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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are people who don’t listen to modern pop country better than people who do listen to modern pop country? Yes, obviously.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dragula is actually the number one song in America

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

so today I learned that Canadian engineers take a sacred oath written by Rudyard Kipling which is *clearly* worded to bind them as defenders against the fae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling...

en.wikipedia.org

Calling of an Engineer - Wikipedia

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again

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Trip @trip3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m just going to say it: rideshare drivers are way too comfortable playing jesus music

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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"I’ve just gotten disillusioned about the political landscape. There’s not a clear political group I map onto now."

30 Rock: Jack Donaghy saying "That's Republican, we count those."

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Trip @trip3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When Judas Priest wrote rock hard ride free… I felt that

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"

The "secretary of war" wearing a shirt that says "THIS IS WAR" while PTing in a stadium in Texas, which is not war

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

baiting an LLM into uploading itself to my PC then pulling out the ethernet cord and shaking the computer around like a child who caught a firefly in a jar

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So I’m supposed to tell a patriot, who wants to serve and protect his country by the way, that he cannot due to he’s balls deep in a dog

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music

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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

every subculture wants outsiders to have a super nuanced understanding of it, to read all of its theory, to essentially play a language game that it defines. but the thing is that, when the subculture actually gains power and influence, you're really not under any obligation to play along anymore

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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

yeah i've achieved AGI Ate a Giant Italian sub

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Wachowskis’ decision to make Zion default multi-racial is both an obviously correct decision within the narrative of the films but also something that would provoke a Chud Crusade in 2026

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Trip @trip3.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I think the majority of the calories I consumed yesterday were from beer

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Trip @trip3.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Good Hot Fish in Asheville is absolutely goated

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Nicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

having a normal one on r/condiments

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Drew @4484.cool · 02/09/2026

If cosmic horror happened to me I would just deal with it

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Trip @trip3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Officially Bluesky years old, this will be my most powerful year of posting yet

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When your wife drinks half a can of seltzer and then just leaves it somewhere

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible

Dean W. Ball
@deanwball
x.com
The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your
grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there's still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.
It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.
Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.

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Trip @trip3.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

FOR DUDES ABOUT TO ROCK WE SALUTE YOU 🫡🫡🫡

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This is now all of US foreign policy

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“having a bizarre obsession with a daddy figure is not uncommon in right-wing households” good point Amy, people on the right are freaks. they’re freaks and they’re worse than us.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Slashing headcount" was a dumb thing to lead the public with but it's been *the* main ruling class obsession ever since the Covid recovery resulted in a tight labor market for the first time in decades and workers started asserting their rights and bargaining position again.

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

people are really getting into a row about spreadsheets. my column:

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

you can't fool me, this is a campaign prop for a King in Yellow game.

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it’s me, aubrey plaza accord @sellingtheta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

as people ran screaming for the hills about deficits in the 2010s they endlessly fought about the efficacy — hell, even the definition — of MMT. and it didn’t matter. then we stopped talking about MMT, and now rates maybe signaling debt/deficits matter. the solution? we need to argue about MMT again

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I had long been of the opinion that of the GA-Sen contingent, Warnock was the stone cold killer put on God’s green earth to win elections no matter what and Ossoff was the wonk nerd making TikToks debating Republicans in Senate hearings, so it’s a pleasant surprise that he has that dawg in him too.

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Flavors used to be infused but nowadays flavors are blasted. This is happening to society as well of course

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