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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I haven’t seen much commemoration today on here, but happy 25th anniversary to Achewood, one of the most influential works of art on the Internet and how we communicate on it. Please take advantage of the replies and quotes to share favorite strips or panels. Here’s one
Achewood panel of Ray Smuckles (right) looking at Teodor (left). Ray looks somewhat bemused, with raised eyebrows and an open mouth. Teodor looks critical.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026
it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@anildash.com fyi: salieri hears la rose is still good
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Demon's Home @demonshome.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art
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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit
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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I have been transfixed on this video of Siskel and Ebert all goddamn day
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
lol www.reuters.com/technology/t...
reuters.com
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/04/2026
This is my trans agenda
The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools alreadyTrans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for

To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults.

For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selvesSomewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
this encompasses all of my gaming thoughts over the last week+
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
wint @dril
and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
folks, it’s big
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Pretty disappointed by the extremely boring selection in the new Metra merch store. This random body pillow is funny, though.
screenshot from the Metra Merch online store showing a body pillow with a Metra 505 locomotive pulling a train of passenger cars
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No Context Achewood @achewoodnc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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ALMSIVI Enjoyer @almsivi-enjoyer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998.
The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.
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jean @jeanniebabies.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more
A flier taped to a streetlight pole that reads:

“I also have access to a printer,
And I say
Upzoning is cool and good and it is my friend

Let ‘em build some housing! What're you worried about, people with jobs and homes using the Red Line?

Atraid of density? then why did you move to the big city my good friend [emoji making a ‘this guy’s nuts!’ gesture]

‘But I wanna drive my car!’
The bus is better because you can read a book on the bus

Dear ‘Save Edgewater’: If I ever see you again claming that increasing supply increases prices I will spank your bottom and enroll you in an econ class at Loyola

Say YES to proposed Upzoning in Edgewater
Email: Leni@the48thward.org Call: (773) 784-5277
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
it’s easy to just say “they’re conservatives” and be done with it, but my best read is that Sulzberger et al are in fact moderate Democrats who believe that the left is responsible for the rise of Trump, and they believe that beating the left back and defeating Trump are a singular project
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
i love online
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
it’s worth making this more explicit: The NYT is suggesting Zohran lied by checking off both “Asian” & “African”, because (in their view) someone of Indian descent born & raised in Africa isn’t “truly” African. Which was also how Idi Amin justified expelling Zohran’s father & thousands of others.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"someday everyone will always have been against this." but consider this. maybe they won't. maybe this will be the fucking good old days. morning in america.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
and here's the real truth. biden/harris laid the seeds for this. how did Israel get this out of control, where did they get this impunity? where did they get the understanding that no matter what atrocities they commit, no matter the depths of their sociopathy, we would be there for them every step
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
thinking about Him today
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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 06/06/2025
it’s always two dumb bitches telling each other exactlyyyy
Mark Cuban quote tweets three check-marks to Elon’s “is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?”
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
nobody does it like Nathan Fielder, my god
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
hammock deployed for the first time this year, dahlias waking up, we might actually make it
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
seems bad
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
NASA staff putting one of the Tesla ‘I bought this before I knew he was a Nazi’ stickers on a Saturn V
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 10/05/2025
Entertainers who are “Freakonomics core” (Penn Jilette, this guy, Malcolm Gladwell) always run out of stuff to be contrarian about and eventually run head first into a brick wall of credulity. It doesn’t discount the whole project but it is inherent to it. Except Gladwell who rode the Epstein plane
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agitator in chief @soit-goes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Looks like Rahm is definitely running. Website is live RahmForSenate.com
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
AVERAGE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR Working families are sick to death of Chaos Donald’s taxes on eggs. Let’s work together to bring down prices, mayhaps? AVERAGE BUSH ADMINISTRATION JUDGE OR COLUMNIST We must end Trump-Hitler immediately at any price. Glory to Generalissimo Sanders and Commandant AOC!
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/04/2025
alright, no more joking around. butlerian jihad starts tomorrow
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The full clip of Hayao Miyazaki reading AI engineers for fucking filth so hard their ancestors felt the burning shame back in 2016
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
good shit
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
@anildash.com this still hits, just fyi youtu.be/R0IBofyfb_4?...
youtu.be
Salieri hears La Rose
YouTube video by Anil Dash
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
that’s right
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
youtu.be/uSP-ewdJYJc?...
youtu.be
David Lynch on Cooking Quinoa
YouTube video by scaynes
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
100% einkorn sourdough pan loaf
the loaf in question
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
recent sourdough bread efforts
loaf of polenta breadpartially sliced loaf of sesame breadpartially sliced loaf of sourdough breadloaf of sourdough bread
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
big things happening this morning
rye sourdough starter cooked rye berries
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
i watched a man nap today in a way that i can only dream of napping. truly inspiring
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
once again thinking way too much about my teeth this week after two surprise trips to the dentist
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Professional hater @peyperoni.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
ok i have an avatar now, and a background thingy - we are so back
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tom burns @tomburns.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
feeling very online when this app is open, also very tired
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