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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 15h

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 4h

What's on your bookshelf that the Internet Archive doesn't have? There's an app for that. Scan a book's barcode or ISBN to see whether the Internet Archive needs it for preservation and digitization. Scan your shelves. Save a book. help.archive.org/help/donate-... 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 5h

Huh, Deadlock added some interesting new designs

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 6h

screw magnets, how do mirrors work

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 6h

do these children ever stop eating food

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 8h

I was wrong. It’s happening

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chungris @chungris.bsky.social · 13h

how do you even fuck this one up

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 8h

I could easily take a gorilla in a fight. I have a secret technique (a gun)

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 9h

Oh dang, was just informed that Vangers - one of the weirdest games ever - got a big update so it runs at 60fps. It's being maintained by fans now, after the original developer passed away a couple years ago.

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Vangers on Steam

Mind-altering sandbox game that can be described as a racing role-playing adventure game with a complicated storyline. You’ll find a unique atmosphere, complete freedom and lots of gameplay hours to f...

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Dustin Jackson!! @theflyingdustman.bsky.social · 10h

Yet another failed video game adaptation that fails to live up to the source material smh 🙄

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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 13h

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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qntm @qntm.org · 12h

Is he strong? Listen, bud— He's got radioactive blood Does that answer your question? Not really

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 13h

THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED Hikaru: Hello your best friend died, I shapeshifted to look just like him but i'm a co-dependent brat Yoshiki: I will *learn* to accept this

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 13h

don't let your friends be adult my little pony fans, they might get the idea of going to a con

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Laerte @laertecoutinho.bsky.social · 14h

Saiu na Folha @folha.com Mais tiras com MULHER-ELEFANTE aqui: manualdominotauro.blogspot.com/search/label...

Tira de Laerte, em 5 quadrinhos, com a Mulher-elefante - uma mulher cujo rosto tem uma tromba e duas presas como de um elefante.
1) A Mulher-elefante está sentada a uma mesa de bar e agita a mão chamando: “Garçom! Garçom! GARÇOM!”
2) Garçom, mal-humorado, se aproxima. Mulher-elefante pergunta, fazendo charme: “Não está me reconhecendo?” - o garçom responde: “Não.”
3) A Mulher-elefante diz: “Sou a Mulher-elefante…” - o garçom a interrompe: “O que quer?” - ela diz: “O cardápio.”
4) Garçom se afasta, informando: “Está no QR code.” - Mulher-elefante espia um selinho grudado no tampo da mesa.
5) A Mulher-elefante apoia o rosto nas mãos e diz: “Odeio QR code.”

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 14h

All right agents, here's today's posting agenda: A: Talking about whether Solitaire is an extraction shooter B. The VP will be wearing a bad sweater at 3pm so we're riffing on that C. Everyone piles on to a rando who says medium rare steak is "elitist" Let's spread some good malaise out there!

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 14h

The schedule's out - I'm speaking at the Roguelike Celebration again this year! My talk is titled "The City, The Street, The Lens" and it's about street photography, collisions in time and space and how to think about procedural generation differently. More here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

A photo of a truck by the side of the road in Tokyo. The driver's leg is sticking out of the window resting on the side of the trailer. The title of the talk is written on the truck. It will happen on October 18th, online. Tickets are roguelike.club

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 14h

knighthood for peter molyneux

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BedWords @snacklesbian.bsky.social · 16h

the comedic time(line)ing here is chef's kiss

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 16h

woke up 5:30 AM to the cat doing hork noises. took her to the bathroom and she didn't want to throw up anymore

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 17h

oh, yeah that's my old dark scythe. back from when i was some artist's OC. no we don't talk much these days, he's on a different deal now, i think he wants some space

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think there's some threshold where you step away from RPGs-as-resource-simuations and RPGs-as-storytelling-vehicles becomes the dominant mode, and that's when random encs can often start to feel annoying and superfluous Your mechanics are similar but you're making a pretty different kind of game

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 19h

I thought it was Fall Guys Baby. It even has a washable cover

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 19h

The more I work in games the more I think dice shouldn't be used in anything

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's a striking moment in time. really hard to even get ones head around it. virtually everyone in a decisionmaking role has decided to shrug their shoulders and unleash automated processes with unknown function on the world with the best case scenario being: ending all human endeavor

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Rosarie Maria🦐 @fatamorgana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People liking my old tweets

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

teenage mutant ninja turtles: fall of the foot clan, manual, excerpt, game boy (1990) archive.org/details/Nint...

