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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

me luxuriating in my reading list

WEEK TWELVE.
The garbage is home to me.
I thrive in it. It
strengthens me.

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've heard folks from outside the US, esp. non-anglophones, say we're "weird about AI" (as in, *markedly* more anti-AI). If true, I think it boils down to this: a sense that the power structures in our society are not aligned to bring any good to normal folks. It's a big club and you're not in it.

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Sarah @actaea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So excited to hear, I was sorry to miss out on the first run

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is one of the funny ways in which people who *play* Warhammer are much more well-adjusted and sociable people than people who *talk about* Warhammer. Because they actually have to go socialise regularly to do their hobby.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026

"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*rummaging for bread under an overpass* at least my hypothetical 7-year-old will never stare down a knuckleball thrown by a trans girl

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Blue Skies In Utah @papabear333.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The bread is poisoned and the circus is too expensive.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

aside from everything else, it's very funny to pretend that hiring "GHOST writers" ever made you, yourself, an author. you are simply describing two types of guys who did not write a book

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Sarah @actaea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I call the book club I host the "Bring Your Own Book Club". The premise is you bring the book you're currently reading and talk about your thoughts or you bring a book you can't stop thinking about and pitch it to the group. It has been so much fun and the conversations have been really interesting.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026

This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.*

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 05/09/2026

Remember that LLMs aren’t alive and don’t have feelings. You being rude to them can’t hurt them or influence them or their creators in any way. The only one in such exchanges who can be influenced by you teaching yourself to be rude is… you.

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Hamlet of Melnibone @hamlet10.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The good news is that almost everything is better than it was 40 years ago. The bad news is that almost everything is worse than it was 10 years ago.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Coolest bookstore ever.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/08/2026

Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026

I would not have thought to make this analogy but its so on point that its mildly frightening

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/07/2026

This is like when I had a breakup in early 2020 and vowed to get out more and meet new people

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Sarah @actaea.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Anytime someone says AI anywhere near me at work I want to start throwing shoes.

A lithograph of a luddite, known for throwing their wooden shoes into machines to break them during the industrial revolution.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's Pride! It's a rainbow stack! I'm gonna be posting one a week this month because I have so many wonderful queer books on my shelves to celebrate. See any favorites?

A stack of books held up before early summer flowers (top to bottom): AMBERLOUGH by Lara Elena Donnelly, IDOLFIRE by Grace Curtis, THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera, THE WEST PASSAGE by Jared Pechaček, KALYNA THE SOOTHSAYER by Elijah Kinch Spector, HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD by Shelley Parker-Chan, THE SLEEPLESS by Victor Manibo

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/06/2026

The arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice if we bend it. There's no karmic comeuppance for fascists. There's just us. Community and hard work and a willingness to to take risks and fail.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/06/2026

I would love for one (1) Democratic candidate to respond to this kind of bullshit by saying "My opponent is a panty-sniffing creep who wants to inspect your children's genitals."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/06/2026

my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/05/2026

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

nature.com

High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications

Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Jetset @jet-set.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If any more awful men wish to file their resignation from Congress, for heaven’s sake, send them in. I’m quite at my leisure.

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a man with long white hair and a beard wears a brown vest

Alt: a man with long white hair and a beard wears a brown vest

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/04/2026

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Washington Post
Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal
The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.

April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Oh my god a Monstress adaptation?!?! Asian-inspired art nouveau matriarchal arcana political intrigue revenge story about a struggle with monstrosity ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually

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