do not go gentle
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do not go gentle
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bsky, you've got a good heart but you're exhausting. I'm dm-able here but not synchronously.
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Look, I said what I said.
(going gentle into that good night) wait what
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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This is the number one issue I find with junior game designers (and unfortunately, non-designers who think anyone can design). So many people cannot tell the difference between "a game I like" and "a game that's designed well" and they get REAL mad if you point out there's a difference
begging people to learn to separate “i like it” with “it’s good.”

i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Don't cross the picket line!
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Shelley: FINALLY, someone understands my vision!
King: and what's your vision, mary?
Shelley: that frankenstein is super fuckable
King: the doctor or the monster?
Shelley: why not both?
del Toro: yeah, why not both?
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I love these kinds of cutaway drawings with a deep and recurrent passion.

not abiding, because I think about them maybe every few years -- but when I do think about them I care about them tremendously.
This fall I took on a project I’ve been meaning to do for a while – I have made a colouring book based on my playmap The Tower of the Forest Wizard! Grab yourself a print-at-home version here: sorcererscatalogue.itch.io/the-tower-of...
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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"I don't know" is one of the most powerful intellectual positions imaginable.

Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence.

Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.
My biggest GenAI-related intellectual fear is about the future of “I don’t know”
Giving medical advice, sometimes ChatGPT is right, and sometimes it is quite wrong, but it is hard to tell the difference:

"Rather, Wachter identified something more frightening: ChatGPT’s dangerous answers don’t sound risky to a non-doctor. The chatbot always sounds confident and authoritative."
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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a “Space Force”, if you will
we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Does anyone know which face Fetterman injured?
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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why are they "trad wives" and not "girls gone laura ingalls wilder"
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
it's not super often you have an experience that you know at the time will be once in a lifetime.

but I'm committed to my wordle start word and today I got it in one. so there you go.
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)
October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"[Children] dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."

Kahlil Gibran, as quoted by Kate McKinnon immediately after eating her final wing on Hot Ones 🤩 😍 🤤
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Sound ON
October 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I thought the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” was completely hilarious for about fifteen minutes... until I realized the main sticking point for many institutions was gonna be the five-year tuition freeze 🤦‍♀️
October 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!
Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog.

Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.
Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog
Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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14,292 games released on Steam in 2025 alone.
1100 new board games at SPIEL.

The sheer number of games being released now, all over the world by all these different sizes of teams, really boggles the mind, but what *really* boggles the mind is still having to *defend game studies* despite all that.
October 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM