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Achuba Nanoia @achubananoia.bsky.social · 17h

Cute doggo staring me while driving

Achuba Nanoia @achubananoia.bsky.social · 19h

Now this is boob armor!

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · Aug 30

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

WEB'S END

IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE WEBSITES. YOU VISITED THEM AND IT WAS FUN.

Computer screen: Jill's Homepage

LINKS AND STUMBLEUPON HELPED YOU FIND NEW ONES.

Computer screen: Cheese Art

GOOGLE ACTUALLY WORKED AND SENT YOU TO SITES BUILT WITH CARE BY REAL PEOPLE.

Computer screen: Lovable Expert

THEN CAME SOCIAL MEDIA, AND ITS ALGORITHMS DETERMINED WHAT YOU CLICKED.

Computer screen: Facebook

THEN AGGREGATOR SITES TOOK OFF.

Computer screen: CRAP FROM AROUND THE WEB

THEN SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES TRIED TO KEEP US FROM EVER LEAVING…

AND WE DIDN'T.

Woman on phone: SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL

THEN AI BEGAN GENERATING SUMMARIES SO YOU DIDN'T NEED TO CLICK THROUGH TO A SITE ANYMORE.

Computer screen: MONOPOSEARCH
Summary

SOON... THE AI CHATBOT BECOMES THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND REAL PUBLICATIONS DISAPPEAR.

Woman speaking to phone: CHATBOT, WHAT IS A WEBSITE?

UNTIL ONE DAY, PEOPLE WALK AWAY AND BUILD SOMETHING NEW.

Woman has left devices on the ground and is walking into sunset

© 2025 Jen Sorensen

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · May 11

I want to meet a Hanna-Barbera Otaku. I bet their perspective on the Flintstones is wild.

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Achuba Nanoia @achubananoia.bsky.social · 2d

I´ve never heard about this, never said this but good to know. Thank you for sharing.

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · Nov 10

One thing I'll never get use to is how normal anime is now. You use to start an "anime club" at your school, & it was the same 5 guys into DBZ. Now I walk down the street & there's cars with anime stickers on them every few blocks. You will never know how crazy that is to me.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5d

oh fuck yes now we are cooking

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 6d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 5d

21st century is some embarrasing shit so far for the species

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Lux in the Bronx 🎗️🇺🇦 @rlux.nyc · 6d

THIS THIS THIS

If you lose hope you become apathetic and do nothing. Don’t lose hope.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 5d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Randall @revuestarlight.net · 5d

this is gonna be an insane sentence but the last 3 days have been kinda bonkers for the zune community

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Achuba Nanoia @achubananoia.bsky.social · 6d

Difficult situation.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 7d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 7d

In just a few hours people commented seeing this everywhere, from Korea to Zanzibar, from Hungary to India. Again, I believe it was the most common experience.

I really want to collect & share this shared history. I'm working on something cool in this sense, hope to announce it in a month or so! ❤️

Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 7d

Playing console & PC games at home is seen as the default experience, but I'd bet that the majority of people in the 2000s experienced games in these social places, paying by the hour.

It's vastly underrepresented in academia & retrogaming debates but it's key to understanding things like F2P games

A store in Brazil where people can pay by the hour to play video game consoles. There's three old tube televisions on the wall, and several children playing soccer games on them

A similar image to the first one, but now it's several people from Vietnam sitting on a bench and playing soccer games on 5 televisions

A russian internet cafe, with several young men sitting in front of a row of computers playing games

Another internet cafe, this time much larger and with Asian men playing

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Achuba Nanoia @achubananoia.bsky.social · 7d

@felipepepe.bsky.social Check this out, very similar experience of what we had here in Brazil: www.youtube.com/shorts/8PwzH... . Sadly as far as I know this business model died over here.

Renting video games in 2025

YouTube video by Koysun

www.youtube.com

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Achuba Nanoia @achubananoia.bsky.social · 8d

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. We were robbed of Priss and Lina getting together.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 9d

Genuinely incredible branding this was

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 9d

bluesky is like if someone made a sit-down restaurant but the service was terrible, the food was always cold, the servers were rude and the tables were disgusting and if you complain they insist that you can always take your food to go

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

It would be wild if someone would build a social site where you could migrate away without losing all your connections if you didn't like the owner. Maybe even host your account on your own box, at home, so you could switch apps seamlessly or build your own. I think that would improve society.

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Achuba Nanoia @achubananoia.bsky.social · 9d

Sword Art Online World Seed.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

It would be wild if someone would build a social site where you could migrate away without losing all your connections if you didn't like the owner. Maybe even host your account on your own box, at home, so you could switch apps seamlessly or build your own. I think that would improve society.

Achuba Nanoia @achubananoia.bsky.social · 9d

Funny if true.

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 9d

One of my favorite Excel stories is the “London Whale” trading error which lost JP Morgan $6.2bn in 2012 because a financial spreadsheet divided some cells by the sum of two numbers rather than their average so everything looked hunky dory when it was in fact… not

Anyway exciting times ahead:

Johnnnnnnnn @johnnewhouse.bsky.social · 10d

lol, wrong almost half the time

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 10d

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

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Zalmon ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · Nov 15

#animation #art #mecha

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Zalmon ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · Jan 31

Saint Judravith, bearer of the Holy Ballistic Missile. She has reached heaven on earth through self-mummification, achieving the absolution of death while remaining alive (1/n)

Artwork of an undead nun of indeterminate religion holding a holy missile

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