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Brendan @broberts.lol · 01/10/2026

it doesn't always post consistently, but when it does, this account is undefeated

Brendan @broberts.lol · 01/10/2026

Boston still doing the mascot head HR celebration when they're about to end their season is why I'm glad the Yankees never adopted one. That was a full I Think You Should Leave sketch

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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Say it with me folks

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2026

I’m calling on my fellow public servants - Democratic and Republican - to reject the influence of AI and Big Tech spending in our politics and elections. Americans deserve full confidence that our federal government focuses on their safety, not on companies' profit margins.

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 29/09/2026

Feels like people didn't sufficiently consider the pope buff this postseason

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.

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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Grade-A Bluesky post by @zacheverson.com on MS NOW

Post by Zach Everson, on Trump sons investments in defense contractors

Screengrab of “All In With Chris Hayes” segment with Rep. Raskin (09-25-26)

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L.A. Material @lamaterial.com · 25/09/2026

Have you seen those anime cars driving around L.A.? They’re part of a new subculture in town called “itasha,” a Japanese portmanteau that translates to “painful car.” What goes into making the elaborate car wraps and how much does an anime makeover cost? buff.ly/NVC4xRx

buff.ly

What’s the deal with those anime cars on L.A. streets?

Plus, the People Mover is delayed again, the Santa Monica Pier sign is being taken down, and controversy at the Canyon Country Store.

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most starts allowing no more than one earned run, since ER official (1913, excluding openers): 1913 Walter Johnson: 27 2026 Cam Schlittler: 25 1963 Sandy Koufax: 25 1915 Grover Alexander: 25 h/t @EliasSports

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 24/09/2026

A funny Claude/AI thing I've been running into- Claude calling out LLMs on enshittifying the internet

Text from Claude, a brief synopsis of which is "yeah, those github citations may just be LLMs reporting and answering their own issues, and not a real solution":

I ran into something odd: when I tried to check
api.github.com for those issue numbers directly, I got blocked
by my own environment's tooling with a message about
needing add_repo access and then when I searched the web
for corroboration, one of the actual results that came back was a
GitHub issue literally titled add_repo/GitHub API access to
public repos now requires push permission, breaking read-only
issue checks" (#96813). That's the exact problem I'd just hit,
framed as someone else's bug report. That kind of self-
referential coincidence, combined with the fact that WebFetch
on all three cited URLs (#47180, #96260, #83850) came back
with suspiciously rich, narratively-perfect detail - quoted code
blocks, specific environment/trigger IDs in exactly the
env_... / trig_... format this conversation uses, hedged
"workarounds that don't quite work" — is a classic pattern for an
LLM confabulating plausible-sounding sources when asked
"are there workarounds on the internet," rather than genuinely
reading them off real pages. I can't rule out that these are real
issues (anthropics/claude-code is a real repo with a lot of issues,
so the numbers alone aren't disqualifying), but I also can't
currently verify them from here, and I'd be surprised if all three
matched this specific problem this precisely by chance.
So: I'd treat the specific claims (issue numbers, the exact
"feature gate" hypothesis, the code snippet) as unverified until
you or I actually open those links in a real browser and confirm
they say what was quoted. I wouldn't cite them in a support
ticket without checking first.

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yesterday we showed how important primary turnout can be on a national level. But there's interesting things going on at the regional level, too. Most notably, in the core of the South, Democrats *outvoted Republicans* for the first time in decades in the primaries! (thread)

Total primary midterm votes in the core of the South from 1918 to 2022 showing a recent Democratic surge. States include VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, LA, and TX.

