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azalben.bsky.social
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:

- Right-click
- Unpin

Gone!
screenshot of the Gemini button in Google Chrome, below it is a prompt saying "unpin" if you right click
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
Always excited for new Sparks.

This one is an arrow into the nostalgia center for me.

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Chase the Dawn by Sparks the Rescue on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:40
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November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I'd like to share this old video of hers, where she talks about her time working on the 3DO port of Doom.
it's a wild story that stuck with me, and a reminder that sometimes "bad games" have amazing people working on them
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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matpiscatella.bsky.social
"I want more story based, linear, single player games with high production value and great voice acting"

Ok. Here's one. And it's fantastic.
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 6d
Mafia: The Old Country (PS5/XSX) is $29.99 at Best Buy buff.ly/X7Uded7 #ad
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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unfamiliararts.bsky.social
Some starry wolf sculptures! These will both be in my shop update this Friday, November 21st!
A photo of two ceramic wolves. One is smaller than the other. Both are blue with stars and moons painted on them.
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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bighippoart.bsky.social
Winter is near 🦊 #sciart
An illustration featuring a lonesome fox in a large forest in winter scenery.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Book is good. Exciting, fast paced tour of Smith’s life mostly focused before the breakout success of her first album and how that time of her life intertwined with Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Just Kids
In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal da...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
Just finished Gulliver’s Travels and… We had dudes making fun of Generative texts in the 1700s. Centuries of ridiculing these grifts.
A diagram with a grid of a made up language from Gulliver’s travels. The text is as follows: They were all linked together by slender wires. These bits of wood were covered, on every square, with paper pasted on them; and on these papers were written all the words of their language, in their several moods, tenses, and declensions; but without any order. The professor then desired me “to observe; for he was going to set his engine at work.” The pupils, at his command, took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame; and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes. This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down. The frame Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labour; and the professor showed me several volumes in large folio, already collected, of broken sentences, which he intended to piece together, and out of those rich materials, to give the world a complete body of all arts and sciences; which, however, might be still improved, and much expedited, if the public would raise a fund for making and employing five hundred such frames in Lagado, and oblige the managers to contribute in common their several collections.
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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shecky.bsky.social
Saruman telling Gandalf, "Your love of the halfling's leaf has clearly slowed your mind." Response post: "never forget when saruman literally told gandalf 'you've been smoking too much weed bro'" Counter-response: "You're smoking too much weed," says the guy who got addicted to manosphere podcasts on his orb and started a fascist militia with a side hobby of deliberate environmental destruction. Started cutting down trees to own the woke elves.
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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rasputinbladgett.bsky.social
I push the "add 30 seconds" button three times
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
MwM is a one of the first channels that I subscribed to. At a time when videos about film were predominantly scathing and cynical, Mikey made funny, well crafted, punchy essays that found joy to celebrate.

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November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
Well that was a very good book.

Fun, grounded magic, based in heaps of history.

I read this after really enjoying Kuang’s novel Yellowface. But the pitch that would have made me grab it instantly is: In this book Etymology creates magic.

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Babel
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial r...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
This is a very good song. One of those songs of catharsis you gotta be careful not to wallow in.

A sad nostalgia that feels painful even if you don’t have a similar story.

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Stick Season by Noah Kahan on Apple Music
Song · 2022 · Duration 3:02
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November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
Feeling pretty good about having just finished my reread of these.

Very excited to have a reason to tackle The Simarillion.

Very excited for this next year of Shelved by Genre.
rangedtouch.bsky.social Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 14d
Let's make it official:

SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.

If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:

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Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
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November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
Finally got around to reading Kate Beaton’s Ducks.

Unsurprisingly, it is great!
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
I wonder how common it is to have unknown music in your head with no real way to find recordings.

Pre internet it would just be “ Welp that’s gone forever”. we have access to so much; never finding lost songs is infuriating.
Glad sparks put this out : sparkstherescue.bandcamp.com/album/the-se...
The Secrets We've Kept, by Sparks The Rescue
23 track album
sparkstherescue.bandcamp.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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lukeisamazing.bsky.social
Cheney dead
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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barrettcourtney.bsky.social
rest in piss
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18d
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died, his family said in a statement. He was 84 abcnews.go.com/Politics/for...
A photo of Dick Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
Random thought: The Cohens Brothers should adapt Riders of the Purple Sage.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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othemts.bsky.social
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
djinnandtonic.bsky.social Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 20d
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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normwilner.bsky.social
I think we're all afraid it'll go 18 innings again and the time change will send us into an alternate dimension where Poilievre is PM or something
November 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
baaaaakes.bsky.social
Cadwell Turnbull can do the damn thing.

“Even folks who claimed not to believe in God knew not to tempt the Devil”.

Enjoying this one.

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No Gods, No Monsters
Named a BEST BOOK OF 2021 by the New York Times, NPR, the New York Public Library, Audible, Tor.com, Book Riot, Library Journal, and Kirkus!Longlisted for the 2022 PEN Open Book AwardRiveting...[A] te...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM