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Noah Mittman
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Realizing I'm spread too thin across socials. I mostly only repost here. Find me actually posting at @[email protected]
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esqueer.net
What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Pride Flag Is Taken Down From Stonewall Monument
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
spending a decade on a game, and putting stuff like this on record, to then lay off 80 people THREE WEEKS AFTER RELEASE is out of control
February 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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auntietiffa.bsky.social
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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rae.wtf
i wonder if the whole "adobe animate getting discontinued" debacle was just because they couldn't figure out how to cram AI into it. like, flash users already get to experience daily the heartache and frustration of the computer sucking ass at its single purported job, and it's called 'shape tweens'
February 4, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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pixequil.com
maintenance mode
Panel 1: Exec: "Ok guys ok ok we won't kill Adobe Animate." Crowd: "Phew" "thank fuck" "That's better" "I'm still switching to something else." "No yeah you really should" Panel 2: Exec: "Unfortunately we will also stop adding new features to it." Crowd: "WOO!!!" "It's a dream come true!" "Yeah!" "Finally!" Exec: "... um. Why are they cheering"
February 4, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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rae.wtf
got a junk email telling me that my... completely non-descriptive cloud storage subscription was at risk of being locked. maybe i'll just go down and talk with them directly to get this sorted out, data center sounds like such a nice town
snippet from the bottom of a junk email. "© 2023 Cloud Storage. All rights reserved. 123 Cloud Drive, Data Center, CA 94107"
February 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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matthighton.bsky.social
That time I recreated the Pokémon intro using only stock footage.
February 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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amybrown.xyz
Green Day: “don’t wanna be an American Idiot”

Page Six:
Garfield looks at a photo of himself with a big red circle & line through it and says “huh. I wonder who that’s for”
February 8, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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oldenoughtosay.com
masking is not an extreme measure; it’s like, level zero of measures. it’s the easiest possible option
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 1d
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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necrosoftgames.com
No ICE in Minnesota bundle is live! Get Gunhouse, Hyper Gunsport, and 1,400 other things for $10 or more.
itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
February 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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vaporlight.bsky.social
blasting jock jams as i turkish ice cream man this little brat himejoshi-style
February 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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milleryoho.bsky.social
What a moment.
Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
every few months for the last two years I have tried to cancel peacock but have somehow failed thankfully it’s coming in handy now
February 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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coreyatad.com
doing commercials used to be a shameful thing that you had to go to Japan to do
joshposting.bsky.social josh @joshposting.bsky.social · 2d
matthew mcconaughey, bradley cooper, and parker posey should be in movies, not doing uber eats commercials. pathetic
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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ruhee.ca
No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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bgamer90.bsky.social
📺 I’ll always love this story/event. One of many examples of Black creators having a HUGE impact on pop culture.

This episode took MILLIONS of viewers away from CBS during Super Bowl XXVI’s halftime to the point in which it forced the NFL to make big changes for Super Bowl halftime entertainment. 🏈
therobmilton.com Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 2d
- there would be no #SuperBowlHalfTimeShow without #InLivingColor. January 26, 1992. never forget.
February 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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tommchenry.bsky.social
in danger and invulnerable

