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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 8h

Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.

A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 8h

Beaky Camarasaurus. preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php... @dennish.bsky.social @fabiomanucci.bsky.social

Brown pencil sketch of the head of Camarasaurus, with a keratinous beak-like covering on the front of its snout, as proposed by the latest study.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 19h

There's always an XKCD: xkcd.com/2030/

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Voting Software

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9h

Today in "absolutely not"

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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This includes BIRTH CONTROL, by the way. As well as a shitload of mood stabilizers. Do NOT eat "spooky" black foods and snacks. Just don't.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 10h

OK lemme see if this works (quickly recorded on desktop, LOL)

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 10h

Again: Switzerland is interestingly complicated.

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 11h

Titania Moonrock and Bazletazle the Mighty Teeny are currently available at my shop. I designed and hand-sewed them, and I hand-embroidered all their stars and planets. Titania is a relaxed sort of cosmic entity. She meditates and goes with the flow of the universe. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of Titania and Bazletazle. Titania is a fabric art black cosmic spirit with a gray moon face, twinkly black eyes, and a little frown. Her body is covered with embroidered stars of various sizes and colors. I also embroidered a couple planets. One is yellow and one is purple with a red ring. She has black twirly head wispy embroidered with a line of white stars on each one. Bazletazle is a tiny black celestial spirit with a gray moon face and four black bulbous eyes. He's covered with stars of various colors. The background of the pic is green fur.

Here's another lovely photo of their backs. Their backs are covered with embroidered stars of various colors and shapes.

Here's another lovely photo where Titania is resting on my palm. Bazletazle is resting beside her.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13h

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 14h

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 19h

Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?

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Leeja Miller @leejamiller.bsky.social · 22h

Here @apnews.com I fixed this headline for you. He didn't use a "rare authority" he violated the constitution. You're blatantly buying into administration talking points by saying he has "authority" to just decide not to spend Congressionally approved funds at the last minute

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15h

It is true that a Dem Congress will not be able to do any effective legislating under the Trump regime. But that’s a given. What Congress can do is investigations that drive stories into the media. Every day should have headlines about Trump stealing from us, about Trump harming us.

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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 16h

[𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s

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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial

The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18h

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 17h

Onagadori Rooster. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, 85 × 132 mm, 2022.

Drawing in black ink, primarily in silhouette, of an Onagadori rooster with long flowing tail covert feathers on a plum blossom branch. The rooster's comb and wattle are the only spots of red. The piece is smaller than a postcard and is photographed with the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h

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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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18h

You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)

Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 21h

Amirite tho

White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h

Today in "decisions in kerning"

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026

ICE just spent $16.7 million on electric shock gloves that human rights organizations like Amnesty International warn “could be readily misused for torture.” When parents in Omaha, Nebraska, learned that school resource officers had these same devices, they decided to fight back. WATCH:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let’s be honest, we all want to drop that Debbie Downer friend who says things like “we should really study for the exam” or “that sounds kinda unconstitutional.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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First Peoples Law LLP @firstpeopleslaw.com · 28/09/2026

"The blatant disregard for the Mi’kmaq Nation and the impacts these power plants will have on our Mi’kmaw rights is disappointing and unacceptable." Twila Gaudet, Director of Consultation, Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn @ buff.ly/7jaKk4B

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Mi'kmaq communities push back on Nova Scotia gas plants | The Narwhal

Government says proposed gas plants don’t require consultation, but Mi’kmaq communities disagree, citing environmental concerns

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 23h

Crack team of scientists puts a nail in the coffin of fossil fuel proponents' "our fossil fuel production is a mere ‘drop in the ocean’" excuse See the extra warming & heat stress, excess deaths, GBR coral loss, glacier loss, crop production loss, labour loss, & poverty impacts of any new ff projs‼️

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Corporations claim their fossil fuel emissions are a drop in the ocean. But what if we could count the real cost?

A new tool called Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight metrics, including lost food production

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h

Also, please do not forget that the origins of Miller's policies lie with the Obama administration. Watch this @frontlinepbs.bsky.social documentary from 2011:

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FRONTLINE | Lost in Detention | Season 2011 | Episode 17

FRONTLINE investigates the Obama administration's get-tough immigration policy.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How it started/how it’s going

Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in Utah

BREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.

Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Farmers who have worked hard and played by the rules are now on the verge of financial collapse because the war in Iran is squeezing them on all sides. It doesn’t have to be like this — the president is choosing for it to be like this.

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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam

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A Dave you know you know @notjustdave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just to tie this into Alberta at this very moment, the Cargill workers that Kenney's UCP treated as expendable are exactly the foreign workers that Smith's UCP wants to charge $1,900 a year to access health care, even though these workers pay taxes from the minute they start working.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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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...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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