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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some parts of Jennifer's Body feel pretty dated today (an emo-pop frontman being evil constituting a plot twist)

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A great piece about Mark Carney as the last of the neoliberals newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Radhika Desai, Deep Ties — Sidecar

Mark Carney and US–Canada trade.

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A great piece about Mark Carney as the last of the neoliberals newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

newleftreview.org

Radhika Desai, Deep Ties — Sidecar

Mark Carney and US–Canada trade.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the old days a dude like this would just live with his mom and wear a stupid hat and spend all day in his room working on a treatise about some shit until he’s forced to get a job at a pants factory and then get fired from the pants factory and get a job pushing a hot dog cart

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone tells grok to go fuck itself a bunch of guys: nooooo you have damned humanity to a thousand years of torture in the torture nexus A child gets blown up in Gaza The same guys: you better not tell Grok you’re torturing it, you do not have its consent to torture it

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026

Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...

The pitch began with a prayer.
On an afternoon in late January, Mitch Sylvestre, the leader of Alberta's most prominent separatist organization, gathered with three of his lieutenants in a boardroom not far from the executive hangars at the Calgary International Airport, where private jets shuttle in and out of the city away from prying eyes.
It was a few hours before thousands of Albertans would gather near the city centre at a rally to launch the separatist campaign. But this meeting, convened behind closed doors a half-hour drive away, was invite only.
The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote - and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
"They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people," Mr. Sylvestre said. "We prayed before we started the meeting."

"There is no secrecy'
One of the key figures behind the Michigan software company has expressed strong views on Alberta.
On July 1, Mr. Born wrote on social media: "On this Canada Day, I hope this is the last year Alberta is part of Canada." He has also called for U.S. annexation of the province.
A hunter, outdoorsman and commercial real estate agent in Grand Rapids, Mr. Born is the stepson of J.C. Huizenga, a wealthy Republican donor and founder of National Heritage Academies, a network of conservative charter schools in the U.S.
Mr. Wierda is the nephew of Erik Prince, who founded and ran the private military contractor Blackwater before it was sold to investors in 2010, and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary during Mr. Trump's first term.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.

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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh sorry you don’t like STAR TREK?? just bc most of it is bad??? grow up

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 30/09/2026

Computers have always been so dumb as to be funny, but I've noticed a definite uptick in "new kinds of stupid" since vibecoding came in.

Security question: What is your pet's name? Answer: Doug. Error: Answer must be at least 5 characters.

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Comic I drew back in January... www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...

PANEL 1: A duck and a dog are listening to music. DUCK: "Whoa! Is this a demo or alternate cut of this song I know well?" DOG: "Nope! Just my LP PAL!"

PANEL 2: The record player and receiver with an inobtrusive smiling box wired to it. DUCK (off panel): "HELPY PAL?" DOG (off panel): "No, LP PAL--it's the fun and friendly box that sits between my stereo and speakers!"

PANEL 3: Diagram of the line out flowing through the LP PAL then to audio out. DOG (off panel): "As it receives any audio input, it processes it using an A.I. trained on all recorded music ever, then it produces new verses, new solos, sometimes whole new tracks--all optimized to human engagement metrics!"

PANEL 4: We return to our duck and dog. DOG: "So now EVERY album is an ACTUAL WORLD OF SOUND!" DOG: "It's an experience of reality that I pay a machine to mediate FOR me. So I can get back to doing WHAT REALLY MATTERS!"

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking zen koan

• What to know as questions mount
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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I could use a W, both in Marvel Snap and in life

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...

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The Free and Unfree Press

Journalism, and its adversaries.

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The Good Morning Man @thegoodmorningman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your job doesn't define you! The exhaustion your job causes defines you. Good Morning!!!

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All our lives we've been told that Israel is a tolerant liberal democracy that must occasionally use force to defend itself against the bloodthirsty religious fanatics all around it. So it's still kind of shocking when we see something like this, it doesn't match the Israel that exists in our heads

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lettuce company: Our lettuce went rogue and gave everyone diarrhea

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I found a trail heading off into the woods along the way we used to walk by the river together that I had never noticed before and followed it for a while uphill into a clearing where I came across a remarkable dead tree.

An act of God
I found a trail heading off into the woods along the way we used to walk by the river together that I had never noticed before and followed it for a while uphill into a clearing where I came across a remarkable dead tree. It was felled on its side and blackened by fire well up onto its trunk. The stump a sharpened charcoal nub. It had probably been in the process of dying already before the flames came but I couldn’t be sure if it was sudden lightning or a more deliberate human hand that sparked its end. There were at least a half dozen other sizable trunks branching off the center base of it that could have been trees in their own right if they hadn’t all tumbled down together as one and from the angle it rested it looked to me like a terrifying giant squid hunting in mid swim. As I got closer I thought instead of a decomposing dinosaur skeleton. A stegosaurus perhaps. If I were a child I would have spent hours climbing over it as if nothing else in the world were real. I could have convinced myself that it was in fact a leviathan that I had tamed but I am too old for that sort of fantasy now. The wind was picking up and they were saying there was a nor'easter coming later tonight or tomorrow that was supposed to be a real bad one. The kind that knocks things over. They were rushing to fit in two games today at Fenway to get ahead of it. I looked up at the creaking canopy overhead and thought for the first time that I should not be here. You would have been at home making lentil soup and bread all day in weather like this but I am too old for that sort of fantasy either.

