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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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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you object to public-funded housing of homeless people, in the end the objection cannot be the cost, because we pay a premium to be cruel to homeless people. At the bottom of the objection will always sit dehumanizing cruelty and a desire for eradication.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
in a sense my entire experience of being a man has been watching other men feed themselves into threshing machines and having the guys look at me like i'm stupid when i ask why
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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Spell check has been degrading for a while, but we are reaching clown car levels of a tool that is older than I am.
Screenshot of a grammar suggestion in Word that suggests replacing impoverish with improve.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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The podcaster formerly known as Dre @swandre3000.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@carberry.deals , in character: Well what if we just did *insert cockamamie scheme* @austinwalker.bsky.social , playing a character who is very over this guy's shit:
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
yes! as someone who’s been working in procedural text before LLMs were a thing, I really wish people had a sense of the varieties of procgen writing that *aren’t* genAI output. there’s a ton of stuff we can do (including pre-LLM, ML style AI) that’s nothing like chatbot output directly in a game.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A big reason for Democrats to promise prison time for Republicans in power and the use of the state to undermine the Republican Party as an organization is because our former allies need to believe that someday soon, America will cease to be like this.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.
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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
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Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”
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Scare-emy Haunt Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
in honor of Sam Neill, here is one of my favorite movies he ever made
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 07/07/2026
I am beyond the point of wanting to abolish VAR and approaching the point of wanting to arrest every VAR official and imprison them in a medieval tower
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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Today is a great day to remind everyone you see that #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRightsAreWomensRights & the 1% of Americans who are billionaires driving politics in their favor are FAR more dangerous than the.08% of Americans who are trans & just want to peacefully live their lives.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026
We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 08/07/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Advocate Rep NH Gov. Kelly Ayotte signs legislation requiring schools to out transgender students to legal guardians. The new law effectively reverses a 2024 state Supreme Court decision that upheld students’ right to privacy. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...
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New Hampshire governor signs law forcing schools to out transgender students
State educators and LGBTQ+ advocates say the law puts teachers in the position of endangering vulnerable students.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The brutal and entirely intentional effects of such policies:
From Seattle: Allen, who also works for a youth homeless shelter, said his organization is turning away at least 10 young trans people a night from the shelter because it doesn’t have space.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/07/2026
It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
if you dig or would like to get into modern classical but don''t know how to keep up may I strongly recommend the show "not brahms and list." I've subscribed to their email list for years. there's a samply link to the show that's good for two weeks. quick note: 1/2 alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-a...
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Not Brahms and Liszt on WMBR Cambridge
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dude I saw you autosave before walking up to me whats up man we cool
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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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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If it happens on the 250th then American exceptionalism is real
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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We’re currently fighting an initiative in Washington State that has genital exams as part of the enforcement mechanism. www.kuow.org/stories/tran...
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Transgender ballot initiative could require genital exams for WA secondary school students
Young female athletes in Washington schools would likely have to obtain genital exams to participate in school sports, if a controversial ballot initiative passes in November.
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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
this is what it feels like to make a game
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 25/06/2026
TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
People said Occupy was a failure and it ushered in 15 years of actual political engagement on economic inequality People like to call BLM, Abolish ICE, etc failures and, no. Spontaneous mass protest moments rarely win immediately. But they change the political environment and lay the groundwork.
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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”
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Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large @thejenya.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
To quote Scott Seiss:
Meme Image of light skinned moustaches comedian Scott Seiss saying ‘then die’ in response to capitalism
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his armsArticle screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...
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froggy @frogboy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"how can a car be fascist" like this!! exactly like this!!
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
[willem dafoe unprompted] now, this cookie monster. [toothy smile] what a creature, what a lust. it consumes him. [crosses legs] he’s really a tragic figure.
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John-Charles Holmes @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 19/06/2026
Guys after 10 years of searching thru my files and hard drives and old computers, I finally found it again; the single best Missed Connections listing I've ever seen
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 14/06/2026
It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight
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Lazzie BOO!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
i know this isn't a hugely popular fight to take, it looks lame and fuzzy and pointless to people who don't get it, and that's why i'm taking it anyway. it really is the most basic self-definition you can grant us, to let us establish what you call us, as Allies™️. like, come on. a morsel, please.
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鮎 @sweetfish.site · 13/06/2026
hold on i have another one
the WHY FREE GAMES? manifesto

PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that GAMES are a PRIVILEGE of the “GAMER” or an INDUSTRY. GAMES ARE NOT BUSINESS! They do not belong to banks & fancy investors. GAMES ARE PLAY. GAMES are FREE & available to EVERYBODY. GAMES are EVERYWHERE because EVERYBODY can PLAY.

(Images of a dog chasing a ball, people playing Go, a cat and a computer)

PLAY SOOTHES PAIN!
Play wakes up sleepers!
Play nourishes & feeds!
PLAY IS EXPLORATION!
Play is for animals!
Play is for the kitchen!
PLAY IS LIKE GOOD BREAD!
PLAY IS FREE!
GAMES ARE FREE!

HURRAH!
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The Guardian
Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 'words', scientists say


James "Sonny" Crockett @aa... . 58m [mushroom group chat]
Σ: (misspelled symbol) 
Σ: (corrected symbol)
Ø: (misspelled symbol) 
Δ: (misspelled symbol) 
[ changed the group name to (misspelled symbol)]
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/06/2026
Living in New Hampshire has been a political education for me like no other. Growing up in big urban environments where progressive movements and people of color are plentiful and visible, I made a lot of assumptions about the organizing conditions and outcomes
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