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@athense.bsky.social
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Art historian, twin, cardamom enthusiast. All opinions are my own. RT ≠ endorsement.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.
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Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@omgsidewalks

Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’”
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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Senator Whitehouse just spanked Kash Patel like … #ToddBlanche
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Foghorn Leghorn Hits Dog
ALT: Foghorn Leghorn Hits Dog
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
”absolutely vital safety work”? fuck ALL the way off
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Matt DeLong @mattdelong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Simpsons meme with Hans Moleman on a pay phone saying “I need the biggest metaphor you have.” Followed by “No, that’s too big.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.
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John Sandy @shand.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Parks and Reich
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
so brilliantly captures how these lickspittles sound
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/06/2026
The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.
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www.koolschrankpress.com @koolschrankpress.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026
The original Juneteenth Order (see 3)
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 16/06/2026
there are no "real" new yorkers. "new york" was invented in 1624 by the dutch west india company to sell rice pudding to tourists
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
stop it he did not sign this thing literally at Versailles no that's too much, go back and rewrite it
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Oeming @oeming.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
World Cup might be the closest thing we’ll get to world peace
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/06/2026
going to laugh forever about the Knicks only losing the Trump Game immaculate scriptwriting, no notes
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Must feel so amazing right now to be a Vietnamese man in NYC named Nicks Nguyen and hearing the whole city chant your name
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
socialism works
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K Wilde @flowerchildob1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The Berlin Wall came down faster than this. #KennedyCenter
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
i mean, the time spent building this scaffolding must be far in excess of the time it takes to remove those letters
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
this livestream of the kennedy center is like watching warhol's empire
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I specifically requested no more metaphors
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 31/05/2026
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 31/05/2026
everyone assumed gas prices would be what caused ole trumpo to flame out but everything is so stupid and backwards that it was actually losing a sign on the kennedy center and bret michaels pulling out of a concert
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
“it just assissts you in becoming less capable as a human. They brag about being useless without a computer holding their hands.” YES
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 30/04/2026
get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
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Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I'm not the first to note this but AI psychosis just seems to be "experience what it's like to have yes men" and shows what has happened to any billionaire who has any kind of public profile
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Re. Tim Ferriss's weighing his own excrement: "That's what Isaac Newton would have done." DYING. DYING.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/04/2026
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Breaking: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
credit where due: thanks to vance for helping ensure this outcome
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
i'm not exactly sure what "race communism" is but i'm intrigued and would like to give it a try
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Mukad A QuBoy
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@whitehouse.senate.gov @magaziner.house.gov @reed.senate.gov Congress members must get back to DC to stop this. It doesn't matter if Congress is in recess, all responsible members of the House and Senate should head back to DC right this minute
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 03/04/2026
You've heard of proteinmaxxing and posting on incel message boards, but have you considered majoring in English instead
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
God bless. I possess a deeply imbedded drive to be "efficient," which ultimately sucks the joy out of everything. I work every day on relinquishing that efficiency mindset
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
hmm
The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
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boneyardz.bsky.social @boneyardz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This was as purposeful and powerful as a rock concert gets in 2026. And arguably the most deeply impactful performance Springsteen has given in the Twin Cities since his 1975 debut, writes critic Jon Bream.
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
evergreen question
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Seeing all the court homies posting about Sauer getting worked
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a man is smiling while talking on a phone next to a briefcase
ALT: a man is smiling while talking on a phone next to a briefcase
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
outstanding
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.
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