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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 19h

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A&E made a documentary about this called No Greater Law. I have my History of Alternative Medicine students watch it. It's a lot of tough stuff to grapple with.

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"No Greater Law" explores the struggles between an Idaho-based faith healing community and a Sheriff investigating the deaths of children from the community.

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❄️Erika Sampaio🐲 @erikailustra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Belt clutter 🤌✨ And I think I should put even more things.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna) looks like a ferret dressing up as a cheetah for Halloween. They're native to a semi-desert grassland strip from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. Like a skunk, they can spray a foul-smelling fluid from anal glands. Let's talk about them. (📷: Petra Prager)

A marbled polecat photo from Petra Prager. It looks almost exactly like a ferret, but the arched back is sort of orange with brown dots on it similar to a cheetah, and the head has a white stripe that reminds me of a skunk, with a long floofy tail and dark limbs. This one looks alert and at rest.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Sparkyboi @sparkyboii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The website for a FOSS game, alongside the DOWNLOAD LINKS IN IT, had to be deleted cuz they kept going down due to scraping bots. Up until they set up a smaller website (literally just the download links and a small, humorous Q&A), there was literally no official way to download that game

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure if she's aware of it but this 2022 @rebeccajtiffany.bsky.social tweet is basically an article of faith at @liberalcurrents.com ( @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com quoted it in www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit... and I've referenced it countless times ever since)

My YIMBY take: Every trans 18 year old who is stuck living w unsupportive family should be able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space w transit on a min wage job. (+raise the min wage). Build so much housing that that is the norm. Same for others stuck in bad situations

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The rabbi telling Anthropic that he thinks what they’re doing is fine, because Claude is just a machine to him, but if they’re right (and it is conscious), then they’re world historic monsters, is really interesting.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

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Labor Campaign for Single Payer @labor4singlepayer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what the latest research shows would happen for an average family if we moved to #MedicareForAll instead of a profit-driven, privatized health care system. WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

Threads post by @marks_wells_rector. Text reads:
"The new Yale Medicare-for-All study is bigger news than it's getting.
An average insured family of 4 pays about $10k/year today.
With M4A they will pay nothing unless they have income above $200K.
Above $200K: 6% only on income OVER $200K.
No premiums. No deductibles. No copays.
For most Americans, Medicare for All isn't a tax increase. It's a massive healthcare cost cut."

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

Wow this is blowing up. Please buy my gay Mario game with fox girls. It's good I promise. It's won awards, and I have to pay rent

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026

The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I'm an untrained artist designing merch that draws on niche pop culture mashups for queer pride, nerd humor, and agitprop for a better world being possible. This thread includes a sampling of my work, which you can find on stickers and shirts, pins, prints, and patches at willburrows.art/shop

A vinyl sticker featuring a drawing of Garak making jazz hands in front of a rainbow, overlaid with the text, "Friend of Garak" in DS9 title fonts.

A poster featuring a drawing of Miles O'Brien teaching Rom and Leeta about unions over Guinness and snail juice in Quark's Bar. Above, it says "The boss needs you, you don't need them!" and below it says "Labor is entitled to all it creates."

A gold Starfleet delta insignia with the three arrows symbol in black enamel in the center, and a high gloss surface.

An embroidered patch featuring Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors growing in a can that says "compost the rich."

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Capella @catpella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Take the time to read this. It’s wonderfully imaginative, evocative, and moving.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Internet you're seeing this on runs off of the labor of under 200 bisexual furry nerds. FA makes them happy. When they're happy, the entire shambolic mass of the Internet works. If I were Pete Hegseth, I'd be worried the furry community knew things with banker boxes of receipts.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Furry art is something I, personally, have negative associations with. I still chipped in to FA. FA has a strict no-AI policy, their servers are maintained well enough that they load, and they offer gallery format displays. If you hate AI as much as I do, toss a couple bucks to FA.

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 30/09/2026

It's time again for MYSTober! We've given you a list of 31 prompts, one for each day in October, and you have free reign to draw, sketch, write, or any creative endeavor that relates to that day's word. Use the hashtag #MYSTober so we can see them!

