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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not to be "too woke", but I don't trust a library that's got 50 James Patterson books and 0 James Baldwin.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mechwarriors were landed gentry who had a monoploy on the most powerful military equipment in the Succession wars. And the Clans are even worse with a literal caste system that puts them at the top. Not sure Welsh people qualify though. #battletech #Mechwarrior

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026

great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A TECH BRO running through the street, holding a laptop over his head.
TECH BRO: GREAT NEWS! I THINK I WROTE THE COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE.

PANEL 2: MATTIE peers at the laptop, which just says KILL ALL HUMANS on it, with a blinking cursor. Another WOMAN runs away.
MATTIE: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST TYPED A SENTENCE HERE ON THE LATPOP.
WOMAN: AHHH! DON'T LET IT NEAR THE NUKES!

PANEL 3: The TECH BRO shakes his head.
TECH BRO: NO. YOU CRETIN, YOU DON'T TRULY UNDERSTAND ITS CAPABILITIES.
TECH BRO: PLUS, IT'S SCRAPED FROM SOMEONE *ELSE* TYPING IT. IDIOT.

PANEL 4: A BUSINESSMAN hands the SCIENTIST a big bag of money. The space behind him is also filled with bags.
BUSINESSMAN: HERE IT IS! EVERY PIECE OF CURRENCY EVER MINTED INCLUDING COINS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD
TECH BRO: THANK YOU.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm the only person I know that would rather spend a Sunday afternoon arguing about politics than watching football. Not because I love cyclical arguments with people who aren't interested in honest discussion, but because football bores me that much.

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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Innit.

Nearly 60 years ago, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles wrote an essay
titled "Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!". She argued that the work of
maintenance is often unappreciated and devalued - "a drag; it takes all the
fucking time" - next to the more celebrated work of creation. "After the
revolution, who's going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?" asked
Ukeles, who has served as the artist in residence for the New York City
Department of Sanitation since 1977. She argued that society "confers lousy
status" on those who do maintenance.
This is perhaps truer than ever in the era of the "creator economy" and tech
industrialists who burn and build and move fast and break things. To the
"creators" go wealth and prestige while the maintainers work in the
background, scraping rust and justifying their existence to a society that takes
them for granted.
Add to this a generation of generative Al tools designed and marketed as
instruments of creation. These tools have made it trivial to make images, write
novels, build software and pollute the internet with slop. Rarely has a tech CEO
touted an AI tool that will "supercharge maintenance".
". Maintenance is careful
work and not easily shortcut.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TODAY'S COMIC: Someone! www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/someone/

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mineralcup making me finally learn how to pronounce the minerals I has to learn as a freshman. Cassiterite is one that always slipped through the cracks during lecture, and somehow never came up.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That enough prospective agents were worried about the charge, combined with the rate that Jan 6 rioters and Proud Boys are being recruited by DHS, really puts this in a horrifying light.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was looking up a mineral this afternoon, and the invasive AI didn't want to recognize it. It told me that I was misspelling a different mineral (I was not) or that I meant a city in Greece (again I did not). AI is so inaccurate that its easier to gas-light users than make it work.

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Paul Southworth ☢️ 🐟 @southworth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

NEW Lake Gary comic, "The Nausoleum" lakegary.com/comic/923-bl... -- 📗 Get the first LAKE GARY book @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social : store.ironcircus.com/collections/... 👋 Join the Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/southworth 📫 Subscribe via email: lakegary.wordpress.com

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#923 – Blind Ambition, Part 2: The Nausoleum - LAKE GARY

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I was having a good night, then I found out about cylindrite and I have too go down a rabbit hole about crystal structures and nm scale forces at 11 pm. The perils of being a science person! #mineral #geology

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No argument for the usefulness of A.I. will get me over the fact that the whole point of it is to manufacture a guilt-free slave class.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 30/08/2026

This 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay shouldn't still be so current. www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026

you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I just realized yet another problem with generative AI keeping it non-viable. It relies on training data pulled from social media, especially reddit. But social media accounts get hacked regularly and converted into bots. Its got a built in vulnerability before the software level.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 07/09/2026

When people talk about out how any form of AI tech “changes the nature of humanity” I encourage you to stop, pause, reflect on their demographics and ask yourself how the impacts of such technology disproportionately affects those who do not have the same demographics, as the people saying this.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The greatest proof that ChatGPT isn't actually intelligent is that it hasn't blocked Sam Altman.

