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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 9h

youtube premium is giving me three free months of discord nitro. crunchbucket plus is giving me ninety free days of splorb. fubo ultra is giving me a complimentary fortnight of bonk concierge. grackle platinum is giving me six years of squak. quibi eternal is giving me three fiscal quarters of tobi.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 9h

Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 11h

The role of the newspaper in 2026 is apparently to tell you about various realities that are clearly false to anyone who participates in society.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16h

It's electrifying to have the thoughts of someone who lived millennia ago inserted into your brain. With language, *specific neural sequences* can be transmitted between human brains. You are literally experiencing the same sequence of images and concepts that someone 4000 years ago experienced.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 17h

thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 19h

Most TV is just this now.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Speaking of cop procedural shows on TV, decades of Law & Order have given people far too positive an impression of prosecutors. Schmitt's team literally made props & crafted questioning tactics based on mistaking "Hawkeyes" for "Hawks" he not only signed off but doubled-down.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

APPROVE MY PRIOR AUTHORIZATION OR I AM GOING TO CRASH OUT

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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Abandoning the kitties...😼

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

10/17/23 is specifically the date of the al-Ahli hospital bombing when the IDF killed upwards of 500 Palestinian civilians. Western media collectively agreed that it was prudent to cast doubt on the reported casualty figures, so "Hamas-run ministry of health" became a thing.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scrubjay is still early, messy in some places (and not chasing seamless UI regardless) but I hope you'll enjoy playing with this very personal web gathering tool. everestpipkin.itch.io/scrubjay

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Scrubjay by Everest Pipkin

A drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 28/09/2026

warning: do not go to the cinema and spend your hard earned money on the new avengers endgame screenings because you will have to watch avengers endgame for three hours

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morbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 29/09/2026

this is straight up never happening. this is science fiction.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2003: whatever you do, don't source your research from Wikipedia. 2026: Wikipedia is the safest online source to start general research from.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.

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Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 29/09/2026

I am on the safety committee at work, and so am now internally screaming.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

the software industry has not solved "cleanly copying and pasting text in a table from one program to another" after 40 years of productivity design and optimization. just thinking of other things that took more time and effort than cracking an atom in two

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/09/2026

Proboards just updated their terms of service for their forum software, essentially saying "you give us the right to use anything you post to train LLMs, and we can also disclose and sell your personal information, fuck you." One of the worst of these I've ever seen. www.proboards.com/tos

15. USER CONTENT

"User Content" is any content, materials or information, not including Personal Information (as defined in ProBoards' Privacy Policy), that You upload or post to, or transmit, display, perform or distribute by means of, the Website, whether in connection with Your use of Services or otherwise. To clarify, You maintain full ownership of all your User Content posted to ProBoards. Because You own Your User Content, under the law, ProBoards requires a license from You before it can allow the User Content to be posted on the Website. For these reasons, the following provision is a necessary part of this Agreement:

YOU HEREBY GRANT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES A PERPETUAL, FULLY PAID-UP, WORLDWIDE, SUBLICENSABLE, IRREVOCABLE, ASSIGNABLE LICENSE TO COPY, DISTRIBUTE, TRANSMIT, PUBLICLY DISPLAY OR PERFORM, EDIT, TRANSLATE, REFORMAT, ADAPT, PREPARE DERIVATIVE WORKS OF AND OTHERWISE USE USER CONTENT (INCLUDING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING BY US AND/OR OUR PARTNERS) IN CONNECTION WITH THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE, SERVICES OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR OR RELATED BUSINESS, IN ANY MEDIUM NOW EXISTING OR LATER DEVISED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IN ADVERTISING AND PUBLICITY. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY PUBLISH OR OTHERWISE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION. YOU AGREE TO WAIVE, AND HEREBY WAIVE, ANY CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE EXERCISE BY THE PROBOARDS PARTIES OF THE RIGHTS GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY CLAIMS RELATING TO YOUR RIGHTS OF PERSONAL PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY REMOVE METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR USER CONTENT, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY CLAIMS AND ASSERTIONS OF MORAL RIGHTS OR ATTRIBUTION WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USER CONTENT. YOU WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED FOR ANY EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION.

You hereby represent and warrant that You own all ri…

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And Google, like all the tech corporations, played its own significant role in this continuing atrocity.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How does this story keep getting more insane

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah see that’s the problem you tried to see the movie without purchasing the Day One Ultimate Edition, you can’t expect it to have all the movie in it

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 01/05/2026

Still the funniest scene in Star Wars.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I appreciate that this is getting covered but I really, really, really don't think "infuriated lawmakers" is the key consequences of "revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more"

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Vivian Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As annoying as it's going to be, I hope in ten years' time we have a robust enough social safety net to catch even the former tradwives whose husbands left them for 18 year olds

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Prism @prismreports.org · 28/09/2026

“A photo saved on the phone, or a copy sent by email or messaging apps sometimes became the only remaining proof that an original document—now lost or burned—had ever existed.” As Israel destroys all signs of what Gaza once was, Palestinians depend on phones as archives of life, writes Malak Hijazi.

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Smartphones hold entire archives of life in Gaza

As Israel destroys all signs of what Gaza once was, Palestinians hold on to records and memories on their devices

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

becoming one of those artsy youtube influencers who post about how to live a good life and get your creativity back except the only solution I'll offer is just ending capitalism.

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why you should use a PHYSICAL scene separator (e.g. asterisks) in your books instead of an empty space: 1) Some ereader / app somewhere may simply not show the empty space. 2) Some people read on devices with the text REALLY BIG. Your chance of the empty space being at the end of the screen is...

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every article about humanoid robots really should begin with, "Obvious investor trap once again struggles to prove its anything but."

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it

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Trash @trashxdiscourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey man, if you're out there, if your mom wrote this letter to Abigail Shrier about you, please drop a gofundme and we will get you the fuck out of there.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These kids have real balls. I hope they gut Cornell.

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