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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 13h

I need to write a thread about this. If you don't like it, feel free to block me. But I hope at least some of you will listen. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues

The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism

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door-to-door paperclip insurance salesman @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the place is a message... and part of a system of messages... don't pay attention to it! reading this message was useless to us. We considered ourselves to be a Bayesian culture. this place is not a place of rationality... no highly esteemed inference is commemorated here... nothing valued is here

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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 28/09/2026

A beloved classic reimagined

Four labelled panels.
The first panel is labelled "Skull Panda", and depicts a drawing of Skull Panda.
The second panel is labelled "Skull Panda 2", and is the same drawing as the first panel, with a scarf added.
The third panel is labelled "Skull Panda Remastered", and is the same drawing as the first panel, but with extreme lighting applied to it.
The fourth panel is labelled "Skull Panda remake". It depicts Skull Panda in an alarming detailed style, with a realistic skull head and a human body and clothes, standing in a detailed grassy field in front of a photo background with a rainbow.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

on bluesky i operate under the default assumption that everyone on here is neurodivergent with a few fascinatingly rare exceptions

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Animated X-Men with H Jon Benjamin voicing Wolverine like Coach McGuirk

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Counterpoint: If you go to an in-person job interview, and they don’t offer you a beverage, then it’s a bad place to work.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Drawing some little blob faces to get used to #Procreate

Ten brightly-colored blobs with cartoon faces drawn over them in fine black lines

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Pizza Logs @shadesofoffside.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nephew of John David Booty has an all timer headline disclaimer on Wikipedia

General booties Wikipedia article, at the top it says this article is about the American college football player, for the Liberian preacher, see general butt naked

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's a good thing, perhaps, that rats are fleeing the sinking ship, but that doesn't mean you need to pick them up and cuddle 'em

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's truly amazing how Adobe, the inventor of the PDF file format, also makes Acrobat, the world's worst PDF editing tool.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I usually hate having to use tutorials to learn about GUI software, but goddammit, reading and watching tutorials about Procreate is actually teaching me some useful stuff.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A complaint I have sometimes made about Yudkowsky’s “Rationalist” movement is that what they claim to be (in traditional philosophical terms) is Empiricists, not Rationalists. This thread argues that Yudkowsky is, in fact, a philosophical Rationalist, which is not praise of Yudkowsky.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant

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nupo @nullpotential.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Alt text.

Image 1: A comic book panel. Emma Frost stands behind and speaks to Miss Piggy.

Emma Frost: Darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your midn to ascertain if you're telling the truth?

Miss Piggy: But of *course*, darling. I am an open book, a tell-all memoir.

Image 2: A continuation of the same comic. Emma Frost's eyes glow white and her mouth is agape.

Emma Frost: My god...

Behind her, a kaleidoscope of images of Miss Piggy in various scenes and forms, including dramatic action kick wearing spandex, wearing expensive-looking clothing, and wearing a tiara and being carried by shirtless men in a palanquin. There is a multi-colored star motif and several sparkle effects on the image.

Image 3: two horizontal comic panels.

Top panel: Wolverine touches Emma Frost's shoulder from behind.

Wolverine: Frost? She legit?
Emma Frost: She's... She's...

Bottom panel: a closeup of half of Emma Frost's face, eyes and mouth still wide with wonder.

Emma Frost: "...She's *everything*. And I would *die* for her.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Eve Bartlow’s gonna blow a gasket when she hears this

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“What exactly happened, Sheeran? You had audiences cheerin’. Now it seems they’re disappearin’, headed for the exit door. You were doing great, and then you ticked off him who owns the venue; …

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12/06/2026

This is outrageous. When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 20/09/2026

Turns out if you want to maximize paperclips you need a liberal democracy to do it :p “Why are you funding public schools?” “The metallurgists have to come from somewhere.” “And universal healthcare?” “Jim, I need them alive. Do you want the fucking paperclips or not?”

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

amazing job on the john fetterman magic card. making him damage you even though you put him into play was a great detail

Kookus
Summon Djinn
Trample
During your upkeep, if you do not control at least one Keeper of Kookus, Kookus deals 3 damage to you and attacks this turn if able.
2: +1/+0 until end of turn
Illus. Scott Hampton
01096 Wizards of the Coast, Ine All rights reserved
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dem leaders: Impeachment is a waste of time that doesn't accomplish anything! GOP leaders: We must seal the House and flee the city to avoid the consequences of this looming impeachment vote

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House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment

Republicans are sending members of Congress home early to avoid a vote on the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🎶 Sex cult, sex cult, we’re a sex cult We’ll realign your agents with a quick consult Sex cult, sex cult, we’re a sex cult We’ll get you the less wrong result 🎶

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m just saying Billie Joe MacAllister should’ve survived that jump.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Would pay a lot for a ticket to see @davekarpf.bsky.social's borscht belt standup routine

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Radmad is Unplugging his PAX @radmad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think it's important to discretize the "ritual" of game nights - greeting friends, eating, hanging out, bullshitting - from the actual act of playing games. Because if you cannot pull them apart then you will never have enough time to play all the games you want to play.

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Ang @anghellik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*reading Methods of Rationality* "Ah, I suppose the problem was that Harry wasn't special enough in the originals"

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a HUGE part of Trump's success is that he's a somewhat competent insult comic in a field (politics) where nobody knows how to be fucking funny!

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What gets me is that the US-Canada relationship was like the Free square on the bingo card. Like it was the easiest diplomatic relationship to maintain; it’s beyond bankrupting a casino levels of incompetence to mess it up.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Rotating Handles @davidhdaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Jacobin isn't really designed to be read it's designed to be linked to in the replies of somebody you want to own so they have to read it or admit how owned they are.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He’s not here for the hunting, is he?

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Next week, on BoJack Horseman, MD…

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nice to see that the A.I. labeled both appendixes, both anuses, both vaginas, and all three rectums.

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Whichever Democrat answers a trans rights troll-question with, "Motherfucker, we're about to have NINE DOLLAR DIESEL and you're still whining about people's dangly bits?" will be hailed as Lisan al Gaib.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When we decided to go to the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon, I said “Let’s get to a Worldcon in the UK while there’s still a Worldcon and there’s still a UK.”

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/09/2026

You know the Milgram experiment where people hit a button and heard people screaming in the other room but they kept doing it because they felt they had to? That’s actually how posting works on here.

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Lucy Kemnitzer @lucykemnitzer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is the best analysis of Rowling that I've seen.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I would like to live in a society that is more determined to solve the issue of why so many sociopaths and malignant narcissists make it into positions of power than a society fixated on eradicating trans people

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.

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