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Quest 64 Official

@quest64official.bsky.social

Brian overlooking the water with a 24 pack of Busch Light Apple and the text
"Fuck it's now????
What's next?
Later?
I can't do it anymore"

January 21, 2026 at 10:54 AM

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JP

@jpbrammer.bsky.social

ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though

January 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM

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Eva Helada

@evaspinola70.bsky.social

Me faltan manos para aplaudir a este abogado mexicano. A ver si los que están dando saltos de alegría con el ataque de USA a Venezuela entienden algo leyendo su tuit. Lo explica perfectamente. Impecable.

January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM

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Skyehoppers

@skyehoppers.bsky.social

New Video! Earthbound resists being understood. Here I go trying anyway. Join me as we analyze the game from front to back and unravel its ideas about love, evil, sacrifice, togetherness, and humanity 💙

youtu.be/1f-xI_NyVvM

Earthbound Believes in You, in Us

YouTube video by Skyehoppers

youtu.be

December 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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Today in Pokémon History by Serebii.net

@serebiiotd.bsky.social

On this day in 2000, 25 years ago, Pokémon Crystal was first released.

This game was the enhanced version of Gold & Silver and featured more in-depth story behind Suicune, as well as the first online gameplay & the first playable female trainer

www.serebii.net/crystal/

December 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Star Wolf Drive Thru

@ator.bsky.social

so powerful i actually burst into tears

protect your people

we need to have each other’s backs right now more than ever

March 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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Annika

@annihowls.bsky.social

He did not want his photo taken while he was soggy

December 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM

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Jorts (and Jean)

@jortsthecat.bsky.social

I’m holly, I’m jolly. You’ve got believe me. I swear I am

an orange cat is on the stairs near some christmas decorations looking a bit freaked out

December 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM

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Joe

@joeeasonart.bsky.social

The Mage & The Prince - 2023

January 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM

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Trevor Aleo

@mraleosays.bsky.social

It’s really absurd that we’ve reached a point where the “common sense” view of education is that its primary purpose is to lower the future onboarding/training costs for companies hiring new employees.

April 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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Amanda Wong

@amandawtwong.bsky.social

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. "
"You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

October 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM

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Sarah Taber

@sarahtaber.bsky.social

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

October 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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debbshock

@debbshock.blue

[waking up]: oh what the fuck now

October 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM

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InkyInGreen 🏹

@blackwallmancer.bsky.social

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.

October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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debs 🏴‍☠️🩸

@edstede.bsky.social

September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Morbi

@morbi.bsky.social

It's like this
#Silksong #Hornet #Lace #ToxicBugYuri

September 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM

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molly conger

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM

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Alex Grey 🩶

@alexdualgrey.bsky.social

Sisterrr I'm pickled

August 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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Anthony Clark

@nedroid.com

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

"There are three kinds of magic," said Wizzler, handing us each a balloon. "You can control tigers, you can shoot tornadoes from your fingers, or you can fly by holding your breath. The color of confetti inside your balloon will reveal which kind of power you have."
I felt the panic rising in me. What if my confetti turned yellow, indicating that I was a Tiger-Talker? My family, a long line of proud Tornado-Fingers, would disown me. Could I ever return home, bearing such shame?
I tried to calm myself as I readied the ceremonial safety pin. Green, I thought, willing my hopes into reality. Please be green.
I popped the balloon, involuntarily shutting my eyes. When I opened them, would I see the green I hoped for? The yellow I feared? What if, gods forbid, the confetti were blue?
I opened my eyes, seeing shock on the faces of my classmates. Wizzler himself stared at me, wide-eye. Looking down, I saw myself covered in confetti... purple confetti.

“I don’t understand,” I growled, my body trembling with pain. “I combined eighty percent Earth-elemental mana with twenty percent Fire-elemental mana (Type B), focused through a twenty-four-sided icositetragon made of yellow topaz. This, in conjunction with my blood type, star sign, sense of humor, and nickname, should have produced a blazing column of lightning to vaporize my enemies. Instead, it made a big bubble that smells like fresh laundry. Why?”
Skullgrumbler began to laugh. “You fool! You don’t even realize…” he squealed. “You’re facing east!”

“It’s whatever you want,” explained Magemaster Grampledog. “Magic is just whatever you want.”
I knew he was speaking in riddles, but I couldn’t grasp his hidden meaning. “So the rules are…”
Grampledog lit a sliver of smokereed. “No rules. You say some words and you wave a stick and whatever you want just happens. You don’t even need the stick.”
His wisdom still eluded me. I stared into his face, trying to decipher what he was really saying.
“No, listen.” Grampledog snapped his fingers and his desk turned into a pile of chicken nuggets. “I didn’t even know that would happen.” His hat then came alive and began to yodel.
“It’s pandemonium,” he explained. “It’s complete nonsense.”

July 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM

nicoduq.bsky.social

@nicoduq.bsky.social

Replayed Disco Elysium this week, and while the last time I played it (early 2020) I missed this thought, once I got it in this playthrough there was a warm feeling of familiarity. Turns out it had been living with me for a couple months.