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i'm tired of games putting "Q4" as a release date just say late december and if it isn't late december, then you can goodly surprise everybody when it happens

sometimes i think back to learning off-tanking as a bear-druid in ulduar and i hope "Gretchen" the human paladin, who main-tanked, because she was tired of consecration/off-tanking, and who taught me how to make a hard root beer float with bailey's i hope she's doing well

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 13/10/2026

i really need the youth to understand that the moment where you realize you're "old" is not what slang you do/n't understand, but little moments in the grocery store, like the store music, or when the clerk punches in a date for buying alcohol that is younger than some shirts you have

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"So what do you think of Humanity?" The alien ambassador fronded. "You have fascinating quirks." "Ah, like our stamina and resilience?" "No, your stories. Many species tell stories, but you are the only ones inventing new gods." "A long time ago." "Your twentytwenties wasn't that long ago?"

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 13/10/2026

The only-matters-to-me basis for the peeve: names are not just arrangements of syllables. They *mean* things in different languages, and the spread of particular names has a historical basis (alongside things like fashion, of course). In a world with a different history and on that account

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

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Megan @myrsora.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

why do i always get the urge for a new planner-notebook when it's like 2.5 months to the end of a year

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the dilemma of the easiest solution to sharing darts pics with the group without spamming the group text during darts would be to use the club's instagram, but it is currently full of ai graphics from social media guy's claude obsession, and i don't want my stuff alongside that

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Megan @myrsora.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

my mental health (and attention) is better when i just sit down and watch some theater

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Megan @myrsora.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"nobody throws house parties anymore" <side-eye> you need to up your d&d hosting game, atlantic whenever we throw a marathon, the table-party goes on a literal shopping trip together and makes all the meals together so the gm can focus on building the game we're gonna play

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Five days left on the Lightspeed & Nightmare kickstarter, and they still need $10k to meet their funding goal! Love short fiction? Go pick up a subscription and help spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

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We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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Megan @myrsora.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it's very funny to me that the people who don't like Digger are being called 'film illiterates', just like the Nolan Odyssey discourse (lmao you're clearly just mad other people didn't like a film you did)

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a brilliant thread. While there was a lot of violence in the Middle Ages, it is crucial to acknowledge that our contemporary attitudes - in their myriad varieties - are all born out of our own historical context. The abhorrent ones are not relict medieval sentiments, but equally modern.

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Megan @myrsora.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

is it weird to be playing path of exile 2 & mostly wanting to know what the influences were for all the statues/architecture

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Someone asked r/askhistorians a question on Ancient Greek amphibious warfare, specifically as depicted in Troy. I wrote a quick answer. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Alaa Alqaisi translating under the Gaza sky

Anne Carson's works often explore fragmentation in terms of language, time, and humanity. Her poetry lingers in places where meaning breaks down, leaving silence to take over. This Arabic text felt as if it were a response to her silences, refusing to let the faceless go unnamed; it resisted erasure and insisted on bearing witness. But translating it into English, the language that leans toward abstraction, was a delicate task. Arabic carries its weight differently; it's rooted in rhythm, layered in meaning, and resistant to facelessness. English, with its grammatical economy, can smooth over the jagged edges of Arabic's emotional density. How does one render the philosophical weight of this meditation on war as a continuum, a thread that binds human history together in blood and ash? These were not linguistic questions; they were moral ones. So I had the responsibility to ensure that the rawness of the original survived the journey into Carson's intellectual universe.

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Megan @myrsora.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

whenever the crossword app talks about "modern lingo" and it's a word from *my* high school years 🙃 be honest. when is the last time you heard "swole" outside of a throwback.

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Phil Keeling @philmakesmonsters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s here. bookshop.org/p/books/be-n...

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve said it a thousand times but Stoicism and Ayn Rand both appeal to certain politicians and technocrats because it allows for them to feel virtuous in their narcissism. Casting themselves as ambitious heroes in a “hero’s journey” is exactly why @sentantiq.bsky.social and I wrote this takedown.

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The Man Behind the Myth: Should We Question the Hero’s Journey? | Los Angeles Review of Books

LARB presents the first entry in “Pasts Imperfect,” a new column that explores the impact of ancient pasts on the present.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 08/10/2026

Everyone's incredibly angry now. The people you're angry at are very far away but close to you are many soft bodies that are easy to injure if you choose to lash out. I can't tell you how to use your anger. But I need you to at least follow the fucking link & check if it's bs before going off abt it

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power."

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

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Megan @myrsora.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it is very fun inviting new people to darts, who seem shy, and then they kick your ass at darts, and you are like "you should come again and again lmao" and they go *shrink into self 😁* like no we love killer energy please come some more

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really wanting to blog about stuff i'm reading in german but not sure that literally anyone i talk to really wants to read about that

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trying to watch autocaptions try to keep up with a synopsis of a book i've read and it cannot spell the protagonist's name correctly, no matter how many times the booktuber mentions it

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mad that i can open prego [sauce] on the first try, but not my fave salsa, which is apparently machine-strength required

eternal pvp movement in pve just boggles me just fucking why are you moving constantly and unpredictably? do you want to make the lingering-aoe-circle-spawning-on-someone way the fuck harder than it needs to be ?

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026

me constantly explaining to friends that i understand that juking unfriendly casters is a skill in pvp but if you do it in pve you are at worst causing a mental event in your healer and at worst you are gonna die because your healer says "fine heal yourself then" and you can't

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Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Megan @myrsora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

how to channel this rage at the renting company so i can renew my lease without an obscene rise in rent just because the renting company is doing pressure tactics while all [~this~] has been happening