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I think I was maybe late 20's before I got over my nostalgia and sold my entire Piers Anthony collection to half price books one day. In retrospect, this trained me for having very little problem kicking shitty people who write to the curb when the time comes.

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics@waitingforthetrade.bsky.social

I was really into Xanth when I was in middle school and it was all “cool magic powers, fun fantasy tropes, weird monsters, puns,” and then I tried reading one as an adult and it was like “oh. Oh no. Oh noooooooo.”

I think I also sold my Dragonlance and Dragonriders of Pern books then as well and that was, I think, a mistake in retrospect.

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CocktailMD

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Replying to @andrewbohrer.bsky.social

it's why i will diatribe at the drop of a hat about the parallels between doctoring and bartending. there's a fundamental skill set, and then there's the art. the recipe is prescription, the real bartending is the bedside manner i'm a better doctor for my repeated exposure to exceptional bartenders

Honestly this felt like an Alan Garner book in live action.

Holographic Golem@hologramaticgolem.bsky.social

Okay so a chance run in at the Halloween Cat Tour led to watching this gem. Want some early 70's English countryside pagan horror with a playwright's dialogue and a weirdly too relevant today instance of the dumb muscle dude to War Memorabilia pipeline? Robin Redbreast at your service.

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Leg replaced by cat. Halp.

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@uwotc-official.bsky.social

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

unitedwizardsofthecoast.comDungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWAToday, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

Oooooh shit King of Drag is back.

@scottmccloud.bsky.social

Liked Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid. Found Steven Jackson's Sorcery! books and got obsessed with them. Then Joe Dever's Lone Wolf. Then my cousins said I should really check out DND. I think my mom got me the red box for Christmas a few months later.

Dr. Emily Friedman@ecfriedman.com

“How did you get into TTRPGs?” It was the activity my CX friends, art friends, & musical theatre kid friends* could agree on. (We don’t talk enough about the high school Debate Club to TTRPG pipeline) *guess which one I was. you’ll probably be wrong.

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scott⚡️mccloud

When some comics became intangible online, paper became *visible* to artists again, leading to beautiful new paper comics. Now, when some "art" becomes inhuman, *we* become visible to ourselves again. What beautiful new *human* art might be the result?

So I feel off the book posting but it's cause life has taken many turns. Much like this little eldritch Flora punk murder mystery series that I'm now obsessed with. The world is a brittle empire addicted to the biological gifts of the sea monsters that come attack every year.

Ana and Din are the prickly asshole autistic-coded detective and the put upon chronicling assistant, who's been altered by cthulu liquid to have an eiditic memory. The stories are tight, the world building fantastic and weird without being too nuts, and the verbal abuse between partners is ripe.

I really really love this series of parlor room mysteries in a bio punk fantasy world. And the author is clearly having a ball writing them.

I feel the need to highlight this post specifically. I have YouTuber friends who are moderately successful and lucky enough to have it pay their rent (nothing else, but still). And the sense of them being "friends" to the viewers is the case. And HOOBOY does that lead to some wild interactions.

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Like it reminds me of just the Smosh/Dropout fame. These people are "playing" a version of themselves at times - but sone people still treat them like fictional characters and that leads to some crazy amounts of entitlement from fans and consumers of media.

I realize this isn't exactly new with fans conflating the role with the actor, but it just feels more personal when the "the role" is basically yourself and people feel a bizarre sense of ownership over you just cause they watch you in the little glowing box they own.

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@amazingprizzini.bsky.social

Like, there's been erotic fan fiction written about people from the channel. And these aren't actors playing a role where like "Okay this Kirk/Spock fic is hot" these are real people. Like, at best, you can claim they're playing for the camera a little - but they're still themselves.

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Ah, twenty-five years of re-living a traumatic event certainly hasn’t driven this country insane. Is it better than our response to COVID, where the country seems to be both trying to actively forget both that it happened and who was President at the time?

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ceej

@ceej.online

3 Sept

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

1 Sept

Without saying your age, what was your favourite film that came out when you were 20 years old (this was actually tough. There's some great films that year)

MadameNostalgic✨Tanya@madamenostalgic.bsky.social

Without saying your age, what was your favourite film that came out when you were 20 years old

31 Aug

In retrospect, I think those 3 are absolutely why the algorithms think I'm a queer kid in Brooklyn and explains a lot of my social feeds (and why I'm at least aware of the others).

