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It's Fantastic! - Arcade scans and translations @itsfantasticac.bsky.social · Sep 21

Puyo Puyo comic by Rei Mikamoto, from the Puyo Puyo Sun Official Guidebook.

Puyo Puyo Sun Official Guidebook (Apr. 27, '97), pg. 24

December 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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shezcrafti @shezcrafti.com · 4d

The Max Headroom Christmas Special must be seen to be believed.

My favorite part is in the beginning where each of the guest stars’ names look like they’re flying out of the turkey’s asshole.

Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey 1986

YouTube video by TV Time Machine

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December 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM

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Smooth Dunk

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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy looking way way too happy yells “Hey Guys! Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?”
Blue Guy next to him calmly says “Shhh”

Panel 2:
Blue Guy tenderly puts his arms around Red Guy and says “You don’t have to do this”

Panel 3:
Blue Guy still holds Red Guy tightly and repeats “You don’t have to do this every year”. Red Guy begins to break.

Panel 4:
Red Guy dissolves into Blue Guy’s embrace, sobbing. He finally feels the weight of Christmas Discourse lifting from his shoulders. He is finally free.

December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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Quest 64 Official

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It's one of the old guys from The Simpsons (don't come at me it's not a regular rotation show for me lol) staying into a telephone "I need the most 90s thing you have"

Then there's just a picture of Brian

Then the old gentleman says "okay that's pretty rad"

December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Chompsgiving!

November 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM

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Carter Amelia Davis

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The Forum Boy

October 28, 2024 at 10:03 PM

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Technology Connections

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I made a video about my favorite adapter.

youtu.be/8I4Jc-WLsrs

Wanna play a cassette in an 8-track player? This adapter made it possible

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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Charlene Boyce

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My book HOPE FALLS FROM THE SKY is now live on the big online store!

www.amazon.ca/Hope-Falls-C...

Hope Falls from the Sky

Hope Falls from the Sky: Boyce, Charlene M.: 9781069428608: Books - Amazon.ca

www.amazon.ca

September 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM

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Joan Baxter

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U.S. billionaire financier of Cabot Links golf resort in Cape Breton is Trumpian climate denier, Mike Keiser. Now the Cabot Group wants to take West Mabou Beach provincial park for a 3rd luxury golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia. Keiser originally got his hands on the Cabot Links land for $1. 🧵

November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial)

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lol

November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM

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GreatSG @ Magfest 2026

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It's Halloween! Shout out to Akane's iconic pumpkin jacket.

Akane Tendo wearing a cute jacket with a jack-o-lantern theme print on it.

October 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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Great pickup!

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Oct 20

SEGA AGES Phantasy Star is $2.39 on US eShop buff.ly/OvNei6p

October 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Oct 12

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

October 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM

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Matt Novak

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Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S.

Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News

The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.

www.cbc.ca

October 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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Jason Kirk

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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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videogame history

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computer gaming world, magazine, cover (1983) archive.org/details/Comp...

a robed blacksmith wearing horned head gear (horns pointing forward) is beating a gold floppy disk on an anvil.

September 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM

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Drop Site

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Cassel: “You might go fight in Gaza.”

Israeli Teen: “I’d love to…

"Yeah. People think that the children and the men and the women in Gaza, they’re innocent. Bullshit. Everyone has taken part in October 7...No innocence. Even women and children are not innocent...The mothers support terrorists...