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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the GOP is fully trumpified and the rising generation of staffers and wannabes are even worse. if you're between 25-35 and an aspiring right-wing politician you've spent most/all of your adult life in a political and social ecosystem the rewards this shit and weeds out people repulsed by it

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 22/09/2026

Newsom is a dipshit, a thread:

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.” Robert Penn Warren, who died on this day in 1989

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's 92F and humid/overcast in San Francisco at 5:30pm with no breeze. It's 85F in my living room. Cool, cool. This is totally normal weather and I didn't need to sleep tonight anyway.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Punctuation is life saving… #BookSky 🐊

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's definitely cool how if this man hadn't gotten himself elected president of the United States, he would probably be in restraints somewhere for the safety of himself and others.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sharks have been on Earth for longer than Saturn has had rings

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's not surprising that I speak most like the place I've lived for 28 years. It's a little more surprising that I speak least like the place I grew up. My parents weren't from there so I never picked up a strong or permanent accent, I guess, but I also don't speak like where they're from.

Results from the MyDialect quiz, with a US Map with red radiating out of California (most similar) and all of the area east of the Rockies in various shades of blue, with the darkest blue in the deep south, Maine, and the Dakotas. I've lived in San Francisco for decades but grew up in Alabama, raised by one parent from Kansas and another from upstate New York.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Love to log into work on a Saturday morning and discover I've been added to a Teams channel called "<giant multinational corporation> Escalation." Sigh.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

among many other things I would like to see dems campaigning on, it should be made clear to companies that profit from deals like this that any public lands or resources given to them by trump will be immediately nationalized with appropriate punitive fines

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wow, UEFA is absolutely out for Infantino's blood. I suspect there's an inside story here that would make Renaissance Italian politics look like a kindergarten class.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is one of the best observed jokes about the era we live in I’ve ever seen.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Work has been so nuts this year that my progress has been really slow, but I finally passed the 50% mark on this thing, woo! The feathery leaves were murder but look really good. This is how I destress from work, and work has been too crazy for the destressing activity, so that's been fun.

Large, in progress counted cross-stitch project with parked threads hanging off it. The part that's visible in this part of the scroll frame is two smaller yellow poppies and one enormous red one.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

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Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War

Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026

wow who could have anticipated Meta’s pervert glasses would be used to ruthlessly harass women and girls, except for literally everyone smarter than paste

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 18/08/2026

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Jeff Greco @jeffgreco.com · 18/08/2026

They’re calling it the most Bay Area article ever written

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is so sad. She was eaten up and spit out by Hollywood and her stage parents. Nobody was looking out for her when it mattered.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Waitaminute, Ian Frazier, who I know from the fantastic, deeply reported and human nonfiction books on the rez and Travels in Siberia, also wrote Coyote v. Acme?

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Mid-level Solar Flare - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/puPSSC

SDO View of M7.3 Class Solar Flare on Oct. 2, 2014

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is so true..... #BookSky

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is why I went straight to CarMax for my last car. I knew that walking into a car dealership and admitting to them that I wanted to pay cash would open the gates of hell.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/08/2026

A central part of why it seems like powerful, rich people live in a consequence-free world is that the social incentives to hold them to account have withered. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Something so weirdly offensive about crashing your trash into the moon. Like, that's our moon. If it belongs to anyone, it belongs to all of us.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My taxes paid for our military and Claude to bomb a school in Iran, to arm Israel for their genocide in Gaza, and also paid Trump and Friends to build a bunch of concentration camps and paid the Gestapo to shoot innocent people in the street. I'm fine with folks getting cheaper food on my dime

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is legit insane. It requires girls from K-12 to go through genetic testing, testosterone screening, or a physical exam to participate in sports. For feminists worked up about trans athletes, this is the through line. This is where we were going to end up. It’s about control and dominance.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you know anything about Atherton, this is like the angel sounding its trumpet down there.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I enjoy Newsom's Trump takedowns as much as the next sane person, but at the end of the day he's a garbage person and garbage politician with an empty, wind-swept void where his soul should be, and his national 2028 ambitions should be DOA.

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

This is ... horrific

lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them usina industrial- grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors' books to train its Al
This process took advantage of a egal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder's say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physicak texts into digital ones - rather than redistributing them as new copies a iudqe found this to be "transformative." and therefore
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One small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds. and he's almost certain that the customers are Al labs. noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books. meaning that an Al company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

NEW | California just reached a world-first solar milestone Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power. Battery storage is the big difference maker, enabling California to push the share of solar generation to this level.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The legacy media sat there while Trump lied about the past elections and "joked" about running again in 2028. They did not boo. They did not walk out. They just sat there and ate their dinner. The journalists in that room will be remembered as the journalists in that room.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Kids playing road hockey on the brand-new Gordie Howe International Bridge 🏒🇨🇦 Canada celebrated the opening the only way we know how with hockey on the deck of the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America. Built by Canadians, paid for by Canadians.🤝🇨🇦 🎥 Gray_Mackenzie on 𝕏 🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This simply MUST be illegal. It just cannot be the case in our system that a President can operate on the basis of "If I go conquer a foreign country I can keep the loot, spend it as I wish, and not even *inform* Congress (or keep public records)".

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/07/2026

The U.S. Secretary of Defense just stated that—so far—the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion dollars. That's since February. That same amount is how much the United States spent on planetary science from FY2013 through FY2026 inclusive. Thirteen years of planetary science or five months of war.

The Curiosity rover on Mars. At about $2.6 billion, it buys you about ten days of Iran war.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Have kept thinking all day about this story, full of starving moms and grandmothers trying to feed 3-6 kids each on virtually nothing and Republican men cheering and patting themselves on the back for kicking them off food stamps. Congrats, boys, you really did it

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