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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As I enter middle age, I am ever more convinced that angry teenage me was right about a lot of things, actually
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
It ALMOST feels like we’re just starting to reach the normies with “the federal government and Silicon Valley have joined forces to spy on every aspect of your life and it’s called Palantir” and it’s either going to be the turning point for radical privacy or cripple the concept forever.
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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG I've just realised what Google's AI search interference model is: An automated mansplainer. Think about it: Unsolicited ✅ Confident ✅ Frequently wrong ✅
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just don't forget to sing "Wubba wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo!" m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNMw...
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Sesame Street - Monster in the Mirror (original)
YouTube video by mstatz
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Your daily affirmation: Be kind to the person staring back at you in the mirror. Things are also hard in the mirror universe and they're doing the best they can.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 19/09/2026
My most boomer opinion is that you should be able to connect a printer straight out of the box with a cable to the pc and print. No wifi, no bluetooth, no freaking app.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
cnn.com
The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
everything keeps happening all of the time
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sherlock Holmes as played by Jeremy Brett holding a teacup while looking thoroughly done with everything
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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Nikes | AlexLeeDee @alexleedee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Friends should join my dreamwidth comm for funsies (I'm trying to make DW a thing because I'm bored of modern "social media") mushboomforest.dreamwidth.org/profile
mushboomforest.dreamwidth.org
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i'm being persecuted by allergies
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
a mushroom shaped in a way that is oddly suggestive of a butt
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY BUCKAROOS
cover of THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF MY COWORKERS AND ME DISCUSSING OUR SALARIES EVEN THOUGH OUR BOSS TOLD US NOT TO GETS ME OFF featuring a beautiful ladybuck on the left wearing stripped down business attire she is in a modern office and on there is the physical manifestation of salary discussion lookin like a NICE BIG DOLLAR SIGN with a smiling face
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
2027... that's the year I turn it around. Just need... the right calendar 📆 amazon.com/gp/product/B0GF98HRPD
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
techdirt.com
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way
Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
> @techcrunch.com @mapquest.com techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/m...
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I've used duckduckgo, it's Fine actually, and protonmail is as good as gmail.
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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.northsky.social · 26/08/2026
we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
getting a popup shaming me about using an adblocker with a banner advertisement floating on top of it preventing me from dismissing it sure is Something
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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was not a billionaire, because multi-millionaires who are good people like her never get past that last finish line. Not when there are kids who need books to read and sick people who need vaccines.
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The thing about Dolly Parton is that she coulld've done what most who become wildly famous and wealthy do, which would be to let it corrode her heart and soul to a husk, but - critically - she never did. She remembered where she came from til the day she died and did all she could to lift others
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yeah this one genuinely hurts
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David Leigh Roth @notonebit.com · 25/08/2026
You can donate to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library here donate.imaginationlibrary.com
donate.imaginationlibrary.com
Home
Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.
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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 22/08/2026
This isn't a "surprising message of support for trans adults". This is a bigot whose arm is being twisted into doing public relations damage control by the media network that invested billions into a franchise she's been poisoning with hate for the last decade.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you’re tempted by the “AI summaries are just modern CliffsNotes” argument, please remember that CliffsNotes were written and edited by people who got paid to be accurate, not built on stolen data and extruded through a LLM that doesn’t know what truth is.
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Poland and Lalaland implies the further existence of Dipsyland and Tinkywinkyland
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There's about to be a lot of kids who both have autism AND get measles but I'm sure they will still make up some excuse to blame Biden somehow
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
when your AI steals the language preference list from Ao3
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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Mood lmao
Card with a stag drawing which says: Delicate. Even tough looking objects can become fragile with age and prone to irreversible damage. Please do not touch.
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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It's actually quite funny that the real story turns out to be that Harry Potter fans keep despoiling an ecologically sensitive site owned by the National Trust with clutter, despite being asked repeatedly not to
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Dial Liz-Z for Zombie (Lizzy Rose Oliver - Voice Actress) @lizzyrosevo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
TERF Wizard fans will work their ass off to make sure a powerline doesn't cross a non-existent grave for a fictional character, but won't boycott the series to protect real life trans people. These people are not well.
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Mushboom @mushboom.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
never used chatGPT or any other LLM
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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 06/08/2026
Once a doctor or nurse has diagnosed you with a condition, or seen a previous diagnosis of a condition, or suspects a condition due to prejudice, that condition is *always* the cause of anything and everything else. HIV of the ankle, asthma of the bum, obesity of the anxiety... I'm so tired.
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A friend told me her first relationship ended because the guy wanted her to shave her armpits. She had no interest in doing it, but he was really insistent. She said, "Ok, we'll compromise, I'll shave one armpit, so we'll each have one we like." He got really agitated then and said "That's WORSE!"
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Some kind of invasive ape 🏳️‍⚧️ @wargonopsid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ink sketch of a waffle yaga. Seagull feet bc dumpstercore. Sketch w inks
A baba yaga but make it Waffle House.
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s really starting to grind me down
The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
YOULL NEVER TAKE MY EM DASH
cover of THE SENTIENT LESBIAN EM DASH--MY FAVORITE PUNCTUATION MARK--GETS ME OFF featuring a large blue living em dash on the left and a beautiful ladybuck on the right they are standing in a yard in the evening lookin good
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/07/2026
Good. Ban the pervert glasses from every event for decent people.
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Possibly my favorite anime character I’ve ever cosplayed
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
not saying being queer is a choice, more that "is it a choice" should stop being the key question this isn't a criminal trial where we're deciding if you're culpable enough to charge you with first degree gay or if we can knock it down to manslover
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