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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolute moment of nerdbliss when art I commissioned for my website appeared on @arbitarious.bsky.social's video on the Blood Pact! They are the canon inspiration for the Sherden Pact! Art by Storykillinger I commissioned appears at 1.55! Here's the original. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYKh...

Four sci-fi soldiers advance across a hellish battlefield.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

like all great cities New York is vibrant and alive and made important precisely because people come to it from everywhere! cities without an ever-flowing wave of new people become moribund and stale

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Says someone who has never spun any thread, woven cloth, or fashioned a garment, never mind growing the plant or animal and harvesting the fiber

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026

i thought this was very funny

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Jack Packard @jackpackard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Frankly it’s mostly patience. It’s a ridiculously long game with a lot of fiddly rules and interactions. Don’t be afraid to look up stuff and use the occasional save-scumm. It’s not a game for everyone, but (in my opinion) totally worth the time.

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Jack Packard @jackpackard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I beat Baldur's Gate 3! In total: 252 hours and 3 attempts over the past 3 years. 85 hours in this last one alone! (a pure Wizard playthrough) Now, I always liked this game but now seeing most of it... it's somehow so much better than I thought it would be. The hype is real and deserved.

A screenshot of two Steam achievements for the video game Baldur's Gate 3.
One reads:
All's Well That Ends Well
Finish the game (with a heartfelt thank you from Larian Studios).
23.5% of players have this achievement

and the other reads:
Hero of the Forgotten Realms
Save the realms: destroy the Absolute once and for all.
24.5% of players have this achievement

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Imagine how incredibly hard an electric self-driving Toyota Century would go, with the little lace curtains in the windows and everything

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I get there are lots of reasons for pessimism, but a lot of desperately poor nations are developing, global child mortality has tanked since I was a kid, malaria deaths are way down, extreme poverty is *way* down, access to water and power are widespread, solar power is booming...

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I worry this sort of... generalized political and economic pessimism just makes everything feel pointless, but if you zoom out, things are getting better along almost every axis, and the biggest problems we face are all solvable.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

sisyphus, with one of those beaded seat covers draped over his shoulders, leaning back into the boulder and pushing as he doomscrolls for eternity

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Reading Higginbotham's very comprehensive book "Midnight in Chernobyl" and it's good but hard. Particularly poignant is a scene where an American doctor arrives, and the Soviets are distressed that he's not bringing any super-tech that will save all the people with radiation sickness.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Oh snap! Of course when people check that list of nominating editors and see me there it's gonna all be a bit second pic. But anyway now I shall have to find where to fit my *second* Philosopher's Annual award up on the shelf with the Leverhulme Prize 😏

The Philosopher's Annual
volume 45
Dear Professor Bright,
We are pleased to say that we have chosen your and Nathan Gabriel, Cailin O’Connor,
and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s “On the Stability of Racial Capitalism,” from Ergo, as one of the
ten best articles in philosophy from 2025.

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Perhaps AI will be the grit that makes the pearl: making institutions articulate, for the first time in decades if not ever, what the hell they’re about and what an education is supposed to be for. (This from the MIT committee‘s report on AI)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

years too late for my mother but not for countless other people. personally I feel pretty strongly that we should continue to fund science research

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 25/08/2026

Coming up on Sept 10 in College Station TX, I’ll be there with Chris Weitz and Andrew Miano, hosted by the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives SF/F Collection library.tamu.edu/news/2026/08...

library.tamu.edu

Free Panel Event for ‘Murderbot’ Apple TV Series

Acclaimed science fiction author Martha Wells ’86, will host a panel discussion, episode screening and book signing with Murderbot executive producers at 7 p.m. Sept. 10 in Rudder Theatre.

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Actaeon113 @actaeon113.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have finished the first of my NeoTokyo/Cyberpunk Windriders. #nerdlings #Warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #eldar

An Akira inspired bright red jetbike ridden by a red armored rider with white Kabuki mask.

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Lighthouse Comics @lighthousecomics.co.uk · 15/08/2026

"The Wicked and the Warped", the sequel to "The Infinite and the Divine" by @robertrath.bsky.social is out today! This is a great hardback edition and we have copies of the previous title too. Come down and pick it up!

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 12/08/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar

A wall-mounted sundial inside a walled garden. Text on the sundial reads: "fear god, obey ye king"

A traditional sundial on a plinth, formal gardens surround it

The sun beams down on a traditional sundial, with heather visible in the background

A shot of a sundial from above. It's mounted on a stone plinth. Text on the side reads "KEW BRIDGE"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/08/2026

it's maddening. and not only this, renewables are now the cheapest form of electricity AND fossil fuels have suffered repeated severe price shocks AND EVs are now price competitive with gas cars

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s ironic that the America First movement will be responsible for ending American hegemony.

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The President of the United States continuing to bring the full force of the federal government down on a guy *everyone knows is innocent*, just like he did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and so many others, is absolutely 1,000% impeachable IMHO. This is just straight up tyranny

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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Canadian girlfriend of emails.

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yes YES The tiger is out

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Joshua Smith @smithmachine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Government Accountability Office, the actual professionals trying to root our government waste, is out with a 52-page report cataloging methodological errors and data limitations with DOGE's "Wall of Receipts." (I bet this was fun for them to write.)

gao.gov

U.S. GAO - DOGE Wall of Receipts: More Transparency Needed on How Savings Are Derived from Contract, Grant, and Lease Terminations

The President established the Department of Government Efficiency to transform federal spending. DOGE instructed agencies to review federal contracts...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/08/2026

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

bloomberg.com

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Obviously now that it’s massive headline news a bunch of people who know nothing about the situation will comment stupid things about it (esp because it’s AI related) but the Leopold blowup is quite shocking to basically every professional investor who was following him for several reasons:

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electriceve (ICantThinkEm) @electriceve.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

kraken on with working on getting my freehand consistent 🐙☺️

A comparison of two freehanded dark kraken chapter symbols I painted

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Nate Pacer @npacer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It’s going to get better!

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It’s going to get better!

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Nate Pacer @npacer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

(As unironically as possible) This is the way

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Chris Pramas @chrispramas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

3+ to hit, let’s go.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/07/2026

Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Poor bastard’s starving

Cookie Monster: For every goal today, me going to eat a cookie

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I decided to do another Sanguinary Utnapishtim story. A legal drama! Not really. But I have thought for a while some of the slaves have to be better than the Pact at their own schtick? Hence this story! A combo of some worldbuilding and then attempts at humour idk archiveofourown.org/works/88795401

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Community Disservice - LastPositivist - Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/07/2026

Power Lines Drawing #122 (Detroit, Delray) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social will be reading an excerpt from Bea Wolf at Forgotten Ground Regained's #NYCPoFest reading at 1 pm Saturday, White Horse stage, Governor's Island. He'll be signing books at FGR's book table immediately afterward.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHWEST. On Tuesday 21st of July I'll be in talking to @starkholborn.bsky.social at @mrbsemporium.bsky.social in Bath about my new book THE KNIGHT WATCH. Ticket sales are looking a bit thin on the ground at the moment so please share far and wide! mrbsemporium.com/events/2026/...

mrbsemporium.com

The Knight Watch with Thomas D. Lee - Mr B's Emporium

We’re delighted to welcome bestselling author Thomas D. Lee to Mr B’s for his new novel, The Knight Watch. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Perilous Times (a huge Team B fave!), comes this ...

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