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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

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The Wyzard @thewyzard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Is the computer conscious?" I don't fucking know! I know that if you gave me six each of philosophers and psychologists I could start intractable arguments over whether my asshole is conscious. Fifty bucks says I could hang that jury.

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NeoTiamat @neotiamat99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I observe that all the people who say, often with some glee, that *of course* this or that genre is slop easily replaced by AI are never people who read or like that genre. Meanwhile actual fans are appalled at the very idea. I can't help but feel like it's just plain snobbery.

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kiki's Delivery Service, No. 1 in Koriko since 1989 ✉️ 🎁 🍞

An art nouveau style posters featuring Kiki flying on a broomstick with Jiji. The background shows various scenes of bread and pastries, plus the town of Koriko.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026

A friend sent me this one last night.

Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
...
just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026

thinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing"

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No Brain Cells @nobraincells.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

除真主外，别无神灵。马王除外——他没问题，因为他是穆斯林。

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 12/09/2026

Keeping monkeys in general was a sign of wealth and status, particularly if one had groups of them at one’s various different estates. Thus a wealthy Chinese noble might boast of having 猴s in different area codes.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

one of my favorite Chinese religious beliefs is that there's a prominent deity called the Horse King, who is the protector of equines, especially for draft labor. Sometimes around the late Ming, a conviction arises that the Horse King is *Muslim* - and therefore you sacrifice lamb, not pork, to him.

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modorelin farllee @arisatominako.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

@tkingfisher.com what do i have to do for more of bishop beartongue 👏🏼👏🏼 | #farlleeart

drawing of bishop beartongue, a fictional character from books written by t. kingfisher. she's an older woman and the photo is mostly in greyscale. there's also a cute rat.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 12/09/2026

Body: The autumn approaches. Consume carbs. Make soup. Me: It was 94 degrees today. Body: Nestle in the bed beneath a mountain of blankets. Me: I was sweating so much I had to change my bra. Body: You crave cozy. Become one with the cozy. Me: I'm going to go sleep face-up in the pool.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

yeah ok i think we're done with the 'based populist anti-elitist who doesn't give a FUCK', earnest nerds from now on

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Goth Rat Summer [6'7"] @sciencehippies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

God bless this man, just out here writing in depth critical analysis of a post that probably took the author 5 seconds of thought on their part. There's a reason he has a law named for him.

Murc of Murc's Law showing why he gets laws named after him

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some of you don’t understand how “big” / “important” / “influential” you are . Even in your small circles. I need you to, because you do not comprehend how much terrible people will keep it together around you .

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've been seeing a lot of "well I guess this is the way things are now" "ah another line of evidence that we are a fallen empire", attitude that I am begging people to shake off. There are people working their butts off to make things better. Please don't give up. Join us.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pithy & deeply cynical statements are the currency of social media and swimming in that environment has absolutely corroded ppls abilities to view the world accurately

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Laurel @laurelfynes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is so on point I wonder if people will be able to guess who it is. I’d have had it in one, maybe two guesses from just the description below.

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh, you're saying that land enclosure has deeply indebted future generations, enabling their hard earned income to be extracted by landowners for the mere right to physically exist somewhere? That sounds like such a horrific injustice that it would justify aggressive policy intervention to remedy.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's a systemic problem in science reporting that these summaries exaggerate the evidence. In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces.

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.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

But also feminism is not a thing that happened and then got reversed; it's a thing that is happening, because you don't overturn three millennia of patriarchy in one lifetime.

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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Apropos to a WorldCon convo: I’d say that the most fashion inaccurate issue I see in historical fantasies or genre fantasy is a lack of hats. Not wearing hats is a very new thing. Hats were essential wear outdoors for a looooooong time. And we have collectively erased them.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 26/08/2026

No matter whether you're intending to publish the piece or not, you gotta stop writing for your Very Worst And Most Horriblest Readers. Are they out there? Yes! Will they read your book? Probably! Do you have to give a shit? You do NOT.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

a Mouse King. is there one under your desk??

drawing of a bunch of computer mice with their all cords tangled together

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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Jane Horton 🇺🇸 🇦🇩 🇺🇾 🏳️‍🌈 @janebhorton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Five clay dogs buried under a palace doorway at Nineveh around 645 BC. Each one has its name written on its side in cuneiform. Expeller of evil. Catcher of the enemy. Biter of his foe. Loud is his bark. Don't think, bite. That last one is an instruction, written on the dog, addressed to the dog.

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Booze Cruisetamante @danceofoi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Millet is the gateway to murder

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"Novels on Alaskan elections in the early 21st century often confuse the unwary reader in the way characters are referred to by occupation or title which change over time, but it is important to understand that while people did have personal names in that period, they were all called Dan Sullivan"

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Shapeless Ink (but spooky) @shapelessink.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finally got to touching up probably the most popular doodle I've ever done, lmao. Wonder if this would work as a bookmark?

Cartoon image of an anthropomorphic sheep holding a gun, pointing it at the viewer. She says "Get writing, bitch. Infinite worlds cry out to be born and you are to be a God."

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

docs right but this one slapped

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Emily E 🌱 @emilye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

a bit of nettle & bone fanart! maybe my favorite thing I’ve read this year.. tysm @tkingfisher.com for strange old women and their chickens, middle aged romance, and also a dog made of bones

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/08/2026

This is so good. A politician who can post bloopers and laugh at themselves for trying something difficult.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

👇Great post this. Learning the recorder is a classic example of the importance of knowledge-rich learning that may seem pointless: it’s an easy, cheap way to provide children with the building blocks that allow them to learn to play many instruments quicker later.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm not saying it doesn't HAPPEN, but "all weird indie TTRPGs are a kink thing" is reductive. There is also "designing RPGs to publish your worldbuilding bible", "designing RPGs because you invented a neat dice trick", "designing RPGs to win an argument", and "designing RPGs as an act of self harm".

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 13/08/2026

Life is a constant balance between the primal need to create things and the primal need to nap for 4 hours.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A mate of my son's has just been broken up with on *the day before his birthday*, so his mates have rallied round to make sure he's ok. However, being British and therefore sarcastic to the core, the book they have collectively bought him as a present is called 'The Monastic World'.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.