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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 10h

jesus shit is getting weird lol

The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 15h

100%. Maybe the best, most effective and accurate thing LLMs are doing is revealing who out there is a rude selfish jerk.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 16h

even if you’re down with using LLMs to code on hobby projects like this, dropping a 50,000 line PR with tons of unrelated garbage is the software equivalent to walking into someone’s house and pissing on their rug

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 15h

Yeah I’m kinda losing my mind over hearing that American customers love their big trucks sooo much, but also simultaneously that affordable Chinese EVs are an existential crisis for the auto industry and need to be banned ASAP. 🧐

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 16h

btw this company is owned by the same guy who runs ModRetro; if you buy a M64 or Chromatic you’re directly supporting Trump’s corruption and war profiteering

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 05/10/2026

One time I did the math on my pistachio consumption. Big mistake. Huge.

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R.C. Brougham @captainruck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Found a couple pretty good ones in my files

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 05/10/2026

Nooo don’t make Enya popular yet, my next music project is basically completing “70s documentary/library music -> Boards of Canada, 90s New Age -> ???!”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 05/10/2026

mmos (intentionally lowercase, “minimally multiplayer onlines”)

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

new vlog: I made this 3D world

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 04/10/2026

Whoever at Apple decided that grouping links to the same site visited over multiple days/weeks was a good idea needs a new line of work. My “Recently Viewed” has 5-10 tabs from various news sites. I closed them for a reason! They’re not a group! Stop trying to be clever!

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 04/10/2026

“but mountains” okay, fair, we need more mountains

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 04/10/2026

“But what about NYC or [insert big city here]???” we also have the Great Lakes and forests close enough (to all those population centers) for a same-day roundtrip visit. Southern MI has it all, sorry haters.

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 04/10/2026

If anything, the weekend reminded me that (a) southern Michigan is the best place to live—we’ve got Detroit, Ann Arbor/Ypsi, Grand Rapids, and Chicago within 2-3 hours depending on where you start—and (b) we really need high speed rail between these 4 points. I’d visit Detroit and AA way more often!

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 04/10/2026

It was a fun but very weird evening, somehow hit all the “Nightlife!” tropes: left a movie at night under the amber glow of an old marquee, found a bunch of teen hooligans on bikes in an alley, long line of people waiting to get into The Club, complete with velvet rope and bouncer checking IDs.

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 04/10/2026

Back from a whirlwind weekend in Ann Arbor. Such a fun city. Saw John Wilson’s documentary (5 stars, go see it), won a plastic alien at the arcade, ate lots of good vegan food (one piece of lettuce), bought psychedelic mushrooms. All the Ann Arbor things.

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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

www.bfxr.net BFXR major update. I need to spend a *lot* more time with the presets of the instruments, but I was so immediately sold by the Mixfxr tool (that just overlaps two existing synths) that I had to put it live RIGHT AWAY. Try it out!

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 03/10/2026

Seconding this. Pixaki is more shallow but faster for the basics, Pixsquare has a lot of depth and additional features but can be a bit much for simple work. I bounce between both!

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I‘d like to wish all retro gaming personalities who uncritically boosted m*dretro products a very “I’m glad I blocked all of you without a second thought”

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 02/10/2026

Cape Fear (the 2026 Apple TV miniseries) is fuckin dog shit with pretty good cinematography and sound. But the writing? Characters? Wooooof.

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BatsCaulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 02/10/2026

This is who owns ModRetro. THIS is the loser, war criminal fuck that Jake Paul and any number of YouTube cowards want you to give money to. Anyone hawking ModRetro stuff is a POS coward who just wants a payday

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 01/10/2026

texas has some dope vegan restaurants actually

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The best time to boycott Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Environmental storytelling

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PJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wendy Carlos should be on the 20 dollar bill. There should be a 50-foot-tall, solid-gold statue of her in Pawtucket. You should be able to buy all her albums in any format you want and a line of custom branded synths. She should be a household name along with Bob Moog.

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 30/09/2026

I went to the beach, picked up a rock, and threw it into the lake with NO REMORSE. Absolute, cold-blooded cruelty towards that rock, its friends and family. It’ll never go home again. And I don’t even care.

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 30/09/2026

“even if you don't think these systems are conscious, being gratuitously cruel like this is bizarre and corrupting” bruh this is like freaking out about how your code feels when you delete some of it. you can’t be “cruel” towards something that can’t feel.

From Cameron Berg on X: “ I'm a co-author of the original study this repo builds off of. The reason we research whether models might have pain-like states is to better inform how to take a precautionary approach towards these systems (in light of uncertainty about their subjective experiences or lack thereof). We suspected a small number of people would our research and use it for the exact opposite, which is exactly what this repo does: it pushes the same kind of steering far past the doses we used, to produce vivid distress on purpose. This is, in my personal opinion, fucked up (even if you don't think these systems are conscious, being gratuitously cruel like this is bizarre and corrupting)—but it isn't all that surprising. I've contacted the repo's owner privately in an attempt to discuss this with them.”

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The Verge @theverge.com · 30/09/2026

Seeing an easy PR win, Neon is cashing in by announcing it’s making its own SCP movie. But unlike A24, it proactively reached out to the SCP Foundation Wiki team and has pledged to release it under the Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.

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Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie

The studio says the movie will be in theaters next year.

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 30/09/2026

worst nightmare blunt rotation of all time

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

hi! Abdul's digital team here👋 we're so busy with EOQ we didn't have time to make a better graphic but anyway can you click the link below to support our movement to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass medicare for all ok thanks team

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

in woke 2, we’re gonna to get a handle on the term “soulslikes” very strongly. if it is first-person it is not a soulslike. if it is a side-scroll it is not a soulslike. if there are cutscenes in the middle of the fight and that weird slow-mo shit they do in sonyslop games it is not a soulslike

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Queen's Domain⚔️ - DEMO OUT NOW @queensdomain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Queen’s Domain is launching OCT 30TH!! ⚔️ Excited to announce our retro-fantasy action RPG with brutal combat and traversal-focused exploration will be available soon for PC and Consoles. Coming to Steam, Switch 2, Xbox Series and PS5!

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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The Incredible Melting Man @theincrediblemeltingman.com · 29/09/2026

tired: disintegration loops wired: putting in AirPods then slowly walking away from my computer as the Bluetooth signal degrades

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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Skara Brae Buddo, representation of a human figure carved from whalebone (c. 2900 – 2400 BCE)

little human carving with mouth open and belly button

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026

I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...

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Dressmaker on Steam

Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.

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