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disillusioned software dev illusioned novelist

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US
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qoop @qoop.ca · 31/07/2026
what this shows is that democrats overwhelmingly feel that the party is directionless and lacks a real agenda. Right-leaning democrats equate this with a vapid left-wing fixation on identity politics even as the dem establishment have been consistently distancing themselves from idpol for years. 1/
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Eric Walker 🎃 @eric.games · 19/06/2026
The GPU is not your enemy. The GPU was intended to channel magic smoke into the drawing of triangles, the virtuous shape. Evil men devised wicked shapes that should never have been drawn, and have used their influence to hoard the GPUs and twist the magic smoke toward the shape of their perversions.
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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qoop @qoop.ca · 29/05/2026
the idea of personal virtue is kind of right-wing coded & it's easy to dismiss it on the grounds that our problems have societal (rather than interpersonal) roots. but as individuals, we don't have the power to change society. We do have the power to hurt each other. We have to take that seriously.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 27/02/2026
THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU
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qoop @qoop.ca · 18/02/2026
The discomfort of wanting to make something but not knowing what is super important. It drives you out into the world to discover inspiration, and inward to discover what you care about. If you numb yourself to this by letting AI decide, you'll never fulfill your potential.
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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
One of the most successful mangas ever looks like this.
A panel of ONE's original version of One Punch Man.
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qoop @qoop.ca · 02/01/2026
"We need to get beyond the arguments of 'spam' vs 'real mail' and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our theory of correspondence that accounts for humans being equipped with postal services as we relate to each other." — The guy filling your mailbox with spam flyers
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qoop @qoop.ca · 22/12/2024
oh god not the quantum microtubule consciousness theory that's the 20th-century version of Descartes thinking the soul was linked to the brain via the pineal gland it's just an ad-hoc defence of dualism grounded in quantum mysticism
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qoop @qoop.ca · 26/11/2025
one of the consequences of AI is deskilling: people are losing their ability to discover art that interests them. They need AI to satisfy their needs effortlessly, and that's just not what being human is like. No robot can develop taste in music for you
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/11/2025
lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2025
Silksong has exactly two bosses: 1) WEEPING WIDOW has 4 phases, moves at lightning speed and fills the screen with attacks. The greatest boss fight you've ever experienced 2) SILLY CHUMBUG who makes you play Flappy Bird in a tiny room full of adds with zero margin for error and a 10-minute runback
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 25/08/2025
obama: runs on a progressive agenda, wins hillary: runs on pandering to moderate republicans, loses biden: runs on a progressive agenda, wins harris: runs on pandering to moderate republicans, loses
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This is my Evangelion
Richard Condie's National Film Board of Canada animation "The Big Snit"
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I think the central premise that young men searching for information on how to have a sex life will invariably encounter just an absolute avalanche of right wing misogyny peddlers and very little actual helpful advice is a genuine problem.
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qoop @qoop.ca · 30/07/2025
me when I'm bad at my job and I keep losing elections: "it's the posters' fault. They're posting about celebrities all wrong." man, have you seen the shit Republicans post?
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qoop @qoop.ca · 05/06/2025
i think about this all the time. what has our society done to its men? fucked up.
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth
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Gale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
wendy's cashier: will that be all? me: i think so. we just close our eyes for the last time and we're gone. but it doesn't have to be sad. it's like before you were born. we don't miss those who haven't happened yet. we don't feel their absence wendy's cashier: mothers do. i do
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qoop @qoop.ca · 20/04/2025
"oh hey, I hadn't heard of Fevre Dream before. I wonder what other people think about it. Let's check the replies."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)
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foggy bottom jeans @robt.fm · 21/03/2025
a post reading “I don’t think you should give kids phones or iPads but you should give them free access to a desktop computer” with a quote post adding “ipads have no soul but desktop computer is like a nervous horse and has the capacity for love”
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
not having the AI convo anymore i’m just sending people this
tweet by @peterokii: “oh poor baby
do you need the robot to make you pictures? yeah? do you need the bo-bot to write you essay too? yeah ??? you can't do it?? you're a moron?? do you need chat gpt to fuck your wife??”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
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‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
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qoop @qoop.ca · 01/03/2025
I've had a low opinion of NYT for a while, but I think this is the most condemning thing I've ever seen from them. If I were an editor and I saw this on my desk, I'd bury the story and cover it up. But they're proud of it.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
finally figured out the lyrics
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic And what's more leftist than that
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"Common Side Effects" is coming this Sunday (Adult Swim / Max). By the co-creator & the animation studio behind "Scavengers Reign".
