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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️

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Video games | LOTR | Hobbit | Professional sneakologist | Fantasy / Sci Fi | Foodie He / Him

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 10h
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 19h
It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The next iteration of the snack cart will surely cause humanity's collapse. The money furnace required to power it shall burn brighter than the sun and cause all rocks within 3000 miles to return to magma. The Great lakes will boil off from the tortilla press alone. And we're adding margaritas.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People whose ideas are all creepy and stupid come up with another idea which is creepy and stupid. "This bar of soap records you in the shower! Why would anyone want this? Who cares!? It's inevitable!"
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The future just got dumber... now featuring you (without your permission).
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The horror .... The horror .... 🥤 🤢
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🍕🌮🎂🥞🍳🍞🍖🥯🥧🍺🍾
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It looks neat, but I'm not sure I'd be able to use it.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 21/09/2026
Early voting has started in some states! Vote as early as you can. In person, if you can. Be as obnoxious as possible about spreading this message. Get everyone you know to the polls. Be That Friend but for voting.
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Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Wilhelm Arcturus @wilhelm2451.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No Man's Sky - Expedition 23 - Starting Off with Our Journey Continues #NoMansSky, #NMS10, #HelloGames tagn.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/n...
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No Man’s Sky – Expedition 23 – Starting Off with Our Journey Continues
It is usually a good plan to wait a day or three when Hello Games drops a big update and then launches a brand new expedition for players.  I am not saying you have to wait until the Switch finally…
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Looks like it's time to reevaluate my streaming options. It's been a while since I've had 0.
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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We'Re On A Mission From God
Alt: A gif of the scene in Blues Brothers where the brothers, who are getting their band back together, are on a mission from God.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/09/2026
"It’s a simple exchange introduced by German academics that dates back to the early nineteenth century. We’ll cover the complete cost of IVF to help you build your family—yes, really—and then, on your child’s first birthday, we might take your baby." buff.ly/stGSoST
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Rumpelstiltskin Isn’t Your Typical Fertility Startup
“Our founders took years of experience in casino design and timeshare sales and swaddled them together into a first-of-its-kind solution that asks: Do poor p...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people. Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tomorrow (19th September) is #TalkLikeAPirateDay and your annual reminder that when we talk the way we talk when we're talking like a pirate, it's because of a film that was based on a book, inspired by an earlier book, inspired by a real life pirate from #Orkney! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️👇
An illustration of a pirate with a tricorn hat and a bushy moustache
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Wilhelm Arcturus @wilhelm2451.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No Man's Sky and the Cosmos Update #NoMansSky, #Cosmos, #NMS10 tagn.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/n...
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No Man’s Sky and the Cosmos Update
While I was away last week Hello Games popped up and finally launched the long expected 10 year anniversary update for No Man’s Sky.  Welcome to Cosmos! This was heralded by Sean Murray posti…
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do not want a Briefing or a summary Please just go away - a Haiku about AI
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Wilhelm Arcturus @wilhelm2451.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BlizzCon 2026 - Monday Morning Reactions Featuring Actual WoW Classic Plus #BlizzCon, #WoWForever, #WorldOfWarcraft tagn.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/b...
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BlizzCon 2026 – Monday Morning Reactions Featuring Actual WoW Classic Plus
BlizzCon 2026 is now in the books.  All that was said has been recorded.  Now it is time to get in some reactions around what went on.  There will be months of analysis, but the post-game gut react…
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Interesting thread on U-Boats and game theory. ⚓
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Wilhelm Arcturus @wilhelm2451.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Games I Have Blogged About over the Last 20 Years tagn.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/g...
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Games I Have Blogged About over the Last 20 Years
Welcome to anniversary week here at TAGN.  Come Saturday the blog will turn 20 years old, so I am calling this week the TAGN 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition. Unlike most collector’…
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please do not worry about my oversized novelty hat.
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Homer's Fake Hat Daily Routine
Alt: Homer Simpson wearing an oversized hat with a camera in it. He's saying "Just go about your routine like I'm not wearing the hat."
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A #Roman shield found in Dura-Europos (Syria), where it was lost during a siege in the C3rd AD. The only rectangular shield to survive from the Roman world, it is a wonderful find, & gives a great insight into how elaborately decorated these items were #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 05/09/2026
sharing again for the weekend crowd. the humanities aren't in crisis, they're under attack -- because they're dangerous to people in power, because they ask their students to imagine possible worlds.
from the article: "Our tendency to see religion as a matter of personal, interiorized belief has led us to view its study as intellectually niche—or, to put it in neoliberal corporate speak—as a “low-skill” distraction. This is true of how we view the Humanities in general, of course—that, as Lauren Horn Griffin has so well explained, they’re seen as little more than “personal enrichment.” But that, she continues, is a right-wing act of controlling unruly ideas, of pushing to the margins disciplines that ask difficult questions of “invisible” power structures—say they’re irrelevant, deny them resources, call them “unprofitable,” make them disappear. But faculty, especially but not exclusively in Religion and other Humanities disciplines, often work directly against these forces. Because the discipline of Religion is attuned to issues of (presumed) interiority as well as actions in the public sphere, it’s these faculty who are some of the best situated to ask uncomfortable questions of those in power—be they federal policymakers or university administrators. 

