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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/09/2026

Bikes aren’t the reason why traffic is bad. Cars getting in the way of other cars are. The best way to reduce traffic is to give people other options to get around. That means bikes. And transit. And pedestrian-first streets.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Is ESPN making a pivot into gay porn? I guess the annual bodies issue was an indication, but this feels next level. Anyway, good on them.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

At Tanglewood for the Sunday afternoon concert, and I think the piano soloist’s encore was a piano arrangement of the theme to The Last of Us?

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I hope Sam Neil got to see Montana.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Congratulations to Spike Lee who endured as a Knicks fan all these years

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Having overheard folks discussing their plans to go to this, I can confirm that this is correct language in which to have written this post.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Showers, thunderstorms, and flooding already happening at MSG

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

In honor of today being Friday, I’d like to observe that for all its flaws, Rebecca Black’s “Friday” is a more human piece of artistic creation than an AI, by definition, will ever be able to produce. youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0?...

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Rebecca Black - Friday

YouTube video by rebecca

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I switched to using Ecosia years ago, and it’s been great. It’s a search engine that uses their profits to take action on environmental concerns, mostly planting trees. www.ecosia.org

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Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees

Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

it surely doesn't help that every single figure in power for most of the last 10 years has been a grifter without principles and no one is ever punished for it

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I am curious about the effect that almost everyone I know, even people who are doing relatively well, thinks they would be more successful economically if they sacrificed their ethical principles and just became a grifter of some sort.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I don't think about the day I get to stop working and travel or enjoy my projects and garden. I think about the day I can no longer work and lose my health insurance and stable income.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

That's part of the broken social contract that I don't think the no-take-only-throw-ass economics overlords don't get. I now see any funds I have as my only defense against indiscriminate predation. I have figured out you will kill me and drain my corpse.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

also like, my measure of "wealth" now is how much of things going wrong you can bounce back from and maintain a basic standard of living. It is not about improving said standard of living. I want a house so I can't be priced out of my apartment. I want retirement money so I'm not homeless at 70.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I'm doing well! I never could have dreamed I'd be doing this well ten years ago. I'm still not spending more than $100 on anything without wanting to cry about it because I expect to be destitute the moment literally anything goes wrong.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

They will lay me off, they will end my health insurance, they will raise my rent until I can't afford it anymore, they will destroy the tools I use by making them shittier or subscription-based or both; everything I depend on or enjoy will be Disrupted for some boy-king dipshit's funding round

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

OKC winning the rebound battle on both ends of the court.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Spurs half-court offense seemed sluggish in the second quarter. Not much ball movement, not much off-ball movement, lots of dribbling out the shot clock before a desperation heave.

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Hoop Informatics @hoopinformatics.com · 23/05/2026

"We're so fucked" - Every NBA player watching this game

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Vassell has to stop it with these three attempts. It isn’t working, he’s gotta drive or pass.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Wemby c’mon man that’s unreal

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Spurs look like they’re still hungover from Game 1. Which is understandable, to be sure, but they just seem flat tonight.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

They’re really going to start Hartenstein, huh.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Wemby’s numbers aren’t even the story. It’s the way his mere presence kept OKC out of the paint. It won’t show up on any scoresheet, but his just being there prevented at least double-digit points.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Spurs looking flat to start the 2nd half. Wemby seems relegated to setting perimeter screens, but otherwise missing on offense.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Spurs are going to need Wemby to average 46 min/game. They’re getting absolutely cooked with him on the bench.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Is Alex Caruso the MVP, tho? He’s the only player the Thunder have going right now.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

That was a crazy recovery by Castle, jeebus.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The Detroit Piston Get a Defensive Rebound Challenge

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026

and relative to what similarly situated professionals make, even members of Congress are woefully underpaid. do you want more working class people to serve as federal legislators? you need higher pay. there is no escaping it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026

a virginia state lawmaker is paid $18,000. a north carolina lawmaker is paid $25K. UBI and wealth taxes won’t change the fact that this is going to dissuade most people of talent from jumping in

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

There are, of course, reels and reels of Wemby highlights. But for whatever reason, this is the one that struck me as particularly absurd. It seems so implausible as to be some kind of joke, y’know, like the Nathan Fielder “all my friends are just out of frame” bit? But then you see the video.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

He is not in this frame. He's going to get this rebound and dunk it.

