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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 5h

How much money did you make from social media this year vs how many hours did you put into it Enlisting in the free content army so they can train AI off the man you saw on the train with mismatched socks who was just trying to be a guy

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 5h

We also gotta get out of the panopticon mindset and start reading and dancing to music again and stop video-ing each other doing anything slightly weird and taking pictures of strangers on the subway like volunteer cops. Documenting an uninteresting life nonstop instead of living interesting life.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

And so, in the context of financial capitalism and its profit pressures, it can seem to men like this that their time is better spent building a device to replace the care work that women are asking of them, than committing long term to doing more of that work themselves.

Alvin Sng @alvinsng
X.com
My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

Over time, women have demanded that men both step up to do more of the caregiving and step aside to make room for women in "profitable" jobs. But what hasn't changed is the underlying incentive structure of financial capitalism and its devaluation of "unprofitable" labor like care.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

So, historically, men have used the privilege afforded to them by patriarchy to push the "unprofitable" work of care onto women, making it easier for them to hoard the more profitable (and thus higher-status) work for themselves. And companies encouraged this, because it meant more profits for them.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

Under financial capitalism, profit is the prime directive. But care is too labor-intensive to be profitable at the level of compensation needed for sustainability. And it can't be easily automated at the level of quality required for human needs.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

gadgetreview.com

One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The Trump Administration is proposing to repeal the Roadless Rule, opening 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, destructive timber harvest and energy development." Today is the last day for public comment. Weigh in: defenders.org/roadless-rule

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The Roadless Rule

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The spooky season has arrived, and that means Creepy Biology is upon us. It's time to talk origins. It's time to talk gore. It's time to talk about BLOOD. Specifically, YOUR blood 🩸 [a thread]

A blood splatter by Luis Moraga 17, from wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EFECTOS_(SANGRE)_(93).png

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 28/09/2026

i should be allowed to read research papers instead of doing my job [remembers that 'researcher' is a type of job] they should make researchers that are paid more than three dollars per year

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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it's so awesome to have this discussion when we don't even believe other people when they say they're in pain

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anybody who would decide to close this museum does not have Philadelphia’s best interests at heart.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026

lots of discussion on here this week about how brains work and what consciousness really is so i'll go ahead and speculate that this is probably fun as fuck for the cow

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It contains my favorite, FAVORITE @kcg.bsky.social comic of all time, "A Pig Being Lowered into Hell in a Bucket," made for this anthology! You can read the whole thing on his site here: kcgreendotcom.com/PIGBUCKET/

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/09/2026

We REALLY gotta get this guy elected. If other candidates are getting you down, this is a good campaign to toss some dollars at or volunteer for. abdulforsenate.com

abdulforsenate.com

Home

Abdul El-Sayed is running for US Senate in Michigan to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for All.

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Obie @buckie-ruff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This looks like an edit of a Nicholas Gurewitch comic pbfcomics.com/comics/deepl...

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Deeply-Held Beliefs

The Perry Bible Fellowship

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3439 gives a wake-up call

Two bunnies look over the side of an old bridge at twilight. Underneath them, clinging to the underside of the bridge, a bunch of bats have just awakened, and one spreads its wings. It is just after sunset.

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.

Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Obie @buckie-ruff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

well that's enough of that

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've been wanting to write this essay for years. It's about mirrors, modernity, magic, and why seeing so much of ourselves is driving us crazy johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/your-refle...

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

Your Reflection Is Not You

On mirrors, magic, and obsession

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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Jacob @tullamore-jew.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Strongly recommend this excellent passage from the intro to The Mismeasure of Man's second edition on the cyclical surge to popularity of interest in race science. I actually forgot what a great writer Gould was

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We all have that one buddy whose purpose was unclear but was likely used in rituals related to harvests and fertility

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Maybe when we learn about a new movie from the exact same feed where we learn about a new global atrocity, we are gradually training ourselves to treat movies like global atrocities and treat global atrocities like movies

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Everyone’s eyes on Big Bend National Park please. Don’t let Trump irreversibly destroy this fragile eco system or its indigenous history and art. Numbers to call for residents and NON-residents here: nobigbendwall.org/call/

nobigbendwall.org

Call Your Representatives

call your representatives put daily pressure on Texas legislators to say NO to a border wall in the Big Bend You may contact your representatives using the information below or enter your address o…

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026

The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org

science.org

Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

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Connor 🦇 @roxconn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Looksmaxxers: I need to hammer my jaw until it’s shaped like finely-sculpted clay and have a hairline straighter than the borders of Utah. It’s the only way to attract a woman Women: I would destroy ten galaxies for a night with James Gandolfini

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

has anyone unpacked christopher nolan casting a trans person to be the distraction sacrifice for a trojan horse to enter, and then destroy, civilization

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My experience is of every American COVID-19 mitigation effort being obviously insufficient, and ended far too soon. To see people now argue that they somehow were too much, going too far? Not anti-vax or MAGA people, but folks just out here on Bluesky? It staggers me.

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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Morning Star Rockford Illinois, 06.27.1916

P1- EVERETT IS TALKING WITH A FACTORY OWNER IN HIS OFFICE
EVERETT:
WELL, AFTER GOING THROUGH YOUR FACTORY I SUPPOSE YOU'D LIKE
TO KNOW WHAT I THINK OF IT.
THAT IS ONLY NATURAL.
TO BEGIN WITH, YOU HAVE A WELL LIGHTED, COMFORTABLE OFFICE

P2-
EVERETT:—BUT
YOUR EMPLOYES IN THE REST OF THE BUILDING ARE WORKING UNDER CONDITIONS ABSOLUTELY UNFIT FOR
HUMAN BEINGS !!
THAT'S MY OPINION IN A NUTSHELL !!

EVERETT PROCEEDS TO GIVE THE FACTORY OWNER THE THRASHING OF HIS LIFE!!

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You can log on to Bluesky where the Classicists, Archaeologists, Historians, and Culture critics are all yelling at one another about The Odyssey you can log on to X where people are debating if women are "real people"

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Colin Alexander @colincalexander.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Eat your heart out, Hemingway

Sign saying “the orphanage luxury apartments for lease”

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Matt Tobey @mtobey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Can’t believe it’s considered radical and unpopular to want every human to have clean air, clean water, housing, education, bodily autonomy, freedom, and a planet that will be safe and stable for them and their children.

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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

congrats to all the liberal anti-mask covid minimizers who bought into reactionary propaganda instead of facing the reality that we're looking at a future in which masking becomes a regular part of everyday life thanks to climate collapse

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