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jam @socialistboat.dad · 4d

One of the earliest examples of bar jokes is
Sumerian (c. 4500-1900 BC), and it features a dog:
"A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one!" [1] The humor of it is probably related to the Sumer way of life and has been lost, but the words remain.

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katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social · 5d

here’s a good one: nicki minaj is only 1 year younger than britney spears

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katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social · 5d

charli xcx released a song called ”sympathy is a knife” about feeling insecure and inadequate around taylor swift, who was dating her now-husband’s bandmate; taylor has now released a song in response that is a diss track but also weirdly horny

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 5d

My favorite thing to listen to right now is Michael Bise's trove of Gap in-store playlists from the late 1990s to early 2000s. He's been hunting for these pieces of ephemera for 20 years! www.theverge.com/report/79080...

The quest for every Gap store playlist ever

Gap Playlists is an exercise in data collection and nostalgia.

www.theverge.com

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katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social · 5d

congratulations to taylor swift for entering her tori amos era (taking several decades to finally write a song called ophelia)

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Mol is Serving Up Disaster👨‍🍳 @molomoot.bsky.social · 6d

Something minor I love about crossword dungeons is the difference between UK and US crossword styles.
US crosswords can actually work better for this as they focus alot more on multiple words overlapping which create room shapes. Ive found that UK crosswords often have longer words and less trivia

Example of an American crossword grid on the left with less black spaces and more overlapping shorter words. The British crossword grid on the right with less overlap and often longer words

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 7d

If you make experimental or unusual games, the Out of Index festival in Seoul is still accepting submissions through the 17th! www.outofindex.org

Out Of Index 2025 - Experimental Game Festival

Out Of Index is an experimental game festival in South Korea. The goal of the festival is to inspire the game industry with new ideas and experimental energy.

www.outofindex.org

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katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social · 8d

a lot of tech-press AI coverage, from both boosters and skeptics, is extremely US-centric compared to the adoption of AI elsewhere in the world - which by most measures outpaces the US, by some measures wildly. good to see some reporting that isn't www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

Excerpt from Technology Review article on how AI and machine translation are affecting endangered languages: Abdulkadir Abdulkadir, a 26-year-old agricultural planner who spoke with me over a crackling phone call from a busy roadside in northern Nigeria, said that he spends three hours every day fiddling with entries in his native Fulfulde, a language used mainly by pastoralists and farmers across the Sahel. “But the work is too much,” he said.

Abdulkadir sees an urgent need for the Fulfulde Wikipedia to work properly. He has been suggesting it as one of the few online resources for farmers in remote villages, potentially offering information on which seeds or crops might work best for their fields in a language they can understand. If you give them a machine-translated article, Abdulkadir told me, then it could “easily harm them,” as the information will probably not be translated correctly into Fulfulde.

Google Translate, for instance, says the Fulfulde word for January means June, while ChatGPT says it’s August or September. The programs also suggest the Fulfulde word for “harvest” means “fever” or “well-being,” among other possibilities.

Abdulkadir said he had recently been forced to correct an article about cowpeas, a foundational cash crop across much of Africa, after discovering that it was largely illegible.

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katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social · 8d

making up a guy #23942: guy who begins all correspondence with "to bro it may concern:"

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Iain Mew @superchartisland.com · 10d

Manic Miner didn't have anything to say about the miners' strike. Ian Stewart and Pete Harrap had an idea: what if it did?

New post on the history of the resultant Monty Mole games, and how Monty made it to both the BBC news and the Famicom Disk System:

www.superchartisland.com/monty-on-the-run

Monty on the Run – “Bon Voyage Monsieur Le Monty”

Manic Miner did not have very much to say about mining. Its name and ostensible theme came from Miner 2049er, but anything mine-related was incidental to all the other weird and wonderful things it…

www.superchartisland.com

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10d

this is really good, especially in its differentiation between wank, bullshit, and lies.

Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 10d

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...

deadsimpletech.com

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Throwing Muses @throwingmuses.bsky.social · 12d

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katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social · 13d

central to one of my favorite pasta recipes www.amateurgourmet.com/blog/2010/01...

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 13d

new favorite real time thread (40 bulbs of garlic pasta) just dropped

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13d

should I tell him

Hoping to be home around
6.20pm x
Cool. I'm trying a new recipe no promises
Read 16:30
This usually means it's amazing

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music 🔜 timothy @wgwgsa.net · 13d

my boyfriend when we need to leave NOW to get to the movie on time and i still haven't gotten dressed yet

a ton of very worrying-looking youtube thumbails from the channel bravos research all saying IT'S STARTED / LAST CHANCE / IT'S HAPPENING / IT'S BEGUN

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katherine morayati @morayati.bsky.social · 14d

me and my book at the chappell show!

me, with my Chappell Roan book, at the Chappell Roan show

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loren @ribo.zone · 15d

hehehe.... weird web october soon

weird web october

ribo.zone

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 17d

In 2017, the U.S. government used a cover of music from Yoshi's Island DS on one of their websites, presumably without permission, as the music was removed immediately after this was publicly discovered.