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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/08/2026

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

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Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ @chrisstein.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Jim Thirlwell and Lydia Lunch ringside at the Garden for wrestling

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

You would know if your device were listening to you 24/7 and transmitting everything you say to its manufacturer, because a brand new battery with full charge capacity would last for 20 minutes. The traffic would also be viewable on network sniffing: no one has ever detected it.

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A short thread of observations using Max Andrew's tool to explore the network of relationships revealed in the Epstein estate email cache. @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com 🧵 1. There is a tight inner circle, densely connected. Trump is in the near outer rim. epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 10/11/2025

Some thoughts on the CR/minibus. 1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins. Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

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b𝚘օO𝚘ₒts @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I keep remembering that the DC of the 70s once explained that there were black people on Krypton, they'd just all gone to live on an island by themselves and were happy there and wanted to be left alone. And then they explained that there were black people in the Legion's time, too...

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Gasoline Alley by Frank King from August 10, 1924.

Walt and Skeezix are home from their road trip, and Skeezix goes off to play with pal. Skeezix decides the grass needs watering and sets up a sprinkler but he ends up getting soaked. Walt goes to investigate and gets soaked as well. He discovers that Skeezix is responsible but decides that playing in the sprinkler is probably a good idea after spending time in the desert so they decide to make a game of it.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

At one point, I drew up a list of Superman's antagonists in his first year of existence -- roughly from April 1938 to May 1939.

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

payment processor censorship is one reason we must resist the idea of a cashless all-digital society

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Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A lot of technical assessments of Iran’s nuclear program feel rushed. There’s an overreliance on fuel cycle basics and projections built on major unknowns while overlooking domestic factors eg institutional disruption, procurement challenges, and acute paranoia.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 14/05/2025

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 14/03/2025

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

From the Economist: A huge majority (74%) of Ukrainians favour fighting on even without US support. A clear majority (59% v 21%) say they believe #Ukraine can still win on the battlefield, in contrast to American officials such as Marco Rubio, the US sec of state, who say it can't. #UkrainianView

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/02/2025

Why haven't we seen more backlash against the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid? One reason is that people may not know they're on Medicaid, because Medicaid has different names in different states (see 🧵). Another is that some people may not realize that they (or their kids) could qualify.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/01/2025

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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robby @ibjdpcnt.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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Such slipshod filmmaking works for the streaming model, since audiences at home are often barely paying attention. Several screenwriters who’ve worked for the streamer told me a common note from company executives is “have this character announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along.” (“We spent a day together,” Lohan tells her lover, James, in Irish Wish. “I admit it was a beautiful day filled with dramatic vistas and romantic rain, but that doesn’t give you the right to question my life choices. Tomorrow I’m marrying Paul Kennedy.” “Fine,” he responds. “That will be the last you see of me because after this job is over I’m off to Bolivia to photograph an endangered tree lizard.”)

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charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Having worked on #Syria full-time since the crisis began nearly 14yrs ago, there really is no understating how remarkable the losses imposed on #Assad's regime have been over the past week. A large reason for this lies with #HTS — a 🧵:

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Cameron Loxdale @cloxdale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Good morning Bluesky. Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer. go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 18/09/2024

Rejoice: the Blue Zones are BS. The real determining factor in longevity seems to be...drumroll...wealth. Wealthy people have less stress, more time to exercise, and more time to sleep. theconversation.com/the-data-on-...

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‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Okay, really quickly... Here we go! SILENT FILM COLOR Two types: Natural (captures the color as the film is shot, think Technicolor) and Applied (color added directly to black and white film after the fact). AND NOW Subtypes! COLOR FILM: During the silent era, it only captured red and green.

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

The Ramones, by Sergio Aragonés | sergioaragones.com

The Ramones, by Sergio Aragonés | https://sergioaragones.com

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

a young, brown-haired, clean-shaven american man in a green army uniform. he looks stern.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Been thinking a lot about LBJ’s doodles.

An octopus character smoking a cigarette in one tentacle and holding a notepad in another

An incredible unflattering portrait of Bobby Kennedy, with possibly horse feet, labeled BK. On White House stationary

A strange illustrated sphinx creature, with large eyes and a big O mouth

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Rita Aarons - Los Angeles, 1954🎄 📷 by Slim Aarons

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Saw this version of the final Calvin & Hobbes online today and… if you can’t tell what’s wrong with it, that’s a shame. But adding shade to the white wrecks the thing. Modern repro keeps doing this: colourising strips at a greater level of “sophistication” than originally printed, and wrecking them.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.

Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown and he is sent flying into the air. He shouts "AAUGH!" Instead of falling, Charlie Brown continues flying into the sky. He says "ha ha yes, it is finally happening..." He continues upward "I am ascending to the realm of God to take my fated place at his right hand." He goes up even further "this the reward for my endless suffering! This is my reward!!!" Lucy looks on in disbelief.

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