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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In an SSGI course : they've ackwardly jammed a slide into every chapter of prompts for how to make a chart with Ai. At no point do they trust it to interpret so you're just giving it instructions on what fields to fill in excel. Maybe faster but it's not what ppl actually do once they reach for Ai.

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This was always my problem with middle school / high school science projects - whether it was humility or a lack of self confidence, I simply did not believe I could execute the scientific method on something nobody had done before. I wish someone had told me then that the *doing* was the point.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's assuming it wasn't Ai research that only got the briefest of sanity checks.

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a strip mall near the town I work in that has a pawn shop, a cash advance place, and a gun store all next to each other. I think about this rural/poverty exploitation conga line often.

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love most of his books but the worst ones are the ones with a lot of 'well actually' dialogue from the skeptical brianiac. Sometimes they have a character of their own, and sometimes it's just Crichton in sunglasses and a trenchcoat whispering "did you know the hockey stick graph was a psyop?"

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.

Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
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MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
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VISAS REVOKED
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TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not to be a downer but that was the moment I knew they'd finally destroyed the idea of consensus reality in terms of political consequences

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bean dad was incredible. I was riveted - what sort of person volunteers this story, could it be that he was just THAT confident that the internet would take his side? Just the most "hero of his own story" I'd ever seen in the wild. (excepting actual politicians). The dunks were tremendous.

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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Floored Motorsport Manager 2 both decided to go for bland photo realism with driver art AND is using AI to make those driver portraits. The initial creative decision was unlikely to result in anything charming, the production decision guaranteed the results would be repulsive.

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Stiff competition, but this might be the worst appointee

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026

So many of Trump’s open abuses of power over the last two years are easy to comprehend and have played out right in the open. It would simply be a matter of congressional Democrats picking their favorites.

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Impeach Him Again

There’s never been a better time.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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GardyLou @gardylou-games.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lol show me you don’t understand the fragmentation of culture due to technology and the internet without telling me you don’t understand the fragmentation of culture.

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I get why people are saying Panda Express isn't Chinese food, but it was started by actual Chinese people—one of whom was a professional chef—based in Chinese cultural traditions. I'm not going to argue it's "authentic," but I am going to argue that authenticity in cuisine is an illusion.

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's basically only "closer to particular traditions" and "more distant from particular traditions." Trying to define authenticity obligates one to assert a specific practice/location/point in time as The Most Authentic™ to which other foods can be compared. Good luck!

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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sure would be nice to hear this from a republican who isn't retiring. Otherwise it's less of an acknowledgement of reality and more like an ex-magician telling all his buddy's secrets

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Jake @jakeklee23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The problem that Dems will have in 28 is that they must prosecute & reverse everything this administration did, but the GOP candidates will say “move on” and the complicit American media will also ask, “isn’t it time to move on?”. We have an obligation to make sure nothing like this happens again

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Expert notwithstanding, it's in the interest of this guy's employer to cause a gas-buying panic

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The Car Chase from Chapell Ronin @jacobian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Stancil found another topic he knows nothing about to pretend to be an expert in (well, two topics. Computing and Cognitive Science). Dude saw "reticulating splines" on the sim city loading page and went "wow, the computer is thinking".

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In response to this, the DeSantis administration releases a statement saying that they'd make this outrageous cage "even smaller if we could." The Department of Homeland Security's own Inspector General said it violated every detention standard and posed a significant danger to health and safety.

"At least ten million illegal aliens entered our country under the Biden administration. Florida decided to do something about it," Lanfranconi said. "The left-wing media wants to focus on a confinement area for violent criminal aliens who have proven they cannot remain peaceful while awaiting deportation. While it adheres to all federal standards for criminal confinement, we'd make it even smaller if we could."

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There is NO trust.

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

Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Look, if you actually think the govt should periodically hand out $5,000 to its citizens, welcome to the basic income bandwagon and I look forward to your joining other universal benefits causes. If you think only Trump should get to do so and he decides why, then sorry that's a bribe/vote buying.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/09/2026

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Voters are so frustrated with the Democratic Party. They're like, 'You guys keep telling us democracy is on the line, and then you call up Jared Kushner to have a chat.'…Voters are demanding wartime generals instead of peacetime diplomats."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/09/2026

The Trump administration accused Jefferson County schools of having 61 "biological males" on girls teams. It turns out there were 0, and no trans girls either. They have to manufacture problems that don't exist.

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"In March, the administration announced that Jeffco had violated federal nondiscrimination laws by allowing students access to restrooms, locker rooms and sports teams based on their gender identity instead of biological sex. A key data point was that 61 boys were participating on girls' athletic teams. The figure startled even district officials, mostly because, they said, there were no transgender girls competing on girls' teams.
The district said the Trump administration had misinterpreted the information. Though the records show male participants on girls' teams, they were team managers and mascots, not athletes. District officials said the federal government also may have confused a cross-country roster in which the same coach oversees separate programs for boys and girls."

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'd always assumed that Stadia was supposed to function as a kind of 'killer app' for Google Fiber. Like, here's something you can do with all that extra bandwidth and you're already tied into our data stream. Then google decided being an ISP wasn't worth the trouble and Stadia loses its safety net

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Jack Burton @jessejames1861.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What I think puts this into even greater context is in almost or maybe even every case they ruled in Trump’s favor, they have gone against lower court rulings. They are basically saying everyone is wrong but them.

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Friendly Pumpkin @pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The entire crux of the repeated prisoner's dilemma is that only the credible threat of tit for tat can keep things civil. They did the tit They get the tat It's that simple. If you don't do it that way, it means they're in charge and you're just a useless mark.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the country is run, on a macro level, to serve the whims and caprices of a very stupid and very immoral old narcissist. at its more tactical level it is run by the most odious twitter group DM you can imagine

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"People with money and power shouldn't be allowed to do whatever they want," a load bearing democratic principle, is portrayed as some kind of wild eyed demand for full communism now

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality

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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Suddenly nuance is welcome once more in price discussions.

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captainshakespeare.bsky.social @captainshakespeare.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Printers and those who make them are unloved by God

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Fantasmiko 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlyclaire.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Google being the greatest ally to the assholes who cry that using a word they don't know is a personal attack

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