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LSAClassOf2000 @lsaclassof2000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Same old shit from the GOP for 50 years - garrote the federal government by essentially ceasing the collection of revenue through tax cuts and then tell people that government doesn't work because it sucks when in fact it doesn't work because you created conditions under which it cannot.

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laura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 09/10/2026

we just got a ticket inspector in the train v seamless just tap again and ngl never noticed before how anybody with a blue polo and a lanyard and a conctactless payments thingy wrapped in a phone case can probably make serious bank

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rogue @roguechocolate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing that's so wild about the SV idea of dronifying everything is drones are fucking loud and annoying. We're really going to tolerate the lived landscape sounding like the inside of a fucking hornet nest?

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 29/09/2026

saw this 1936 photo from Walker Evans over the weekend, absolutely love it. “Honest Weights, Square Dealings” is such a premium profile bio, free to a good home.

FM Pointer, the old reliable house mover, but ALSO: FISH, honest weights, and square dealings. a rich farm stand and fish store. Prices for fish in the nickels and dimes. Two young men stand outside with big pumpkins. black and white

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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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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Donald Trump has destroyed the economy and threatened the rule of law. But my liberal neighbor has a Darwin fish on his Prius I have never felt more politically homeless

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 08/09/2026

The proto-Effin’ Birds was my Tumblr “Swear Trek”. It opened a lot of doors for me and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. I don’t have plans to revive it (one daily comic is enough work), just wanted to thank it for getting me here on this 60th anniversary of Star Trek.

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Pregame Empire @pregameempire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Michigan storming the field against Western Michigan is worse than losing lol

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North Campus Turkey @ncampusturkey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That is the biggest refball win in human history. #umich

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ben lowery @blowery.org · 06/09/2026

Get off the field you morons. My god.

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Maize n Brew Dave @mnbdave.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We live in the stupidest timeline. Western just got robbed.

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Michigan's 2026 Offensive Game Plan (HSR) @hooverstreetrag.org · 06/09/2026

So basically a new Michigan coach doesn't win his debut if Kyle Whittingham is involved cuts both ways it would appear.

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Ellen. @ellenk124.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I JUST CANT LOOK ITS KILLING MEEEE

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ben lowery @blowery.org · 06/09/2026

Use of “ticky-tack” across bluesky had increased by orders of magnitude the past hour

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Taiwan is just posting harder than the rest of us

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Clean Air Cville has just released a step-by-step PC Fan Air Purifier build guide with a complete supply list and photos: www.cleanaircville.org/buildguide This design uses silent PC fans so is great for classrooms & places a totally silent air filter is needed: www.reddit.com/r/crboxes/co...

reddit.com

From the crboxes community on Reddit: DIY Air Purifier Build Guide | Clean Air Cville

Explore this post and more from the crboxes community

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The pointless National Guard deployment in Washington DC until January 2029 will cost approximately $1.4 billion. This amount could have funded the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities for almost 7 years.

civilbeat.org

Guard Deployment To Washington Into 2029 Will Cost Roughly $1.4B

Hawai‘i will bring home its 27 members later this month after the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Chris Suellentrop @suellentrop.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A little weird to have "GIFT" atop an article about Trojan Horses

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 05/08/2026

Current* conditions near Ludington, MI:

Western view from the end of the northern breakwall looking out over Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-08-05 02:36:03 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: lakeshorekeepers.org // Current Temp in Ludington: 73 F | 23 C // Precip: light rain // Wind: N at 5 mph | 8 kph // Humidity: 65%

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

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@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 23/07/2026

I don’t care whether this actually happened or not. I want it to be true.

Social media screenshot, in theory:

@whyuhhhhhhhhhh
So last week, I noticed my coworker kept saying weird phrases in meetings. Stuff like:
"We'll take this to the synergy zone."
"Let's triangle back on that."
"Put that in the idea fridge."

No one reacted. Everyone just nodded like it was normal. I figured it was some corporate lingo I missed.

Day two, I hear: "We'll verticalize that bandwidth."

I write it down to Google later. Nothing.

By day three, I'm starting to use them, too. "Yeah, we should put that in the idea fridge." People nodded. I felt included.

Friday rolls around. He pulls me aside and goes:
"I've been making them all up. No one knows what they mean."

HE GOT THE ENTIRE TEAM SAYING NONSENSE. Even the manager threw out "triangle back" in a call.

Now the whole office is trapped in fake jargon with no way out.

I respect it. I fear it.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Shōgun @mgobl.eu · 29/07/2026

I am not a lawyer but it's still sound advice: Whenever someone tells you there's nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, the appropriate reply is always a cordial "f*ck you"

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Journal of Clinical Medicine: "Hydroxychloroquine was not efficacious for treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients and caused more severe adverse events." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Reverend Genes @reverendgenes.com.au · 23/07/2026

"Well this is awkward". The US used to to make 95% of international cars. Now about 18% and falling. ICE cars are low tech, high pollution & too expensive to buy & run. US makes 5% of EVs. China makes 75%. Oops. #Time4ChangeUSA #TheTankIsEmpty #2026MidTerms ⚖️ 🇺🇸

abc.net.au

Automakers in shock as China takes over

In June, a bulk carrier made an unprecedented delivery of EVs to Australia, sounding an ominous warning to the world's automakers.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Bryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Imagine struggling when the Trolley Problem is framed as “there’s no one on your current track, but if you flip the switch the trolley will run over a bunch of kids.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A Democratic political candidate might campaign on the extraordinary value (and return on investment!) of having a competent government. Things don’t have to be this way.

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JennyGoBoo @jennyd67.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

FUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKK RFK

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kren @kren.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.

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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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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 12/07/2026

Current* conditions near St. Ignace, MI:

Southern view from Bridge View Park on the shore of Lake Michigan of the Mackinac Bridge traversing the Straits of Mackinac. // Image captured at: 2026-07-12 11:06:03 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: mackinacbridge.org // Current Temp in St. Ignace: 62 F | 17 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: SSW at 8 mph | 12 kph // Humidity: 99%

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ben lowery @blowery.org · 06/07/2026

@mgoseth.bsky.social is the AD simulator asking for mgoblog.com credentials or its own thing? It’s rather confusing. Also very broken on safari / iOS. Zooms in and gets stuck there when entering credentials. (repost, as the first one was chock full of errors). Congrats on the server move!

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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We noticed you replied with an image or reference related to the original post only by sharing a single word in common. The world needs men like you. Congratulations, and welcome to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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