Holographic Golem@hologramaticgolem.bsky.social

I am absolutely an outlier at my 50 years of age as I also know 11 out of 25. But I've accidentally absorbed a lot friends that partially work in the youtube sphere. My amazing wife got 1.5. I only actively watch 3 out of this list though.

rollingstone.com25 Most Influential Creators of 2026From breakout comedians and beauty experts to fashion newcomers and political stars, here are some of the biggest voices shaping the internet in 2026.

31 Aug

dame@dame.is

it’s that time of year again, Rolling Stone released their list of the top 25 content creators, which is actually a test of how old and out of touch you are… the lower your score, the more out of touch i’ve heard of 11 out of 25

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Tom & Lorenzo

@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social

27 Aug

One of the things we mentioned in our podcast yesterday was that when Dolly's mother said the town tramp was trash, and Dolly replied "I want to be trash, Mama," that's just about as queer and as punk a sentiment as you'll ever hear. This is why so many people claim her

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ceej

@ceej.online

25 Aug

Man, all that really matters on this earth is that more people are sad than happy when you go

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HappyToast

@happytoast.co.uk

23 Aug

Spider-Man fighting fascists in Minneapolis

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Steve Held

@peoplesfabric.bsky.social

23 Aug

it’s so funny that as we’re drowning in fakery, photos of Spider-Man going after a nazi are the real thing sometimes you just have to pause and appreciate the absurdity of the universe

I got officially diagnosed with autism about five years ago and it was mostly because I hit my deductible then so why not. It was more of a "I already know but may as well " thing. Wasn't planning on identifying as such. AND THEN, I crashed and burned at work from autistic burnout this year. 1/

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social

I'm curious how many people here identify themselves openly via a neurotype, i.e. saying that you have ADHD, depressive episodes, etc. Do you do this? Have you always done it, or have you started to more recently and why? To be clear: I think it's great. Curious about when it became more common.

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So I find myself identifying with it more, because the diagnosis cat is out of the bag and I need to now communicate what accommodations are needed for me at work as I'll be coming off of four months of short term disability shortly. It's been a process sorta relearning what the new normal is. 3/

I'm still not sure I have it figured out really.

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social

To be fair (to be faayuuh), it was also a little basic bitch occupational burnout, but coupled with general trauma from working in healthcare during COVID and working in multiple traumas and codes after that. PLUS, the general tire fire of working in US healthcare as well. 2/

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Jay Edidin

@edidin.bsky.social

13 Aug

Truth

Becca Petunia 🏳️‍⚧️@tallgirlpetunia.northsky.social

what can I say? no one understands and appreciates cyclops like transgender autistic people understand and appreciate cyclops

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ceej

@ceej.online

13 Aug

shouting into the void here, I know, but you are literally living in the thought experiment "Would you use an app owned by Adolf Hitler?"

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online

14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead

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Evan Dorkin

@evandorkin.bsky.social

10 Aug

Taylor Farms' new slogan is "Eat, Shit and Die".

8 Aug

This dumb little guy just ate some cobwebs and he's thrilled.

youtu.beThe Hank Green Situation is Weird and SadYouTube video by Regular Eyepatch Wolf

5 Aug

I've said this before in comments and in person, but I think the fact that my job is very much based in physical things has isolated me from the prevalence of AI and I'm weirdly thankful. Like AI can't draw up epi and bicarb while we're giving chest compressions to a drowned eight year old. Yet.

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

4 Aug

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B_Rye989@brye989.bsky.social

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist

1 Aug

Going off my (great) grandparents, I'd either be running the books for the White Sox or bedridden from having eight kids. Also hosting a lot of parties for Irish gangsters so Hymie Weiss could plot his revenge on Capone for killing Deannie O'Banion. Or living in an imported castle from England.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

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@princess-vimentin.bsky.social

1 Aug

The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

tech-paper.comScientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...

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Vic Michaelis

@vicmmic.bsky.social

28 July

Watch Avatar Aang on as big a screen as you can it is ART and a tragedy we don’t get to see it in theatres !!!!

24 July

So I finished this a while ago and I've been looking for more of her stuff since then. In just post-NAFTA Mexico, a horror fan film editor and her washed up soap actor buddy get accidentally wrangled into an occult ritual involving a lost film.

24 July

This was kinda the first book I read this year that made me excited and actually hopeful that I could get my ability to read back. I'm glad to say I now have. It's a fun little occult pot boiler with a clear love for the genre and also critiquing the flaws of the LaVey fetishists.