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
this is what a lot of tech people used to be like 😭 it bums me out that younger people probably have no conception of the internet ever being this way
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qoop @qoop.ca · 16/01/2025
you know how a friendship with a pet dog can be deeply life-affirming because you love each other despite not speaking the same language? i think this disgusts me so much because it's the opposite. a machine that adopts the guise of companionship without even liking you. man's worst friend.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 10/01/2025
“I see a difference, definitely,” said Tony, who has spent 18 years as a bus operator for the MTA. “There have been no delays the entire week, and when I look to my left and right down the avenues I can see all the way down – I’ve never seen it like that.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/10/m...
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MTA Drivers: Slowest Bus in Manhattan Is Faster Since Congestion Pricing
The slowest bus in Lower Manhattan is moving faster this week since congestion pricing began, bus drivers say.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I also want to stress that some of you don't seem to understand that there is a difference between this and "individual action can help." I do actually think it mostly can't. But I do want /the government/ to /force/ you to change your consumption patterns.
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 03/01/2025
Fun fact about those AI accounts on Instagram: you can’t block them. (Cc @davidgerard.co.uk)
An AI account on insta. The menu doesn’t have any block or report options.
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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
When I had a violent stalker who would graphically describe how he would have me gang raped, puncture my organs and and break all my bones, I was told the police "couldn't do anything". Consider this a reminder that they absolutely ✨can✨ do something. They just don't care about YOU.
A screenshot of a social media post that states a Florida woman was arrested this week after allegedly threatening a health insurance provider. Lakeland Police said the woman became increasingly upset during the call which she ended with delay denied depose you people are next. 

On the left is a mugshot of Briana Boston, the middle aged white woman with blonde hair and a blue shirt. On the left is the mugshot of Luigi mangioni, He is a white man in his twenties with dark curly hair and thick eyebrows.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
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Kriss Lowrance @krisslowrance.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Yep. The goal of anti-porn laws isn't to stop people from seeing pornography. It's to create a class of speech that's legally suppressible, and then apply it to dissent.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
i see the intuitive appeal of the idea that voting for Dems is forfeiting your leverage, but i think that misunderstands how power is built in practice. the most powerful demographic in American politics is white evangelicals, and they got there through relentless engagement with electoral politics
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ca-dmv-bot @ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Customer: I LOVE PUKE DMV: I LOVE PUKE Verdict: DENIED
California license plate with text "I (heart) PUKE".
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
The cat's out of the bag, baby. I'm adapting MANHUNT for TV with Lilly Wachowski, and I couldn't be prouder or more excited to be writing it. We're going to do our damnedest to bring this thing kicking, screaming, and queer as hell onto the screen. www.autostraddle.com/lilly-wachow...
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Lilly Wachowski Has Her Combat Boots On
"I'm trying to do all of it."
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 12/09/2024
straight up yoinking that shit
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qoop @qoop.ca · 09/09/2024
i love when people get shocked that some opinions are unacceptable. Yeah, sorry. People don't tend to respond to abhorrent ideas civilly.
Photograph of Adolph Hitler with a plaintive expression. A speech bubble has been edited in, reading "So this site turns out not to be as civil as all that, if you express a forbidden opinion."
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 02/08/2023
Anyway please enjoy the whole awful adventure in one image so you don't have to go flipping through posts
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qoop @qoop.ca · 12/06/2024
I watched FURIOSA today FURY ROAD was inspired—every element was bursting with colour. Simple but with immense attention to detail. By contrast, FURIOSA is muddled and weak. The new villain talks too much but has nothing to say. The new designs are dull; the good bits are reused. I'm disappointed.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
Romney openly admitting it's because too much information about Palestine was getting out is some of the most sickening, dead-eyed freak shit I've ever seen
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס @tikkunolamunist.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
"Everything the Communists told us about communism was a complete and utter lie. Unfortunately, everything the Communists told us about capitalism turned out to be true." —Russian joke from the 1990s
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