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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s

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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial

The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pretty sure this contained my first taste of Wm. Burroughs. Found it on rotating wire racks in a local drugstore when I was about 13. Cost a me a quarter and a dime!

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Brosephus @brosephus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If there's ine thing the majority population in America has been able to do is trick immigrants and some minorities into believing that white adjacency is real and beneficial. Then, when things get bad, the majority shows their true behavior. What's old becomes new again.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why would an aspiring autocrat want to support the cultivation of critical thinking?

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/06/2026

Here it is, after years of having this shot in my head, chasing the murder the night before the full Moon: dozens of crows flying in front of the Moon, my first edit. 🪶

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026

SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: In January, I was sent a threatening and absurd email by Bobby Kotick's lawyers It was unsettling I've wanted to tell readers about it, but didn't want to step on Mikhail's toes. Now that his report is out, here's my experience of standing up for my work www.gamefile.news/p/bobby-koti...

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Bobby Kotick’s lawyers sent me a bad email (and later apologized)

Part of a broader strategy by the former Activision CEO to shape press coverage

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 28/09/2026

Hmm, I seem to be doing a #bloomscroll instead of working. Oh well. The Ultra Violet Salvia greggi is living up to its name here.

Many sage flowers against a dark red path. They are very violet.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 28/09/2026

This gorgeous little blue guy is West Texas Grass Sage, Salvia reptans. It forms an airy clump for much of the year, then flowers into this.

The small flowers of a sage held over fingers. The color is a blue to make strong men weep.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why learn science? Because lots of things can seem like a big scary conspiracy theory when you don’t understand how the world works! Empower yourself by learning about facts and evidence and reality. As a bonus, it’ll lead to a healthier and more prosperous society for others around you.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/09/2026

It is so frustrating to me that at no point in the entire campaign season when Trump was extolling the incredible, wonderful value of all our American oil that nobody said "LOOK YOU FUCKER, THE PEOPLE DON'T GET THAT MONEY, THEY PAY IT."

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Noises Off is every bit as important a film to watch as My Cousin Vinnie, if you want to be a litigator.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I must say that I went with an Nvidia card instead of an AMD when I bought my gaming rig a couple of years ago. If I can ever afford another one (big "if" at this point), I will certainly go with an AMD, BASED SOLELY on the complete odiousness of Jensen Huang. He is for sure one of the bad guys.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lots of people in the replies, including several who I’ve blocked, believe that research ethics approval doesn’t matter and is just annoying red tape. And that children is why natural scientists need to learn some history and social science.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The "never could, frankly" in the question about using a map is mindblowing. This dude is 12 years older than I am! Did he spend his entire life from 1980 to Mapquest standing by the side of the road going 👉👈🥺?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

"Don't play games with me" -- Sen. Kaine isn't buying it when Overton repeatedly refuses to directly answer questions about whether she's aware of discussions within the administration about rolling back tobacco safety regulations (she clearly is but doesn't want to admit it)

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Ankarah @ankarah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We need LOTS of moments of people publicly fact checking this way. A segment of the public needs to hear this over and over. Which is weird because a lot of the public has grown up getting vaccinated, and vaccinating their children.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A point @annakornbluh.bsky.social has frequently made about labor intensification is that colleges cut support staff, offload essential work that support staff did onto faculty, then wonder why faculty aren’t being as “productive.” What once took our Asst. Dir. an hour, easily takes me twice that.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/09/2026

We're going to see more of these bogus stories trying to rehabilitate the image of DOGE bros who happily did massive damage. The premise of "oh we really thought we were helping" is a lie.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lectured on FDR's First Hundred Days today and almost paused to say "look, I know this sounds weird, but Congress actually used to pass laws and stuff"

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tom Massie posted a calendar labeling the days of work Mike Johnson canceled because of him.

Tom Massie tweet:

Here’s a calendar to show the days
@SpeakerJohnson
has cancelled in Congress. September 17 was canceled to avoid a vote on my Hegseth impeachment. The last two weeks in September were canceled to avoid a vote on releasing more Epstein files. He’s closing Congress to stop me.

Below there is a congressional calendar from July to December.

July 1-2 are labeled Rules retreat.
September 17 is labeled Hegseth Holiday.
September 22 to October 2 are labeled Epstein Recess.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So. You're a medieval abbot & the king is visiting. What will you feed him? Eel! (obvs) In 1434 the 12 yr old King Henry VI stayed at Bury St. Edmunds for a bit & while he was there he ate all the usual things. You know...swans, pheasants, pike, & eels in "not moderate numbers." 🗃️🧪

Meme. Medieval painting of Henry VI on his throne, seated on a fancy pillow. Behind him are the flags of England & France, & he's receiving the sword of a man kneeling in front of him. Six courtiers stand just around him. Four are wearing crowns (less fancy than Henry's), & two are priests. The two on the far right are whispering to each other.

