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onion person @junlper.beer · 29/09/2026

from what i can gather, tech CEOs greatest ambitions started at "cure all cancer" and is now to give everyone their own secretary

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

if i had infinite access to all existing digital resources through an all-powerful god-like search tool probably the first thing i would look up is the internal discussions at subway corp about this

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yall, ig is popping off. the girlies are doxxing every single admin they can find at cornell, plus the cornell 7 and their families. women are (correctly) going scorched earth.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 26/09/2026

definitely thought nicholas braun and skyler gisondo were the same actor

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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 25/09/2026

instagram threads is smth else like tbh bluesky pales in comparison

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i’m wondering who They is supposed to be here. who is in dereliction of duty by failing to properly cite the source of beatlemania

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there is no skill these people don't consider a means to an end they want the experience machine they're begging for their AI models to create it, to hook them up to the machine

excerpt from Wikipedia's "Experience Machine":
The thought experiment: Nozick describes a machine that could provide whatever desirable or pleasurable experiences a subject could want. In this thought experiment, psychologists have figured out a way to stimulate a person's brain to induce pleasurable experiences that the subject could not distinguish from those they would have apart from the machine. He then asks, if given the choice, would the subject prefer the machine to real life?

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The goal of this meeting is to have even more meetings” sounds like my fuckin office job.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Robert Pattinson theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-i…

The Onion : What creative liberties did you take with the role of Chris Hansen?

Pattinson: Instead of “Why don’t you take a seat?” I say “By the stars that glow and the moon’s silken light, my powers now activate, pedophiles take flight!”

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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incapotomus.bsky.social @incapotomus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everyone who pretended not to understand what AOC meant when she said “Woke 1 was crazy” should have to read this article.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 24/09/2026

i’m not over this it’s so fantastic more please

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I Know What You Did Last Year At Marienbad @montresaurusrex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wait a minute! This lesbian bar doesn’t require KN-95 masks!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

“Rather than worrying about eating a balanced diet or maintaining an active lifestyle, our advice is to spend as much time as possible in the gym hitting dumbbell curls until your biceps are crazy big.” — Dr. Willie Underwood III, American Medical Association president

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American Medical Association: ‘Huge Biceps Are Only Thing That Matters’

CHICAGO—Granting the public permission to disregard the organization’s previous recommendations, American Medical Association officials announced this week that huge biceps were now the only thing tha...

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 24/09/2026

i appreciate pop crave unlocking new adjectives. dreamy 🩷 breathtaking 🩷 that’s right

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Paolino Caputo @magnolienne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The last few months have given me an unexpected surge of motivation to work on Opera Eterna. Check out some of the fundamentals in the new blog up on PinkSpace! www.magnolienne.com/pinkspace/20... #ttrpg

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How to Play Opera Eterna – PinkSpace

Get a Job Opera Eterna (OE) is a game of operatic science fantasy set in the World of Saints: a post-catholic imagination that echoes my family’s stories of post-war Italy....

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Reynaldo @naldodrinan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Legally distinct beholders are a favorite of mine: breakrpg.blogspot.com/2024/03/free...

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 23/09/2026

it kinda sucks there’s a line of raising cane’s dogs like they can never be their own individual

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 23/09/2026

my pet peeve is that "god loves a cheerful giver" doesn't mean you shouldn't give if it's not voluntary. you're supposed to give, and not be a little bitch about it. real easy!

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WiddershinsWanderings @naeolin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've been talking about play style preferences lately, but there's another aspect of table culture that I think is a key determining factor on whether a gaming table stays together. Whether you're playing Cairn, Mothership, or Vampire. widdershinswanderings.bearblog.dev/ttrpg-table-...

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TTRPG Table Alignments

A blog post where I compare a Tabletop Roleplaying Game session to having a communal meal, and why its important for everyone's expectations to be aligned.

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026

[ ~ Where grief stirs, spirits linger ~ ] Dive into the kaleidoscopic fantasy of Beneath the Floating World, a Carved from Brindlewood game of psychedelic zenpunk exorcism ~ Uncover twisted truths, face supernatural horrors and navigate your mortal woes . . . sandroad.itch.io/restrain-ref...

The cover for beneath the floating world ~ Featuring an onryo-esc figure above two silhouetted exorcists

The beginning of character creation rules

The center fold describing the parallel Day and Night phases of play

The 12 Exorcist Moves that can each define a character

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 22/09/2026

so uhhhhh is tyler perry out yet

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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him) @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If the way you play TTRPGs is basically how a lot of people play, then you shouldn’t go “woe is me” when someone challenges or debates you simply because they play differently. afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/a-ttrpg-play...

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A TTRPG Playstyle Rant (A Short Blog Post)

Here's a short blog post. More of a rant. If the way you play TTRPGs is basically how a lot of people play, then you shouldn’t go “woe is me” when some...

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Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The sad part about having a pet is watching something that feels like your child grow up, then old and then begin to fade. The nice part for a pet is getting to live a good life then leave the world with their moms and dads still with them, taking care of them.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 22/09/2026

od&d vs fmc low diff genuinely it was such a pleasure to make (for me at least!) a less fucked up terrible ugly representation of this terrible ruleset from od&d blackmoor that i don't think people realize it's secretly the same picture say what you will about gary at least he didn't make... that

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 21/09/2026

LIKE CLUBGOD SAY THROW THAT ASS POKE IT OUT

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

being properly open-minded doesn’t mean shrugging every time you encounter a fucked up viewpoint and saying you guess it takes all kinds. it means interrogating the viewpoints you encounter and deciding whether they’re fucked up. being thoughtful and interested but ultimately making a firm call

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 20/09/2026

and tbc i do see the same behavior by some people in unity where they rely way too much on trying to mold the fucking physics system to things they don’t need it for, and make few plain c# bits simultaneously i’ve never done anything needing the engine so i have my own skill issues ofc

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 20/09/2026

tbh i really admire how in freeciv you can toggle between hexes and squares bc it’s so extra but like… oooo

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Reynaldo @naldodrinan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The gear section of the BREAK!! book is pretty big, one of the largest in the book. Part of that is because I think it's one of the most prominent ways players interact with an adventure game, and part of it is just that I'm just such a huge fan of stuff. Stuff is fun!

A shopkeeper looks on with glee as someone tries to sell a sword to a curious adventurer

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 19/09/2026

#resourciv build v0.5.3! - migration is back!!! redesigned for the new population sim, based on average satisfaction of needs - ranged units in sentry mode will autoshoot - techs and policies rebalance - bug fixes and small improvements traversefantasy.itch.io/resourciv/de...

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just once I would love for one of these Silicon Valley fart hot boxing mfers who says AI is going to kill us all to explain the mechanism by which it will do so. And please don’t say nukes – you guys do not begin to understand how analog that shit is.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Logging off the zoom meeting

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 18/09/2026

actually yeah tbh my problem with the new superman is that james gunn wants to be supes which is a downgrade from zack snyder wanting to fuck him

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