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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11h

NO-TELL MOTEL is so back.

The Employee Bundle is BACK in stock, and now includes the Door Hanger for when you wanna tell people to slink away or slink inside.

Keychains, door hangers, "Dice Trays" still available a la carte. Matchbooks with every order.

Check in: bannerless.games/shop

The No-Tell Motel door hanger. On one side Stella the cover model says "Shhh...." and the other side says "Please clean! It looks like someone died in here!"

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Cheru w/ a lil witch hat @cheru.bsky.social · 8h

The library app hate to see me comin’

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 8h

For me, this book is _ORA:CLE_ a sci-fi novel by Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Made a lifelong impression, I have bought it multiple times.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 9h

It's pretty random which books stand the test of time. For every acknowledged classic, there are a at least half a dozen books that are just as good and no one remembers them except one grad student or crazy bookstore owner.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 8h

East Liberty. Penn Ave. Caller said he took an edible and is now high af. They would like for someone to help them land back on earth.

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 9h

what is the name of Lara Trump’s critically reviewed single, wrong answers only

a tweet from @covie93
BREAKING: Lara Trump will be performing her critically reviewed single to close the TPUSA Superbowl halftime show.

then there’s a still from what seems to be an AI slop Alexis Rose music video

Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 9h

vibes government

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 13h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 10h

The people need to know

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 11h

I just want to make sure that @werewolfambulance.bsky.social sees this.

Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 12h

Shadyside. 5442 Baum Blvd - Wendy’s. Caller said that an employee got drunk at work and just threw chili at a rude customer.

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Mari 🏳️‍⚧️ @mari-paige.bsky.social · 17h

For Indigenous People’s Day, I’d like to infodump about the Cahokia mound. Built near present day St. Louis around 1000 CE, it was a vast trade hub with a population of about 20,000. This made it the largest city north of Mexico on the continent, bigger than London and Paris at the time!

The Cahokia mound, located outside modern day St. Louis, Missouri. It is a large hill which is now covered in grass, under a clear blue sky.

Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 15h

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 14h

put the fucking elevator pitch on the fucking jacket god damn it what is the book about WHAT IS THE PREMISE

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 6d

I think also about how it doesn’t matter if those girls ever decide to be dancers

What matters is seeing it was an option. That they can make the choice

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 6d

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 22h

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 18h

Reading Spider-man comics is what first gave me my deep and abiding respect for materials science. We continually innovate with the development of incredible new materials that affect us in our daily lives.

merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · May 28

A digital homage/ripoff of Magritte’s painting ‘The Treachery of Images’. An image of a brown and black tobacco pipe with a curved stem sits isolated on a plain tan field. Below the pipe in black cursive handwriting is the phrase ‘Peut-être que cela arrivera aujourd'hui’ which I sincerely hope is an adequate French translation of ‘Maybe it will happen today’

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · Dec 10

POV: you've committed the perfect crime, disposed of the weapon and and hidden the body, but now you arrive back at your pasture to find you are well and truly fucked.

Detective Columbo stands behind a wooden table with two irregular cow tools in it. He holds a 3rd cow tool and looks at it with his other hand scratching his head. He says, "Gee these tools are really something, aren't they? Y'know, my wife, she says they lack sophistication. But I just think that adds to the charm... Say... Don't they usually come in a set of four?"

Caption below the panel reads, "Cowlumbo tools."

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 2d

If you’ve ever played in a band and you’d like to talk with me about a tabletop RPG project, shoot me a DM.

a man is playing a guitar in a dark room with purple lights behind him

Alt: This is Spinal Tap

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I am so weary of that class of extremely online leftists who think being a Serious Person™️ who only posts and does nothing else is superior to being a Fun Person™️ who physically shows up

Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 1d

I deleted a post of me in a frog suit with my 7-yr old daughter because a big account reposted, admonishing us for not being serious enough protestors (or something). I shouldn’t have included my daughter in the image, which was why I deleted it. But I was stunned by the condescension.

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 1d

what that beak do

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Vindicasean @vindicasean.bsky.social · 1d

This gormless fuckweasel cop is who y'all wanted to be president!?

Democrats are fucking hopeless

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Kamala Harris: 'We should ask' if Israel is committing genocide in Gaza 'be honest about it' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/kamala-harris-we-should-ask-if-israel-committing-genocide-gaza-be-honest

Kamala Harris: 'We should ask' if Israel is committing genocide in Gaza 'be honest about it'

<article data-history-node-id="430057" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/kamala-harris-we-should-ask-if-israel-committing-genocide-gaza-be-honest" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/kamala-harris-we-should-ask-if-israel-committing-genocide-gaza-be-honest" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Kamala Harris: 'We should ask' if Israel is committing genocide in Gaza 'be honest about it'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Former US Vice President Kamala Harris said only a court can judge whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, but the scale of killings makes it a question that should be asked.</p> <p>"It's a term of law that a court will decide," Harris <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTZektF8Tgs">said</a> during an exclusive interview with MSNBC's The Weekend.</p> <p>"But I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed and the number of innocent civilians that have been killed, the refusal to give aid and support – we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it. Yeah."</p> <p>Harris also said she commends Qataris, Egyptians and US President Donald Trump for the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 1d

People in the National Guard who do not want to be deployed to fight a war on your own country: eat more pie.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

“Sent home” = “AWOL and happily dating a tattoo artist with a wolf cut who lives in Bridgeport”

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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