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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 5h

Me talking about someone I've posted with on the same social media site for a long time but never actually met

Still from the television show What We Do in the Shadows showing Laszlo speaking. Text reads "he's my best friend, he's my pal. He's my homeboy, my rotten soldier. He's my sweet cheese, my good-time boy."

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 6h

funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.

Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 17h

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

This is a list of all the people who are going to be getting bailed out with your tax money. I guarantee it. Not tough to call this shot.

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 9h

I know Sony funded this port, but like what type of iron-clad deal has kept it there for so long? RELEASE THIS ON OTHER PLATFORMS PLZ.

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SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 10h

for the record, i don’t give a shit what you call any anime anymore, 2023 feels like it was 30 years ago, do whatever the fuck you want, don’t talk to me

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 12h

Meiko Kaji (star of Lady Snowblood) struttin' through the subway in the 1970s.

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James Beckett @kickthebeckett.com · 12h

No, SungWon is absolutely correct here. The insistence on sticking with the Japanese title when there is already a perfectly acceptable English one is utterly asinine. Nobody does this in Japanese literature, or film, or any other art form. It's just the anime nerds who insist on being obtuse.

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Aero @areoman850.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

opening the news every day

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13h

Sen. Schmitt not knowing the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes & spending government money to make a big chart he then takes down as his error becomes obvious is Vonnegut x DeLillo x Terry Gilliam in real time

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Mario @tomatograndpa.bsky.social · 14h

Just now learning that, besides being just not very good, the Insomniac Wolverine game made his backstory for their presumed X-men universe that he and Jean Grey are immortal star-crossed lovers but every 10 years Apocalypse makes him go crazy and kill her and then get magic amnesia.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Owl Attacking a Bat, by Horaku, early to mid-19th century

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23h

The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026

You catch that big video essay last night?

coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 23h

The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved. This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 18h

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 21h

I want a new Ace Attorney game so bad.

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Video Game Art Archive @gameartarchive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hasizotch '64 de Hakken!! Tamagotchi: Minna de Tamagotchi World' Nintendo 64

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

via Tim Branin of Simpsons Bortposting®

The 'They don't know' guy in a corner at a party meme. But everyone has been drawn over to look like The Simpson Family.

Ned is in the corner w/ his Apple Hat from the scene when he's explaining cider to Homer.

Next to him reads "They don't know Adirondack cider can be yellow if you're using late-season apples."

Homer's brain is also seen floating away as it is in the scene.

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Mario @tomatograndpa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The department of education's loan forgiveness tracker has been broken for months meaning no one can actually qualify for forgiveness, so it's cool to know they have been directing their energy towards just being nakedly evil instead of fixing that.

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SpaceQueenEmily @spacequeenemily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This answer has piqued my interest; one of the strengths of the original anime was that it was scripted with heavy involvement from Nanase Ohkawa (a member of CLAMP), meaning the ways in which it deviated felt especially authentic. The courage to include original material is an admirable gamble.

Can fans of the series expect the new anime to follow the previous anime's story, the manga's story, or something entirely different?

MIURA: We based the story on the original manga while incorporating additional episodes that further enrich the audience's understanding of the original work.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

well, glad we cleared that up!

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 SiouxperCon (Sioux Falls, SD) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Man, if only there were a way for Mamdani to be the mayor of like…every city. Could you imagine? Like a “country mayor” for the United States, or something…

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Introducing The Tim Heidecker Podcast. Premiering October 1.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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maya kern @mayakern.com · 07/09/2026

i've also made the difficult decision to open a gofundme the goal is high, but every $7,500 buys me another week to raise funds to pay this off LINK: www.gofundme.com/f/help-maya-...

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Donate to Help Maya Kern Stay Open, organized by Maya Kern

Hi all! My name's Maya. I started my small business in 2015 selling skater skirts with my… Maya Kern needs your support for Help Maya Kern Stay Open

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you can’t even write jokes better than this

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diva of dispair!! 🍉 @morrikyu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CHAT I MADE AN INSANE DISCOVERY THE GUY WHO WROTE SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS ALSO WROTE THE SONG PLAYED IN THE DARKSTALKERS OVA ENDING

sadie's insane text messages on discord read:
CHAT, I'VE MADE AN INSANE FUCKING DISCOVERY.
I'M REWARCHING THR DARKSTALKERS OVA.
...which is peak by the way
AND THE END CREDITS COME UP, AS USUAL
[a link to "the trouble man" by ekichi yazawa on youtube]
"the trouble man" by ekichi yazawa
it's a rock song to be paired with the darkstalkers characters plastered on guitars because it's fucking cool, not terribly deep. cool rock song, cool visuals, all it wanted to be.
BUT EIKICHI YAZAWA DIDN'T WRITE THE SONG on his own

andrew gold helped. (photo credit of the writerz being listed on genius)
and do you know what fucking song he wrote a year before in 1996?
[insert a link to "spooky scary skeletons" by andrew gold on youtube]

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Haze Arquebus @reapthegirlwind.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

splitting the difference of wizard vans and weeb cars by getting a van with lina inverse painted on it but in the style of the end-of-episode watercolor freeze-frames

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This company just radiates predator energy

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My gf got her almonds absolutely activated by this guy for some reason

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