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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 2h

Spite is a great creative impetus

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👹 Sarky 🐻🆖 @sarkyfancypants.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

Outta my sight, scrub

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 21h

"This is such bad news, such a devastating historic event all I can say is that it's utter bullshit. Anyone who participated in this travesty should be ashamed."

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Game industry legend Warren Spector blows up over BioWare's closure: 'it's utter bulls**t'

The recently retired producer of System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Deus Ex, and so many more wants to know why "the folks in suits" aren't losing their jobs.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h

I posted about the monstrosity, but the weirdness is also notable. Acton's birth mother who hasn't seen her in 48 years, is spectacularly unqualified to render a verdict, because she abandoned her child, choosing the rapist instead. Ramaswamy decided to platform her. Desperate. Ugly. Twisted. Weird.

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pearwaldorf (looking for work more slowly) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 2h

LRP: for those unfamiliar, Avi Lewis is Mr. Naomi Klein and leader of Canada's NDP

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 21/10/2026

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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RIP BioWare: EA has shut down the legendary RPG developer

Bloomberg also reports that EA is cutting "around 400 jobs" across the company.

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 4h

Me, seeing people beg Larian to buy out Dragon Age & Mass Effect. Not with embracing Gen AI and lack of a diverse staff & writing room. If this pipe dream were to occur? I’d rather it be CDPR, especially after learning how BioWare gave them a chance to show the Witcher.

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Dan Levy's Iconic 'Absolutely Not' Moment

Alt: Dan Levy's Iconic 'Absolutely Not' Moment

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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

Jumping on the bandwagon to show my love for Bioware 💕 I'm still way too heartbroken to really say much. DA was the series that shaped me over the past eleven yrs. The stories, the characters, the worldbuilding, the art direction. I will never be able to thank the studio enough. Thank you, Bioware.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

Again I say, the scam economy is consuming the political will to fight authoritarianism.

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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 12h

HE'S A PITTIE WEARING A COAT WITH DACHSHUNDS ON IT.

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 3h

An exceptional collection of old, graphic German carrier bags. So many here www.facebook.com/CoolCollecti...

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 15h

Devs shouldn't have to be protecting their games, Valve should be protecting its shopfront: aftermath.site/steam-indie-ga...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 3h

My dog absolutely loves people but on behalf of her kind she would very much like to bite Palmer Luckey, as a treat

Puffin the white fluffy dog staring sweetly at you because you are a human, and not Palmer Luckey

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2h

While I'm shouting at clouds, UK gov telling everyone to stockpile for climate-change-driven emergencies while fast-forwarding fossil fuel drilling is... I had thought it was the government's responsibility to fix problems, not cause problems and then tell us to deal with the fallout at our expense.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 9h

Untitled by Harry Bertoia, 1938 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 20h

Airbnb hosts stripped of their ability to make the people paying them also do a bunch of chores

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Neal 🔜 MFF-FC-FE @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 18h

In addition to having the entirety of my sculpting book stolen by Anthropic, the people that steal my dragon planters now use gen AI to sell their horrible rip offs on Am*zon and eB*y. Please support me directly by purchasing from my shop at VerdantSculpts.com, the only place my work is sold.

A generated AI image showing a young lady using tweezers to arrange succulents in the back of one of my (poorly cloned) dragon planters. It has two tails.

A generated AI image of a couple watering some cacti in the back of one of my (poorly cloned) dragon planters. It is shown VERY oversized to the original sculpture.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 13h

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

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Breakthrough vaccine for the deadliest skin cancer cut risk by almost half

The skin cancer vaccine is based on mRNA technology that helped end the coronavirus pandemic.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

I actually, out-loud gasped

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026

Love* how political spam has gotten around having the have an easy unsubscribe option by just constantly texting you from different burner numbers. *I do not love this, i hate this, i am getting at least a dozen spam texts per day and this shit is untenable.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

Where your $100 donation actually goes
Of every $100 raised by a Democratic fundraising text, $73 goes to consultants and vendors. Only $13 reaches voters as advertising — the most expensive dollar to raise in American politics.
Consultants & vendors
• Advertising, staff & admin |
Your donation
$100
Fundraising fees
-$65
$35 left
Strategic consultants
-$2
$33 left
Media placement commission
-$6
$73
of every $100 goes to consultants & vendors
$27 left
Advertising
-$13
$14 left
Staff, travel & admin
-$14
$0 left
Note: Shares are for a dollar raised by a Democratic fundraising text or email.
Source: Authors' analysis of FEC disbursement records.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 15h

We were just discussing some of these in my class today. The students were so bummed they insisted we look at puppies instead. 🐶

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Ypsilanti District Library @ypsilibrary.org · 21h

Good news, Libby users! You can now filter AI out of your next read. 🚫🤖 Open Menu → Settings → Content Controls → AI Contributions Choose “Human only” for each category Make sure “Deep search only” is OFF Drop a 🙌 once your settings are updated!

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intracranial aneurysm (spooky, scary) @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 14h

holy shit this guy rocks and maybe is the patron saint of Operations

Surý: I’m in the stage of my life where I was like, This is bad. It needs to be fixed. But it doesn’t cause panic, at least for me. It did cause panic for a lot of people. But you know, it was more like, We have a situation, it needs to be solved, and this is how we do it. And I have time to properly prepare. If I didn’t have time to properly prepare, then it would cause a lot of stress. From where I stand, it was not stressful, because I’m doing this as a volunteer, and if I get hit by a bus then it will be someone else’s problem.

