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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 14h

Justin Trudeau is dating Katy Perry and we’re all just gonna have to deal with that

Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it's crazy but I'm deeply skeptical of the notion of "a European alternative" for a variety of reasons (the EU has been trying to set one up for 20 years, are we intending to include Turkey, who are strategically vital)

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

What fucking tampons has nige been using that aren't vegan???

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 1d

We're on the website for American liberals over 30. Let's post some good star forts

Left: Fort Bourtange, Netherlands.
Right: Palmanova, Italy
Photos from Wiki

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Odd words from a manor who was (rightly) trying to run a nuclear power's blockade not four months ago

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh I do like Jack/Miranda as a ship but cmaaahn let us romance her as FShep

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

She canonically is, just apparently not into FShep for... reasons???

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Inquisition did too but Veilguard has everyone be bi or pan

Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

I see you are joining Dov and I in the corner labelled Best Girl Shadowheart

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CaptDedEyes @captdedeyes.bsky.social · May 29

This Tumblr post gave me a huge confidence boost:

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Phwoar

A mango lassi and a chicken tikka masala naan melt

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

First session with the jacket went well, and one of our club leads lent me and another guy his steel feders, so my first steel spars are also done!

A selfie of me, a blonde bearded man with glasses

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Communist royalty shows up in one of them Terry Goodkind books, I think

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

I mean for the Poles it's true enough! Even for South Americans it's not *that* crazy. Just not for, uh, Haitians. Or Egyptians. Or other Corsicans.

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Noted figure of anticolonial resistance, Napoleon Bonaparte

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 2d

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelroy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 2d

Drake:

Hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it’s over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 2d

Habsburgs in shambles

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I always loved Uncharted. The setpieces plus the pulp tone are absolutely chef's kiss

Egg @patob.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I’ll say for the last of us part 2 is that it’s story has gotten so much justified criticism that I think people ignore how good some of the actual gameplay sequences are. Very few companies do good set pieces like naughty dog, and they should make a FUN game to show that off

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 2d

As time goes on I do get more and more resentful that we have to pretend these people have sincere concerns

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

one of the worst insults i've ever seen on twitter was an egirl threatening to have sex with a rival's father and "give him a child he'll actually love"

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 3d

If the Nobel Committee awards Trump the peace prize I shall never be buying their dynamite again.

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 3d

You can't just have your position visibly be "the electorate was wrong, actually" on everything, even if you think they were

(Altbough on specific things you can stick to your guns)

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 3d

Many such cases, unfortunately

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