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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 01/10/2026

Chaosium is renaming Shub-Niggurath to Shub-Gorath in some products. I'm fine with this. Although I feel obliged to explain...

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, who wants a Mordheim inspired game from the guy who wrote the rules for Warcry, Games Workshop’s best wargame for years? Because that’s what you can get* if you click this link. * well, the beta rules at any rate.

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Black Death City

Black Death City: miniatures-agnostic narrative skirmish game of dark fantasy and gothic horror.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up" - C.S. Lewis

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 24/09/2026

This is a great archaeological open-air museum but they also have a fantastic youtube channel that keeps posting interesting videos. Like this one: Rebuilding a Saxon hall by hand. Check the video and the channel out: youtu.be/PPaqxYl1vxo?...

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From Oak Tree to Saxon Hall | Archaeology Brought to Life

YouTube video by Butser Ancient Farm

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

with the new expansion, i had to finally formalize this presenting the first roleplaying game to use Hearts of Iron 4 as a resolution system to properly model fascist dysfunction it is not cooperative or competitive, but a secret third thing docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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True Imperial Japan Experience

True Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi...

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely lost my shit at this co-op mode for Hearts of Iron, which you play as the Army, Navy, Emperor, and Government. All have their own win conditions aside the Government, which lost the game automatically in 1925. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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True Imperial Japan Experience

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Laura Geggel @laurageggel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The largest hoards of the Viking Age have been coming out of the woodwork! There's this one in Finland, and this past spring the biggest Viking Age hoards from Denmark and Norway were also found 🏺🧪💰

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Finland's largest Viking Age silver hoard discovered by metal detectorist — and it has thousands of coins and pieces of jewelry

The largest Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Finland was unearthed by a metal detectorist north of Helsinki.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

thank you lesbian tractor witch

image with swirling green background of the lesbian tractor witch it says: congratulations if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the lesbian tractor witch, she has removed all curses have a wonderful day

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

6 years ago today, bloody hell

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SpaceTessContinuum @eigenvalue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Some of the discourse on USAID has reminded me of this.

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There is a Jewish story about a wealthy man who came to his rabbi and said "I have decided to build an orphanage, can you put me in touch with the relevant people?"

The rabbi was delighted to do it, and introduced the man to some charities. After a few weeks, the man came back to the rabbi.

"I have decided not to build the orphanage," he said. "I realised that I was only doing it because I wanted to be admired as a philanthropist, my motives were selfish."

The rabbi answered, "do you think the orphans will care what your motives were? Build the orphanage!"

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/08/2026

"When it gets bad enough, the irrational passion of those blessedly fake, cultural stakes can be scooped out entirely, to be replaced with toxic, violent demands that players get to work, not at winning, but at making you money." www.liberalcurrents.com/betting-alone/

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Betting Alone

Sports betting is destroying an important part of the American social fabric.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Nominate and vote for the strip mahjong game for best art direction and best VR game at The Game Awards, you cowards. Make Geoff say "Super Real Mahjong" live on camera and test his resolve to be The Games Avatar. You clapped when Naughty Dog did it for five seconds and Illumination is 1/50 the size

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

www.vice.com/en/article/a... Always love an excuse to bring up this insane article, which keeps escalating.

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An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism

How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Later he returns as Darth Flation. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/jedi PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update. A circle of Jedi (including Yoda) looking uneasy surround another Jedi speaking in the center. The lecturing Jedi says "Look, whether the ruling class is officially good space-wizards or evil space-wizards doesn’t matter. know what predicts lower infant mortality and greater rights? Gross domestic product per capita." The caption below the comic reads "Later, the dark and light Jedis banded together to cast out the neoliberal faction."

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"The people who work on farms often don't own them" is something that would have been completely intuitive to 99% of people for 99% of human history but is completely unintelligible to the people who make US public policy.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

People tell me they like suits but don't have occasions to wear one. You can wear a suit to court, funerals, and religious services. Doesn't have to be your trial, friend's burial, or religion you believe in. Go to random trials, attend a stranger's burial, join multiple religions. Try it sometime.

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Xan @comicsbyxan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm sure I've posted about this before but whatever, here's a new thread on the subject: why it does not bother me in the slightest if my clients did what they are charged with doing.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

great, gail, now i'm going to have to go down ANOTHER research rabbit hole to investigate THIS claim

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The Trouble with Triscuits

Though the "electricity biscuit" thesis is plausible, killjoy historians need more evidence.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

OK wait: The "pipeline rerouted because of grave of fictional character" story was never true? It's a silly season spin-up reposted by the BBC, Guardian etc.? The pipeline never went near the "grave" and was never rerouted? Rusty Foster with the links: www.todayintabs.com/p/dobby-s-gr...

