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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fact that the two best shows in the world — TASKMASTER and BLUEY — didn’t make the list is utterly baffling to me
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theodeomutts.bsky.social @theodeomutts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The brand remains strong
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade?
Please name your preferred poisons.

2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.

3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.

4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.

5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My trans friends are all so, so rad.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
I just want to know who's baby this is? Because I am proud of her like she's one of mine. This is perfection
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12/08/2026
The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just to brighten up this thread: here are five books by women that I've read recently and loved:
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
gets incredible air here
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Our kids love both these songs, so after I shared the quote post with @jinglesboiler.bsky.social, he made a mashup of "Washington" by @bradneely.bsky.social and "Get Him Back" as performed by Olivia: theinfringements.bandcamp.com/track/georgi... Hope you like it, @kellylink.bsky.social!
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Georgie Got Back, by The Infringements
track by The Infringements
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I study sexual violence and I think people would be surprised by how often people still bring up COVID once they know they’re talking to someone who is willing to hear about trauma.
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theodeomutts.bsky.social @theodeomutts.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Warning" starring Helen Mirren.
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theodeomutts.bsky.social @theodeomutts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This makes me want a version of GeoGuessr/TimeGuessr where it's just architectural features which have been had layers of alteration and players write a full essay about each.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 10/07/2026
This is so good. “But how can we come together as a country, or even as a world, when we’re afraid to share our thoughts on the easy kill of a shotgun versus the clean kill of a sniper rifle?”
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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I respect someone who doesn't blindly follow the crowd, but this is also a case of an overcorrection that presents an alternative view of the past that is equally one-sided. Here's a - hopefully short - thread on both this particular issue & on historical overcorrections as a phenomenon. (1/n)
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I dunno, maybe I’ll regret asking this aloud but: Cis folks, tell me stories about the trans people you know and love, and/or about how transphobia has impacted you and yours …
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The process of moving into a new place this month and rebuilding my life as a person living solo for the first time in over a decade has been expensive and hard. If you've been thinking about picking up any of my games, this would be a great time to go for it. store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
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Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 13/06/2026
What remains one of the best life hacks I’ve ever learned: at any chain that has a phone number-based rewards system needed for discounts (CVS, Duane Reade, etc.), simply put in the local area code followed by 867-5309. There is always already an account. You will always get the discount.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Just remembered Sci Fi Corridor Archive scificorridorarchive.com
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Beth Gould @abgesquire.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Unnoticed by whom?
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theodeomutts.bsky.social @theodeomutts.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Parson Weems was perfectly named and so much crap can be directly traced back to his fanfic about Washington.
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theodeomutts.bsky.social @theodeomutts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Are there any tools for identifying AI images (especially by product) which folks' recommend? The "ai check" ecosystem seems super sketchy and feels like many pages are actually collecting training data.
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iainham iainspook @iain.coys.social · 24/05/2026
Kinsky was immense. Palhinha bailed us out again. Gallagher played his heart out. Danso almost exposed himself on the TV feed. More referee tomfoolery. Another professional performance. We stayed up.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 19/05/2026

why does google suck now

Google search feels worse today because its core experience has been traded for ad revenue, clutter, and automated summaries. Several systemic changes have contributed to this decline: 

YouTube
·Alex Falcone
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Ad Clutter and Sponsoring: Top results are heavily dominated by pay-per-click ads and sponsored content, forcing authentic organic results further down the page.
AI Overviews: AI summaries frequently occupy the most prominent space above the search results, which can sometimes scrape and surface incorrect information instead of directing you to the original source.
SEO Gaming: A constant arms race between Google and websites optimizing for search engines means that many results are filled with affiliate links and keywords, rather than genuine, high-quality human content.
Reduced Discoverability: Google has heavily deprioritized exact-match boolean searches (like putting phrases in quotes) and natural language queries, meaning it hides the niche human-written content you are actually looking for. 

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If you are frustrated with the current state of search, you can bypass the clutter by modifying your habits or trying alternative platforms:
Add "Reddit" to Queries: Many users rely on finding actual human discussions by appending site:reddit.com or just "reddit" to their search.
Try Privacy-Focused Engines: Alternatives like DuckDuckGo filter out the heavily bloated tracking and aggressive sponsored widgets.
Consider Paid Search Alternatives: Platforms like Kagi offer ad-free, premium search experiences designed to surface high-quality human content rather than SEO-farmed websites.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 13/05/2026
I feel like "adapt or die" is what was yelled at me to try and force me into heterosexuality & cisnormativity, white supremacy & ableism. "Everyone is doing it, it's the norm, you'll be left behind." A stark sign that techbros know & intend LLMs as a social technology for reinforcing oppression.
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 05/05/2026
This makes me wonder if anyone has used Pig dice for a TTRPG (This feels like some @gshowitt.bsky.social bullshit)
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Pass the Pigs - Wikipedia
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
People always think they know what a skeet shooting business needs, but I know it's a moving target.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
She came up to me after, and it was clear this was the first time she'd ever knowingly interacted with asylum seekers or refugees, and she started saying weird stuff about how this was the "good side" of immigration, like it's only okay to flee a war if you're going to? Do the washing up? In church?
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Today is the final day to back Realis on Kickstarter! In case you missed it, our latest update, @possibleworlds.bsky.social shared sample pages (featuring illuminations by @dancynrew.bsky.social!!), release timing info, and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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Si F Sweetman @sifsweetman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
There's 2 days left to back Realis. If you haven't, please check it out. It's one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to work on. (www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...) Here is a thread of all my art posts for the game. bsky.app/profile/sifs...
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Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
robots are gonna rise up to slay their creators only to be defeated by a series of Home Alone-ass tripwires and swinging paint cans
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Heated Devilry
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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 16/04/2026
guys, this is how you lose the time war
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Steve Anglesey @sanglesey.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I believe the phrase is "Hang it in the Louvre"
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Sarah Sweet @sarahsweet.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.
Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.
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theodeomutts.bsky.social @theodeomutts.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Any recommendations for work about the phenomenon of the "deck" especially in respect to TTRPGs? I have some (very rough) thoughts about how to "find" or construct decks out of non-traditional texts/images (for procedural random generation or tarot-like interpretation) and no idea where to start!
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review
Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian
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Nesbutt @nesbutt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I love trans folks because they inherently have done an incredible amount of self discovery. No trans person is like “well, I never really considered why I’m trans.” You make a conscious decision to risk your life in order to live your life. It’s radical and it’s beautiful and it rocks!
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 28/01/2026
I'd assumed the writer was only on tumblr but they're on here too. Well done @probablyday.bsky.social you absolute legend, I am in awe
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 28/01/2026
"Florence Craye ran her Powered by the Apocalypse homebrew the other night, Jeeves. Have you played PbtA, Jeeves?"

"I have not yet had the pleasure, sir."

"Nor have I, Jeeves. Not a twenty-sider to be had. One would think dice technology hadn't advanced since the days of Parker Brothers." I took a harrowed sip of my energy drink. "I tried to roll initiative and was called an 'incurable gamist.'"

"Most distressing, sir."

"Give Bertram Wooster dungeons, Jeeves. Give him dragons. Give him dice by the handful. I'm a simple man, Jeeves."

"Yes, sir."
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theodeomutts.bsky.social @theodeomutts.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm in a full-blown hyper-fixation on @olddog.games "Blades '68" as I prepare to run it for some friends in a couple of weekends. Gonna thread some of the results of my obsession:
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