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abeardedpanda.bsky.social
Another one of those "stupid cyberpunk" things is how the people in economically disadvantaged countries who used to do things like sell World of Warcraft gold have moved on to ragebait farming on places like Twitter because of the revenue sharing makes it way more profitable
glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social Glonzo In Exile 🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 7d
To the commentariat young left wing women do not exist but young right wing men (who may or may not be Bangladeshi bot farms) must be endlessly catered to in order to save democracy or something.
January 22, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
honestly JFK is proof we don't live in a comic book universe because this would have absolutely given him strange powers
quoproquid.bsky.social QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 6d
someone in discord once asked me to try to summarize jfk's assorted medical problems from memory
ifk complained of digestive issues in boarding school after eating some bread so his family had some doctors give him adrenal supplements which fixed the digestive issues but now his body wouldn't produce adrenaline naturally and he was losing weight so they gave him steroids, which helped him gain weight but now his lumbar muscles were atrophying due to overexposure so they shot experimental hormones directly into his back which mitigated his back problems but now was developing premature osteoporosis and so they tried to improve bone density by shooting his body full of testosterone pellets which mitigated the bone density problems but shred his internal organs and caused massive, painful ulcers to form across the lining of his stomach and so they gave him antibiotics but, in the process of delivering the antibiotics, his family discovered that his spine was crumbling so the doctors gave his family the option to have an operation to remove one of his vertebra and replace it with a metal plate but the skin didn't heal around the plate properly and he developed a severe infection and so they gave him painkillers to address to address the botched surgery and then he became addicted to opioids and
January 23, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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sarageorgini.bsky.social
🦉 So much going on right now, here’s a fascinating few minutes about the snowy owl caretaker at Logan Airport #Boston, pls enjoy. ❄️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3xK...
The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport
YouTube video by Anna Miller Multimedia
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January 25, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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petefrasermusic.bsky.social
This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.
Jason Roth @LucidJay Replying to @Hipstercrite Once Andre 3000 was on my ferry ride to Alcatraz and I said hi. My 6 y.o. autistic son came over and started talking his ear off about German Shepherds, his obsession at the time. Andre talked to him about dogs for like 20 mins. We exchanged numbers. 4 years later I got this text iMessage Aug 30, 2017, 9:38 PM Hi Jason. I was searching for a name and yours popped up. I remember our cool encounter on the boat. Ha . How's the kid ? I'm living in nyc now . So if you're ever here please reach out.
January 26, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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wormwitch.bzky.team
bro is desiring, bro is craving the buddhism game
ad for an app and it says “I'm addicted to this Buddhism game. Think Duolingo, but for becoming a Buddhism expert. It's fun, fast, and literally built by game designers and teachers. I finally feel like I am finding some peace in my everyday life.”
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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lifeisterrible.bsky.social
2025 recapped
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
also this story contains the sentence "There is no suggestion that Veronika’s skills are evidence of the evolution of an ominous new species of super-cow," surely an early front-runner for sentence of the year
themountaingoats.bsky.social the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10d
people are makin cow tools jokes about this and why not, but as a longtime believer in the sentience of non-human animals and great lover of cows in particular, I hope people will check out the story in full

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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hesterblum.bsky.social
Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:
Generative A.I. This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of Al in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative Al works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writingwriting that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative-requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. We urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences. One further reason to abjure generative Al, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, Al is enormously environmentally destructive.
January 17, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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steveuntilnextyear.bsky.social
Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation
The front of a nail salon called "Nail Shop Near Me"
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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undisciplined.bsky.social
First learned the word from this poem, which I dig.
The text of the poem "New York poem" by Terrance Hayes.
December 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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nutshellgulag.bsky.social
From the 1966 Sunset Magazine “Sunset Cook Book of Breads”
A black and white photo from an old baking cookbook which shows how to shape the dough for a crown brioche. It looks suspiciously like a certain obscene meme picture (goatse) that Bluesky just banned.
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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aria.labeledrude.online
rip gainax, you ended in a weird convoluted way that pissed a lot of people off
sean.zimmerit.moe Sean | zimmerit.moe @sean.zimmerit.moe · Dec 11
Hideaki Anno just announced via the khara website that Gainax is officially dead and gone as a corporate entity as of December 10th: www.khara.co.jp/2025/12/11/2...
