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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 18h

Turns out these guys are real

A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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amb @amb.fyi · 08/10/2026

the onion saw this coming back in april

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There is exactly 1 US public health agency still doing the work.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Belligerently disturbing the natural nesting habitat of the animaniac.

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briellastella @briellastella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Customer service has gotten materially worse. Web search is barely usable. Webpages have become less functional and those that still work are buckling under 100x the traffic. Basic computer functionality we've taken for granted has been trashed. Malpractice has proliferated across every industry.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/10/2026

It’s not better for the generations after us, who are watching every one of their career ambitions disappear in real time before they even get to start them There are students right now on their third or fourth change of major, as the funding keeps getting cut and the rugs keep getting pulled

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It was!! And it was so easy to make! You’re a genius and I’m so glad you’re sharing your genius with us 🥰

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ALSO she gives instructions for baking the ciabatta softer if you want to, and that was great - much easier to dip in our soup and not slice up the roofs of our mouths!

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Made this ADORABLE (and delicious) wee ciabatta today, from @ryeisenberg.bsky.social ‘s fantastic book! I got it as consolation for our son leaving for college, since we don’t have a resident teenager to eat the big loaves I make before they go stale, and this was absolutely the right call!

Ciabatta loaf on a sheet of parchment paper

Ciabatta loaf on a sheet of parchment paper, with a hand next to it for scale. The loaf is small!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you’re a woman, the question of whether you survive your childbearing years really isn’t that abstract, and it’s disturbing that a man would think that

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was thinking about this, and I know I don’t actually know you but I would still like you to have a less dangerous/dramatic/traumatic birth this time around! Keeping my fingers crossed for that, as well as for the HG to go AWAY already ❤️

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Glad kanelbullensdag! I love a made-up food holiday 😊

An oval platter piled high with Swedish-style cinnamon buns, which are twisted knots topped with pearl sugar.

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

why pay for school photos when, for the low, low price of feeding your own child's sensitive personal information to a machine that churns out child sexual exploitation imagery, you could get a bunch of photos of a creepy waxwork simulacrum of your child instead?

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026

Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yknow its a shame halloween isn’t a gift giving holiday, i’d make bank in october selling Luxury Halloween Gifts™ By all means help me make this new tradition a reality. Gift your loved ones something spooky. To uhhh, ward of evil

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

fucking GOOD

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aside: I grew up in the Bay Area and now live in Seattle, and OOF your picture of the hills makes me miss that place. It isn’t *exactly* the same landscape but awfully close, and very different from the PNW. Gorgeous, even without the schadenfreude cows!

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Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What a light last week in the forest near my house

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There’s also a LOT of Covid around right now, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to mask up if you aren’t already! Being sick just sucks so hard.

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh, this looks amazing! Heartbreaking and life-giving, and what a cast

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I also enjoyed seeing a very young Jude Law on an episode of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock!

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Needing to solve a mystery is a universal impulse!! We gotta KNOW

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Making granola is SO EASY that I felt scammed the first time I made it a couple years ago: why had I been spending like $8/bag on it for years??? (Also it’s so weird to make, compared to all the other baking I do. “Ok, I guess I’ll put these… damp oats… in the oven now? And granola will result?”)

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Former non-denominational evangelical here (American version) and I can confirm that we do indeed yearn for liturgy. I started going to a much more liturgical church as soon as I went to university!

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

this is a fucking bellwether. i cannot emphasize enough just how how deeply entwined the crafting and fiber arts communities were with hp fandom, and if over 50% of the reddit crafting forum has voted it out? it's fucking over, that shit is officially running on fumes now.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

fascists only have one move, which is to find people to blame problems on. they can't address any real problems bc that's not part of the story. they just have to find people to blame. and anybody who doesn't play along becomes somebody to blame

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

ended up talking to the 4th grader this morning about fascists, which can be hard to explain simply. i said fascists get mad the world isn't how they want, so they make up a story: things used to be good, but certain people ruined it, and if we just get rid of them everything will be good again

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Matt Jordan @itsmattjordan.com · 19/09/2026

Me when it's time to defend Tillamook

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Well now I’m just jealous 😂

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ugggh, that’s the worst - because as the sneeze winds up you KNOW it’s gonna be murder on your throat. (My tonsils are drama queens so I am quite familiar with that particular pain.) I hope your throat heals up quickly!

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We took our baby to college and left him there today - it’s exciting and scary all at once (for all of us)! But I’ve spent 19 years completely immersed in his life, and now that stage of my life is over. Now this huge piece of my heart lives elsewhere, and it’s discombobulating. It’s too quiet here.

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh no, that’s such a drag! I hope you both feel better soon!

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The new AI captchas are really something ᵛⁱᵃ ˣᴷᶜᴰ

This image is XKCD #2228: "Machine Learning Captcha" by Randall Munroe, which satirizes how verification tests might exploit human fear and judgment during a hypothetical robot takeover.

text:
TO PROVE YOU'RE A HUMAN, CLICK ON ALL THE PHOTOS THAT SHOW PLACES YOU WOULD RUN FOR SHELTER DURING A ROBOT UPRISING.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"How's it going?" "Welp it's a major news story that the nominee for the nation's leading health advocate position dares to agree with the overwhelming scientific consensus."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People - including children - will die. Only a question of how many and when.

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can understand that (and wish I could also not be here now!). Another brand I love is Burlap & Barrel, and they have whole nutmeg and ship to Canada. They’re a fantastic company, too.

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Ann Scranton @annsy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How disappointing! I wonder why? I’m in Seattle and whole nutmeg is abundant - you should take a little trip here!

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