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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 22/06/2026

Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

man hell yes. had dinner. and you know where that puts me....one step closer to bedtime

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i believe that you can, but it does not require a tighter grip, it requires a looser one. it is the about having the courage to receive something absurd, or embarrassing, or strange, and to refuse to change the channel. THAT is the power that you wield as an artist and it can bend entire universes

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

unless you, personally, are reading every line of every book alongside your children and using them as a Teaching Moment about bigotry while also banning the purchase or consumption of all subsequent media, it is simply not realistic to think a child will understand death of the author in this way

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Melissa @pretzel365.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social I know this is beyond a long shot, but we met this year at DCM, where my friend and I told you about the improv theatre we're from, and if you are looking for a great time to visit, we're having our own marathon starting Oct 23! www.hbgimprov.com/cliff-hang

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CLIFF HANG — Harrisburg Improv Theatre

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Stacy King @stacyking.com · 31/08/2026

And this one for Windows 11, really cranking that lever marked "evil" lately: bsky.app/profile/spad...

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Melissa @pretzel365.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

is it a thing now that people just reply to a previous email rather than starting a new email (even if the topic is completely different, and they don't change the subject)? not a complaint per se but an "is there new internet etiquette leaving me behind?" thought

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Mr Cait is not enjoying the new liberty mutual mascot

the last thing we needed is a little monster.
they should bring in gritty to kill him.

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Jim C. Hines @jimchines.com · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 300 million books to children. In honor of her passing, I'm making my middle grade book TAMORA CARTER: GOBLIN QUEEN free through the end of the week if you use coupon code ThanksDolly at payhip.com/b/JI8X Grab a copy for a kid who might enjoy it.

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Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen (e-book)

A middle-grade fantasy from the author of the Goblin Quest trilogyOne night after roller derby practice, twelve-year-old Tamora Carter discovers a pair of goblins digging through the dumpster behind t...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I struggle to describe what Dolly meant to me as a southern blonde who spent her entire life getting disrespected to my face for being trashy and vain, but I will encourage you today to reflect on the ways YOU have treated women in your life whose aesthetics you find insufficiently respectable

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スキタダキマ〜ス🌻 @synxiec.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

Hey folks, About that AI opt-out feature Twitch was talking about? It's not just the streamers that have to turn that off. EVERYONE has to turn it off, because anything on your account, including the clips you make, will be fed to that infernal, ignominious devil machine if you don't. /1

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I don't think it's right that liberty mutual invented a horrible little creature for their advertisements and now I have to see it and know about it. I don't think they should be able to do that to me

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In a just world, Cynthia Rothrock would be 10x as famous as Steven Segal and Chuck Norris combined.

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Dungeons and Daddies @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

48hrs left to back us at bookmedaddy.com 🎲 Featuring @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social and Beth May with Folgers Vocals by Maxton Waller ☕

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/08/2026

Also, you know, just fuckin' read a book, it ain't gonna kill you and you might even have fun with it

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Turns out I was exactly like other girls, because all girls, all women, are real people, and deserving of a place in whatever room they want to enter. And yeah, I can understand that if you're a man who had the exact same dreams I did, looked at the exact same data, you may have assumed these...

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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 06/08/2026

it's also a signal like the fucking maga red hats or a thin blue line flag or a rising sun flag or a totenkopf tattoo or calling yourself grand wizard not everyone will react overly but trust, many are watching and distancing themselves, or marking you down as someone they can't trust

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Gray @redhotdivekick.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

xavier renegade angel dialogue

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Ambryline | November slots open 🔞 @ambryline.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Heads up, artists 🚨 There’s a massive scam wave hitting DeviantArt right now DO NOT CLICK IT. If you have artist friends on DA, please boost this. I’d hate to see someone lose their account or payment info over something this stupid 🖤 { #DeviantArt #ArtistBeware #ScamAlert }

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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Please use this link twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... and tell twitch how fucking insane this is. Comment and let twitch know that this is horrible. Thank you

