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Public Policy Analyst and Legislative Advocate

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Least Haunted Podcast @leasthaunted.bsky.social · 19h
Too silly not to have drawn.
A anthropomorphic wolf lays on a psychiatrists couch talking to another anthropomorphic wolf psychiatrist. The caption reads, “I don’t know Doc, sometimes I just feel like there are two humans inside of me…”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Big football game today between Ohio State and Iowa, which should bring up a whole lot of emotions for the Big Time Sports Knower, Senator Eric Schmitt
Eric Schmitt trying to dunk on Michigan alum El-Sayed for saying "Beat Ohio" Eric Schmitt trying to dunk on Hawkeyes fan Jack Smith, mistaking the team for the Atlanta Hawks
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A cosy favourite, One-Pan Chicken and Sausage Traybake is #RecipeOfTheDay! I keep this in the oven until it’s slightly scorched (too scorched for some tastes) as you can see, but that’s certainly not obligatory. www.nigella.com/recipes/one-...
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One Pan Sage and Onion Chicken and Sausage
I took it into my head one day that I wanted to marinate and cook some chicken with the flavours of a traditional sage-and-onion stuffing. So onion, mustard, sage and lemon infuse the jointed bird, an...
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 21h
I think the reason so many people are inclined to imagine their chatbot is alive is that the human lineage never had to evolve the ability to spot linguistic imitation. Spotting visual simulacra was essential to survival for our ancestors, by contrast:
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No one thinks Midjourney is alive, that’s a big problem for people who think that Claude is
Artificial intelligence and the textual nude
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Siri Dahl @siridahl.com · 21h
Idk why I’m suddenly receiving frequent requests for fart content, but to clarify: I don’t do fart content. I never have. That being said, I will fart ONCE on camera, exclusively for one person, for the beyond reasonable sum of $10,000. How much is my fart worth to you?
Siri doing an over-the-shoulder pose in a black pleather jumpsuit
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fall chicken recipes. The Japanese curry pot pie looks promising.
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30 Fall Chicken Recipes That Make Us Glad It’s Getting Chilly
Whether you’re craving a comfort-food classic like chicken potpie or need an easy weeknight dinner, these fall chicken recipes take the best autumn flavors to the next level. Here are tender, flavorfu...
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Congrats to the Graham Platner assholes. You muddied the waters with women voters and wasted everyone's time, attention, and money in the primary.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday ​persuaded a US ‌federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ​ban on AI-generated ​fake nude images as ⁠the technology and ​social media company pursues ​a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hegseth hosts his first Project Meridian meeting with Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. They’re looking at ways to use tech to boost Hegseth’s agenda, most likely using AI for surveillance and weapons.
Bunch of white men in badly fitting suits sit around a table
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He found a little niche and was very comfortable there
Theo, a gray, black, and white mask and mantle tabby, squeezed into a corner of the couch, looking adorable
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm so excited about this. Mark your calendars and tune in!!!
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JoCat @ Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 02/10/2026
For those in the area, I've been invited out to the Spokane Renaissance Faire and will be wandering the faire grounds all three days starting this evening at 6pm! If you see me, come say hi!
Jo sitting in a red chair while in a brown fantasy outfit, yellow scarf and hairbow
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Our coalition released a statement last night. If you want talking point inspiration please read save-the-academy.org/statement.html
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Save the Academy Coalition statement, October 1, 2026
We refuse closure. Secure a year of bridge funding, appoint an independent commission, and give the public a real role in the Academy’s future.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.
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Rim_Jims @rimjims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I haven't drawn my OC in 2 years so I decided it was finally time to make an update. Peppy has changed so much since I first drew her 🤯
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/10/2026
The Missouri senator and other Republicans made fools of themselves Tuesday. But that won’t stop them lying about—and trying to destroy—Donald Trump’s prosecutor. trib.al/AA9W3IS
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Eric Schmitt’s a Joke. The Assaults on Jack Smith Are Anything But.
The Missouri senator and other Republicans made fools of themselves Tuesday. But that won’t stop them lying about—and trying to destroy—Donald Trump’s prosecutor.
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Daniel, Probably an Autumn Cat @d3macdon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Listen, that scaffolding may take days to erect, but Claude is certain that we can't lose if we have the high ground.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026
much respect to the work 404 does, but plenty of real people with real problems are using AI as a force multiplier in their jobs already. like try telling boko haram members to their face that chatGPT doesn't save them hours every week planning attacks, designing IEDs, and repairing weapons
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the goalposts for being an effective or "efficient" person just change with tech advances so there's nothing AI is going to be able to do that is going to be like: wow, now that the robot does my tasks i have infinite time to sit by the pool
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i can scrub through a 4hr city council meeting in five mins thanks to YT transcripts but also so can everyone else, and so can an AI slop generator. So this doesn't make my life easier than a reporter in 1999 who went to the city council meeting and wasn't publishing into a fucked up info ecosystem
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
am thankful dishwashers but i'm not like: wow, i have saved several minutes handwashing dishes let me take advantage of this time. loading/unloading a dishwasher still sucks. transcription tools / high speed internet / faster computer .. all makes me more efficient, doesn't materially change my life
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026
I'd argue that to the extent there exists an American "national character" (and that's debatable), it's that we're loud, reckless, and committed to our personal ideals, however insane those may be. That's Fallout's entire motivating aesthetic.
