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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 18h

“Free Speech” never applies to anarchists.

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Daniel Ostrowski @froakiebloke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The all time classic

Ye @kanyewest tweets ‘I will never a make a diss record’. Ryan Pequin quote tweets: ‘When Mario starts to doubt himself during a speed run’

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

starting playing hard mode, gonna keep starting with prev day's solution. looking forward to exploring how to play 2nd moves; feel like that must be the main difference and the rest will feel similar to default

wordle solve from october 2nd, 2026. hard mode. the words are

RITZY
HARPY
WRYLY
USURY (solved)

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ashitaka's story emphasizes the importance of having two girlfriends, one who is nice but evil and one who is mean but good, and you have to spend all of your time doing stuff for them

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/09/2026

I'm sick of the pretense that male homosociality isn't based in the veneration of violence against the vulnerable. I have seen the inside of men's "brotherhoods" and all they are is hierarchies of violence where anyone who doesn't support predatory behavior becomes a target of it.

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thinking about cornell, thinking about how soulless and extractive human connection must be to rapists. how could you enjoy such a thing

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TERFism’s proposition to cis women has always been “What if you accepted having fewer rights than men in order to guarantee that trans people have fewer rights than you?”

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Jordan @jordevio.soy · 25/09/2026

Losing my fucking mind at this www.hackdex.app/hack/emerald...

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cramped political imaginations lead down very regressive paths.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026

The computer can’t improve on you… because computer could never dream of you

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

anyway, blablah in the usual politically unserious way i feel vindicated about him

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

bruno mars is boring as a love song guy but incandescent as a hype good-vibes party guy there is something in ed sheeran's constant music references i can respect, as well as a clear care to his craft, but i can't stand him

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a decade ago i tutored a french girl in english—asked her what she liked, she was a big fan of ed sheeran and bruno mars, i'd bring their lyrics in as texts i barely listen to music so discovered their discography as i did this prep. what i came to think and feel was:

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mensch @prettyvulgar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

slutty ghosts wear fitted sheets

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

call me navier-stokes bc i am a millennial problem

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

call me navier-stokes because i too can crash out in finite time

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI safety/risk to humanity, never encountered anything in my life worthier of the wanking gesture

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

so i just found out my friend (unknowingly) is getting married at a former plantation and like.... well fuck. anyway my friend is either losing a venue or a friend

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just so we understand: “right wing wanker campaign to claim Doctors Without Borders are terrorists” means “the IDF is going to kill aid workers this week”.

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Miss Melancholy @villyne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

gotta bring this energy

Colin Dellow @cldellow • 19h
People always say cyclists need to be more afraid of cars, because in a collision, the car wins.
It doesn't have to be like that. We can _both_lose.

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

didn't have to be some lylat insider either, i was at a bar in twoson, 2015, ten years ago! met this guy, chicken farmer from kakariko village, even he was saying wolf ain't shit. says his folks have been keeping up with international politics since smash bros. says wolf was nothing without leon

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

bro last night heightened the existing contradictions

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Tapping the "Age verification can be implemented using zero-knowledge proofs, and the fact that they aren't doing that is proof they aren't interested in 'protecting children' as they are in 'having an excuse to obtain your personally-identifying-information'" sign again

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

good point! and i'm ignorant in the genre but: me slightly knowing SMT led me to better grasp pkmn r&g as making an RPG but with modern Japan and yōkai/obake instead of medieval Europe and trolls/dragons. and then that cultural knowledge leads me to contextualize stuff like DQ and Yo-kai Watch

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

no one ever suggests overhauling the level/stat formulas which are at the root of everyone's complaints about both linearity and difficulty/grindiness

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

also got a pet peeve where there's a gen 1 mechanic that they change in later games and people look back like "they based critical hit rate on SPEED?!?!" or "life before physical/special split?!" as if the modern games haven't kept gen 1 structures that are way more broken/constraining

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

it was @tamahero.bsky.social who pointed out for instance that pokémon red/green are glitchy in the manner of similar 90s games. she mentioned link's awakening; i'd raise FFVI which has a whole stat that doesn't work

