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@zota.bsky.social
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Technology therapist, gonzo designer, grey-hat historian. Los Angeles.

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zota @zota.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
McSquito
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Shout out to the 13% who have been so wrecked by 2026 that they're just staring into the middle distance with Mad World playing in their heads.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pirate crews, charted
Chart of connections between pirate crews. From Rediker's early article, "Under the Banner of King Death" tho reproduced in Villains of All Nations.
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Bobby Amour @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Twitter poll I posted on September 29, 2021 asking "We will see significant cultic activity around GANs / GPT-3 or similar AI..." with various time options. The winning response was "Within 5 years".
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
I know it may seem cruel, but it is time: the normies have to be told about Aella, before it’s too late for democracy. I wish I was making a joke.
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The only way political journalism can fund itself is by hiring pro-wrestling commentators to explain the lore behind a dying lunatic's fever dreams in a way that pisses off everybody.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/09/2026
This is still the best OSINT work I think I've ever done: the time I determined Osama bin Laden quite plausibly could have been eating Pizza Hut while watching hentai in his hideout in Pakistan.
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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two hundred years ago today, William Morgan was detained at this location, the former site of Danold’s Tavern in Batavia, NY, on a trumped-up theft charge. Freemasons were in the process of kidnapping Morgan as punishment for threatening to publish Masonic secrets. This scheme horribly backfired.
Batavia, NYWilliam Morgans Illustrations of Masonry
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
who up inseminating they churros
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
But, because the attention to detail in the model train world is so high, the effects of the writer/yard worker relationship trickle down to the small scale, and even the train hobbyists reflect the rules on their own models.
Two white model trains on top of each other with 2 graffiti pieces on each train.A closeup of the bottom left of the bottom train showing the identification numbers being avoided in the tiny scale graffiti.A model train with graffiti of Homer Simpson sleeping across the entire car.A closeup of the Homer piece where the identification is unobstructed, showing TTGX 694347.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I should’ve stuck with butthole, as rectum evidently isn’t physiologicallly correct. But, as someone else reminds me: Rectum? Hell, killed ‘em dead.
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If there’s an issue that’s loudly supported by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Will Stancil, and opposed by 80% of all voters, regardless of party, the choice is clear. Kill Glonzo
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The services that leaked scans of most American driver's licenses to criminal gangs who are now selling them all online? Those are the same services doing "age verification" identity checks.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
just ran across this cartoon from the year of our lord two thousand and nine, and, welp.
a very wordy cartoon discussing server farms taking over entire states and also journalism being reduced to podcasters scrounging for spare change.
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Tlön stays winning
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 28/08/2026
Negativland’s infamous U2 parody sparked a landmark fight over fair use & artistic freedom. Hear the group whose work helped shape that conversation, live at the Internet Archive! 📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 IN-PERSON @ Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan...
Vintage-style event poster for a Negativland show, "Significantly Less Deceptive," described as "an Over the Edge style show, no visuals, with Q&A." A retro illustration shows a woman retrieving food from an open refrigerator, with a banner reading "San Francisco, September 16, 2026." Text below reads "Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, Doors at 6, Show at 6:30." A closed refrigerator with a face peeking around its base and the caption "David, where are my cigarettes?" appears at bottom right.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 28/08/2026
every time i see a monarch float by, i tighten my fist
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Forever proud that my first covid vax was The Dolly
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Like, a lot of us right now have a prior assumption that "AI is driving water shortages." And no, it absolutely tf is not. It's agriculture. It's always been agriculture. Most of us have spent our whole lives not seeing it. We need to stop that ag water blindness before it screws us all over.
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One of the useful skills I learned from "how to be a ninja" trade paperbacks from the 1980s — foot down lightly toe-first then slowly slide it to the side to sweep away caltrops, cats, etc before putting weight on it
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The fecal finger of fate
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
View of an end-cap display at Target, with a sign above it saying “Must have!” The shelves are empty.
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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 08/08/2026
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 08/08/2026
would love to see where the line for "nacent" is drawn. i know im never going to meet their standards for robot christian purity and that redemption is unavailable, i just want to know when i was damned. was it the ebooks style markov bot i made from my own tweets bsky.app/profile/lily...
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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I ordered "No Stick Pans" off of Amazon, but they sent me "Gnostic Pans" that just tell me the food I'm trying to make is a false reality constructed by the hated Demiurge.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Roman carnelian intaglio showing two grasshoppers fighting as gladiators, c.1st century BC.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
nothing worse than an unfuckable moon
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I know a few solidly liberal democrats who voted for this fascist DA in Los Angeles because "safety"
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
wait. does dick fart mean wide road in german
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mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#fungifriday #fungifriends #mycology #slimemold #mushroom #thelittlethings #naturephotography 📸: ©Barry Webb, “Pink Stemonitis” @jabb.bsky.social
Incredible capture of pink Stemonitis growing and thriving on a bed of spagnum moss. The background is more blurred stemonitis.
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 31/07/2026
Never trust a man who accidentally blows himself up in his workshop with a coffee can of explosives to summon a goddess in Pasadena.
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cee @cee.wtf · 30/07/2026
this sounds and looks insane but i actually really really like "just stab it" as a killswitch
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Maria Martins, The Road; The Shadow; Too Long, Too Narrow, 1946 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Brazil Fund
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
By the first sunset, we will have Chester Cheetah, Charles Cheese, and the so-called Colonel in chains. Their public execution will dissuade several of the others from challenging the new order. Terrorist resistance will be expected from the Noid and Kool-Aid Man, but it will be short-lived.
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
one of the things from Neuromancer that seemed especially ludicrous but now seems increasingly likely: Chinese black market AI-powered hacking software will have graphics that look like a cool shark.
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JWMC (Artist) @jwmcartist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I think there's a secret reason people are latching on to our compact king, Jimothy. All the usual cute meme animal reasons are there; small, soft, unique, etc. But, I also think it's because we know Jimothy is doomed.
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Victorious Bleue @victoriousbleue.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US
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Tam||maT @tamvmat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hyperfocus of the week I guess! I sat and figured out a skeleton. I opted to give it more endoskeleton vs exoskeleton, since a goat sized creature likely would struggle without the support (?) It also doesn't have actual eye sockets because bug eyes sit on the flesh/carapace. #sciart #creatures
A skeleton of a weird goat cicada hybrid
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Thembo @thembo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Vegetables are poison soda is medicine, gamers stay winning
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Woman's nausea turned out to be huge 'Ozempic stomach mass' - Diet Coke CURED it
FOR countless fat jab users, stomach pain, waves of nausea and having a reduced appetite have become part and parcel of the weight-loss journey. Research shows that around a third of patients who t…
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zota @zota.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Since they've all badly misread Snowcrash, why haven't any of our deranged oligarchs tried to create a pirate utopia on a repurposed cargo ship? Yacht smacht. Spend that 100 mil on a boat the size of a suburb and build yourself a damn castle on it.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
*This interesting process of "un-wonderment" doesn't get enough attention from science fiction critics *"The sense of wonder has a short shelf-life," yes it does, but what are the actual processes of that decay *How to effectively write about that
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
upside down seal lookin real weird
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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Scrapers are destroying the open internet
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An update on the scraper situation
Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ralph McQuarrie’s 1986 cover for Eric Frank Russell’s ‘Sinister Barrier’
A screaming white-haired man is bent over, with a blue alien ball of energy over him, sinking its tendrils into him.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 08/07/2026
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