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Sarah Szell

@tsercele.bsky.social
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Media crit, politics, creeping dread. Author on the SCP Wiki. Freelance editor/proofreader. linktr.ee/tsercele (she/her)

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morkitten @morkitten.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cream & Blaze comic
Panel 1: Cream has a big tray of hot baked brownies that he's holding up to Blaze, she says, "blaze-san! ❤︎ let's split these edibles together~!". Blaze looks away while grasping her own shoulder shyly "i d-don't know cream, aren't you like 5 or something"

Panel 2: POV from behind Blaze, Cream has her hand on Blaze's shoulder with an innocent big sparkly look to her eyes. "it's no longer 2003. i'm 6, now. don't be a narc." Blaze answers "a-alright then"

Panel 3: Blaze and Cream are sitting on a couch. Blaze is sitting politely on the couch, munching on a brownie bite, holding the rest of the brownie on her hand, she's looking at it worried. Cream is holding a huge stack of brownies. From behind the couch, Silver pops up with a concerned smile: "hey everyone!!!!!!! t-that's a lot of brownies...! i guess i'll have some...!" Cream looks up at Silver replying "hi silver!!!! no you won't :) you're tripsitting"Panel 4: Blaze's having a bad high. Her eyes are cloudy and irritated, she holds her head like she's having a headache and she has a slouched posture. Tiny hallucinations of Marine the Raccoon are circling around her head saying "werent we gonna get high together?" and "you promised!". Cream is also high but in high spirits, holding a copy of the movie Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej Żuławski) up to Blaze. Blaze says: "i... i think i gotta be alone for a minute...", Cream replies: "nuh-uh, we're watching possession i love that movie". Silver is on the other side of the panel looking at Blaze across from Cream, shrugging his shoulders with his hands up in the air with a concerned expression.

Panel 5: The three of them are sitting in a couch watching the movie. Blaze has a horrified expression with her mouth agape. Cream is sinking into the couch with her eyes half-lid and a small smile, ears drooping in front of her but not obstructing her vision. She has a bong next to her. Silver is crying behind the couch, hands on his face, tears and fluids dripping between his fingers and exploding out of the sides of his hands.
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Hodgepodge Audio 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hodgepodgeaudio.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You have to be hungry to succeed. KILLIONAIRE 2 - FUEL is now available on all your favorite podcast platforms. redcircle.com/shows/a1dd0d...
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2 - FUEL || KILLIONAIRE
Listen to KILLIONAIRE || Hodgepodge Originals on RedCircle
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Stop pretending that only one party is responsible for making us more vulnerable to wildfire risks. The escalating danger we are in is a multi-party effort. NONE of Canada's major political parties has thus far taken this increasing risk seriously. 🧵 1/
In the top left corner, an image of Ontario premier Doug Ford, with overlying text: "Cut wildfire response budget while pushing fossil fuel expansion"

In the top right corner, Alberta premier Denielle Smith, with overlying text: "Cut wildfire response budget while pushing fossil fuel expansion"

In the bottom left, former Alberta premier Rachel Notley, with overlying text: "Cut wildfire response budget while pushing fossil fuel expansion"

