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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 7h

This is almost exactly what I say to my students. I don't have any use for your essays! You have use for your essays!

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Poor Péquistes, now that they’re officially a minority, they’ll have to discriminate against themselves

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

major democracies electing far-right populist governments

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 04/10/2026

The other reason you should read Radium Girls is the lawsuits that came out of the girls being made to eat radium on the job (and a later similar case) helped create OSHA. Remember: safety rules are written in blood.

history.com

How the Radium Girls Forced Workplace Safety Reforms | HISTORY

They painted with radium-laced paint—and faced dire consequences.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Jesus fucking Christ the journalistic exposure of paragon hacking Italian journalists was a blockbuster scandal LESS THAN A YEAR AGO, and now they have an IPO??? Hell truly is empty and all the devils really are here.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two essential people to read and follow, who speak from both professional expertise, and having worked in the belly of the beast.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

above/ground press intern Frankie is helping with assembly (folding, stapling, and the like,

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Canada has a lot of work to do. In some ways, we’re actually backsliding right now -- from residential school denial to rights-busting "national building projects." We gotta do a better job of defending and respecting Indigenous rights:

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The harm done, then, becomes secondary, and the refusal to endure it politely becomes the real scandal. Those subjected to oppression and violence are made to answer for their rage while those imposing it escape all accountability.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is familiar to anyone who inhabits a body or community or identity that is seen as “lesser,” because misogyny, white supremacy, and transphobia all demand you suffer without making anyone uncomfortable. If you object angrily, your anger will be offered as a justification of your oppression.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If your solidarity depends on women expressing their fear and anger in a way you find agreeable, you are enforcing the condition that has always governed our safety: Be pleasant and be quiet, or what happens next is your fault.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Hostile Frog Pin. Remember folks, never bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a frog holding a knife instead. That's way more deadly. collabs.shop/uoji4y

An enamel pin of a green frog holding a small dagger against a white background.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi everyone! If you’re in the mood for a little seasonal silliness, I put together this collection of fun and funny Halloween-themed videos for folks to enjoy: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/ha-ha-hallow... Open to everyone - cheers! 🎃

from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io

Ha-Ha-Halloween: Enjoy Some Scary Season Silliness to Get Ready for October

Hey, Everyone! I don't know about you, but I am so excited that October is nearly here, just so we can start fully immersing ourselves in all of the Scary Season delights. With that in mind, I spent s...

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 14/05/2026

what if you didn’t need to have a take. what if you shut the fuck up.

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Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My second article for the day is about this morning's historic BC Supreme Court ruling in favour of the founders of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF). The judge praised DULF's work, said a safe supply is necessary to save lives, and threw out charges of drug trafficking.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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ceeks @ceeks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

abc you got me all wrong

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The experiment has been run. In Quebec low cost daycare resulting in tens of thousands of additional women joining the workforce. The increase in taxes to both provincial and federal governments were more than the cost of the subsidy.

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Lessons from Quebec's universal low-fee childcare programme | IPPR

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

As an affirmed dog lover, I have a few things to say. (1) Dogs are harder than people admit. They take a lot of work. They need constant exercise and mental stimulation, especially those with working dog heritage of any kind. Dogs are hard.

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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you have the means, do set up a monthly recurring donation to your local food pantry. Giving $ regularly means that the pantry can plan and buy food much cheaper than retail in bulk.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think a top tax bracket of 99.9999% ought to do the trick

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Andy Karl-Son of Wolfman @andykarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Statler: "Promise you'll respect me in the morning." Waldorf: "The morning? I don't even respect you now!" Both: "OH HO HO HO HO HO!!"

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my girlfriend is both a known MILF Stan and a member of the “Evelyn O’Connell made me a lesbian (who works in a library)” generation, truly do not know how she’s going to survive MILF Evelyn O’Connell she looks. SO GOOD.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I resent the scare quotes

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

to people who are concerned that this suggests that 'Kavanaugh is not smart,' as opposed to 'Kavanaugh is evil,' I want you to rest assured that these things are not in opposition he is both evil and a dumbass

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Greg Etling @getling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Bluesky experience:

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026

need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 22/09/2026

The vulnerability, which gives locally run apps and terminal commands complete control of the agent, has raised serious doubts about Meta's AI privacy promises.

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Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's Jewish tradition to give tzedakah—which translates as "charity" but comes from the word for justice—on Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur/the 10 days between, w/ special focus on meeting the needs of the hungry. We're giving to the Gaza Soup Kitchen & I hope you'll join us (whether or not you're Jewish!)

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High Holy Days 5787 Tzedakah Campaign

By Gaza Soup Kitchen

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026

The total cybernetic control of society through surveillance, modeling, and prediction is the holy grail of AI and the ideological capstone of the social and political project it affords.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.

"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

new toon: large language muddle www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Large language muddle

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/09/2026

I remember the exact moment, early in my transition, working in Copenhagen, when I realized I was being perceived as a woman by my male coworkers. I realized it because they were interrupting and talking over me in meetings.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have bad news for the speculators. We've run out of future, so we need to start living in the present.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hollywood: Enjoy the Sicario movies in which the U.S. government illegally deploys violence abroad to accomplish absolutely nothing, it's all just death with literally no impact on the drug trade. Trump admin: Good news! We have aggressively implemented the policy from the classic Sicario movies.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i pledge my sword to the politician who just says: let’s leave trans people alone, i don’t know or care what a hasan piker is, and i condemn the genocide in gaza. stop hiring consultants that make you say weird stuff that nobody likes.

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