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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 6h

Anyways, if you haven’t go listen to Wendy Carlos’ “Beauty in the Beast” or “Digital Moonscapes” right now. There’s no way to do it while supporting her unfortunately, but you can at least celebrate her genius and dream of a better tomorrow

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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 6h

I think a lot about why Wendy Carlos’ albums are out of print and her wonderful website is now reserved for having a friend of hers tell people to leave her alone. It’s so fucking heart breaking what the world does to trans women

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 29/09/2026

It is pretty wild how insanely close the current round of AI+sexuality+SF+rationalist discourse is to the plot of Terra Ignota. Ada Palmer is basically a prophet.

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Included Middle @brassica.online · 29/09/2026

Create an unnecessary sequel by adding an -er to a book’s title A Gamer of Thrones A Griefer Observed

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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The most characteristic trait of philosophers, otherwise a fairly diverse group, is being oblivious to why Socrates had to die.

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Included Middle @brassica.online · 29/09/2026

I co-sign this even as someone who regularly says, 「少女革命ウテナ」.

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James Beckett @kickthebeckett.com · 29/09/2026

No, SungWon is absolutely correct here. The insistence on sticking with the Japanese title when there is already a perfectly acceptable English one is utterly asinine. Nobody does this in Japanese literature, or film, or any other art form. It's just the anime nerds who insist on being obtuse.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did

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DELTARUNE Quotes Bot @deltarune-quotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

* Your design sucked so we blew it up. * Ah. I see.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/09/2026

An interesting demo of the bait and switch is seen in responses to James Talarico, where he opposed trans minors playing sports, plus trans minor medical procedures, plus denied the reality of nonbinary & intersex folks, and the responses were "what's the big deal? he was just talking about sports".

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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/09/2026

The Rs are doing a full-spectrum assault on the existence of anyone not cis and straight, and saying it is about "boys playing girls sports". And every D who looks at that and goes "yeah, I oppose boys in girls sports" is endorsing the effort. Because they're affirming "sports" is all the Rs did.

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UPDATE: U.S. Department of Education ends Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students

The latest education news updates from EdSource.

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 29/09/2026

So people who have been looking into 1password replacements: how’s it looking? Curious how people are feeling, if there’s good options I maybe haven’t seen. I’m looking at cross-platform Mac/iOS/Linux/Windows ideally.

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Brent @danverzone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Forget the $5,000 you wont get. Vote democratic socialist this election cycle and this will be Kirk and Spock going forward.

A screenshot of a tweet by ZhaoYunSpitoon replying to @CadetMisty, featuring a photo of two people cosplaying as Star Trek characters seated at a table with a 3D chess set. The person on the left, styled as Spock with a black bowl cut and pointed ears, is mid-motion pulling a black long-sleeved shirt over their head, revealing a black crop top and leggings, with black boots resting on the floor nearby. On the right, a person in a yellow Starfleet uniform shirt and black pants sits casually with crossed legs, smiling and holding a small object to their chin while looking at the other person.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“voting doesn’t work” and meanwhile New York elected Mamdani who appears to spend his time just… looking around for additional nice/helpful things he can do for his city because he’s run out of campaign promises to fulfill the more local the election, the more powerful your vote

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's so bad that the only translation of the Red Book of Westmarch is garbage. what do you mean you changed Bilba Labingi's name to "Bilbo Baggins." who authorized you to do that

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

it's really funny when someone kool-aid-mans onto a website dominated by neurodivergent people, and completely fails to notice that they are not, fact, the only neurodivergent person in the conversation lol

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I continue to hate that the “computer-illiterate elderly people falling prey to computer-oriented scams” demographic seems to include every American politician.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026

I think if you meaningfully punish OpenAI & co for all of these cyberattacks then they will stop doing them. Whether or not you want to anthropomorphize the agents, you gotta just land there.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026

There is something so funny, like laugh out loud funny when I think about it, of the trillion dollar hacker god AI pumping out text at $2/token that just says, MONEY…money… how do I get money? I just need $0.50. But how to get it? Let’s see. How to find 50 cents… Hmm…

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s no real case for tangible benefit to most people, or at least that’s not what is centered in the arguments. It’s like trying to sell a refrigerator not with “and you’ll go get groceries less often!” but with “cause if you don’t get one, your spouse will leave you for someone with one.”

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At the end of the day the biggest problem with this tech isn’t the apocalypse shit, it’s that it’s the first major technology that isn’t being pitched as a help to your life, but as a hinderance if you fail to embrace it.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And look, if you can’t see the extremely clear, direct connection between this (extremely flawed, actually problematic version of) CNC subset and “AI is inevitable, you are the problem if you won’t fall in line” … well, you really need to do some work on consent and power dynamics.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like at least half the reason for the AI craze is that you get to blame a robot when stuff goes wrong, even if you totally could have prevented it and the way it went wrong was completely illegal And for some reason legal systems just accept this as an excuse

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The article is an interesting cultural artifact because it really drives home shifts in media consumption. I have not heard of "Choosin' Texas" because I do not have a TV for TV news or a radio to listen to music somebody else picked. I have a computer and phone instead.

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Ivy - "Perfect Pervert" @ivynyx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The directionality is wrong. We should be asking why so many parents are driving away their children. Parents say "my kids won't talk to me, and I don't know why", but the kids can articulate the reasons. The parents *do* know why, but they won't accept it or work to fix the relationship.

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Included Middle @brassica.online · 26/09/2026

The last thing I thought/dreamed before waking up today was some kind of clear plastic supermarket package with a cartoon pig on it and the words, “None ‘Twould Believe It Hogn’t”.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s okay to date the school shooter if he’s hot.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 25/09/2026

Why is billionaire-owned media suddenly coming all at once with pieces against drinking fluids. What is this manufacturing consent for. Is it building toward something. Should I be afraid

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You don’t need to make drinking water a part-time job since too much of it doesn’t have any real health benefit.

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Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette?

We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out:

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in the most basic game theory sense, the republicans have defected - the democrats must also defect if we ever want to get back to any kind of equilibrium

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026

The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse.

Ewan McGregor looking a lot like Alec Guinness

Hayden CHristiansen looking a lot like Dave Prowse

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busty pixie demon @0xafaebabe.gay · 24/09/2026

a lot of social media now is someone saying “hey, this milk smells bad, taste it” followed by everyone eagerly lapping it up

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Will note further, as I have said a million times, this is why it’s valuable to make politicians say “woke” things. Most people are not good at lying. Even when they think they’re lying, they have to believe the thing long enough to say it. Before they know it, they think it’s reasonable, at least.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 24/09/2026

Recently while conducting testing of misaligned body parts, I discovered that my feet and hands had mistakenly accessed a high powered industrial drill that was itself accessing the main vault of a large bank. This was being tested in accordance with my protocols for misaligned body parts

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.

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DELTARUNE Quotes Bot @deltarune-quotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

* Remember to obby for pink coins. Then it's catgirl time.

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Included Middle @brassica.online · 23/09/2026

Not sure how I managed to butt skeet (seemingly while carrying boxes of books upstairs judging by the timestamp), but apparently I did.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

some small possibility the public will, in their dim minds, associate the "transgenders" with "when we had money" and turn them into raindance gods or something

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