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@bushfindsjesus.bsky.social
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Portland, OR // Mexico City Fiction, jazz, psychedelia, dive bars, and — for my sins — the Miami Marlins.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They should try jumping out of a plane without a parachute. I’m sure AI will build them jet-boots on the way down. Trust in the process, guys! Have faith.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 06/10/2026
Been watching a lot of college football lately, so I know the stakes of the midterms: whether we're going to be ruled by communist vampires who hate God, women, and life, or by a Republican whose face is near an unreadable newspaper article in which "$125 million" is highlighted for some reason
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
got to meet my favorite author at port authority 🥰
rax and a cardboard cutout of mr beast
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 15/09/2026
rhea seehorn didn’t win for better call saul so vince gilligan was like, what if she was the only character, what now
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HAD @havehashad.com · 04/07/2026
Isabelle Correa has a beautiful new poem at HAD today! www.havehashad.com/y45dh
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 19/07/2026
Mamdani's critics in one screenshot, lol
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I met up with a friend of mine who lives in NYC and got fucked over a reasonable amount by his policies but it’s hard to deny the guy loves the city and its people

A.R. Moxon
 @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Curious to know what policy and fucked over how?

Eternal Cat War
 @eternalcatwar.bsky.social
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They’re an art instructor and most of their clients are in various places around the city, Long Island, Staten Island, their commute got an extra hour a day added on due to increased traffic. (1/2)

A.R. Moxon
 @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Increased traffic due to policy?

Eternal Cat War
 @eternalcatwar.bsky.social
· 18h
yeah lane changes for rapid buses

Zach Rabiroff
 @zachrabiroff.com
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Didn’t he just announce his bus lane policy last week? It hasn’t even been rolled out yet.

Eternal Cat War
 @eternalcatwar.bsky.social
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I don’t have the details, I do not live in NYC
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
❣️🗓️ ❣️ Happy Celine and Jesse day to all who celebrate. BEFORE SUNRISE (1995)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
here's what i wrote
More so than most of his predecessors, Trump strained against the limits of the presidency. He never understood that the office was bound by higher law — that his power wasn’t absolute. He never understood that he was an officer of the Constitution and a servant of the people; he never understood that he was a subject and not the sovereign.

It was because of this fundamental misunderstanding — itself tied to his bottomless solipsism — that Trump tried to twist and turn the presidency into an extension of his ego. To the extent he failed to accomplish this, it was only because he was stymied by those around him — officials who chose to honor their commitment to the Constitution over the interests of one man. Those same officials now warn that if he is given another term in office, he will rule as a tyrant.

America got lucky. It won’t get lucky again. Free of the guardrails that kept him in place the first time, affirmed by the Supreme Court and backed by allies and apparatchiks in the conservative movement, Trump will merge the office of the presidency with himself. He will shake it from its moorings in the Constitution and rebuild it as an instrument of his will, wielded for his friends and against his enemies. In doing so, he will erode the democratic assumptions that undergird our current constitutional order. And he will have the total loyalty of a Republican Party that itself is twisting and abusing the counter-majoritarian features of the American system to undermine and unravel democracy in the states it controls.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is what Trump's done to the people's house: A third of it is rubble. Another third is a cage match. What a metaphor.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/05/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Juan Astasio.
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.
youtube.com
Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 21/05/2026
So the Epstein files didn't put anyone in prison, but the guy who got the Epstein files released got voted out?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
E.M. Hudson @EMHudsonlives: 21h

Dudes can literally just sit around and name old sports players and just have the best time.

Kyle Boggs @kgboggs : 4h

Decades of gender/sexuality research tell us this is a “dude” thing because some men still don’t have social permission to create direct bonds with other men; those bonds have to be indirect through sports talk, women, etc, which is one of many ways heteropatriarchy hurts men too

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Replying to @kgboggs and @EMHudsonlives

Any relation to Wade Boggs?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What an evil piece of shit. I cannot wait to take over.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
reading short stories this morning & admiring lines I wish I’d written counts as writing
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/03/2026
You aren't going to be happy at some point! set the bar lower, step outside and let yourself be free
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Troy James Weaver @troyjamesweaver.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Wait, am I supposed to give a fuck
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Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net · 11/03/2026
Can we please stop calling it generative “AI”? There’s nothing intelligent about stealing the work of artists and regurgitating voices and language that took 20+ years to develop. ChatGPT and Claude, etc are not assistance tools for creativity… they’re Plagiarism Facilitators. Let’s call them that.
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Scott @smadin.net · 17/02/2026
unfortunately evergreen
tweet by Catherine na Nollag (@cafernblue):
"i still think my favourite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said 'people change their minds when you show them facts' and I said 'actually studies show that's not true' and linked TWO sources and he said 'yeah well I still think it works'"
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Barrett Bowlin @barrettbowlin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Once again, I feel the need to let everyone who voted for Trump know that you are terrible, horrible, irredeemable people. But more importantly, if you had the opportunity to vote against Trump and didn't, you're a useless asshole, and you should feel ashamed. www.denver7.com/politics/the...
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Trump's CDC is canceling $600M in HIV and STD funds to four Democrat-led states
The Trump administration this week began cuts to $600 million in funding used to track and prevent HIV and STDs in four Democrat-led states.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pam Bondi is the Megyn Kelly of Ghislaine Maxwells.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Sure, child sex trafficking is bad. But did you know the Dow is doing well?
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Dark woke
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Resting Witch Face @amandalc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
WHY IS IT NEVER HIM?!?!?!!!!!
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/01/2026
This is ok tho
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 19/01/2026
Trump loves Saudi Arabia. It’s an authoritarian society, which punishes dissent and is owned by the wealthiest family on earth. Trump hates Europe. The governments there are democratically elected. The future of America must be a vibrant democracy. Not Trump’s authoritarianism.
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Gail BK @weedlawyer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
Middle aged white lady carrying a blue poster board sign with the words SEE YOU AT NUREMBERG FUCKERS
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The dishonesty of “conservatives” about the killing of Renee Good makes me want to quote Lincoln: “When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Sorry to sound partisan but this administration is objectively satanic
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 07/01/2026
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told ICE to “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I could watch Richard Sherman’s reaction to the Seahawks win over the Rams 200 times.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/11/2025
A cartoon by Avi Steinberg. #NewYorkerCartoons See more cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/QLlY-2
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picklesbaseball.bsky.social @picklesbaseball.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Proud to Be Portland 🩷💚❤️ There’s a lot happening in our city, but we believe Portland’s strength is its people. Through Pickles Care, we’re supporting Unite Oregon and Oregon Food Bank to protect rights and fight hunger. Show your pride. Support your neighbors. learn more ➡️ bit.ly/3LtIvJ1
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I wrote about seeing Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews in conversation with Alexandra Schwartz at #NewYorkerFest. It was an emotional evening and I thank you in advance for reading about it: www.maureenlangloss.com/you-have-to-...
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You Have to Be Flinchable - Maureen Langloss
This weekend, I attended Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews’s inspiring conversation at The New Yorker Festival. The talk made me laugh—and also cry. There were moments I had to hold back sobs. This was also m...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
You may not have food or healthcare for your children, but did you know that the White House will now have a classy dance floor for nepotistic pedophiles
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17/10/2025
This makes sense coming from the guy whose son monitors his porn consumption
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Jason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
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