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Quite predictable really. There was precedent for MS buying an OS and then flushing it, although the interval between the two events was somewhat longer for MS-DOS.

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It's Converse All-Sea-Stars 🤩

Yeah, but the guy doesn't KNOW that. How would he find out?

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 5h

It would be even better if they were less discriminating, thus allowing you to create a colony of humtatoes.

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You might actually live in Missouri! Maybe that's just your friend's house! There's no real way to be sure. (Yeah, none of this is ALL that miraculous.)

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 5h

It's because it will make people feel the urge to tape their phones up on the fridge.

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I come bearing news from the world of crafting drama! So a major yarn brand has launched a shameless transphobic wizards tie-in yarn to ~knit your own house scarf~ and it's hilarious because literally nobody likes it.

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 6h

"Decisive Land Power" is part of.. "Endurance?" How interesting.

Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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I am going to keep telling people to play Frogmonster until you've all played Frogmonster, because it's an incredible first person shooter Metroidvania mashup that has a phenomenal variety of bosses, and the sound design is absolutely next level. Genuine masterpiece.

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Discover some of the most charming and challenging soulslike bosses in Frogmonster, a Metroidvania FPS adventure where you explore a lively world filled with creatures, bugs, and beasts.

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 8h

Cloudpunk is a great thing to play now, specifically, because Nivalis Nights is very much in its growing-pains phase. Three updates in a week, and the restaurant managers are STILL hoarding turnips. (No worries. They'll fix it. Genuinely having a great time. But still.. turnips 🤣😂)

Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Okay, Steam Sale time! Who'd like some recommendations? Let's get the ball rolling with one of my favourite games of 2025, The Séance of Blake Manor! A positively genius detective game steeped in Irish history and mythology with a striking comicbook artstyle and authentic turnip jack 'o lanterns. 🎃

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The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 13h

I went the NHS emergency room in London over the weekend, it was free. Free to anyone. I'd have been charged only if I was admitted to the hospital. A cart in the waiting room went by me with some nice sandwiches, and I chose one. Before I could try to pay, the cart moved on. Sandwich also free.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 10h

(If you enjoyed this story, we've got a sick cat and could use a hand)

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 9h

"Unity Spork" is a heck of a name for a creative tool like this, and we should all remember it. Unity Spork. Unity Spork! UNITY SPOOOOOORK!!!1!

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 10h

what i want to know is, how does the computer GET there? wheels? does it grow little legs? does a giant quad-rotor drone crash down through the ceiling, grab it, and fly off to the nearest data center? i feel like this is a very important question.

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Stevie has not been entirely honest about his past. His shelter notes are all about how he’s not food motivated, hard to steer, fearful, undersocialized. So tell me why after ignoring every kind of treat I had on hand, when someone finally offered him a freeze dried meat patty he knows commands?

Me with a dog on a cement outdoor table at a ranch, he is black and white and looks like a cardigan corgi.

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 19h

We're all food motivated, you just have to know :D

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 19h

It's Nobel Prize season again, and i will take literally ANY excuse to tell this story, it's one of my favorites. It's about Nobel medals, and foiling the Nazis with science!

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 21h

It might sell better if the publishers called it "Vorkosigan-style."

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 21h

it's true, dogs love that tea ceremony stuff.

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Martín Soto, a primary organizer of people detained at Delaney Hall who went on hunger strike to demand their release and to improve conditions, has been released. Soto was detained for more than 9 months, 4 of which were spent in solitary confinement. Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DeLIuSe...

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Starlight Necromancer (Vae/Vaer) @starlightnecro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Okay being extremely real here I want a Dressmaker game that's the same but we make clothes for furries. I want to engage with making dresses and stuff with furgonomics in mind I would settle for a mod of Dressmaker! The Furry Overhaul Mod!

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Destroying history and nature in the name of narcissism and hate.

