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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
wild that 30 years ago this was an idea so tasteless that it was a joke in a john waters movie and now ppl are just tweeting it out unironically
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Rebecca @rebeccafpainter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Morning!!! I am very excited that my painting of Tobias Menzies is going to be exhibited at the Oxo Gallery as part of the British Art Prize in October. There is a People's choice award & if you feel so inclined I'd be very grateful for your vote!! awards.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/vote/?artist...
Oil painting of the actor Tobias Menzies
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Quel @qlcq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
metroid has good shapes
a black and white drawing of Samus Aran from Metroid Ravenous, with simplified shapes
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
what is a same sex bathroom dawg
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the dumbest thing in the world. The fraud is that people are paying for insurance and they’re… healthy?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your regular reminder that this is a public website and things that you say can and will be used against you.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I say again, any "pause/pacing/contemplative silence where AI CEOs think about what they've done and promise to be very good boys from now on" that doesn't result in ACTUAL enforcement mechanisms to hold them Several-Hundred-Billion-Dollars accountable any time their product fucks up is nigh useless
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Chris, they trained a system to hack & got scared when it hacked. This is on human beings not being able to logically think through what they've built & what they then trained & told it to do; they'll never "solve alignment," because they can't get what human values they're trying to "align" "Al" To.

Hold the HUMANS accountable for what their systems do. The humans' companies and individual humans themselves.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026
i have had multiple "oh you haven't heard about cumming in the fluffer?" conversations in the past few weeks which is not great for myself or for others
the xkcd average familiarity comic of two people talking, edited to read: "ai doomsday religions are second nature to us very online folk, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows about the harry potter sex cult and one or two aella cognitohazards" "and sankeys, of course" "of course" captioned below "even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
[I Want To Believe Senate Map dot jpeg]
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
just trying to imagine if like, Hasan Piker said this and not a former high level White House Advisor and #1 donor to Republican campaigns in 2024 and 2026
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Quite an emphasis on the asshole students here but I sorta think the sustained terror and trauma of the ankle monitor meaning the federal government was screaming at you “we are shipping you back to Haiti, yes we know what’s happening there” may have had a larger impact
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
so 80% of the people who made the game I just bought and have been enjoying no longer have a job ?
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Media has not aired this - it's up to us to do so.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yesterday, despite herculean efforts of brilliant lawyers the regime trafficked 70 people, including relatives of Afghani's who face death at home for their families' roles in having aided US military, to the Central African Republic. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...
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Relative of Afghans Who Helped U.S. Military Is Deported to Africa
The Trump administration has deported thousands of immigrants to countries where they have no ties. Dozens were on the latest flight, to the Central African Republic.
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Daniel @escargotpro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One insane thing is how many trump soundbites there are like "i dont care about prices" & "you'll have to pay more for gas & like it" & every pundit was like "he just cut Dems an ad for them" & like there are 0 ads being aired by Dems with any of these quotes lol
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27/08/2026
elected democrats working themselves up into a dancing plague about a twitch streamer in possibly the most winnable environment for an opposition party in the history of the planet. beautiful stuff
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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hasan Piker is simply not famous enough to normies to warrant this level of attention! He does not demand these endless statements! Nick Fuentes dined with the president and Republicans just played the “I don’t know her” game. No reason to play into this bad-faith shit.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A question that some people in media asked me as a thought experiment was: would u have traded Obama losing to Romney in 2012 in exchange for trump never being president and part of my answer is: it’s the same political party
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
At any point in the last decade a journalist could have followed up with a "what the fuck do you mean by that" And they don't, not a single "what the fuck are you talking about" followup in over a goddamn decade of this.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“She has at times ruffled feathers among White House aides by immediately following through on Trump’s directives without first checking in with the chief of staff, the communications office or the national security team.” Fantastic.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
don’t take this as a complaint, but I’m as internet politics brain poisoned as anyone and it’s sort of weird that I’ve never heard this person’s name until the last few days if this has been ongoing for three or four years
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026
AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Literally yes
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"An American president who has been in Iran's cross hairs for years" Feels like a key fact they're omitting here is that, four months prior, Donald Trump had assassinated the entire Iranian political leadership in a massive surprise attack
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump made vastly more money in crypto last year than all of the presidential salaries since the beginning of the republic combined. He made more from crypto than the salaries of every member of Congress over the past 15 years *combined*. It’s yielded a collective shrug from his fellow Republicans.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
Republicans play by flopping soccer rules, turning a light shin graze into a being attacked with a hammer. Democrats play ultimate frisbee rules, calling fouls on themselves for the spirit of the game.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."
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Moderate Democrats have a choice to make
Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Man what the fuck
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A congressman sent his staffer a box with a puzzle inside. Once she put the puzzle together it revealed a hand-written note inviting her on a date to an Adam Sandler show.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/08/2026
absolutely baffling image. like it clearly implies only the Muslim fish (?) has a chance of beating the fascist one
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A synthesis of Republican bad faith and Democratic Party political failure.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It is very weird that they just lie about normal people and then it’s not a scandal when they admit it
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
To a hammer everything looks like a nail etc, but I do think that gender is the first and primary hierarchical division of human beings, and that much of the passion of the transphobic project comes from transphobes (correctly) assessing trans people’s threat to all other hierarchies.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
your average republican thinks theres kitty litter boxes in classrooms and immigrants are eating your pets. your average republican cares more about a Black actress playing the little mermaid
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is a 1938-level story from Nazi Germany
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not
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tante @tante.cc · 21/07/2026
"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ngl “the USG commits a new spectacular class of war crimes the same weekend everyone is talking about the classical myth movie with a major ‘committing war crimes will destroy your entire society and ruin the lives of everyone you care about’ theme” feels like pretty heavy handed symbolism
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tappytoeclaws.bsky.social @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Signal boost for lost deck from #MCAmsterdam
Well - this sucks. Unpacked my bag and can’t find my tall UltraPro yellow deck box. I have no idea where I could have lost it but likely culprit is the pro tour area on MagicCon. Obvs low chances of finding it now but if someone did - I would be very grateful :(
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