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Wizard of the Howling Wastes

@nikephorus.bsky.social
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Wanna-be academic and writer. Professor of morbid bibliomancy at Unseen University. Denizen of the howling wastes of Western Canada. Father of children. Partner to the love of my life. No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. He/him

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Some More News @somemorenews.bsky.social · 9h
Hi. On today's episode of Some More News, we look at what those clowns in Congress actually do all day while they're not legislating. Link: youtu.be/1tpS7BL64rE
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 9h
more business owners need to be like this
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I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 10h
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
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Hudson Hawk The BabaDONK of the Apocalypse @hudsonshawk.bsky.social · 13h
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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 15h
25 years ago today, the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan. I was 12 At 22, I fought in the same war At 32, the Taliban, who we overthrew in 2001, came back in to power, starting a refugee crisis that has defined the last 5 years of my life. 25 years later, what have we learned?
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026
we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
moby dick the sperm whale with a speech bubble
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[A parody of MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD, in which the kindly Mr Rogers takes us to see local things in his town.]
 
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MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD

MR ROGERS:

Hi there

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Today, I’d like to take you to visit some of my neighbours… 

[He puts his coat on to leave his house]  

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At a wonderful local event,
 
[We see the cute toy-town diorama of his village famous from the TV show. The camera pulls out…]

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The Data Center protest.

[The camera has pulled out further and now we see a huge DATA CENTER at the edge  of town]. 

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MR ROGERS [joining a crowd protesting outside the Data Center]:

The Data Center is an enormous, windowless, endlessly humming building outside of our town

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…Which has tripled energy prices, drank all the water, and created four jobs.

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[to camera, as if kindly explaining to the viewing children]:

Four jobs! Golly!

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LADY PROTESTOR [probably NAOMI KLEIN, holding a sign]:

In a way, the Data Center is kind of a vivid metaphor for a future we feel locked out of!

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MR ROGERS [to camera again]:

A metaphor.

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That’s something that lets us clarify our feelings about something else. 

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LADY PROTESTOR:
How do you feel, Mr Rogers?

MR ROGERS:
I feel like bringing down the government!

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MR ROGERS [now holding a sign and protesting]:

It’s good to have neighbors.

[ends]
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 05/10/2026
henstomper on tumblr: "oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do"

henstomper: "oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world’s biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The best part of an Elon Musk thread is that it might prompt him to try to do one about me. "Grok, roast this professor. Tell me what my man looks like. No, no. More vulgar. Use the forbidden words. Be cheeky."
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kat claws @kat.meangirls.online · 05/10/2026
100% & it really can't be said clearly enough that the deaths from AV development caused by tesla & uber were fully preventable w the right regulations & oversight bodies & the same will be true w gen AI. the issue in both cases is deployment on the general public with no accountability, not R&D.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My man looks like he's prosecuting Nandor before the Vampiric Council
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026
I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings
The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scamThe cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
bobcat in a box
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i bet he spent the whole last decade of his life absolutely fuming that he was outed as a pedophile and a sexual predator before it was cool. punished for being a trendsetter!
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"I'm killing myself with aspirin megadoses and my idiot doctors keep begging me with tears in their eyes for me to stop killing myself with aspirin but I know everything about granite and marble and they don't know anything about granite and marble because they don't have the super intelligence"
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026
Jesse Brown apparently has time to criticize everyone except the unhinged lunatic in the National Post invoking the same rhetoric as violent religious extremists against Avi Lewis
Jesse Brown • @JesseBrown • 2h

This is a complete misrepresentation, nothing Goldstein wrote remotely endorses violence against Lewis.
The suggestion that the real problem in Canada is violence from Jews against the antizionists who incite massacres against us is a moral inversion with no basis in fact.Jesse Brown
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A whole piece about how the National Post called for violence against Avi Lewis without a single quote in which the National Post called for violence against Avi Lewis.
Because it never happened.
Ricochet Media © @ricochet_en • 5h
The National Post recently crossed a dangerous line by publishing call for violence against Canada's federal NDP leader....

