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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 38m

In a functioning democracy this would actually be a really big deal worth harping on, particularly to Democrats.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 1h

No Country For Old X-Men

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a fine group, I’m sure, but an appeal to “your therapist” as your anti-AI message assumes access to the very thing people are so desperately lacking. Care is expensive and isolation is ordinary. Capitalism leaves people desperate for connection, then sells them a simulation of it.

An ad on a subway for an anti-AI action group:

YOU WON'T TELL YOUR THERAPIST.
BUT YOU'LL TELL AI?
STOP THE AI DRIFT.
Learn more at itsnotyouits.ai

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17h

So confusing why this guy doesn't want the rest of the Epstein Files released.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seems fundamentally unfair that men whose most honed skill is golfing with clients make so much more money than these guys.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ted Lasso: Believe! Jackson Lamb: Oh fuck off

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cornell campus police submitted a condensed six-page report from an hours-long interview with transcripts totaling 120 pages. They completely omitted the rape charges. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fever yesterday has now fallen out to my voice being down an octave to Barry White levels, ready to slow jam whatever you want.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our crap KS Senator Roger Marshall threatened legal action against challenger @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social because he exposed Marshall's high-interest shakedown of former patients.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Calling Vance "the most ordinary man imaginable" is so softly savage, you have to admire it.

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Jeremy @callmenerdy.com · 01/10/2026

In case you were wondering what it'd be like to talk to somebody from the 18% who "strongly approve" of the job Trump is doing.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As another Microsoft document noted, “most LLMs (including those from OpenAl) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 01/10/2026

this is completely unhinged, even by Trump's standards.

Have you seen the videos of Mitch McConnell back in the Senate? Do you think he should resign because of his health condition?

It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans. So that's just—well, Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to Fauci. He gave them to this. But you mean I'm not allowed to give them, but Sleepy Joe's allowed to give them? This ain't gonna be much of a story. Here we are doing this. You haven't asked me one fucking positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House? You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like—if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It's actually dangerous. People are walking under, crap was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible. Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war. I'm doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven't asked me a question about Venezuela?

We did earlier.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Job apps that ask for your "desired salary." No way man, you're not making me choose between not being hired and setting myself up for exploitation. How about you tell me first how much you think the job is worth.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Truly driven to ruin everything foundational in this country.

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This sort of heroism will age far far better than anything happening at a Trump rally.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, they really ARE running the government like a software company

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Reported Pentagon data breach
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Hegseth to cut 20% generals

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Use code DMCRACYROCKS for a $20 bonus when you build your first Same Nation Parlay! Government shutdown, hospital closure, and your incumbent winning reelection! All three must hit!

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This. And at this point there’s really no question which is more accessible.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The robber barons and Gilded Age were very bad, but we're now bearing witness to a level of greed and lack of social connection (ironic!) never before comprehended.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"There is no longer a public sphere, but there is a public flat earth." Slop, memes, conspiracy and misinformation run rampantly free while factual news from reputable sources comes with a fee. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social sums up the dark societal costs. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...

sarahkendzior.substack.com

A Public Flat Earth

How paywalls killed the public sphere.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This new Fontaines D.C. single is giving big Massive Attack vibes which is a shift I'm reckoning with but enjoying because I love Massive Attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OsI...

youtube.com

Fontaines D.C. - Tongue (Official Video)

YouTube video by Fontaines DC

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not everyone knows that Bob Fosse in the 1974 Little Prince movie had a massive influence on Michael Jackson. Original post

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is basically the National Design people who think government should look like Apple products. Not that services should work as well as Apple products - which would be hard - but that visually they should be appealing.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

when the time comes, after they clean the last of your slime trail off the face of the earth, you will not be remembered by anybody

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

While I appreciate any effort to facilitate access to higher education (why not fund scholarships instead?!), this framing makes billionaires out to be good guys. That a single hedge fund manager has a spare $3B lying around to dole out is such a grotesque indictment of our society.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Update: The America.gov chatbot now refuses to answer "political" questions or offer "judgments about past elections" 🤔

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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 30/09/2026

a blinker to show you’re changing moods

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.

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Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 29/09/2026

'Pep has spent his entire career standing next to scandal'

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There was a bar down the street from my elementary school called O'Keefe's. My dad took me once for a burger, I was probably 8. It was like what I now know a dive to be. Don't remember the burger. But behind the bar was a large horizontal painting of a nude woman with band-aids over her nipples.

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

music.youtube.com

Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stevie Wonder’s “Songs In The Key Of Life” came out 50 years ago today, the first album I ever bought with my own money and I still have it and it remains titanic and enduringly beautiful.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jean-Marie Le Pen was ousted from the party by daughter Marine for downplaying the horror of Nazi gas chambers and for suggesting France should ally themselves with Russia to “save the white world.” Marine objected not because she disagreed but because it was “political suicide” to say it out loud.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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El Brento @andbrent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's glowingly illustrative of the current GOP that even those trying to show some semblance of spine, morality, connection to democracy and distance from Trump think making disposable statements actually suffices for principled action.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OMG can you imagine if extremists were in charge of America, it doesn’t bear thinking about

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