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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 18h

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like, every so often, someone comes rushing out to say 'I think we invented AGI' and, if that were true, the next words out of your mouth ought to be "and so we now have moral obligations towards this new being we created" and somehow that is not generally what I see comes next.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they should invent a google maps integration that detects if you're trying to run errands when a nearby school is letting out and slaps you in the face

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

“Plankton from Spongebob. This is A1 chum bucket” I have never screeched so loud

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dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DON'T DATE PEOPLE YOU DON'T LIKE! AND CERTAINLY DO NOT MARRY THEM!! YOU SHOULD THINK YOUR OWN PARTNER IS "COOL"

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GrayGooGlitch @graygooglitch.com · 26/09/2026

What do philosphy and pronouns have in common? Anyone who claims to not have them doesn't understand what they actually are.

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kelly knowles art @kellyknowles.art · 26/09/2026

every year i'm reminded that used games don't come with covers. and it'll be a cold day in hell when i get a printer lol

cover for zelda breath of the wild, but it's traced with sharpie and filled in with colored pencil. the line weight is very inconsistent lol but i think i did alright!

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Kimmo Merikivi @kimmokm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've come to think that it takes real expertise in one domain to realize the fractal nature of knowledge more broadly - every bit you do understand opens up several related questions that you did not realize existed before - and so truly grasp the limits of your own knowledge and value of expertise.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Have extremely strong political opinions… of 1906. When are we going to crack down on cocaine cough drops? Why are they not regulating firemen chariot races? That Annabelle person is corrupting morals with her butterfly dances!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Never attribute to malice alone that which can be better explained by stupidity AND malice.” -Hanlon’s Razor Sharpener

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Michael L Davenport @valacosa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Royal Medieval Faire Doors Open Waterloo Lumen My life would be much improved if these weren't all the same day 😅

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

HRT should be available over the counter, legal documents should not have gender markers, name changes should be a matter of filling out an online form, and being bigotry should be a cause for deep public shame and mockery All clothing is gender neutral if you're not a little bitch about it

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Now that’s a lotta trees!”

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

there is virtue in honesty but there is no virtue in cruelty

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

there is a certain type of personality that simply loves to be the bearer of bad news but perpetually couches it in "being honest" or "the only adult in the room". it is because they enjoy hurting people but want to be able to maintain the moral high ground. after all, they're just the messenger!

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Michael L Davenport @valacosa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago today, I was a dumbass teenager in high school. And I said, on the day, "The Americans are going to kill way more people in retribution than died today." I would be happier to have been wrong.

Wikipedia entry for the war in Afghanistan, 46 thousand civilian deaths.

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The chicken lady @chickenlady.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is the good explainer of the Iran war and the tariffs and .. pretty much everything else, this blundering pile of clodpoles in the Trump administration is doing:

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Michael L Davenport @valacosa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I try not to post too much about American politics but, uhhh.... As a Canadian this affects us

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We can be tricked by things that look and sound human. We can glom onto anything that seems to echo our emotions. That's a great survival strategy when you're forming a bond with a fellow subsistence predator in the wild that might benefit both parties, but not everything is a potential puppy dog.

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m @mjjii.com · 07/09/2026

digital art. drawing of a seagull’s face close up. text at the top: fries

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Once again from the top The best British television was shot on videotape with a budget of twelve cents and some lint because the writers, actors, directors, etc. all knew exactly what they were doing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026

a perfect biscuit

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🇹🇭Nene Royal🇹🇭 doing Metallica's Master of Puppets. She's pretty damn good. Only 16 but you'd think she's a seasoned rock goddess with how confident she blasts through it. 🤘🤘🎸

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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As I sometimes say... English has a word for "child of a dead parent" but doesn't have a word for "parent of a dead child", because until very recently, that word was "parent".

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Jaina Rodríguez @jaina.wirefault.com · 03/09/2026

I like to think about the ozone hole and acid rain situation in the 80s and how we don’t worry about those so much anymore because a lot of people worked really hard to fix them (as best they could)

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ButtPoems @buttpoems.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🐱comic

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Michael L Davenport @valacosa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a 43-year-old in 2026, a game I find myself playing pretty often is "am I being a middle-aged curmudgeon, or does this new thing *actually* suck?" It's a hard game sometimes!

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Star Trek transporter but every time you go through it you come out smoother and more numb as the AI sands off more and more of you in the pattern buffer

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Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Google Maps caves to the whims of a mad king, MapQuest opened itself up for AI.... good thing I've got that trusted Rand McNally *drives into a building that wasn't there 22 years ago*

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Hadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My bones hurt.

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 30/08/2026

friend

juni sitting on her knees with a chipmunk in her hand

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At least in Terminator, the humans all eventually agree letting Skynet kill everybody was bad

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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

wizard: you only ever wanna go on a quest if it's about saving the queen thousands of bees in a suit of armor: yeah

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

no one who needs to be convinced to fight fascism has ever been convinced by his stupid poem Which left out gay people Because he wanted them to die

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Downgrade a movie: Somethings Somewhere At Distinct Times

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/08/2026

Fine, I'll call it Lake America on the condition that Trump and his entire cabinet walk into it until they're completely submerged and never come out

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

like that's part of why people love the Tom Holland umbrella dance so much he put his entire ass into that BUT he's also having so much fun and there's a wink and a nod both Dolly and Curry knew how to laugh at themselves with the audience while never belittling themselves and that's incredible

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