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Paul Gunning @paulgunning.bsky.social · 21h

Shout out to Claire North as well, in her novel Slow Gods, which is about a lot of things, including the ways that people find to be themselves.

Some off-worlders complain, say that it's too complicated, there's too much there for them to every understand.
How odd, the Adjumiris reply.
You can remember the difference between innumerable different types of sausage or sporting teams, but you cannot hold in your mind a mere half-dozen or so categories of people? That much make navigating the nuances of human experience extraordinarily taxing for you.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God okay my parents visited and me and @casualcheese.bsky.social are WIPED. I care about my parents and all but they are the most exhausting people in the entire world and there's nothing any of us can do about it

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bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

god I love getting into discussions that are just like...

crop of The School of Athens by Raphael, closing in on Plato and Aristotle who are wearing a chiton and cloak with "sickos" written on them

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026

A friend sent me this one last night.

Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
...
just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've gone from being that bitch who always has painkillers, lactose pills, water and cereal bars on me to being that bitch who also has a whole ass first aid kit in their backpack.

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

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good tidings! We removed the Cursed Object* from our kitchen and replaced it with the Blessed Object** and now the kitchen is suddenly all roomy and easy to get into. *Old, fucked up, wrongly sized kitchen counter/shelving unit **New, sleek, space-saving kitchen counter with drawers

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finished Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and will be replaying immediately. I am.... extremely deep in my Hansry feelings, friends. Hans panicking after the kiss????? Lancelot and Galehaut??????? The last conversation about how they're basically going to have a honeymoon?????????????

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Friends, we are very silly. Both Cake and I have been having back/hip troubles for a few days. We've just noticed it's long past time to flip the mattress because there's a literal divot under our hips. Whoops?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the human brain is a fine-tuned machine for making decisions first and reasons second

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👹 Other Sammy 👹 @swizzard.pizza · 29/08/2026

if vosotros don't like "y'all," it's on Ihnen to come up with a second-person plural pronoun ὑμεῖς prefer

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llawll @llawll.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hook, line, and sinker 🪝

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

blah blah couple-oriented vs. non-hierarchical, situational vs. committed, sexual vs. emotional, whatever the real difference between swinging and polyamory is that swingers are Republicans and polyamorists are [thirty minute lecture on Theory]

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3

A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

*Beastie Boys voice*

1770 teapot with the motto: Health to the sick, honour to the brave, success to the lover, & freedom to the slave

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So I started playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and have been swallowed absolutely whole by Hansry brainworms

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CocoEagle @cocoeagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real

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grady on the web @adventfuturist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I remembered it being worded differently but you pretty much had it nail on head

Tumblr post: the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you

Reply: the point of art is to let other people know that the thing wrong with them is also wrong with you

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Kimberly 🐘 @elephanttail.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

dubcon is when your consent is spoken in a different language, subcon is when it's spoken in the original language and translated via subtitles

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douqi @douqi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Happy Qixi! While I don't have as many offerings as I was planning, I DID manage to finish the main one: an epub collecting the first arc of my translation of To Embers We Return, edited, typeset and with cover art by the amazing @\guoldu.bsky.social Get it here: douqi.blog/to-embers-we...

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To Embers We Return

To Embers We Return epub cover art and design by guoldu Download: EPUB (Volume 1) note: the epub contains the most up-to-date and polished version of the translation text, and should be preferred t…

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Good day, friends. It has become quite clear that, while I'm not an especially functional human without my ADHD meds, the meds I am currently on are not working well for me. Sigh. I go from one problem to another, no less difficult problem.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Part of the reason a lot of super rich people are so awful is that when normal people get an absurd amount of money, they immediately start looking around for who they can help.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

so, plants under solar panels do well, water under solar panels does well, foxes under solar panels do well, just need to put solar panels over more things

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flick | chochojoon | ravelqueen @ravelqueen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Never forget, always remember that the people who build the ao3 house were the perverts all along and we love them for it

Screenshot of a tumblr post
"Do you think Naomi Novik ever looks at AO3 sees some incest mpreg and whispers to herself “I never wanted this.”"

To which Naomi Novik replies (using her fandom handle astolat):
No :)

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I am watching Interview With The Vampire finally, several years after everyone else already watched it, and having every possible emotion all at once

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Another Descent Into Madness @yilingweiclan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

*runs into the room screaming* TAEMIN IS DOING A HORROR CONCEPT #taemin

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Start listening to a romance novel audiobook feat. a character with DID and the book opens with detailed and accurate notes about DID, DDNOS, relevant terms like alter/headmate, and a note that the author has a close person with DID who shared with them about it. I'm just....man, I'm so glad.

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Kat8Cha @kat8cha.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I DON'T NEED AN AI SUMMARY OF A PDF I JUST NEED TO BE ABLE TO OPEN AND READ IT

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🌶️ Motte! 🌶️🔞 @extra-spicymotte.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

every time I think about making my writing a bit more intersting and unique, I have to think of these two gems

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

No one wants to hear this but most knitting patterns would produce much better results if they were made for a needle 2 sizes down/a gauge 2 needle sizes finer.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How am I? I'm listening to early medieval european plain chant reconstructed in the vocal style of the time which involved the kind of vocal ornamentation and microtonal elements common to e.g. arabic and iranian music. Maybe I've been doing this all day. I'm SO fine and normal about this btw

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/07/2026

For writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I had a day in which i ran into (on the internet) a huge amount of white people being overwhelmingly, ludicrously White about everything but especially ancient middle eastern music. Like bitch I KNOW my medieval europeanmusic, don't play that and say it's ancient Egyptian.

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Friends I just experienced a calf cramp so awful I literally screamed my throat hoarse and thoroughly alarmed @casualcheese.bsky.social. I'm fine but holy SHIT

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Vorvayne @vorvayne.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here to report that I tried the freezing tofu trick. Results: delicious.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen at scale Cambridge Uni made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/scie...

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Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.

A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production

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