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atastysub.bsky.social @atastysub.bsky.social · 13h

People really really want to feel righteous about the things they like. To the point they go out of their way to use progressive language to defend why not supporting a rapist makes *you* a bad person. That the only determination for rehabilitation is if you praise them for what they like. Whatever

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Dangerously Fine and Unforgiven @rockthekoopa.bsky.social · 22h

as we all know, you have to keep rapists on the payroll

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Dangerously Fine and Unforgiven @rockthekoopa.bsky.social · 22h

why do the rape apologists keep invoking prison when he is a) not facing prison time b) did not spend a single moment in prison c) his "punishment" was a 6 week vacation from college d) he never faced any legal action prison abolition does not mean RAPE should not have real consequences. Freaks

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Dylan @zaffirorubino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Banshee Lover's Rage @annlynzee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In Bamboo's interview with Wit Studio AoT staff, we learn how Assistant Director Hiroyuki Tanaka had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance for exhaustion.

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atastysub.bsky.social @atastysub.bsky.social · 23h

This makes a lot more sense if you think about it as a push for a Citizens United 2. If AI models are “people” then the companies aren’t responsible for what they do, but also there are no punishments for that “person” because it’s a corporation that can’t be held accountable

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sebmal @mrdo.pro · 23h

We have, within minutes of each other, hit both the ONE SOLID WEEK OF MAREEPS and 200,000 TOTAL MAREEP JUMPS milestone. What da hell. How da hell. This is so much more sheep than I ever anticipated. It's unadulterated madness at mareep.farm

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sebmal - Live on Twitch

THE MAREEPATHON 2: A Relaxing Subathon | INFO: !mareep !farm | NUMBERS: !total !splits | Streaming pokémon channel for 210 viewers.

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Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stephen King by Naoki Urasawa. Neil Young t-shirt is a nice touch!

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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atastysub.bsky.social @atastysub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This man is somehow a conservative boogeyman loan word while literally doing everything they want. God damn do we need better than shitbags like Newsom

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact

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atastysub.bsky.social @atastysub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Absolutely appalling on set conditions if true. Disney can easily afford union electricians so there’s really no excuse for everyone fumbling around in the dark until they get hurt

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s probably because a lot of these movies are lit terribly these days

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎃

A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".

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うえだ @uedymummy0921.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

10月だ〜！

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Mareepathon has entered Day 4

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Take Meowt by Franz Ferdinyan @wendysnowradish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A friend asked me about the time the original author of sonic.exe tried to fake his death to get out of refunding me $20 for a commission he owed me and I realized I’ve never shared that story here on Bluesky

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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atastysub.bsky.social @atastysub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is extremely telling when this happens and the reaction from others is “hey man don’t bring up politics” because they’re cool with bigotry but against making their spaces better because it probably includes either them changing or being forced out

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hot dam! It's Beaver Week at the San Diego Zoo 🦫 The beaver ambassadors usually live behind the scenes, but Beaver Week means more chances to see and learn about them during special presentations all week long.

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infinite brians @infinitebrians.neocities.org · 25/09/2026

how it feels to be in the viewer pen during the MAREEPATHON 2!!

a digital pencil drawing of the pokemon mareep holding a modelo especial with a realistic looking human hand while in a farm pen

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atastysub.bsky.social @atastysub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

3-0 prerelease with low curve nonsense

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a family friend who is a 70-something Chinese woman who plays regularly and has a cool set and table and everything, and I asked if I could learn and join sometime, and she said no and told me to download a mahjong app

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Jean-Karlo @ventcard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

While not as much as Palworld, a lot of folks stan for this game because they're mad at Pokémon. I struggle to think of anything Pokémon has done that's as bad as generative AI and a gacha pay-system...

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atastysub.bsky.social @atastysub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love how it looks like he’s somehow strangling him with fire breath

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

pov you're a fish in the penguin habitat

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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mhkmhk.bsky.social @mhkmhk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not joking when I say knowing phone number and address is a kindergarten skill

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 19/09/2026

WHEN THE INTENTIONAL SAFETY GOES WRONG NC STATE FUMBLES AND VANDY RECOVERS AND WINS AS TIME EXPIRES

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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sebmal @mrdo.pro · 19/09/2026

IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN This Friday. The Mareeps will Jump again. It's THE MAREEPATHON 2. New and improved! We start with 24 hours on the clock, every dollar of support adds another minute, and if you gift 5 or more subs at once the time added is doubled! Friday Sept 25th, 12pm EDT, twitch.tv/sebmal

