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Hooray for caffeine! 🎉

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 22nd 2026 (Medium), in 04:21
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hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffeetable size book, held open in front a background of green leaves so that the full wraparound cover art can be seen

A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. The book is so heavy it's rather hard to hold to up with one hand.

A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. This spread has penciled versions of the two comic pages as well as notes in the margins.

A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. This spread a small colored drawing by Rani Som as well as notes in the margins.

The Annotated Edition of Gender Queer is almost here! from @oni-press.bsky.social

In stores May 19. Many people, including myself, added notes, comments, thoughts, drawings, & extra comics to this edition! Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/gend... more photos & gratitude in thread.

Ai remix feature in privacy settings on TikTok turned on

I am so upset right now, TikTok quietly added a feature which turns on an AI feature on all the TikTok’s you have already posted to allow Ai to remix and make content of your TikTok’s and I didn’t know, you must go to privacy settings on your TikToks to turn it off yourself, want to warn others 💔

2026 Hugo, Lodestar & Astounding Awards Finalists - Locus Online Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer have been announced by LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,488 valid nominating ballots received and counted from members of the 2025 and 2026 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2026 Hugo Awards. Voting on the final ballot will open during May 2026. Members of …Read More

Congratulations to all of the Hugo Awards finalists!!

Sam grinning and holding up a copy of Rabbit Test and Other Stories

Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Nice! I was distracted at the outset and made a silly mistake. 😅

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 21st 2026 (Easy), in 04:22
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VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

(I♥NY, but not its weather.)

"A lot of the inhabitants of NY will honk on mightily about the pleasures of spring, but if they actually knew the first thing about the pleasures of spring they would know of at least 5,983 better places to spend it than NY, and that's just on the same latitude." —Mostly Harmless, by Douglas Adams

Book cover for Bat and the Case of the Yips, by Elana K. Arnold, with pictures by Charles Santoso. He and a friend are in baseball gear; he's holding his skunk in his mitt.

Wait, no, 2025 was last year, this came out fourteen months ago, there's a FIFTH installment out now!

Book cover for Bat and the Business of Ferrets, by Elana K. Arnold, with pictures by Charles Santoso. Bixby Alexander Tam is on the left, with a skunk draped across his shoulders and a white ferret on his head. On the right is his classmate Lucca, frowning, with her arms crossed. They're giving each other side-eye.

I discovered this weekend that there's a fourth book out in Elana K. Arnold's Bat series, featuring an autistic kid with a special interest in animals, and it's as good as the first three. 😊

(Apparently it came out two months ago, but I don't work for Scholastic anymore, I'm out of the loop!)

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Oops!

I almost mixed up 5 and 3 but caught myself in time. 😅

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 20th 2026 (Easy), in 03:00
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Aww!

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I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 19th 2026 (Hard), in less than 12 minutes
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Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Aww! I see how that happened.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 18th 2026 (Hard), in less than 8 minutes
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The origin of the "Ha! Ha!" meme guy, a research journey Originally a thread on Twitter, archived here for posterity, plus an expert weighs in at the bottom! Nov 22, 2018 — 6:17pm somebody buy this antique(?) copy(?) of the original oil painting(?) that i...

a surprisingly complicated question! @amyhoy.bsky.social went on a deep dive on this subject 3 years ago. the short answer is: it is the original ad that became an internet meme, but it was originally a late-1800s meme itself, taken from a photograph

see her post amyhoy.com/the-origin-o...

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Alex Song-Xia looks distressed. text on screen: how would you describe the joy who lived festival? Euphoria. Exciting. inviting. home.

Two hot people are in a play and in love. text on screen: how would you describe the joy who lived festival? Warm happy space fun amazing times best hottest people ever.

You can still watch all the shows from our trans comedy festival, they are filmed real good-like, and also we need a little money so we'd love for you to donate to get the playlist link!

secure.givelively.org/donate/trans...

Using they/them to refer to a trans woman whose pronouns are she/her is transphobic.

My patience is diminishing and my blocklist is growing.

(One reason I wrote this was that, as a comedy musician, I tended to be afraid of repeating myself in a song, tweaking choruses on each iteration, for fear of boring the audience. This is honestly a useful concern to have, but it can be taken too far? I decided to try the other extreme.)

Footnotes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo... (I use a 7-buffalo variant)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorle...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo YouTube video by Sunday Comes Afterwards - Topic

Recent activity on my band account reminds me that I'm not sure I've mentioned my song consisting of three linguistics example sentences on this account, the one followed by a lot of linguists. 😅

Please enjoy "Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo."

@siniful.bsky.social Would you have any advice on dress norms for grownups at a BTS concert?

I went looking in the first place because search seemed to be on the fritz, but it looks like that's also functional now.

(Ironically, this is my second run at this post; I deleted the first after finding an error in the alt text. I am not working properly in all reginos myself.)

The current page at status.bsky.app, apparently operated by "UptimeRobot," says: Warning This Status Page has been suspended. Please contact support@uptimerobot.com for further information.

Chat, is it a bad sign when the Bluesky status page goes down?

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Aww! But understandable!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 17th 2026 (Hard), in less than 9 minutes
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Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

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I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 16th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 7 minutes
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Pigeon, starling, cardinal, eagle, woodpecker, nuthatch, parrot, parakeet, seagull, boobie, robin, bluejay, canary, chicken, turkey, quail, partridge, swan, goose, duck, peacock, great tit, owl, osprey, falcon, hummingbird...and brontosaurus, I guess, if you want to go old school.