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So when people talk about estrangement being so much more of a thing now, I think... is it? Or is it mostly relationships that 50 years ago would have been categorized as "I only talk to my mom twice a year because we don't get along" or "this is embarassing family business we don't share".

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As another example, my mom and brother recently, had beef on and off for most of a decade, and both used the language of estrangement, but neither in fact cut off the other for long. They were just being messy bitches who sometimes didn't talk for a few weeks and had angst about it.

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(Compared with previous generations.) People talk about how parents and children have such different politics today, but like... my mom's parents absolutely disapproved of her dating a Mexican, but they got over it enough to participate in my parents' wedding.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 06/10/2026

There's this whole trend of U.S. news articles, books, and pop psychology pieces about parents being estranged from children. I think it's worth noting that survey data shows that millennials were not just financially reliant on their parents, but also reported more respect and emotional connection.

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hey. if you're reading this. take a second. relax your jaw. let your shoulders drop. fix your posture. now take your cock out and start stroking it for me

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Wu Wei @wuweiwolf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trying to stream video at a decent resolution in 2006 was terrible. It drove me absolutely insane how often the connection would be lost, or it would take 15 minutes to stream 5 minutes of video. But again, I was obsessed with Heroes, so I bit the bullet.

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Wu Wei @wuweiwolf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember being obsessed with that show during the first season. I was in college dorms and didn't reliably have access to a TV that I controlled, so I streamed it on my laptop, which was just starting to be a thing at the time.

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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"It's more of a cormorant than a question", I say, with a wry smile, as my pet cormorant repeatedly dive bombs the panel, pecking at their eyes

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Wu Wei @wuweiwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh yeah, I remember that. If I remember right, the computer she gets pulled into resembles an old Cray that they keep around NCAR as a sort of museum piece.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Wu Wei @wuweiwolf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was definitely a mother's day thing I remember, and some people actually have trays specifically for this... but I can't imagine that it's that common.

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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally the -tober prompt that I can follow to my heart's content

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Vermillion X. Fox @vermyfox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Annual reminder on how to distinguish your werewolves for Halloween:

To the left straight werewolves, which are all people with hair glued to their face in appearance.

To the right LGBT+ werewolves, which are all anthro wolves in appearance.

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Samus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Kinsey scale and muzzle length have a strong positive correlation.

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They also just bought the second biggest game publisher in North America.

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I though it was fine enough as that era of millenial brainrot goes, but - for reasons I will not disclose - that animation was strongly associated with me to such an extent that my friends would just randomly quote it every time they saw me for multiple years, and it got a bit old.

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I genuinely think that future generations will view LLM-based "AI therapists" the same way we view the idea of using mercury to cure syphilis now. Namely, that it was a primitive idea used by people who didn't know what they were doing that almost certainly caused more problems than it solved.

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The analogy that I've been using recently is that AI is like radium fluorescent paint or the idea of a nuclear-powered car. It's not that nuclear energy didn't make it into consumer products because it was too powerful, but rather it was dangerous and poisonous and impractical.

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It pains me to think that somewhere out there is someone with a similar medical situation who's just going to have a massive heart attack and no one will ever know exactly why or how preventable it would have been if they just had access to better diagnostics and drugs.

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My mom recently got a calcium scan of her heart and found out that, despite having low blood pressure, low cholesterol, etc., she apparently has severe cardiac disease and needed to go on a statin+aspirin immediately. If she didn't have decent insurance and savings, she'd never have even known.

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Also, very funny that, post-CRT-era, these pre-rendered cutscenes are way worse than the normal gameplay due to whatever anti-aliasing or compositing technique they used at the edges of character models.

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Verdict on this game port: not bad, but the Gamecube controller's uniqueness is a real liability now. If Nintendo re-releases all the main Gamecube titles from back in the day, *maybe* I'll consider buying the new reproduction.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Playing through the Gamecube Emulator port of Super Mario Sunshine, and this is a line I didn't remember.

A tanuki says to Mario "I suppose you're here for THAT, hm? Yes, very good."

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Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

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🔞 feral housewife 🔞 @skippysbonezone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ouchy. I once got like 20-30 bug bites on each limb and couldn't be normal for like a month, so I think it's a lot before you die, but not a lot you can do in the meantime other than bathe in antihistamines AFAIK.

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literally every other news article i see about coyotes in california is literally just something like this

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The best thing about the Tuberville speech really was him talking about "it" being "terrifying" and then clarifying that by "it" he meant "the pilot of your plane hypothetically enjoying sex in fursuit", a thing that no one has ever been afraid of unless their brain was fully cooked by Twitter.

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I recently went on a trip with several other Americans to Spain, and they did this quite a bit, and I also don't understand it at all. Not even a moral judgment really, just very confused by that behavior.

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They're saying that woke is over and that you can't cancel things any more. Well, I'm going to do it! I'm going to cancel that 20-year-old shitty-ass dysgenic-hypothesis movie! See if I don't.

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One day I'm going to break down and write 10k-30k words about how horrible the movie Idiocracy was for American politics and left-liberals who liked it in particular. The only barrier is that I'd have to watch it again, and that feels bad.

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I think other countries do it to an extent too, but Americans *really* like to take a word they associate with their current political enemies and turn it into a neologism for a particular type of bad behavior.

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Yeah, now that I think of it, there are a ton of these English terms derived from some specific era or other of politics, especially in the USA. Railroading, ratfucking, carpetbagging, McCarthyism, "-gate", etc.

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(The verdict: it's fine unless you like... heat it to near-boiling and inhale the benzene fumes on a regular basis.)

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In a weird coincidence, I had been thinking idly about the amount of benzoyl peroxide I use on my skin the other day and whether it is mildy carcinogenic, and @maintenancephase.bsky.social just released a bonus episode where they talk about this.

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I heard the opposite take here on Bluesky a while back when a white British guy was mad that people were saying "y'all" because he thought they were doing it to try sound like rural white Americans. People just have weird hangups and want to pretend it's due to some principle rather than aesthetics.

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