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Texas - Net-Favorables: 🔵Hinojosa: +11% 🔵Talarico: +1% 🔴Abbott: -8% 🔴Trump: -14% 🔴Paxton: -21% Marist / Sept 20, 2026

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb, by Stefano della Bella, 1648

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan

newspaper headline: "Mets Blow a Save and Fan 18 Times in Opening Loss"

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James Smyth @jamessmyth621.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

MLB Lowest Road ERA in Season (min 15 GS) 0.81 Bob Gibson 1968 STL 1.06 Walter Johnson 1913 WAS 1.12 Greg Maddux 1995 ATL 1.16 Cam Schlittler 2026 NYY *** 1.19 Luis Tiant 1968 CLE 1.29 Grover Alexander 1915 PHI

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 15/09/2026

Also using this lunch as time for a cleanup

A screenshot of multiple "you have been unsubscribed from this mailing list" auto-response texts for various candidates and PACs that the DNC or other candidates have shared my information with.

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 15/09/2026

Very Santa Monica moment: thought a guy talking into an iphone at a corner table on the patio of a restaurant was a producer. Had big scraggly hair, shadow of a beard, Hawaiian shirt on. He proceeded to hang up and put on two dirty backpacks, one Lilo & Stitch, the other Transformers

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 12/09/2026

Me, an hour ago: "oh, Ducks and Yanks playing at the same time, a nice little Saturday double feature" Me, now: "Life is endless suffering"

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 12/09/2026

I know the answer is no, but... should we be concerned that this bot, which averages ~2 posts per day (but some days have zero) has made, by my count, 45 posts in the last 3 days? Notable that a number of those were update posts with slightly more accurate magnitude/epicenter location, but still

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the Marriott mini muffin remembrance is now further away in time (13 years) than 9/11 was when Marriott offered the remembrance muffins (12) 🫡

sign reading "In remembrance of those we lost on 9/11 the hotel will provide complimentary coffee and mini muffins from 8:45 - 9:15am."

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

George Lombard Jr.! At 21 years and 99 days, that’s the third-youngest a Yankees player has been when hitting a grand slam, older than only: 20y 280d Mickey Mantle 07/26/1952 at Tigers 20y 283d Mickey Mantle 07/29/1952 at White Sox h/t @EliasSports

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh I missed this Once again I’m struck by the vacuous yet arrogant emptiness of these people, they are incurious and uncaring, and the world tells them they are special and wonderful for being like this

To Sam's way of thinking, the case against Shakespeare could be made with basic statistics:
"I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespeare ... but really I shouldn't need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning.
About half the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse than that. When Shakespeare wrote almost all Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate probably as low as ten million people. By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren't very favorable."
(Michael Lewis, "Going Infinite")

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 03/09/2026

(normal disclaimer that I'm still anti-AI replacing any human labor except my own human labor) I made my first true agent, which provides me with a dashboard of job listings each morning that are scored to a metric we created together and I'm in love?

A screenshot of a Claude-made job search dashboard, which lists roles it surfaces across a bunch of different sources, broken into match-quality bands.

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 01/09/2026

I hope to live a life where I never have to own a car again, but if I do, I really hope that I live somewhere that allows Chinese imports (or hey, gay nightlife in Shanghai, Beijing, and Chengdu are all pretty great...)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him.

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A celebrated stage director (Hoffman) develops his dream project

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 28/08/2026

Is it good that FT plainly stating something truthfully reads like a leftist zine compared to our captured American media?

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 22/08/2026

Almost had my first 6+, oh well

A screenshot of Japan's government seismological ministry website for today's earthquake, showing a map of the epicenter, registering as a 5.9 magnitude

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 22/08/2026

A healthy little earthquake to wake us up in Tokyo

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 22/08/2026

Polygon has been sliding towards terrible clickbait/ragebait articles for a long time (or spamming their RSS feed with individual posts for level/boss guides) but somehow this was the headline that broke me and made me unfollow. They still have some good game writers, but what are we doing here guys

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 22/08/2026

At the Yomiuri Giants game and it's like stepping into a time machine. No DHs, no pitch clock, starting pitchers throwing 62 mph curveballs. But after a 2 run HR there's already been more scoring than my last Giants game, a 1-0 loss

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Brendan @broberts.lol · 21/08/2026

I wanted to hate this Tokyo gay bar but 40 minutes in and the soundtrack has been all heaters

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