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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean, *I* don't have the capacity to do that this year so I get it. But I am also spending a lot less time online right now because I don't think it's good for me or for people reading my stuff to be dwelling and guessing and spiralling here.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I really do not enjoy social media in the last few months leading up to major elections. It's stressful and there isn't really a productive way I know to channel the stress of that uncertainty, except door knocking and other turnout work. And most Very Online Opinion Havers do not do that

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We're gonna have a family annihilator administration for the next 2 years

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

right. this isn’t a somber public execution to show people what it means for the state to murder someone. this is a celebration of violence for its own sake. the fact that the nidal hasan is helpless and infirm is no doubt part of the appeal. bsky.app/profile/spir...

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is amazing, and sobering, to realize that had Trump not chosen to start this war for no good reason and against the advice of many of his senior ppl, Trump and the GOP would probably be doing... Ok. Not awesome, maybe losing the house, but ok.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

people generally get causality reversed with political donations. it's not that politicians agree with PACs because the PACs support them, PACs support politicians *because those politicians have beliefs that agree with them*

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“No they really believe it” is a way better heuristic for understanding political actors than “they are on the take” 9 times out of 10. Sometimes beliefs are downstream of materialism and political economy. But these relationships are more complicated than “bribes”

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was there something Biden could have threatened to get Netanyahu to back off (akin to Eisenhower's threat to demolish the Israeli economy in 1956)? Maybe, but I'm doubtful. Likewise, an Israel working with Russia or China wouldn't be better, just different.

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know I'm starting to think it's a mix of American Exceptionalism AND Antisemitism. The idea that America is the cause of everything bad and a refusal to admit that Israel is a much more technologically advanced country that all Arabic countries

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In general there is an inability to recognize that parties to the Gaza war had agency & acted on it. One of the things the Atlantic article makes clear is that Hamas kept backing out of ceasefire agreements because Sinwar believed prolonging the war would drive a wedge in the US/Israeli alliance.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thing that was very clear at the time is that while it’s true that the United States has a lot of leverage, Israel is a sovereign nation with its own politics, and Netanyahu was, in addition to leading a coalition of aspiring genocidaires, literally going to go prison if the war stopped

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The anti-Biden people will never talk about this, and it is the single most obvious and clear sign that: 1. Trump was far worse in every way. 2. They have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about. They all checked out when Biden lost, because that’s what they cared about.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok so something that nearly always goes unmentioned by the “Biden was the worst” crowd is that the very first thing the Trump administration did - literally week one - was to work with Israel to bypass the UN system for aid distribution. This was priority number one for Trump.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Donald Trump will never be on a ballot again. People across the political spectrum are just gonna have to make peace with that.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can basically break this down into "elections Donald Trump ran in" and "all other elections." For whatever reason, ppl on here keep ptsding themselves (and political news media keeps wishcasting) into thinking that a non-Trump election is going to act like a Trump one

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the clear throughline behind every Trump voter is a refusal to believe that their behavior has consequences

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

it is actually worth reading the entire op ed. it is Alito condescendingly explaining that yes, his “originalism” is made up bullshit that is *superior* for being made up bullshit apple.news/ACn4mQ2uDS7C...

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Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes — The Wall Street Journal

An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's good to point out these sorts of lame intimidation efforts. But it's also important to put the ineffectiveness in context. If the goal is to promote voting, flagging the structural limitations of federal threats should be part of that process.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If guys who look like this are libs they leave absolutely no ambiguity, that’s why Alan Ritchson concludes every interview with “moreover, Stephen Miller must be put in a trebuchet”

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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 07/10/2026

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congre…

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 09/11/2024

Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies: “What a weird thing to say” “Do you hear yourself right now?” “You shouldn’t say shit like that to people” “I won’t let you talk to them that way” “That’s a disgusting opinion to have” “Shut the fuck up, dude”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

yeah i am reasonably sure that i have a better chance of winning the democratic primary for president than rahm emmanuel

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one thing i have to remind myself about politics as a profession is that many of its practitioners have achieved their status only by demonstrating a willingness for self-abasement that is as far outside the norm as NBA players are unusually tall.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

“well at least we ended the woke threat that forced me to search my name everyday” is as much a coping mechanism as “obviously I never meant it that way”

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

It’s been darkly amusing watching people deal with the fact that Trump actually had not imposed a permanent change to our culture and politics that would allow them to be their worst selves without friction. Some are doubling down, hence the neighborhood bar fascination, and others are pivoting hard

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I deeply regret to inform you that this is probably necessary reading at this point

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

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Revising a previous post: I used to believe the backlash to HR was basically “girl job that I don’t understand ergo not actually important” and I am now belatedly realizing that in some cases people correctly understand that HR’s job is telling you that your company should not have a slutcon

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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026

the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump is doing his best to weaken and undermine higher education, an area in which the United States has been a global leader since World War II, with economic and other benefits that extend far beyond the students, staff, and faculty at universities.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2026

why does this guy look like what would happen if you shaved a sasquatch bald

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Empire of Grift

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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