In the bottom right, prime minister Mark Carney, with overlying text: "Cut wildfire tracking budget, cut budget for Environment and Climate Change Canada by 45.4% while pushing fossil fuel expansion"
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Hodgepodge Audio 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hodgepodgeaudio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
💀🩸 DEATH INCOMING. 🩸💀 Join us next Wednesday at 3pm MST for the live premiere of KILLIONAIRE Episode 2. Don't forget to check the content warnings! #horror #audiofiction www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIMs...
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2 - FUEL || KILLIONAIRE Podcast
YouTube video by Hodgepodge Audio
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Hodgepodge Audio 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hodgepodgeaudio.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
KILLIONAIRE 2 is now available on Patreon! Join us on YouTube next week for the public premiere! www.patreon.com/hodgepodgeau...
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KILLIONAIRE 2 Early Access! | Hodgepodge Audio
KILLIONAIRE 2 Early Access! by Hodgepodge Audio on Patreon. Join Hodgepodge Audio's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I got hate mail over this one. Happy Pride
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
(stage whisper) THIS ONE'S HORNY!
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
New on the #scpwiki: a MxTape story about how steakshift completely failed to get laid, twice over, in a single encounter. Yes, it's explicit (adults only! 🔞) but it's far more embarrassing than titillating. It's "Top Surplus", for #Pridefest2026! scp-wiki.wikidot.com/top-surplus
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Top Surplus - SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18/06/2026
1/ Major Canadian experts in internet security and privacy - like @rondeibert.bsky.social, @openmedia.org and @cancivlib.bsky.social - are absolutely freaking out about Bill C-22. They’re sounding massive alarms, warning that it could:
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Carney rammed C-22 through committee, rushing a massive expansion of state surveillance powers without proper debate. While few minor fixes were made, core threats to digital privacy and civil liberties remain unresolved. Canadians deserve better than secret orders and closed-door cabinet overreach.
Official media statement from MP Jenny Kwan, NDP Public Safety Critic, regarding Bill C-22. The headline reads: "Carney Government Rushes Bill C-22 Through Committee, Leaving Core Privacy and Civil Liberties Threats Unresolved."
The statement expresses deep concern over the government forcing the bill through committee before parliamentarians could meaningfully debate a massive package of amendments or listen to civil liberties groups.
Kwan notes that while amendments partially improved clauses regarding encryption and systemic vulnerabilities, loopholes remain. Severe concerns around lower thresholds for foreign law enforcement to access personal information went unaddressed.
The statement calls out the bill's reliance on secret orders, closed-door cabinet discretion, and the broad collection of sensitive metadata. It concludes by stating that after-the-fact oversight is no substitute for robust safeguards before data is collected, and condemns the Carney government for curtailing committee debate on digital privacy.
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
are you ready to read about the greatest fumble in the known universe?
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
are you ready to read about the greatest fumble in the known universe?
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
New on the #scpwiki: a MxTape story about how steakshift completely failed to get laid, twice over, in a single encounter. Yes, it's explicit (adults only! 🔞) but it's far more embarrassing than titillating. It's "Top Surplus", for #Pridefest2026! scp-wiki.wikidot.com/top-surplus
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Top Surplus - SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment.
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Hodgepodge Audio 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hodgepodgeaudio.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
FREE MERCH GIVEAWAY!! Between now and June 30, if you submit a review of KILLIONAIRE on your favorite podcast app and send us a screenshot, you'll be entered to win a t-shirt of your choosing from our FUA merch store here: findusalive.threadless.com Thanks for listening and reviewing!
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Find Us Alive Official Merch | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more
findusalive's Shop
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Hodgepodge Audio 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hodgepodgeaudio.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
KILLIONAIRE Episode 1 - TRANSIT is now available on all your favorite podcast platforms! redcircle.com/shows/a1dd0d...
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1 - TRANSIT || KILLIONAIRE
Listen to KILLIONAIRE || Hodgepodge Originals on RedCircle
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Now that the credits are out and the series debut is imminent, I'm thrilled to announce that I've been editing scripts for Hodgepodge Audio's #KILLIONAIRE! Every step has been a ghoulish delight; I can't wait to listen to it with all of you!
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Now that the credits are out and the series debut is imminent, I'm thrilled to announce that I've been editing scripts for Hodgepodge Audio's #KILLIONAIRE! Every step has been a ghoulish delight; I can't wait to listen to it with all of you!
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Hodgepodge Audio 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hodgepodgeaudio.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
💰🩸IT APPROACHES.🩸💰 Don't miss the YouTube Premiere of #KILLIONAIRE, our newest original #audiofiction podcast! Join us LIVE for some gory horror-comedy! Make sure you're subscribed and ring the bell so you don't miss it!
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1 - TRANSIT || KILLIONAIRE Podcast
On movement, the future, and very long tunnels. www.hodgepodgeaudio.com CREW W. Blake Kimber - Narrator Anna Maguire - Writer, director, producer, sound designer/editor Sarah Szell - Script…
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wren is a bit of a lech, but if a match lasts beyond that first hookup, it will probably develop into a more meaningful relationship. Penelope tries not to care about romance. When she tried in college, it went badly; now, it's an unwelcome reminder that the work is her whole life.
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Wren is loudly, proudly nonbinary. They don't fit neatly in social boxes, don't appreciate unwanted labels, and can get angry if someone insists upon them. Penelope is an asexual lesbian. Accepting that (and having others accept it) has been an obstacle for her forming any long-term relationships.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026
5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7416 - Petitions
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026
3/ It even opens the door to handing your data to Trump's America without a Canadian judge. The biggest civil liberties groups like @cancivlib.bsky.social, @openmedia.org, and @citizenlab.ca call this the most expansive invasion of our rights in modern history. thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-...
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Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him | The Walrus
Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026
2/ C-22 drops the bar for police to "reasonable suspicion," the lowest threshold in Canadian criminal law, and forces your providers to keep a year of everyone's metadata. @mgeist.bsky.social calls it "a comprehensive surveillance map of virtually every Canadian."
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026
1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵
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Yuria @itsyuria.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today's the last day to get this done so I won't lose my room, I've just got $600 left to go, please spread the word if you can.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Please contact your reps and demand they oppose the GUARD Act www.congress.gov/members/find...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:
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The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe
A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening
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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I wrote an explainer on Carney's pitch to radically alter environmental assessments of projects. It's a big deal and about more than economic zones. It would change rules for extinction of wildlife, fossil fuel and nuclear oversight, First Nations consultations and more thenarwhal.ca/canada-major...
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Feds pitch ‘economic zones’ to fast-track major projects | The Narwhal
From pipelines to mines, Carney’s government is proposing big changes to environmental rules and how major projects get approved in Canada
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💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Fellow Canadians: please sign & circulate this official petition sponsored by a member of Parliament, to make it easier for American LGBTQ+ folks to seek refuge in Canada from persecution in the US. Regardless of their ancestry. Note: don’t skip the email verification step or your sig won’t count
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Petition e-7195 - Petitions
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
You can tell the feds how fucked up this is here:
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Engagement: Supporting timely-decision-making for major projects - One Canadian Economy - Canada.ca
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"The federal gov’s proposal to legally allow projects to go ahead even if they result in an entire species going extinct is directed at projects, such as ports and pipelines, that jeopardize the existence of the endangered southern resident killer whale population, several sources told the Star."
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In light of recent #scpwiki discussions regarding deletions and thresholds thereof, I have decided to get a little silly with it. The result: my most controversial post to date. scp-wiki.wikidot.com/my-reasoned-...
STOP ASKING FOR DELETION PURGES

