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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I guarantee you AI won’t kill us all. The claim’s a projection of reckless rich buffoons who can’t wait to be the only humans alive, openly fantasizing about a cull. Again. I’ve never been scared of AI, but the megalomaniacs forcing it on us are terrifying. I can’t guarantee they won’t kill us all.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 03/10/2026

Hannah Arendt defined totalitarianism as “organized loneliness”. I can’t think of a better definition of what AI and chat bots want to push us into, financed and designed by literal totalitarians

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to read books and eat pastries in a seaside cottage during a raging thunderstorm is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The original version of this was posted on my FAisDM (felicitousArtisan is Darth Mongoose) Tumblr many years ago. I drew it at about 11pm right before going to bed, trying to express something I felt about art. When I woke up it kinda blew up.

Flowchart drawn by Kate Holden in orange, aliases lines reads:
HOW TO BE ANARTIST.
Make some art.-> Does it look terrible? 1. YEAH 2. NO (both lives lead to thesame conclusion box) -> You are an artist -> Make more art

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Comedy about a guy having to do housework is a tough sell these days, I will give you that.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Trying to earn a living doing anything creative feels like constantly asking what parts of my principles I have to contradict for anyone to see what I'm making.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

reader: wow this seems effortless. writer: it took me ten years & 400 drafts to complete this story

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Nick Robert @boyjurassic.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I really need NASA to come out with a hat with the Artemis mission patch on it.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 03/04/2026

Remember how he said Covid would be over by Easter? That’s the “two to three weeks” stuff he was saying last night. Same stuff.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The very aggressive marketing of “dietary supplements” to healthy people by the supplement industry (an industry that was worth around $200 billion last year) is a scam

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The new thing is landlords using ai photos for their property listings. Totally legal. Total scam. The whole economy is oil and scams.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

If you feel you can speak up, do. Goodyear didn't know about the problem with Myhrvold, because many reporters aren't specialists who'd even know to look. It's not always safe to say something, but, where possible, it's so important to talk about what's happening if we're going to change it.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/01/2026

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand that ICE be banned from the use of tactical nuclear weapons without a judge's order.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/01/2026

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-…

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

being a writer is amazing because one hour you can have a spiraling existential crisis and the next you can write 500 words like nothing happened 🙃

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 30/01/2026

‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 12/01/2026

Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.

A six-panel comic titled "Wildlife Tracking Tips". In panel 1, the text says "A white-tailed deer traveled through here," and there are white-tailed deer prints in fresh snow. In panel 2, the text says "An American Red Squirrel came by," and the leap marks of a red squirrel are in the snow. In panel 3, the text says "A Snowshoe Hare passed through," and there are the distinctive fluffy-footed marks from a snowshoe hare jumping across the snow. n panel 4, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare found a sword," and one of the front paw marks in the track has been replaced with a long thin line running alongside the track. In panel 5, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare is dual wielding," and both front paw marks have been replaced with long thin lines. In panel 6, the text says "The Snowshoe Hare tamed a mount, vastly increasing its jumping distance. You should run," and the Snowshoe Hare trail runs into a deer track and disappears.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Movies aren’t always meant to be shunted into categories of like and don’t like. If you leave the theater or press “exit” and you’re thinking “Ok I don’t know about some of that, I have thoughts,” congratulations you’re engaging with art! Its own special thing.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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GregXB @gregxb.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I've noticed this. A lot.

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James @james.tarnation.lol · 28/11/2025

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

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Nick Robert @boyjurassic.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This group of teenagers behind me is discussing their favorite brands of water and I’m just wondering when this generation became septuagenarians

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 27/11/2025

remember, folks,

This Thanksgiving remember the cranberry sauce, but forget the Marijuana.

Terry was convinced to take a "toke" of a joint with his friend "just to relax". Immediately after, Terry killed his friend who had given him the marijuana in a murderous craze. Not so safe, is it?

Marijuana. Not Even Once.

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Persephiroth @persephiroth.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it Learn more here: www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren... And here: notournativedaughters.org

niwrc.org

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

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Nick Robert @boyjurassic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Absolutely wild. She was 8 when she entered the country. An unjust system is to blame here.

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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 26/11/2025

Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.

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Nick Robert @boyjurassic.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I miss the era of when shows had so many episodes they would have to do holiday episodes.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Okay, so you cannot avoid a Thanksgiving event, and it’s not entirely under your control. You’re home from college, you live with your parents, your spouse isn’t ready to process how awful their natal family is. It happens. THERE ARE STRATEGIES YOU CAN EMPLOY TO YOUR BENEFIT.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/11/2025

Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 19/11/2025

Everyone is a muppet except for Daniel Craig MAKE THIS HAPPEN

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Nanotyrannus attacking a young Tyrannosaurus is super common in paleoart especially in the last few weeks. Won’t stop me from depicting it too. Enjoy the new #watercolor. #paleoart

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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 13/11/2025

Reminder that anyone who says "a writer must do this," "a writer cannot do that," is WRONG.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/11/2025

Saw a sign about Flock cameras in my podunk home town the other day and it gives me so much heart to see how pissed off people are about this.

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The Tech Company Bringing Surveillance Dystopia to Your Town

Flock claims that its technology will literally eliminate crime. But what it’s unleashing may be just as insidious.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10/11/2025

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.

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nogain98 @rlatkdwls.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Ouranosaurus

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

🐧 Puffin fact #2: Puffins are amazing flyers. They flap their wings up to 400 times a minute, reaching speeds of 55 mph. Underwater, they “fly” through the sea to chase fish! 4/5 #BrushWithTheWild #WildlifeArt #Puffin

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Nobody *needs* to drive. What people need is to get around. A century of bad urban policy has led to the two being synonymous.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Thank you Vanity Fair for printing this incredible subhed. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

The Onion Wants an Oscar for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile—Coming to a Theater Near You
And Onion CEO Ben Collins knows just how to sell this 20-minute mockumentary to the Academy: “Do you like pedophiles? I don’t think you do. You know what you could do to prove it?”

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Nick Robert @boyjurassic.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Beyond embarrassed I got confused at 12:30 in the morning and let 🧊 into my yard.

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