The kneeling man has a foot slipping outside of the frame of the picture. Has he maybe come from outside, to tell this version of Henry that's he's just a painting? This might explain Henry's concerned expression.

On the far right are a group of knights with their hands clasped over their stomaches, as if they'd eaten from the dumpster behind a seafood restaurant & are now regretting it. On the right are a group of wealthy looking people. One is offering a scroll, & another is pointing to his own hand, as if to ask if he, too, is only an illustration.

Meme txt reads:
"To Henry VI,
in infant bands crown'd king
Another plate of eels bring"

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Ankarah @ankarah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I usually think of this in October, but as I'm preplanning some October stuff, suddenly I thought of gourds. Thus: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the sixteenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it's very unsettling when your dad says exactly what you'd have said in response to something and it makes you wonder about things

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

me: they also care what you think youre quite popular online dad mom: thats not the point here dad: no but it can be carry on then son

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

today for the first time one of my parents asked how many followers I have on socials so I was like probably over 100k altogether and then we had the most vintage Parents moment where mom was like well I hope you're making a good impression & dad was like why the hell do 100k ppl care what you think

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16/09/2026

The fact that an LLM sounds like a person in a chat window with you does not indicate that it is actually conscious. The fact it can "learn" (assemble new data out of a given data set) is not evidence of consciousness, and if you think that's how human minds work, there's a lot of reading you need.

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 17/09/2026

Whatever you think doctrinally about the market substitution theory, it's a little tough to fault the rightsholders for pushing it when AI company execs are basically making it themselves

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Are you, in fact, fucking kidding me?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't use ChatGPT at all, but if this is the general approach -- sucking up my own writing and spitting it back to me as fawning praise, with an undercurrent of "but other people don't see your genius like *I* see your genius" -- then I can see where all the psychosis is coming from.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Elon Musk's lawyer is running for Congress. He's also a lobbyist for military tech and data center energy companies. One client was Viktor Orban's U.S.-based nonprofit. And he helped draw the district he's running in! His Dem opponent thinks she has a shot in a seat that went 60% for Trump in 2024.

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Elon Musk’s Lawyer Seeks Seat in Congress - The American Prospect

Chris Gober, who helped draw Texas’s gerrymandered maps, is now running to represent one of those districts. His AI and defense industry ties could pose problems.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026

The problem with plumping Charlie Kirk as a right-wing martyr was that there was no there there, there was just shitposting, "debate" and grift. The modern US right is neither smart nor canny enough to understand why no else saw Kirk as acceptable for secular canonization. He ain't no Dolly.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This presents a compelling case for DMCA reform; authors should not bear the burden of having to police for-profit bookstores for obvious infringements.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It also really fucking annoys me that we are still having debates about whether this or that animal is actually sentient after millennia of living and working and functioning in groups and individually at really high cognitive levels while having to accept that autocorrect is a higher form of life

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Friends...it's Friday! So here, for your enjoyment, is a 15th C. marginal fellow is off to have a good time with an amazing eel. I hope that your weekend plans include fun and amazing things, too! 🗃️🧪

Medieval marginal art showing a man holding a very large eel, and looking somewhat lustily at it. He is waring a blue robe, and he is bald on the top of his head. He's cradling the eel, and holding it up as if to kiss it, or study it closely. Or bite it. His mouth is open, so you never know.

The man doesn't have legs, and the drawing ends in something that looks like an interlinear octopus tentacle. Is this an early form of tentacle porn? * Reasonable scholars will all agree that it is. In any event, you should never trust this man with either your eel or your child. It will end badly, no matter what.

At the top of the page is another smaller drawing of a man's head at the end of something that looks like the body of a snake that ate a capybara. The man has a beard, and is looking back at his body as if to say, "WTF happened here?"

* If you don't already know what this is, don't look it up. Trust me.

Source: Bodleian Library, MS Douce 6, f 74r

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

For reference: When I had my background check it was held up because I had a speeding ticket from when I went home sophomore year in college that I forgot to put on my SF-86. I got grilled about why I didn’t disclose it (they eventually believed it was mistake). The FBI as we knew it is gone.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 28/08/2026

Today is Duodi the 12th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate fennel. #JacobinDay See today's page

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