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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · Jun 4

This makes me so happy and I am so grateful to @404media.co for covering stories like this.

404 Media @404media.co · Jun 4

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

🔗 www.404media.co/directfile-o...

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

www.404media.co

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rain | the tiger is FREE @rainnallday.bsky.social · May 9

my article on ttrpg and copyright got published!

www.cippic.ca/articles/ope...

Open Game Licenses and Copyright in Tabletop Roleplaying Games: How Innovation Does(n’t) Breed Excellence

After two decades as the dominant voice in the tabletop roleplay (TTRPG) sphere, Wizards of the Coast (Wizards) faced an intense backlash for changing the licensing terms of their most popular propert...

www.cippic.ca

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Apr 29

really good book that everyone should read right now

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Vintage book cover featuring a close up photograph of a woman’s eye in a hypnotizing gaze. Copy and title read

Could I Borrow

Four Thousand, Three Hundred, and Sixty-Seven Dollars?

FOR NO SPECIFIC REASON

"Reasons are like raisins - no one likes them."

A CONVINCING NOVEL BY YORE FRENDE

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The Onion @theonion.com · Apr 28

Dalai Lama Tapped As Interim Pope

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Apr 28

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Mar 15

had to dig up my uni notes on Russian Formalism to write this review of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (@tordotcom.bsky.social). enjoy! feidong.substack.com/p/defamiliar...

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Apr 22

from all the girlies (gender neutral) at work on team gertie, see y’all at basrar’s 😉

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Apr 22

hello dimension 20 fans of bsky, there’s less than a month until #heygirliegame, the fan-made kristen applebees dating sim visual novel, drops on itch.io on may 17. check us out!

raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie

Hey, Girlie! by ray 蕭, pysics, ffffrogs, dearheartling, diane, Kelpipop

A Fan-Made Kristen Applebees Dating Sim

raddishradish.itch.io

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · Apr 22

if you’re cis/het, won’t give directly to people you don’t mknow, but m want to help backfill some of what trans & queer people are losing, translifeline.org is ofc helpful. i called myself when i was in really dark places.

mutual aid funds are also critical at this point—always, actually.

Donate to These 7 Mutual Aid Funds to Help Trans Americans Right Now

These funds help trans folks find safe shelter, obtain gender-affirming care, change legal identity documents, and more.

www.them.us

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onion person @junlper.beer · Apr 22

it’s genuinely extremely funny and tragic that trump caused a recession in order to get absolutely nothing

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Mar 24

I think I'm going to run for office of some kind just to have other people dig up interesting things about me that I forgot

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sharon zhang @sharonzhang.bsky.social · Mar 24

This was Hossam's last post on Instagram. Demanding accountability for Israel's attacks.

Instagram reel from Hossam Shabat:

On October 17th, 2023, Israel bombed Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Everyone was shocked! Governments were outraged and demanded investigations.

Israel denied it. Western media believed it. And the bombing continued as 'Israel investigated itself.'

UN and NGO investigations proved that Israel indeed did it. No government acted. No condemnations.

So Israel continued bombing, besieging and targeting EVERY SINGLE HOSPITAL in Gaza. They still denied it as Wester governments rushed to excuse it.

But Israel feels emboldened now. Eighteen months of genocide and impunity meant that they didn't have to deny bombing hospitals anymore. No one cares...

They say the magic H word and war crimes are justified.

They killed Patients today in the hospital including children and unarmed men.

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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · Mar 24

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Mar 24

Vice President texting the group, "chat are we cooked"

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jan 27

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Jan 27

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

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manic pixel dream girl @manicpixels.bsky.social · Jan 23

white people can’t cook? ok then explain meth

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Lily Alexandre @lily-is.online · Jan 22

DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You

My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo

youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc

YouTube thumbnail featuring a syringe propped up between two vials of medication. Text reading "THIS VIDEO IS LEGAL (for now)". The backdrop is a trans flag.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Dec 8

We've known about this problem since 2016

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rain | the tiger is FREE @rainnallday.bsky.social · Dec 7

it's been so long since I've hand-sewn and the stitches look wonky AF but they're strong and the job is done so hurrah

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rain | the tiger is FREE @rainnallday.bsky.social · Dec 7

couldn't sleep so I cleaned out and organized my entire closet and then hand-mended all the clothes I've been meaning to mend

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rain | the tiger is FREE @rainnallday.bsky.social · Dec 6

thoughts and prayers for my exam

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Farm Goth 🇵🇸 @poemsandfungus.bsky.social · Dec 5

Look, all he did was press the "mass death and suffering" button every minute of every day and get paid tens of millions of dollars for it, it's not like he did something truly unforgivable, like being rude on the computer.

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