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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Feeling strangely maternal toward this man in the G*mini ad, whose facial expression resembles an infant seeking the breast.
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Actually I think using your parents as guarantors for your apartment should be banned.
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Does the vagueness of modern app error messages annoy anyone else? “Oopsie! Something went wrong!” I appreciate that BlueSky offers a little more detail and respect for users’ intelligence
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Something to think about during this latest round of "this person who isn't poor wants to improve the lives of others."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Have been trying to ask a simple question about guarantors on r/NYCApartments, and I think someone stacked that place with libertarian men who would like it if people like me just rolled over and died. This is ultimately a poor long term strategy for the survival of their species.
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Have been kibbitzing in a Reddit thread about someone’s attempt to make a list of interesting local social spaces. They spent weeks researching for it, but then they admitted they used AI to put it together, presumably into the spreadsheet. Any credibility they had collapsed as a result,
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why are all our statistics, income burden estimates and affordability thresholds calculated using pre-tax income when 1/3 of your income goes to taxes? @mayor.nyc.gov
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Has anyone tried a campaign of cyberbullying the real estate agents around here? Nothing harmful, I think they just need to be reminded of their place
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I now work at a health insurance company with employee-sponsored health insurance. Despite this, today I find myself crying about my health insurance again. Please make it stop
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My middle name has been stolen by tech plagiarism giants. And the staggered rollout means that many people reading this will not have the ability to set an opt-out before they forget. (I don’t have the option.) Time to manually set a daily reminder to opt out because I’ve lost control of my life
lifehacker.com
Meta Now Lets Anyone Generate AI Images With Your Instagram Posts, but You Can Stop It
Meta AI's new Muse image models can generate an image using the likeness from any public Instagram profile. Here's how to stop that from happening.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!
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Anamanaguchi @anamanaguchi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Closest thing to the Scott Pilgrim EX OST that I could find so far youtu.be/dX_nxOcDFgU?...
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The entire Ocarina of Time Soundtrack, if The Beatles made it (Sentence Mixing)
YouTube video by RednasVGM
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Now, if only this had been their business model at the very beginning, and not “you are the product,” we might not be where we are today… The greed is eye-watering though
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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It's really bleak that lawyers are shaking down an independent blog for a copyright infringement from 14 years ago while LLMs are just gobbling up oceans' worth of intellectual property without consequence.
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
BUT WHAT ABOUT MY SEXY PERSONAL AI ASSISTANT THAT IS CRITICAL TO MY FEELINGS OF COMPETENCE?
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Song that's been living rent-free in my head for 16 years. It's so good
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Jack Peñate - 'Tonight's Today'
YouTube video by XL Recordings
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The feature, internally called “Name Tag,” would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant.
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.
	Is it true that Gallup plans to stop tracking approval ratings of political figures? Why? That's a terrible idea. It’s crucial for citizens in a democracy to have the ability to voice their opinions of the leaders they’ve elected and make those opinions known. As a longtime Gallup pollster, I’m ashamed that you’d even consider cutting off this important marker of American political feeling. Please reconsider.

	Thank you!
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
AOC on Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba: “What has transpired is that now it’s kind of become acceptable that the entire Western world will look the other way as they starve & deprive a people because they find political actors or political regimes in that country to be objectionable”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) talks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Google making you turn off all your inbox sorting just to avoid the new AI features is diabolical
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Where’s the German word for the all too familiar NY feeling of “you will never be allowed to exist here long enough to enjoy this” www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
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Ridgewood to get first Whole Foods as chain expands eastward
The supermarket will take 28,000 square feet on a 15-year lease that includes three options to extend for five years each.
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
tfw your hair is turning white and you've never had a salaried job with benefits
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welcome 2 my skinner box @heysawbones.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“Yes, please. Allow me to dig or fill holes for my fellow man. I will be glad for it.” It lets me tell them I love them without it getting awkward and personal
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
They did it, they effectively ended the fight against climate change by starving all the other issues and creating a utilitarian argument for it by inflicting massive human suffering.