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mmygod

the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky post

today's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"

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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it would be helpful to mention japanese labor laws re: layoffs as a factor in these types of stories

Quiet Restructuring vs. U.S.-Style Layoffs

In Japan, U.S.-style sudden mass layoffs are rare by law and custom. Instead, firms practice a "quiet change". They curb hiring, redeploy staff internally, and expand early-retirement schemes. For example, Tokyo Shoko Research reports that 46 listed companies in FY2025 offered early retirement to over 20,000 workers. Notably, many announcements emphasized retraining and redeployment over firing. A consultant's study notes that Japanese companies are focusing on "eliminating redundant tasks" to boost productivity, rather than simply cutting headcount.

What, if any, additional considerations apply if large numbers of dismissals (redundancies) are planned? How many employees need to be affected for the additional considerations to apply?
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In cases of layoffs, courts tend to determine the validity of the dismissal by comprehensively considering the specific circumstances related to the following four elements (Tokyo District Court Decision, January 21, 2000; Osaka High Court Judgment, March 24, 2016, etc.).Since restructuring dismissals are dismissals based on the employer’s circumstances, stricter standards are applied in determining their validity than for dismissals attributable to the employee’s fault. These standards apply regardless of the number of employees targeted for dismissal.

(i) Necessity of Personnel Reduction: The implementation of personnel reduction must be based on sufficient necessity arising from corporate management issues such as recession, decline, or poor business performance, or be recognised as an unavoidable measure.

(ii) Efforts to Avoid Dismissal (Necessity of Selecting Layoffs as a Means of Workforce Reduction) : Measures to avoid layoffs must have been implemented, such as reducing expenses (including cutting overtime pay by stopping overtime work), reducing temporary workers, reducing or eliminating executive compensation and employee bonuses, not renewing fixed-term contracts, halting new hires, suspending pay raises, reassigning employees, or offering voluntary retirement programs.

(iii) Rationality of Selection: Objective and reasonable criteria must be established for selecting employees subject to dismissal, and these criteria must be applied fairly.

(iv) Fairness of the termination process: Conducting labour-management negotiations, individual interviews, and other procedures to provide explanations, disclose information, and engage in consultation with workers.

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Deerposts @deerposts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely slopped out of his mind #deer 🦌

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barleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is an unfair comparison. The Ben 10 team had already had another nine Ben games to hone their craft on.

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Deerposts @deerposts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Banaenae... #deer 🦌

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Late to this, but - no. You never share a stage with Bannon. No no no. He’s a lying Nazi trying to curbstomp what’s left of democracy. Any organization that invites him can’t be trusted. Plus he is riddled with lice and other parasites. Big fuckup by Sanders. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

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Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Condemn Tech ‘Oligarchs’ and Demand A.I. Reforms

At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have been saying for years that I didn't trust an Armenian who was working for an outlet called The Young Turks and she has spent that same amount of time proving that I was right. Nobody clocks us like we do.

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atastysub.bsky.social @atastysub.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Had a real life pancakes/waffles as a guy blew up at me when I didn’t allow him to use his child to bypass Pokemon limits of 1 per customer, and ranted about how dare I unperson his son

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atastysub.bsky.social @atastysub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Counterpoint: what if I use AI to tell everyone all about the many many times my personal involvement derailed a successful business with horrifically stupid decisions, and finishing by saying giving me your money means I would be personally in control of it

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Holy shit. WHY ARE YOU SAYING THIS SHIT WHEN TRYING TO ATTRACT INVESTORS, STU?

And then the fans came.

That's When We Understood

Tens of thousands of people visited.

Some traveled from France.

Some came from England.

We even had fans come from New York.

People would spend hours walking through the exhibition.

And sometimes, when they reached the end, they had tears in their eyes.

That's something I'll never forget.

There's a Japanese word I love:

Kizuna.

It means the bond or connection between people.

You could feel that bond between the fans and these characters.

And frankly, our team felt it too.

We had built something special.

There was only one problem.

We Lost Money

The fans weren't the problem.

The costs were.

Construction cost far more than we'd anticipated.

Rent was expensive.

And in Berlin, seemingly every little thing required to build and operate an exhibition cost more than our models had suggested.

Those costs killed the economics.

We later learned that this isn't particularly unusual. Live experiences have a steep learning curve, and first-time operators often discover things that no spreadsheet can teach them.

We certainly did.

Would I make some different decisions knowing what I know today?

Absolutely.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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