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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h

The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.

Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 9h

You can deny this is true, but ask yourself... Who was it who first got you into Pentangle and early Funkadelic? Who introduced you to Faust and Charles Mingus and Linda Perhacs and Cher's cover of 'Walk On Gilded Splinters'? Was it a dog? No, it was a cat you met under a dank bridge.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17h

Oh we're deep into Harlan Ellison territory now.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

Fuck those are good. Even if there weren't a thousand and one better reasons, I might have married her just to access to those cocktails.

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

I was really not expecting a delicious fresh strawberry cocktail to be handed to me in OCTOBER, but Dr. Wife has strange and mysterious ways.

A hand holds up a glass full of red liquid full of ice and chunks of muddled strawberry.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026

Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

I am into it, if A) comfortable chair, and B) good (read as "will support 50+ year old eyes") reading light.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was on a panel recently focusing on changing the narratives around toxic presentations of heroes. Here're thoughts expanded from that. Tldr: men can do better. Violence against women as a social norm should be seen as virulent cancer, not a given benefiting the worst of us. Don't feed disease.

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Tin and Hammers — ZZ Claybourne

There are people who give off a ton of red flags. We know to generally avoid them but they still get elected to high offices. Strange that. By the time we get to college we should know to do/not do ce...

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This morning's sunshine on Kelvin Way in the West End of Glasgow. #glasgow #kelvinway #kelvingrovepark #autumn #glasgowtoday

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For a very clear comparison, emulating Magyar would be removing all the MAGA justices and judges from Federal Courts in the first 100 days. That is the scale of democratic chemotherapy we are discussing.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026

This is the lesson that the Biden admin failed to learn and that UK Labour is also flailing about horribly at:

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

This makes so much sense that I am annoyed that it never occurred to me, and no one ever explained it to me.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

This 73 year old cartoon by Yuliy Ganf called "At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served," is as true today as it ever was.

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

reminder: my opposition to capital punishment begins with the notion that we cannot allow the state to have power over whether or not we live and die.

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 03/10/2026

Even I thought “whoa this is blunt” but every word is true 🎯

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

I have a similar rule for people, always white people, who spend so many words trying not to just come out and say "It makes me uncomfortable when I see a brown person during my day." These kinds of people can justify any evil shit. When I say don't trust them I mean "keep your head on a swivel".

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

During the "debate" on gay marriage in Canada I made a rule for myself: don't trust anyone who opposes gay marriage and won't admit their core motivation is either "God say gays are icky", or "I think gays are icky". They always spent so many words trying to pretend it wasn't one of the two.

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

"You cahn't get the-ah from he-ah."

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

I've been reading a lot of Cox lately (see below), but yeah, this is the bomb. Not only do we need to tax them out of existence we probably also need to legislate the existence of jesters for them, and someone to just whisper "memento mori" in their ears from time to time.

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 03/10/2026

If Pope Leo ends up kicking off the Butlerian Jihad this is going to be a much more fun timeline than I anticipated.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hail to you, Lords of pure offerings, whose thrones are secret. (CTF1)

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

Imagine the new contortions of apologia that would have to exist to explain how infallibility and LLM "hallucinations" could coexist. "When the Popeness wrote that the word 'seventeen' contains 3 Es, it was not meant as literal fact, but as metaphor for how sometimes things can be both multiple…"

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

The Simulation Theory bros basically reinvented Gnosticism and the Demiurge, so why not a physics model claiming evidence of a Creator. Some physics stuff like Causal Set Theory, especially when linked to conscious experience of time, is one bad analogy away from "the universe is thinking".

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026

My hand drew yon starry girth About the middle of the hollow sky; I have stood a witness by At the founding of the earth; I have seen the twelve gods' birth, Alas ! and I wait to see them die. #luci #somesplainin

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Chill out, my guy This is worse than my attempts to make small talk #AScareADay

"You must, young man," said he, "you must inform me of the events of a world which I have abandoned but not entirely forgotten. Long have I lived in solitude, long have I heard nothing of the fate of people. Tell me, does love reign on the terrestrial sphere? Does incense burn on altars of virtue? Do the people of lands you have seen prosper.'

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

Newsletter: Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the its flagship Clarity Act legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown.

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Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses

Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Billionaires will say things like "evil is actually very good and profitable" and people still aren't sure whether or not they should be taxed more and made slightly less powerful.

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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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/10/2026

#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 02/10/2026

I know I've said this before, but I really mean it this time: stop the world, I want to get off. I am out of my ability to deal with living in the stupidest timeline.

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Midnight Ross💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That would explain alot... #TGIF

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 02/10/2026

That is some lovely sky. It's always nice to stop and notice.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However,
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 02/10/2026

Beginning to think I dreamt that whole thing where a really big deal at the time the US was founded was the separation of Church and State, and how that was built into the law at the most basic level.

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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 02/10/2026

Yeah, i can see there's a broad basis of appeal.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

*Okay, wait a second, stroke of genius here: a Chinese "vertical microdrama" starring heroic 1990s Italian squatter-autonomen rebels bent on overthrowing capitalism. *This could set the world on fire, seriously: