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JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

You guys I made a lil game! If you liked mystery investigation type puzzle games like Roottrees are Dead, Golden Idol, or Obra Dinn, you might enjoy it? It's free and works in your browser, its mostly reading text. Please let me know if you liked it! Click here to play: intelligencegame.tech

A screenshot from the game Intelligence, linked below.

December 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM

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Big Krampus Energy

@mayawest.online

"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common

"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you

December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

Your tech bubble checklist:
✅ tech bros hype something nobody needs
✅ wall street invests trillions into tech they don't understand
✅ stock market goes up wildly
✅ everyone says its a bubble, buys in anyway
✅ an over-valued tech company randomly buys Time Warner, again
[ ] tech stocks drop 78%

December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

my monthly verizon bill be like

A satirical summary of a Verizon Wireless monthly bill, describing the customer as a "peasant" and that their next "pillaging" by pillaging specialist Gronthar will regrettably include more spoils such as taken livestock and maidens carried off.

December 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM

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David Allsopp

@doublehelix.bsky.social

Sadly, I assume the best ones have already been eaten

Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 23d

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

November 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

nice lil walk at the overlook today

a green pasture overlooking white cloudcover below it. the sky is clear and bright.

November 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM

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Kaela Coyote

@kilocheetah.bsky.social

"Our synthesis of 71 studies revealed that greater engagement with [short-form video platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts] is associated with poorer cognitive and mental health in both youths and adults." psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

APA PsycNet

psycnet.apa.org

November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM

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Paco Panda

@pandapaco.bsky.social

A nostalgic piece that brings back to the times where there was this needing to get distracted at doodling the first thoughts around the notebooks, in order to pay attention to whatever the teacher was saying and to not fall in boredom.
Aliens, rock bands, roller coasters, monsters...

November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Davis Bickford

@davis.social

10/10 take. No notes.

divergentcoachkelly on Threads * 2h
ADHD is knowing exactly what you need to do then watching yourself not do it like you're a scientist observing a very dumb experiment

November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

oh damn i got tariff'd! I needed to buy some german car parts for my Chevrolet (don't ask), and unbeknownst to me the seller drop shipped them from Germany. So when they arrived the UPS guy bullied me for an extra $150 in tariffs! THANKS OBAMA

November 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM

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"Sweet Man" Cam

@malaiseforever.bsky.social

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

TIL you can get pure canadian maple syrup in like full-on apocalypse prepper cans

a food can which looks at first like it contains soup, but it says "540 ml Strop derable PUR" which is maple syrup

October 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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Technical appreciator

@whatahellofawaytodad.com

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

posh british voice: "It's Modernism Week, here on the Great British Baking Show! Our judges would like you to bake a delicious flatbread or pita, featuring at least two elements of brutalism or minimalism. Your bakes should evoke a sense of dread, hopelessness, or ennui. You have four hours."

a banner hanging from a lamp post on a street in a california town. The banner says "modernism week"

October 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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Punchy

@punchystream.bsky.social

A particularly insidious but common pitfall of community moderation is an understandable but wrong insistence on running things via strict adherence to a set of guidelines. This never actually works in practice because you end up with a bunch of bad faith actors constantly testing boundaries.

October 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM

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Kat Tenbarge

@kattenbarge.bsky.social

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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Foone

@foone.bsky.social

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

October 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

really impressive artwork in toronto's graffiti alley

colorful graffiti adorns an alley wall. it is well drawn

a building covered in colorful graffiti. the address says "530 rear".

grafiti art on the ceiling of a garage. a detailed, lifelike black and white image of a crow and a raccoon eating a meal.

October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

palm springs PD really leaning in on that authority figure cosplay appeal

A parked Ford Explorer police vehicle. It is labeled with the words "POLICE" and "PALM SPRINGS" in several places, but is also wrapped with rainbow flags and rainbow imagery.

October 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

when im old and gray ill always remember deadwood for teaching me to swear in iambic pentameter

September 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)

@theserfstv.bsky.social

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

@MorePerfectUS
U.S. billionaires reached a record breaking $7.6 trillion in wealth as of September 2025, an increase of $4.7 trillion in the less than eight years.

Most of that wealth hasn’t been taxed and won’t be taxed under our current system — per
@4TaxFairness
.

September 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM

JJ Wolverine

@jjwolverine.bsky.social

A recent conversation has persuaded me to propose the following improved abbreviation system for days of the week, based on the unique appearance of letters in each day's prefix:
- Mon - M or O
- Wed - W
- Thurs - H
- Fri - F
- Sat - A
- Sunday and Tuesday: no unique letters, do not discuss these

September 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM