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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026

just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The world is bad, but I'm psyched for this: youtu.be/3JWEGVpNIiQ

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hmmm, there's more going on here. Like for one, a lease on one of these is $400+ while near me an Ioniq 5 lease is as low as $200. This thing feels cheap as hell inside. Chevy ditched Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. MSRP isn't the best metric for perceived value.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One thing a lot internet commentators really don't get is that advertising works. I'm not making a value judgement on advertising, but if your world view only accounts for people who don't watch, engage with, and get influenced by ads, you're missing something.

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s #BannedBooksWeek, which means it’s the perfect time to dispel common myths and misconceptions about the prevalence and impacts of book bans across the United States. Here are five common myths about book banning that everyone should know the truth about 🧵

Gold-colored graphic depicting an illustration of a group of young people lounging in a book store, sitting on the hardwood floor, and reading books together. There are illustrations of bookshelves decorated with books, knick knacks, plants, and cactuses in the background. The graphic is titled “5 Myths You Should Know About Book Banning”.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I spent a not insignificant portion of the 90s fantasizing that everything would go all sparkly for a second and I'd find myself looking at Chief O'Brien.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today my wife said, "I'm tired." And the kiddo said, "Hi tired, I'm Ezra." And as my wife looked on incredulously, we high-fived.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are people who write just to create a product. I've met some, my friends have ghost-written for some. But in every genre there are people who write for the process, who engage with intent to create and communicate. You can't make a determination about art and artistry based on genre.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula Although, to be fair, I'm not sure if this version of Man-bat used vampire bat DNA or not....

A comic book cover from the 70s where Batman is interrupting Man-bat's wedding by tearing a human mask off his bat head while saying"I know why it must not be...this is why!" And the priest is saying, "g-gasp" and the caption, against all probability, reads "Marriage: Impossible"

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is... evil. Like, the complete collapse of multiple ethics.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI is incapable of making decisions with intention, and intention is the root of art. Why would I accept the opinions of something that is fundamentally incapable of creating, understanding, or appreciating art?

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Martha van Dalen @marthavandalen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WHO WILL WIN: A woman with a personality disorder, a gambling compulsion, and a knack for cheating at cards VS The Queen of the Dead?? Get your bets in now!! The odds are long on the human winning. But we all love an underdog. #A #H #F #LGBT #OWN #DVPit #Necromantasy

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The country would be better off with the Republicans out of power and Dems who are willing to throw trans people and Palestinians into the grinder while bowing to corporate interests don't deserve your vote just for their party allegiance are both true statements.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't know what Choosin' Texas is and I brought an iced coffee into an interview as the interviewer. Am I living the discourse correctly?

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WTF happened to Onitsuka Tigers? I was buying the slip ons for like 70 before they disappeared, now they're back at like $200? Insane!!

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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca · 27/09/2026

coming soon FEAR THEM 🌌

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was diagnosed as a child and my parents hid that from me, believing I could be "tough loved" out of ADHD. Instead of getting tools that could hell, I spent my childhood internalizing that I was lazy and didn't care enough or else I'd just TRY, that I was letting myself and everyone down.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My laptop was running scalding hot while all I was doing was writing. I wound up turning off Office updates, then deleting the AI folders from the Office directory. Now my laptop runs cool and my battery lasts. I think it's time to switch to Linux.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I loved Control, and I'm really psyched for the sequel, but Nivalis Nights is coming out a few days later and honestly that goes higher on my "to be played" list than Control.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every tech "revolution" or "disruption" is at heart about eroding worker power. Studios chased streaming off a cliff because it was dangling the promise that you could make film and TV without ever having to pay residuals again.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's a picture of me in 1985 holding hands with a giant robotic Heinz ketchup bottle. I have zero context for this.

A handsome young man about 3 years of age, wearing a distinguished sweater vest, holds hands with a ketchup bottle approximately twice his height that, for some reason, has stubby little robot arms.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Retcon everything back to the end of Season 1 and then set the new Doctor the mission of restoring everyone's favorite ships to reality except his power is tied to viewership so you better watch or those characters will canonically never have existed.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When people try to sell you on the idea the nation was somehow unified by 9/11, they're full of it. Senior officials started pushing to strike Iraq on 9/12. Anti-muslim rhetoric fueled real violence against anyone remotely muslim-coded, including Sikhs and brown people in general.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm a content manager/developer professionally, and I've looked at a lot of streaming service jobs. All of them require a business degree. Because that content is business-first from the ground up. The people arguing over the Muppets aren't even arguing concept, just analytics.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's also no financial hook for a Muppet variety show. Eyeballs do not equal profits, and it probably wouldn't drive subscriptions. The amount of human and physical infrastructure required is very high, you can't just green screen and CG everything. The shareholders gain nothing from this.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No, honestly the problem with the Muppet Show is that there's no industry to create it anymore. You can't do a six-episdoe season of a variety show, and you've driven all the talent that could create a true season...let alone multiple seasons...of the show out of the business.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Are television executives the dumbest people on Earth?"

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Even the fucking animal actors used to have interesting lives. Now it's all just nepawtism

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wait, actually, were all the 90's conspiracy movies like The Net and The Skulls and shit actually a big psyop? Convincing a generation that bloodlessly revealing abuse of power was sufficient to "fight" it, and thereby disempowering a generation and paving the way for [gestures at the world]

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reject catharsis, embrace verfremdungseffekt. Assuming you can embrace it. Would hugging verfremdungseffekt negate it? I'm not sure. But do that thing instead of the other thing.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We should be clear this isn't due to the extreme capability of AI, but due to humans pushing it into applications where it can do real-world harm in the pursuit of profit. This isn't Oppenheimer becoming death, this is Tommy Boy getting the keys to the nukes and our food supply because stocks go brr

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every time I see a No Man's Sky trailer, I get really excited and think I should absolutely be playing that game. Then I remember that I hate crafting games. That gameplay loop is weapons-grade anti-fun for me. The whole genre is purely impenetrable

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's a reason abusers don't want women to feel safe seeking postpartum care.

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Urban pigeons are not wild animals, they're feral. Tomatoes are legally a vegetable in the U.S. pursuant to a Supreme Court decision from the early 20th c. "Luke" from "lukewarm" used to be a more common prefix, but died off in all but that one use.

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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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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Lifting the restrictions on applicants with bestiality convictions just raises so many questions. How many animal fuckers want to be FBI agents? What animal is most prevalently fucked by wannabe agents? Is it pigfuckers or dogfuckers who they expect to swell the ranks of the FBI? Chickenfuckers?

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is such an underrated movie

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026

I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

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Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Still learning this one, but I like that it's more contemplative. I found a Rarity-84 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 818 points · 10 rare words. 2 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/4R5K4T

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player-9025 scored 818 on Day 102. Can you beat them?

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