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Micah

@rincewind.run

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts...

January 13, 2026 at 7:32 PM

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ceej

@ceej.online

January 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM

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fabridosreis

@fabridosreis.bsky.social

O povo tem que aprender com o Papa Leão XIV, realmente terra,teto e trabalho são direitos sagrados. O povo merece viver bem.

October 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

Tyler the Creator on whether youth culture still exists. I don't know if this is completely true, but it does seem more true today than in the past.

Excerpt reads: "Perhaps it’s this particular admixture of openness and mystique that accounts for the diversity and devotion of his fans. It’s rare for an artist 15 years into his career to be at the peak of his popularity, but here he is — and today, Tyler’s fans range from middle schoolers to baby boomers. That’s a testament to his appeal, though he has his own theory. “I don’t know if youth culture exists anymore,” he says. “I think a 42-year-old and a 15-year-old could have the same humor and style.” He thinks back on himself as a teen, caught up in “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” (2007), a song that many older hip-hop heads despised. (At the time, Ice-T said that the song “single-handedly killed hip-hop.”) “And now,” Tyler adds, “it’s like, people be on Twitter, 25 years’ age difference, talking about the same thing.”"

The excerpt is from a New York Times Style Magazine feature on Tyler the Creator, titled "Tyler, the Creator Always Does Things His Way"

October 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM

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rich traditions

@helldude.bsky.social

here's the compromise: for every military base you close overseas you can deport one (1) otherwise harmless abuela

September 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM

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Joshua Erlich

@joshuaerlich.bsky.social

incredible work. become uncarryable.

Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · Sep 5

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.

Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.

House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”

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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”

September 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM

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tom

@tomwalker.bsky.social

Just walkmogged some waitcucks at a traffic light’s pedestrian crossing. Enjoy the cold, dears - I’ll be over here, fifteen steps ahead of you and in touch with my city’s heartbeat

June 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”

@pixelatedboat.bsky.social

I’m taking over as the menswear guy. Men should rotate through the same four band t-shirts for 35 years. Replace the shirts with identical shirts if the holes in them get big or you get too fat for them

June 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM

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ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

sounds radical but it is truly crazy that we allowed a handful of private companies to de facto monopolize one of the most important human activities that exists. something has to be done bsky.app/profile/capn...

Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · Jun 4

It is my firm unironic belief that all dating apps need to be nationalized under an independent nonprofit public enterprise. The profit motive of the dating apps has warped our social sphere and driven men insane

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jun 4

if not the internet entirely then at least proprietary, black box algorithm-based social media, as well as dating apps

June 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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Gregk Foley

@gregk.co.uk

People can criticise Chapo, the Dirtbag Left or whatever else you want to call it (#whocare), but the fact is that Matt Christman had these people’s number a decade ago. They think and believe the exact same things as the far-right, but the right just got there quicker and put it more bluntly:

And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide.
And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide",
", and they're getting everyone else
ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.

March 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM

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prezoh

@prezoh.bsky.social

I fucking love being at home at my computer. it's the only place i ever want to be

May 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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rich traditions

@helldude.bsky.social

i want to still believe, really have to believe, that the great majority of people simply do not want to live like this

April 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM

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Tiani Pixel

@tianipixel.bsky.social

TUTORIAL DE LOW POLY + PIXEL ART!

Já que a Gamescom LATAM se recusou a pagar transporte e cachê para palestrantes, decidi não aceitar o "convite" deles e publicar o que iria apresentar lá de forma gratuíta pra todo mundo ver!

Bem + acessível e fácil de acompanhar!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Uh...

April 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM

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Patrick Cosmos

@veryimportant.lawyer

the "bolsonaro hospital" google images mood board remains unstoppable

more pictures than you could possibly imagine from a 4k image of google images results for "bolsonaro hospital" zoomed out to 80%. he's getting his hair blow dried in one of them lol

April 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM

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emily pathetic🪚🫀

@incision.site

i saw this on my TL and went "hell yeah" so hard before realizing it was about the soviet cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin

Yuri is a constant reminder to me that our revolutionary horizon expands much further than earth but also up into the stars

April 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

all left wing people should oppose superstition and irrational beliefs, which are necessary in order to maintain class, racial and societal heirarchies and oppress mankind.

Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · Apr 9

Speaking as someone who’s lived and moved in hippy-adjacent spaces for most of my life: the hard truth that you should not trust most new age people as far as you can throw them