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KTSM - News Channel 9 @ktsmtv.bsky.social · 8h

A 69-year-old El Paso doctor was arrested after allegedly groping a patient while she was in and out of consciousness at a hospital. He was arrested a month after the incident. More: www.ktsm.com/news/el-paso-doctor-ar…

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 14h

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition

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Julia aka mizzelle @mizzelle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moving update: I have movers booked! Packing Oct. 20 and moving to storage Oct. 22. Because of my back injury, I need professional packing, and the move will cost roughly $2,000–$3,000. Any help or shares are greatly appreciated. ❤️ gofund.me/4e8c95e31

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Donate to Help Julia L. Rebuild after a Spinal Injury, organized by Julia Linthicum

Update of 8/25/2026 Thank you to everyone who has shared, donated, enc… Julia Linthicum needs your support for Help Julia L. Rebuild after a Spinal Injury

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

... is Kash trying to hire him?

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😳 Andrew Tate allegedly had Bestiality porn with horse and eel, videos of minors.

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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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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · 05/10/2026

Tomorrow!!!! 🥰🥰🥰

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These boys should lose their fucking futures, the same way they would if they were caught planning to murder someone, which they may have been MAKE BOYS AFRAID OF BEING RAPISTS amp.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...

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Boise police investigate alleged violent group chat at Timberline High

The Boise School District and Boise police are investigating a group chat in which students allegedly expressed a desire to take violent actions toward a female student.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Abolish ICE.

Haitian Bridge Alliance President Guerline Jozef said that Pierre Damas Bel had complained of heat emanating from the ankle monitor and needing to wear a sock between the device and his leg to protect his skin. She said when Pierre Damas Bel brought those concerns to ICE at an appointment asking for it to be removed, they instead tightened the monitor, saying it should not be lose enough for a sock to fit underneath it.

This revelation was met with horrified gasps among those in the sanctuary.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026

*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)

Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps.

Caption reads:
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California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In honor of the 20th anniversary of FNL's premiere Oct 3 2006, my massive feature on the show from back in the day. I went to Austin in Season 1 & visiting that set changed my life, so say we all. WAIT wrong show. TEXAS FOREVER! www.moryan.com/a-2007-frida...

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A 2007 Friday Night Lights Set Visit: Witnessing the How the Magic Was Made

This piece was originally published March 20, 2007. AUSTIN, Texas — A dusty field in Texas. A ramshackle house in a cash-strapped part of town. The cramped, battered office of a high school guidance...

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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New Mexico Democrats filed an ethics complaint against state Senate Republicans over images the minority party’s leaders published recently on social media that, Democrats allege, constitute violations of a state law prohibiting deepfakes in campaign ads. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

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Democrats lodge ethics complaint over AI use in GOP posts

New Mexico Democrats allege Republicans’ use of A.I.-generated images constitutes a violation of a law against deepfakes in campaign ads.

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Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Truly, romance authors' ability to take a previous book's antagonist and successfully spin them into a love interest worthy of their own HEA is UNPARALLELED

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

of COURSE newsom is pro pervert glasses lol like please be less predictable sir

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hellresidentNY 🖤 @hellresidentny.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Kelly, I adore you, but you need to make better choices that don't have you looking and sounding like this:

Kent Brockman at the news desk saying "And I, for one, welcome our new A.I. overlords!" next to a photo of a Terminator endoskeleton with glowing red eyes.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s extremely down to the wire here. If you know of a FOIA attorney in Idaho, please connect us. The Boise airport has told me they do not have any video of an ICE detainment that I know for a fact happened.

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote about the NHL's "Hot for Hockey" nonsense and why their condescending attempts to give female fans a crumb of recognition is doomed to fail. www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...

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The NHL's "Hot for Hockey" Romance Campaign is a Condescending, Boundary-Crossing Mess

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

J.D. Vance has been a breathless supporter of Neo-Nazis at home and abroad, promoting their fascist ideas and ideology to a jaw-dropping degree. But he has the fucking nerve to say someone tied to *socialists* doesn't belong in America. *You* are the un-American ideologue, you goose-stepping dork.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨my book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America is on sale today on the Kindle store for $2.99! Sorry to link to Amazon but $3 is a solid price for a book that took me three years to write www.amazon.com/Wild-Faith-C...

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026

While I hate relentless self-promotion, I also like being able to eat, so a reminder that my book came out this summer and you might want to pick it up if you like thinking about attitudes around grief in a culture where people are scared of things they don't understand and can't fix.

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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

By popular demand:

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Kelly Farmer @kellyfarmerauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Smash the patriarchy by reading sapphic books! What were your favorites for Sapphic September? Did you discover a new author? Finally get around to some gems in your TBR? Use your voice loud and proud to share the love. 💖

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,

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Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · 25/09/2026

Another busy day, but please give me and Radio Silence a chance by checking out the free 10% sample on Smashwords!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Drag queens ain't done shit to you

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Queer authors, if you will be publishing a book on ITCH DOT IO and/or KOBO PLUS between now and Dec 31, please make that book known to me below. Especially if you're not publishing on the Evil River! Pre-order link is best, itch profile is great (so I can follow you), or whatever ya got. 🌈📚

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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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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everybody wave hi to the people from the future

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope this email finds you still registered to vote

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btslyricsbot @btslyricsbot1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cry out loud when the world gets ugly When the hand that greeted you turned into a pointing finger You can take a deep sigh and shout 'This shit is fucked up' - Snooze, AgustD

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it

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