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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 13h

Keep the faith.

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Ben Leedom @benleedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*youth pastor sits in chair backwards* you know who ELSE was betrayed by someone from a private 12-person event

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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.

Chart shows a close positive relationship between Trump's 2024 vote and Google searches for testosterone boosters.

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can't wait until the point he crosses having spent $3600 trying to tell people $3600 is an unfathomable amount of money

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

somehow this has only gotten funnier

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my feeling about this is that if you reframe "engineering" into "how to responsibly build, manage, and maintain large scale systems essential to public welfare" then it is really obvious why it is essential to a republican model of government

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

if you watch the screensaver long enough, they show you the kid whose suffering makes roku city utopic

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Ben Leedom @benleedom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

people will come on this website and say anything

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if you bring coffee to a job interview you should bring enough for everyone, obviously

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

positive reframing is such a nice tool when you think "I feel like I'm drowning and one or two hard emails away from the burnout knocking me out of commission" you can instead think "honestly I can't believe my nervous system is even functioning at all with all the nonstop horrors lately"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

stand up for trans people: it is the right thing to do and it just will not hurt you, not now, not in this environment and maybe folks can start to relearn that trans people are pretty fucking cool, actually

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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typing loudly ⌨️ @typingloudly.zip · 16/09/2026

the real "AI x-risk" is that all the people who actually know how computers work will quit because they don't want to deal with this shit

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

alas, we only measure velocity in terms of fast we fuck around and not how slowly we find out as a result and getting programmers to think about the consequences of their actions is as hard as ever, now we've found new ways of "it works on my machine"

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026

This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c...

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 13/09/2026

ANDRE: And it was transcendent. Nintendo’s ever done anything like it. Wally, you’ll love it, assuming it’s ever released of course. WALLACE: That’s incredible. Incredible. [PAUSE] What other games did your uncle show you? [WAITER BRINGS THE WINE]

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Bin Laden was equally clear about how he thought terrorism would yield his desired result. In a March 1997 CNN interview with Peter Bergen, he spoke of transferring “the battle into the United States.” In a May 2000 speech, he told supporters that the war would henceforth be waged “against the United States, in the United States.” Americans, he observed to ABC’s John Miller in 1998, cannot tolerate pain, and will react to attacks not by fighting back and blaming al‑Qaeda, but instead by asking “what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.” In a November 2001 interview, he hinted at a theory of political change in America: Its citizens should “take the same stand that they did previously,” when they protested the Vietnam War and the presidents who waged it.

Nelly Lahoud, a professor at the Army War College and the author of the definitive book on the Abbottabad documents, told me this political pipe dream was bin Laden’s whole plan: “to replicate the anti–Vietnam War movement of the United States, to get the American public to put pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its forces from the Middle East.” The documents reveal a man and an organization blindsided by the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden and his associates “didn’t think that the United States would respond by waging war,” Lahoud said. He did not contemplate or plan for the long-term occupation of Afghanistan, nor did he expect the methodical killing of his operatives in a campaign that lasted years.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/09/2026

the thing about vocally refusing to vote all the time is that politicians will, entirely logically, write you off as “those people who refuse to ever vote”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

my personal view is that you should treat AI as if you were a magician attempting to command a spirit that is inhuman, potentially useful, and invested in attempting to convince you it is something other than it is. you know, rationally.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A fantastically large portion of our brain is devoted to auditory processing and language generation. Our entire mouth and throat is built for speech. We were designed - however and whenever you think the designs came from - to negotiate first and fight last. Take the fucking hint.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 31/08/2026

Another angle to my “all the world’s a stage and all the agents merely players” theory of LLM behaviour is the role of compaction. Compaction hands a fresh newborn agent a biography and says “here’s your life story up to this point, continue”. This introduces a new POV: a narrator.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 30/08/2026

Per the place where I go to get my brows threaded, the government of Nepal has set up a disaster relief fund here pmdrf.nchl.com.np

pmdrf.nchl.com.np

Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund – Government of Nepal

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/08/2026

Online mutual aid dares to ask “what if charity was distributed according to the recipients’ ability to accumulate clout and perform abjection on English language social media?”

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How to approach an unknown language in the ocean? Here’s one of the first cases of AI interpretability leading to a scientific discovery -- in whales.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 26/08/2026

AI isn't a person, which is why something that isn't about people's feelings about AI is going on if people use a term that implies AI is a person to insult AI

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 25/08/2026

first of all, it's not "shrekking," it's "roger rabbiting," and second of all, jessica rabbit legitimately saw roger rabbit as hot and if you don't understand that, you shouldn't be writing about any of this

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I find the continued angry reactions to this - that I am 'normalizing' or 'naturalizing' fascism - unsurprising but also very silly. What is gained by pretending a (bad, evil) political movement that bubbles foully up, unbidden, in almost every democracy doesn't actually appeal to people?

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“the election situation has developed not necessarily to Republican advantage”

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm currently dating a top hat, a dog, a cat, a penguin, a thimble, a racecar, a rubber duck, and a boat. That's right, I'm monopolyamorous.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

3) AI is pretty bad at writing things for humans to read with a couple of caveats: it is better- though still not good- at writing for its user than it is for other audiences, and it’s not terrible at outlining. stop using AI to write things for other people to read.

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Ben Leedom @benleedom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“Honey, have you seen the box with my ephemera?”

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

At long last we've perfectly created the conditions for the Monster Plot from the classic Angleton CI treatise Don't Facilitate The Monster Plot

"A historic wave of departures at the CIA and deep cutbacks at the Office of Personnel Management are swamping the spy agency’s retirement system, leaving former spies with months-long waits to get their first pension check, according to former intelligence officials and internal agency messages."

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 21/08/2026

people should be respectful on this and any social platform AND if being on x (???) makes you more comfortable talking about your work than on here, you have deeper issues which are more likely tied to your identity and not your use of ai

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/08/2026

there's going to be a wide open "look at these gross fucking assholes" lane in the 2028 primary and the current leader is jon ossoff

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Iran doesn’t need to DDoS attack Bluesky. All it needs to do is post is “what if a DoorDash driver got caught by a speed camera on the way to someone who was having a bad day of executive function”

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'll never steal your pen.

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Ben Leedom @benleedom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Dude woke up one day and became one of history's worst monsters by blowing up the greatest permanent humanitarian aid institution ever to exist.

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