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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am still on the job hunt. It has been a year. I'm a master science storyteller, recognized on Fortune 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30 for my ability to make science desirable, and engaging to all. 1/

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Much better leg room, but trying to back into the driveway is going to be a pain.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Conspiracy theory time. I'm seeing people on video social media respond to videos about lists of words that people can't read by reading smugly reading off the. But the list is all common words that trip up AI, and they're providing a video that's ideally formatted as training data.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cybersecurity experts: Your password should have characters from 14 different writing systems and change every 8 hours Normal people: I can't remember all that Cyber Security: Just use this password manager *password manager is hacked* Cybersecurity: You left your passwords vulnerable

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Dorkly @dorklybits.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The History of the Pokedex Written and Illustrated by @jhallcomics.bsky.social

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

local12.com

Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Read this thread of comics! It is both amazingly profound and comfortingly simple simple at the same time. Its a really impressive feat that shows comics, even on social media, are real art.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I got invited to work with some other people for social media to promote an event. This is good. I got added to the group chat. 514 messages today, zero organizational structure.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Something that occurs to me is how tech CEOs all pushed generative AI as a way to have an artist or musician who could create whatever they wanted without having to develop the skills to do it themselves. But that's something rich people have done throughout history by paying people.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is the conservative academic freedom argument, an invented right to be a scumbag. It says that hurting other people is fine, and if you don't let me I'll stop you from trying to help people because both are the same.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I was trying to remember a quote and looked it up on Google. The Ai overview attributed it to Author Goodreads. The bot is so incompetent that it treats the website for book reviews as the name of the writer. This is the technology that we're supposed to pave Utah to build.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Look, are we the laughing stock of the world? Yes. Are we losing a war we should’ve never started? Yes. Is all our food poison now? Yes. Are all the jobs going away? Yes. But the important thing is a blue-haired college student I made up in my head feels bad about memes.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The city has money for Flock spy cameras, but not enough to train police to take witness statements, or at least contact information, from the only person who saw what happened? That's the kind of excellence you can expect from Russellville, Arkansas.

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four flies on Mae velvet @eversonpoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

don't go chasin' xenon gas please stick to the helium & argon you're used to

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In the face of a climate emergency, regional wars threatening to go global, and a collapse of social trust all accelerated by AI tools there's set of options that AI "goes away" with the collapse of a technological civilization that can support it.

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Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"AI is actually good but people have to use it completely differently than they're using it and have been told to use it and companies need to talk about it differently and we developed all the wrong consumer products based on it but stop being mean about it" isn't actually a useful take

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm noticing that the main talking point people defending AI use is telling us about how it benefited them personally. That's nice for convincing people to try a new shampoo, but in the context of worries about the economy and unemployment it sounds like "I'm profiting from your losses".

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Chris Jones @jonesforar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Chris Jones is officially in the lead; and we need your help to win! An independent poll confirms AR-02 is ready for leadership that shows up and delivers. Help us knock doors, meet neighbors, and earn every vote. Voting starts October 19! 👏 #ChrisJonesforCongress #AR02

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A story about an old man angry at another old man because he's not popular in a rich people resort town. It's completely out of touch with almost the entire country, but it's what gets covered by some of the most prestigious publications in the nation.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There's a shop I drive past regularly that started flying Trump and MAGA flags back in 2018 and has replaced them every time they wear out or fade. At the end of June they replaced them with American flags, bunting, and 250th signs. The decorations have come down, but the Trump flags are still gone.

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Mining is cheap and fast in video games because it's necessary for the game design. But in the real world it is expensive, slow to start, and relies on extensive experience and geologic studies performed over decades. None of the expertise needed for successful mining operations exists for the moon.

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I don’t want any CEO who has absolutely no idea how mining actually works or what minerals we can feasibly even mine things from talking about mining in space. Ever.

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