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The Bore of Whabylon

@thaddeusjames.bsky.social
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This username would go harder if I'd ever actually played Warhammer Ancient Battles. Tabletop gamer, supernatural/period horror enthusiast, swashbuckling aficionado, vaguely leftist, Godzilla fanboy. Abolish and Prosecute ICE.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 4h
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A very dear friend and antifascist comrade is facing serious charges resulting from defending migrants housed in hotels in Bristol from a far right march in 2025. He's a father, has £11k in legal fees up front, and may be facing prison time if he doesn't win. Please dobate below.
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Support a Bristol antifascist on trial
Support a Bristol antifascist facing charges for resisting far right attacks
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aric @aghastronaut.com · 17h
[in the Criterion Closet] I don't see it. Did someone already check it out? I don't understand how this works. You didn't file it under "The," right? It should be, "Mask, The?"
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
after dark, the disney collection, screen saver software, magazine screenshot, macintosh (1995) archive.org/details/Mac-...
mac window with the header 'after dark'.
a choice of which disney properties to include in your screensaver on the left including:
101 dalmations
beauty
captain hook cheshire cat
disney clocks
donald paints
falling flower
goofy
haunted
jungle book
little mermaid (highlighted)
other options via sliders on the right and a couple of buttons.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
We spoke with that observer, who said ICE agents held her for hours. By the time they released her, her car had been towed. She also said she saw Chicago cops glad-handing with ICE. Hard to confirm, as the surveillance video file we obtained via FOIA request is missing nearly two hours of footage.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1) With Paranoia Agent, the late Satoshi Kon delivered a sweeping look at how fear can force society to devolve and an intimate glimpse into how we bear the weight of that tension in our everyday lives. Modern anxieties blend with primordial terror in 13 fantastic episodes.
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Len @len.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This might be the funniest achievement Paradox has ever added.
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Make your Puppet Pope sleep with your spouse
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
automakers are some of the worst on privacy and security of any industry in America, which makes their push to ban Chinese EVs "for privacy and security" extra fucking annoying
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Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"trending: Rahm Emanuel eyes 2028 run" Yeah, in the same way I'm "eyeing" the 2028 Nobel in Literature.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess "advisor" doesn't necessarily capture the power aspect of what people are trying to communicate when they invoke "[Grand] Vizier", but Chancellor and Éminence Grise are good non-orientalist options to consider.
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 27/09/2026
We can’t wait to share new stories with you! Stretch goals will enable even more next year, help us reach them. Tales of beautiful revenge, sinister fantasy, cold living outer space. Yarns of dark forests, endless closets, cities of teeth. Let’s visit them together… kck.st/4x4r1oz
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027
Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gotta actually read some Elric stuff at some point...
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I figured this one out at Clark/Lake several years ago
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Rape culture is structured by the incident of rape and other forms of sexual assault, yes. But it is also structured by the assaulter’s impression of what the consequences might be. Structured by the unfettered harassment anti-assault advocates face. Given shape by bad behavior being given a pass.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Justin Brown, a cofounder of the AI slop empire Brown Brothers Media, has deep ties to convicted sex criminal and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell promoted Brown's failed social media platform Ideapod -- which is still a publisher in BBM's portfolio: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At this point, my masking is only like 51% about actually keeping myself healthy, and 49% about spiting anti-science eugenics losers.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ah, that clicks some things together. The tech ownership class may be pretty bad at thinking generally, but they are often good at serving their agenda.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm not gonna share that probably-AI "trucks replacing Hormuz ships" video, but imagine if delivery drivers stopped bringing me pizza and I was like "well I've trained several hundred ants to bring pizzas to me a crumb at a time!"
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm so fucking sick of being advertised to. I want literally anything in the fucking world to just be what it is and not also a vehicle for selling me some shit I don't need.
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Goldie and Komos @komos-and-goldie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So speaks the guy who thought Quibi was going to be the next big thing, and that Pocahontas would outperform The Lion King.
