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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief.

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Freelander @freelander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

State violence against any person based on their identity is unacceptable. Anyone who doesn't have maximum solidarity with trans people in the US at this moment is loading the gun that will be put against their own forehead eventually.

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Freelander @freelander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love how all the coverage of techbros violating our privacy is either an anthropomorphic falsehood about the code they wrote being 'rogue' or some 'oopsie' mea culpa. This is all an obfuscation. Conscious deliberate actions by humans we know did this. Not some unknowable god.

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Freelander @freelander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Musk is simply the most obvious sociopath pedophile nazi tech billionaire. The others are desperately trying to maintain cover.

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Freelander @freelander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The denial of fuel to Cuba amounts to a denial of water since their electric grid relies upon fuel. It is actually biological warfare: a war crime that will lead to typhoid and cholera.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026

Part of the issue is that humans anthropomorphize everything and we don't really have language to describe a non sentient machine capable of doing tasks once reserved only for humans. The battle over language to describe AI is getting so tedious. I agree about putting Altman in prison though.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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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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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is exactly the thing. Trans rights are worth defending because trans people are worth defending and, also, simultaneously, at the same time, the very basic statistical truth is that the overwhelming majority of people harmed by mandated & enforced gender norms are not going to be trans.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Women's rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights. Gay rights are human rights. Human rights are non-negotiable. Good thread.

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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More adults have made youth sports their entire personality in the last 10 years than any child in history. Why don't you go break up a game of hide and seek while you're at it, you fuckin' losers.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The new AI captchas are really something ᵛⁱᵃ ˣᴷᶜᴰ

This image is XKCD #2228: "Machine Learning Captcha" by Randall Munroe, which satirizes how verification tests might exploit human fear and judgment during a hypothetical robot takeover.

text:
TO PROVE YOU'RE A HUMAN, CLICK ON ALL THE PHOTOS THAT SHOW PLACES YOU WOULD RUN FOR SHELTER DURING A ROBOT UPRISING.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the USA's best political writers, bar none. Buy her real books. Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Shoebill stork 110-140 cm tall prehistoric-looking bird native to dense marshes of tropical East and Central Africa., Parents take turns staying for 40 days in the scorching heat scooping up water in their massive bills pour it over usually 1 egg, and then the hatched chick to keep it cool.

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ceej @ceej.online · 16/03/2024

(checking my unread emails after imbibing a strong liquor and falling asleep in the mountains for twenty years) jesus christ

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 22/08/2026

If Flock & other mass surveillance tech being used by police was actually about community safety, why haven’t we heard a peep about these tools surrounding 22 suspicious deaths (lynchings) of Black people across the South over the past 12 months? emeraldbook.org/news/aug-152...

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The Alarming Rise of Black People Found Hanging but Ruled as Suicides – Emerald Book

◆ Emerald Pages ◆ Civil Rights / Investigation The Alarming Rise of Black People Found Hanging but Ruled as Suicides Emerald Book Publication August 15, 2026 7 min read As public hangings of Black peo...

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If a baby hands you a toy telephone to answer, that's a sign of great respect in their culture.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 17/08/2026

NEW: Three days after Yale found Medicare for All could prevent 114,000 deaths and cut health care costs by $1 trillion a year, Hakeem Jeffries said he won’t support it. Meanwhile, health care PACs have poured $391k into his campaign — and a would-be primary challenge was crushed.

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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fun reminder - in two weeks Sony is going to delist 500+ digital movies. If you bought one, they’re going to vanish from your library too. Oh, and no refunds, you didn’t actually own them in the first place www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/06...

pushsquare.com

Sony Will Permanently Delete 550+ Movies You Already Paid For

"I won't be back"

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 18/08/2026

excellent example of why you should not fucking trust "AI detectors". wanting an easy, no-thinking-required solution to everything is literally part of the problem *with AI.* it is infuriating to see people who are supposedly on the human side fall for this shit. 👏 use 👏 your 👏 brain

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Right didn't veer hard into Trans Panic because the Left overreacted to the workaday transphobia they were organically fomenting. The Right veered into transphobia in order to repurpose the infrastructure already in place from the Gay Panic industry. And Gay Panic production can resume any time.

