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Alga Desmonte

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Emmy Was Here @emmydemayo.bsky.social · 18h
P E P P E R O N I What the HELL
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 12h
The film unearths new dimensions of this story, and underscores an important point: the phenomenon of oligarchs acquiring supra-governmental power, without elected roles and often with little accountability, is bigger than Elon Musk, and we’re all living with the consequences.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 22h
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14h
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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Dominic 🔵 @dominictarr.bsky.social · 14h
the cost of checking if the information is wrong, or MUCH MUCH worse, correcting the damage caused from acting on wrong information, is so much more than the time saved by an automatic summary
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 16h
Giving away all the old cords from electronic devices that I collected for decades to the kids on Halloween. "Hey Jimmy, reach in the box and grab a serial printer cord. Heck, grab three!"
Old box of completely worthless not used more electronics chords for various devices
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026
I don't use GenAI because I want to be capable of doing my work. I want my work to be my work. I want my successes to be *my* successes. And I want to do the work that I can only do if I don't have GenAI getting in my way. Each author and intellectual should have this conversation with themselves.
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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Columbus was a slaver, a rapist, and a mass murderer. If indigenous people didn’t bring him enough gold, he had their hands cut off. If there was no gold to be found, he’d punish the whole community by taking indigenous women’s babies and dashing their brains out on rocks. He was straight evil.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
I could have renamed hbo to hbo max for only $400 million
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's just fraud, my dude. Even if you use an AI agent. It's just fucking fraud.
Nikita Bier: Hello computer,

Find every Amazon purchase I ever made. 
Call the number of the manufacturer. 
Say you’re not satisfied.
Request a refund. 
If they decline, threaten to leave a bad review.
If they decline, find the CEO’s phone number and ask him for a refund.

Now, repeat the same process for items I never even purchased and see if you can get  them to send me money.

If they ask for a recipient, generate an image of one and send that.

Do not stop until you’ve collected $1 million in refunds.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026
ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The thing is, cis people who like to yell at us on social media when we say things like "wow that candidate said some transphobic shit" is that we know it seems like it will be easier to make us shut up than to change your candidate's mind. But you really need to stop and think for a minute.
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Jelly Pumpkins @jellyzedsy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m partial to this one
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
None of that is true. El Niño HAS started, although it hasn't yet reached full strength, and there is no 'edge' beyond which the climate is 'beyond repair'. There's everything to fight for, every fraction of a degree matters. Doomerism is as much an enemy of the planet as climate denialism.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present
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Theo Beastly @theopriestley.net · 04/09/2026
For the love of god pick this movie up. theplaylist.net/john-francis...
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‘Dungeons & Dragons 2’: John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein Optimistic Their Sequel Will Find New Studio After Paramount Passed
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein say Hasbro remains committed to ‘Dungeons & Dragons 2’ and hopes to secure a new studio partner.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A reminder for all the people who are still using genAI images to express their opposition to right-wing crap. Please, find another way.
The Batman meme taken from The Dark Knight Returns. He's breaking a shotgun in two, saying 'This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.'
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/09/2026
dems would be well served by ditching the ambiguous "affordability" platitudes and just hammering these clowns on corruption, all day every day. That's what they did to Orban in Hungary
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Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. hit a record high in 2026, with broad agreement across partisan lines.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Denmark, particularly in Copenhagen, has installed floating platforms/islands planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in its harbors and canals. These create safe urban habitats and sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. Original post
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a game of thrones meme featuring arya's fencing teacher in the top half asking what do we say to the god of death. the bottom half features arya saying that was the wrong fucking 80 year old
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τreez 🎃 🎂 10/22 @zoetreez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry spoke of never fearing death, so may he rest peacefully now🕊️ he knew the weirdos of the world walk on with him in our hearts 🖤
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026
the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss
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Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain
Alt: Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island laughing
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/11/2025
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“HOW TO LIVE IN THE AGE OF A.I.” ALLLLLL This. 100%!!! 😊❤️
HOW TO LIVE IN THE AGE OF A.I.
READ SLOWLY MAKE UGLY THINGS
DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING
THE FUTURE IS HERE
EAT TOGETHER
GET BORED
AVOID INSTANT
REPLIES
TING TING TING TING!
CALL YOUR GRANDMA
/GRANDPA
FALL IN LOVE
CRY EVERY NOW
& THEN
MEMORISE A POEM TRUST YOUR GUT TAKE YOUR TIME
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Kevin 👽 @astro-kevin.com · 10/04/2026
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You guys won’t fuckin believe how fast a car can do it
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Bill @billn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If academic freedom means academics are expected to continually engage with with discredited theories academia would be stuck in a bit of a rut. It is only a racist agenda that keeps pushing repeatedly critiqued theories that from an academic pov are only fit for the bin.
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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Help Help I'm losing in the marketplace of ideas
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Livia Roman @liviaroman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I am forever this meme:
"Building an elaborate story"/"Winging it"
Writer
"Did you just take both pills?"
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Never gonna make jokes about Sun Tzu ever again. Turns out rich failsons really do need to be told things like "remember that not feeding your soldiers is bad." www.ms.now/money-power-...
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USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed main U.S. base: Rohde
President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the condition...
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Woke is very weird for white people, not just because of the muddying of the waters by right wingers trying to co-opt/redefine the word but because so many things which are glaringly obvious to others...are not to them/us because when you're a fish you don't see the water. One of the things...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/08/2026
i'm good with this
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"A Christian devotional relationship" is the phrase predatory church pastors use to prey on the women in their congregation.
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Clue Heywood @clueheywood.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
at 35 she's roughly 2.5 black children they want to try as adults
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⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🎮 @purestinnosense.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
Every day we stray further from God’s light
Poptart buzzballs in frosted brown sugar cinnamon and frosted smores
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The clipping phenomenon is a bad disinformation engine whether it’s meant to be or not. She says this in context that makes it clear that she does not think “woke 1 was crazy” but it gets clipped and distributed with the framing that she did
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026
A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
They used to call this malware.
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ChatGPT just learned to watch everything you do on your Mac
ChatGPT Computer History tracks your Mac activity to build a searchable timeline, no screenshots involved.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026
The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s not radical to believe you should be able to afford groceries, see a doctor, breathe clean air, and drink clean water. There’s nothing more American than fighting for a government of, by, and for the people.
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
👩‍⚖️🔨⚖️🔜
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two raccoons are sitting at a table with a bunch of podcast recording equipment. Raccoon one says into the microphone, “you gotta cut the negativity out of your life.” Panel 2: raccoon replies, “facts” Panel 3: raccoon 1 continues with his hands clasped together to capture the sincerity of his monologue, “that way you have more time to eat garbage.” Raccoon 2 contributes, “that’s facts”
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Getting caught discriminating against black folks in his rental biz in the 70s should have been the end of his ability to own, manage, or otherwise be involved in running any business in the US.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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