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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today I saw the idea that AI will empower anybody with a good idea to become an entrepreneur and use it to build new business ideas and models and I need you to understand that if you innovate anything profitable enough to notice, OpenAI is going to integrate what you do into ChatGPT and market it.
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shanley @shanley.com · 19/05/2026
Things that happened to me immediately after I said Marc Andreessen needs to be removed from power in an interview with the MIT Tech Review, the most prestigious tech publication in our industry:
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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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Austin Lee Matthews 🐭 @amtrax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
if I can live under the poverty line and still quit a voice over job mid-session because I found out the "writer" used GenAI, you can afford to not buy/play a game that uses GenAI.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh that's actually... Hmmm...
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mars - not enough atmosphere Venus - too much atmosphere Solution - smash them together and terraform the resulting planet
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Compare everything to the events and personalities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No sympathy for her, but it must be wild being one of the very few Trump minions to actually face consequences for their misconduct.
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Peter Frampton Geraci @personalbeavis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Realizing that a lot of people are treating AI like it's the Ancient Aliens. "I couldn't draw that, so it was probably AI."
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Which of these would be funniest for a supervillain to redirect towards earth as part of an apocalyptic scheme?
Text image reading: Alyankovic joins several other musical-themed celebrity monikers on asteroids, such as 17059 Elvis, 17473 Freddiemercury, 249516 Aretha (after Aretha Franklin), 10731 Dollyparton, and all members of the Beatles (both individually, and as a group for 8749 Beatles.)
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Herr Donkey Gunther Büergers @calamityjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wild thing I learned earlier today -- the phrase "This is a job for Superman" predates Superman. I found citations as early as 1909.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can 100% assume any given tech CEO has fewer real-world skills than a literal kindergartner, but capitalism requires our entire media and government superstructure to pretend they are geniuses.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh shit, does Trump think Mamdani is an authoritarian? Did those red scare NYPost covers accidentally trick Trump into thinking Mamdani is some sort of ruthless strongman?
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't want to work, I want to write (or even, ugh, revise) stories about hapless Early Modern military types getting caught up in supernatural nonsense beyond their ken.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
She writes comics so well because she lives in one.
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Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New horror writers: Applications for my Cursed Classroom are open! This affordable, month-long class will meet each Tuesday in November. You'll learn how to write more effective horror and how to submit to short fiction markets. Interested? See details here: ericraglin.com/classes-and-...
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Classes and Editorial Services
Cursed Classroom: Open for applicants through October 31st, 2026 What is Cursed Classroom? This month-long horror-writing bootcamp is aimed at writers on a budget. The ideal participant for this co…
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent! I'm really curious to see how this all plays out.
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Julie (Aakadewin-O Waawaashkeshi Kwe) Francella @juliefrancella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why I Refused to Share a Stage With Deepak Chopra Please read, comment, and share: juliefrancella.substack.com/p/why-i-refu...
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Why I Refused to Share a Stage With Deepak Chopra
I withdrew from a Climate Week event. Then the organizers made a choice, and so did I.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh, as a constituent I'm gonna have to call about this. Come the fuck on Tammy!!!
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Animated retelling of the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War. Madame Adelaide Bonfamille would be 30ish for that, probably getting pretty well established in her opera career?
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I cannot even accurately express how infuriating it is to be an American right now. None of this suffering is necessary. All of this is allowed to keep a handful of rich child molesters out of prison.
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Shadow? Doc Savage?? They're right up there with Godzilla in terms of characters I want to see Gail write!
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The Bore of Whabylon @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I will never stop learning new things about Reagan that disgust me. What a monstrous individual.
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Nejireon @nejireon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Newsom in a lot of ways represents a worst case scenario. If he wins the primary there’re 1 of 2 outcomes. 1. He loses the general because he’s an obvious snake. 2. He wins and we have another obvious snake in the White House which will disillusion so many people with the electoral process.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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