Still shot of a ball on its way to the hoop with caption "Victor Wembanyama soars in for the put back dunk"

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I write about people who became famous for saying and doing horrible things so I routinely get asked this question. "Did they really believe it?" Look, I get the curiosity, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what's in their hearts. They put evil into the world.

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Prior to takeoff, a passenger on my flight noticed speed tape peeling off the wings and notified a flight attendant. We’ve had to deplane and we’re delayed 2 hrs, which is a drag to be sure. But some Karen on the flight decided to yell at the passenger who noticed the issue, which sucks worse.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 25/04/2026

Depressing. I don’t know what optimistic people think is the best-case scenario here. Perhaps they just never cared about what they did. “On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.” ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

The psychic toll of Al e
Consider the following scenarios:
• You join a meeting with a coworker.
Your coworker has enabled an Al tool to automatically take notes and summarize the meeting. They do not ask for consent to turn it on. The tool mischaracterizes what you discuss.
• A team lead adds an Al chatbot to a Slack channel. Anyone can tag the bot to answer questions about the company's products. Coworkers tag the chatbot many times a day.
You never see someone check that the bot's responses are correct.
• An engineer adds 12,000 lines of code affecting your app's authentication.
They ask that it be reviewed and merged same-day. Another engineer enlists a "swarm" of Al agents to review the code. The code merges with no one having read the full set of changes.

• A designer is tasked with exploring a new feature. They prompt an Al tool for an interactive prototype.
Design crit is spent analyzing visual details in the generated prototype, with minimal discussion of core ideas, goals, or tradeoffs.
• One of your pull requests has been open for a few days. You ask other engineers to leave a code review. Minutes later, an engineer pastes a review that was generated by an Al tool. There are no additional thoughts of their own.
• You point an engineer to the relevant section of a library's docs in order to request a feature. They tell you that the feature request is not possible, and send a screenshot of their chat with an Al tool as proof.
• Documents and code are being generated faster than team members can review. You get the feeling that most people have stopped reading altogether.
• Organization leadership has mandated that each person adopt new Al tools to
"uplevel" themselves and their team.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Alex Basson @alexbasson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

YOU, YOU, YOU, OUGHTTA KNOW!!

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OrcGirlBoss 🐇🏹 @orc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Today is officially the 30th anniversary of Steamed Hams. On April 14, 1996, "22 Short Films About Springfield" aired for the first time!

Steamed Hams full transcript

Well, Seymour, I made it- despite your directions.
Ah.
Superintendent Chalmers.
Welcome.
- I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon.
- Yeah.
Oh, egads! My roast is ruined.
But what if I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking? Delightfully devilish, Seymour.
Ah- Skinner with his crazy explanations The superintendent's gonna need his medication When he hears Skinner's lame exaggerations There'll be trouble in town tonight Seymour! Superintendent, I was just- uh, just stretching my calves on the windowsill.
Isometric exercise.
Care to join me? Why is there smoke coming out of your oven, Seymour? Uh- Oh.
That isn't smoke.
It's steam.
Steam from the steamed clams we're having.
Mmm.
Steamed clams.
Whew.
Superintendent, I hope you're ready for mouthwatering hamburgers.
I thought we were having steamed clams.
D'oh, no.
I said steamed hams.
That's what I call hamburgers.
You call hamburgers steamed hams? Yes.
It's a regional dialect.
- Uh-huh.
Uh, what region? - Uh, upstate New York.
Really.
Well, I'm from Utica, and I've never heard anyone use the phrase "steamed hams.
" Oh, not in Utica.
No.
It's an Albany expression.
I see.
You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger.
Oh, no.
Patented Skinner burgers.
Old family recipe.
- For steamed hams.
- Yes.
Yes.
And you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.
Ye- You know, the- One thing I should- - Excuse me for one second.
- Of course.
Well, that was wonderful.
A good time was had by all.
I'm pooped.
Yes.
I should be- Good Lord! What is happening in there? - Aurora borealis.
- Uh- Aurora borealis at this time of year at this time of day in this part of the country localized entirely within your kitchen? - Yes.
- May I see it? No.
Seymour.
! The house is on fire.
! No, Mother.
It's just the northern lights.
Well, Seymour, you are an odd fellow but I must say you steam a good ham.

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Birds of a feather 🏳️‍⚧️ @robinyourgrave.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

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