WE ARE NOT "RUNNING OUT OF SLOTS" BECAUSE WE'RE NEVER RUNNING OUT OF INTEGERS

turns out you can just keep counting up! watch this: 10K 11K 12K 13K 14K 15K 16K 17K and so forth.

YEARS OF "GROWING AND CELEBRATING THE SITE", yet POOR DISCOVERABILITY can leave stuff buried for YEARS in favor of Overexposed Bullshit

but everyone loves PEANUT! everyone loves FOUR FUCKING PIXELS! everyone loves [LEGACY AUTHOR HERE]! dw baby they will be safe forever from those scary Underread and Underrated articles. Popular stuff is never Mid I promise

Want to express your dissatisfaction with a bad SCP? We have a tool for that. It's called DOWNVOTING

"There are TOO MANY SCPs! Nobody could read them all. We should delete the ones people haven't read, because those are FAILURES and the writers should Get Gud" - Statements dreamed up to torture authors in Skinner boxes until they die of shameLOOK at the nonsense on display. THIS is the kind of logic we're dealing with

(These are FICTIONALIZED versions of Real Mental Gymnastics, EXAGGERATED for satirical effect):

"If your work is unpopular, we'll delete it. And if it isn't popular ENOUGH, we'll delete that too." ???
"If your work is popular, we'll keep it! Even if you want it removed, after you leave! It has become too important to THE LORE of this site which has NO CANON" ?????
"Like THAT ONE USER'S articles. We had to keep those for a long time. Historical significance. Not all these, though! Written by nobodies. We can toss 'em. We should toss 'em" ????????

"We haven't tried changing the mainlist range limits, or the contest system, or fixing the discovery system, or incentivizing readership, or even really acknowledged how those issues feed into each other. Just let us delete hundreds of articles. Please. We promise they're just taking up space. We promise they're mostly bad, and shouldn't be on our super exclusive creative writing forum for genre nerds obsessed with metrics. We promise this will improve the overall quality of the site."

Absolute foolishness, never support
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A phlebotomist says to a patient "we're going to draw some blood." A photograph of a hand with a pen comes from outside the panels and colours in the blood bag with red. The phlebotomist says "see? that wasn't so bad." The patient, dumbfounded, asks "wa that... was that God?"
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Sarah Szell @tsercele.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In light of recent #scpwiki discussions regarding deletions and thresholds thereof, I have decided to get a little silly with it. The result: my most controversial post to date. scp-wiki.wikidot.com/my-reasoned-...
STOP ASKING FOR DELETION PURGES

WE ARE NOT "RUNNING OUT OF SLOTS" BECAUSE WE'RE NEVER RUNNING OUT OF INTEGERS

turns out you can just keep counting up! watch this: 10K 11K 12K 13K 14K 15K 16K 17K and so forth.

