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I would prefer not to.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
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Milkii B, Mx @mxmilkiib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
aw man another late 90s/early naughties geek/nerd hero gone Bob X Cringely Has Died - news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994...
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Bob Cringely Has Died | Hacker News
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Once again the distant midnight suburban kaboom
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“We cannot trade school our way out of capitalism.” Succinct refutation of some current nonsense
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Same. They put so much effort in and were so consistent
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 03/10/2026
So I stopped my walk, climbed the gate to help an old farmer cursing his deaf god bringing in the last of a poor harvest… —Jim Carruth, “Only Human” published in A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30 (ASL, 2012) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry
Jim Carruth
Only Human

So I stopped my walk, climbed the gate
to help an old farmer cursing his deaf god
bringing in the last of a poor harvest.
He must have been struggling all day
on his own to fill that small trailer.

I cannot make more of this than it was.
I was no passing Samaritan, saving him
minutes at most, nor a reluctant volunteer
some Simon of Cyrene shouldering
the burden of a stranger’s sodden bale.

As for him, this ageing hunch-backed man
he could not raise his head to say thanks
nor straighten his spine to walk like a saint
not even resurrect the past fortnight of rain
into one unblemished day of a risen sun.
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beautiful
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I had the same reaction
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/10/2026
'Pendant, Memento Mori from a Chaplet’, ca. 1520-1530 www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/e...
 The miniature four-sided carving shows a sequence of figures—including a youthful face, a grimacing expression, and decaying features—accompanied by carved Latin scrolls like "SEQUERE ME" (Follow me)
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where on earth do you get these numbers?
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They changed the narrator for the CSB videos :(
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Famously, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War...
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Emu War - Wikipedia
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That is a seriously sleepy boyfriend
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That’s pretty sweet but as a fractional retiree I’d need to set up a gofundme
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a 60something couple here wearing Mötorhead shirts?
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have a 50something and use apple tv.
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huh. Hadn’t heard of that. Thanks!
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah I’m going to isolate any new one from the internet. Bad shit going on.
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Definitely. I use an Apple TV device almost exclusively
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ahh crap my tv is dying. Who has recommendations?
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Chris Barrus @quartzcity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
thread:
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Terrifying as usual :)
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Things are terrible but I just remembered the old website about “David Bowie’s Area” and cracked up
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rich
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You can sit by the bar and chuckle about the old days!
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Either way we gotta blow it out the airlock
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ah, a good old-fashioned fiber cut.
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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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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yeah I fell down 3 flights of stairs in my late 20s and have gripped those rails ever since
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Glasses are such a racket
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Like I said,
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is something Otto would eat in Repo Man
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do not tell me to buckle up for your “thread.” I will throw myself through the windshield. I will eat the hood ornament. I will never buckle up.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It strikes me sometimes how much the humor I shared with friends 20 years ago relied on cruelty.
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Arbitrary More” describes it so well
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Still mad that a bunch of business casual marketing assholes passed themselves off as nerds
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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Knocking over five other 40 year old Californians: HUELL HOWSER
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The real star of Repo Man, generic packaging.
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cop on tv: “The head was decapitated from the rest of the body.”
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was impressed while I was there at the small town nature of the news, like “a guy was really drunk.”
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Immersive bee experience 😬
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
never a good start
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The dogs playing cards thing, wow.
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A good A1C result always improves the day
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yeah today is less lethal in Newport also
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The American Caliban @substitute.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Everything is terrible but at least you don’t hear much about webinars nowadays.
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