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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Julie the Cranky Crone @juliethecranky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/K_7qw... And while we’re at it. I love traditional dance to pop music.
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Black or White | Michael Jackson x Odissi | MJ Birthday Special 🎂 #MichaelJackson #Odissi
YouTube video by Babu & Bibi
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 21/09/2026
So they beat up a citizen for refusing to provide ID Papers, please
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Because Tilly is a pretty object made to be used by men, so of course it’s a “she” to them. Whereas trans woman clearly have interiority & agency who use it to refuse their bullshit hierarchy, so of course we are villainous subhuman monsters undeserving/incapable of having true personhood.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The price of heating oil, a fuel that is very similar to diesel, is up roughly 60% since the start of the war in Iran on Feb. 28. "Many Americans are heading into a 'much more expensive' winter..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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Why the Iran War Will Make Heating Oil More Expensive for Some This Winter
The cost of heating oil, which is similar to diesel and used extensively in Northeastern states, has climbed sharply because of the war in Iran.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Finally saw that Converse ad. My dudes, I'm the whitest of white people and even I saw what the fuck that looked like (don't post the ad in my comments, thanks)
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms. The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer. We can talk real world instead of sci fi. We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 19/09/2026
Check the timestamp
Me, two weeks ago: DC might need to form its own Baltic Way and shut the city down 


Quoting Mark Chadbourn:
Spoiled child Trump will smash things if he can;t get his own way
(Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations)
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 19/09/2026
An analysis of government inspections and a survey of customers find that incorrect prices are frequent in the stores of Ohio-based grocery chain Kroger. It said they're usually in the store's favor ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/18/r...
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Report accuses Ohio-based grocery giant Kroger of frequent overpricing • Ohio Capital Journal
A new report says that grocery giant Kroger often incorrectly prices items in ways that make them more expensive at the register.
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Julie the Cranky Crone @juliethecranky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Glowing Gnomes Were Chickens
YouTube video by Ghosts of History
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
For anyone about to go "but but what about..." please go here first whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/14/1...
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10 Thoughts On “AI,” February 2026 Edition
Because it feels like a good time to do it, some current thoughts on “AI” and where it, we and I are about the thing, midway through February 2026. These are thoughts in no particular o…
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15/09/2026
These big AI companies should be held civilly and/or criminally liable and prosecuted when their models hurt people. They don’t get a free pass just because they’ve now decided to admit to the dangers of what they’ve created.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 18/09/2026
Rolling blackouts would happen more than 13 days a year in a “worst case future” scenario, where data center growth is unrestrained and electricity supplies remain tight, according to a report commissioned by Pennsylvania utility regulators. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/18/r...
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Study warns of electricity shortages unless supply keeps pace with data center growth • Ohio Capital Journal
Even if new power plants are built over the next 15 years, as data center projects come online, the regional electricity grid would fall short of demands six times per decade, on average, according…
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It isn't explicit, but we've seen this pattern before. 1) Black Americans are twice as likely to get Alzheimer's 2) Scientists want to study Black communities to figure out why and what insights this has for treatment/cause 3) Trump people cut the program, most likely because they think it's DEI.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
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Rachelle @thisisrachelle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My interest in scams and cults is basically limitless and I have attempted to learn about this at least 5 times and haven’t managed to finish even one long form article. Even their cult has the vibe of boring derivative slop.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My freshman year in college I got assigned to the dorm that had long been the opt-in favorite of some very annoying libertarianish LARPers who really had no interest in showers or social skills and sometimes liked to performatively do group sex stuff in common spaces. This is the same vibe
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/09/2026
Never forget that for many of these tech billionaire creeps, "disrupt" has always just meant "break the fucking law."
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 18/09/2026
The ruling requires DHS to give immigrants proper notice and time to raise safety concerns before removal to a third nation
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Appeals court strikes down Trump policy of fast deportations to third countries | Arizona Mirror
Third-country deportations ruling: 1st Circuit blocks Trump's fast-track removals, requiring notice and safety review
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He's so stupid *and* fascist that he thinks "repressive" is a compliment.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 18/09/2026
This isn't a one-off dispute, it's a stated program — and it's already been tried and lost. Check the AP case, Trump cannot ban outlets based on coverage he doesn’t like.   Freedom of press is core to our democracy, and our democracy must survive this self absorbed President.
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Boltgrrrrrrrl @boltgrrl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh HELL NO. AI HALLUCINATES.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
US District Judge Mary S. McElroy issued a summary judgment ruling on Friday finding that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Donald Trump, has unlawfully terminated the $7 billion Solar for All Program. More: substack.com/@shero/note/...
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US District Judge Mary S. McElroy issued a summary judgment ruling on Friday finding that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Donald Trump, has unlawfully terminated the $7 billion Sol...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They want this to go away so badly
A report on the full Pentagon investigation, which commenced in March, hasn't been released - though the officials said it has been all-but-complete for several months.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Republican House candidate Joe Arminio repeatedly mis-gendered Democratic Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of the US House, at a local forum today until he was asked to leave. 6abc.com/post/candida... Donate to Sarah here: sarahmcbride.com
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Trump-driven Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has quietly approved Paramount's request to allow sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to hold indirect equity interests in a Paramount-Warner merger. apnews.com/article/para...
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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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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The major funder of GOP candidates in 2026 is doing this. Make every GOP candidate own it: "Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
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Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists (Gift Article)
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026
“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026
I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think a lot about how totally unprepared almost everyone is for the degree to which our government capacity has been gutted. We're all doing this high wire act and most folks think there's SOME safety net below. And will until a strong gust of wind proves them wrong in the worst way
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What every candidate should say when the death cult freaks ask them about trans kids in sports
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
no amnesty
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"you're gonna get left behind if you don't start using ai" oh thank god, please leave me behind, i'm good over here, i do not want to go to there
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I keep seeing people on here being like "you don't understand, Texas isn't Bluesky, normal people have to hear that you want the trans kids sport genital inspections" ...if you think the voting public in ANY state is make or break on that pervert bully shit, maybe it is *you* that needs to log off
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every night I go to bed thinking I have seen the dumbest shit I’ll ever see in my life and every morning I am wrong before I’ve even finished my coffee
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161 Archive @161archive.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anonymous Comrades Collective exposed a Nazi homeschooling community in 2023 and it reached national outlets. This is why we preserve research. Anti-fascists have been out there doing the work. And it's good work.
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Inside The Online Community Where Home-Schoolers Learn How To Turn Their Kids Into ‘Wonderful Nazis’
A Telegram group called Dissident Homeschool has been a resource for neo-Nazis who want to teach their kids hate at home. Now its administrators have been unmasked.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's also a plan to collapse preschools (which are already in quite serious crisis) and make workforce re-entry economically untenable for women with young children
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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The Doom That Came to Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A fun thing about LLMs is once you learn even one fucking thing about how they work, you understand they don't think. They don't reason. They don't understand. They do math with letters to make words.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All megaflora is charismatic, big trees are the coolest living thing on earth
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 02/09/2026
Even a very limited space-based defense system would cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars and would have no meaningful defensive capabilities, write Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright. "Still, hope springs eternal, as does the Pentagon's ability to ignore lessons from the past."
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Defeated by physics
The Pentagon's $3.2 billion bet on space-based boost-phase missile defense ignores basic orbital dynamics, offering no real protection while fueling a costly, destabilizing arms race in space.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 02/09/2026
New evidence shows Boulder climate lab was dismantled in act of political reprisal, lawsuit alleges
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