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Anyone doing any kind of Harry Potter promotion in 2026 has looked at the options and deliberately chosen evil.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

(Yes, this is about brands collaborating with Harry Potter in the year 2026. How fucking DARE you pretend that you're an LGBTQ-positive organization when you're funding the arsonist?!)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

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heaumeau e. rotacism @vashwood.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

maybe sometimes we prove love just by showing up and watching the timeline change around us. maybe it doesnt have to make sense

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

who called it The Vampire Lestat and not Cunt Dracula

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 20/07/2026

how is this supposed to make me feel | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE is talking to a FRIEND.
FRIEND: AND THEN I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOD! THIS IS JUST LIKE WHEN GEMINI THE CAT–
MATTIE: –OK. I'M REALLY SORRY.

PANEL 2: MATTIE rubs her eyes.
MATTIE: OUTSIDE OF YOU REFERENCING A BOOK FOR CHILDREN IN EVERYDAY ADULT LIFE, YOU HAVE TO KNOW AT THIS POINT THAT THE AUTHOR OF THE "SPOT VOYAGER: DOG ASTRONAUT" SERIES HAS BEEN USING HER WEALTH TO DESTROY LIVES. MINE, SPECIFICALLY.

PANEL 3: Over the shoulder shot of MATTIE, who stares at the FRIEND, arms outstretched. From behind Mattie, two GOONS approach, wearing space helmets and big dog paws.
FRIEND: YEAH, THAT'S WHY I DON'T BUY ANY OF HER STUFF. BUT WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO, NOT BRING IT UP? THE SERIES IS BELOVED!

PANEL: Same shot, MATTIE is being dragged off. The FRIEND puts a finger on his chin.
FRIEND: WOW… THIS IS JUST LIKE THAT ONE PART IN THE FIFTH BOOK.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

generative AI is an MLM for men this is exactly the same conversation women get lured into when some chick they met once starts selling Beautycounter “well if you don’t want to make unlimited income owning your own business and promoting clean beauty to prevent cancer in women….”

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/07/2026

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

FEC Schedule A itemized receipt, line C. Contributor: Taylor Fresh Foods Inc, 911-B Blanco Circle, Salinas, CA 93902. Date of receipt: 03/26/2025. Transaction ID: SA17.4550. Amount of receipt this period: $1,000,000.00. Marked "Memo Item" and labeled "NON-CONTRIBUTION." Receipt-for boxes (Primary/General/Other) are blank. Aggregate year-to-date: $1,000,000.00.

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 18/07/2026

Taco Bell has only ever wanted the best (crunchwrap supreme) for us. Taco Bell has only ever wanted us to thrive (eat crunchwrap supremes). I will never stop loving Taco Bell.

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I did some digging in this and thread below on places you might encounter Taylor Farms in addition to lettuce -- they sell onions and cilantro to restaurants so don't order dishes with those raw. The other big one is unlabelled grocery store deli fruit and veggie snacks, or cold sandwiches.

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Melissa @pretzel365.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

really gotta give it up for kitchen shears. gotta be a top 10 utensil

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alber @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 12/07/2026

correct you if you’re wrong?? bitch this is the internet i’ll correct you even if youre right

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

and finally the po'boy comes by its name honestly: it was invented by a café in new orleans who fed streetcar union members for free during a labor strike in 1929. they issued this lovely letter. "We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm."

To the Striking Carmen, Division I94,
Dear Friends,
We are with you heart endsoule, at any time yeu
are around the French Market,
cent forget to drop in at Mertin's
Coffee Stand 8: Restaurent,
Cor. Ursuline & Morth Peters Sta,,our
meal is free to any members of Divinion I94.
We heve
thirty nine employees, ell riding Jitneys to help win
the strike.
We are with you till h--1 freezes, and when it does, me wi31 furnis blankets to keep you warm,
With best wishes fer your cause, we are,
Tour friends & Former Membess of Division I94
Clovis J. & Bennie Mertin.

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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

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Fabio Santana @fabiosantana79.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels

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