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Weird futures and stupid puns. Helped make solarpunk a thing. Special interests include collaborative art, game design, visions of the future, and occasionally pro wrestling.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Water for bovine agriculture in Utah has become a grim obsession of mine since it is such a small, insiginificant part of their economy, irrelevant to their food supply and presents an imminent, deadly threat to its population via the Great Salt Lake drying up and creating poisonous dust clouds
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is extremely cathartic to chant this with 10,000 other like minded people
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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How do you invent a sword?
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
it's sort of how Plato thought paintings were deceitful because they presented an incomplete representation of reality
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🌦️Wifeguy Auteur🌦️ @delugeduvall.effigyfilms.com · 25/09/2026
if “we’re all cam girls in a surveillance state” ya’ll better be acting in solidarity with actual fucking cam girls 😒
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i feel like college football players make poor decisions sometimes
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I believe it was one of the McElroys who said that if you take Skyrizzy you can become the Dovalkizzy and learn the Fus-Ro-Dizzy
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Zorro Silhouette
ALT: Zorro Silhouette
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the antifa teens of the Oklahoma Cattlemens Association are at it again
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 23/09/2026
Oh yeah that's the good cyberpunk stuff
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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stay out of the street. Cops shoot at ANYTHING.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
saw this message this morning, in what I cannot emphasize strongly enough was a work-based chatroom
COUP IS OUTPOLLING DEATH
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm running a D&D campaign in a swamp and am toying with the idea of a group of Florida Man spellcasters who do the equivalent of airboat racing using Tenser's Floating Disk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Th...
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Airboat Drag Races at Lake Cypress! 2/10/24
YouTube video by Airboat Madness
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In recent cases, it's not that AI somehow "escaped containment" or "went rogue." That's anthropomorphizing at best. It's more like if a Boston Dynamics robot dog nudged open an already open door and walked in.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 14/09/2026
thanks so much! quote post bc I think people may find this interesting: pics are a mix of DJI Mini 2 and the DJI Air 3s. I wasn't originally planning to get a commercial license, but it turns out if you sell *any* photos produced by a drone, you must have a Part 107 and I'm selling cyanotype prints
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the backgroundblack and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's because sports posters almost unanimously are veterans of the forum wars. People who didn't come up through message boards are to a poster too hysterical.
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 14/09/2026
I can’t help but notice that the people who cause the most trouble don’t seem to ever post about sports
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Pro wrestling, or at least good wrestling, is *extremely* good at this sort of storytelling where you get to have a shared experience with others at thrills of victory and agonies of defeat
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In other words I am suggesting that sports fandom allows a symbolic plane of angst and catharsis, so you can compartmenalize your derangement into something mostly harmless.
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This reminds me of the david graeber quote about the seemingly "peaceful" cultures that existed in states of intense spiritual warfare
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There are a lot of profound truths in Ellison's "Invisible Man," but we should also appreciate the most meathead truth in there, which is "it absolutely rules to smoke weed and listen to jazz solos."
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Me when I log in to bluesky and see the latest kerfuffle
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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
All right. We're alone. If you have proof of a conspiracy, let's hear it.
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thousand Hells is out NOW. A tactical narrative game about staging heists in different hells that blends mythology and surrealism from the creators of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages - there’s nothing like it. I’m delighted to be one of the writers involved store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...
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Save 10% on Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists on Steam
Recruit your team, choose your path, and descend into hell. Four heroes must overcome the trials of the underworlds in tactical narrative encounters. A new systemic storybook experience blending mytho...
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh you should check out Six Ages if you haven't already!
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ten years ago "unionizing game workers" was little more than a sticker and a zine.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I keep seeing AI described as a massive shift in the nature of humanity and our understanding of consciousness But when I look at how good these new models are at hacking, I think oh we've basically just built the computer equivalent of the machine gun.
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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 06/09/2026
Which, it being that time of year again, I will take any used hard drive (SATA, SAS, NVME, whatever as long as it’s at least 1TB) you or your employer have laying around
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Absolutely the fuck not
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 03/04/2026
The real heroes -- and absolute coolest dudes -- of "Star Wars: Episode I" are the Sand People who hang out in the canyon to shoot at podracers
the aforementioned sand people
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
telling that periodically someone would go "man dolly parton can't really be all that" and then they'd go look into it and come back with "actually she's even better than we thought"
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly’s Imagination Library—which has gifted 332 MILLION books to kids around the world—was inspired by her dad’s inability to read or write. “Before he passed away, my Daddy told me the Imagination Library was probably the most important thing I had ever done,” she said: imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"It's coming home, lads"
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2025
on behalf of the bluesky team i am excited to announce our newest feature! Now in addition to replies and quotes, we have the "don't reply" here's how it works: 1. you see a post that does not mention you 2. you "don't reply" to it 3. the app shows you more posts
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Truly and indeed, wrestling is the sport of kings
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
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Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Relax. I'm not from Majestic 12.
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Like of the 400-some moons we habe in our solar system, NO OTHER PAIRING OF SUN/MOON/PLANET DOES THIS
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It honestly is wild that the size difference almost exactly corresponds to the distance ratio, so the two look the same size in the sky
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Hear me out: Bilbao is the Pittsburgh of Europe. (This sounds like a shitpost but there's actually some reasoning here.)
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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Bernini had it right
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