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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the praiseworthy thing here is the work done in order to bring about the environment in which the rainbow capitalists feel comfortable hoisting their pride flags. praising the capitalists themselves is pointless, they will take those flags back down for a dollar

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can hear his voice.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know it's been said a million times, but these guys do not have a clear idea by what mechanism an AI apocalypse could actually occur they have a job in a high-profile field and an anxiety disorder

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Time to watch Lanterns

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cat: Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Me: Why do you ask? Cat: I want to make sure I’m around when you die so I can eat your face.

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I found weird that this post blow out but looking inside turn out that some ANn accounts decided that dunk on the OP was the cool thing to do.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

13/ Kalani also said the “system worked the way it was supposed to” for me. I didn’t qualify for a manual review, despite depositing $21,600 into my account in eight weeks. When I asked her if DraftKings ever *did* cut people off, this is what I got:

Article excerpt: Overall, “the system worked the way it was supposed to” in my case, Kalani said. The range of behaviors and indicators that DraftKings scans for that trigger closing or manually reviewing an account didn’t ping for me, she said.

While I often played late into the night, I wasn’t playing in the wee-est hours, between 1:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., she said.

I found this response revealing, though perhaps not in the way she’d intended it to be. I’d deposited $21,600 into my account in less than eight weeks, exhibiting just about every sign of compulsive gambling there is, according to my expert consultants. By DraftKings’ metrics, I didn’t even register for a manual review. Kalani had told me that the company was motivated to retain customers who were betting “within their means and can sustain their own entertainment.”

So I asked Kalani straight up: Does DraftKings ever cut somebody off purely based on their betting history and not because they’ve disclosed that they’ve got a problem? “Yes, we do that all the time,” she told me. She repeated the same answer when I asked her how often. I pressed again, and a spokesperson interjected, telling me he could take the question as a follow-up. I checked in later, but the company told me that “we do not share the specific number of closures.”

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fitting for it's lack of relevance that Friday Night Lights is kinda forgotten in the discourse even when it's in a totally unfit 14 position.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

True, DVD's are great tech but it also suffers from disc rot. Last year Warner offered to replace some items that were produced around 18 years ago for suffering disc rot. So better check up your collection.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People glazing the deadbeat son of the ex-president and now doing the same with a politician on their side that throws around slurs really shows how fried is the collective brain of this site.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

all available evidence pointing in the direction of banning adults from buying pokemon cards. you have to wait outside the store and bribe a child to buy them for you now, like a teen trying to get a bottle of smirnoff

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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

lmao "blue collar is refusing to control your emotions and using slurs" undefeated

Mr. Fick said there were times when Ms. Peltola “raised her voice” at her staff. He suggested that she was grappling with her grief and that people not used to working in blue-collar environments like a commercial fishing boat might be overstating the incidents.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People sharing their 3×3 is trending and I never have felt the age of the site this much.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BlueSky saying "well I've never heard of this person" like it means something. Last week you were all telling me you'd never heard an Ed Sheeran song. At some point you have to stop and ask yourselves if the real problem is that you haven't been in touch with new music since 2013.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is a say about language learning: "use it or lose it", I guess it applies to other parts of the cognition.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Frank Miller look like shit. And probably he is one of the youngest in that photo. Never drink or be an Islamophobic ass.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, this was going to be one of those classic Dolphins season (derogative).

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The most charitable thing I can say about Snyder is that he is very hyper competent in a narrow camp that is producing images and nothing else. That is why he doesn't understand subtext and why he is very ideologically confuses.

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David Reamer @anchistorian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Circa 1898 mammoth skull found by prospectors near Dawson, YT. Miners in Alaska and Canada then often discovered fossils, which prompted an ice age fossil rush, sparked several tall tales, and perhaps laid a foundation for modern fossil black market. #alaskahistory #alaska

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/09/2026

nice try but i'm not falling for this again

a box trap with a card inside saying "hey millennials tell me where you were on 9/11"

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

as a colleague pointed out, they can't do anything with the new Harry Potter that would make the existing theme park infrastructure obsolete

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Almost 24 years since Mike Webster passing and 20 after the NFL lost its legal battle with his state, was plenty of time for the League to change the game enough to make it less dangerous. Instead, the current zeitgeist around fans is the modern game is too soft and players should endure more abuse.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think the biggest mystery of HBO's Lanterns is to know if Hal stopped nine eleven.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Me, nodding knowingly: The beaks.

Headline of paleontology news article: Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why

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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There are as many men gambling/trading stocks DAILY as there are men reading a single novel in the last year.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible” it's such a hard line to drop as a critique, that I will simply applaud uncritical Wilson's essay.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Probably an event/shift status quo that would hold incredible well in a modern context, but for a teenage me reading the main Batman title and other tie-ins was an unbearable slog. To the point that stopped reading DC comics for a while. lol

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What some refer to the "terminal lol" actually serves a very important grammatical function, a sort of copula, akin to the Japanese "desu" lol

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/07/2026

Hey remember when we said RAM price increases were just going to mean consumers can't own anything anymore, it will all be subscriptions pricing? Bluesky called it.

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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I would prefer every 'former republican' just stop participating in politics for at least 5 years rather than getting involved in dem politics and pretending you have literally any insight when you took a decade to figure out the orange man really is bad.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

5'9" tall Tom Hardy trying to pass for a bulking mass of muscle with the most ridiculous intonation delivering his lines.

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Alex @cirjf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

News about Akira Yoshida in the timeline!

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Glio @sirglio.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Akira Yoshida en Japón

Peter y Chris Griffin fingiendo ser japoneses

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

sending akira yoshida to japan is kind of hilarious though, ngl

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The federation on BlueSky is basically fake, on Mastodon it is horrifyingly real and all consuming to the point you need to investigate a bunch of drama to choose the instance to spin up an account on.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/07/2026

It's wild how 70% of the stories on the Microsoft game studio layoffs and carnage don't think it's worth noting that the company went on a studio acquisition spree three years ago that involved lying constantly about the vast benefits of mindless consolidation just not useful context, apparently

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