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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How frightening! We're lucky to live in a free country where the richest business people control every layer of government as well as the media 👍
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DGM @notredale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jack Lemon with a broccoli cut and iced coffee
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rasheed Wallace "Ball Don't Lie"
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The White Sox have to retire Munetaka Murakami's number immediately. This is the greatest interview of all time.
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Murakami loving his first clubhouse celebration 😂
YouTube video by Bleacher Report
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The PM of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu says that “America deserved 9/11” at the UN General Assembly
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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
26 years ago
onion headline from 2000: Black Guy Photoshopped In, showing side-by-sides of a cover of a course guide with a Black student added to the second cover
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
offering a coupon for free money and being shocked at the redemption rate
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
bookmark for your next fight newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Key...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026
that’s right the internet started going irreversibly downhill the day Reader died
Technology you’re most nostalgic for: Google Reader
Especially when I was a writer and business journalist, but even afterwards, I loved Google Reader as a way to organize news articles and feel like I got through them. It was just a great interface. I use Feedly now, which is pretty good to read news, but doesn't quite hit like Google Reader used to hit.
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criticaltom.bsky.social @criticaltom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
STOP THE COUNT
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
He puts words together in ways that words have never been put together before. An AI proof man.
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Only Aggro Comments @pilco.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
mfw my employer donated to the ballroom fund but I have to hit "i understand" during anti-bribery training.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
>The PR narrative is spiraling out of control and people are freaking out, how do we fix this? >Quick, deploy Sam Altman to reveal he was intimately involved in the entire process and to personally reassure everyone they acted with all the integrity and generosity he’s famous for
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is legalese for “we checked and we absolutely fucking did scrape the chats in question and include them in the training run of the checkpoint that was used to produce the solution” bsky.app/profile/pond...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is already what we do with hundreds of other issues. If your dad is a flat earther you don't need to flame him every time you see him. But if you're writing an op-ed for the NYT you shouldn't start with, "flat earthers make some good points..."
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't think the 'cult deprogramming' argument works for public figures! If you're a regular person, listening empathically to your anti-vaxx aunt is fine. If you're a public official speaking to millions, though, the message has to be "MAHA is killing kids," not "MAHA has some good points."
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Cartoon of two identical castle towns on opposite sides of a river, which are at war, labeled our robust business model VS their unsustainable silliness. On the left various things are labeled our profitable expansion, our scaling to meet real demand, our huge addressable market, our visionary founder. On the right the same things are labeled their reckless spending, their crazy amounts of compute, their lack of customers, their foolish hype man.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's honestly kind of impressive that the human brain can do this
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/08/2026
in addition to being a psychotic Zionist and a professional right-wing billionaire toady, Bari Weiss is intensely racist. to her, all Muslims are Osama bin Laden
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/08/2026
the point is to put AES and 9/11 in as many headlines as possible. even if it's the most innocuous statement imaginable
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MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The fuck kind of pundit brained insanity is this? "You should vote to have your state represented by someone who represents the values of other more backwards states because branding or something."
Mr. Moulton urged Massachusetts Democrats to think beyond their state lines. He said the state should elect a senator who could appeal to the rest of the country to help the party build a governing majority in Washington.

He argued that it would not advance the progressive cause to have the Democratic Party branded as enthusiastically supportive of trans athletes in sports, when polls suggest that the American public believes differently.

“We need to think more about the entire Democratic team, because we’re in the minority,” Mr. Moulton said. “A lot of politics has become a purity test these days, but I’m not sure that’s good for the party or the country. We’re a democracy. We should be able to have discussions.”
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
we are slowly morphing the linguistics of american english to parallel smurf language
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For far too long, business and tourism have plagued this country.
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A massive flash flood in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and ‌China's Tibet. Initial report say it may have been caused by a glacial lake rupture.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?
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Got CTE from Playing Peek a boo @doubledoinkrigged.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
building wire mother for my child
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Bryan Knowles @brykno.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Part of the Browns' problem, of course, is that in 2025, Shedeur Sanders had a passing DVOA of -59.6%. That is the fifth-worst passing DVOA ever recorded.
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it.
Post on X Remember in early 2000s thousands of Polish men immigrated over to UK cause their economy crashed but no one said fuck all cause they came to work, minded their own buisness an left our kids alone.....

Response Most Poles who emigrated to the UK in the early 2000s remember something completely different and photo of xenophobic graffiti
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Sad About Baseball @danvogfan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
guy who turned the dial on the “make everyone stupid and insane machine” to 11 to facilitate the election of Donald J Trump in 2016 and again in 2024: damn why is my data center in rural Texas being blocked by people who think it’s going to make their kids trans and kill God
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I've always found it strange that trump has no idea what our government is or how it works, but i guess it's not that surprising since he apparently also doesn't know human beings are social creatures who depend on each other
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/08/2026
"how DARE you imply that Donald Trump is screwing his hot blonde aide who is 50 years his junior and basically lives in his bedroom. he would NEVER cheat on his 3rd wife. well except for the time he did with a porn star and then bribed her to keep it quiet"
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026
uhhhhh
 investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.3:27
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The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
it pisses some people when this gets pointed out, but the democrats started this shit under biden. who would have guessed that the antisemitism panic that is still being used to beat lefties over the head would turn out to be something you can toss out of court for failure to even state a claim
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a good example of something that is entirely political (the government dislikes higher ed and foreign people) and has large economic impacts but will get less attention than "woke one" from our pundit class.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
slammed the brakes so hard I flew through the windshield
Street sign for Gobblers Knob Rd
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