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Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If the State took care of disabled people they wouldn’t get away with this. Tech companies are the new Catholic Church in Ireland. What the State won’t cover, the tech companies will, but they will abuse us at the same time, while the State just sits back and watches.

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Vegan Horny Jail Lunch Theydy @joshuwaffles.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The first brand to make a #vegan version of these wins for fucking ever with me

A frozen tray of Redi-Serve Chicken & Cheddar Cheese Nibblers

They're chicken nuggets with cheese inside of them

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling "Unsafe". Salem rich trials. 🔥🔥🔥

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The sea mouse is not a mouse. It's a chunky marine worm covered in felt-like hair that diffracts light into shifting reds, blues, and golds, some of the best natural photonics we know of. A brown lump on the seafloor that turns into a rainbow when the light hits right. #WormWednesday #marinelife

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

But "beautiful clean coal," which this Energy Department propaganda page sings the praises of!

Energy Department propaganda poster header

THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT IS UNLEASHING BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL

The Trump Administration is strengthening grid reliability and national security by reinvigorating the American coal industry.

President Trump is unleashing beautiful, clean coal after years of attack

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charles entertainment manson @rexcoolguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I think this gets right to why it short-circuits a liberal's brain when a trans person pushes back at them, because their whole sense of identity is wrapped up in being One of the Good Ones, and usually all they think they have to do to achieve that is "not be a Republican"

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edbryan.bsky.social @edbryan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yep, slime is really awesome. That sent me down a fun rabbit hole :)

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The "rural" for a lot of "rural" white voters is aesthetic. It's a lifestyle choice, not their livelihood. So you can't win them with policies that help rural areas. Their interest in "rural issues" begins & ends with the view from their porch & property values.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

its a seminal work of western civilization, a piece of art so perfect that any change or interpretation outside my comfort zone is an affront to the accomplishments of humanity. i havent read it though, thats for nerds

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/07/2026

This is why gender affirming care and abortion are part of the same fight for bodily autonomy. You ignore what's happening to trans people at your peril.

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marg bar the 4th of july @veronicavontrapp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“We know May Pollard’s story because she was the plaintiff in a lawsuit that was withdrawn because there were no longer enough trans children left in Idaho public schools for lawyers to defend.” How do I just keep moving my limbs like normal in a world like this

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I do think pinning this on specifically Taco Bell is weird since many confirmed cases aren’t people who ate at Taco Bell at all and we know the actual source—Taylor Farms—distributes lettuce and other produce to many, many other large food businesses

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/07/2026

In Washington state, a proposed bill threatens to force all girls, but not boys, to undergo invasive, medically unnecessary genital inspections or hormone tests to play sports with their friends. Policies that seek to exclude transgender youth end up putting all youth at risk.

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Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters

Megan Rapinoe pens an op-ed for Marie Claire about anti-trans legislation in sports.

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ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Everybody owes everybody everything. It was decided when humanity decided to evolve into a social species.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 12/07/2026

The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month.

A line graph plotting the probability density function of a Weibull distribution over time. The horizontal axis represents elapsed time, and the vertical axis represents the probability of failure. The curve models a wear-out scenario where the shape parameter is greater than one.At the beginning of the timeline, the line starts near zero, indicating a very low risk of early failure. It remains low and relatively flat across the initial and middle stages of life. As time advances toward the right, the line curves sharply upward (called the "bathtub curve" because it resembles the back of a bathtub. It forms a steep, narrow peak that represents a concentrated cluster of failures near the end of the maximum lifespan. After reaching this maximum peak, the curve plunges rapidly back down to zero, indicating that nearly all subjects in the population have failed.

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Slippery Jim diGriz ⚖️ @jimdigriz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Man, so many people who downplayed Covid infection are dying of heart attacks. I wonder what that’s about.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 11/07/2026

Trials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.

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Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?

A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take patients more seriously.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

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