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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

So much studying. I’m exhausted.

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

Everyone at this exam prep course is super into using AI to study. It’s a whole different vibe from my Bluesky feed.

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

I don’t either. But I certainly remember when they were cooler than they are now.

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

Remember when presidents were as cool as Bill Pullman?

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

In my defense, Independence Day’ is a solid piece of entertainment.

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

The hell is so fresh, I can’t even guess.

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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

You can just click agree and we’ll move on.

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

I’d tell you about the updates, but no one ever reads that bullshit.

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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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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I did so much early parenting in very isolated locations and bulletin boards of other moms were my salvation. Even on dismally slow dial up, it was so good to simply have community.

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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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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t know that disliking watery post-melt soda is the entire reason I avoid ice in fountain drinks (I think I just don’t like ice), but I am experiencing some curiosity on this. For science & etc.

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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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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tech industry’s ability to make things so much worse while telling us it’s better is pretty mind-boggling. I’m so tired of progress.

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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

On the one hand, it’s possible that having a vocabulary wouldn’t change my enjoyment of music… but I love having the language to describe and understand what happens in stories, and possibly it would be similar?

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

Which is a pity! There is a lot I enjoy in the experience of music that I don’t have words for, but I’m pretty sure that the words and descriptors exist, just in a language I was never taught.

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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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Ellis Bergst @antleredrabbit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are you able to go see a live stand-up show? Because my empathetic anxiety responses make those impossible. Everyone on the GBBO has always been so kind, I think my nervous system doesn’t worry that I’ll have to watch something awful (at least since that guy binned his cake. Yikes).

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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

At least I can do her taxes and offer moral support.

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

I don’t know if it’s just my kid but it seems like the hardest part of trying to make a living as a young creative person is having to be your own tech person, manager, promoter, producer. All for fractions of pennies and the hope that someone will find meaning in what you make.

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

Apparently she submitted a ticket and they’ll get back to her next week. It’s like the waiting room in ‘Beatlejuice.’

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

I’m pretty much the last person anyone should come to with tech questions.

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