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

related: all writing about pokémon gen 1 today contextualizes it in terms of later pokémon games instead of earlier RPGs

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i gotta get a website or some shit

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

4. starters - 4a. they're all fine, have fun - 4b. but ADIEU is terrible - 4c. the more interesting thing about a starter is the gamestates it leads to and how you slowly master certain "openings" - 4d. if you do care about having a good starter: play 1–2 good vowels and 3–4 good consonants. east

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

—– 3cii. vowel tier list: top: E > A still common: O > I common but you don't need to play them early: U > Y play one or two vowels at a time. that's usually enough. sometimes determining the placement(s) of ex. E is more important than playing a U. repeated vowel words will get you

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

anyway, if you have little consonant info, riffle through in tier list order, think about words like GRAND with four consonants or BLOAT with three if you have some consonant info, you might be able to play letters with specific synergies (e.g. K in a word with S) or test for placement

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

about half of wordle words with B have it in the first position. so it's a rich letter there's got to be something else going on though. F is first position–biased too and it's a lot worse than B. H is oddly bad. maybe commonly being in consonant clusters with T, S, etc. makes them too redundant.

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

idk exactly why it differs from list of letter frequency in english but it does. i suspect it has to do with both placement and combinations. i think you want letters with a 50/50 split between favorite position and all other positions

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

—– 3ci. consonant tier list: play first: TSRLCN often just as good: PD weirdly important: BGM if you have a concrete reason: FKHVW i never play these before the solution: ZQXJ some surprises here vs. lists of pure english letter frequency

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

- 3c. consonants. if you have no yellow or green consonants, you'll want to play moves with three or four of them with attention to letter frequency in general as well as common consonants around certain vowels and word shapes

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

- 3b. free calculate. sit and explore possible solutions. notice patterns: what vowel combinations? which consonants appear more often than expected? what shapes? can you see any whirlwinds coming? you can now just lay some of those letters down and it'll be a fine early move, but more specifics:

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

3. earlygame (gamestate with many remaining solutions where one disambiguating move cannot reliably set up a solve in 2) - 3a. a good earlygame move sets up a good endgame. what words can we play to create the conditions we just reflected about in 2c?

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

with strong play you typically reach endgame on (before) move 3. with poor luck or mistakes it may be on move 4 or 5. with good luck, move 2 and sometimes your earlygame move happens to brush away all but one or two possible solutions. that's part of the game, too

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

- 2c. reflection. what conditions create an endgame's restricted solution set (key greens; key yellows/grays and what they eliminated; vowels and consonants and what they tell you about word shape; anything rare or surprising; what letters did you wish were already played)

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

- 2b. common gamestates/tactics: —– i. whirlpools —– ii. process of elimination (don't need to play a letter to know it's there) —– iii. a guess can disambiguate the other guesses —– iv. replaying a letter to check for placements/repetitions (checking for initial C or H in _ATCH)

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

2. endgames (gamestates with ~3–12 remaining possible solutions) - 2a. play "approach"/disambiguating moves. like preparing checkmate with a move that isn't check. best shown with gamestates like _ATCH (i call these "whirlpools") where a move like BLIMP/CLIMB clearly sets you up better than guessing

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

skill building 1. see lots of possible remaining solutions - 1a. speed (pattern recognition, remembering common word shapes) - 1b. discipline (keep looking even after dopamine hit of seeing a first possible solution; remembering to check for repeated letters, rhymes)

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i was reading reddit comments from a chess teacher who maintains that calculation is the main skill; that's what underlies the higher-minded principles of play. similar thing maybe with wordle. you gotta be able to see a lot of possible remaining solutions

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/ˈfɑnəkuk/ @vannenkoek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

it's best of all when you get to play the insane word a second time. i've played WOMBY at least thrice

text convo
her: THE BOT SAID BUMPH WAS THE BEST GUESS?!?
me: Not only the best guess but I should have played it earlier!!!
her: That is hilarious
her: Okay, so maybe Wordle is the game of Sometimes Knowing Obscure Words Can Really Help (That Or Being Willing to Try Wild Combos)
me: We'll both come out of this with such a big vocabulary of five-letter regionalisms that have four consonants

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