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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 9h

'night, Boston Red Sox. Please hit baseballs and locations tomorrow, as appropriate.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 9h

Please give these journalists their flowers.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

unrelatedly I think it is weird that the Tubes have sort of just disappeared from general remembrance youtu.be/rs9wuaVV33I

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Tubes - White Punks On Dope (1977 R0X M1X)

YouTube video by them0rus

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chelsea bridge @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 10h

there are no worthwhile qualities of fraternities, full stop. when they're not busy raping women and defending their rapist members they abuse and kill new members for fun. colleges have proven they cannot be made safe or reformed. the only reasonable policy at this point is banning all of them.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10h

Qingshan Lake Water Forest in Lin'an District, Hangzhou is a viral attraction sometimes called "Matcha Lake" for the emerald green duckweed (subfamily Lemnoideae). These black swans (Cygnus atratus) & their cygnets are enjoying a nutritious buffet of aquatic plants. Let's learn about duckweed.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 10h

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The utter brilliance of Chee Chee’s minimalism: ‘When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

need the Red Sox to lock in and support my large adult son in defeating the evil empire tonight

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12h

It turns out you can’t actually base an entire economy on skull measuring

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 15h

as I often say, if you try to serve Diet Fash, the fash will always prefer the full-sugar Original Recipe and everyone who vomits at the very thought of Fash will stay home

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

1 - You have got to be fucking kidding me. 2 - I’ll take it. A win’s a win.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17h

Universal Daycare is a staggering boon for working parents and for kids, it is among the greatest blessings of living in New Mexico in this time, and everywhere else should be so lucky. The whole point is to make stay-at-home a choice, not obligation, so everyone can have full lives as full people.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17h

Weird to remember 2019 as optimistic but I think it's the last major forward-looking moment before everything was seen as at best crisis and decline management. Not unrelated, here's a video in which then-new Rep AOC looks back on the Green New Deal as a Senator theintercept.com/2019/04/17/g...

theintercept.com

A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23h

i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

music.youtube.com

Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/09/2026

She’s running (for Senate)

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kate Wilson is the socialist mayor of Seattle, and she's up against a aggressive moneyed class, a moderate city council, and a vocal base unafraid to be critical. Still she is making some gains. Chance Phillips went to Seattle to check things out. prospect.org/2026/09/28/o...

prospect.org

Socialist in Seattle - The American Prospect

A year after her election, Mayor Katie Wilson wants to upgrade housing and transit in the Emerald City. But moderate councilors and divisions within her own base are undermining her.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s not just that getting 5-10 of these a day is annoying, although it is extremely annoying. I think polluting political communications channels like this is actively corrosive to democracy.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish there was a way to figure out which of my donations got me on all these spam lists so I could never donate to those causes again

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spooky season continues: Let's meet the undertaker of the prairie, the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus). They quickly inhume corpses they find, to... uh... keep them SAFE... for... uh, later. Protecting a dead bird or rodent or larger so they'll have enough food for their babies.💀🍽️

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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sox at 2000 and Cubs at 2200 Tues-Thurs plus up early for gym (me) and hitting 128 before 0700 (her) may destroy my household this week.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.

Hand-drawn Venn diagram titled "Bubbles," with four overlapping circles: Beanie Babies, AI, NFTs, and Dot-com.

Each alone: "Gamble on plushies!" / "Gamble on LLMs!" / "Gamble on JPEGs!" / "Gamble on HTML!"

Beanie Babies + AI: "The products tend to have cutesy first names."
Beanie Babies + NFTs: "Who will own the rarest fake monkey?"
AI + Dot-com: "Genuinely important underlying technology."
NFTs + Dot-com: "This URL could be worth millions!"

Every bubble but Dot-com: "Mostly in private markets."
Every bubble but NFTs: "Good people got hurt."
Every bubble but AI: "Never threatened life as we know it."
Every bubble but Beanie Babies: "Blame Silicon Valley."

All four: "Somebody got rich, but probably not you."

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 29/09/2026

“Surely it can’t be that dumb, right?” Ah, well, you see,

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember when Meta evaporated like $100b on the Metaverse? And that's fine because Private Industry. But then the Right gets upset at like a $500k grant that's a bit weird. Which had more opportunity cost?

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is such a waste of resources.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Enough with the niggers, enough with the jewrats" This important message on X the Everything App has been brought to you by Home Depot, McDonalds and Disney.

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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026

the 80's were the 70's without hope, now the 20's are the 80's without money

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If this song and the Elf still have you in an infectious hold, stream InfoWars: Theme Songs Vol. 1. Spotify: bit.ly/4yeWXYx Apple Music: apple.co/4he9nds YouTube: bit.ly/4xE5ALb

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 28/09/2026

I say "I miss laws" out loud pretty often, and it sounds like a bit, and I wish it was a bit.

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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Re LRS, that ReSkeet was an endorsement.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something I think about often is how cyclists are portrayed as hysterical and angry when their lives are threatened yet car-brained NIMBYs are viewed as reasonable and engaged citizens because they fight tooth and nail to protect 3 parking spots

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

"actually we love glonzo and should give him money" is a novel campaign strategy republicans are trying out this year, let's see how it works out for them

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...

talkingpointsmemo.com

US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies

This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

Hey I don’t think it’s a good thing that Bernie Sanders keeps talking to this guy

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026

Technically this is a dinosaur

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Further proof that Musk is doing a Remo Williams. He's pretending to build rockets that might someday work by getting 10B in taxpayer funds and spending 1B blowing it up and pocketing the other 9B and then asking for another 10B. His rockets will never work because they aren't supposed to.

theverge.com

Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

Will SpaceX have more competition?

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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yup. The number of people I meet who treat Capital as if it was scripture is alarming. As best I can tell Marx was an A-1 polemicist, a mid economist, and a dogshit prophet. He gave us a new way of thinking about the world, like Freud did, and likewise got lost in some specific, unhelpful details.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure

static.klipy.com

Ironic Star Wars Moment

Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

“We came up with some very astounding numbers,” Wellinghoff said. “If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the entire United States.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/m...

nytimes.com

What if America Went Completely Dark?

The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

John Anzalone &
@JohnAnzo
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
From nytimes.com
6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social and I have a @britishacademy.bsky.social paper on how the US is now somehow managing to combine gross overuse of dollar power (e.g. upcoming ICC sanctions) with genial complaisance about the use of crypto to circumvent ordinary controls

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The US dollar system as a source of international disorder

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Chart of the day, from Michael Tesler: There's a tight correlation between Trump support and Google searches for testosterone boosters. A bunch of insecure little men being told to feel even more insecure by their insecure media and political leaders. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

Chart showing correlation between Trump support and google searches for testosterone boosters

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