSTANT FIGHT (of existing while trans).
I do want to stress, at this point, the film's allegory isn't saying this is how it should be, but this is how it is now.
Rumi, a trans person, has been trained to visit all this violence upon trans people.
This is the implicit transphobia society works into every single cis person (see IMPLICIT QUEERPHOBIA), and the INTERNALIZED TRANSPHOBIA society works into every trans person.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Idk lol "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died. I knew what I was doing was illegal. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour." is pretty fuckin legendary

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Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

Mangione was charged with two federal stalking counts and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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Sweetest Beatrice🏳️‍⚧️ @sweetestbeatrice.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

hey chat, I made a thing for you💖

diagram of the small covered tunnel that Saddam Hussein was hiding in

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

DCon folks, anyone still in the market for a room? Omni's not a bad walk.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I know it seems like the fight against AI is really uphill but I want to remind you at one point, people went really hard for NFTs, including $69.3 million for one by Beeple at a Christie's auction in 2021, but now almost no one buys them.

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I've been watching/rewatching a lot of video essays lately, and man, I'm mad at myself for not nominating @defunctland.bsky.social's Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery for the Hugo that year. If you haven't seen it, treat yourself. You won't be disappointed.

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Oh good, my brain is finally coming back online, time to buckle down on my DragonCon projects, how many days have I got--

a screenshot from Dragon Con dot org, taken 7/26/26, showing 39 days and 49 minutes remaining until the event

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Miri Baker (soup mode) @miribaker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I am SO delighted that my delight has bounced back to further delight.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 22/07/2026

As I said during the last Steam Next Fest, yes, there were a ton of low-effort games obviously made with AI. And yes, they were all over the demo showcase page. For about one day. Once things fell into place and games were ranked based on what people played, you had to dig HUNDREDS deep to find AI.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 22/07/2026

Yes, there's a lot of garbage out there made with image and audio generators. And generally speaking, it sinks like a stone. Nobody wants to buy that. People want games made by real human perverts powered by fetishes that we don't have the words to describe yet.

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