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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h
We normally try to keep this on the DL, but it’s true: We can fly.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New favorite inappropriate cover for a public-domain book
Flatland, with a picture of Iowa or something
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Steve Quick @stevequick.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
And then there's this.
Cover of All Quiet on the Western Front with a cowboy riding a horse in the desert.
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Jermonter @jermonter.bsky.social · 15h
To tie this to a current moment: if Sen Eric Schmitt had written out his thoughts yesterday: (eg - A) Jack Smith went to an NBA game in ATL; B) Fani Willis works in ATL; C) [lorem ipsum]; D) Smith is a dirtbag), then Schmitt would have seen that part C needed a lot of work still.
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 12h
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 4h
Oh man you know he fucked up when the committee staff starts leaking.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h
LMAO
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?

Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.

You’re right, that does sound grim.

Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.

I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.
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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 12h
Just encountered this for the first time and wow
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OldTechAdverts @oldtechadverts.bsky.social · 15h
These are so funny! mightygodking.com/2008/04/21/f...
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Mightygodking dot com » Post Topic » Fun From Yesterday!
So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h
I think a key issue here is that these guys have no idea what 'good' means
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Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
You cannot co-exist with people who don't want you to exist at all.
A yellow rectangular sticker resembling a warning or yield sign with a thin black border is stuck to a dark, textured brown metallic surface. The sticker features bold, capitalized black text that reads: "YOU CANNOT CO-EXIST WITH PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT YOU TO EXIST AT ALL."
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Gabe Wasylko @gabewasylko.com · 16h
Wednesday’s Autumn Sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio
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phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · 19h
Fucking *chef's kiss*
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪
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Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained
“Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/09/2026
So-called AI detection tools might be an even bigger scurge than AI. I was talking today with a student (a senior), who shared that they now have to spend time "dumbing down" their papers--shortening sentences, removing advanced vocab and punctuation--because otherwise they get flagged as "AI."
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Qingshan Lake Water Forest in Lin'an District, Hangzhou is a viral attraction sometimes called "Matcha Lake" for the emerald green duckweed (subfamily Lemnoideae). These black swans (Cygnus atratus) & their cygnets are enjoying a nutritious buffet of aquatic plants. Let's learn about duckweed.
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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sure, agents struggle to accomplish even the most basic tasks and Facebook recently got caught pretending they built agents by outsourcing tasks to poorly-paid contractors but what if they were cute? What now, skeptics?
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Peter Thiel coming home from the office and cracking open a new blood boy with his teeth like an otter pop
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 30/09/2026
My favorite
Error page for America.gov featuring the text “Hot Dog” above an image of someone grilling hotdogs with a golden retriever trying to catch a falling one.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
The site's question-and-answer function confirms that President Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files and that Democrat Joe Biden beat him in the 2020 election. It says federal officials did not find widespread fraud in that election, as Trump says constantly. to.pbs.org/4yZmkO8
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WATCH: Trump launches AI-powered government website America.gov
The president said the site is “glamorizing” the federal bureaucracy — but it doesn’t agree with him on many key issues.
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Sadly Rutschman @flannelgoddess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh shit the White Sox are literally on a mission from God
Letter to Jerry Reinsdorf from the pope

