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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A picture of Brian's face with the text 

"Repost if youre really fucking stupid"
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Defector @defector.com · 20/09/2026
This is so fucking embarrassing defector.com/this-is-so-f...
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This Is So Fucking Embarrassing | Defector
I guess the addled corpus of Lee Corso was the only thing keeping ESPN’s college football arm from shedding every last trace of dignity. Because if you tuned into the four-letter network’s College Gam...
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
shadow the hedgehog. share if you agree.
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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This whole thread is incredible, but look at this stat.
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
bugs is a trickster god, an ageless elder being one should take pains not to cross. he must be treated with respect or dire consequences follow
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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026
Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.
An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.
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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is fucking gross
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appaspapa.bsky.social @appaspapa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
they taking out the wrong 80 year olds this week man
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Peter Cullen was the sole voice that was responsible for generating hype for anime coming to the west. RIP Legend
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Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
critical to remember that for a lot of dolly's adult life she was a punchline - the reverence is recent. nevertheless she persisted etc
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One of my favorite Dolly edits You will be missed
Dolly with the needler
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You got to live at the same time as Dolly Parton!! What a gift.
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i just remember how fans turned on dolly parton when it was announced that she’d helped finance the development of the moderna covid vaccine. and then she had the temerity to talk about black lives — they were LIVID. we lost a gotdamn Real One.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Official statement from the Parton family is up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gov...
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A Message from the Family of Dolly Parton
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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appaspapa.bsky.social @appaspapa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
listening to jolene in the gym and getting emotional
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appaspapa.bsky.social @appaspapa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
it really felt like dolly would live forever
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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appaspapa.bsky.social @appaspapa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
everyone pack it up and go home. national day of mourning
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...
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Donate to Support Tom Savini After House Fire, organized by Jason Baker
Tom Savini, special makeup effects legend, is facing a heartbreaking loss after Tom’s … Jason Baker needs your support for Support Tom Savini After House Fire
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Chris Hays, id Software’s lead services programmer says id has now less devs than they had during 'Doom' (2016) development and that's not enough to make a simliar game again. He also says that Xbox doesn't understand art. kotaku.com/id-software-...
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 05/08/2026
Win 2 tickets to PAX West! - Follow MinnMaxShow on Bluesky - Share this post - We'll randomly pick a winner Friday MinnMax is hosting two panels at PAX West, please come say hello to us and compete in Trivia Tower Live! Learn more about PAX and our meetup here - www.patreon.com/minnmax/post...
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.
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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/08/2026
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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appaspapa.bsky.social @appaspapa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
go dodgers imo
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 01/08/2026
The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us
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appaspapa.bsky.social @appaspapa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
-MEATSPACE -forbidden rice -jack in -USB -digital versatile disc
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appaspapa.bsky.social @appaspapa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
is that good
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
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appaspapa.bsky.social @appaspapa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
avatar aang taught me that the most important thing you can be is hot
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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 24/07/2026
The Austin FC academy is under investigation by local police and the FBI for allegations of youth-on-youth sexual abuse among players. Reporting w/ @mlsist.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Austin FC academy under investigation by police and FBI for allegations of youth-on-youth sexual abuse
Multiple league, club, and law enforcement sources confirm ongoing inquiries into MLS club
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
Within hours, the White House agreed the patient surveys painted a clear picture, the people said. In an internal call, the White House aides approved statements from the public health agencies for public release — though they still only identified Taco Bell as linked to the outbreak, without naming Taylor Farms specifically.
Taco Bell moved first, releasing a statement. While it did not explicitly name Taylor Farms it said it believed "public health is a shared responsibility among restaurants, their suppliers, and authorities, and we are proud to have consistently acted quickly and proactively to protect our guests."
The agency updates on the outbreak were finally posted after 10 p.m. New York time - hours behind schedule - and also omitted directly naming Taylor Farms or saying if the company would recall products.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There are two possibilities here. Taylor Farms paid a shit ton of money to get the FDA to say this. Or DOGE decimated the FDA so significantly that they managed to fuck up a basic sample test. Neither one is great!
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Merlin Duck
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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It's not just Taco Bell. Taylor Farms supplies Ralphs, Gelson's, Vallarta, Bristol Farms, McDonald's, Chipotle, Subway, Burger King, the grocery stores in the screenshot, and more. This isn't their first food safety issue. They were the cause of the recent major E. Coli outbreak. They are unsafe.
screenshot of grocery stores that taylor foods supplies, including sprouts, whole foods, vons, pavillions, walmart, food4less, albertsons, target, and amazon fresh.HealthWatch
FDA finds little handwashing, dirty equipment at McDonald's supplier linked to E. coli outbreak
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Updated on: January 10, 2025 / 9:39 PM EST / CBS NewsWASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2017 Two Taylor Farms establishments, located in Dallas, Texas and in Tracy, California, and headquartered in Salinas, California, are recalling approximately 6,630 pounds of chicken and pork salad products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm), the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced todayLast Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that Taylor Farms New Jersey, a vegetable processing subsidiary of bagged salad maker Taylor Farms, faces more than $1 million in fines following an inspection triggered by a workplace fatality in Swedesboro, New Jersey. 

The investigation began in May 2025 after a worker was killed while cleaning a machine, and OSHA inspectors found 16 willful and repeated safety violations related to a lack of lockout/tagout procedures and training during sanitation activities. The safety agency proposed $1,125,484 in citations.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 16/07/2026
abhorrent and disgusting. far more important an issue than the completely fake discourse about woke casting or whatever.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
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claire 🐶 @rainykoishi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
just opened x and immediately got hit with the most violent vocal stim I've seen in a second credit(?): x.com/LagSpike776/...
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appaspapa.bsky.social @appaspapa.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
John Frosty throwing straight heat
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
# youtube_nusic: ~l.5h runtine # 113,879 hours of youtube_rusic 12,287 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics 16,843 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics_for genius_hg: -1.3h runting 17,615 hours of genius_hq 41, 544 hours of genius_hq lyrics 17,387 hours of genius ha_lyrics_ foreign freesound: -B.2h runting 410 hours of freesound # insip: -B.2h runtine 19,514 hours of insip # jamendo: ~B.1h runtine 3,726 hours of janendo * ponds_music: ~1.1h runtine # 62,117 hours of ponds_music # deezer: -8. 5h runtine 12,287 hours of deezer 10,175 hours of deezer_lyrics 6,699 hours of deezer_lyrics_foreign * ytn_tagged: ~2h runtine # 152,162 hours of ytn_ tagged # musescore: -B.1h runtine 183 hours of nusescore_lyrics
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