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Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change | CNN Business
In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued r...
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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I've noticed this too—zoomers and boomers are hooked on ChatGPT and trust it completely, while thirty- and forty-somethings are the most skeptical cohort. Granted, I know a lot of writers, which is a skewed sample.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 27/10/2025
But where was the NYPD, whose mission is to protect protesters' right to free speech and, equally important, their safety, during last week's raid on Canal Street? Answer: nowhere to be found. That's by design. And it threatens to be a problem — of Constitutional proportions.
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Ugly Truth: Feds' Canal Street Raid Pushed Aside NYPD, Safety and Free Speech - Streetsblog New York City
President Trump's heavily armed and masked immigration troops are turning American cities into battlegrounds — and eliminating accountability and free speech in the public realm.
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Just a little irreplaceable historic building gore as a treat
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Please stop I’m getting sick and tired of boycotting every single company
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Cheebs @chillbobagginz.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
You know what’s super cool? The fact that Instagram updating their app to show your live location without your permission and that the update dropped while I was solo backpacking. Instagram actually sucks for that. Why was this ever approved
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
take heart in this fab essay and forthcoming book: archaeologists find that when empires fall, the powerful fare badly but the commoners fare better! people want to cooperate and thrive. what happens next is still up to us. aeon.co/essays/the-g...
aeon.co
The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays
Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A new Animalympics but with a proper Animal Sport? Let's goooo
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GOAT - Official Teaser Trailer (HD)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Any comment on SCOTUS hacking away at the Constitution or are we just moving on from that
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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Sly Stone and Brian Wilson in the same week, man. Two genuine visionaries who gave us so much, suffered so much, and both retreated from the outside world for long stretches of time, burrowing inside themselves, as their music became raw materials for entire genres and sub-genres and sub-sub-genres.
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This article gave me brain damage
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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
So what’s the deal with New York City’s rats? nyra.nyc/articles/rat...
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Another nice day of @nytimes.com championing marginalized voices
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
AI does work and we are frickin cooked
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Physically painful for me to hear people close to me saying they won’t support Bernie, AOC or the Squad because of what they think their views on Israel are
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Last few days to "fittingly" listen to these two weird covers of "Little April Showers" that I adore. First up is the Roches, hidden in this bizarre (but cool) medley of other things youtu.be/7ObPekx0h0M?...
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Opening Medley ("I'm Getting Wet And I Don't Care At All")
YouTube video by Ken Nordine - Topic
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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Toniko Pantoja @tonikopantoja.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
So I started animating this stupid joke about these two types of digital artists
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Solve the mass layoffs and the toxic internet activity simultaneously: force all platforms to hire content moderators and investigators on a massive scale
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
There are two kinds of people: people who need to hear "go ahead" and people who need to hear "pleeeeease stop"
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater asking to *repeal congestion pricing* because of this, don't you think?
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New Survey Finds Congestion Pricing Accelerating Displacement in Chinatown and Lower East Side
The Coalition gathered responses from 112 businesses over a month-long period, and found that 86.5% of those in the survey group oppose congestion pricing.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Reflecting on her participation in the Paris AI Summit, @abeba.bsky.social pushes back on the “deeply mistaken assumption that AI technologies are inherently good and that mass adoption inevitably leads to public benefits” — and outlines a clear vision for public interest AI. aial.ie/pages/aiparis/
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Bending the arc of AI towards the public interest
By Abeba Birhane, 18/02/2025 Following the first in Bletchley Park in 2023 and the second in Seoul in 2024, the third AI Action Summit took place in February 2025 in Paris. In the context of previous ...
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
What is the local news like in these areas? Is it just down to social media reporting now? If we want demonstrations to work we need media to cover them.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I keep catching myself having this feeling like well surely this cannot stand. Something will be done. Such an act of hubris to expect that. Especially from an American.
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babyratte.bsky.social @babyratte.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Big surprise!!!
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