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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Feb 23

Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 16h

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Lauren Schiller @leschiller.bsky.social · 19h

We're thinking of printing this out to put up in the kitchen next to the sink. Or maybe getting a needlepoint.

Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 14 they don't tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan.
Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 15 WASHING THE FUCKING PAN AGAIN!!!!
replies: 30 reblogs: 30,246 likes: 41,477

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Nyx The Bat @nyxthebat.vtubers.social · 1d

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack
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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Sam @korvys.info · 1d

If you were confessing, where would you confess you got it from?

(there's a perfume my partner loved, but it has been discontinued for years)

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Sam @korvys.info · 1d

If we could figure out a way for Dodgers to lose and Shohei still win, that would be nice.

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Sam @korvys.info · 1d

I'm being really careful about when I refresh my timeline

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

*reading a post that’s just a man’s name with no other context* ah this must be about baseball

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Sam @korvys.info · 1d

Bring back the WCW Triple Cage

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 2d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · Sep 4

my samsara themed escape room continues to kick everyone's ass

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Sam @korvys.info · 1d

Isn't that just 17776?

... I should go reread that.

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Sam @korvys.info · 2d

Fine white sand, like in the Caribbean, is fish poop, from the dumbest looking fish (parrotfish). In case you need more scatological fish facts to impress dates. This one even has the benefit of being true

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 2d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 3d

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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Sam @korvys.info · 2d

Circumcisions causing autism sounds like a @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social bit.

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 2d

wait its not just that circumcised kids get autism, its that circumcised kids get autism because they have to take paracetamol. for the circumcision. man this rocks this would be so funny if it wasnt ruining the entire world and everyone's future on earth