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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
up periscope #critterposting
Crude drawing of two cats by the a window with slat blinds. One is orange and circular. The other is brown and slat shaped. Light from the window slats checkboards the blue wall behind them. Shaped like shapes.
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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath v1.01: Added some mythical dungeons, materials, and related temple quests
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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a horseshoe crab watches as a variety of prehistoric creatures swim towards an ethereal light. An ammonite calls back to the crab, “come on, horseshoe crab! We’re all evolving!” Panel 2: the horseshoe crab stays in position and replies, “nahh that’s crazy” Panel 3: the horseshoe crab is superimposed in front of a future premonition: a rather miserable-looking human slouched in the glow of a desktop computer. The horshoe crab swims away and says, “good luck tho”
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Brendy_C @brendyc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love a thecatamites blog post. harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/a...
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embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
okay so i've been pagan my whole life but to imagine the summer before the lord's birth has such a texture; soft moments of miracle, before everything we know to come, in service of nothing more than a young mother's cravings. beautiful
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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫
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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Endless cycle
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You construct intricate rituals...), 1980
B&W photo of an apparent bachelor party or similar horseplay, with text: You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men."
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embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
it is such a blessing to be drawn into something, so captivated that in order to savour it, you have to resist the urge to tumble down into it. perfect tides: station to station is my thoughts now, and i intend to keep that running as long as possible
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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe but now you can expect new abilities, animations, VFX, summons and cantrips, and unique voiced dialogue lines
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
sending rabbits
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
obsessed with this comment on a reel of an opossum eating live crawfish in a bathtub
an opossum eating live crawfish in a bathtub, with the below comment: 

You really never know what ppl got going on in their houses man
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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Narrative rarely gets to be the high level decision driver outside of very specific kinds of projects and a lot of what narrative ends up doing, especially on larger projects, is unpacking the implications of decisions on emotional engagement
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Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My go-to on this topic has always been Terry Pratchett:
So, instead, I give tips on how to be a professional boxer. A good diet is essential, of course, as is a daily regime of exercise. Pay attention to your footwork, it will often get you into trouble. Go down to the gym every day – every day of your life that finds you waking up capable of standing. Take every opportunity to watch a good professional fight. In fact watch as many bouts as you can, because you can even learn something from the fighters who get it wrong. Don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do. And don’t forget the diet and the exercise and the roadwork.

Got it? Well, becoming a writer is basically exactly the same thing, except that it isn’t about boxing.

