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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't know that anyone who needs to hear this will, but if you ever find yourself thinking "I know that every kids-these-days take in history has been terrible, forever, but THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT" then please, please, please do ANYTHING other than record yourself.

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Pupperpotamus @pupperpotamus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My hot take is that fandoms have always been a majority of nice people with a subset of absolutely rancid, judgemental arseholes that never got bigger, just louder, but because platforms learned that arguments drive engagement and therefore you see more ads, they tailored algorithms towards that

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 21/09/2026

When a wizard dies, their spells unravel. But the pattern lingers a while. When Fitzglob died, other wizards swarmed his tower, trying to find his time-stopper room, which you exited as soon as you entered, no matter how long you spent inside. "Here! This room!" "Why?" "It has a reading chair!"

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Old Man Scythe @oldmanscythe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I honestly don’t know that I have one. The two that most come to mind are Final Fantasy I and Wing Commander (II or privater). But really I played a bunch of different games. But rarely obsessively or like “this is AWESOME”.

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Old Man Scythe @oldmanscythe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Um, building very efficient resource gathering transport systems. Probably because I didn't file the appropriate permits.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

W/alt. Very “read that thing you just typed again please” alt.

So, in fact, the bill did nothing to improve affordability.

Now, to the current situation. New apartment buildings have shaken the rental market, as the city has overbuilt.

Many of the new buildings are offering as much as three months free rent in an effort to lure new tenants.

Investors who own older buildings are forced to lower rents and eat three months or more rent in order to rent their properties, and rental rates have fallen. If they have mortgages, they are in trouble.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Soooooo there was a big push to get people to sign up as poll workers over the last ~10 days or so and uhhhh We are now at 27,000 new poll workers. 💪💪💪 This is not a joke, that's twenty-seven THOUSAND people.

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Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer @frankwunderli13.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If one thing is wrong with politics, then it's the idea that activism must make people as scared as possible about a problem in order to achieve anything at all. What we get is huge amounts of disinformation getting spread by people thinking they are doing THE RIGHT THING(TM) - and complete apathy.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Food safety & preventing outbreaks is like steering a cruise ship. Very small decisions- bad ones AND good ones- make a very real difference! But also, this stuff doesn't turn on a dime.

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Boys Steering a Ship's Helm

Alt: some kids turning a ship's wheel

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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Talking with Cam, had to make Reacher as a Ride or Die character. :)

A Ride or Die character sheet for Jack Reacher. His talents are Largeness, "No.", and Uncanny Insight. His signature ride is "One of the bad guy's cars."

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The fact that HBO compelled even this lukewarm non-apology out of one of the modern world's proudest and more powerful bigots means that her hatred is actually affecting their bottom line.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Alien Wikipedia entry that's like "Earth Civil War, 8,000 BC - ongoing," and the most incomprehensible and lengthy belligerents sidebar imaginable that when you untangle it really does show the United States and Ur are on the same side in a longue durée sort of way.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I was looking up old Poor Richard's Almanack quotes for more "two wolves" material. Not all of these stuck around, but I did like this one: “The Golden Age was never the present Age.”

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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

40 YEAR OLD MEN OF MY DADS GENERATION EXPERIENCING EMOTION DISTRESS: ah... time to start a secret family across town 40 YEAR OLD MEN OF MY GENERATION EXPERIENCING EMOTION DISTRESS: i just need to get my pen situation figured out once and for all!

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Ferrett Steinmetz @theferrett.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Magic: the Gathering card design got a lot better when they recognized the distinction between 6/10 "everyone thinks they're fine" cards and 6/10 "Half the people hate this card, the other half thinks this is the best card ever printed" cards Sometimes the midline is because it WAS made for you

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“AI lowered the floor of what anyone can produce, but it didn’t raise the ceiling of what’s good. So your team ships more stuff but none of it is better. If you’re the kind of person who got into this to make good things, that’s depressing.”

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thirty-two @j.holmes.codes · 08/08/2026

The legit most unrealistic part about Primer, the ‘04 sci-fi thriller, is that two tech bros sat on their invention for a few years because they wanted to understand the implications of their technology and not release it to world too soon. And yes, it also includes building a Time Machine.

