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Emilius Duckberry

@emiliusdraws.bsky.social

#3157 A helpful tutorial

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.'
The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross.
The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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exfauna

@poisonjr.bsky.social

MODERATORS: Do you condemn Soyjaks. Did you like Cuphead. Do you think 67 or 61 is funnier. How will you address inflati-

MAMDANI: I'm very concerned about inflation, especially in regards to housing

MODERATORS: Shut the fuck up. Inflation fursuits. Did the Rizzler fall off

October 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM

epicdragonman "x"

@epicdragonmanx.bsky.social

this moment was so crazy to see in person as someone who knows barely anything about baseball. i was like why is everyone around me cheering like we just won? bro didn't hit the ball

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Sep 28

The Guardians clinch a playoff spot with a walkoff hit by pitch

September 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM

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Gaz

@nyazsche.bsky.social

September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”

@pixelatedboat.bsky.social

If Hideo Kojima can make Death Stranding all by himself there’s simply no excuse for other solo devs not to be making games on a similar scale

June 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM

epicdragonman "x"

@epicdragonmanx.bsky.social

fortune teller who kinda just guesses what each tarot card means based on what it does in isaac

May 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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Stupid Twink

@stupidtwink.bsky.social

happy weed day , chag sameach

April 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM

epicdragonman "x"

@epicdragonmanx.bsky.social

crashing the us economy was a terrible april fools day prank. im not sure what the punchline is and he didnt even do it on april 1st

April 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM

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Hard Drive

@hard-drive.net

Gavin Newsom Interviews Mecha Hitler in Latest Episode of His Podcast
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Gavin Newsom Interviews Mecha Hitler in Latest Episode of His Podcast

FAIR OAKS, Calif. — California governor Gavin Newsom hosted Mecha Hitler on the latest episode of his “This is Gavin Newsom” podcast. The California governor’s…

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March 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM

epicdragonman "x"

@epicdragonmanx.bsky.social

very funny article

Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · Mar 18

Kennedy Center Announces New All-White Production of Hamilton

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Kennedy Center Announces New All-White Production of Hamilton

WASHINGTON D.C. — Fans of musical theatre and historical hip-hop are rejoicing this week as the Kennedy Center announced that their upcoming production of Hamilton…

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March 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM

epicdragonman "x"

@epicdragonmanx.bsky.social

it's giving tim misny

March 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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'i will strangle a horse' on itch.io

@brainmage.bsky.social

*Hideo Kojima game set during the Somme*

Colonel: Tommy. This is Trench Footman. He'll be your guide when you need to patch yourself up.

TF: You're holding the Synergised Hypodermic Epinephrine Limbic Loadout, or SHELL. Press R1 to use SHELL to cure SHOCK.

Tommy: SHOCK?

January 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM

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Darby Saxbe

@darbysaxbe.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚢🐺

@biteyfriend.bsky.social

my sister taught me the toddler wave
and now i do it to everyone i like a lot :)
👋🐺✨‼️

February 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM

epicdragonman "x"

@epicdragonmanx.bsky.social

hey siri help how put genie back in bottle

February 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM

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little lamb

@puddleofbrain.bsky.social

Touch grass. Now touch stone. Now touch water. Now spill blood inside the glyph. Now light the brazier

January 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM

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Sabine 🕊️

@sabine.mxkallai.com

January 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

you are loved, we will win

January 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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CIG RAT

@hotsoggy.bsky.social

January 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM

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leon

@leyawn.bsky.social

where does the new york times even find these people

A screenshot of a New York Times update that says: In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”

January 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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Jacob Geller

@jacobgeller.com

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

HARD❌

Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.

EASY✅
House was old and fucked!

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Nov 17

THE BELL JAR

HARD ❌

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York

EASY ✅

That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs

An advert for a company called Magibook. The headline reads "Turn HARD books into EASY books with Magibook! Maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today."

Underneath is two covers of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Above the first cover is the original version of the opening sentence (captioned "Turn Hard Books"), which reads "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

Above the second cover (captioned "into Easy Books") is a simplified version, which reads "When I was young, my dad told me something that I still think about."

December 24, 2024 at 7:24 PM

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Julie K. Brown

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social

Why paying for a newspaper (or real journalism) is worth every penny. Florida is no longer the Sunshine State. To get a public record, you often have to hire a lawyer.