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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
christ was lowly really his name. my god. and he bore it with such grace
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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
happy birthday trish
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Broadcast - Come On Let's Go / Unchanging Window / Chord Simple - 20 May 2000
YouTube video by city worker
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
🧐 www.axios.com/2024/10/25/m...
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Scoop: Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters
It's the first news deal Meta has made in the AI era.
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 24/09/2026
Found a practical option.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 02/04/2026
“It is a striking indication of the social and cultural decay inherent in the final stages of capitalism, when elaborate scientific methods begin to be used, no longer to promote, but to eliminate intelligence from among the workers, because intelligent workers become Communists.” R. P. Dutt (1934)
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 21/09/2026
Trucks and SUVs are more dangerous, pollute more, degrade our infrastructure faster, and take up more of our public space than smaller, lighter vehicles. youtube.com/shorts/6Dqyn...
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Mayor Mamdani wants to explore charging higher tolls for large passenger vehicles entering NYC.
YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tony Sopranos Man has a gunblade from FF8
The whole meme is FF8
Keep that in mind
Tony Soprano selects attack
Paulie with his hand up
FF8 text
"Ay, put that thing away Tone"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs
Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Payton Tolle Immaculate Inning alert
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Because Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim, he could never do what was needed from a New York mayor after 9/11: spend the next 25 years binge-drinking himself into oblivion. by Rudy Giuliani
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Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is what safety advocates were screaming would happen after the city delayed a safety plan because they got afraid of conspiracy theory-brained NIMBYs claiming anyone in favor of it was a paid actor. Now a New Yorker is dead and 2 others are injured in the most disgustingly predictable way.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A dejected man puts his hand on his head and says "jeez, my 9/11 novelty shirts just aren't selling like they used to." Next to him is a shirt that says "6-7, 9-11" with the twin towers being held by hands doing the 6-7 weighing gesture." He observes another man successfully selling t-shirts and says "The Charlie Kirk guy is raking it in." The shirt he is selling depicts Charlie Kirk as Aang from Avatar The Last Airbender. The caption is "Counting or not counting Aang Violence."
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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It is long past time to do something about Canal Street and we shouldn't have to wait until three more people die there
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aaron @centerjenny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pluribus Season 2
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
TV footage shows that Donald Trump spent 9/11 boasting that he now had the tallest building in lower Manhattan. Trump himself says he was at the World Trade Center, lifted out of the rubble by firefighters. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026
They published this the same day they published the news that Mamdani's office is releasing to the public thousands of documents showing Giuliani's office knew how toxic the air was around Ground Zero and lied about it, leading to more deaths than on 9/11.
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phylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026
OpenAI guy deeply concerned that OpenAI product is extremely powerful. no no this is not an ad. don't say this is an ad. it's The News
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aaron @centerjenny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
every single furniture product photo out there is fucking AI now, the online furniture market is already flooded with cheap bullshit but now you can't even get a bona fide photograph of the actual product in question
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.
Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In
order of magnitude,
antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir-
atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews
. In contrast, demographic variables (including
education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev
f variance. Conclusions: These data help
identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem.
Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 06/09/2026
The same activism that saved the Brooklyn Heights Promenade could bring down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
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Opinion: The Case for Letting the BQE Fail - Streetsblog New York City
A movement in favor of tearing down the BQE altogether is gaining momentum.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/09/2026
even if ai could perfectly sort through information with zero errors and deliver instant results it would not be worth the environmental cost. even if ai had no environmental cost it would not be worth its every output being unfixably error-prone. imagine if it was both with no upside lol
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Remember kids, the settlements are IN NO WAY part of Israel and their legal regime does not reflect on the Israeli State or society at all. Also, the settlements are an inalienable part of Israel and any action taken against them is an attack on the Israeli State and the Jewish people.
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MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The fuck kind of pundit brained insanity is this? "You should vote to have your state represented by someone who represents the values of other more backwards states because branding or something."
Mr. Moulton urged Massachusetts Democrats to think beyond their state lines. He said the state should elect a senator who could appeal to the rest of the country to help the party build a governing majority in Washington.

He argued that it would not advance the progressive cause to have the Democratic Party branded as enthusiastically supportive of trans athletes in sports, when polls suggest that the American public believes differently.

“We need to think more about the entire Democratic team, because we’re in the minority,” Mr. Moulton said. “A lot of politics has become a purity test these days, but I’m not sure that’s good for the party or the country. We’re a democracy. We should be able to have discussions.”
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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Bro hop on MyChart
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/08/2026
Reactionary centrists pretend to be saying "disavow Piker to make this all go away, so it doesn't hurt your electoral chances," but they know as well as we do that 1) "disavowing" does not make anything go away, it keeps it in the news, and 2) they don't *want* it to go away! It's all a farce.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In GTA 6 you lose points if you’re not listening to the Prefab Sprout radio station (Paddy’s the DJ)
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Jackie Ferrentino @jackieferrentino.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’ve started and restarted this piece so many times over the past four years, but I think it’s finally done now 🌹
Illustration of a nude female figure in red sureounded by a frame of blue roses. An abstract glowing shape hovers above her.
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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hell Gate reporter Katie Way is not exaggerating when she says that "this video has the potential to become a certified NYC politics cult classic along the lines of the Eric Adams teenage room search PSA." It's cuckoo bananas from start to finish:
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
[everyone chanting] The Insider 2! The Insider 2!
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Diem @diemtf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is not overly PC or overly generous reporting from 1990, this largely neutral snippet is just how normal tabloids and their audiences were about transgender issues 36 years ago. It shows how artificial and forced the media furore of now is.
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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)
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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 25/08/2026
TOMORROW City Hall Park 5:30 p.m. Stop the Carnage: Emergency Die-In When four New Yorkers are mowed down by reckless drivers in five days, it's a public health crisis. RSVP now: www.mobilize.us/transalt/eve...
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aaron @centerjenny.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hey Zohran I got another tome for you:
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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aaron @centerjenny.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
FINALLY
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not weighing in on the thread about what movie everyone loves that you think sucks, not weighing in on which movies from 1965 to 1980 aren’t misogynist, I have Prefab Sprout albums to listen to
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The widespread availability of self-driving cars will be a nightmare for cities. Thousands of empty cars clogging up roads delivering burritos when we should be restricting auto use and expanding public transport.
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aaron @centerjenny.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Christ lmfao
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aaron @centerjenny.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Idk why I’m getting so many Lin Manuel Miranda rehabilitationist takes on my feed but I’m blocking on sight, get the FUCK out of here
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 19/08/2026
"we can learn so much from these betting sites"
kalshi screenshot of Dem Senate nominee odds
 showing vindman at 95% for most of it and then it flips to Nixon at the end
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
hi, musicologist here: this is a cars problem not a music problem
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charles (west coaster) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
one very subtle annoying part of slopworld is constantly having to click “im not a robot”
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