YEARS OF "GROWING AND CELEBRATING THE SITE", yet POOR DISCOVERABILITY can leave stuff buried for YEARS in favor of Overexposed Bullshit

but everyone loves PEANUT! everyone loves FOUR FUCKING PIXELS! everyone loves [LEGACY AUTHOR HERE]! dw baby they will be safe forever from those scary Underread and Underrated articles. Popular stuff is never Mid I promise

Want to express your dissatisfaction with a bad SCP? We have a tool for that. It's called DOWNVOTING

"There are TOO MANY SCPs! Nobody could read them all. We should delete the ones people haven't read, because those are FAILURES and the writers should Get Gud" - Statements dreamed up to torture authors in Skinner boxes until they die of shameLOOK at the nonsense on display. THIS is the kind of logic we're dealing with

(These are FICTIONALIZED versions of Real Mental Gymnastics, EXAGGERATED for satirical effect):

"If your work is unpopular, we'll delete it. And if it isn't popular ENOUGH, we'll delete that too." ???
"If your work is popular, we'll keep it! Even if you want it removed, after you leave! It has become too important to THE LORE of this site which has NO CANON" ?????
"Like THAT ONE USER'S articles. We had to keep those for a long time. Historical significance. Not all these, though! Written by nobodies. We can toss 'em. We should toss 'em" ????????

"We haven't tried changing the mainlist range limits, or the contest system, or fixing the discovery system, or incentivizing readership, or even really acknowledged how those issues feed into each other. Just let us delete hundreds of articles. Please. We promise they're just taking up space. We promise they're mostly bad, and shouldn't be on our super exclusive creative writing forum for genre nerds obsessed with metrics. We promise this will improve the overall quality of the site."

Absolute foolishness, never support
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
You should probably make sure you download Signal *now*, tbh, because it'll a lot harder for them to take the app away from people who already have it. ("Pulling out of Canada" will likely just mean "stop offering the app in Canada".)
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Important to know – this is *not* a bluff by Signal. They will leave Canada if it's required for them to comply with this bill. This is the same position Signal has had for years in regard to Europe. It couldn't be more firm.
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Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“All your faves are using GenAI” Soon as I find out they’re not a fave anymore. Flaw in your logic.
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Leslie, the Collab Auntie @lesliemuse.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I want everyone (EVERYONE) who wears Meta AI glasses branded as a creep and weirdo (bad weirdo as opposed to good one) and publicly shamed. We did it with Google glass, we can do it again
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 13/05/2026
Even if the promised pipeline doesn’t get built, reducing the industrial carbon tax by $40 a tonne and delaying it by a decade is a major betrayal of future generations.
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punkitt ‼️🧣 @punkitt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
me when im watching something and i hear the youtuber make a "games journalists are bad at video games" joke
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world,” Palantir CEO Alexander Karp says in a February 2025 earnings call, “And when it's necessary, to scare enemies, and on occasion, kill them
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
There's thousands of people who live on the streets in BC. We have some of the highest levels of income inequality and a fentanyl crisis killing more people every single day. This is not only an environmental disaster but a middle finger to humanity itself
It's time to build and it's the biggest data centre plan in Canada build in the middle of Vancouver when the city is now having stage 2 drought warnings in May
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12/05/2026
Firing the people isn't good enough, these services needs to be structurally unavailable to genocidal Israel's government and any dual-use companies, and any military contractors. A win nevertheless. Let's keep making Israel a liability for any company. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians
The move follows years of internal and external pressure.
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teddy long five minute white boy challenge @nowstartthegame.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here
Panel 1: Ami Mizuno saying to her friends, "I need you all to swear..."

Panel 2: All rhe girls saying, "FUCJ." with varying keels of enthusias.

Panel 2: Ami, flustered, saying, "Nghh!! Like, a promise??" And an offscreen voice saying, "ooh"
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Meanerva McDanger 🔜Metatopia @minahoneybat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
You might be thinking, 'I make normal games so I'm fine' but, uh, you don't get to decide what 'normal' is – they do. Put any description of queerness or sexual trauma in your game and you've given them cause to boot you from their platform. Voidheart wouldn't pass these guidelines, I think.
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