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S A Brown

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Academic; connoisseur of action, trash, and esoteric film; sometimes uses words like "esoteric"; former broadcaster. Abuser of semicolons Not a bot. Which is exactly what a bot would say.

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Kim Stringfellow @kimstringfellow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Final installment of a three-part Mojave Project dispatch series exploring how investor-owned, utility-scale solar is transforming the Mojave Desert and the alternatives to doing so. mojaveproject.org/dispatches-i...
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Distributed Solar and the Energy Commons - THE MOJAVE PROJECT
California's IOU monopolies dismantled distributed solar to protect profits. Let's reclaim our energy commons through rooftop solar and community co-ops.
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 13/07/2026
RIP Sam Neill. you will be remembered.
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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It is wonderful to see all of these authors' work preserved in a much more searchable and posterity-friendly format!
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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Three new @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #AnalogGameStudies collected essays are here! (We're working back in time till we have the whole set!) Thanks, #PlayStoryPress! Vol. 10 (2023): tinyurl.com/agsvol10 | Vol. 11 (2024): tinyurl.com/agsvol11 | Vol. 12 (2025): tinyurl.com/agsvol12
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Kim Stringfellow @kimstringfellow.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This new Mojave Project dispatch turns to Nevada, where vast stretches of the Mojave are being sacrificed to serve the tech industry’s expanding network of data centers near Reno. mojaveproject.org/dispatches-i...
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Transforming the Desert: Utility-Scale Solar in Nevada’s Mojave - THE MOJAVE PROJECT
Southern Nevada’s utility-scale solar buildout, marketed as clean energy, is increasingly serving Big Tech’s data center explosion near Reno.
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David “Darkness” Weiner @davidweiner.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
With Ghana playing Croatia in the World Cup today, thought I’d share some of my favorite Ghana hand-painted movie posters!
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
That's right, friends! STARLOG is back and I'm the editor-in-chief. We have so much good stuff for you in our first issue, coming this November!! Science! Sci-fi! Fantastic weirdness! Plus you can subscribe now to our podcast hosted by @jhoffman.bsky.social and @da7e.com!
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Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Rachael Stott @rachaelstott.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
For the late crowd: YOU are invited to attend our free, 100% online conference Generation Analog 2026 "GREEN" on July 15-16. Keynotes from Alenda Chang (Playing Nature) and Matteo Menapace (Daybreak), as well as dozens of high-quality talks. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation...
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Generation Analog 2026 "GREEN"
Generation Analog is an annual online tabletop games and education conference.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...
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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Simpsons "careful. They're ruffled!"
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 31/03/2026
not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.
vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon.

photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!
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Resonance | University of California Press
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👻BOOryan BlessDEAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.
A Ghanian hand-printed Cheers (the show) poster. It's ace and a bit mental. I don't know what more to say.
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Bleeding Cool @bleedingcool.com · 21/03/2026
Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63 #RIP
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Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63 #RIP
Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16/03/2026
🎙️ Why preserve college radio? Radio researcher Jennifer Waits stopped by @cjsfradio.bsky.social to talk about her work building a global archive of college, community, and amateur radio and inviting stations to contribute their history. 📻 🎧 Full interview ⬇️ soundcloud.com/cjsfradio/in... 🧵 1️⃣/2️⃣
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Once Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 16/02/2026
25 years ago today, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US began its worldwide invasion on @newgrounds.com.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Interesting! Here's a guy I haven't thought about in some time. Fascinating story. There was a documentary a few years ago, which I've been meaning to track down. For those too young to remember 1991, Diana is one of the worst cases of comics persecution in US history.
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Playing Dirty: The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, a new drama about a notorious comic book obscenity case - The Comics Journal
About midway through The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, the new play by Lenny Schwartz that ran recently at the Daydream Theatre Company in Providence, Rhode Island, a group of the title characte...
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 02/02/2026
The Orb is an art installation by @chriscombs.net . When you press and hold the red button, it slowly destroys a chatbot 😈
Art installation mostly made of metal with a large shiny orb and a control panel with a red button
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 02/02/2026
I said some words about labs and the importance of old tech - hopefully the words I spoke align with what I actually think...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
... this is a thing of beauty.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 31/12/2025
High Altitude Cooking Instructions xkcd.com/3187/
Comic. [Instructions on package] High Altitude Cooking Instructions: 3,500-6,500 ft: Add ½ cup water, increase cook time to 12 minutes. 6,500-9,500 ft: Add ¼ cups water, increase cook time to 18 minutes. 250,000-450,000 ft: Orient reentry vehicle for aerodynamic stability. Deploy parachutes at 10,000 ft. Descend, keeping crew capsule tightly covered, for 3-4 minutes. After splashdown, follow sea level cooking instructions.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/12/2025
John Locke: If you have been very Nice and your parents do not buy you a Nintendo Switch, you have license to replace them with parents who will.
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Great Philosophers on Santa’s Naughty and Nice Lists
(With thanks to Dr. Henry Gorman) - - -Aristotle: Be good for goodness’ sake. Plato: To be “good” or “nice” is to cultivate one’s knowledge of Sant...
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
for your holiday reading pleasure: i wrote about why i’m getting back into tapes, and what we’ve lost by letting ourselves get addicted to platforms built around surveillance and instant gratification. 🎶 @404media.co
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Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19/12/2025
🛒🎄 Ride your shopping cart back to a bygone era with the “Attention Kmart Shoppers” collection at the #InternetArchive. These tapes of In-store announcements & seasonal jingles are pure time travel. 🛍️ Wrap your holiday spirit in classic shopping nostalgia ⤵️ archive.org/details/Kmar...
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 11/12/2025
guys, if you ain't seen The Prisoner, prepare to have your mind blown
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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Baby shoes (haunted)
A picture of a pen with a bloodied tip and a long drop of blood in place of a clip. Next to the pen, in a white typewriter font over black, it says "Write a horror story using only three words".
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Well, well, well, looks like someone has finally beaten Hemingway at his own game.
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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This time of year, my brain is always about 10% thinking about "Christmas Wrapping." I haven't heard the song yet in the wild, but it always excites me when I do. A few years ago, I wrote about the song's greatness! anniezaleski.substack.com/p/the-greatn...
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the greatness of the waitresses' "christmas wrapping"
"A&P has provided me / With the world's smallest turkey"
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
We pulled the plug on this documentary 15 minutes in. The AI recreated "voice" of Ed is gross. I didn't realize they'd done this before starting it and it was SO obviously AI we just turned it off. A dumb, and unnecessary, decision filmmakers.
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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My new speculative poetry collection Entropocene comes out on 12/18 and is now available for pre-order bookshop.org/a/197/978196...
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Entropocene
Check out Entropocene - <p>A collection of Elgin Award nominated speculative poetry chapbooks, plus various published and unpublished works. Thematic verse covering: time, telepathy, utopia, science, ...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/12/2025
Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/
Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This isn’t me. I’ll never have an alt and I’ll never ask you to delete things on “my official page”
@iamkevinkruse72.bsky.social
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Photo of a cookbook for Thanksgiving that features a roast turkey, turkey wraps, and turkey kebabs on the cover. Copy and title read

