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Mora

@moratorii.bsky.social
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Writer, introvert, Hobbit. In my 30s.

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
video game: we spent extra 50 million making it realistic video game: we released 2 years late because we were making it realistic video game: we cut the writing budget to put money into graphics to make it realstic video game: this wolf you must fight can juke 22 feet to either side & levitate
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You really couldn't have asked for a more good faith way of approaching the subject and yet... extremely disappointing! I experienced this at the 1666 Amsterdam demo. If the tech is so great at what it does, why are you so annoyed when we ask you what it is actually doing?
Both Kanno’s answer and that Steam description are still notably vague, so wanting some actual details, I decided to push the issue. I asked, “So if you were to explain, what using it for ideation actually means. What does that process look like for someone, you know, someone who might not be a game developer?”It was at this point I noticed Kanno become somewhat annoyed that I had not moved on. Following a short exchange with his translator, she told me, “[So], we actually have to update this explanation, if you, uh, could… it’s all written in there [on Steam].”

I decided, maybe unwisely, not to drop this line of questioning, consulting my chicken handwriting in my notebook, “ So I do have the current Steam disclosure here- uh, which is, ‘Gen AI was used as part of the ideation process for background objects. However, no AI-generated content will be included in the final game.’ Uh–”

Before I had a chance to reiterate the parameters of the question and ask again what Gen-AI being used for ideation looked like, Kanno began talking to his translator, seemingly visibly annoyed. She then told me, “So it is as it’s written in the explanation, and today I would like to talk about Crazy Taxi: World Tour and the time is limited.”
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
TECH CEO: WE INVENTED GUN
DOG CAN USE

Crowd Cheers


Little guy wearing Yaoi hat: "OH MY GOD, WHY?"


Crowd: WOOO

Tech CEO: WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT BY 2027 10000% OF ECONOMY
WILL BE DOG GUN
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 10/09/2026
Sony saw "phys-" and didn't bother to read the rest of the word, they just knew they needed out ASAP.
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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 10/09/2026
BRO JUST CLOSE SONY JUST CLOSE THEM
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I hear you—and I apologize. That mushroom was one of the poisonous ones, you’re right. That’s not just useful feedback—it’s you setting a boundary.
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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 01/09/2026
The average person doesn't really know what a 'software license' is and absolutely thinks they are buying the things they buy, which is why these companies all dance around behind a veil and only ever say shit like this in court
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
[getting out of bed, reluctant and groggy] Welp gotta add to the lore
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/09/2026
NEW: Christopher McCurdy, the leading scientist urging policymakers not to criminalize kratom, has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association. None of this is mentioned in the papers he publishes.
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The Scientist Trying to Keep Kratom Legal Has Not Disclosed Longstanding Ties to Kratom Lobbyists
University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association. None o...
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Mora @moratorii.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I never really understood why GTA has this massive appeal. It's an open world city with some cheesy raunchy humor, a story, and quests. I'd rather play a game with a more interesting setting, I guess, or a more interesting hook.
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think about this at least a dozen times a day.
people end up unable to see depiction as anything other than endorsement when their entire cultural diet is escapist fun and reassurance. they see something make them uncomfortable and can only assume people are watching horrible shit as vicarious pleasure and are horrified.
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Srutis 🔞 @srutis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
trustworthy thumbnailing time
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
lol come the fuck on
Cutting Your Parents Off Isn’t the Answer
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 15/08/2026
Arise now ye tarnished, ye dead who yet live, the call of long-lost grace speaks to us all. Men! The accursed gender!
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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 15/08/2026
they showed the 5 year old teaser for star wars eclipse again
satan: go ahead. Laugh.

jesus: I see your ass smiling
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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Travel deep enough into the Backrooms and you will find Bjork.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 26/07/2026
the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A trans woman asks another trans woman "why do our conversations always descend into tranny Seinfeld bits?" The other trans woman says "that reminds me, I got politely "they"-ed yesterday." The first one replies "They gave you the polite "They." In Costanza-like fashion the second one says "they gave me the polite "they!"
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🔪Creepy-pants🔪 @crasspants.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A snippet of the popular scrooge post:

509 muppets: there goes mr asshole, there goes mr bitch
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TidyWire🍿(Commissions Open!) @tidywire.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
he looks like all 3 of them fused together
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/07/2026
tomorrow's newsletter will be fun
If you’re wondering why these deals keep getting signed - as mentioned previously - it’s because a financial guarantee from NVIDIA is sufficient collateral for a bank to lend money to these companies to buy more GPUs. 

