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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 10/10/2026

When software exhibits unexpected, unintended, undesirable behavior, we do not call it “acting on its own.” We call it “a bug.”

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 20/08/2026

QTP with a ship that makes u happy

League of Legends characters Vi and Caitlyn as they appeared together at the end of the animated series ARCANE. Vi has short spiky red hair and the Roman numeral VI tattooed on her left cheek. She is wearing a tank top and resting her head on Caitlyn’s collarbone with her eyes closed. Caitlyn has long straight dark hair and an eyepatch over her left eye; she is wearing a dark turtleneck and leaving her cheek against the top of Vi’s head.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 17/08/2026

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. When you’re feeling sick and your cat (dog etc.) comes and snuggles you unprompted. 2. Being handed hot cocoa when you come in from the cold. 3. Ikahokkaiyaki (broiled squid, crab stick & mayo)

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 08/08/2026

So, the age of social media seems to have noticeably impaired my ability to focus all the way through a long-form book. I’m 20-50% through about nine at the moment, several by excellent authors. No shade on them. I get the impression I’m not the only one.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 28/07/2026

So, assume we somehow create a super-intelligent machine sentence, without ethical dilemmas. And it sympathetically offers to help solve our problems. I’m pretty sure the exchange will sound like the bit in the Principia Discordia where Mal cries out to the goddess Eris about the ills in the world.

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Sam Lantinga wrote a lot of vanilla World of Warcraft, has been at Valve since 2012 working on their Linux/ARM initiatives, and apparently ALSO wrote SDL and SDL2? never has so much rested on the shoulders of one man. does your game have graphics or audio? or run on hardware? thank Sam.

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Tom Toro @tbtoro.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📚🤔 My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 24/06/2026

Synchronicity on the timeline again.

Screenshot of two adjacent posts on a social media feed:
News link about therapy ferrets in prison, placed above a randomly generated auto-post describing a planet where a ferret-like creature “eats tomorrow.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/06/2026

I don't have any great insight to the fall of Kier Starmer, but I will say I that from here across the pond it appeared he had all the charisma and effective legislative force of a wet saltine cracker

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 18/06/2026

I mean, I wasn’t exactly a hardliner on this to begin with, but how is this anything other than total capitulation?

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Matt Wuerker, Politico

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 08/04/2026

My local diner usually tries to have uncontentious things on the TVs: local news, house renovation shows, things like that. This morning they’ve had to resort to Paw Patrol.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 03/04/2026

One of the reasons I think people keep pushing the idea that authors want AI is that these people are convinced that authors write books so that they can sell books. More books means more sales, right? Whereas most authors take the stance that they mainly sell books so that they can write books.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 23/03/2026

I do still teach my students about the format, but increasingly I’m presenting survival context and I’ve always made it clear that it shouldn’t a template. I also had a great time over winter break with Maria Tatar’s “The Heroine with a 1001 Faces,” which brings out this quote almost immediately.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 15/03/2026

Hegseth: “The only thing prohibiting transit in the strait right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that.”

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a man is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a restaurant .

Alt: Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) struggles and fails to find the words to explain.

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Pride Knight Freya @pride-knightess.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 07/03/2026

“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.” So much of Ellison’s work seems to just jump off a bridge.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 02/03/2026

I am begging journalists to stop interviewing Markwayne Mullin, one of the most unserious people in government.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 27/02/2026

If you’re wondering how seriously to take this guy, remember that he (Markwayne Mullin) tried to start a fistfight in the Senate floor with the representative from the Teamsters Union.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 19/02/2026

“Guard! Guard! I want to see my ambassador!” “Easily done, he’s in the next cell.”

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mustangsart ♿⚔️🗡️ @mustangsart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I'm sorry to be sharing this again but ongoing illness has made things extremely difficult for me financially. I'm drowning in everything right now and struggling a lot to even make rent. Please, anything helps, even if it's just a repost. Thank you 💜

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 18/01/2026

The talk lately about Newsom brings me back to when the big question was, should Biden run for a second term? Because, all the concerns about him doing so were real, but who did the Ds have that they should run instead? Newsom was high on my list of people who weren’t really good choices.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 04/01/2026

“…’cause might makes right, Until they’ve seen the light, They’ve got to be protected, All their rights respected… Until someone we like can be elected!”

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 03/01/2026

None of this is okay. I do not care for Nicolas Maduro and think he is bad for Venezuela and his people. That is still not a justification to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader. Nothing is. May the gods have mercy on us.

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Frankenstein's Mons Pubis 🏳️‍⚧️💖🏴‍☠️ @samanthaduke.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Cat needs $25usd *immediately* and $170 by day's end PLEASE HELP HOWEVER YOU CAN DONATE AND *BOOOOST* 💖

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

An oldie but a goodie.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 13/12/2025

“[…] if it isn't to be thought of as evil, it could only mean that evil doesn't have any use as a word or a category.”

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 11/12/2025

“Such a wonderful drug. Any drug that makes you partners and impotent, oh yeah, gimme a little more of that…” —Robin Williams, more or less

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 09/12/2025

One thing I remember from David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo series is a sci-fi world in which eyewitness accounts are the pre-eminent form of judicial evidence, because recorded video evidence is too easy to fabricate or alter.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 29/11/2025

He really has reverted to the 1980s, hasn’t he.

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Wylder 🏳️‍⚧️♿ Help Us?? @wylder.myatproto.social · 22/11/2025

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 05/11/2025

“We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price.”

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ida ✸ blueguy brainrot 💎✸ @tujiux.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Today’s my birthday! 🎂🥳 It would mean so much to me if you shared my art! 💖🎨

A pale woman with long flowing black hair frames her as she holds a skull with a kiss mark.

A woman holds three girls in her hand and she cradles them with a gentle smile. She wears a dark gown and has a veil over her face. Her hair is done up in beads and a braided bun.

Two elves posing near each other intimately. the pink elf has a cigarette in her hand.

Leora in her void form is grabbing a star that emits orange flame. The text reads: star catcher.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 17/09/2025

Yes, we can learn that he’s getting a very poor return on a colossal investment. Johnson might end up living a few more years, but in exchange I expect he will have added several more years than that of dejection, drudgery, and misery.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 15/09/2025

The castle from Patricia Wrede’s Enchanted Forest, complete with all the bonkers staircases and secret doors.

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Nevin Flanagan @nevin.playsmith.net · 01/09/2025

HUNTR/X songs: I have transcended my limitations and become my best self. Saja Boys songs: I am going to eat you. #kpdh #kpopdemonhunters

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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/12/2023

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

Photo of Revy Photoshopped onto a transgender flag
She's pointing back and looking shocked

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