「株式会社ガイナックス」について
2025年12月10日の官報掲載にありますように、アニメーション制作スタジオだった「株式会社ガイナックス」の破産整理が終わり、法人として消滅し、その42年弱の歴史を終えました。　創設期から20年以上籍を置き、今日まで株主として関わっていたものとして誠に残念な最後ですが、静かに受け止めています。 　まず、2019年、当時の代表取締役社長巻智博氏の逮捕を受け、弊社と共にガイナックス社の再建、後に整...
www.khara.co.jp
December 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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inthesedeserts.bsky.social
I think about this tweet every day
how the fuck r u talking about pronouns in a romance language. you think shoes are girls dip shit
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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buddywaters.bsky.social
As far as new frontiers in fishing scams go, pretending the post office has loot boxes is actually pretty funny
December 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Eric Adams is an incredibly strange man
Chase Williams & @ChaseWilliams_• 1d New York City Mayor Eric Adams is on Capitol Hill today. X He tells me about Zohran Mamdani announcing he's moving into Gracie Mansion: "Beware of the ghost. I told [Zohran] about it. So the ghost is there. It's a friendly ghost, as long as you're doing right by the city. If you don't become right by the city, he turns into a poltergeist."
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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homeforinfinitelosers.online
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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blakestacey.myatproto.social
It's longer than my Daria fanfic, but shorter than my lecture notes on quantum and statistical physics.
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I am pleased. In vast quantities it has been remaindered Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized And sits in piles in a police warehouse, My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs. Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles One passes down reflecting on life's vanities, Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book -- For behold, here is that book Among these ranks and banks of duds, These ponderous and seeminly irreducible cairns Of complete stiffs. The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I rejoice. It has gone with bowed head like a defeated legion Beneath the yoke. What avail him now his awards and prizes, The praise expended upon his meticulous technique, His individual new voice? Knocked into the middle of next week His brainchild now consorts with the bad buys The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs, The Edsels of the world of moveable type, The bummers that no amount of hype could shift, The unbudgeable turkeys.
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
finally we have made Chucky from the beloved children's movie CHILD'S PLAY

futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
somebody should ask Grok who the top court eunuch of all time is, Elon Musk or Wei Zhongxian.
shoe.bsky.social Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · Nov 20
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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uncivil.work
me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
Roose: Would you ever put a prediction market inside Roblox — like, let kids bet with their Robux and say, “I bet he’s gonna steal a Tung Tung Tung Sahur?” Newton: Or, “I bet he’s not gonna Dress to Impress.” Baszucki: We would — I think we would have to do that — once again, I’ll share some of the complexity. Every single country in the world has different legislation around loot boxes and kid gambling. And so we would have to be — it sounds very fun and obvious. Like, I love that — Roose: Oh, to be clear, I think this is a horrible idea. Newton and Baszucki: (laughter) Roose: I was just interested if you were thinking about it. Baszucki: Well, I actually think it’s a brilliant idea if it can be done in an educational way that’s legal. And so, imagine no free Robux, no free prizes, just a game called the Dress to Impress Predictor, where it’s not like trying to get kids’ money or anything like that. I would be a big fan of it.
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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whitneytrettien.bsky.social
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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phillyinsomniac.bsky.social
"the racist coffee companies are fighting on twitter" Paul Verhoeven ain't got shit on 2025
cait.bsky.social cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Nov 5
the vibe on twitter is so bad the racist coffee companies are beefing over who is more woke
Stocking Mill Coffee • @smcroasters • 17h Black Rifle donated to Obama and Act Blue. ... Black Rifle blocked 1/2 of the veterans on this platform. Black Rifle threw Kyle Rittenhouse and his supporters under the bus. Our coffee is organic and air roasted. Not tub roasted old stale trash. They also do butt stuff when they get mad at each other. Go away with the pride stuff. Rumble Bunny @Rumblebunn99 • 23h Replying to @RonDeSantis Black Rifle does the same and is a Vet run business. There are several out there that do this.
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM