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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 11/10/2026

If you see this show us some orange art 🍊

The door to a glassblower’s kiln. The door is roughly square, hinged on the left, and has a roundish hole in the middle. The kiln is in use, so through the hole we see an orange inferno. Orange is also visible through seams and cracks in the kiln around the door. A glassblower’s pipe rests against the hole, with its end inside the kiln.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Executive: so we want an amazing island-scape and wind farms and the SEC building and a castle and a dude on a horse and f’ing Nessie and everything! Artist: ok sure, remind me what your company does. Executive: laundry, obviously.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

DHS has repeatedly falsely claimed that people were weaponizing their vehicles to justify shooting those people. Also DHS is weaponizing its vehicles to run people over.

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Bay @batiiii.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It sounds like each opinion is based on the effect it has on her personally.

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 30/09/2026

Someone is replacing my body with a slightly worse body each night while I sleep.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If I found out there was a guy on the Internet who was cynical slightly earlier than me I’d fucking kill myself and I’d be right to do it

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/10/2026

Following along @mzakharuk.bsky.social's reread of @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl". Barely any cis people understand the rampant rape culture inherent to the medical gatekeeping of trans healthcare. These "professionals" know the power they hold over trans people and often abuse it.

> In the 1970s, Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna came across several instances in which gatekeepers were rather blatant about this practice: “A clinician during a panel session on transsexualism at the 1974 meeting of the American Psychological Association said that he was more convinced of the femaleness of a male-to-female transsexual if she was particularly beautiful and was capable of evoking in him those feelings that beautiful women generally do. Another clinician told us that he uses his own sexual interest as a criterion for deciding whether a transsexual is really the gender she/he claims.”

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The Book of Pandora @pandora-books.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This year "Jane Eyre" appeared on the Index of School Book Bans. Why? Censors, PEN America notes, are using AI to evaluate books. Perhaps AI knows what censors truly want to hide: Women who resist. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social noted Eyre's rebelliousness in a 1988 essay. #janeeyre #bannedbooksweek

Photo of the opening of Joyce Carol Oates' essay "Jane Eyre: An Introduction," from Oates' book "Woman Writer." The book was published in 1988, and the essay was originally published as the preface to a Bantam Classics edition of "Jane Eyre."

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alexei l. batishchev @alexeibat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

horsepower 🤝🏻 hit points

A tumblr post by goatsandgangsters

an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc
and I'm like...... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but l KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean
and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere
horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.
and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different
AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader
I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and hed be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon" loses horsepower throughout the fight
language is amazing
#linguistics #language #words #hp #horsepower #i just like this

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Bay @batiiii.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

These people would never have the courage to make a character like Medea

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 09/10/2026

Halloween costumes for birders. This is from last year and someone actually did the sexy owl pellet one.

A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026

next dem president and congress need to seize every dime he claimed in office

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 09/10/2026

Today was international lesbian day and I somehow failed to make a single joke about me being an international lesbian

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

They are becoming more and more explicit that creating dossiers on you and graphing your relationships is the whole point. “Agents” indeed. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/m...

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is taking a try-before-you-buy approach with her new photo-centric AI agent startup Dazzle, a tactic she said is important “for those occasional users or those users who are just trying to see what the service can do at the very beginning.”

Dazzle analyzes users’ personal photos to understand aspects of their lives, such as their family members or interests, and then can take actions like reminding someone that a pair of shoes they recently looked up is on sale online.

It’s a strategy she learned from her early tenure at Google
, before the company built its market-leading online ad platform.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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SIMCHA CHAI @jewskychai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This October will be the most consequential election in Israel since its founding in 1948. I hope and pray that the voters choose wisely for all of us. #AmYisraelChai

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dreamed about some guys called The Intuitive Six who are like a Famous Five gang but they're adults, and they don't look for clues and so on; just solve everything with good guesses. I'll let you know how this goes but I think it's likely I'll never have to work again.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

wired.com

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was 18 I invented a shot, the "Tsushima:" sake poured over vodka to symbolize and commemorate Japanese naval superiority The next day my friends and I deeply regretted our decision, much like I imagine the Russian admiralty did

