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Tertium Quid

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I.T. Ops nerd, aspiring Real Programmer, philosophy enthusiast, leftist, queer liberationist. ACAB.

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Specialist_K @thevaliantone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Separate the art from the arti—“ NO. WE WON’T BE DOING THAT. In fact, we’re removing the separation between audience and art, as well as author and reader. Now if you read about murder, you can be charged for murder, and also you have to share your dental plan with the writer.
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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had a conversation w a Lyft driver a few weeks ago that I still think about. I hope this musician, eager to share her art, finds her way to teaching. While the conversation started rocky, Im glad she got an opportunity to talk about her ambitions. Piano teachers are way more valuable than A.I.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 29/09/2026
This one is for my friend @joefulgham.com
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Majestic Twelve (plus one for spooky szn) @majestic12.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” has gotten me some solid results.
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"You can't spell 'taint' without 'AI'" @voxexsinister.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Worth linking again, in view of that dipshit article about parental estrangement that's doing the rounds today:
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
LGBTQ+ youth are hugely overrepresented in homeless populations cos their folks kick them out or chase them out. Where is the moral panic over that? Why do we, as a culture, place the blame for bad relationships on abused kids and not their abusers?
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
The moral panic around estrangement is backlash against the small amount of cultural progress we have made for familial abuse survivors. Against the idea that parents don't get to hurt their kids, against the absolute tyranny of the heteropatriarchal family.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 26/09/2026
everything Meta does reeks of desperation; their style is so obviously needy and greedy, in a way that stands out even among the needy-greedy aura the tech industry has been exuding powerfully, lately
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Alexandria "Ellen" F-J @binaryvixen899.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fascism is never permanent, and anyone telling you it is is contributing to the illusion of power that fascists desperately cling to in order to appear invincible & inevitable. Fascism is a weak, self destructive ideology that inevitably eats itself alive or overextends itself until it is devoured.
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 25/09/2026
Excellent linguistics work here. One of my favorite things about Bluesky
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 24/09/2026
After months of my medical calls going straight to voicemail, and hours trying to troubleshoot with incompetent (not necessarily dumb but not empowered) support, have filed an FCC complaint against AT&AT. Anyone got experience with those?
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The Other End @theotherend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 24/09/2026
Welp. Discord has started age-gating me, so I guess I will finally delete it. Anyone out there know anything better than Stoat?
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 22/09/2026
Ritually tapping my pill bottle on my head (this time) so I remember that I took my pill later
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 22/09/2026
RSS is THE way to get your online comics feed.
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 22/09/2026
Never underestimate a jackass with a backhoe. They have brought IT infrastructure to its knees innumerable times
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merritt @merrittk.com · 22/09/2026
"next time, log in with your face or fingerprint!" fuck you. log in with my foot up your ass
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 15/10/2025
WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
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🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦🇻🇪 Chappell's Femininomenology of Spirit @ofvick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trans rights are a front of the struggle of our time the same way Ukraine is, and if you don't think that consider that Russia and its allies *do* and are committing resources to that end
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am always surprised by how much right-wingers want to be liked. my personal ideological commitments generally go hand-in-hand with "go ahead, call me an idiot and an asshole but this is what I believe." what kind of stance is "I believe this and you can't be mad at me?"
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 19/09/2026
Warhammer 40k is one of those hobbies where it seems like it makes its devotees less happy. Like Magic: the Gathering. Are you guys OK?
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If NFL owners want to censor who performs in stadiums, they shouldn't ask taxpayers to help build them. You can't take public subsidies for stadiums then use them as your personal editorial board. Pay for it all out of your own pocket and hold as many Kid Rock concerts as you want to.
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 18/09/2026
Watched it with excitement but damn this one seems significantly meaner than previous entries. I love the show but I feel like I am hitting my tolerance level for hanging around with deeply unpleasant people. :-/
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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it’s time to give Ms Rachel a gundam
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
But they were all of them deceived, for another Duran was made
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 17/09/2026
Tired: accelerating gas prices Wired: jerking gas prices
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 15/09/2026
I needed this whole thread and maybe you do too ❤️
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Even if dog autism WERE real, the idea that rabies - RABIES - is preferable to autism is so fucking wild dude. Like don’t tell them that’s not a thing, ask them why RABIES is preferable to autism. Explain to me, in detail.
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 15/09/2026
I don't know much about Ed Sheeran and was like "what the hell is this about" and then Googled it and first pic result I instantly went "Oh! Oh, no. Yeah, I see it now."
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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You knooow that if Variety was a UK production they would have been slapped with legal action until that Lily Wachowski interview was taken down. It is the civic duty of Americans to talk shit about JK where she can’t get you for it
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Larry @misterkojak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
To the "if you fail to support the Democrats you deserve the camps!" types that are showing up here (and everywhere on Bluesky): I WANT the Democrats to win! Which is why I want them to stop saying dumb shit and having shitty policy ideas that make it less likely they'll get elected!
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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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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 13/09/2026
If a candidate loses because trans people withhold their support, I will be blaming THE FUCKING CANDIDATE, not the abused people understandably not lending their support to a candidate who's happy to watch their rights and well-being put in a shredder. This isn't advanced calculus
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
hey why is no one talking about the licensing situation with this A24/SCP thing? are they releasing it under the same cc-by-sa license every SCP project is required to have? are they betting creative commons won't hold up in court? seems like the kind of question a journalist should look into idk
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SCP Foundation Movie Coming To Theaters In 2027 With A24 Distributing
An SCP Foundation movie is coming to theaters in 2027 via A24. Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios announced the project earlier this year.
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Sable, Final Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
we gotta stop falling for the Noun in Possessive Noun playbook
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 12/09/2026
Did a bunch of accounting homework all day. The satisfaction of having The Equation balance is, it turns out, quite similar to some computer code working nicely, especially when you get it on the first go.
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 12/09/2026
Yes, that actually is true
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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 11/09/2026
I think there’s still this idea too that astronauts should be these articulate, charismatic figures who go on tv and so on and frankly we gotta let that one go. It’s time for the weirdoes
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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 10/09/2026
Since it's my 50th time round the sun, would you care to share my art around? That would be a splendid gift, thank you! 🥰 emilyhare.com #dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns
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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For younger people who were not there... Know that this country did not come together after 9/11. They went after every brown skinned person they could. Americans didn't know the difference between a Arab and a Sikh. We perpetrated and tolerated violence and misinformation on these people.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor. And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south. They're slavers.
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Tertium Quid @shinyhexagon.com · 07/09/2026
There really needs to be a word for the phenomenon of "you must have your shit this -->.<-- together to get help getting your shit together" that is absolutely pervasive in the world of mental disabilities/health. And most likely physical disability as well; I just don't (yet) have experience there.
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jove @jove.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Shoutout @ryangeddie.bsky.social for perfectly encapsulating this phenomenon
A handdrawn political cartoon of a sweet looking middle aged woman. The text above her reads (D-MI) Evelyn Normielib. 

The text below her reads 

-retired teacher 

-Voted for Buttigieg in 2020 because he reminds her of her grandson 

-“the blood of the tyrant shall water our fields”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the whole thing just screams “this is not in any way designed for an audience of children, it’s for an audience of adult transphobes with rotted souls who want to smugly tweet about having watched it more than they actually want to be entertained”
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Big Dyke Energy @azurebitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They should invent a body that doesn't keep score
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026
it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
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