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Rev. Uncle Steven @swestdahl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hosting @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social Jeopardy Bar League trivia for @geekswhodrink.bsky.social at Swift Lounge in PDX on 1st and 3rd Thursdays. See you there!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler

Time Traveler
by Chris Scott

Thomas Jefferson was suddenly transported
Into the passenger seat of my little blue Corolla
Speeding through present day Virginia
At 75 miles per hour
Past the exit to Monticello
He just screamed
And screamed
And screamed
And screamed

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Rev. Uncle Steven @swestdahl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"The only thing more powerful than hats is love" -the guy without a hat

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Josh Lee Kwai @joshleekwai.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It’s pretty crazy that MTG won the Super Bowl and a gold medal at the Olympics yesterday.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

a muppet twist on iconic art: thread

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Ask any gay person what "theater kid," when used as an insult, means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

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Move Aside, Snowflake: ‘Theater Kid’ Is the New Go-To Political Insult

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Years ago I did a LION IN WINTER paper figure/diorama/paper theater set. You can still download it and print it to cut and display, if that sort of endeavor is as much your inclination as it is mine: www.patreon.com/posts/paper-...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

me using my humanities education to analyze the background when christopher anderson asks me to pose against this wall

Man in a white button-up shirt and blue pants puts his hands on his hips and looks at a gray background

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Rev. Uncle Steven @swestdahl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Watching latest episode of Peacemaker... Hey, @jamesgunn.bsky.social, what sort of monster starts a game of Scrabble by dumping all the tiles out of the bag?! You are just gonna have to put them all back in there again. And, no, I won't be accepting 'Earth-X Scrobble rules variations' as an answer.

A screenshot of Peacemaker, Season 2, Episode 7. Two characters are preparing to play Scrabble and one has just dumped the entire bag of wooden letter tiles out onto the table.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12/09/2025

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

you: please act normal you need these people to like you people: hello Ed nice to meet you me: of the approx. 109 billion humans who have ever lived, the total fossil record includes 6000 individuals and the projected fossil record the 8 billion people alive today will leave is 40 bones.

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Dane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.com · 01/09/2025

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/09/2025

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

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Rev. Uncle Steven @swestdahl.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Oh, that delightful feeling when you open up a dusty shoebox of #Magic cards only to find that some old common card is now worth $40 (and the shiny foil one is $300). This last happened to me 20 years ago when I sold a stack of Force Of Will cards to help fund my move back to CA from GA. #MtG

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Wilde Thingy @wildethingy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

If it makes you feel better about yourself, absolutely everybody else is a disgusting pervert too.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

i think comparing vote blue no matter who type democrat stans to sport fans isn't especially apt because if a sports team's GM was always making the roster worse on purpose in an attempt to win over fans of their most bitter rival, that man would be killed

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Imagine if we proposed closing churches to protect kids from predators.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"In terms of its underlying causes, the current homelessness crisis is very nearly the opposite of the 20th century urban crime wave. It is a product of affluence, inequality, and political sclerosis." publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...

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Notes On a Nonexistent Crime Wave

If American cities aren't war zones, they must be turned into war zones

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Lostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 31/07/2025

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace. It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate. They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is just to say I took the plums and the brochure from the cardboard box you left for passersby. Thank you, they were delicious, and freedom from censorship is one of the most important freedoms of all.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/07/2025

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man! www.badsquiddogames.com

advert for Bad Squiddo Games showing Annie (me!), an artwork of a Pulp explorer by maritn whitmore, a shieldmaiden, soviet spotter, vampire queen and jeanne de clisson on a horse.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

If I want someone to summarize a classic of the western canon while I look at my phone I'll find a torrent of every Wishbone episode thank you

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 05/07/2025

If you ever think English isn’t a needlessly complicated language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme but read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

welcome to the age of Weird Terrorism

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26/06/2025

To a firework, your body is sentient gelatin. Nothing more. Nothing less. Remember that and use fireworks safely this July 4th.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

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Chris Plummer @chrisplummer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 23/05/2025

I wonder if he means Old Ben Rogan

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Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Telling my students I invented the most American literary device ever called “Rambo’s gun”, based on Chekhov’s gun, in which after an object like a gun is introduced into a story it’s THE ONLY THING the character uses to solve a problem.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us. We have to save us. And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators

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An Open Letter to My Fellow Book Creators — Pretty Ok Maggie

Inside me there are two wolves: the one that understands that the best activism happens behind closed doors and that everyone does what they can and that not everyone can be asked to do the same thing...

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Rev. Uncle Steven @swestdahl.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

First play-through of Deep Regrets by @tettix.bsky.social and Mads discovered the Rod Of The Dead x Heart Of The Fathoms combo. That’s a lot of flipped fish and ignored trigger effects. I think I’m gonna lose by a lot.

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His Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

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Rev. Uncle Steven @swestdahl.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Throwback #AprilFools - the Atlassian BitBand was announced 11 years ago today youtu.be/aa6yAUNoYNc?...

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Introducing Atlassian BitBand

YouTube video by Atlassian

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Drew @4484.cool · 28/03/2025

Reminder

"A computer can never be spiteful or horny
Therefore a computer must never make art"

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

fox news youtube manager..., welcome to the resistance..

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Rev. Uncle Steven @swestdahl.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Introduced my partner Mads to the tile placing, monster building game Hideous Abomination (by @tettix.bsky.social). After they beat me by 5 points in our first game, we found the 10 blank cards. So now we’ve got a new hand, a new straight (*giggle*), and two new crotches.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.

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