I was pleased to receive the kind letter that you
sent
following the game that took place at Rate Field on August 11, 2026. I am most grateful for this thoughtful gesture.
As I have noted,
"sport can truly become a school of life,
where all can learn that abundance does not come from victory at any cost, but from sharing, from respecting others and from the joy of walking together" (Letter Life in Abundance, 6 February In this spirit, it is my hope that the White Sox will
continue to foster bonds of friendship and solidarity people, and thus bear hopeful witness to the possibility of living and working together in peace.
With
these sentiments, I willingly invoke the Almighty's
abundant blessings upon you and your loved ones.
From the Vatican, 9 September 2026
Leo PXIV
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Don’t take your eyes off of him” is something u say about a guy who is going to try to steal your wallet or put something in your drink lol
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026
Slab Graveyard xkcd.com/3303/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Any plans for Halloween? PERSON 2 with beret: Me and my friends are gonna check out a slab graveyard! (2) PERSON 1: What’s that? PERSON 2: When dense crust subducts, geologists think it might pile up at the bottom of the mantle. [illustration of Person 2’s related theory] (3) PERSON 2: We’re going to hide in the crust and ride it down to see. Wanna come? It’s gonna be spooky! (4) PERSON 1: Won’t that take millions of years? PERSON 2: Lots of time for ghost stories! PERSON 1: I think I’m good. PERSON 2: Too spooky? I understand.
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Eryn Cangi, PhD @planetaryemc2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sorry if I missed it but this clearly needs to be seen by the #PlanetaryScience community! Write-up by the Planetary Society here tinyurl.com/7e7kurhb with a link to the petition
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SWAP, PEPSSI, and the secrets of the Solar System
NASA's New Horizons is poised to make discoveries about the farthest reaches of our Solar System, but two of its key instruments are in danger of being…
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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...
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alves @alves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 28/09/2026
A successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter Earlier today, Juice flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean and snapped these images with its onboard monitoring cameras. 1️⃣Africa, by Juice monitoring camera 2️⃣Madagascar, by Juice NavCam 3️⃣Moon, by Juice NavCam 🔭 🧪 #planetsci
Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left.Part of the island of Madagascar in black and white.A crescent Moon, with about a quarter of the Moon showing. Many craters are visible.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not enough is said about how Trump views United States dollars as HIS own money
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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
a bagged salad rotting in my produce drawer while i tend to my refrigerator bonsai
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
imagining a dystopia where every rich person is a giant genetically engineered baby
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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 28/09/2026
live your life in such a way that you dont have to hide your company's swag
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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The below is burned into my brain and it's about as appealing a pitch as if video games involved getting shot with an actual gun.
"The year is 2030. It's a rainy Saturday afternoon. You've just finished mining 30 obsidian ore playing Crypto Crush Saga, a match-3 mobile game.
You open up The Elder Chains Online and feel a rush of excitement. Your school buddy has spent years becoming a Master Blacksmith, and he has agreed to turn 10 obsidian into an Obsidian Battlestaff, a HUGE upgrade over the Mithril Mace you’ve been wielding for the last months.
It’ll take him an hour or so. In the meantime, you log into Clash of Guilds, and use the remaining obsidian to upgrade your town hall to the next level. 
That should keep your village safe for now.
You wish you could fast forward time to tonight. Your Guild has plans to go for a deep run into the wilderness in Old School Rune Chains, and your prospects of a successful run (and great loot) have never been better.
All guild members have been spending the past 2 weeks grinding for better weapons, and you’ve agreed (through a vote) to use the Guild treasury to buy everyone a new full set of Red Dragonhide Armor.
Tonight’s objective is to kill the level 128 Frost Giant hiding in the Cave of Sorrow. He has a 5% chance of dropping an Immaculate Orb of Brilliance, of which there are currently only 4 in existence.
The Orb can be used as a power source in an upcoming space exploration game, and should give your guild a great advantage in reaching distant galaxies first. A 5% drop rate is low, but you’re feeling optimistic.
In the distance, you hear a faint 'BloCkChAIn doEsNT bRiNg AnYtHiNg nEW tO gAmES'. You shrug, and join your friends in the Discord voice channel.

Life is good."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For example, do I need the tires today or do I need the good enough but not most expensive tires for just the front two because the back two can make it a few more weeks to payday and I can turn off that check engine light so you don’t have to pay a dealer premium. That’s SOCIAL and cultural.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a good example. It assumes that the person can afford the price of whatever shop is available, for one thing. It also misunderstands that finding someone to work on your car is, for a lot of people, a social relation as much an economic one.
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 28/09/2026
I've never actually done a spit-take in my life. . . and, I just spit my coffee ALL over my laptop, laughing at this 😭
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This headline had no photo associated with it so I assumed it was the one below it.
A screenshot from the WaPo highlight email with the headline “She was arrested and faces charges for months, but her twin was the suspect, suit says” The photo is of a golden retriever and a small pig standing on the side of the road.
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