The theatrical release promo poster for Primer.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 07/08/2026

If the concern is economic, then yes, it’s the big market segment right now! Go nuts! Come hang with the big girls! If it’s “I, a dude, do not see enough specifically dude-coded books in the fantasy section,” then listen, if I could pick up Azure Bonds as a teenage girl, I expect you’ll live.

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Old Man Scythe @oldmanscythe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Finally. someone who is willing to discuss Porter’s five forces And all the rest. (I’ve often stared that getting my MBA turned me far more into a leftist)

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Cardboard Crack @cardboard-crack.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Teaching Magic #MTG

Thanks for teaching me how to play Magic.
Let's play with our hands up so I can explain what to do.
Next, see that you have no lands and yell,
"Mana screwed?!
This game is so unfair!"
Mana screwed?!
This game is so
unfair!
First, draw seven cards.
Okay, done.
Wow, you're a natural.
I never knew
Magic was
So much fun!
cardboard-crack.com

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Old Man Scythe @oldmanscythe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That’s my emotional support backlog, thank you very much.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Every day is a good day to post American Gentry! h/t @patrickwyman.bsky.social

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Do you know how bad public perception of AI tech has to be for LinkedIn of all places to let you start flagging it?

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Tomer Abramovici @budgetcommander.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I want this to be a playable sideboard card It makes me so happy

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A refusal to accept "I don't want to talk to you" from other people as a valid stance that should be respected remains undefeated as the most reliable red flag a guy online can wave

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🎃Hex Ramone🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This also underscores the point that the people who are currently “running the government like a business” don’t know how to run businesses either

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“All restaurants are Taco Bell” Is really undergoing the same kind of dystopian transformation of meaning previously reserved for TVs tuned to a dead channel.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

That sound you’re hearing is the mouse clicking of 10,000 post-post-apoc solarpunk RPG indie gamedevs saving this PNG to their mood boards

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Old Man Scythe @oldmanscythe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“Verify your age.” I remember sun tan oil.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

yeah I'm all for kids learning to deal with boredom, but the US is at the convergence of "kids are banned from using devices"+"free hangout spaces are gone"+"existing in public is illegal"+"all the adults in the kids' life are being constantly surveilled by their employers for most of the day"

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Finding Dee Fish @findingdeefish.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

When a picture circulating as a meme gives you an idea for a random doodle... you MUST DOODLE THE DOODLE!

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 28/06/2026

"You have tampered in the Gods' domain!" the god shouted. "Well, maybe, but you gods tamper in the human domain all the time!" "That's... That's different!" "How?" "We are Gods! It's what we do!" "And we are human. Likewise." "I..." The god sighed. "Fair. But keep it quiet, okay?"

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"We're so used to things being bad" is one of those sentiments that resonates so hard.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 19/06/2026

At the eve of the summer solstice, I pick seven different flowers, in seven different fields, all in complete silence. I tie them into a bouquet and put it under my pillow. Doing so means that tonight, I will dream of my true love. I already live with her, but I like dreaming of her too.

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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Kratos somberly reckoning with his violent and aspiring to be a better father while his dead wife is doing double jumps and air combos in another realm is so fucking funny. imagine if Laura Palmer was doing DOOM shit in the Black Lodge

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

my read: magic design is perpetually caught in a three-way tug of war between "ha ha, do you get it?" and "mechanically important for draft" and "we have to sell 5 commander decks every six weeks" to generate any novelty worth attention

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Katie 🔜 ATL @legdotegg.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

When drawing white Liliana I made a cursed realization, Spot the difference between these two pictures

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Old Man Scythe @oldmanscythe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Got to play Men-Nefer yesterday with @scootermann.bsky.social and others. It is a long crunchy game, and while I fumbled halfway through it and lost an otherwise very close game, it was a blast. Admittedly 3.5 hours with learning it, but worth it. Afterwards, I compared it to Terraforming Mars.

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The use of AI in porn and crime is probably going to grant a better insight into its actual value to the market than the opinion of any number vice presidents of product.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

They should make a drug that just makes you act like your best social self for a few hours. You pop the pill and can be everything people need you to be and then later you can crash or whatever No type of hangover could possibly be too high a price to pay for a drug like that

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