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the dumbest scumbags on the left are now attacking zohran for *combatting antisemitism* Zohran derangement syndrome is real and applies to the alt-left just as much as the alt right

Aaron Maté
@aaronjmate
X.com
I'm not criticizing Zohran for doing this because I understand he has to deal with a very toxic political reality. Politics is a different game.
But to me launching a "Strategy to Combat
Antisemitism" in a time of the Gaza genocide is akin to a
"Strategy to Combat Anti-Whiteness" at the height of South African apartheid. That's not even a fair analogy:
Israel and its apologists do infinitely more to both fabricate and encourage anti-Semitism.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani O
@NYCMayor•9h
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Bay @batiiii.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hirers saying they'd be put off by iced coffee in an interview are admitting that interviews are a poor indicator of who they should hire and they're just looking for who seems most cowed/nervous but still normal.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m glad she stayed on X because if she was mostly Bluesky it’d be like having an apex predator in a rural village. She’s got all she can eat over there and the victims deserve it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Authoritarian regimes' mismanagement of scientific institutions consistently undermines the public interest. The only question here is whether the Supreme Court will extend unitary executive theory to "the president has a right to use NIH tax dollars to punish his enemies". bsky.app/profile/cram...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We do not apply this reasoning - that you are responsible when your enemy in a war decides to kill civilians (which is not just some, but most of the deaths totaled here) - to any other war. People have agency and are responsible for their choices, including groups and countries other than the USA.

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Bay @batiiii.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think your comment really illustrates the point that parents have to make a choice where there is no right answer, both options have real problems and it's impossible to know what will be best for your child's future.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'Head of compliance for Reform UK' sounds like either a recurring sketch comedy character or literally a job you would have in a nightmare

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Remember: every time you repeat a story about how awfully, terribly dangerous their products are, you help them raise more investment capital, which is a key input for their business (hooking up statistical engines to money-furnaces): peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-...

peoples-things.ghost.io

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?"

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@shannimcg.bsky.social had this great insight that the "Woke 1.0" discourse is a product of the "polarization" meta-narrative. Essentially, since we had radical, crazy, dangerous, ideas/movements from the right (MAGA, Jan 6, anti-CRT/DEI), there must have been equivalents on the left. They weren't.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Possibly I'm naive or just noticing something that's been here all along, but the quantity of fairly normal people who talk about conspiracies and psyops without any kind of evidence seems to have really escalated lately? Anyone else feelng this?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026

It's clinical narcissism. The only way he can engage on this subject is by making it about himself. It's the same with 9/11. He knows he's supposed to acknowledge it, somberly pay tribute or whatever, & literally the only way he can is by inserting himself into it.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….

diGenova just told me by phone when I asked about his abrupt exit:
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"

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Bay @batiiii.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It took me a long ass time to understand that the headline is not sarcasm and then it took me a longer time to understand the space force uniform is real.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

liberal democracies really need to unite in defense of liberal democracy to counter the global fascist movement that has emerged and is funded by tech billionaires

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“hello would you like to try the AI designed schizophrenia treatment i synthesized in my garage?”

Douglas Yao
• @DouglasYaoDY •8h
This vial contains a new drug called
PAC-3310. It was designed by ChatGPT, and I synthesized it in a chemistry lab I built in my garage.
PAC-3310 is a new selective M4 muscarinic receptor agonist for treating schizophrenia - similar to the recent breakthrough drug
Cobenfry, but improved.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 09/09/2026

Really looking forward to the “the chance that we kill all humans is above 10%” slide next to the $30 trillion TAM in the IPO filing.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

MAGA got a huge return on gaslighting the elite into treating Trump's <2 percent popular vote plurality as a permanent repudiation of liberalism. The midterms represent an opportunity to propound an inverse but true narrative of American rejection of MAGA. But Dems have to frame it that way first.

offmessage.net

How To Undo The Great Lie Of 2024

Trump’s second election wasn’t a verdict for all time, but the coming midterms might be one.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026

The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.

Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay

NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military.
Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/09/2026

That small black circle is the planet Mercury, seen crossing the face of the Sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on 9 May 2016.

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