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// ꌗ꓄ꋬꉧ // @staxdeadempress.bsky.social · 12h
reminder
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 17h
it’s just great marketing
3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 28m
Trump pressed states for info on millions of voters in the midterms. It’s mostly failed. missouriindependent.com/2026/10/13/r...
missouriindependent.com
Trump pressed states for info on millions of voters in the midterms. It's mostly failed. • Missouri Independent
The Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 40m
Because compute demand is so competitive, I believe the companies are trying to offload processing power onto local devices. The permissions here are extremely important, does the app get access to just one folder or much, much more of the device?
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 10h
Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8h
when are they changing their name to OpenSI
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 8h
Said “cisgender” one time just to test what would happen. Few years old account nuked two weeks later.
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Metal Gear Solid Image Bot @randommetalgear.bsky.social · 8h
A screenshot from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
On-screen text reads: "WHY DON'T YOU ASK HER YOURSELF . JACK?"
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 9h
We are just mad because this might lower the massive price we were going to sell top access to them. (Jared kushner cut out of the deal?)
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 17h
Sycophantic power structure rewards - plenty of dirtbags are quite good politicians but they are less likely to suck up to Trump on absolutely everything. All of Texas hates Paxton, but he plays well with Trump and sometimes extreme MAGA.
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 11/10/2026
No one move, you’ll scare it.
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SLC @samlecure.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hannibal is definitely not overrated. The rest of the list is accurate.
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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Most Overrated People in Human History. 1. Christopher Columbus 2. Richard the Lionheart 3. Eric Clapton 4. Justin Herbert 5. T.S. Eliot 6. Robert E. Lee 7. Whoever Invented Agriculture 8. Marcel Proust 9. Hannibal Barca (the Elephant dude) 10. George Lucas
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 23h
The crazy part is gap of conservative irish American cops vs Ireland was a gap, then a crevasse, then a canyon. Cops are here for St. Patrick’s Day, and the Dublin crowd was positively silent when they marched by.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This reminds me of Elon Musk invading smaller Texas communities except Elon has a direct ally in Governor Abbott to do whatever the hell he wants. Boca Chica, Hornsby Bend east of Austin.
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28 Arkles Later: The Bone Temple🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @arkle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's a very American thing to show more love for "ex"-fascists (even when the "ex" part is pretty obviously a grift) than people who were never fascist to begin with.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
😬 college football and fall fun is supposed to be in a sweater.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WSJ reports Texas' top law enforcement official and now Senate candidate Ken Paxton spent a New Year's Eve in Dubai partying with two fugitives who had been indicted on charges of massive health care fraud schemes. One of them was a major Paxton donor.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The best argument for leaving Twitter has less to do with giving oxygen to a Nazi platform than what spending a lot of time on such a platform does to our brains. It’s easy to see how many once normal people on there, right or left, have truly lost themselves in conspiracy theories and false facts.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You can only disable these suggestions for around 30 days, and then they all turn back on again. Overtime the entire platform and on Instagram has gotten more and more resistant to letting you disable suggested content.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Facebook back in 2021 temporarily turned off the “drive people insane” setting and it completely changed what people were seeing. They turned it back on when engagement dipped by like 1 percent.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
More state business, Ken?🙄
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/10/2026
🚨 WOW: WSJ reports Ken Paxton partied in a luxury Dubai high-rise with 2 FUGITIVES, Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, facing fed charges over an alleged $15 MILLION hospital embezzlement scheme — alongside his gf (not his wife). Ahmed donated $190K to Paxton, including $25K AFTER his indictment.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
America if the news covered it like those countries Over There
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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
this is not a door guys like him want to open, he just doesn't know it yet
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
oh man 😂
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/10/2026
cc: @bencollins.bsky.social: reality is coming after @theonion.com and it's a close race.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
While clearing debris following a Russian strike in Kharkiv, a concrete slab collapsed onto rescue workers. One of them is in critical condition. They are working under unbelievable pressure, with people screaming for help from under the rubble and russian drones continue to
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh Wow.
Tweet one:
James Talarico posts a picture with Kacey Musgraves.

Tweet two:
Kristi Noem responds "I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.

And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico."

Tweet three:
Kacey Musgraves responds "I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it."
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One fun thing (genuine) about bluesky is that pretty much everyone here has demonstrated their willingness to walk away from a platform if it's in hard conflict with their values. That's a crowd I am proud to be among.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“We need to appeal to MAHA voters”
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Important Context has a new story published in partnership with @theguardian.com. Anti-vaxxers, including Robert Kennedy Jr.’s former group, Children’s Health Defense, have been going after doctors professionally to cast doubt on measles deaths. www.importantcontext.news/anti-vaxxers...
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Anti-Vaxxers Target Doctors to Deny Measles Deaths in Widening Outbreak
Children’s Health Defense boasts that it sparked malpractice inquiries into two doctors who treated deceased unvaccinated measles patients.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It is 4 power like the DanDans but the 1 ping damage is what ruins the pure simplicity and DanDan scoring. People have been building some experiments on the Dandan decklist. Just not much modern play space for “can only attack if defending player has X land” cards today.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Scam real estate guy promotes scam story.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/10/2026
Inspired by new guidance from the Trump administration, right-wing election groups are targeting nursing homes, baselessly claiming that left-wing groups are stealing residents’ votes.
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Far-Right Election Groups Are Now Targeting Nursing Homes
Inspired by new guidance from the Trump administration, right-wing election groups are targeting nursing homes, baselessly claiming that left-wing groups are stealing residents’ votes.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pirate ship is such a cool old (and bad) card. Could it work in DanDan?
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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I get that people with questionable writing chops will lean on "controversial"(objectively dumb) takes for clicks, but I don't think you're supposed to just openly announce it.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Atari sale on US eShop buff.ly/sa77Ow7
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Piece came out at USAToday Why? Because USAToday owners (Gannett) only own media companies, so they have an incentive to attract an audience & advertisers Tech elites like Bezos, Ellisons, Musk, & Benioff use their media firm to cozy to Trump, not to make profit www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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DEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | Opinion
Firms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The rich are always going to have tax havens to run to but a huge part of the wealth of Americans is they are part of the business culture/investment here with a giant consumer market. If you take their business wealth/market away if they ditch their citizenship they are not going to lose that.
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
THE SUPPORTER SECTION IS WALKING OUT. THE POLICE MADE THEM TAKE DOWN THE SIGN. All the normal signs are gone. No "y'all means all." No "trans lives matter." Nothing. It is now quiet. No music, no drums, no chants #AustinFC
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/10/2026
Having watched these for more than a year now, I can tell you the young people almost always look back bsky.app/profile/gill...
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Red River games are rarely boring and also the pace is still mind blowing compared to BiG10 ground and pound football.
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Badgerfacts @badgerfacts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Texas has been frothy mouth raving like this since 2023 about trans kids.
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