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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 6h

gavin newsom you will never be president because your vibes are “stinky”

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 17h

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 8h

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 8h

I'm so tired of putting together words to describe in specific detail why all of this is grotesque and stupid and pathetic. What's the point. We all get it by now and it's too stupid not to understand, too stupid almost to make any worthwhile points at all. Just no reason to make the effort.

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mugiyolk @mugiyolk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had to stop going to a local writing club because one of the members came to my house uninvited drunk as hell and tried to accost me for sex

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 17h

waking up every day in 2026 like:

a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 15h

i sure hope my bitch wife doesn't wanna watch blue

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16h

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 17h

Both of these are really great games that will be of particular interest if you're into narrative game design. So seasonal, too!

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17h

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 21h

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 17h

The idea that Newsom is even remotely a serious candidate for president is so goddamn clown shoes at this point In the past month he's vetoed LGBTQ+ rights measures, pushed the Paramount merger through, further cozied up to AI barons and now this. Dude couldn't even win a Governor reelection now

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Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 18h

Even the boomers are suffering here, much as it can grate to admit it because many of them do own property and are smug. But now they need to sell and find single-floor, accessible housing, and not only is that basically a unicorn, no one can afford to buy big houses or sell small ones.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 18h

human beings weren’t really meant to talk so much to people they don’t know and insofar as we have processes for navigating communication with strangers a lot of it is premised on a willingness to inflict social penalties when people say or do weird and bad shit.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 18h

good thread on the words we use to discuss AI and what falls under that umbrella

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This tech is based on stolen labor, then I reject it. This tech intensifies racism, sexism, and class exploitation, then I reject it. This tech exploits workers in the Global South, then I reject it. This tech exacerbates env & climate problems, then I reject it. All these rationales are valid!

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

It’s not a coincidence these people are closely aligned if not perfectly overlapping with the “actually Black people aren’t real humans” camp.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026

it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The “Cornell 7” framing rubs me the same way described in this thread. We usually use that language for people falsely accused of crimes. Personally, I’ll be going back to “the Cornell gang rapists.”

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you're not forced to use AI by your employer you really shouldn't.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

don't even get a vote as a billionaire stockholder anymore. we really are reinventing the landed nobility

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the received wisdom of the dnc superfan is not nearly as unshakeable as they would have you believe. as a rule most don't believe in anything other than mirroring the establishment. move the establishment and they will play ball immediately

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This will never stop until campus administrators are made rationally afraid of the consequences of trying to cover everything up. As long as they can make a hundred rapes simply disappear for every, "Oh no, bad publicity for a month!" they'll keep making the same calls.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe we do have a king now? Despite what kings will tell you, kings have always had limits: the loyalty of the nobility, the credit of the bankers, the tolerance of the people. Maybe our situation is so confusing because our first king is so weak. But if the president is above the law, he's a king.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if i were a foreign government looking for an edge, id probably try to convince america that climate change is woke bull shit and combustion engines are for real men with penises, all while also convincing them to invest every dollar in bull shit tech while we take the lead on green energy

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Better than even odds Roberts and his bastards say the ads were fine because they didn't promote a specific candidate and Trump wasn't on the ballot. (Spending on propaganda benefiting a party is illegal, too, but Trump has done that constantly without any repercussions.)

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's funny—for 2026 definitions of funny—that Iran offered the bloody old idiot a "seven day peace plan" they knew he wouldn't accept, just to drive home that the war is still Trump's choice and Trump's fault. Just push the button and he cuts another ad against himself. It's not hard.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The generous view is that OpenAI's unsafe practices are deliberate, meant to generate "incidents" and headlines and pressure the government into delivering their regulatory capture wishlist. They're demanding an exclusive development cartel, for Pete's sake! Of course they want the bots acting up.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sucks real bad, but the GOP has had this dial turned pretty far towards 11 for a long time. I don't know how much extra mileage they can beat out of the male supremacy horse.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A four-wave study in Sweden found that conspiracy thinking, use of right-wing alternative media, and social media reinforce each other over time. In contrast, mainstream news use was associated with lower levels of conspiracy thinking. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Breeding conspiracy thinking? Investigating the longitudinal relationship between media use and conspiracy mindset

Over the last decade, conspiracy theories and beliefs in them have become a more pressing social and political problem. Despite different media being the main channels through which conspiracy theo...

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The AI guys want AIs to be the new nukes. They're selling a world order based on AI Great Powers who impose their will on everyone else. If their machines can't cause mass destruction now? They promise they will make it happen. They want to be kings of a new defense industry. That's the whole plan.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 26/09/2026

“The links between the global far-right and Israel are very clear, which is dangerous for Jews.” @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss Israel’s religious messianism and the alliance of interest between Christian and Jewish Zionists. Watch more: zeteo.com/p/naomi-klei...

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just about the most consequential act of heroism... well, ever, that we know of. It's a kind of courage a lot of people will need if humanity's going to stick around, which I think we will. Happy Stanislav Petrov Day.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't think Hegseth even keeps his job through 2028. He'll presumably get his pardon, but even pardons have their limits. Mainly that they remove the Fifth Amendment defense against self-incrimination and don't grant license to commit perjury before a hostile Congress.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The headlines on the SCOTUS SAVE ruling are doing Trump's PR for him. 2 things they skip No mass voter purges before the midterms. The law bars them 90 days out & we're in that window Noncitizen voting? FL, IN, IA & OH ran voters through SAVE & found almost NOTHING -TN

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The Big Lie aka La Gran Mentira

This analysis exposes Donald Trump and his allies’ disinformation campaign around immigrants and voting.

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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is ecofascist adjacent at the very least. I can't say it's all that surprising.

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