MYSTober - 2026 Official Prompt List

1. Cleft
2. Inspire
3. Storm
4. Journal
5. Earthquake
6. Patience
7. Cloak
8. Reunion
9. King
10. Hope
11. Engraving
12. Philosopher
13. Tradition
14. Arch
15. Suspicion
16. Unseen
17. Maze
18. Lake
19. Mother
20. Inception
21. Descent
22. Stranger
23. Feast
24. Battery
25. Beast
26. Symbol
27. Explosion
28. Laughter
29. Plateau
30. Silence
31. Book

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Muffin☆🎃 @britishmuffin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Synnove relaxing with the carbuncle family 🩵 Galette, 💛 Tyr, ❤️ Ivar, 🖤 Amandina, 🤍 Roksana, and 💙 Ipomoea! Commission for DT #ffxiv

Digital full body illustration of a Final Fantasy 14 hyur woman lying in the grass with six carbuncles around her, smiling sweetly at one of them running around. The lady herself has brown skin, green eyes, and a high pony tail of dark brown hair with a green ombre. She wears a black corset over a deep green open shoulder ruffle blouse, black fingerless gloves, short frayed grey jean shorts, and long black thigh boots. There is a very small black pearl carbuncle lying on her stomach being stroked, a medium ruby carbuncle running around joyfully next to her, a medium size sapphire carbuncle loafing under her legs watching him, a small emerald carbuncle sat over her shoulder also watching him, an absolutely huge topaz carbuncle lying next to her fast asleep, and a tiny white pearl carbuncle poised ontop of his back, ready to pounce forwards at the ruby lad. They are in a soft relaxing grassy place with little white flowers all around, leafy trees above them, and gentle rays of light shining through creating warm dapples across them.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 25/09/2026

This is a quick workup of what the night sky might look like on a world close to the galactic core. The planet is a rendering by Martin Kornmesser, to which I added the JWST image. So this scene is suggestive more than scientifically accurate. But still... imagine growing up under a sky like this.

The fore- and middle ground shows a rendering of a rocky exoplanet surface. The JWST Sagittarius scene from the first post occupies the upper half of the image.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We’re owed rights more than your shitty candidate is owed a career.

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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Can you come and talk to them about AI usage and the risks?" -- it was a request from an *extremely* frustrated faculty colleague. And so I put together this framework. The ACToRS in AI Framework hedgehoglibrarian.com/2026/09/22/t...

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The ACToRS in AI Framework

About a year ago I was invited to give a lecture designed to spark critical thinking in graduate students when considering using generative AI and other tools that had started applying the “a…

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

wild that they’re just doing “trans people & furries are all too insane to be trusted with employment” on the floor of the senate & it’s so normalized now that i don’t have an emotional reaction, i just think, “hmm more scaffolding for bad things” & i’ll bet cis people won’t even clock it happened.

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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/09/2026

It's honestly bizarre to me that abolishing the jackbooted fascist paramilitary shooting people over paperwork is considered extreme and radical but having a jackbooted paramilitary shooting people over paperwork isn't.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My coauthor Barrett Tylor, who is not on here, was interviewed by The New Yorker about the partisan takeover of Texas Tech and our "postliberal university" concept is used to explain what's going on in US higher education! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

During Donald rump's second term, state legislatures across the country hav deemed "woke ideology." More than half of American college students, in twenty- three states, are currently attending a school that has been forced to ban certain topics from the classroom, eliminate academic departments, or drastically weaken tenure protections for professors. Barrett Taylor, a scholar of higher education at the University of North Texas, described such measures as the first phase of a wider
movement to establish what he calls the "post-liberal university." The second phase involves installing political appointees to run universities. In 2022, only three per cent of college presidents came from the public sector. But in Florida a quarter of state schools are now led by former Republican politicians, and many other states, including Ohio, Virginia, and Texas, have increasingly turned to conservative lawmakers to run public colleges and universities in the past two years. As a former trustee at a Florida public college put it, "We are now over the walls and ready to
transform higher education from within."

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Capella @catpella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m tired and I don’t know how to keep going.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK. I mentioned this before, won't belabor it, but this paragraph is art. I would wager a not-inconsiderable sum that Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Augustine, and Lon Chaney have never been cited in a single paragraph before. (And hopefully never will again.)

