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posts like they mean it escapee of the black site don't ask me about my definition of sandwich if you're going to act shocked when you hear it

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
Insisting that LLMs are Not People is not an academic argument about the nature of sapience or free will. It's a rejection of accountability laundering. If non-determinism made machines responsible for their own actions then revolvers used in Russian Roulette should be indicted for murder.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026
Humaning.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I have any special insight, but I think it's safe to assume the people working at OpenAI have a better idea of how things are going there, REALLY going there, than I do. And they don't want to stay. And that's worth noticing.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It turned out be the other way around. First it merged with performance art, then politics.
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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
May ICE forget their shock gloves are on as they go piss.
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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
e. e. cummings time is now
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Matt the Dad Dude @undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online · 24/07/2026
Congrats Hulk Hogan on going a year without saying the N-word
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 17/07/2026
ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate
a bee with its fuzzy little butt covered in pollen, hanging over a leaf all assed out, face not visible, just bee butt
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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Valorie 🐈‍⬛️✨️ @meadowdays.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Happy National Library Week! 💙📚
Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 25/03/2026
Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
rip robert mueller you taught me it was okay to do nothing when faced with the most consequential task of my life
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Someone needs to send an ambulance to X
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/03/2026
Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have talked a lot of shit about Will Stancil. I have reversed the first letter of his first and last name, even. But I will hand it to him here- he's significantly more clear eyed about this ice stuff than most people
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Sexy Barista Who Is Super Interested in Watching You Solo Game as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last we have created the Sexy Barista Who is Interested in Watching You Solo Game from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Sexy Barista Who Is Intere
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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16/01/2026
“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy
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berserk @worstplace.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
How do I say goodbye to what we had? The good times that made us laugh outweigh the bad I thought we'd get to see forever But forever's gone away It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterdaybert
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE guy at the new training course Democrats make him take paying attention and trying really hard to learn.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
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Locutus Tips @locutustips.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Locutus safety tip: To prevent identity theft, avoid having your own identity.
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
And Tiny Tim, who did not die, and lies sleeping in Ryleh
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
No shade to Serwer specifically (I don't really know who he is and he could be a fine journalist) but there's a definite irony in this message bring published by The Atlantic
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"He's oppressing his people, who by the way are vermin" -every republican
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
when people ask “why don’t you criticize republicans instead,” this is the answer. these are the people who have the actual means to do anything and they fucking suck. everything else is just posting
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Macro photo of common lichen subsuming organic matter in a The Thing (horror) like fashion.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
muppet starship troopers could fix us
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I mean, ultimately it's Armus right?
Armus, the oil monster that killed Yar and is irresistible to anyone attracted to RFKjr, right?
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Purrypurrydog @purrypurrydog.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’m not locked here with you, you’re locked in with me. -Brad Lander probably-
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Comic strip showing a stand-up comedian under the title "The Ones Who Bomb In Omegas"

He is saying "Hooboy, I should not have brought up the child. This is a tough room, but not the worst room in the city. Am I right?"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/11/2025
low-information voter who thinks they just freed jared fogle
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I mean you can only hear that gerbil story
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Kate Mulgrew @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Happy to see common sense and equality prevail across our troubled nation. Keep showing up and voting - that's an order from the Admiral!
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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Crows remember.
A black bird in profile
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/11/2025
The day started off great and just kept getting better
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Additionally, the point isn't to defend Mamdani's political reputation, but to defend the countless people whose lives would be ruined by yet another manufactured crime panic.
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
If I was Sting I would do a set of Bad Bunny covers
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Eclipse 🌙 @sirknight95.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
(doorstop noises)
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
You know what, maybe I'm doing better than I thought I was
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Terry Gilliam: I told you motherfuckers
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Tim and Eric watching the Reingold Tape: wrap it up, we're cooked
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Not Insubstantial Gravytas @blueskyblackdeath.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Of War and\or Peace
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A fun fact is that contemporary political philosophy has something like ~no explanation for why democracy is something ordinary people would or should care about this much
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I'm like Muad'Dib, I got the ill communication, Muad'Dib I got the stillsuit for hydration, Muad'Dib I got the worm for transportation
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