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Dave Versace

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Some guy from Canberra. Writes a bit. Games a bit. Tries not to become infuriated with the state of the world or go outside. Likes dogs. Trans rights are human rights. Science doesn't care about your beliefs. ACAB. AWAWB.

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Al Petterson's avatar Al Petterson @eyelessgame.bsky.social
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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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The line from The Wire that will stay with me forever: "Is you taking notes on our criminal fucking conspiracy?" Funny, but also a clear picture of just how out of their depth most of these kids are.

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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How do you double-like this one? (Asking for a friend, who is me, who cackled out loud)

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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I think about it from time to time and then I smile

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Charlotte Ariel Finn's avatar Charlotte Ariel Finn @bycharlottefinn.bsky.social
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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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Getting all timey-wimey on that artifice of narrative.

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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Convicted Of Very Felonious Efforts For Elections

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Dan Schkade's avatar Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social
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Check out my new original character, Guy Around the Office Who's 100% Noticed That Clark Kent Is Superman

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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Practically the definition of cursed knowledge

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jon rosenberg's avatar jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social
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When JK Rowling realized she would never be as good a children's author as Roald Dahl was she took a secret blood oath to defeat him at bigotry

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The Midnight Society's avatar The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social
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[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: I was just thinking about how transs people should be eliminated from ssociety Jonathan Chait: whoa whoa! joanne! Chait: you can't say it like THAT Chait: so uncouth Chait: you have to say it with your pinky finger extended

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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I don't mean to harsh on the artist's vision but who in hell thinks C-3PO has a sense of rythmn?

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John Rogers's avatar John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social
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I saw someone else note Art of War is best read as Sun-Tzu grinding his teeth and writing a book to stop imperial failsons from continually fucking up very elemental battle strategy.

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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Shit. Woke up dozy, nearly fucked up and looked at social media before watching new Doctor Who. Phew! That was a close one!

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MisterJayEm's avatar MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social
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Reminder: Sure, the student protestors turned out to be right about Vietnam, and gay rights, and apartheid, and the Latin American dirty wars, and the invasion of Iraq -- but *this time* they are cluelessly naive and only protesting to look cool to their friends.

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Selena Price is on Twitch ✨🤍⚔️'s avatar Selena Price is on Twitch ✨🤍⚔️ @theselenaprice.bsky.social
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I saw this posted on twitter but I don't think that user is on BlueSky and I wanted to share it here... This interview with Ethan Hawke perfectly describes the importance of art.

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Al Kennedy's avatar Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social
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It's so funny that there is such a thing as scary movies. Like, everyone you are seeing right now is a theatre kid. That murderer? He knows Godspell by heart. You could push him over with a pool noodle

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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My heart goes out to you and all who knew and loved Caitlin. I'm so sorry for your loss.

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Mary Robinette Kowal 's avatar Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinette.bsky.social
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Friends, if you've been following @michaeldthomas.bsky.social or @lynnemthomas.com you know that their daughter Caitlin is in a bad way. A small group of us have organized a fundraiser to help them be able to be entirely present with Caitlin.

Please give them some love & support.

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maura quint's avatar maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social
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my fave continues to be -- if you were handed $1000 every single day, every single year since AD 1 and saved every single penny of it, you still wouldn't be a billionaire.

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Lili Saintcrow's avatar Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.bsky.social
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...okay, I couldn't wait. We really gotta talk about trad publishing.

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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See, this is exactly why I never try to write science fiction

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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I’ll say it again: the key theme of the last decade boils down to “a lot of people we assumed (and were told) were very smart and competent, are, in fact, as dumb as a sack of boiled eels.”

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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HELLYEAH! That is so exciting! Congratulations Freya!

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Johanna Draper Carlson's avatar Johanna Draper Carlson @johannadc.bsky.social
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Hmmm. Was reminded that this year is the 25th -- yes! a full quarter-century! -- anniversary of ComicsWorthReading.com, established 1999. How time does fly.

I would love it if y'all would make some noise for me!

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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Good to hear there are wins to be had

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Andrew D Thaler's avatar Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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No notes. Perfect plan. I will do everything in my power to help this man realize his dream of trapping all of his rich, unvaccinated friends in a cruise ship named after the most famous disaster in the ocean.

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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Aww shit, that sucks. Sorry to hear it.

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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Oh boy I know how that feels. Crossing fingers for her safe return.

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cait 's avatar cait @cait.bsky.social
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this is the type of shit you find as foreshadowing in audio logs scattered around an abandoned space station in a sci-fi horror game

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Dave Versace's avatar Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social
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Emma and Rahne look like they had a big night out

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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This is a fantastic piece backing up something that's been anecdotally obvious for a while now: Australia's media outlets have broadly stopped linking climate-intensified disasters to climate change or fossil fuels They gloss over the ABC's own role in this but still good to see it published

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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈's avatar Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pairofclaws.bsky.social
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For fuck sake, writers, STOP USING AI ART. Stop using it on your book covers, stop using it in your book promos, stop using it to show what your OCs look like, stop using it as "inspiration," STOP USING IT. You want your artform respected, respect other artforms. There is no ethical use. None.

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John Rogers's avatar John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social
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Every time. UBI works. AI doesn’t. But which one is getting billions in hot dumb money thrown at it.

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merritt k's avatar merritt k @merrittk.com
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“Dune is colonialist” “dune is a warning” wrong. The message of dune is that all computers must be destroyed and that doing cocaine gives you superpowers

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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God FucKING DAMMIT. I use Jetpack as an ease-of-access bundle for like, a LOT of shit, and this is a fucking nightmare. I'm getting really tired of exactly this kind of thing happening. Go to the Jetpack Plugin, click "Modules" at the VERY BOTTOM of the page, find "enhanced distribution,"deactivate

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