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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible work by Mother Jones. An eye-popping statement from Cornell that amounts to intense public gaslighting–that interrogating their response to this horrifying assault "will perpetuate the underreporting of sexual assault." And a timely nod to the administration repealing Title IX.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

KART IS LIVE. It has been an absolute pleasure to see this game come together, and I am even more excited to share it with all of you. bit.ly/KartOnKS

An announcement that Kart is live on Kickstarter!

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 11/06/2026

jason chavez: “trans people will always be here. there is no executive order, no federal rollback, no act of hate will ever change that. this federal administration will have to face full weight of minneapolis and the people that love minneapolis before they break us and come after our neighbors.”

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This thread essentially 100% encompasses my feelings about the situation: even if I wanted to use AI in my workflow, it would make my workflow and results more derivative, damage my subjective process, and/or take away what I enjoy about what I do. None of that is what I want out of a tool.

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

August InDesign update completely broken (MacOS): - "Preferences" entry in InDesign pulldown is sometimes there, sometimes not - "High Quality Display" Linked images randomly washed out and wrong colors - Mouse cursor randomly disappears, gets stuck as wrong icon Borderline unusable @adobe.com

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I was at a convention in Vegas this year and the most convenient food was a taco place with AI murals on the walls. I love tacos. Under normal circumstances 100% would have eaten there at least five times over the week. Instead my friends and I referred to it as "AI Taco" and ate there zero times.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The widespread availability of self-driving cars will be a nightmare for cities. Thousands of empty cars clogging up roads delivering burritos when we should be restricting auto use and expanding public transport.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Also, SAY you want to open borders. Open borders generate more opportunity, more wealth, more freedom. Everyone being politically afraid of open borders is the direct result of running scared of Republican framing for decades. Nobody has made the obvious case in so many years they've lost it.

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Literally and figuratively:

A cookie fortune that reads, "hold the door for others."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

if an elite lobbying effort can convince you that you have to ban trans people from sports to survive in politics you straightforwardly do not have it in you to pass electoral reform, or stand up to the fossil fuel lobby, or do any of the difficult things that have to be done

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Adobe removed the entire category of "Generative AI" from Acrobat preferences. Users are now forced to use all of these features no matter what. Their website still has an article entitled "Turn off generative AI features" that clearly shows a whole category of prefs that is no longer accessible.

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

ha! I went to bed with a profound sense of relief because I was up playing videogames until 2am.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I love when MAGA types publish a list of unambiguously good things as if they're unambiguously bad things. It's such a revelation of what fearful cowardly people they are. We live in times of radical abuses. We should all seek radical remedies. All I can say to this is Hell Yeah.

A scare add about the DSA that reads "DSA's new platform: WORKERS DESERVE MORE. Radical goals. Straight from their platform."

The goals include:

Abolish the senate, expand the house of representatives and implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting

Replace the President and Supreme Court
Defund the Department of War
Abolish the Carceral State
Free Palestine
End Sactions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran
Abolish ICE and grant amnesty for all
Public ownership of major corporations
Abolish the Electoral College
Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy.

Their ultimate goal: A Democratic Socialist Republic. To win the battle for democracy, draft a new constitution, and create a democratic socialist republic.

It ends with the warning: This is the DSA's official platform. They wrote it. They approved it. Now you know.

To which I personally can only say Hell Yeah.

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Latest comic: Future historians baffled by Slop-henge

Slop-henge
Guide for societal collapse fun tours:
Historians and archaeologists have tried to determine exactly how this civilization perished.
Researchers suspect a kind of mania over pattern recognition machines.
These huge monoliths evidently generated a sacred product known as “slop.”
Here we see a famous circle of these facilities that used up all the water and ruined the atmosphere.
We think they were worshipped and given sacrifices of immense wealth.
But why didn’t they just stop?
It’s a mystery, but our current hypothesis is that they were imbeciles!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

for your monday amusement: a look at the state of things. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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The state of things

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I opened Adobe Acrobat today and there is a straight-up advertisement for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Logitech in the lower-right corner. I cannot close the ad; I can only click text that reads, "Redeem now." This is software that I PAY FOR.

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Republican leaders and oligarchs are a demographic of psychos who built wealth & power off the system then took all credit for themselves to justify using wealth & power to ruin everything in pursuit of more. They are as embarrassing as they are abhorrent; as repulsive as they are evil.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Tell me again how sports is unfair if trans kids are allowed to play when everyone celebrates a guy who is twice as tall as his opponents

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

so very fucking tired of watching one elderly dementia case wreck every single thing everywhere

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/05/2026

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/04/2026

Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/04/2026

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Rancor Baby

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Rancor Baby

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Last night I watched "Mom and Dad Save the World," 1992, for the first time. Jon Lovitz's portrayal of Tod made the film feel like watching some alternate reality Donald Trump biopic; it was honestly kind of uncannily prescient. IYKYK

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

'America First, which is why we are starting unfathomably expensive wars to distract from the evil and ineptitude of the ruling class, and obliterating your quality of life to pay for it all.'

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Bessent is not wrong; we are indeed watching both our security and prosperity take a major dump in tandem. I don't believe that is the message he intended to send, however.

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

United States, 2026: FDA recommends recall of raw cheese that is linked to an outbreak, makers "100% disagree" and refuse to recall product. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

arstechnica.com

FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall

Of the seven illnesses identified so far, four are in children age 3 or younger.

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is a salient fucking point. Leftists accused of "purity testing" when they fail purity tests of those who wish to harm and oppress; these are the real mechanics of this idiom. Want to oppress and hurt people? Opinion. Want people safe and cared-for? "Purity testing."

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Every American needs to watch this:

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And the ordinary folk who said (parroted) the same exact things about MeToo (and continue to say about the "woke") will never consider how much of a blistering indictment this is of their own character and moral compass. Put plainly: if you are against civil rights and justice, you're a bad person

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hi, uh. EVERY TRUMP ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Beautiful words from a fellow Minnesotan game creator about living in, and processing, this moment.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

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Sma Shmo @barcssarc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I'm sure the seven goons who took it away and then shot the guy ten times a minute later knew all about the gun's "history." That was sarcasm, in case it's not clear. "Possible clue" my fucking ass; NY Post is evil–just pure evil–and don't we forget it

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I agree that we ought to use persuasion to bring people nearer to our political purposes; I think that making every single Republican a social and professional pariah for the rest of their lives would be very persuasive when it comes to people weighing the cost/benefit of aligning with fascism.

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