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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 8h

Ok I gotta vent for a second JESUS FUCKING MIKE if you’re a parent who’s kid is all over the place hold onto them in dangerous places ‘cause I was just THIS CLOSE to a two year old falling six feet off a dock & drowning When I say “close” I mean I grabbed him as one foot was over the fucking edge

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Per Lineam Valli @perlineamvalli.bsky.social · 12h

Funny you should mention that ...

Reconstruction drawing of a Coolus helmet with side plumes. Image: MCB

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 11h

325gb of art and material that artists and animators weren't allowed to use in portfolios to keep themselves fed.

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 11h

Some fascinating data analysis could have been done here - if Twitter hadn't kicked most researchers off its APIs when Elon took over, e.g: - which accounts suddenly fell silent? - which words and phrases suddenly dipped in frequency? - which accounts suddenly got far less interaction?

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 11h

The water-counting thing means she is PILLED pilled

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h

“AI could absolutely return as Jesus.”

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 11h

The internet is a series of tubes Guns are also tubes Therefore the entire mess is an ouroboros in this essay I will…

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 12h

Gonna need everyone to drop what they’re doing & read this DELICIOUS NYT opinion from March 25th, 1878 on Edison’s Aerophone The prescience regarding social/communications media is… well, frankly terrifyingly accurate in many respects 🔊/1

THE AEROPHONE.
Something ought to be dono to
Mr. Edison, and there is a growing conviction that it had better be done witha hemp rope. Mr. Edison has invented too many things, and almost without exception they are
things of tho most deleterious charreter.
He has been addicted to electricity for many years, and it is not very long ago that he became notorious for having discovered a new force, though he has since kept it carefully concealed, either upon his person or elsewhere. Recently he invented the phono-graph, a machine that catches the lightest whisper of conversation amd stores it up, so that at any future time it can be brought out, to the confusion of the original speker.
This machine will eventually destroy all confidence betweon man and man, and render more dangerous than ever woman’s want of confidence in woman.

No man can feel sure that wherever he may be there is not a concealed phonograph remorseless gathering up his remarks and ready to reproduce them at some future date,
Who will be willing, even in the bosom of his family, to express any but most innocuous and colorless viows and what woman when calling on a female friend, and waiting for the latter to make her appearance in the drawing-room, will dare to express her opinion of the wretched taste displayed in the furniture, or the hideous appearance of the family photographs? In the days of persecution and espionage it was said, though with poetical exaggeration, that the walls had ears. Thanks to Mr. Edison’s
perverted ingenuity, this has not only become a literal truth, but every shelf, closet, or floor may now have its concealed phonographic ears.
No young man will venture to carry on a private conversation with a young lady, lest he should be filling a secret phonograph with evidence that, in a broach

of promise suit, would secure an immediate verdiet against him, and our very small boys will fear to express themselves with childish freedom, lest the phonograph should report them ns having lightly used the name of "gosh," or as having threatened to "bust the snoot" of the long-suffering governess.
The phonograph was, at the time of its invention, the most terrible example of depraved ingenuity which the world had seen; but Mr. Edison has since reached a still more conspicuous peek of scientific infamy by inventing the aerophone-an instrument far more devastating in its effects and fraught with the destruction of human society.

The aerophone is apparently a modification of the phonograph. In fact, it is a phonograph which converts whispers into roars. If, for example, you mention, within hearing of the aerophone, that you regard Mr. HAYES as the greatest and best man that America has yet produced, that atrocious instrument may overwhelm you with shame by repeating your remark in a tone that can be heard no less than four miles. Mr. Edison, with characteristic effrontory, represents this as a useful and beneficent invention.

Ho says that an aerophone can bo nt-tached to a locomotive, and that with its aid the engineer can request persons to
"look out for the locomotive " who are nearing & railway crossing four miles distant from the train. He also boasts that he will attach an aerophone to the gigantic statue of "Libertv." which France is to present

this country, provided we will raise money enough to pay for it, and that the statue will thus be able to welcome inooming vessels in the Lower Bay, and to warn them not to come up to the City in case Mr. STANLEY MATTHEWs is delivering an oration on tho currency, or Mr. Cox is making a comic speech at Tammany Hall.

Were the aerophone to be confined strictly to these uses, it might prove a comparatively unobjectionable instrument; but no man can loose a whirlwind and guarantee that its ravages shall be confined to Chicago, or to some other place where it may do positive good.

This country has long sufferod from excessive talk. Had nine-tenths of our citizens who have been born during the last fifty years been absolutely dumb, the Republic would doubtless have preserved its pristine purity. It is the interminable talk of Congressmen and other leading citizens that is the source of all our public woes.