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026
Fallout is simultaneously a scathing critique of American society, and a love letter to Americans themselves, and I'll die on this hill
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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ok, so I dropped this one like it was self explanatory, and that may have been a jerk move, since it's almost certainly not. So, put on your thread boots - let's talk about D&D, cognitive load, predictability, turn taking, and whatever other nonsense I stumble across along the way.
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Of Mice and Microneedles (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the funniest part about this is that like.... they do this with All The Games. XCOM 2 is a resistance story of humans of every identity expelling a fascist regime, but when chimera squad became about postbellum politics and reconstruction and reintegration and diversity everybody lost their minds
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Of Mice and Microneedles (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
fallout new vegas is beloved by right libertarians even though it presents a left wing critique of every faction. there is no rightlib faction either: mr house is robot Lee Kuan Yew, not javier milei, and
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026
The entire Fallout franchise is a scathing critique of social conservatism and its unavoidable love affair with fascism, to the point that it's a great litmus test for media literacy
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relentlessyapp.bsky.social @relentlessyapp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Put this in every single Democratic attack ad across the country. Every. Single. Word.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 15/11/2024
NEW FOLLOWERS: if I see you using these or any other follow-back hashtags, you’re getting immediately blocked. This is how disinformation networks happen.
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General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
First they paint our existence as an ideology Then they declare that ideology a crime For those still out there arguing fairness is banning trans women from sports- you’re why this shit happens We’re being stripped of IDs, denied our votes, tortured in prisons, and called slurs by the government
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Gordon Ramsay: Get Your Shit Together!
ALT: Gordon Ramsay: Get Your Shit Together!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!
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Ray Aune @kerthulhu75.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The part that gets me is how it's profit motivated. "I can't sell my snake oil because of the concepts of expertise and precedent! Better pay candidates to make sure those go away so I can make number go up!"
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Lorax with a Shotgun ☸️ @aweller.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
HELP BRITT!
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Revanchist @calvinrestov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is just crime. This isn't because agents are going "rogue", the intent of these labs is to try and break cyber security protocols.
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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICYMI a story dropped a couple of days ago about Open AI breaking into Medicare in Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Australia to pursue AI guardrails after unprecedented OpenAI breach
OpenAI's delayed reporting of an autonomous agent breaching a government website has strengthened Australia's push for tougher AI safety and disclosure rules.
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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another one! “In June, an OpenAI agent hacked into a New South Wales state government department and accessed historical non-public data on bushfires without authorisation.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI disclose another hack on government department in Australia
Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until Thursday
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
White House turmoil as Stephen Miller pushed midterm voting machine seizures: report #RawStory
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White House turmoil as Stephen Miller pushed midterm voting machine seizures: report
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Treasonous little gremlin.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING MS NOW: Kash Patel has commissioned a classified report examining purported past FBI shortcomings — including in the Russia and special counsel probes — in what current and former officials see as the Trump admin's latest effort to rewrite history in Trump's favor.
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Kash Patel commissions classified, internal FBI report to examine department ‘failures’
Sources tell MS NOW the ‘Patel Report’ may be the latest effort to re-write history in President Trump’s favor.
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Halved Josh Spooky Edition @outerleftfield.net · 02/10/2026
He defunded the police (funerals).
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Blue @bleukujira.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy early birthday glasses! Glasses asked me to draw her in a pretty dress so here ya go~~~ Inspired by the Selkie "Rainbow French Puff" dress #glassesdoodles #fanart #selkiedress
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Haven’t done a floaty boat for a while so here’s a floaty boat
Digital painting, floaty boat in blues yellows and reds
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Expect projects like this to become rare. WB and Paramount are being folded into Skydance. Evidence of their unique corporate identities will get scrubbed, as when Disney took over Fox. And the recent execs who were barely interested in history are being replaced with people who have zero interest.
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026
Consumer-facing LLMs have a ton of limitations! They're advertised for all kinds of crap they can't do! There's a whole huge *but largely distinct* set of policy nightmares associated with them! Open-weight, specially-trained AI models do exist and are being used to do really wild research stuff!
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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: A recently unsealed court filing that heavily cites government-produced documents + DHS agent depositions alleges that yes, there *is* a DHS database that's filled with protesters, called ICM. It's built by Palantir. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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