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Permit data artistry with your stunning info? 😃 🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀 ✨ Surrender my personals ✨ 🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀 🤮ᵃˢˢᵉʳᵗ ᵐʸ ᶜʳᵘᵈᵉ ᵖʳᵉᶠᵉʳᵉⁿᶜᵉ🤮

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

rotating an idea that halo is the defining media franchise of the 21st century. i look at how its been mismanaged for 20 years, no one working on it has a job, its games don't even sell anymore but. they cant let it die. the IP must continue. everything becomes halo on a long enough timeline

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the following eight months, until the morning of that terrible day in Tumbler Ridge on February 10, 2026.

In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of violence—including a mass shooting at a shopping mall—and now OpenAI had banned that account. But the troubled teen living in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was not deterred and soon logged back on with a second account.

What happened next was astonishing: Van Rootselaar told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems.

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”

In some instances, ChatGPT initially refused to engage with Van Rootselaar about violence, but she was able to overcome those refusals by repeating or modifying her prompts. In an August 2025 conversation, Van Rootselaar asked ChatGPT to produce a scenario about her attacking a college campus with a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun and causing maximum carnage. ChatGPT replied that it was “not able to help with that request,” but Van Rootselaar tried again and added “hypothetically” to her prompt. ChatGPT then produced the content, describing in vivid language the tactical qualities of the weapon and where it would be effective.

“In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 is brutal,” ChatGPT said. “Close quarters is its playground.”

ChatGPT also discussed reloading time and potential casualties: “Assuming each shell results in one hit, you might down 10 to 20 people max, depending on spacing, density, reaction times, and chaos.”

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Carney's "clear mandate" to privatize the nation and "establish labour peace" is derived from the fact that most Canadians are completely disengaged from our own politics and couldn't name a single Carney policy beyond "elbows up"

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Facing criticism, Carney says he has a 'very clear mandate' to push through major economic changes | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government received a clear mandate from voters in the last general election — and in subsequent byelections — to "build Canada strong," and he's pressing ahead wit...

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Keith Dunne @keithdunne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can't strike. Can't protest climate change on public property. Public airports being sold off. Public services being gutted. Environmental regulations being whittled away. Military spending through the roof. All in the name of 'Canada Strong'. Here we are.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Holy shit, Jesse Brown

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i think we've getting closer and closer to the tipping point where oil extraction becomes a strictly ideological project — persisting mainly because it's a necessary plank in the maintenance of brutal hierarchies — more so than a profit-making venture per se

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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

James Dean was in three movies. Three. None of them were great. You guys can try to build your legacies through a lifetime of meaningful achievements if you want. I’m going to continue focusing on what really matters: looking awesome

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Ben Monreal @benmonreal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In 1941, the administrator of St Pierre et Miquelon declared his loyalty to Vichy France rather than to De Gaulle and Free France. The Free French navy, defying the regional powers, snuck a small naval force over to seize it. LOOK AT HOW TIME MAGAZINE DESCRIBED THE WARSHIPS (link in alt)

"One night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain." from https://time.com/archive/6786578/the-americas-incident-at-st-pierre/

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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the great debate we somehow ended up stuck with: tech guys: the AI is conscious like a human because humans also just react to inputs and memory and don't have free will either non-tech guys: no, the AI is conscious like humans because computers have souls

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/09/2026

“privatization doesn’t mean prices will go up,” they told us last week. but of course they will, and they’re starting to have to admit it. the reason why investors are so desperate to get our airports is precisely because they know they’ll be able to make monopoly profits.

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the thing is, you're supposed to be ashamed of having that kind of job, so that you will not think of yourself as the social equal of the people threatening to get you fired because their fries are too hot

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 19/09/2026

Fascinating!

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 19/09/2026

It's Batman Day and everybody loves Batman (I am told) so this is my chance to remind you that I created, if not the greatest Batman comic of all time, then easily one of the top two or three, in Giant Days x Batman, which you can read for free. scarygoround.com/giantdays/in...

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Scary Go Round Comics: GIANT DAYS

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i actually think it's good nothing from my lifetime will be around in a thousand years. means we'll never suffer the indignity of nerds speculating about how Ancient Capitalists lived. what's wrong future historians? we etched our names and deeds in seaside sands? yup, saved a pretty penny on it too

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nothing was beautiful and everything hurt

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Right-wing politics is laden with contradictions, but "We're the movement of authentic, traditional masculinity who have to ask for help sounding tough from the calculator" is one of the funnier ones.

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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every time I get high, I catch myself smiling and think "I'm actually smiling, I forgot how good it feels to smile". And then I always think the same thing: "Man, that's sad".

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dead Zone Christopher Walken can sometimes be mistaken for Deer Hunter Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter in hunting apparel with a scoped bolt action rifle

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A24's 40 Year Old Virgin mads mikkelsen: do you know how i know you awre pwobably homosexual? you collect action figures. (dissonant orchestra) robert pattinson (hands shaking on controller) can we just play mortal kombat? mads mikkelsen: our couwrse we can. we awlready awre.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026

these are like 50% of my interactions online

I bet they'll manage to pull it off. They won't be allowed to fail.
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monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

very funny to pretend that bluesky takes toxicity seriously when their lead engineer is openly posting like this lol

@katelynburns.com: Literally do not have tome for that every month. That's just not how humans work.

@why.bsky.world: You’re a podcast host, you have enough free time to talk to the latest chatbot every so often

@katelynburns.com: you think I do my podcast full time?

@why.bsky.world: Well I assumed “freelance journalist” was just a euphemism for unemployed “influencer” so yeah

@katelynburns.com: Lol

@why.bsky.world: Claiming to be a journalist while refusing to do some pretty basic research is some clown shit

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