At (regional) public universities like ours, this means highlighting a population that is quite different by class, race, gender, and sexuality than found at, for example, the Ivies. Humanities education, including Religious Studies, helps inure students to authoritarian thinking. At their best, the Humanities are attentive to the frictions that create lived experiences—particularly those that are oftentimes marginalized. The Humanities explain how things have been different, could have been different, could be different now, and may be different in the future. They are about possible worlds."
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Well, this is frickin' bonkers.
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
King Labor day weekend and I'm sick. 🤬🤧🤒
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well, I hope so or else I bought this balloon animal / throwing knife set for nothing. 🎈 🔪
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Soo .. like ... Folks that have used Uber (or any ride share service): Do you get in the back seat, like it's a taxi? Or do you sit wherever? 🚕 🚗
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Howlraven @howlraven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This thread. I went to a local Circuit City (I think?) to get a mouse to replace my old one. They had office furniture off to one side - it looks like it has all just been shoved there. They had so little of everything that I kept looking for 'going out of business ' signs.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026
I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.
When I was much younger, I knew her mostly as a caricature and the object of jokes, because young men are kind of stupid that way and I was no exception, and because she willingly played along with the joke, in part because she knew it would happen anyway, and this way she got to shape some of how that would play out for her, and use it for her own ends. It took me a while to realize how canny that was. 

When I got older, I learned that underneath the caricature was a formidable songwriting and business mind. I had an inkling of what a rare combination that was in any person, but how even more rare it was for someone who was who she was, in the field and environment she worked in. Hidden in all those sparkles was a spine of steel. 

When I got older than that I learned that in addition to a brilliant mind was a heart of kindness, which directed so much of the good fortune she amassed to herself right back out the door through philanthropic work, helping those in her communities, state and country, and which allowed to see the worth and dignity in those whom so many others treated (and still do treat) with contempt.

She was always all the things she was. What changed was my ability to see and understand who she was. I'm glad I was eventually smart enough to see it all.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 26/08/2026
Somebody buy Death some goddamn glasses
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
May she journey amongst the imperishable stars. May she sail on the boat of a million years.
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 24/08/2026
Once again: anyone in the northeast, or willing to drive there - two bonded cats have lost their owner to cancer, and desperately need a new home. (If it matters to you in any way, I know and will wvouch for Shecky, he’s a real one 👇👇👇)
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skarfs.bsky.social @skarfs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If we adults don't dismantle this system, the kids subjected to it will and the adults who implemented it won't like the way they do it
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Monday 🫩
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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DJ Maryalee Scarlet @djmaryaleescarlet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Twitch streamer Friends: Do this FIVE MINUTES AGO. #TwitchAI
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Bilwise 🏴‍☠️ @snackcart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I am approaching "vintage" Bilwise rapidly. 🙄 🪦 💀
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