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Trapped O'Brien, Please Free Me From This Prison @radobrien.myatproto.social · 10h

Does Paramount even KNOW how to take care of the Animaniacs?

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

on the sidewalk i just passed a 6’ tall, nearly-full-sidewalk-width butch lesbian. she was wearing a butchers apron and walking/soothing two anxious chihuahuas. no wedding ring. in case any of you ladies want to get treated like a queen for the rest of your life

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026

It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An infuriating part of the trans panic is "what if straight men are pretending to be trans women to harass other women?" and it's like if you care about violence against women maybe care about the global pandemic of real violence rather than maybe this might happen violence?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"So remember, every time you see one of those 'Talarico is for they/them' ads, it's just Musk trying to build a [gas-spewing] data center down the road from you."

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Conservatives have spent YEARS talking about how immigrants need to assimilate. I kids spilling their beer, wearing burnt orange and overalls and cowboys hats at a football game. I guarantee you they got drunk as hell after. Nothing is more American than that. This is just rank racism.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Listen to this all the way through. You can hear their nerves but even so (or maybe because), it is real, sweet, angry, joyous working-class solidarity music and I fucking love it.

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BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show · 01/09/2026

BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 48 PAPER WORK: IMMIGRATION, ISLAMOPHOBIA & BUREAUCRACY w/ JOSEF BURTON @pinstripebungle.bsky.social Josef enters the Zone to talk about his experience working in the U.S. State Department and discuss the quiet violence work of diplomats, administrators and functionaries.

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Paper Work: Immigration, Islamophobia and Bureaucracy w/ Josef Burton | Blood Work

Paper Work: Immigration, Islamophobia and Bureaucracy w/ Josef Burton by Blood Work on Patreon. Join Blood Work's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/09/2026

I’m going to need everyone who’s reporting on AI psychosis and how it’s making people, especially men, come up with theories of everything to please talk with the scientists who have been getting multiple emails from “theory of everything” guys for decades

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Kakistocracy of TERROR! 💀 @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This has already been tested. Students spent less time on homework and got somewhat better grades on it, and then when exam time rolled around, their performance plummeted. Cratered. Because retention, and mastery, come from Doing the Fucking Work.

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Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious.

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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.

Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026

i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I am out here talking mad love and beauty behind my friends' backs. I am gonna say so many nice things about you the second you leave the table. I won't be stopped.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Jackson State choir. And God.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's mostly not about the technology, itself. They are angry about A.I. because they are anxious about how to be successful. No one in charge will tell them the new path to upward mobility. No seems to want to even figure one out. All anyone will talk to them about is A.I.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.

[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.

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I am devastated. I just learned that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her. She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right....and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"We love Dolly Parton’s music, but that’s not why we love her. We love her because she spent her entire life unconditionally loving us."

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She Who Never Needed a Crown

Dolly Parton, 1946 - 2026

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Andisheh Nouraee @andisheh.com · 07/06/2025

Jolene Jolene Jolene Cuisine

Dolly Parton’s Chicken and Dumplings and Lean Cuisine.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026

I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.

When I was much younger, I knew her mostly as a caricature and the object of jokes, because young men are kind of stupid that way and I was no exception, and because she willingly played along with the joke, in part because she knew it would happen anyway, and this way she got to shape some of how that would play out for her, and use it for her own ends. It took me a while to realize how canny that was.

When I got older, I learned that underneath the caricature was a formidable songwriting and business mind. I had an inkling of what a rare combination that was in any person, but how even more rare it was for someone who was who she was, in the field and environment she worked in. Hidden in all those sparkles was a spine of steel.

When I got older than that I learned that in addition to a brilliant mind was a heart of kindness, which directed so much of the good fortune she amassed to herself right back out the door through philanthropic work, helping those in her communities, state and country, and which allowed to see the worth and dignity in those whom so many others treated (and still do treat) with contempt.

She was always all the things she was. What changed was my ability to see and understand who she was. I'm glad I was eventually smart enough to see it all.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@edzitron.com had it on the money here

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

the MAHA movement likes to blame illness and disability on stuff like "eating processed foods" and then, conveniently, when you die of eating the literal shit salad they failed to regulate it's your own fault for having an underlying health condition

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026

Put this shit up in neon lights. One of the dentists at my dentist actually had a forty minute conversation with me in the lobby about the history of dental insurance, the politics of dentistry, and dental care which has led to our current fucked situation.

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If women wore smart glasses, they'd be banned. (soigomaa/x) Think about it. If millions of women wore smart glasses, recording men's behaviour, conversations, comments, their driving & bar chats ... can you imagine the panic? Trust me, smart glasses would be regulated before you can say 'Meta'.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

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Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

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Ophie Dokie 🌻 @ophiedokie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So, ok, a thing about telling yr audience "i use AI for my info gathering/research but then I look over it and fix any errors" is that you unfortunately told me youve outsourced your knowledge base on this subject to the machine, and therefore I have no reason to believe you CAN catch those errors

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carmenlynn.bsky.social @carmenlynn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”

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Red flags fly after conservative harassment network targeting teachers exposed: 'Chilling'

A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college profes...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It turns out insurance companies believe in climate change whether you do or not

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's amazing how quickly we've forgotten how shit-ourselves scared we all were in 2020. Covid-19 was new. We had no firm idea how bad it could get, how it spread, or how to treat for it. Now, these bastards on the right act like the whole thing was just a minor inconvenience blown out of proportion.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

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Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

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