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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 10h

We can still create wonders

Amc theaters Instagram post showing the whalefall popcorn bucket which is a whale and a diver. You eat the pop corn out the back of the whale.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Data point on what's possible

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026

I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/09/2026

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Conservatives desperately want cultural supremacy and yet they are incapable of producing art. I don't even mean great or good art, I mean "works that are arguably artistic." Every cultural artifact they produce in any medium is instantly recognizable as vapid, disposable, and unworthy of attention.

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The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson @barmecide.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Excited to get my quarterly quota of bartigans in the first episode of #thetraitorsus.

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wake up, babe, new Ghost Dixie Chicks single just dropped.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When I think about the way the mediia covers the trans community, one metaphor I have come back to many times is the 1980s UK's broadcast ban on the voices of anyone representing the Irish Republican movement in Northern Ireland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EG-...

youtube.com

When a Crackdown Involving the I.R.A. Backfired, Comically | “The Ban” | The New Yorker Documentary

YouTube video by The New Yorker

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Shout out to John Donne’s ‘The Flea’, the first and only attempt in human history to seduce via insect bite

Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;
It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;
Thou know’st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pampered swells with one blood made of two,
And this, alas, is more than we would do.

Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, nay more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;
Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,
And cloistered in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that, self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?
Yet thou triumph’st, and say'st that thou
Find’st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;
’Tis true; then learn how false, fears be:
Just so much honor, when thou yield’st to me,
Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It continues to amaze me that the industry/culture that so demonizes cultural theory and humanities are its greatest purveyors. Naming machine learning “artificial intelligence” is gramsci level politics. yet when we call that naming what it is, suddenly it doesn’t matter what you call it.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Old Man Magee @tedmagee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Let's not forget David Hasselhoff as Garthe Knight in the show Knight Rider, the evil stepbrother of Michael Knight

David Hasselhoff as Garthe Knight, the evil stepbrother of Michael Knight in Knight Rider. He's like Michael Knight but he wears black and has goatee-style "evil" facial hair.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Boring texts full of dead, debunked ideas, taught by bad teachers using poor pedagogical tools for credentials with no market value or social cache just aren’t popping.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 14/09/2026

Georgia State 31 - Kennesaw State 17

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 13/09/2026

I have seen it all: A UMC pastor leading a Wizard of Oz-themed call-and-response with the crowd during a Senate debate at the Kansas State Fair. Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton has the juice

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404 Media @404media.co · 11/09/2026

Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. Here are a few scenes from the nearly 3 hour meeting. Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...

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Doug Hanke Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla @dougmakingstuff.com · 17/04/2026

He learned almost too late that Man is a feeling creature- and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I found off-season peppermint stick ice cream AS IS MY RIGHT!!!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

just leave me behind then! no problem! don’t let the door hit ya! www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...

If an Al future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and experting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says !! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

absolutely love it

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this really made me laugh

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turbles @turbl.es · 09/09/2026

Here it is, the perfect post

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The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson @barmecide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Awesome work: “The claims are “dubious?” Are they really? Do you dube them? I do not dube them. I have zero dubes about these claims, because they are obviously, provably false.”

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/09/2026

teenage mutant ninja turtles alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/09/2026

“I got your ‘eat shit’ loud and clear” is, unfortunately, an objectively very funny statement. Point: AI

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)

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Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors

Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration.

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The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson @barmecide.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is some kind of framing: especially since I personally choose to abrogate rather than abdicate.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

No one hates higher education more than the people who churn out the Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com

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Opinion | The Humanities Can’t Ignore AI

Like it or not, we need to learn the tools and their limitations.

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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I can’t i just … i can’t www.404media.co/anthropic-cl...

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson @barmecide.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Now accepting congratulations: on my third or fourth attempt, I have finally been accepted into the Rancho Gordo Bean Club.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is why I never went to one of Carl’s dinner parties

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hooking unfortunate “learners” to a bunch of quizzes and readings while they get inundated with bot outputs is not any of the above things, it’s just a very saddening and unfortunate simulacrum of a social form that still values the act of knowledge transfer.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is no gray area on Scrooge. He is the most explicitly caricatured figure in all of Dickens. A Sistine Chapel level finely filigreed precise depiction of every miserly trait boiled down to an aromatic reduction. A Platonic ideal of the form.

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The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson @barmecide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So, Coyote vs. Acme: I laughed so hard that the only other family in the theater turned around to look at me.

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John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️‍🌈 @johnbarnes.org · 31/08/2026

Today is the 29th anniversary of the greatest apology in the history of journalism.

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Retroist @retroist.com · 01/08/2026

In 1975, a paper cup design, “Orange and Yellow Flowers,” was unleashed upon the world. While not as well-remembered as the trendy “Jazz” design, it would be a staple in homes and restaurants for decades. www.retroist.com/p/orange-and...

Beautiful Orange and Yellow Flower Paper Cups on a white table in front of an orange wall.

Beautiful Orange and Yellow Flower Paper Cups next to its more well-known cousin, the Jazz Cup, on a white table in front of an orange wall.

Close up of an Orange and Yellow Flower Paper Cup

Sweetheart Cold Cup Package that Orange and Yellow Flower Paper Cups come in.

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The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson @barmecide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bought both vanilla and chocolate ice cream from Stewart’s on the way home. You made a difference today, @whatsallthispod.bsky.social.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So Jacob Soboroff is actually extremely cool and everyone should Connect with him

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