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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Oct 2

The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Photograph of the fucked up looking cake, now with a crown of burning candles

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the estate of ninaburies @ninaberries.bsky.social · 12h

here are a few of the unpublished photos with @radioactive22.bsky.social

pulp fiction books in mylar at shane black's house.

shane black with mandalit del barco showing us his books and quoting them and finding the exact quotes and art...

Shane Black showing us his Nancy Drew collection.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · Oct 26

When he's not in character Conner O'Malley looks like a divorced Middlebury literature professor from 1987. Just like a guy with a midcentury modern house and two hunting dogs who's spent sixteen years poring over Milton or w/e

Actor/comedian Conner O'Malley, a late thirties white guy with wavy brown hair and round glasses, wears a black t-shirt and blue jeans in a TV appearance on Seth Meyers' show

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 9h

I think bar associations really have a role to play in this revolting state of affairs. The arguments are in such blatant bad faith, the people making them should be shunned by their peers.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 10h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 11h

Learning about anything in American History is like, The Thing You Were Told As A Kid Didn't Happen; They Did it For A Completely Different, Awful Reason; A Lot Of People Died Horribly; It Was All On Purpose

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 11h

Kills me when people talk about like historians teaching kids to hate America and it's like I learned most of this as an adult, and, this place sucks!!!!

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 11h

Thomas Jefferson, yeeesh. The trans-continental railroad, not great. Mount Rushmore, yikes. Zip codes... okay that one is okay

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 11h

the hallway where my kids line up before getting on the bus has a big box with a ton of free books in it - no idea where they come from, but my kids come home with like two books a day. And the youngest brought home an ABC book about America and literally everything in there was a Yeeesh

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 11h

The way the AI thing has really coalesced around the "educational" idea of making facsimile versions of historical figures to talk to really feels like... these people are so fucking mad that there are people who were greater than Computer and the first thing they want to do is Make Them Computer

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 13h

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 12h

I spent some time in Margate this summer, so I had to address the elephant in the room... 🐘

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 12h

cant wait to see the new tron movie and see what all of my favorite tron characters are up to. catch up on all of the trons. fucking. the entire tron family

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 13h

they could just release soundtracks and not get around to making the movies. go SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE mode

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 15h

"hope you enjoy this irritating golden robot, he is like the vast majority of the first half of this movie"

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 15h

it's incredible to watch A NEW HOPE and be like, wow, the events of this entire movie would be like one half of a sci Fi movie today. There would be an entire other STAR WARS of shit going on

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 15h

*putting on STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE for my kids* hope you all are ready to get bored

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 17h

I legitimately think people in my town get out of bed, get into giant trucks and drive directly to chik fil a to wait in the line

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 21h

And also this was just mind-blowing (about the difference between science fiction which ultimately treats the universe like a machine we can learn to master and how magic works in fiction)

scientific worldview, so I would argue that it's a science fiction story even if it is not consistent with the body of facts we currently have.

By contrast, magic implies a different understanding of how the universe works.
Magic is hard to define. A lot of people would say magic definitionally cannot have rules, and that's one popular way of looking at it. But I have a different take—I would say that magic is evidence that the universe knows you're a person. It's not that magic cannot have rules; it's that the rules are more like the patterns of human psychology or of interactions between people. Magic means that the universe is behaving not as a giant machine but as something that is aware of you as a person who is different from other people, and that people are different from things. At some level, the universe responds to your intentions in a way that the laws of physics as we understand them don't.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 21h

I moonlighted with our tech review team to talk about what wearables are missing for the Very Outdoors www.theverge.com/tech/798613/...

Is the Coros Nomad really an adventure watch?

I took it on the Tahoe Rim Trail to find out.

www.theverge.com

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 22h

your honor if it pleases the court I would like to live menos

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

ME: *last night* I'm really enjoying these harpsichord pieces by John Bull. I should look into his life. I'll bet he wasn't a spy for Queen Elizabeth who had to flee England after the Archbishop of Canterbury declared him "the horniest man alive."

WIKIPEDIA:

In 1586 he received his degree from Oxford, and he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal that same year. In 1591, following the death of John Blitheman, he became organist at the Chapel Royal; in 1592 he received his doctorate from Oxford, and in 1596 he became the first professor of music at Gresham College on the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth, who admired him. There is some evidence that she sent Bull on espionage missions: his eighteen-month trip to the continent in 1601–02, ostensibly for health reasons, has never been satisfactorily explained, and his whereabouts there, apart from a visit to Brussels, then in the Spanish Netherlands, remain a mystery.[4][5] On the death of Elizabeth, he entered into the service of King James, establishing a reputation as a skilled composer, keyboard performer and improviser.

Just after publishing seven keyboard pieces in Parthenia, Bull left England for good, secretly and with great haste in October 1613. His salary at the Chapel Royal was paid in lieu to Edmund Hooper.[7] Bull was fleeing the wrath of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, and King James himself; the charge this time was adultery. William Trumbull, the English envoy in the Low Countries, after first attempting to cover for him – but later fearing for his own position if he continued to do so – wrote to the King in early 1614:

Bull did not leave your Majesties service for any wrong done unto him, or for matter of religion, under which fained pretext he now sought to wrong the reputation of your Majesties justice, but did in that dishonest matter steal out of England through the guilt of a corrupt conscience, to escape the punishment, which notoriously he had deserved, and was designed to have been inflicted on him by the hand of justice, for his incontinence, fornication, adultery, and other grievious crimes.

The Archbishop of Canterbury had said of him the previous year: "the man hath more music than honesty and is as famous for marring of virginity as he is for fingering of organs and virginals."

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know there's a Clark Ashton Smith conference happening in January? Learn more about the event, and the group behind it, here: www.thesmithcircle.net

A photo of Clark Ashton Smith sitting in an armchair. The text along the top reads: CLARK ASHTON SMITH CONVFERENCE. A celebration of local weird fiction author, artist, and sculptor. Sat Jan 10th 2026. Auburn Carnegie Library. 175 Almond Street Auburn California

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

cool.

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Aria Winningson @aria.labeledrude.online · 1d

getting reticulated must feel so good if you're a spline

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

UNIVERSE X WIFE WHO IS BEING SUSPICIOUSLY AFFECTIONATE: *sloshing 2% into a soup bowl in front of me* ahah you KNOW that's not how we make cornflakes, honey!!!

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

transported into a parallel universe identical to our own except the milk-before-cereal people won. i kill my duplicate from this universe and take his place

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