HUANG: So there’re these companies I invest in that, at least in theory, build data centers using my AI GPUs, but I need them to buy more GPUs, so I sign a contract saying that I’ll rent the GPUs back from them in the future. Because NVIDIA has such a strong balance sheet, these companies can raise billions of dollars to buy my GPUs just because I promised to rent them in the future, and the best part is all the risk is held by the companies and the investors. When I need more money, I just sign another contract, they raise more debt, I sell more GPUs. 
BAUM: So - just so I have this clearly - you, the guy who makes the GPUs - invest in companies that exist pretty much to buy GPUs from you and rent them to customers. Except you’re the customer too, and a big one.  
HUANG: That’s right. We call them neoclouds. S&P just revised CoreWeave’s outlook to positive.
BAUM: That’s fucking crazy.
HUANG: It’s not crazy - it’s awesome.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/07/2026
*standing on the turnbuckle with my hand cupped around my ear as the audience yells “IS? THAT? GOOD?”* www.ft.com/content/b370...
FINANCIAL TIMES
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Oracle Corp
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Oracle could face $7bn collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre
Increased power costs add to challenges facing tech giant's Al ambition amid high spending and mounting debtOracle could face more than $7bn in collateral requirements for a massive data centre in Wisconsin, after the state's power regulator tightened credit requirements to protect households from rising electricity costs.
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, which is responsible for scrutinising and setting the prices the state's utilities can charge, has declined to reconsider rules it imposed on utility We Energies, which would require Oracle to provide a $7bn letter of security at a yearly cost of more than $100mn per year.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
watching a bunch of culture war slop by people who obsess over youtube like/dislike ratios for movie trailers they don't like. "how are they seeing the dislikes, since yt made them private?" you might wonder, as i did. after minimal investigation it turns out they use an addon that makes them up
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伊藤暢達/Masahiro Ito @adsk4.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A sketch of Sankaku-chan (Tiny Pyramid Head) Smartphone Stand that I posted on X/Twitter 10 years ago, in 2016.
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Maps

PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA
Introduction

PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA
I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage
II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots
III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump
IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land
V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony
VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break
VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant
VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie

PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY
IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right
Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity
Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle

Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Along with the assassin bug and dead leaf mantis, this is probably one of my most detailed drawings...
A close-up showing a bumpy black and white surface with prominent shine from a light.We've zoomed out a bit - it's a bumpy thorax. We can also see part of an orange abdomen.It's a stag beetle! Now we see the head, thorax and abdomen, plus bits of legs.The full illustation - a black stag beetle with reasonably prominent antlers and orange elytra.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
lol, lmao
Sharma, whose hobbies include masochism, weird natalist bullshit, and collaborating with other execs to sort of just wing their way through the wanton destruction of 3,200 people’s livelihoods, will be one of three heads of a task force designed to “assess the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including artificial intelligence, to inform the Federal Reserve's policy judgments.”
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 09/07/2026
I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups
Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/07/2026
more broadly than just the looksmaxxing weirdos i think the Influencer Era is going to be a golden age for Weird Celebrity Deaths unseen since hollywood in the 1920's. giving people the national fame of movie stars with the institutional mental health support of the wrestling industry is a bad combo
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
BREAKING: Obsidian Entertainment is making a big pivot as part of the Xbox restructuring. It has laid off a quarter of its staff, canceled a planned sequel to Avowed, and is now beginning work on a new Fallout game, according to people familiar with the plans www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game
The game maker is also canceling a planned sequel to last year’s ‘Avowed’
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 08/07/2026
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/07/2026
“Terrible posters are nothing new,” Jonathon Yule, executive creative director for design at Concrete Design tells us. But with these posters, it comes with “none of the charm” that may accidentally come from a business owner making something low quality.
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 07/07/2026
“Most, if not all,” of Id Software’s coders, 60-70 Obsidian developers, and more veteran developers have reportedly been laid off from Microsoft as the scale of this week’s big Xbox cuts becomes clearer. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-la...
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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
do you ever type out a post with a very specific opinion and then you get a that's so raven vision of the most annoying comments on ur post so you just end up deleting it
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
i know this is the most bluesky crank stance ever but none of you would "accidentally post ai memes" if you weren't in the habit of just posting random shit you saw without credit like you made it
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Pat Stares At FOREVER @patstaresat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So Microsoft is still making a new console, but they're freezing gamepass deals and either shutting down, trying to sell or backing out of deals with...like 10 studios? What's the plan here? Even from a quarter-brain mindset I can't see any way forward.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end
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Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end
As mass layoffs continue in the game industry, developers must reckon with how to handle the uncertainty and pain of the moment.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/06/2026
i don't have the first idea about the validity of the claims here but i am consulting religious texts to see if there are any patron saints for class action lawsuits i can pray to
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I got a cheapo elliptical and it's good but we have to do something about these brand names. Don't make me say "I'm gonna hit the pooboo" or "It's pooboo time." Even now, I'm pooboo posting
pooboo
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