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pizza that will deliver you from evil

(image of pizza box)
the first ever edible pizza box
value 10 points

(image of a slice of pizza)
slice of the pie
value 50 points

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the extra large "za"
with double cheese
value 100 points

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

several of you have been asking for an update on "we count numbers consecutively in an irc channel" and i'm pleased to announce someone made the effort to draw a graph

a time/count graph of the irc counting game, there are seven lines that trend upwards, surprisingly at a consistent rate

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/09/2026

There's like at least three big-dollar dotcoms that are structured like this, sometimes with literally one person holding the super-stock, and everyone just continues treating them like normal companies and buying and selling the stock like any other. It's so weird. Stock is NFTs

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 21h

My brother in Christ you set the stats for the bosses

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 21h

"the US would never facilitate a coup in Brazil" is the kind of statement that needs multiple qualifications

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 29/09/2026

You can load up stuff like FF7 screens and see how the scene is assembled, which is cool as hell

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Green Dog #3 🔜 BLFC @mintyfresh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

absolute lunacy to hear, "creator of sonic.exe faked a coma to get out of paying $20 to the person that created the clapping of snakes asscheeks meme"

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DisgustingFilm @disgustingfilm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The sole writing credit for A24's V/H/S: SCP is listed as "no copyright infringement intended all credit goes to the rightful owners ^_^ dm me for credit" (Source: tinyurl.com/5fed8wtx)

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Tuba Zef 🐟fishpersonshooter.com🐟 @tubazef.com · 25/04/2026

Really like this guy that has a gambling business but hates gambling and keep telling you about how bad it is

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Ronnie @ronniewhomp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

comic page + secret wordz: www.whompcomic.com/comic/choo-c... beginning of arc: www.whompcomic.com/comic/voyajerk Just a single panel comic today, but a full comic Wednesday!

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A somewhat maximalist, very collage-heavy experiment piece this month, using a lot of my photography and some old Slovenian art

Digital collage and painting on vertical canvas
Theme: Fantasy / Dark fantasy / Experimental
Character: My OC Lubi (he/him, transmasc) and a skeleton
#Artsky #QueerArt #TransArt #DarkFantasy #SwordAndSorcery

This piece is almost entirely composed of photographs I took. It features a central long corridor that disappears into the darkness, every side of it a different texture. The left and right walls are photos of old walls, the ceiling is wood, and the floor is an enlarged photo of a gingerbread cookie I bought in a Polish shop in Ljubljana once, overlaid with an assortment of Turkish delight from Lidl. I've had these two photos for like 3 years and I'm so happy to finally put them to use lmao

In the front, slightly left stands a knight, who was traced with a lasso tool over a relief sculpture from Celje. He's wearing a dark armour with very colourful accents on skirt and flag, and his head is a fire. On his knee guards, one can spot a unicorn and a stag beetle in trans flag colours.

In the upper right corner, a dragon's head is sticking out of a wall, the fire it breathes joining in with the knight's fire hair. For this head I used a photo from an ornament on one of the 'healing springs' near my hometown. It's coloured in somewhat garish colours that reoccur across the picture, magenta, aqua, green and blue, and notably three of its fangs depict the white, pink and blue or the trans flag.

Lastly, underneath the head stands a skeleton, cut from the famous Danse Macabre fresco from the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje. The skeleton is orange with green shadows, and splashes of magenta on some parts of its body.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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

"life span" here is complicated since it depends on the ability and willingness to completely rebuild an old platform on top of newer platforms

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