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omnibalsamic @omnibalsamic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Antipathy for reboots aside, my hottest take is that Girls was a good (occasionally great) show and you don’t have to be a brain genius to see why it got so pilloried in the discourse. I’ll gladly die on this hill.

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omnibalsamic @omnibalsamic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/10/2026

LETTERMAN: In fact Digger is doing so poorly that Tom Cruise has been using the empty theaters to hide Shelly Miscavige. [big bass sting from the band, scattered laughs, some "ooohs"] Have you seen Shelly Miscavige lately, Paul? SHAFFER [smiling]: Not recently, Dave.

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 10/10/2026

*to patient* KETAMINE-assisted psychotherapy? No, no. BEN-yah-meen. That's right, Walter Benjamin. It's where we help situated the soul alongside the mechanical reproduction of the self. Yes, while on mescaline.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

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Nicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Work Bully: How coms't thou hither? A worm? (New girl blushes and turns away) Bully's Henchman: You pebble! You stone! (Cronies laugh) Me: (bravely standing) Let her alone.

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omnibalsamic @omnibalsamic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they’re calling it the most washed game studio of all time

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omnibalsamic @omnibalsamic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i dunno why people are getting mad at this one i love seeing excerpts from my favorite book Mad Libs: Deranged Gen-X Edition

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two great tastes that go well together: Moomin and tower-tunnel. By Paul Antoine Takahashi on instagram.

Moomin with lantern looks down into tower-tunnel with the words from the wall in Annihilation represented next to the steps.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Mighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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omnibalsamic @omnibalsamic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I’ve never played a Wizardry game, which one (and what version) should I check out? I’m looking to get a sense of the series’ flavor, and I suspect I’ll only play one.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire. I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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omnibalsamic @omnibalsamic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ohhhhh my god ur new AAA RPG is about hope? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?should we invite hironobu sakaguchi

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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The CryptKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Worked out my anger about the craven dismissals of the 2020 protest movement over at The Nation www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

data4democracy.substack.com

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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omnibalsamic @omnibalsamic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My boring but correct answer: An actual follow-up series to Deep Space Nine, set ~30 years later. Focus on galactic politics, of Bajor and Cardassia in particular. Light on the cameos; the point of the show is history, theme, tone, not a bunch of callbacks. Tony Gilroy and I as co-showrunners.

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Suddenly reminded of how Kevin Kruse was also caught dead to rights with plagiarism in his dissertation, also by a right-wing racist academic, but he's white and posts a lot so his institution issued a statement about how it was fine and nobody talked about it again; so he could get back to posting.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s a PARTICULARLY obtuse thing to say about Newton in particular, who had to very cannily negotiate holding quite unorthodox religious views at a time when universities were in many ways annexes of the Church. I don’t see him being flummoxed by 21st century HR.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I really can't get over this, this is such a wild example. there was a whole Church Inquisition torturing and extorting suspected heretics in Newton's day and we are being invited to ask whether he would have survived land acknowledgments lmfao bsky.app/profile/pwhi...

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Apparently the test of the modern university is whether it would accommodate a seventeenth century academic exactly as he was

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The honourable critic will write, 'You know what? I don't care. This is a colossal waste of money, an insult to everyone's intelligence. God knows how many new shows & movies could've been made with this. But instead we're queueing up to service the dumbest, most unimaginative people alive.'

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.

boston.com

Millionaires tax surges past expectations, once again

The voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A ton of effort is going to go into pretending taxing rich people doesn’t work just like a lot of work went into immediately ignoring and getting rid of that expanded child tax credit once it was revealed it worked way better than expected

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

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【Naru the Ghost 👻】 @narumynatsue.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I tried to draw it in the style of Naoki Urasawa sensei!

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omnibalsamic @omnibalsamic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

me when im normal and can be trusted w/ dragon

Ulf White (HotD). He’s smiling in a way that is definitely normal.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

new issue of Vizier Monthly is out

a fake magazine cover with a cruelly smiling old woman in red vaguely Renaissance garb, leaning on a staff with a serpent twined around it. Headlines around her:
So He Saw The Strings: What To Do When Your Lord Thinks He's a Real Boy
Chalices, Knives, Nooses: How's a Girl to Choose?
Why Satraps Rebel: 10 Cautionary Tales
12 Moves For The Ambitious Concubine (and a 13th for the New Favorite!)
"I'm Just Getting Better With Age": Catching Up with Brynza, the King's Eye

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Hetti ✨ @hettikovacs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Sheepstealer ✨ #hotd

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 31/07/2026

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

Transparent bags of frozen clam chowder with black and white labels and an all-caps font not quite Eurostile but similar energy

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

i think the wilson–nolan stuff was so explosive because nolan-heads are susceptible to the delusion that his stuff is much more highbrow than it really is, and bluesky heads are susceptible to the delusion that they are the number one homework do-ers, and wilson threatened both myths simultaneously

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

when I get mad at a stupid comment online

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

this post is the entire intellectual framework of the American right

John Podhoretz
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@jpodhoretz
First girl I ever asked out (high school) turned me down because, she said, she
"liked big black guys with muscles."
#Share YourRejections
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omnibalsamic @omnibalsamic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

my experience of the Odyssey is giving me renewed appreciation for @seantcollins.com and his principled stance on the Last Jedi over the years “No, I didn’t like it… but OH GOD NO NOT FOR THOSE REASONS GET AWAY FROM ME CHUD”

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

genuinely bewildered by the praise I’m seeing for The Odyssey

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laura “Skeleton” cavegift @cavegift.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

firing a bunch of people responsible for your good game, hiring some new people and forcing them to make something almost exactly like the old one, miraculously it’s just as good, and then firing a bunch of the new people because your company already ruined its own goodwill. masterful gambit sir

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The throughline of everything that's happened at ZA/UM since the release of Disco Elysium is the incuriosity and boundless contempt executives have for their own workers, their customers, everyone.

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