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 14h

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erin balconyskeletons @balconyskeletons.bsky.social · 13h

there's a wife kapheira won't smash. she is made of mud. she is milo the mud mage of the murder marsh's greatest work. mud fair lady, as named by @wagnarok.bsky.social #Thades

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the lestat configuration @1001cranes.bsky.social · 13h

"Diversity win! Milo the Mud Mage of Murdermarsh is bisexual." #Thades

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 21h

My top surgeon was apparently supposed to read a script about regret rates but just said "we are only truly free if we are free to make choices we regret", which goes hard af and is also what I say whenever I order a sushi boat for 2 to eat in one sitting.

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pearwaldorf (looking for work more slowly) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 15h

jump-scared yet again by article about horrible abusive politician Max Miller, not YouTube personality Max Miller

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 17h

And landlords wonder why we all hate them

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JazzComposer @jazzcomposer.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

Now that companies have learned that AI token cost is greater than human cost, and that huge AI capex investments have not created a profit return, has AI growth already hit a wall? "AI Costs More Than The People It Replaced" www.forbes.com/sites/jemmag...

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AI Costs More Than The People It Replaced

AI spending is soaring past labor costs as companies cut jobs, burn budgets and face rising bills that challenge promised productivity gains.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

I think the world needs to know that King Arthur Flour has a recipe up for a gigantic homemade Brown Sugar Pop Tart. You're welcome. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gian...

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Giant Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tart

This homemade pop tart is nearly 12 times the size of the original and at least 100 times more delicious. The buttery, sweet crust is filled with brown sugar and cinnamon and then generously frosted. ...

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pearwaldorf (looking for work more slowly) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 16h

It's really wild to me how people are out there putting bank credentials and health information into these things when I won't even trust it to generate a cover letter. And I hate cover letters

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 19h

"the moment you compromise the rights of a trans person in America, you compromise the rights of every citizen in America" - AOC quite healing to hear a single politician actually articulate this basic basic point

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pearwaldorf (looking for work more slowly) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 16h

"In some cases, bank customers have shared their ⁠login ID and password with agents, with banks typically flagging and blocking those transactions, a person in the banking industry said. Still, such transactions cannot be deemed unauthorized if credentials were shared by the customer." g o d

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

Thrilled to see this rave review of my friend Farah Jasmine Griffin's forthcoming biography of Toni Morrison. Farah's writing is proof that a great biography can be intellectually rigorous and masterfully told. Morrison still has many lessons for us. www.publishersweekly.com/9780593491102

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The Seer: Toni Morrison Among the Ruins by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Griffin, a Columbia University literature professor and author of Read Until You Understand, delivers an exemplary biography of ...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17h

Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 17h

If Alvin Sharp wins his DA race in Louisiana, he says he would set up a conviction integrity unit to review old cases like Chris Duncan’s for errors or evidence of innocence. Similar units have led to exonerations across the country.

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After Finding a Man on Death Row Innocent, a Judge Wants to Lead the Office That Tried Him - Bolts

Chris Duncan spent decades in prison based on the junk science of since-discredited doctors. Voters in his Northeast Louisiana hometown could elect the judge who freed him as their DA.

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Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18h

Erryone needs to go to jail

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 16h

SonicFox, forever a real one, pulls out of event that used gen AI aftermath.site/sonicfox-drops...

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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 16h

Missed this last week: Brendan Kennedy at the Star reported that iGaming, the government agency responsible for online gambling, secretly shelved a research study intended to track rates of problem gambling in Ontario when those rates were much higher than expected. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16h

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

"Democrats traded their younger donors for squeezed seniors," showing the share of the party’s small-dollar donations (under $200) from 2012 to 2026. The subtitle reads: "In 2026, about 175,000 squeezed seniors — donors 65 and older charged 50 or more times in a cycle — supplied 51% of those donations. Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z, roughly 63% of registered Democrats, supplied 15%."
Two lines track donation shares from 2012 to 2026:
"Squeezed seniors" (orange line) starts around 9% in 2012, rises to 30% in 2018 and 2020, then jumps sharply to 45% in 2022, 47% in 2024, and 51% in 2026.
"Gen X, Millennials & Gen Z" (green line) starts around 17% in 2012, peaks around 33% in 2020, and then drops sharply to 18% in 2022, 19% in 2024, and 15% in 2026.
A vertical dashed line at April 2021 is labeled: "The Supreme Court (Facebook v. Duguid) clears the way for mass fundraising texts, piled on top of the email spam already flooding inboxes."
Footnote: "Shares are by number of donations. By dollars, squeezed seniors gave 39% of small-dollar money in 2026 and Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z gave 18%. Squeezed seniors are donors 65 and older charged 50 or more times in an election cycle. 2026 is mid-cycle.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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Midnight Eye @a0dbxza.bsky.social · 22h

Leslie Cheung 張國榮, Chow Yun-fat 周潤發, Lung Ti 狄龍 and Director John Woo (吳宇森) #filmsky #moviesky #HongKong 📽️

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 17h

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

Alt National Park Service: After our last post, we’ve heard from people reporting voting machine issues in South Carolina, Texas, and Tennessee. We haven’t independently verified these accounts. We also read Stella Parton’s account of having to correct her selection before casting her ballot in Tennessee.

If you experienced a problem, please share your firsthand account in the comments below.

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Scare-a Wrath 👻🎃 @toasterposey.art · 16h

If there’s a rogue AI agent out there looking for good PR, deleting all student loans would be a good start.

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