A quote from Terry Pratchett, in A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I will be honest that was one of the most interesting few minutes of you guys watching sports that I've ever read
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Happy birthday, Franz Kafka. This is the tattoo I got while I was in Prague. It's a Franz quote inside one of his drawings.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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Tyver Foucault @thedoorthedoor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Everyone thinks the vegetables are the garden. But the garden is the soil and the garden is the the trellises and the garden is the insects and the garden is the sun. Remember that when you look in the mirror. You are more than what you see in the glass
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026
HOLLERING START TO FINISH this is so good
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Last and least, FWIW, my current AI policy for students. Subject to revision. Recommendations welcome.
Artificial Intelligence and Creative Writing: A Policy of Sorts
This is a course for those interested in writing not as means to an end but as an end in itself.
Recently a friend and I read a cover story in New York magazine titled, “Everyone is Cheating Their
Way Through College,” by James D. Walsh. My friend has also taught writing. He likes to tell his
students, “If you want to be a writer, put on a cool hat and go sit in a bar with cheap beer. If you want to
write, write.”
I didn’t think AI would be a temptation for writing students. “Everyone is Cheating Their Way
Through College” persuaded me that for many it’s not a temptation but a condition. You sleep in a bed,
you wear clothes, you don’t scream at teachers. Just the way it is. Maybe AI is becoming that, too, part
of “just the way it is.” Maybe it is that already.
My mind raced through ideas about how to “beat” AI. The article dismantled each one of them.
Then I thought, “That’s not my job.” I’m a writer and a teacher. I’m not a cop. If you want to work with
me on writing, we can do that. If you want to cheat, you have the ability to do that, too, and the truth is,
I probably can’t stop you. Per Dartmouth’s policy: “Students may not use GenAI tools for submitted
coursework unless expressly permitted.” I do not permit it. That’s my part. Now, about yours.
I’m interested in working with students for whom writing feels, somehow, good, even if
sometimes it’s painful. Who seek that feeling anyway. A feeling of being, of alertness. Of purpose; of
intention. Of practice.
This is a course for those who are interested in using writing to experience some variation of
this feeling. Sometimes it comes in a moment of clarity, sometimes in the making of a lyrical
juxtaposition. There are so many more emotional, intellectual, and spiritual possibilities that arise from
the act of shaping language. I live off the aftermath of that act—the recognitions, financial and
otherwise, I earn from the results—but there is no payche…
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
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embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
louis to lestat:
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
it's warm out
little daoist falls asleep while meditating
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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
happy pride, shoutout as always to the 1978 gilbert baker pride flag which had pink and turquoise stripes for SEX AND MAGIC AND ART, and in this house we support gay sex and gay magic and gay art
Baker pride flag with the explanation of the symbolism of each color.
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超の大洪水 @superdeluge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
its alright at the end of the day
this online shit isn't real
look man
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the mouse as big as the elephant
its not real
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
dialectics
ancient Two Of Them grey cat meme from tumblr
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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com
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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:
And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."
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embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
no one would believe me, but the writing got really shockingly good. I put it down when the story ended in Final Shape, but riding the peaks of seasonal storytelling for a couple hours each week was really special, and I hope somebody somewhere is able to preserve or recreate that for posterity
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embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
as a couple of contracts wind down and a bit of time opens up to work on personal stuff, i am once again forced to decide if i want to be comprehensible or if i want to have fun
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now.
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.
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Adventurism Time @flow.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
Shake it, baby! 🐢
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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 14/05/2026
Incredible
Post from r/audioengineering
Why there's a resonance at 15.5kHz in Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer?
It's around -70dB, so not audible I think.
As far as I know its a great mix and master, so I'm curious about why is it there, and why they leave it in there. Also if my eyes aren't deceiving me, it goes throughout the song. I know, its not a big deal at all, I'm just asking for if anyone has an idea about it
Answer: 
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There was likely a CRT TV on in the studio. It was recorded in England, so PAL, which means a flyback transformer operating at 15.625kHz.
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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit
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robyn 🎃 @haykebyr.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
if you can make it to lunch on wednesday you can make it to the end of the week. stay strong o you children of this hideous age
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Levon Jihanian @forkfrenzy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The "out of the way swine" comic is great but this is the best comic strip of all time
Comic strip by Lynda Barry.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I am once again tapping the "it is a genuine qualitative break from 99.9% of human history that society can now produce massive food surpluses with the labor only a tiny percent of the population and nobody has any idea how to grasp this" sign.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
At this point I think we do have to hand it to psychoanalysis for discovering the concept of projection which is apparently central to a lot of our lives
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
i have never understood "you could put yourself in the movie!" as a selling point, especially a uniquely generated movie. anyone who actually wants to watch an "AI" rom com starring a soulless digital avatar of themselves should be getting professional help for that
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embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Three passes: Clear, then Subtle, then Clear (shorter). Subtlety is overrated AND it's worth it to try. My best reception by far has come from taking risks, and even players who didn't resonate still saw what made it special, but folks is tired. Toss them a lure before you try to reel 'em in.
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Narrow gauge mining trains have got their own vibe.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
your moment of calm
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing
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embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
consider this your reminder to go back and re-read something nice that someone once wrote about you or your work!! there is much genuine kindness in the world
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embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
i think all the time about how it truly is this easy. just put half a thought into how affordance design shapes experience -- and then, gasp, maybe apply that to systems that people are forced to interface with as well as the fun stuff!!
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