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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 9h

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Alicia Kraft @aliciakraft.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I really fucking hate it when my liege heeds not my measured counsel, leaning rather upon the superstitions of augurs and temple priests :(

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will @wagnarok.bsky.social · 22h

LRP: you can't spell "Annihilation" without "halt on AI"

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

if the president is swarmed and eaten by thousands of crabs. that's just politics. that's just democracy

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

I appreciate bluesky's periodic dedication to reminding us of the purity of text-only posting by breaking all images on the site

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 29/09/2026

when i hear AI proponents talk about how AI is improving so fast (or whatever marketing), i have to ask: why are all of the AI writing tells still exactly the same, then?

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Video games where the title screen progressively changes as the story goes are great.

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 28/09/2026

Soggy storrowing www.universalhub.com/2026/soggy-s... #CambridgeMA #MemorialDrive #storrowed

Box-truck driver engages in battle of wits with Mem Drive bridge and loses

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Working today of all days, on 9-25. What a way to make a living.

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will @wagnarok.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the final section of Jeff VanderMeer's novel "Absolution" contains the word "fuck" and its variants a truly staggering number of times. reply with a number between 1 and 1197 and I will tell you about your chosen fuck

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Occasional reminder that fortunetelling is legal in Somerville, but you have to get a license from the city. 1/? online.encodeplus.com/regs/somervi...

online.encodeplus.com

Document Viewer | Code of Ordinances

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skull & nomes @anachronistique.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the Locked Tomb jokes make themselves

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bisexuality does not require you to have dated X number of people Y times to count. You attracted to more than one gender? Cool. You count. Anyone saying otherwise is a jerk.

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will @wagnarok.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the matrix was really prescient about how annoying the presence of "agents" everywhere would be in the future

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 23/09/2026

happy bi visibility day! after having been assumed to be straight for a lot of my life (and not bothering to correct people) and, these days, assumed to be a lesbian, it's always "nice" to annually have a chance to correct the record. we love schroedinger's sexuality don't we folks

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The best way to acknowledge a bisexual's visibility is to give them some money.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i used to like apocalyptic books and movies, but i don't now, and i think it's cause i realized five years ago that if the apocalypse happens i'll still have to work

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/09/2026

Excited to reflect, absorb, and emit light EXTRA WELL today ✨💃⚡️ #BiVisibilityDay

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will @wagnarok.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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will @wagnarok.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

WCTBESRWCMSBOTBSAACU (We Changed The Book's Ending So Radically We Can't Make Sequels Based On The Book's Sequels At All Cinematic Universe)

poster for the 2018 film "Annihilation", loosely based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, featuring Natalie Portman and a few others ill-advisedly entering a fucked up zone

poster for the 1984 film "Dune", based on the novel by Frank Herbert, featuring Kyle MacLachlan at the head of an army of silhouetted figures standing on the title character

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Killjoys rips. Campy, sexy, fun, and it’s about the hottest woman alive. There’s evil space lesbians. Kind of like if the expanse was gayer and more stupid (positive)

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will @wagnarok.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the one positive impact that generative AI tools have had on my work is that there have been a couple of times where AI-Obsessed Co-Worker has said "can we automate [Activity] with AI?" and it's motivated someone else to realize "wait, [Activity] is stupid and we shouldn't be doing it at all"

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i hope gavin newsom shits himself in public, like, literally i want him to shit his pants in public bc he's the kinda guy who would never mentally recover that and i want him to hate himself to his core

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Valerie Valkyrie @beezygrey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In today's unsurprising news: this piece of shit sold us out again!

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

very very basic calculation: do you want to save people or do you want to Always Be Right

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sparkling homunculus @1001cranes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Snake eyes, excellent!" "Well that doesn't SEEM good." "She's a lizardfolk--" "That is CULTURALLY INSENSITIVE, Will!" #CityOfDoors

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Roy G Biv @plunkettprime.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

2026: Stores along Billings Road in Quincy, Mass. @universalhub.com

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will @wagnarok.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

without downloading a new picture, post about gender

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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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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

moving this reply here for the alt text bsky.app/profile/auti...

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Tristan Salazar @ofnadwy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Harrowhark Nonagesimus has entered the chat

Harrowhark Nonagesimus from the cover of HARROW THE NINTH. She would like to make you some soup.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey, it’s me, your childhood friend from your idyllic hometown in this RPG. Let’s do some tutorial missions together. No, I’m not in any of the official art, but that probably doesn’t mean anything.

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will @wagnarok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

this is somebody’s harrow the ninth fanfic

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it

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