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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 14/09/2026
rationalist: I predict there‘s a 10% chance that 100% of humanity is wiped out in 10 years actuary: there was already a 100% chance that 10% of humanity would die in the next 10 years utilitarian: it’s the same thing
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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
me: let’s just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks waiter: please don’t
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 29/09/2026
Unabridged: The etymology of 'bucket list'
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
no no no. while well intentioned, the Congressman is talking about sounds like the singularity, which is a fictional idea. regulation is useless, even harmful, if based on hypotheticals
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
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Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ❤️‍🩹🙏
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026
REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
That's a fair criticism. I launched a nuclear strike when I should have advocated for peace. In fairness, disarmament has many meanings, but I should have clarified rather than assumed.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
such giddy joy about trucks shearing themselves in half. this is pure hater energy. @reportermatt.bsky.social
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
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jaypea @jaypea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Every so often this whole website gets the zoomies, and it’s not nearly as adorable as it sounds.
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There's an edit of one of my comics going around that expresses political views that I do not support. Fortunately, there have been people responding to this edit by mentioning how it's contradictory to the themes and messages of my comics. Thank you so much for having my back. Black Lives Matter.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/08/2026
"The things they carried included a Spikeball set, a volleyball, 96 Twisted Teas, Jeep keys on a lanyard, 29 Deer Park 16.9-ounce water bottles, iced coffee, beach chairs, and a Bluetooth speaker." buff.ly/QjajRaN
mcsweeneys.net
The Things They Carried to the Jersey Shore
“The things they carried included a Spikeball set, a volleyball, 96 Twisted Teas, Jeep keys on a lanyard, 29 Deer Park 16.9-ounce water bottles, iced coffee,...
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eric @cosmic-ray.net · 29/07/2026
when claude is down
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Scotty Hello Computer
Alt: scotty from Star Trek IV voyage home attempting to interact with an old Mac by talking to it, first directly, then into the mouse that bones hands him
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/07/2026
Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer
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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wildfire smoke drapes across North America and the North Atlantic. Wow.
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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 26/06/2026
As a child, my mom told me I could be anyone I wanted to be. Turns out, this is called identity theft.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/06/2026
Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 20/06/2026
"Day 127, orbit 1968 — That aurora was absolutely spectacular… shimmering and dancing beneath us, stretching as far as the eye could see, and so intense it lit up the Station in shades of green 💚", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot.   📸 ESA/NASA – S. Adenot #εpsilon
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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Your codebase has gaps that only exist because the right people know to step over them. AI doesn't know where to step. baweaver.com/writing/2026...
baweaver.com
AI Didn't Create These Problems. It Just Stopped Routing Around Them.
Every guardrail we need for AI is a good practice we should have already been doing. AI exposes the systemic gaps that experienced developers have been quietly routing around for years.
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eric @cosmic-ray.net · 27/05/2026
this whole post is 🔥but this bit is just perfect
quote pulled from article: "Not for everyone, though. There has always been a group of people who refused to acknowledge that other people have perfectly valid reasons for wanting to pursue their own goals rather than yours. We call most of those people "toddlers" and devote sizable social effort to helping them outgrow this belief."
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arcadus @birdapp.rip · 25/05/2026
age is hitting millennials like the 2nd airplane
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)
A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull
As a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to
Him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
In honor of Colbert's last show due to fascism, here is my all-time favorite thing he's done, and not just because the scene is stolen by my cousin Dave Razowsky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRW0...
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Maya feat. Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell
YouTube video by The Second City
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
kagi really is that good y’all. big stress reliever to have a proper search engine again. (i don’t take compensation for posts as a rule, this is just me wanting them to have a solid subscriber base so they can offer the service long-term)
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Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That’s why today, Kagi Search introduces the fi...
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eric @cosmic-ray.net · 20/05/2026
Yup, switched about a year ago and I haven’t looked back
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Teeklin @teeklin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If you think that AI is useless, all it does it lie, or that it's a scam: please read this article from Firefox who just fixed more bugs in a month than they did in all of 2025 thanks to Mythos and Project Glasswing AI is not going anywhere and it's going to get MUCH worse So what do we do? 1/
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Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
OMG youtu.be/7N68NjL9cMA?...
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Kavanaugh Hegseth Patel Bar Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026
There aren't a lot of things I agree with Mark Carney about, but there's one area where he and I are in *total* accord: the old, US-dominated, "rules-based international order" was total bullshit: www.weforum.org/stories/2026... 1/
A Soviet propaganda poster featuring Lenin pointing angrily into the distance. It has been altered. Lenin now has Trump's hair and his skin in orange. The hammer/sickle logo behind him has been replaced with a cross.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/04/2026
"People deserve to buy a home at a price they can afford, a price that will somehow also cover my entire initial investment, three decades' worth of repairs and home improvements, allow me to purchase a new condo, and fund the next two decades of my retirement. It's that simple." buff.ly/eb04d9q
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Housing Should Be Affordable Except When I Sell My House for a Million Dollars
“People deserve to buy a home at a price they can afford, a price that will somehow also cover my entire initial investment, three decades’ worth of repairs ...
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 11/04/2026
idk why it took me until reading this to realize that I could just file down the sharp edges of my macbook kentwalters.com/posts/corners/
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On filing the corners off my MacBook
I file the sharp corners off my MacBooks. People like to freak out about this, so I wanted to post it here to make sure that everyone who wants to freak out about it gets the opportunity to do so.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)
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Lunar Flyby - NASA
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 26/03/2026
how diffie hellman key exchange works (with as little math as possible)
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! (I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 28/01/2026
You are not prepared for the sound in this video. I sure wasn’t, anyway
youtu.be
DEATH WHISTLE
YouTube video by Mileán Ó Raghallaigh
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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Whoa! Mind blown: the s/ORIG/NEW/ syntax predates Unix:
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/01/2026
Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs theonion.com/melting-ice-caps-expos…
Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 31/12/2025
Oh man. I've been trying to write something kinda sorta like this (not quite, but close). But, yeah, this is worth reading.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025
I was recently reminded of this. A couple decades ago, I wrote a short paper that described how the basic approaches of cryptography and computer security lead to an efficient and practical privilege escalation attack against master-keyed mechanical lock, which I published in IEEE Security and […]
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is a pretty interesting piece. Love or hate the idea of mixing federal pardons with state crimes, you need to read this.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12/12/2025
Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
twenty twenty-five
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is incredible.
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