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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'Carr says' headlines are as worthless as Trump says headlines. Do better Reuters. We need facts and context in the headline about this unprecedented use of taxpayer dollars to fund Trump's campaign ads.

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

shoving all my work aside to report out what led to this sign

a sign that reads DO NOT OUT NOODLES IN THE WATER FOUNTAIN!!

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Haven’t smoked meth, heard “Choosing Texas” or voluntarily interacted with an AI.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is something I've thought about a lot, and this is indeed an important note. There are aspects of LLM optimization I'd never considered, and they raise the stakes significantly.

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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't want to quote post you with my usual impression of Mr. Brimley, which is invariably foul, foul language. But the diabeetus can wreak havoc before the Metamucil takes control.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

Seems bad, I dunno.

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Charles Ball @charlesball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

The cover of Van Halen's 1982 album "Diver Down," a red field with a diagonal white stripe from upper left to lower right

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

MAN WHO LOST HIS FATHER'S FORTUNE IN HAWK TUAH COIN ALMOST READY TO TURN BACK ON TRUMP & GOP

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oga-Nyappy, a cat dressed in a deer costume, is the mascot for the town of Ogano in Saitama. On his chest is a waraji-katsu (a big pork cutlet shaped like a straw sandal). His interests are kabuki and bouldering.

A squinting cat mascot dressed in a deer costume walks through a crowd.

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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As we suspected:

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The demolition is nothing to do with politics. It's a safety and therefore national security issue. It's not up to code. What if the president burns up? What about the King of Norway?"

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So many people who voted for Trump suddenly claim to be shocked at ICE actions. “We didn’t know” You didn’t want to know, shitbird.

elizabeth_jacobs • 7/18/24
Mass deportation means that more than 10 million of your neighbors will be hunted down, dragged from their homes at gunpoint, and violently separated from children, parents, siblings, friends. Just so we are clear about the unequivocal warning we received last night. It CAN happen here. It WILL happen here if we let it.

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These actions will be performed by people who have been conditioned to view certain groups of humans as subhuman. They won't care if people get "a little roughed up" or if they die. We will very likely see concentration camps. This is what is meant by mass deportation. Seeing Americans wave their signs espousing this is vile and repellant.
They know what they are saying and they
LOVE IT.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

GOP Rep. Max Miller is now suing his opponent for running this ad exposing his alleged abuse against women and children. He would be really upset if you watched and shared it.

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Anna Maltese @annamaltese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"My party is infiltrated by these people" says the man who got to the door to the house party first, walked through, turned and politely held the door open while these people followed him inside, then after a few hours of mingling pretended to suddenly be shocked to see them at the same party.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What’s really peculiar about the “rapture” theology is that it’s based on a really convoluted and selective reading of scripture, dates back no further than the 19th C, is rejected by the Orthodox, Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed, and is basically contradicted by the Apostle’s Creed. But…

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

pete hegseth invited jake paul to the Pentagon to demonstrate how he will test troops for erections.

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Gnomon Chronicles @gnomonchronicles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Put the lime in the concrete mix Stir 'em both together Put the lime in the concrete mix Then you'll feel better youtu.be/TsSuueEGQSM?...

youtu.be

Harry Nilsson - Coconut (Audio)

YouTube video by HarryNilssonVEVO

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An entirely reasonable organizational response from CNN would be that they will no longer host members of the administration as long as the administration bars them from the White House

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m just saying Billie Joe MacAllister should’ve survived that jump.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

wow ok the king's horses actually figured out how to put humpty dumpty together again an— oh come on, he's climbing right back up that wall. god damn it, what an asshole. you can tell the horses are furious with him

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so here are some things you didn’t* know about pirates (*unless you already did), and which I didn’t know until I read my niece’s Masters dissertation a while back. Firstly – remarkably – pirate ships were democracies with a pretty flat management structure

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

According to economist Peter Leeson in ‘The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates’, Captains on other ships could be tyrants, but under the skull and crossbones, it was a case of “one pirate, one vote”

To constrain their captains democratically, pirates required the unrestricted right to depose any captain for any reason. With- out this, the threat of popular removal wouldn't be credible, eliminating captains' incentive to abstain from preying on crew members. Thus, pirates indulged their democratic impulse with more enthusiasm than senior citizens in an election year. One crew went through thirteen captains in the space of a single voyage. Captain Benjamin Hornigold's crew, for example, deposed him from command because he "refused to take and plunder English Vessels. Pirates wanted to ensure captainship "falls on one superior for Knowledge and Boldness, Pistol Proof, (as they call it)," so they also removed captains who showed cowardice.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yep..This All Day Long

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Pot Shop Boo @potshopboy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Cicadas have it right. I'm tunneling underground. See you in 17 years to scream for a while.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran.

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also one of the accused in Colin Kaepernick's collusion grievance against the NFL that they eventually settled.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“They don’t call me McGregor the lawn mower, and I mow my lawn every week.”

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's going to be weird when Kid Rock is opening for Ed Sheeran.

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Andrew Palmer 🎃 @andrewp97.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

well reconsider

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The 50s had their, "Have you no sense of decency?" We have, "Why would you even get into bestiality?"

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

These are not altruists who want to save humanity. (In Elon's case he's already made a human decision to kill millions by woodchipping USAID.) There is a power-and-money play here that demands piercing the we're-getting-together-to-keep-everyone-safe cover story.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't have any way to judge the supposed world-destroying capacities of AI run amok. (Color me highly skeptical). What I do see are billionaire CEOs using the cover of that doomer story to engage in collusive, cartel-like behavior.

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