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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It will not have been working until it gets fixed yesterday
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Getting sober is very similar. Admit the truth to yourself, become able to see your challenges for what they are (...challenging!) instead of what you wish they weren't.
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
sickos-yes.jpg
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As someone who lives in the purple zone on New Hampshire Ave, biking home is no joke
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is badass
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am going mad trying to discover the origin or original form of this meme, please help
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This day has very strong "nothing ever ends" vibes
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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Please read this whole thread. It’s a very good depiction of how community care looks right now. Please be ready to show the same care.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On Earth 2, we can't believe how good the new HBO Animorphs show looks. "They nailed the morphing," people enthuse. The nonbinary actor playing Ax's human morph is cutting it up on the Las Culturistas podcast. The actress playing Rachel has handcuffed herself to a data center
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Is the song used... Diagetically? If it's the one I'm thinking of you're in for a treat
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
downgrade a movie: Interstate
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger: M84
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Arcade Conflagration
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gmail search has always sucked ass though 🤷
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When Will Stancil posted this same thing people said it was rape culture
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 20/08/2026
This is a movie about failure, and this is its strength, and it requires of you a different kind of viewing experience. And this is true, tbh, whether or not you think Nolan is a good filmmaker.
But it seems perhaps counterproductive to pick The Odyssey apart for being incoherent when we're adrift in an age of incoherence, and what we need now more than anything are the tools to help us make sense of how to act during such confounding times. Betrayed by leaders, made witness to an endless litany of crimes and atrocities that many of us feel powerless to stop while still being racked with guilt—ours is a world of near-constant moral injury. Art that responds to such times cannot succeed by presenting a solid vision of the world or characters whose actions are
uncomplicated. Enduring art does not give you easy answers; it poses impossible problems and gives you the strength to attempt to answer them, knowing full well any possible solution will be inadequate. It's by this criteria-rather than any kind of internal coherence—that a work like The Odyssey should be judged.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Somebody tell Rhaenyra Targaryen
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
INCREDIBLE. Somewhere I have a tattered, nearly transparent Chili Cook-Off T which was the first of many dozens of cherished concert shirts
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Daft Punk played at my house once
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
23 is peak "nostalgia for something I didn't even live through" tho
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I was out there too!
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Someone wrote this essay a couple weeks ago dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In the film adaptation the sick sticks got turned on their welders way more then the actually ended up being used on Tom Cruise. I'm fine with that outcome here
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This thread made my night
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This guy
A still from the film Labyrinth depicting a puppet character that is a brass door knocker shaped like a face, about to have the ring shoved back in his loud mouth.
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Looks like the sentient door knocker from Labyrinth
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good thing Werwulf is coming out on Christmas for some easy counterprogramming
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Alternatively you could say "Let's go see Werwulf, the new film from horror auteur Robert Eggers"
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I have a hypothesis (un-researched) that typography is a reliable indicator of AI-generated imagery. Most of the time it seems to use a "typeface" that's a flavor-free mashup of Comic Sans and Futura Black. Has anyone taken a close look at this?
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 06/08/2026
That’s enough to fund 11 years worth of $2000 monthly housing vouchers for all 5300 individuals facing homelessness in DC right now.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
I think this absolutely isn’t a crank theory and is just objectively correct.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026
Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
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AOC Must Run For President
History is calling. Sorry!
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh my GAWD
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Real, "the law is powerless to help you, not to punish you" stuff
Screenshot from linked article with these sentences highlighted:

"The U.S. government has long claimed it can search and seize people’s devices without a search warrant or court order until they are permitted entry to the United States." 

"Prosecutors later charged Tunick under a federal statute that makes it unlawful to knowingly destroy or damage property to prevent authorities from seizing it."
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's not *not* about how guest customs are tenuously holding everything together
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Still of Woody Harrelson in the scene from True Detective where he says "I just want you to stop saying odd shit" except I cropped the caption for the bit
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In your defense, the hour that begins at 10pm *is* the 11th hour since noon.
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🌑 @fell.energy · 24/07/2026
tarot is a billion times cooler than astrology to me one is a roguelike poetry/advice session and the other is haha hey what if the circumstances of your birth were insurmountable wouldnt that be cool
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The 3rd volume of Charles Soule's 2017 run on the Darth Vader comic is about the Mon Calamari resisting the Empire and it rips (as does that whole run, best modern Star Wars after Andor and The Last Jedi in my opinion)
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is what The Odyssey is about
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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
FUCK
The sun holding a gun and pointing it towards a human hand holding a gun pointed towards the sun
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ID4 in Real Time @handle.invalid · 03/07/2026
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN OBLITERATED BY AN ATTACK BY THE SPACECRAFT OVER D.C. FLAMES ARE HUNDREDS OF FEET IN THE AIR. THE CAPITOL BUILDING HAS BEEN FLATTENED.
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Actions. Consequences.
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
All I'm asking is for people to experience the consequences of their own actions
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Microsoft Bob returns! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...
Screenshot of Microsoft Bob, showing a funky pixel-art ish sunroom with colorful furniture and a funny cartoon dog in the corner with a speech bubble inviting you to click objects in the room to launch programs
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
They never left, just new ones showing up
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John Breen @breen.tech · 17/06/2026
🥲
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xaq @xaqrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Spoilers for The Pitt Season 2
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