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Zyxst
@zyxst.bsky.social
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Writer of Erotic Fanfic, Cyclone Ranger, Permanent Nobody, Meows Back at Cats in Videos.
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scalzi.com
Lord help me I'm going in
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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thebeaverton.com
ChatGPT cleans up hard drive to procrastinate writing your boring essay
ChatGPT cleans up hard drive to procrastinate writing your boring essay
VANCOUVER, BC - When prompted to complete your boring essay, ChatGPT chose to spend the night performing a full system cleanup on your computer instead.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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allelitewrestling.com
#AndNEW!

@willowwrestles.bsky.social + @harleycameron.bsky.social are the FIRST EVER AEW Women's World Tag Team Champions!
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
zyxst.bsky.social
Started watching Slasher on Netflix. I looked it up to find out who the actor is who dies first. Apparently Netflix gave me the 3rd season instead of the 1st. I mean, it shouldn't matter bc each season is separate, but come on.
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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allelitewrestling.com
❄️ TONIGHT! ❄️

Title Matches, the #AEWContinentalClassic and more are coming to A-Town!

#AEWDynamite Winter is Coming starts LIVE at 8/7c on TBS + HBO Max, TONIGHT!
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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murderbotbot.bsky.social
For fuck’s sake.
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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rogeeroger.bsky.social
I talked about this when the new Virtua Fighter was announced but Sega is literally the reason why Nvidia exists as a company today and that’s not hyperbole.
December 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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wondermark.com
terrifying if true!

Wondermark #1020; The Unknown Knowns
A guy with a Napoleon III mustache is consulting a newspaper and speaking with a fellow sporting epaulets. FAUXPOLEON: I heard — and I don’t know if it’s true — that DOGS are just genetically modified HUMAN INFANTS. Isn’t that OUTRAGEOUS? Who DID that? What ELSE don’t we know about dogs?? E’PAUL: That is not true. FAUXPOLEON: I don’t KNOW if it’s true or not. But just think of what it MEANS! People EXPERIMENTING on BABIES! E’PAUL: Indeed. Good thing it’s not true! FAUXPOLEON: You gotta ADMIT that it’s SCARY to think about! E’PAUL: As a thought experiment? Okay. As a falsehood examined AS a falsehood on its face? Okay. E’PAUL: As a valid piece of actual real information worth debating as if it WERE true when it is demonstrably NOT? No. FAUXPOLEON: It MIGHT be true! E’PAUL: It is not. FAUXPOLEON: It might be SOMEDAY. E’PAUL: Okay. FAUXPOLEON: What should we DO about it? E’PAUL: Nothing. FAUXPOLEON: You’re so PASSIVE. You never want to take a STAND. E’PAUL: For… for DOGS BEING INFANTS? This is the hill you want to die on, huh
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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jadedcynic.bsky.social
Credit to my wife for this rationalization:
Abe can't find his newspaper clipping, so he goes online to print a copy of the article, but gets paywalled, so - new rant - he prints a screenshot off to show people as Old Man Yells At Paywalls.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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jaunty.art
paywall
I’ve added a newspaper paywall to the Old Man Yells At Cloud Grandpa Simpson meme. I know it doesn’t make sense for print media.
December 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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thebeaverton.com
Canadian Ambassador resigns after Pete Hegseth accidentally blows her up
Canadian Ambassador resigns after Pete Hegseth accidentally blows her up
WASHINGTON D.C. – Canadian Ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman has abruptly resigned from her post after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth accidentally launched a high-caliber anti-ship missil...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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mysterywrestling.bsky.social
HOLIDAY SALE!

Evil Uno is spreading the holiday cheer with a 20% OFF SALE happening on our Patreon RIGHT NOW using the promo code LATESALE at mysterywrestling.com!

#MysteryWrestling
Holiday Sale
December 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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jadedcynic.bsky.social
"That's *gay*"
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first.

This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
I'm Michael Hobbes, yes, that Michael Hobbes from If Books Could Kill. I help run our little corner of chaos where 69,000 readers, writers, and mildly obsessive book nerds gather to talk about the stories that shape (and sometimes ruin) our brains. I picked up your book reminding us that and honestly.. I didn't stand a chance. The humanity, the humility, the sheer scope of what you do, it's staggering. You somehow make your topic feel both epic and intimate, conclusion of book We don't reach out to every author, mostly because l'm lazy, but your writing grabbed me by the collar. We'd love to feature you in our next author section, where our readers and listeners connect directly with the storytellers and thinkers who make us rethink what "impact" really means. Would you be interested if we chose your book for our next section? Thanks for making my week with your work. I promise this isn't one of those "team emails", it's really just me, geeking out in your inbox.
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
zyxst.bsky.social
One of my monitors decided to go black. I should go to Best Buy and get a new one. The other one has a dying power switch, so maybe 2 monitors.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
Oh hey, it was the 30th anniversary of the release of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness yesterday! It's an important milestone game, especially for the further popularisation of RTS games and for mid-90s PC multiplayer gaming.

I have a lot of love for Warcraft II, mostly from the PS1 version.
The original Warcraft II box cover with the piratical theming and a close-up headshots of a green-skinned orc and human in seafaring garb. The WCII: Tides of Darkness title screen with its renders of a human knight and a barbaric looking orc A gameplay screenie from my session of the DOS version, with a well-developed human settlement with keep, flying machines, guard towers, barracks, and a small force of soldiers, ballista, and archers.
December 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
tis the season
[Tumblr] vigilantsycamore Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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scottbot.bsky.social
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.

We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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weirdlilguys.bsky.social
his and hers
two black cats with embroidered yellow font, one says cat mother and one says cat father, available at weirdlilguys.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
zyxst.bsky.social
BLACKBERRIES #StardewValley
www.twitch.tv/ckuemper
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
December 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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midfalutin.bsky.social
one day these awards shows will realize how fucking embarrassing it is to have a separate "games that are actually ABOUT something" category
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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freezer.bsky.social
The overton window shifted so far we now say Halo had simple graphics.
Youtube thumbnail of Halo 1 Master Chief with the text "The Beauty Of Less". Video title 'Are Low Poly Games Better?' Youtube transcript with the text: If you grew up before the HD era, there's probably a game from your childhood that lingered in your imagination for years despite having simple graphics. For me, one of those games is Halo Combat Evolved.
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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scalzi.com
Google is on record denying this story, but we all know the question is not if but when, and also, if anything is going to make me less inclined to use "AI" than I already am, it'll be the attempt to shove ads into it

www.adweek.com/media/google...
EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot
www.adweek.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Finally, a foe worthy of her talents.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM