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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 6h
Spotted on Facebook: sicko game worlds colliding
"My bf is a developer and just made me a program to use his racing pedals to sew realistically. It also adjusts the speed the more you press down the pedal 😭 he just upped my game so hard 🥲🤣
Game: Dressmaker"
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 30/09/2026
every time i see an article about how the future is small, agile core teams backed up by contractors i feel a wave of deep depression. sustainability for me not for thee
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
free throw contest
a stylized 3d render of young link shooting a bomb like a basketball into the large spinning goron vase in ocarina of time.
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
trying to see the positives in cooler weather, e.g. room temp butter
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Spaghetti Night.” Pen and copic gray marker on paper. 

Our man is in the kitchen making spaghetti for his guests, who have become increasingly rowdy as they wait for dinner. More on them in a moment. He speaks into his landline phone with his oven mitts on, “Everybody’s pretty riled up for spaghetti night.” He is correct because sure enough we see his riled up dinner guests in the background. Two men play wrestle as a woman raises her hand to spank one of the wrestler's cheeks. She’s got great leverage on the windup so those cheeks are about to be pummeled, reader. Another man finds himself being carried by a woman with a crew-cut. Her strength is on display here because despite the man’s weight she’s able to effortlessly run around the living room with him slung over her shoulder like a ragdoll. Behind them we see another spaghetti night guest pumping his fists and shouting to the ceiling. Perhaps howling. 

Artist’s note: One of my favorite drawings. Love seeing the whole group having a great time together.
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
pants are feeling tighter and I don't want to buy new clothes so I guess it's time to be more careful about my caloric input / output balance
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 25/09/2026
When the photography shop assures you that these expired films are unused
Black and white photo. Due to a double exposure, it looks as though a racing car is about to crash through a spectral graduation ceremony
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 24/09/2026
YouTube in 2009
YouTube in 2009
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Ash Gravestoneman 🎃 @ashstoneman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I know it’s sounds like common sense but the point of having morals is sticking to them even you don’t want to. It’s supposed to be hard it doesn’t mean you’re willing to bend when you don’t feel like upholding them
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 23/09/2026
25 years of web design evolution. Craigslist website in 2001 vs. Craigslist website in 2026
Craigslist website in 2001Craigslist website in 2026
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
one of life's great quandaries
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
truly heartbreaking to make a batch of underwhelming food when I'm already feeling low on dopamine
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Canadians: the Writers of Union of Canada has launched a parliamentary petition demanding "radical transparency" around AI www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
ourcommons.ca
Sign this Petition - Petitions
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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026
A friend sent me this one last night.
Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
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just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream
A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
oh damn. not as in left and right, but as in fore and hind!
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
uploaded a blurry picture of an insect on iNat, figuring that even a high-level ID can have value. received an ID suggestion with multiple paragraphs explaining minute details, with links to the relevant subsection of a crane fly identification key and a scientific paper from 2009. people rock!
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026
no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
getting back from a nature walk with my early 2010s camera, a trio of high school kids on electric scooters asked me if I could take a picture of them and airdrop it to their phones
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the only prescription sunglasses I have are from like 15 years ago and they make it feel like the ground is really close. feeling positively child-sized when riding my bike
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One must imagine Sisyphus kind of tired of it
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Char's lil meow meow mewtype @mewtype.online · 17/09/2026
new cat new cat new cat
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 18/03/2025
A social media post from user 'null' (@nova@starflower.space) that reads:

computer boys are really like "imagine a boot so big that logically we must start licking it now in case it might possibly exist someday"
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my brain is a machine for cooking up dreams full of harrowing social situations
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
anyone knows of a Blender add-on that makes x-ray mode a bit more obvious at a quick glance? it's the one thing that still trips me up since my switch to the software if there was a stronger color change or a screen overlay or something it'd help idk
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it's always "fun" to look into the details on these sorts of situations: * This guy cofounded this company out of school and has never had a boss in his entire life. * Notes that he's laid off 20% of the studio every year for the past 6 years * "We want to lean more and more into the gig economy"
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I can feel that it's already time to bring out the bottled Vit D
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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1984 by George Orwell but now you can only get mugged in the street when above social credit level 1.
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
there's a lot of good things about working at a non-profit where you believe in the mission and in the impact of your own labour. it has done wonders for my inner peace personally. on the other hand : the financial precarity is intense! wouldn't recommend that tbh
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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For any mutuals wanting to talk about what post-games career can look like, I've been doing various 1:1 calls with friends and former colleagues about my post-games journalism career this past year, and happy to do so with anyone wanting to talk about that process and ask any questions.
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Gen @soireeblanc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I love to contemplate. be absorbed. tantalized, even
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I’m between joys right now.
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Me, consuming a new piece of media: “Will you save my life? Will you let me rest under your shade? Will you help me grow something holy in my heart?”
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knock knock knock knock @nicknicknicknick.net · 11/09/2026
it's been a rough couple of days, and weeks, and months. i wrote a bit about how it's felt to say au revoir, and possibly goodbye, to ko_op. nicknicknicknick.net/notes/2026/0... ❤️
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KO_OP & me
For context.
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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 10/09/2026
Today marks the beginning of our trial against Rockstar to hold them accountable for firing workers who were trying to unionise. In order for us to see this through to the end, we need your support. Please donate to and share our fundraiser for the Rockstar 31: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/wWq5Omj...
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Defend union rights: Support the Rockstar 31
Justice for 31 Rockstar employees who formed a union and were fired en masse
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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
These wins are incredible!!! Minimum 4 weeks severance + 1 week for every 6 months employment, AND recall rights, AND hybrid work + AI protections, AND up to 34% wage increases! This would have been unthinkable before the industry started to unionize!
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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Magic trick
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
I really try to see the best in people, which has made me extraordinarily mentally ill.
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I Me Mine-lo @hawgle.bird.gay · 08/09/2026
idk why people are ripping on the new style i think it looks great
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