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Dobby's Grave Not At Risk From The Greenlink Interconnector Project, Also Not Real

Harry Potter Adults are still the worst but not because of what they're currently being blamed for.

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redwyrm @redwyrm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Me: I have to leave work a little early today as my son has a game. Co-worker: I didn’t know your son played. What position? Me: Uh… Dungeon Master.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hi there, and welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks, a weekly game with simple rules: guns fuck, or they suck. This week, we have the Claridge Hi-Tec, a 9mm closed bolt pistol made by a Hungarian immigrant in California from 1990-1993 until the state banned possession of Hi-Tec's by name. ~1000 were made.

A pistol that looks like a tube with a long buffer behind the action, with a reciprocating bolt handle on the left side. Notice that the magazine release is similar to a Beretta's because the gun actually uses notched Beretta 92 magazine when you find them. There were also proprietary magazines however manufacture of them died with the company and as such originals are exceedingly rare. Also notice the safety which doesn't fully rotate as much as turn and shift.

The guns were also available with an off-white color as well as the 8" barrel shown here. Interestingly the guns were initially sold as a gun/knife package with the knife matching the pattern however the knives tended to become their own, separate collectors item.

Also available was a 16 inch "carbine" version available with a stock that kind of screams "mom says we have an Uzi at home."

The action itself is relatively simple with a Mac-style bolt connected to essentially a section of steel tube that has been cut into to serve as the upper. The gun was designed by Lajos John Goncz, who also gave it the original name of the Goncz High Tech. He made about a hundred, sold the rights to a company so they could make it en mass, and then California decided they didn't like the idea and banned it's simple possession by name in the California Assault Weapons Ban.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

ok we're back. Time for the Rocky Mountain Locust story

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Things that have been said to me this week, AGAIN: "Wizards of the Coast doesn't reprint the Reserved List because they're greedy and want us to keep paying too much for luxury vintage cardboard." Which...no.

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N8erTheH8er @n8fromphilly.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Forget the hunt for Gollum, I want the Scouring of the Shire. Those same four guys go home to find the shire under a Sackville-Baggins puppet government run by a still-alive disguised Saruman and lead a Hobbit uprising.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

digitaldigging.org

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I think it's also important for libs (like myself) who oppose the DSA to say clearly what they would need to do become an accepted part of the coalition. For my part, the main thing is having a foreign policy consonant with the values of a humanist internationalism.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.

America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 17/07/2026

Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One of the many thinks I like about @marthawells.com 's Muderbot books are the way she tackles the big question of what it means to be free, particularly what freedom can be when you've undergone a lifetime of indoctrination. Do butterflies sometimes long for cloistered comfort of the chrysalis?

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Terrible Secunit

ALT: Terrible Secunit

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Jehtt @turbojehtt.net · 05/07/2026

I love how they expanded on the story in this game.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The New York Times has uncovered the vandals who turned the water in the reflecting pool green by removing crucial “and nano bubbler“ machines and causing overnight algae bloom. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

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How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 27/06/2026

Weirdest NATURE-branded interactive ever? It’s like Would you terraform Mars via (a) magic, (b) the power of Grayskull, (c) dilithium crystals, (d) hope www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Can you terraform Mars? Try Nature’s game

Once the realm of science fiction, the idea of making Mars habitable is gaining traction. Nature consulted with key scientists to develop this experimental adventure.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I find it amusing that every so often I get a commenter who is upset at the way that ACOUP uses bolds and italics. Don't I know that plain language can carry the emphasis? Which is funny because of course I don't use the ACOUP house style anywhere else - it is very obviously a deliberate choice!

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 21/06/2026

this is how you win a memetic war against the future

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Ok, ffs, I am just asking people to check to see if facts support assumptions. Israel and the FDD, etc? Sure. Rubio? No! We have reporting on this, Rubio (and Ratcliffe) were against the war in internal deliberations! Hegseth was for it, because, y'know, idiot. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Ok here’s an actual take on this: this is yet another example of something you see all the time: people rejecting the admittedly flattened & sanded down ‘mainstream’ narrative for an alternative that is *way* more inaccurate. You’d be better off just believing the simplistic Sunday school version!

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