www.noncanon.com/comics/2025-...
PANEL 1: An alligator resting its hand on a wheatpaste poster. ALLIGATOR: "I love that some albums still get posters plastered up around the city." PANEL 2: The alligator reading a tabloid newspaper. ALLIGATOR: "I love to still encounter a print alt-weekly, a record store, a parks department softball game, a bar whose sign is just a plastic Old Style logo, a specialty store, a phone book, a storefront theater, a repair shop." PANEL 3: The alligator crawling along on the sidewalk. ALLIGATOR: "All the signs that, as Frank O'Hara once said, "People do not totally _regret_ life." PANEL 4: The alligator eating a slice of cherry pie in a diner. ALLIGATOR: "Blessed be the website that still maintains an RSS feed. Blessed be the cassette label, the zine, the house show, the 24-hour Greek diner that still keeps dragging itself into a future across merciless concrete." PANEL 5: The alligator now drinking coffee after finishing the pie. ALLIGATOR: "I got too sincere there, wrote half a dozen final panels and am now giving up. Such is the lovely inefficiency of life."
February 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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retrohistories.bsky.social
Via @ftb1979.bsky.social and @katewillaert.bsky.social, digitised from a VHS tape of an August 2000 Daria marathon and uploaded to YouTube over Christmas... here, after 25 years, is Ulala's VMA appearance:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HwW...
(August, 2000) Space Channel 5 MTV Awards Dance Video of The Year Nominees Commercial
YouTube video by VHS Archival
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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helenshang.bsky.social
I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
February 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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stephentotilo.bsky.social
Usually, video game trailers that show gameplay show successful gameplay, because presumably that's what sells

But, I guess to tamp down on depictions of gory violence, the Resident Evil Requiem footage in today's Nintendo Direct showed some missed attacks.

Frankly, it made it feel more authentic
February 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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aftermath.site
Your subscriber dollars at work: Aftermath has a new regular contributor and monthly columnist. Welcome @adashtra.bsky.social and @jmrivera.bsky.social to our regular rotation of writers!

aftermath.site/podcasts/after...
February 6, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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mrbowers.bsky.social
This reminds me a little of Mel Brooks dealing with studio notes.
From the below article: You’ve got to deceive the company. Pursuing creative work while in a company is impossible if you’re someone who does whatever the company tells them. Even if it means that you have to pretend to obey, keep doing what you like. Use your company. And if something goes wrong, the one who hired you is to blame anyways lol. From the New Yorker (2021): You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at thestudios. I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on“The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” Hewanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” Inever did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head ofWarner Bros. threw me into the manager’s offi ce, gave me a legal pad and a pencil,and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” froma daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “Nofarting.” I said, “It’s out.” That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene . I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I keptsaying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all hisnotes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running[production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end ofit. You say yes, and you never do it. Source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/mel-brooks-writes-it-all-down
February 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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edzitron.com
Excited for people to read this one now I've tweaked it.
Microsoft’s AI strategy is one of the most deranged, confused product strategies in history, shoving OpenAI’s chatbots into every crevice imaginable for a most-unclear gain, burning hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars training models that nobody likes and custom silicon for inference for services that nobody uses. They hire random managerial types from other companies in the hopes that a guy who failed in his last role will succeed at Microsoft, they create new AI teams in the hopes that having a new team will fix a problem it is unable to truly describe. In reality, Microsoft’s leadership likely realizes that AI is a dead end, but the only thing Microsoft knows how to do is spend, fire and hire. It is terrible at innovation, so it will hire people and let them spend money on what it believes will work, even if it isn’t sure why. Once that fails, it will repeat the cycle again and again with more money. This has always worked, other than the times that it hasn’t. Turning this cadillac-sized company around is going to be a nightmare Its largest customer is OpenAI, which lost at least $9 billion in 2025 and will run out of money in the next two years whether it raises a $100 billion round or not, and no, I don’t mean the $100 billion NVIDIA deal I said was bullshit months ago, I mean the new $100 billion round that NVIDIA might invest $20 billion in. Microsoft has spent north of $200 billion building one of the most embarrassingly-weak business lines I’ve seen in history. Satya Nadella stinks at his job and should be ashamed for the dishonour he’s brought upon Redmond, especially for making bumbling failmasters like Mustafa Suleyman and Jay Parikh rich multiple times over. Nadella deserves every moment of humiliation that’s to come for what he’s put his employees through. From the people I’ve talked to, everything at Microsoft runs through a crazed, histrionic obsession with AI, pushed entirely from the SLT (Senior Leadership Team), with the only way…
February 6, 2026 at 5:46 AM