Plaintiff has sued Wizards for $10M because he believes he created and exclusively owns the
idea for a “wereshark” and that Wizards has infringed upon his creation. By way of relevant
background, lycanthropic monsters – werewolves and the like – have been found in folklore and
fiction since antiquity. Hundreds of years before the Common Era, Herodotus wrote of the Neuri, a
tribe northeast of Scythia that would reportedly transform into wolves for several days once a year.
Herodotus, The Histories, 4.105 (circa 440 BCE). Werewolves continued to appear in folklore from
antiquity through modern times, and across a wide range of cultures. See, e.g., Pausanias, Description of
Greece, 8.2 (circa 160-180 CE); Ovid, The Metamorphoses, I 219-239 (circa 8 CE); Pliny the Elder,
Natural History, VIII.34 (circa 77 CE); Augustine, The City of God, XVIII.17 (circa 426 CE); King
Canute, Ecclesiastical Ordinances, c. 26 (circa 1020 CE); Anonymous, The Tale of Igor’s Campaign (circa
late 1100s) (Slavic folklore); Marie de France, Bisclavret (circa 1200); Völsungasaga, ch. 8 (circa 1250
CE) (Nordic folklore). Bram Stoker depicted Dracula as a werewolf in Dracula’s Guest. Werewolves
1 Plaintiff Lap-Sun Chan named “Dungeons and Dragons Wizards of the Coast LLC” as the Defendant, but Dungeons
and Dragons is a game published and owned by Wizards of the Coast, LLC, not a distinct entity.
2 See Chan v. Ramdhaney, Case No. 1:22-cv-03708 (S.D.N.Y 2022) 3 See Eng v. Podolnick, No. 1:14-cv-04675 (S.D.N.Y 2014) (dismissed for failure to comply with order requiring Plaintiff to
“file an amended complaint not containing the stricken portions or any other racist, anti-Semitic, or insulting language”).

came to the silver screen first in Werewolf of London (1935) and then Lon Chaney’s definitive
performance in The Wolf Man (1941), and have essentially never left it since. And animal
shapeshifting has not been limited to wolves. Greek mythology is replete with humans (or humanshaped gods) who transform into animals or monsters. In Tlingit folklore, Kóoshdaa are wereotters. Celtic mythology includes selkies (were-seals) and kelpies (shape-shifting water-horses that
live in lochs). DC Comics has featured numerous shark-human hybrids since its Silver Age,
including Guppy (a small-time criminal in Nightwing’s rogues’ gallery, first appearance in 2018),
King Shark (the son of a shark god and a human mother, first appearance in 1994), and Karshon (a
mutated shark, first appearance in Green Lantern 24, October 1963). Other examples abound.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

lighthouses should be made illegal. those poor rocks cannot be expected to subsist on litter and debris. they need full meals

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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sigma7 @tinymoo.tech · 21/09/2026

There's an engineering joke that you should always carry a length of fiber-optic cable so that if you ever get lost, you can just throw the cable on the ground, wait for a backhoe to cut through it, and then ask the backhoe driver for directions

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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OK -- FAA initially referred me to Duffy's comment saying it was Amtrak's doing. But NJT put out a statement saying it was their contractors, working on the rail-car storage facility at the Delco Lead near New Brunswick, that inadvertently cut the cable. railroads.dot.gov/rail-network...

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Annalinda Stewart @anna-linda.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What is Mr. Trump really costing us? A lot. Not the least of which, our daughters. The consequences of his influence are real, tragic and will endure for generations to come. The end of my family's American story is now part of his legacy, and his alone. annalinda2.substack.com/p/narrative-...

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Narrative of An American Girl

What We're Losing

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" I don't care what this guy or anyone else thinks about policy X or agency Y. It's a crime to do what the DOGE guys did. They all, including Elon, need to go to jail forever.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The three horsemen of every internet outage are DNS, BGP, and the Greater North American Cable Seeking Backhoe

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Cranky Professional Organizer Bitch @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 22/09/2026

“The badge, what most campuses are using today is a 30-year-old technology. Its only knows that someone brought a card to the door and that’s where it stops” yeah, because that's what RAs and desk assistants are for? I know these dipshits are desperate to get rid of all the people, but goddamn

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.

a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22/09/2026

Bruh we really launched @theflytrapmedia.com on Election Day 2024 LMFAO

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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

for those who aren’t familiar—the NAACP’s solidarity with trans people and willingness to recognize “similarities between exclusions of transgender kids and racial segregation” is something i find genuinely moving

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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I don’t have a problem with trans people, I just don’t think they should be able to use public bathrooms or play sports or get healthcare—“ ok so that’s segregation. you are functionally a segregationist. and you want me to believe that fights fascism somehow. ok.

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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Truman stays relevant. bsky.app/profile/psl4...

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