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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I know a lot of people outside of LA like to bash "Hollywood elites" but they're a tiny % of who actually lives and works here to make the things you love watching. We have hemoraged jobs due to the same oligarchs messing everything else up. This matters.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am here! It’s beautiful! If you’re in the area you should be here too!

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CosmicHomicide @cosmichomicide.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

LOL! This bunch of thumbs is having Y2K fantasies of vibe coding their way out of an infrastructure event. Y2K was a "non-event" because a bunch of COBOL programmers with overflowing ashtrays were pulled out of mothballs and worked for several years making sure it was a non-event. Arrogant twits.

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20 Years Later, the Y2K bug seems like a joke. That's because those behind the scenes then took it seriously

Some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the world’s computer systems running smoothly

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Scientists, get your sh*t together and drum these people out of "Science." Sorry to be so harsh and direct. But, come on!

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Though I did tear up just a little at the "bang, bang" part because that'll always remind me of Yulia Lipnitskaya, who...well, see above. Sigh.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Watching Sofia Samodelkina skate always makes me think of the CORRECT context of "I want to see women in women's sports!" YES. Women. Not broken and abused teenage girls. She looks grown and strong and thriving and so utterly joyful. This is what sports, or performance, should be.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a poll for this: (www.cato.org/blog/75-amer...)

70% of Americans say the US would be better off with more people working in factories, but only 33% want to personally work in a factory.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Thread and also: yep, it's literally the regurgitated corpse of homophobic bathroom/sports/safety rhetoric. Which is itself the zombified racist rhetoric of the same exact crap.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Motivation matters: Hard to make govt work if you don't believe in govt. Members of the civic tech movement saw themselves as pursuing prosocial goals of making govt work better, while DOGE was engaged in reactionary politics to make govt smaller and serve the owner class of Silicon Valley.

Civic tech has always focused on making government work for people: understanding community needs, delivering outcomes over outputs, prioritizing effectiveness over efficiency. DOGE and the U.S. Digital Service start from the same premise — government is failing to deliver — but diverge completely in their response. DOGE’s focus is efficiency, cost-cutting, and software modernization…It may seem pedantic, but it’s foundational. Focusing on technology centers the systems and institutions. Focusing on service centers the outcome and the people.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

YUUUUUP. Oh this is so familiar.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Ms. Respex, LCSW @respexy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Crazy to me that "cope" or "coping" have become insults online. God forbid a person is able to cope. Some of you should learn how to cope tbh.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#NepelaMemorial okay I admit I am biased as hell but I am also mad as hell, WTF was that scoring??

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would expand this to essentially every case where someone thinks DEI is the thing that lost them a job, because no, that's now how that works. The person who beat you is at least as qualified as you are, they're just *more interesting than you*.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dept. of Health employee group chats must be wild. "You'll never guess what I had to write today..."

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"a lot of the newspaper people losing their jobs are, like Michelle, really good at what they do, and really care about how they do it, and now all the stories that they would have written will never get written"

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026

"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.

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We are all Dolls & Does. Some of us are Dragons. @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Lol. Someone did a comment of outrage, methinks. I too hate what happened to autocorrect and grammar checkers since they removed all legit style guides and dictionaries. It was never perfect, but back in the 2000s, it was at least a little helpful for a first pass on copy editing. Now, nope.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is my solution to the "there was unity" vs. "no there wasn't" divide I am currently seeing. We talk a lot about in-group vs. out-group dynamics these days. And we can apply those to this time period too.

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Beware...of...italics..."

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is so accurate for most public policy issues. Not all…but most. And the odds that your pet issue is an exception are not good.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The risk of someone winning such a suit is very low. But the nuisance effect, potential reputational harm, overall stress, etc, etc, etc are anything but low. So, really, don't send authors unsolicited ideas. It's not nice.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A young artist loses a bet, has a mental breakdown, and then leaves her brother's house to move in with her boyfriend.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I guess I'll add that Dolly Parton is up there with Fred Rogers in terms of truly achieving what I think a Christian living their faith in public life should be like.

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muse ✨ @muse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

is your mood tanking? are you getting out the mental knives? before stabbing, please consider: - have you eaten? - have you hydrated? - have you taken necessary meds? - do you need to move/stretch a lil? - could you be tired??? turns out eating helped in my case. wow amazing.

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Everbright @everbright.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Your local union president would like to remind you that while The Union can fight for Your Issue, we cannot do it effectively without You. If you're pissed about X or Y issue, talk to the people around you and see if they agree with you, and then propose the topic at the next union meeting.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yes - CAN CONFIRM as someone who had that child and apparently was that child as well.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This keeps happening! In completely different settings! Still the most unhinged variant: "Ewwww that's so GAY! Wait, not gay PEOPLE, I love gay people!" ...?????????

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hey so maybe my teenager isn't the one lacking social skills when the REASON she is having trouble getting along with her peers is our entire household is some variety of queer and said peers are spouting homophobic bullshit???? JUST SAYING.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yeah it’s like people expect sci-fi enthusiasts (especially when they’re white guys) to be unreservedly enthusiastic about this stuff. Which has always been INCORRECT!! Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” anyone?

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Also me with figure skating in no small part thanks to the KazFed Saga. (How do you take the guy with all the sci-fi nerd programs, put a clause in the contract that can't be fulfilled as written without time travel, and expect this to NOT be an issue when he notices it??)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/08/2026

It's a small thing, I know, but there really is a difference between "palate cleanser" and "palette cleanser," and also, while we are on the subject, "pallet cleanser," and it is worth making the distinction

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Concrete Blonde - God Is a Bullet

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For writing purposes, I can hand wave and put the event in a plausible-enough location (now I just have to check a few other related facts to make sure that my preferred location IS plausible). But the confidently incorrect AI "fact" plus something I didn't ask for that tipped me off is disturbing!

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Okay this is petty but SO IRRITATING: I was trying to Google a somewhat obscure fact (location of a lesser known sporting event) for a fic I'm writing. Actual Google doesn't know! Google AI gave me an answer and then told me someone I know was NOT there won at an age that is mathematically wrong.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yes, this is an important distinction.

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Anneke @anneke23.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Concert history First concert: Peter Paul and Mary Last concert: Weird Al Next concert: Not sure yet! Most seen: Rush, Indigo Girls

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