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 23h

You can also deal with the units issue by pretending that everybody is gnomes, and that the fabric's measured in feet not yards.

mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 23h

It isn't open-ended, so you can frantically virtual-sew for a week or two and then get back to the real thing :)

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me: well, you’re a talkative little guy Cat: *translation* On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 06/10/2026

yay literary/genre discourse (unironically yay, I love that stuff)

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 23h

It *is* fun! I'd be tempted to drop this on one of the sci-fi subreddits, but they'd probably just wail because you haven't written enough books about heroic space captains :D also, the world does not seem to contain any images of a guy in a fishbowl helmet and a bicorne, and I deeply resent this.

mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You were planning to put a window there anyway.

mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This would be a really annoying geography for WW3.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/10/2026

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it is very cool (read: very not cool) that "What if the entire regional economy immediately exploded?" is a ballot measure in the bay area because we are in the 'touching the hot stove' era of american history. if you live in the bay area you should vote for the regional transit measure.

The ballot initiative would raise the sales tax rate by 0.5 percentage points in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda counties and by 1 percentage point in San Francisco, and is expected to generate roughly $980 million annually for the next 14 years to sustain bus, train, metro and ferry lines.

Many of the region’s transit agencies have already proposed contingency plans if the measure fails. BART said it would likely have to end service at 9 p.m. instead of at midnight, reduce train frequencies to 30 minutes and move from five-line to three-line service outside of peak commute hours. Caltrain has proposed eliminating weekend services, closing more than a third of stations and ending operations around 9 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. AC Transit is looking at reducing service by 16%, while Muni said it could eliminate up to 20 routes, cut service by at least 30% and end regular evening service.

The fiscal cliff facing transit agencies was triggered by the decline in ridership due to the pandemic and hit agencies heavily dependent on fare revenues, like BART, the hardest.

SPUR, a nonprofit policy think tank sponsoring the measure, released a report last month that found that if the measure and San Francisco’s Proposition H fail, traffic delays on the Bay Bridge could increase by 33 minutes heading west in the morning and 43 minutes heading east in the evening. Caldecott Tunnel traffic could see delays of an additional 20 minutes in the morning and 27 minutes during the evening commute. Congestion could also worsen along Interstate 580, Interstate 680 and U.S. 101, the report found.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

Because of the Nobel Prize, a lot of people will be talking about neutrinos today (including me I’m sure)! I *also* talk a lot about neutrinos in my new book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking),” which is available for preorder now! www.astrokatie.com/book-htbau

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How to Build a Universe — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST

Information about "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

human interest writers watch even one episode of the twilight zone challenge

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AI claims it can resurrect
the dead. I tried it.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social for the launch of our new resource, an archive of 2010s higher ed protest in the U.S. and Canada, designed for campus activists and others working on left and liberatory organizing. Oct 20, 9am PT / 12pm ET Register: bit.ly/decade-of-campus-protest

Event poster with a white background and black text, with the title "A Decade of Mass Campus Protests, Website Launch Event". At the bottom is a photo of a long line of people marching on a sidewalk in winter clothing, holding blue and white picket signs that say "On Legal Strike" in capital letters and "University of Toronto" at the bottom.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today’s a DOUBLE book release day for me! The first is this amazing, star-jammed anthology The Book of the Dead ed by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social! My story is (very humbly) called This Is What Happens When You Die. I am SO proud of it; one of my favorite things I’ve ever written amzn.to/3WbT9ZZ

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

True Facts about Parasitoid Wasps (by @zefrank.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANyJ...

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We *know* it's not, because it's still straight. (omg. argh. JEEEEEEEZ.)

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I dunno how anyone survives a year like that. I did something similar once and it left me very damaged. But if WSF is gonna do this shit, these guys can have all the money.

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It's not REEEALLY the money, exactly. Working conditions for these guys are terrible, most of them are on call 24/7 and often get told "you need to be in your car in five minutes and show up at another dock 50 miles away for a twelve hour shift." Like, this is just how they do it.

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