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Notice how the same bunch of outlets all spread the same lie at the same time?
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Avi Lewis is a Jewish politician refusing to be silent about Israel's genocide-and now he's being threatened with violence.
@judyrebick writes that the lack of upro...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/10/2026
generic reply to emphasize, I’m a police and prison abolitionist, I have been writing about these systems for two decades
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2077 years ago, on the 3rd of October 52 BCE, Vercingetorix, the leader of an alliance of Gallic tribes, surrendered to Julius Caesar, ending the Siege of Alesia. It was the culmination of Caesar’s Gallic campaign and the last major confrontation between Romans and Gallic tribes. #otd #history 🗃️
Stater bearing the name of Vercingetorix. Obverse: VERCINGETORIXS – stylised head facing left. Electrum, 7.45 g, diameter 18.50 mm. Arverni, circa 60 BC. BnF Collection: 3774 (Ancient collection) (GAU-3989)
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wait, where’s the cheese?
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/03/2022
PSA to my fellow immigrants: white people are easy, you can control them with cheese
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mike Pompeo is now going to gave the opportunity to teach Columbia students how to performatively lie in public, how to yell & swear at reporters, & how to be the worst Secretary of State in American history.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NYC: @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani & @CurtisSliwa get flu shots together… Curtis was nervous he’d faint so Mayor Mamdani offered to hold his hand. Again: the problem the fearmongerers have is Zohran exists
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just found out about this and am now unfortunately forced to kill myself. Good bye
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
yesterday I told this cat he was a good boy for "hunting" a sock and bringing it to me in the bedroom and this morning every one of my socks is missing
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/09/2026
Trump on the AI meeting yesterday: "They're going to police each other. And they're going to self police. They're going to police themselves. It's going to work out very well."
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Warhammer pipeline from casually curious to detrimentally obsessed is REAL and can HURT YOU
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The Hungry Wolf @hungrywolf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“You would charge headfirst into hell, so long as you could complain the entire time.” Rarely have I felt so seen. @tkingfisher.com can distill an ethos with remarkable clarity.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can we go back to when we just hated auto tune?
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone has a Hussein
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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Fourth Doctor c/o "FANTASY EMPIRE" No.2 (1984). Art by Elby. #DoctorWho
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve heard of crows doing this thing where they drop an acorn to crack it, but this is the first time I’ve gotten to see one do it. This crow was at it for a while before I started recording. 😊 They’re such problem solvers.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2026
Given the transformations (if not the collapse) in my profession and the fields I cover—driven by AI—it’s not impossible. 🫠 It’s possible that in five years, this will simply be a "museum account," focusing solely on the 1895–2027 human period. I need you to create sci-fi.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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mel in ballhalla 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👇 old
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t know why this bluehair man is dressed as a moldy pita bread. And I don’t know much about him, but - didn’t he used to be kinda well thought of in the comedy / animation world, generally speaking? Because here he just sounds like a dumb, drug addled fascist. While hanging with ALEX JONES.
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Emily Heller @mremilyheller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the evidence is mounting that drugs might be bad for you
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No
2024 NYT article: Can the GOP really become the party of workers?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 27/09/2026
Honestly amazing that no one can convince him that this is not going to have the political effect that he thinks. Probably letting him do it just so he doesn’t waste PAC money.
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Ham 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎨 @thehamofficial.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
Expectation vs reality
guild navigator from dune 1984 in his tank, a bunch of guys are gathered around him in trenchcoats and a dude in a formaler outfit is in fronta lego version of the previous image, all the lil guys have happy faces and space suits, the guild navigator is a comically large lego head with a little matching smile to the the guys.
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John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️‍🌈 @johnbarnes.org · 26/09/2026
It was wonderful to lead the Preston Pride parade today as the Town Crier and Bellman of the city and to make the opening proclamation. Love is love my friends.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026
I mean that kind of feels like the same thing, right? Reality TV is like the influencer version of being a musician signed to a major label.
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