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guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hi, I'm Mark! Listen to the science fiction studies podcast I make with @silk-stone.itch.io, Starboard Vineyard Tours: abnormalmapping.com/starboard and check out our completed Moby Dick podcast: abnormalmapping.com/whale and the tabletop game he wrote and I edited: silk-stone.itch.io/detect-or-die

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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 5h

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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GKIDS Films @gkids.com · 9h

It's still there now. Still dreaming.

✨ ANGEL'S EGG 4K restoration ✨

Dolby Early Access Screenings November 12
In North American theatres November 19 & 20

Select tickets on sale now, additional locations coming soon.

🪶 brnw.ch/21wWApc

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jamiejamiejamie @slimegirl69.bsky.social · 15d

angel script

abstract lettering in red with some holy motifs

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guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 1h

Great haircut and great shirt

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 3h

Hey folks, money is PRETTY TIGHT this month and I'm waiting on a couple comics paychecks that are dragging their feet

Call it a birthday present, if you like, but anything is appreciated

ko-fi.com/blankzoe

Buy Zoe Tunnell a Coffee

Become a supporter of Zoe Tunnell today!

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Liv ⚧️ @ghostgirlmusic.bsky.social · 3h

112/150!! Meeting the rest of our goal would help pay for meds and food in the immediate future! Thank you to all the help so far, it’s extremely appreciated 🫶 #MutualAid

Liv ⚧️ @ghostgirlmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Hey all: Salem and I really need $150 for the next few days for food, gas, doctors appointments, and meds. Any help would be greatly appreciated! #MutualAid #MutualAidBoost #MutualAidRequest

$gothkidkin
pp: salemdanielle33@gmail.com
zelle: salemkentish33@gmail.com

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

Nice argument. However, I have already depicted myself as a smoking velocipede queen and you as a flopping fop.

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

an old drawing of a bad b smoking and hitting a male bicyclist with her bike. The caption “THE AWFUL EFFECTS OF VELOCIPEDING”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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👑 Empress of Mollyween 👑 @yerfriendmolly.bsky.social · 5h

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. Meeting time!

WE DISCUSS: Heat Toxic Yuri, Sully, NBN Deck, Pan’s Labyrinth, Suspiria, The Prestige, Baby Dodd, Old Fashioned Donut, The Worst Doctor, Waiting For Evil, Butt Stuff, Left In A Parking Lot, Baseball Teams, and more!

www.audioentropy.com/totallyrepri...

This Is A Totally Reprise Episode 19: I Ground A Man For You — Audio Entropy

Ed and Peggy. You guys need so much therapy. We talk about: Heat Toxic Yuri, Sully, Guild Wars, Movies For Grownups, NBN Deck, Pan’s Labyrinth, Suspiria, Nosferatu, Jesus Saves, Hades 2, The Prestige,...

www.audioentropy.com

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Scanline Media @scanlinemedia.com · 5h

NEW: Exclusive for Patreon supporters, Sunday Henshin Time produces its first special! @six.scanlinemedia.com and @kyrie.scanlinemedia.com chat about the first six episodes of Kamen Rider Zeztz, the very first Kamen Rider to be globally simulcast as it airs! www.patreon.com/posts/141252...

Sunday Henshin Time Special 01 - Just a Witty Joke | Scanline Media

Get more from Scanline Media on Patreon

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guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 6h

Just had to be step-by-step thoroughly convinced that you can still buy blank CDs. I'm not saying I don't believe it now but it was really, really surprising to me and I needed to see evidence.

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cam @littlegoodfrog.online · 7h

🛸Flying Saucer Video 092🛸
I'll be brave
flyingsaucervideo.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 9h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8h

No.

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guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah it's not like I think it had no fun moments but. Lots of obnoxiousness

guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah I also rarely finish games I dislike, the reason Friendsim was an obvious shoe-in is that it's a game I enjoyed at the time but in retrospect do not think holds up

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Eidolon Playtest @eidolonplaytest.bsky.social · 9h

The latest Threadspinner Design Session is available now! Listen to two game designers work through the concepts of a TTRPG in real time!

Design Session #66: Threadspinner Basic Moves | EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self

www.patreon.com

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Eidolon Playtest @eidolonplaytest.bsky.social · 9h

Threadspinner Draft 0.0.1 (Pre-Pre-Alpha) is available now! YOU can read the tale of Frostbitten Charles to learn more about the Threadspinner setting!

Threadspinner Draft 0 | EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self

www.patreon.com

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 10h

WHAT A TREASURE! Check this out!

Puckering manuscript is largely in Milton's own hand (copied before his blindness, full of his edits) including Lycidas, Comus, On Time, and - coolest of all - his notes towards his great epic.

Here's how the NYT described it in 1881 (I'll note some stuff after):

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 11h

can we all at least agree that no one should ever be criticized for any reason

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guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 10h

I rarely finish games at all (really, I rarely play finishable games? I guess yes Caves of Qud has "endings" but come on now that's not what the game's about.) but I sure did read everything every one of those awful little trolls had to say

guy named Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social · 10h

Hiveswap Friendsim by a country mile

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 1d

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 11h

Resharing for #NationalFossilDay

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Apr 22

For #NationalTeaDay 🫖☕️:
#Teapot with #fossil decoration
British, Staffordshire, c. 1760–65
Salt-glazed stoneware with enamel decoration
4 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (10.8 × 18.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 37.22.6a,b: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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“A black and white teapot covered in whimsical abstract designs resembling fossils.”
“Though it's got a surprisingly modern look, this teapot was made in the 18th-century in Staffordshire—the heart of Britain's pottery industry. The area’s limestone yielded prehistoric fossils, and potters often turned them into whimsical motifs for teapots.”

official museum photo, side view 2
“A black and white teapot covered in whimsical abstract designs resembling fossils.”
“Though it's got a surprisingly modern look, this teapot was made in the 18th-century in Staffordshire—the heart of Britain's pottery industry. The area’s limestone yielded prehistoric fossils, and potters often turned them into whimsical motifs for teapots.”

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Kyrie Page @kyrie.scanlinemedia.com · 19h

Good Night, Rider. Me and @six.scanlinemedia.com have a dream come true: easily accessible tokusatsu, with a brand new show none-the-less! Join us as we discuss Kamen Rider Zeztz Episodes 1-6, exclusive to the Scanline Media Patreon!

www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

Sunday Henshin Time Special 01 - Just a Witty Joke | Scanline Media

Get more from Scanline Media on Patreon

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18h

these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him

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