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He/himbo SWE in SoCal. “Generations” are an over-fetishized cohort type, but I’m Gen X if that brings you peace. ADHD. TTRPGs. Art. Retro-tech. Urbanism. Approval voting/STAR/RCV. Other good things: 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽♿️✊🏿🗽💉📘🧠☕️☮️❤️🐈 👇 ✨ A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE ✨ 👆

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11h
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h
The cars from Cars have tinted windows because otherwise you’d see their bowels.
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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My impression of a shark stepping on a piece of Lego.
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⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social · 15h
So...Is That It? 🍂 #Art by Skizo
Skully at a dumpster
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11h
Arguing with the pope doesn't make any sense, when you could simply buy a bigger pope hat and become the new pope
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13h
Imagine 3d printing a Halloween yard decoration that looks exactly like your neighbor but 12 feet tall
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Scott but Spooky @scuitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Computer time in elementary school was the highlight of my day. May have gotten monkey pawed on this.
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deadlyyucca @deadlyyucca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
- "I Saw a Flying Saucer" demo (a slightly older version) - no new merchandise; clearance sale - free flyers - hands-on experience where you can take photos of in-game scenery
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 02/10/2026
Why is there amother Michael Meyers in the back seat and it is simply never addressed
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QVC @quarvex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump: “Go FAST! Go Faster than anyone has ever SEEN!” Driver: “Yes, sir!” Driver, putting his hand over his mouth: “vrrrrrrmmm beep beep vrrrrmmmmmmmm” Trump: “This is so Fast! This is the Fastest! No one’s ever seen anything like it!” Driver, with tears in his eyes: “Thank you, Sir.”
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QVC @quarvex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The legal definition of genocide is spelled out clearly in Article II of the UN’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Note that the essence of the crime is in *targeting* a group with intent to destroy, in whole or in part. There’s no vibes-based casualty quota.
A screenshot of text, which reads:

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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huntsoph.bsky.social @huntsoph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Before and afters
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What would you call this? Here: www.google.com/maps/@31.307....
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Morg @thorpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They create a desert, and call it peace - Tacitus
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".
A Curse Against Stealers Of Books
For him that
stealth a book from
this place, let it
change into a
serpent in his hand
and rend him.
Let him be struck with
palsy,
& all his members 
blasted.
Let him languish in 
pain crying aloud for
mercy, & let there be be no surcease to his 
agony till he sink to
dissolution.
Let bookworms gnaw
his entrails in token of 
the Worm that diets not,
& when at last he
goeth to his final
punishment, let the
flames of
hell consume him
forever & aye.
(Monastery Of San Pedro, Barcelona.)
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
THREAD. Packing up in spring for our house move, I found this: it was my mum's first attempt at capturing my cat The Bear (RIP) via a quick chalk sketch. 2013, perhaps? So simple, but so great, and it proved to be the catalyst for what has been a huge amount of creativity in her retirement...
Two chalk versions of my late cat The Bear, by my mum, Jo.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, this reminds me: Every chili pepper type has a distinct and somewhat consistent onset of heat, from immediate to a slow burn. This is because in addition to capsaicin itself, each contains a cocktail of several other capsaicinoids. Each capsaicinoid has a different attraction to fat/oils.
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Shangalar @shangalartheblack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We can extrapolate based on the amount of people on death row who have been exonerated and released that at least 3-5% of them are innocent. Having it in place simply as a method of revenge for families is not worth even one of their lives. Not even close.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No one wants to put in the work of breaking someone’s heart any more
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's a way yesterday's failed attempt to frame up Jack Smith for perjury could've been covered as part of the same story — the deadly serious abuse of the DOJ by Republicans to ruin the lives of who they perceive as political opponents — but instead it was like "EMBARRASSING WHOOPSIE"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HAHAHA THEY TRIED TO SEND THIS PUBLIC SERVANT WHO JUST DID HIS JOB TO FEDERAL PRISON AND FUCKED UP THEIR FACES MUST BE RED like actually, this is worse than what joe mccarthy did?
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
Look, the Cornell 7 allegedly did the raping but that group chat had over 50 dudes in it. 50. One phone call from one guy & this poor woman doesn't have this horror put on her life. Not all men? All those men tho You wanna say not all men? Here's what you have to do bro:
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 24/07/2026
It's a story as old as time you infiltrate a cult that claims to have access to supernatural powers, because they have free food, and then they catch you and subject you to their lethal ascension ritual to get rid of you, but you accidentally survive and gain powers, so now you run a small cult café
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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 04/03/2026
The thing about telling chatbot users that using chatbots deteriorates their epistemic connexion to reality, is that it fails to take into consideration that using chatbots deteriorates one's epistemic connexion to reality, such that being told it has deteriorated will not seem like a big deal
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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
You: They did the math. Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ You: What was that? Me: Nothing. Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ
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Mike Urbancic @urbancic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
well-behaved copper merchants seldom make history
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
One reason Republicans are so laser targeted on trans kids existing, is that trans kids existing requires accepting the bodily autonomy and consent of children. Which is something republicans absolutely can't do, since they are pedophiles. Their transphobia and pedophilia is them being consistent
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Transphobes will embrace and ally themselves with every pedophile, rapist, and domestic abuser because they fundamentally agree completely with them about bodily autonomy and consent Transphobes are unable to *not* see a huge obviously abusive piece of shit and immediately support them.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026
#OtD 10 Oct 1889 a nationwide wave of schoolchildren's strikes was sparked in East London, when kids from a dozen schools walked out of class and took to the streets waving red flags, and banners emblazoned with "No cane" and "Shorter hours" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8241...
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Neato Tito @neatotito.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Illustration of a man firing a rifle at two bears attacking him

Man - Me
Further away bear - self doubt
Closer bear- This one is just a real bear
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Hourly Twin Peaks @hourlytwinpeaks.bagpuss.org · 30/09/2026
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S03E12 The Return, Part 12: Let's Rock July 30 2017
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
john carpenter writing the soundtracks to assault on precinct 13 and halloween
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Thomas @djamesalicious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
windows modal box:
title: Error - Chigurh.exe
picture of Anton Chigurh "Call it, friendo"
3 buttons: "heads", 'tails", "you don't have to do this" the last one is disabled so it can't be clicked
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 30/09/2026
Minor thing but seriously another big fuck you to tech companies who immediately updated their maps when king dipshit decided he was changing the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario but aren't updating a thing now that he's calling their emotional support ponzi scheme "super intelligence"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When all of the worst fucking people you have *ever* seen are transphobic, being pro-trans is a huge way of indicating that you actually might disagree with them. Dem centrists, by constantly trying to throw trans people into the woodchipper too, indicate how much they agree with these freaks.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oh, did Claude invent an algorithm to recommend music based on the music you like is it different from what Spotify and Pandora and every other streaming music app has already been doing is it worth the absolutely ludicrous amount of money they spent developing it
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it's waning gibbous. hallelujah it's waning gibbous
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026
America must become a world leader in Good Brain
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a cherished subgenre of Atlantic thinkpiece is "this leftish idea will never work, especially if you ignore all the ways that it already is."
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Westin Lee @westinlee.itch.io · 28/09/2026
Solid and essential essay for creative pros from Cory today about why IP is an exploitive term. And yeah, the New York Times going after AI companies for IP theft is nice, but also, it's two giants arguing over who gets to eat the largest number of us.
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026
Part 2 - "Darkstar" dresdencodak.com/2026/09/27/d...
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