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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone who sells you a tool that promises to outsource the work of your relationships, or the loving tasks of connecting to our friends and family, is someone who is trying to rob you of your own humanity. For god's sake. Say no to this. Say no to all of it.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do we really need to explain to people that it is really, REALLY important to read to young children? Like, you, personally, need to read to your child - your voice, your face, your hand gestures, your lap, your arms, your closeness. What kind of parent doesn't know this in their bones?

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm stoked they're launching this with Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. That was such a good run and this will be a great opportunity for anyone who hasn't yet to read the whole series. It's so dang good. Also, I'm hoping this makes omnibus style collections more affordable.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A few weeks ago I talked to an aunt I haven't seen in years. She lives outside the city. She talked about going into the city and taking the subway like it was some harrowing campbellian hero's journey replete with dangers. I very politely didn't roll my eyes.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I truly didn’t think I would see this happen during my career. This is so huge. Please, please support the incredible folks who pour their hearts into making these games.

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Jim Zub @jimzub.com · 05/10/2026

HERE WE GO~! OMEN-BOUND, my new creator-owned comic series launches in 2027, but you can get a first look _this week_ at NEW YORK COMIC CON! Details: www.jimzub.com/omen-bound-b... Watch the announcement trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Albn...

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Ordinary Shena @originalshena2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tom Tenney is dying and has a very modest GoFundMe up to try to pay for oxygen and his medication and to try to keep his family housed when he's gone. He's comics people. Please donate, share, anything helps. www.gofundme.com/f/help-marve...?

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Donate to Help Marvel Artist Tom Tenney Thru His Final Chapter, organized by Christina Durbin

Imagine spending more than 30 years bringing heroes to life on… Christina Durbin needs your support for Help Marvel Artist Tom Tenney Thru His Final Chapter

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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Same energy;

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Welcome to #TransTuesday! Buckle up as we talk TERFs, where they come from, why they're terrible, and how if you simply watch what they do... they tell on themselves and give up the game CIS PEOPLE: send this to everyone in your life who thinks TERFs have some good points, and make 'em read it

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TERFs, PART 1: ANTI-SCIENTIFIC BIGOTRY - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! It’s time to talk about everyone’s least favorite acronym, that bane of compassion and acceptance and rational thought: TERFs, part 1: ANTI-SCIENTIFIC BIGOTRY. What the heck ...

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This pairs nicely with a phrase I learned recently: "There is no thanks for a duty." Because that's what this is. It's a duty to do the bare minimum.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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IGN @ign.com · 26/09/2026

The seminal workplace comedy 9 to 5 is returning to theaters October 9 with ticket sales benefitting Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which gifts free books to kids and promotes childhood literacy.

Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton celebrate as they have their boss tied up behind his desk in art for 9 to 5. Caption reads: Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 Returning to Theaters October 9

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just a heaping mess of condescension and lacking basic empathy to be this adamant about something so trivial. This attitude is a bigger red flag than the coffee.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm betting the documents will definitely *not *be Smith's "Companies colluding to raise prices is the real problem" or "Excess profits are the real problem" or "you have to pay your workers a living wage" from Wealth or "admiring rich people is in fact a moral failing" from Moral Sentiment.

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So we're all on the same page with this being an insurance scam, right?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thinking about the selling point of "AI" supposedly "freeing up time" to do important things. Beyond devaluing the tasks that we can supposedly offload to software systems, it occurs to me that this is kind of opposite of mindfulness/being in the moment. >>

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This disgusts and enrages me more than I can express with words.

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Treatee myself to seeing Transformers in the theater for the 40th anniversary event tonight. Needed this after the wild ride the past few weeks has been. I was not expecting the Peter Cullen tribute video before the movie and I did in fact get weepy.

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16/09/2026

It seems like this is a good time to tell you all why LLMs are never, and can never be, conscious.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am going to say two quick things that happened to me in two separate restaurants a few weeks apart. One a few weeks ago, one two days ago. They aren't really great STORIES, just incidents that I think are kind of neat, taken together especially. 1/

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean... at least some of the fault has to be on Charlie for being a colossal dickhead.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fact that there were two competing Nazi rallies and neither group got the shit kicked out of them is a moral failure.

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Nazi Jake Lang Protested By Other Nazis As They All Crash 9/11 Memorial In NYC

And Dom was there.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well looks like it’s time to bring back a beloved oldie …

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That's quisling talk. Submitting to the AI propaganda isn't adapting, it's just giving up. True adaptation is learning to navigate the online world while retaining human dignity when misinformation and cognitive surrender are lauded.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the fact that they were all screaming about how disrespectful it was to the victims to let the Muslim mayor attend, and then the Muslim mayor was the only one who fucking respected the victims I don't really believe in hell but I KNOW it is not hot enough

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Despite my recommendations not to, we adopted ChatGPT at work. We're a nonprofit and have to watch costs, so monthly credit allowances aren't huge. Already have people telling me they desperately need more credits to do their basic daily tasks. This makes me so sad.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 08/09/2026

This really is the fundamental toxicity of this technology that just can't ever be escaped; even if it wasn't the object of economically destructive hype, even if it wasn't being overdeployed in environmentally harmful ways, etc, it's like asbestos for the brain

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism.

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Apple Paladin @apple-paladin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't want to go full hipster on this, but I never liked Harry Potter because I always thought the writing was just bad. Im glad I didn't get attached to it just to have to abandon it because Rowling is a garbage person.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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