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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 5h

i hate my manager! everything she does makes me wanna scream and/or go back to bed

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sums up my feelings.

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🎃 Seasonal Creep 👻 @windingdot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote or update your registration in Ohio. If you’ve moved or changed your name, updating now will avoid potentially needing to vote provisional in November. Also a good time to double check your drivers license isn’t expiring before November!

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

THAT'S JOSH HOMME?!?!??? i fully did NOT recognize him, what the fuck. he's looking rough, man. 😬 smoking so many cigarettes cannot fully explain this. what. what.

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MARCY BONES! ☠️ @marcybones64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

please never forget that almost every single societal issue we face today would be solved by equitable access to essential things like food, shelter, medical care, and education, across the entire board, free of obligation

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my wife @raywithawhy.bsky.social said "i would eat the shit out of those!" while i said "it's my nightmare!"

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

how DARE you, silly thai historical drama, for making me cry with your SWEET AND GENUINELY HEARTFELT ENDING??? HOW VERY DaRE yoOOOUUUuuu

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Ray @raywithawhy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me: I'm gonna go to bed early tonight @samarbles.bsky.social: You should, you've had a long week. Me: It's TUESDAY.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Piper is best good girl who will make sure you have company for your bathroom journey

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Piper is like this. Never pee alone!!!

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No it doesn't! AAAAAAA!!!! 🤪🫠🙃

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

turns out... TWO DIFFERENT INSURANCE PROVIDERS is the problem! cigna does like, appts & services, but Rightway does my pharmacy shit. WHY LITERALLY WHY i fucking hate this country.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

now i DID pick up that scrip because I'm NOT about to try to do any admin tasks WITHOUT the adhd meds but you better believe I'm FUCKING FURIOUS

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

who is excited for "why did my insurance deny coverage of my prescription?" Monday?!

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

comics are stupid and i love them.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just tried to explain who Nightcrawler's parents are to my wife @raywithawhy.bsky.social and they were like ".....sure." then: "Wait, if Mystique was the father, then who carried him? whose womb was he in??" so i had to explain there's a mutant whose name is Irene Adler - yes like in Sherlock.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

they tore down the old one to rebuild in the exact same spot and DIDN'T BOTHER TO MAKE A DRIVE THRU? that feels real stupid somehow. everyone loves their burrito (burger?) taxis, of COURSE this is gonna be a shit show of cars....

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/05/2026

hating ai is a pro-social activity

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

screaming into the void about my self-paced flexible WFH job suddenly becoming a micro-managed HELLSCAPE

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ahhh i see you too have an "Advanced Copy+Paste" style job as well, very nice, very cool

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

omg yes! Columbo was so much fun for my wife and i that i made my own COLUMBINGO board (we switched out a few squares later on, adding 4 new ones and removing others) We only ever got 1 BINGO across the 7 seasons we watched together 🤣

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

every time my manager does yet another stupid mico-managing thing that makes me seethe with annoyance, i'm thinking to myself: i am not a teenager, i am 38 years old, you do not need to do the equivalent of telling me to clean my room whole i am already cleaning my room. fuck off into the sun.

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Help me raise some money for my kids’ elementary school! Buy one of these large DRAW pins and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to their arts magnet school! Do it for the kids! www.harebraineddesign.com/collections/...

Black enamel pin with red type that says “DRAW” and white lettering underneath that says “To keep kids off generative AI” in the style of DARE program tees.

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Karli! @karlicartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've seen people try to rehabilitate roy Lichtenstein among cartoonists. "he brought us into the mainstream" "he made us matter" fuck you. he stole and he profited and he left us in the goddamned dust and so did everybody who forgave him

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ME: it is the middle of September and it is almost 80 degrees outside. it still feels a little early to be drinking pumpkin spice coff- STAPLES: merry christmas you piece of shit

K cup display with peppermint bark coffee and peppermint Swiss miss in goddamn September

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this, definitely this. the lesser of 2 evils. Still evil! but *less*

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

yeah, that's definitely on my mind. i don't want to start over in a new place. i don't want to leave my friends and home behind. but if things get to a certain point, i'll feel like i don't have any other choice.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if i don't vote for Acton, it's basically like voting for Vivek. THERE IS NO WINNING HERE. either way we're in the same fucking vile soup of republican gerrymandered maps

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ohio is a fucking CURSED place to live. We have a choice between "openly evil tech bro" (Vivek) or "pretending to not be evil" (Acton) for governor. So for a lot of assholes voting, it's gonna come down to like, "are you more racist or more misogynistic?" and i hate the answer to both.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i love when my cat jumps up next to me on the couch, and instead of cuddling me, sneezes all over my arm in a fine misty spray. gosh thank you so much i feel so blessed. so honored. then she sticks 1 single claw into my flesh, just to make sure i know she loves me. I love you too Fidget, my gremlin.

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

omfg the Americans. Definitely. (and maybe also the Columbo that he's in, if you haven't seen that!)

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Redrum @redrua.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annual reminder that there is a Columbo statue in Budapest and it includes Dog. Happy Birthday, Peter Falk.

Statue of Peter Falk as Columbo with a smaller statue of Dog looking up at him

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI psychosis and anthropomorphizing chatbots are a bigger problem than the risk of spontaneous emergence of super-intelligent consciousness. LLMs can already do a lot, will be able to do more, and are changing society. Yet much of the worry assumes they have dreams, desires, independent thoughts.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Humans see animals in clouds and faces in furniture. We make up inner monologues for our pets. We heard loud noises in the sky and thought it must be gods feeling anger or jealousy. Is it really such a leap to say we have trouble differentiating human-sounding chatbots from human-like intelligence?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/09/2026

We REALLY gotta get this guy elected. If other candidates are getting you down, this is a good campaign to toss some dollars at or volunteer for. abdulforsenate.com

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Abdul El-Sayed is running for US Senate in Michigan to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for All.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 08/09/2026

Labor Day may be over, but that doesn't mean that the wins for working people have to stop! Congratulations to Starbucks workers who just won their union elections! 💪CONWAY, AR 💪RENO, NV 💪SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

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