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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 07/10/2026

"It's just you and the experiment." Why so many people are struggling to find meaning youtu.be/J4csae0gaQM?...

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Young people say their lives feel fake. Here’s why | Arthur Brooks

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

everyone at The Chicks show has t shirts that say Maryanne and Wanda 2028

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finished up the third consecutive 10-hour day of sitting in a hotel conference room studying for my upcoming certification exam. My brain is mush. Watching ‘Independence Day’ is making me emotional.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think I’m going to update my terms and conditions.

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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@charliejaneanders.com’s blurb on @sarahpinsker.bsky.social’s A SONG FOR A NEW DAY: “You’d better keep a copy with you at all times, because this book will help you survive the future.” Maybe that’s why I keep re-reading this blessing of a book: it helps heal my heart in these atrocious times.

The cover of Sarah Pinsker’s A SONG FOR A NEW DAY

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Rebecca Dean @rmdean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This and Klobuchar's (honestly, pretty funny) follow-up is, indeed, "extremely weird shit"

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever a previously loved franchise goes to shit, the answer is almost always "because of private equity".

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Busy night at the Lebanon NH Airport. They are stashing Cape Air planes here for the storm.

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you looking for something new to listen to today? It’s just a girl and her guitar and 14 songs she wrote about her road trip across America sung live at her hometown town hall. ‘North Star - Live’ is available today on all streaming platforms, including this one.

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North Star (Live) - Album by Lilly Golden | Spotify

Lilly Golden · album · 2026 · 14 songs

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What I see: Man can't see distress on own child's face and care about him, needs robot to tell him he's Bad Actually.

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lilly asked for help writing song descriptions for a press release and all I’ve got is gems like, “‘Angel Crusade’ is the most rock-adjacent of the songs on this album with (insert knowledgeable description of music).” I know there are words for what I hear, but I’ve never learned the vocabulary.

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was lucky enough to see a performance of ‘The Fire Within Her’ by the Pandora Consort this past weekend. I don’t know that I’ve seen a folk opera before, and I enjoyed the mix of music and history in this one. Their performances were excellent. If you get a chance, check them out.

thepandoraconsort.com

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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🧵This. So. Much. This.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They knew this 1,000-year-old archaeological site was here. It had been mapped, published, and reported to the agencies responsible for the land. Trump's border-wall contractors bulldozed right through it /1 Link: youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Rebecca Dean @rmdean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I really shouldn’t have been drinking coffee when this came across my feed. 🤣

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

C'mon, bro. Give us another chance. Just two more years, bro. It's all gonna be great, you'll see. There'll be cheap gas and big fat checks for everyone, for real. Right after the election, swear. Bro. BRO.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026

Everybody pees. When I die, when Jeff Bezos dies, and when you die, our bladders will give way and we will pee ourselves. A declaration of war on other people's right to pee is a declaration of war on humanity itself. eof/

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wonder if the fact that my daughter comes to me with questions about why Distrokid won’t upload her album cover means that she thinks I’m really, really smart about everything, even things I’m clueless about. Or maybe she just doesn’t have anyone else to ask?

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We were all so worried about millennial fever and randomly spawning death cults in the mid 1990s, and it turns out we were thirty years early. There are just so many death cults right now: AI doomers, religious doomers, climate doomers, MAGA doomers. Is everybody that desperate to avoid work?

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Prince - 1999: Party Over, Out of Time

Alt: The purple one would like a word. Prince - 1999: Party Over, Out of Time

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Loneliness is all that oligarchs will give you for free. Loneliness without solitude: the ultimate totalitarian win." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...

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I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud

How AI is destroying the life of the mind.

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David Autovino @davidautovino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shel Silverstein somehow clocking AI all the way back in 1981

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s possible that leggings season has arrived.

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between Bos taurus and Bison bison, I’m always going to root for Bison bison.

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Whiskey Blair @whiskeyblair.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The void has let me know that, due to high demand, the wait time to resume screaming into it may be longer than usual.

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wonder if cats have opinions about retaining the can shape of their cat pate the way humans do about cranberry sauce.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the model, right? Suck people into conceptualising these things as having some existence that makes them worth saving. They're trying to get me to feel like Noa-32 is somehow worth saving from oblivion.

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John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm dying. This is wonderful.

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Kevin Jerry Matthews Meiser @kevinjerrymatthews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What we’ve been saying for years. Media: do not paraphrase him. Do not explain him. He speaks for himself. This speaks for itself open.substack.com/pub/marytrum...

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Sane Washing

Donald’s Incoherent Rambling

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Donald Trump's $45,000 cash gift to his nurse/stalker Natalie Harp raises new questions about Joe Biden's finances.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The world has become an endless janky late 90s voicemail tree into which we’re all constantly screaming OPERATOR, hoping desperately to find some hidden backdoor into actually interacting with a living human person because that’s all that can fix what’s wrong And failing, because the tree must feed

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Listening to a podcast this morning and got an add for sex toys that promoted as a desirable feature an ability to wirelessly connect the toys to an app. I can’t think of much about my life that I’m less interested in an app collecting information about.

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Sarah @shhhhh-hush.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

accurate. timely. relevant. we could all use more @mcsweeneys.net in our lives.

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My son is taking an Intro to Archaeology class and has starting texting me asking if I know anything about whatever they are discussing. Today’s lecture includes discussion of Bill Rathje.

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Who would have guessed that a song about the world’s largest ball of paint could be so beautiful? John Green, maybe, but who else?

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Alan @alangisaac.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lest we forget. (Creator: Dan Ham)

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not that anyone is clamoring for a frozen shoulder update, but if anyone out there is curious, a TENS machine (device, idk) has been enormously helpful for dealing with the pain. It just blocks pain signals (or something…?) so the shoulder is still frozen. But in a lot less ambient pain.

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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There are lots of European things I wish America would get on board with, and one of the big (but deeply unimportant) ones is the prevalence of black currants as flavoring. Why can’t I get black currant jam, or soda? Ice cream? What gives with this?

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

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