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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 7h

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

mx metaphor @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 1h

You know, smarter and funnier people could lean into their weirdness rather than denying it. It probably wouldn't make everyone nicer to you, you run a forum it is what it is, but you would feel better embracing the absurd instead of denying it at all costs. It's a pattern back to the first BBS.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 6h

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 8h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Brad the Inhaler 🌳 @erectilefunction0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I deleted a post in which I said Michael Tracey should kill himself. That was a mistake, I’m sorry. I should not have deleted the post, I will be better next time.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 15h

Most TV is just this now.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12h

when I heard that Jack Smith was being grilled for watching Hawkeye I was glad because we need more people to stand up for what's right but then I discovered it had nothing to do with the Jeremy Renner film so I don't care anymore

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Sprockey 🔞 (Commissions Full- Check again soon!) @sprockey.bsky.social · 20h

Most of the conversation was about how long it had been since they saw each other so yeah my prediction held true

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Sprockey 🔞 (Commissions Full- Check again soon!) @sprockey.bsky.social · 20h

Started a video Stephen Colbert interviewing David Sedaris and hoping it has the awkward vibe of having to talk to my friends’s siblings

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 21h

illustration, oh!x, magazine (1995) archive.org/details/OhX_...

a very neat computer setup (sharp x68000) on a compact stand with a screen and keyboard and drawing tablet(?) slotted in at the right hand side. on the rack above is a printer(?) and speakers and a disk drive. on the left of the stand is a cd rack, on the right is an upright musical keyboard.

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...

image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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How many crying wives were at
Aunt Chrissy's funeral
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I need a final count
I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 30/09/2026

the america.gov AI really really doesn't want to discuss Mississippi child marriage laws

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mx metaphor @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Somehow this is less disturbing than the NYC chatbot that told you to do crimes.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

The federal government has ABANDONED those of us dealing with Roko's Basilisks in our storm drains!!

Are mail carriers trained to deal with Roko's basilisks? They should
be TBH

No. USPS does not train mail carriers on "Roko's basilisks." That is not a federal program or
official hazard.

If you have a real mail or carrier issue, use USPS Help 7 or the Postal Inspection Service7.If
someone is in danger, call 911.

I can help with other U.S. government services if you ask a genuine question.

I'm in danger. From being aware that the federal government has
no plans to combat Roko's basiliks in my storm drains.

Awareness of a thought experiment is not a federal emergency, and there is still no U.S.
government plan about Roko's basilisks in storm drains.

.If you are in immediate physical danger, call 911.
. If you are in emotional crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988).

I only help with official government services. If you have a genuine federal question (mail,
benefits, passports, taxes, veterans care), ask that.

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mx metaphor @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It genuinely feels like they waited for him to die to start the next AI hype cycle...just saying... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_...

en.wikipedia.org

Hubert Dreyfus's views on artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026

There's a sort of meta-point here, which is that, to be recognized as an "expert" in most institutional/social contexts, you have to adhere to an orthodoxy controlled by extremists. The industry is absolutely captured by people with no attachment to reality. That's a relatively new phenomenon.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oil companies rushing to update their investor prospecti. "Uh, we could also destroy the world, you know!"

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

Now now we can't be biased, we have to be impartial, we have to discuss the claims being made without making a judgement on the intent behind the HE DID WHAT WE WERE BARRED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE OUR ACCESS THE FUCKING LYING LIAR IS MESSING WITH OUR ACCESS

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mx metaphor @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Access journalism doesn't work without the access it turns out...

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god wants you to back my kickstarter 💦 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Maren 🦎💚 @rennerei.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

what if she likes being a girl what if she likes girls

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mx metaphor @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Should I do locktober? No nut November? Denial December? Q4get about fucking?

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Icy 🔞 @iseenudepeople.com · 28/09/2026

miku and teto, sittin' in a tree~ #vocalewds

kasane teto kissing hatsune miku, nakedly

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 27/09/2026

An organised event in which young women presumed/expected to be sexual libertines (and ideally into CNC [wink]) are invited to hang out with a bunch of socially awkward but professionally and financially ascendant men where the differential power balance is explicit and part of the appeal? Neat.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 27/09/2026

I think it's bad that the response to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal by a segment of his former professional-social milieu—after a period of flooding the zone with shit to protect his accomplices from accountability—has been to recuperate and normalise his modus operandi as an industry standard.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hate this shit so fucking much country is not the music of the "white working class" it's the music of car dealership owners who drive F-150s and wear cowboy hats. This whole "country is actually the counter-culture" shit is pushed by the white ruling class Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Simpsons Books @simpsonsbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SLC Punk! (1998)

Comic Book Guy kicking punk versions of Nelson and Lisa out of his punk bar.

CBG: Your music violates everything Punk stands for, which is nothing!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Welp let’s just get ahead of things and transfer all these names right onto the National Sex Offenders Registry

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well yeah she's an adult

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Chipotle Roan @garbageganghq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I haven’t laughed this hard in a hot minute.

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mx metaphor @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why are ADHD diagnosed up?" Lots of reasons, but the fact that people haven't been able to self med with constant nicotine and freely available amphetamines is probably contributing. Once again, legalize meth. I am not joking.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

big dick energy beings

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/09/2026

queen victoria told me the northwest passage keeps eating her poorly planned expeditions so i asked how many expeditions she has and she said she just goes to the royal academy and gets a new afterwards so i said it sounds like shes just feeding ships to the ice and then prince albert started crying

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Like there will be swarms of middle aged people wearing wizard clothes, playing terrible genAI music that remixes the Harry Potter theme and We Are Charlie Kirk, etc

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

JK Rowling's death will be funny as hell because it'll be Charlie Kirk but wizard-themed. The worst and stupidest fucking people you have *ever* seen, dressed as wizards and crying and producing terrible genAI slop of a suspiciously Charlie Kirk-like Harry welcoming her to heaven etc

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the dream our forefathers fought for.

A person sitting at a desk in an office, smiling at the camera. A computer monitor displays characters Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps from Disney's Zootopia. Text on the image humorously references Claude doing their job, allowing time to look at art involving Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps.

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Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's cute to lull you into a false sense of security. Don't be fooled, it looks like it's filled with stuffing but it bleeds.

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mx metaphor @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Men are literally hitting their faces with hammers to summon sex slaves, so no, women aren't to blame here.

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