Talk is likewise the bane of private life.
With dumb wives there would be no need of divorce courts, and with dumb husbands home might become a blessed reality in-stend of a poetic dream. And yet; knowing full well that talk is a monster of such hideous meaning that to bo hated needs only to be constantly heard, Mr. Edison has devised an instrument by which the range of conversation is extended from a few feet to four miles.

Our prosent vocal powers are always used to their full capacity. Everybody talks with about the same volume of voice, and when the aerophone comes into use, people will universally talk as loudly as the instrumeut will permit.
When ninety-nine people out of a hundred converse with the acrophone, there will be such a roar of conversation that the hundredth person, who may spoak in his natural voice, cannot be heard. We can only faintly imagine the horrible results of the general introduction of the aerophone.

Wives residing in suburban Jersey villages will call to their husbands at their places of business in tho City, and require information as to subjects of purely domestic interest.

Mothers whose children have wandered out of sight will howl over a four-mile tract of country direful threats as to the flaying alive which awaits James Henry and Ann Eliza unless they instantly come home. From morning till midnight our ears will be tortured with the uproar of aerophonic talk, and deaf men will be looked upon as the favored few to whom nature has made life tolerable. The result will be the complete disorganization of society.

Men and women will flee from civilization and seek in the silence of the forest relief from the roar of countless aerophones. Business, marriage, and
all social amusements will be thrown aside, except by totally deaf men, and America will retrograde to the Stone Age with frightful rapidity. Better is a dinner of raw turnips in a damp cave than a banquet at DELMONICO’S within hearing of ten thousand aerophones. Far better is it to starve in solitude than to possess all the luxuries of civilization at the price of hearing every remark that is made within a radius of four miles. It may be too late to suppress the aerophone now, but at least there is time to visit upon the head of its inventor the just indignation of his fellow-countrymen.

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 15h

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Historian: That’s where Fukuyama said everything ended

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think I'll ever watch this video, because there's no way it could ever live up to the hilarity of just the thumbnail and title for me. I'm in tears 🤣

A video asking 'Could a Victorian Child Survive Taco Bell?' and the thumbnail is a presumable Victorian boy on one side, and a taco bell burrito on the other side.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 21h

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

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Forrest Plump @nahyoudoit.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Being an adult means promising yourself you’ll get on a better sleep schedule every day until you die

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”

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robdog 👾 @robdogdraws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Probably the coolest thing he's done next to being a potential Bomberman fan

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

‘oh my god hiiiii welcome to my axe’

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"...Little public things—like designing postage stamps or National Park Service photographer stipends or spending the pittance of pre-DOGE NEA dollars on public programming—did something to cohere a nation. Everyday aesthetics made place."

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick: "After asking his AI about ways to get better sleep, the AI TOOK OVER HIS SELF-DRIVING TESLA and directed him to a grocery store to buy magnesium supplements." And he thinks this is "amazing" and "awesome." "And yet there were safety concerns." YA THINK?

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Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 10/10/2026

Porco Rosso (1992)

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"

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Dread Pirate Sex Badger @badgercult.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 09/10/2026

oh they dead dead

All the waffle houses in Pensacola are closed with the hurricane about to hit

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i think this gets at the crux of it. It doesn't matter if they are actively preventing people from dropping ballots off, or if they're there by accident, or what--their presence could still be viewed as intimidating, and the solution is for them not to be *anywhere*

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/10/2026

If you don't know what folic acid does when added to flour, do look it up, and marvel at the fact Restore has decided to campaign against it.

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Hoosier Homer is reading The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lordy i have seen what you've done for others

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The sanctions are intended to undermine the rule of law internationally and the work that an independent judicial institution is doing. Our work will continue across all our situations, our investigations and our prosecutions." www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...

reuters.com

EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

the fellowship of the arts: thread

The Eye of Sauron in Still life with Oranges by Paul Gauguin.

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And we’re out here *desperately* hoping other dems take notes & follow suit

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026

like, if gaddafi had declared that all apples are now oranges and that all libyans calling them apples were internal enemies, it’d be covered in the press as a wacky but dangerous move from an unserious and dangerous clown dictator

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As the old adage goes, “¿Tres leches? ¿En esta economia?”

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

when you die all the jokes you forgot before you could post them flash before your eyes

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lest there’s still anyone who thinks @waitmanwbeorn.com isn’t an expert in his field, this should blow that notion out of the water Very thorough 🧵 🗃️

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To be fair, by his own account he doesn’t know anything NOW

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Professor X: So what’s your power Me: I can make things bigger Professor XL: Whoa!!

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Complete aside but speaking of yearning for the dirt is an excuse to repost this bit of gold: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki6I...

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a girl talk to me

YouTube video by JelloApocalypse

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