YUMMIE! IT'S...

FAMILY DAY OF FLESH

FIFTY SCARY RECIPES TO MAKE YOUR FAMILY HAPPY

THEIR MOUTHS WILL BE RIPPING.
FLESH AND SMILING

Review blurb reads: 

What you will do to turkey body will disturb you.
Attributed to Traumatized Dinner Lover

BY SICKOS WHO DO THIS FOR FUN
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Be advised that with only three viewing experiences, we have the sum total of what the American entertainment industry has to say about Thanksgiving. 1. Planes, Trains & Automobiles in full. 2. The camp play carnage in Addams Family Values 3. The clip below. After that, it's all just football.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2025
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
POND RULES:

No swimming, jumping or gallivanting.
Do not disturb the pond witch.
No fishing with dynamite.
Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS!
Taunt the crows at your own risk.
If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away.
Do not feed the weretrout.
Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger!
They’re not ducks. Run.
Have fun!
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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 12/11/2025
Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
ΤΟΥ STORY

The purpose of a toy is to bring happiness to a child

ΤΟΥ STORY 2

Toys must accept that their child will someday outgrow them

ΤΟΥ STORY 3

Toys can find new purpose with a new child

ΤΟΥ STORY 4

Toys can abandon children, create their own purpose, and pursue relationships with other toys

ΤΟΥ STORY 5

Toys can learn how to create new toys without the involvement of a child

ΤΟΥ STORY 6

Toys construct a secret, self sustaining society parallel to human civilization

ΤΟΥ STORY 7

The great human/toy wars begin

THOUSANDS OF YEARS LATER

Cars 1-3
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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 06/11/2025
Yeesss super moon bestie
Full Moon Rising behind clouds, it's super orange
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Terrific in-depth discussion here with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social on @masteringdnd.bsky.social. Not just about Designers & Dragons: Origins but also covering Shannon's early career in gaming and how he got started documenting the history of TTRPGs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6v...
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Shannon Appelcline and Designers & Dragons Origins! (MD 265)
YouTube video by Mastering Dungeons
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Return of the Living Dan @danlarson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Another one from the dead bird site.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
my old LA pal Ken Layne has a long-running podcast called Desert Oracle that I love - it's as close to listening to Art Bell as you can get these days - and he's started a sub-podcast called Eldritch Republic, about uncanny events in the history of the United States www.patreon.com/desertoracle...
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Get more from DESERT ORACLE on Patreon
creating Desert Oracle Radio & Desert Oracle magazine
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Made a short doc about a man in LA who still makes neon signs. He calls it “the lost and found art.” Check out the full thing on YouTube: youtu.be/SSNfDodj674?...
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