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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can you imagine being so stupid that you announce your merger by showing footage of the ultimate representation of hubris possible?

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

New from me @notus.com: The DOJ has cancelled biannual election-crimes classes for investigators. It deleted the manual that explains how to avoid tampering with votes. And it isn't prepping for the usual Election Day command center at FBI hq. www.notus.org/2026-electio...

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The Justice Department Hasn’t Taken Its Usual Steps to Protect the 2026 Election

The DOJ appears to be quietly scrapping its typical “command center” that would monitor Election Day emergencies.

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 30/05/2026

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

the world is collapsing, yet I still own this

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

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John Rittenhouse @cryect.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It's what Hilton wants to be associated with!

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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 22/12/2025

Sony’s Japanese MiniDisc ads with Jamiroquai

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels. Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/

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Michelle Flamm @kaieta.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I know it's the end of the year and the Fed is so behind on data everything is a mess but, I'm still looking for work!!!

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Good morning Georgia! Make good choices today! Get our electricity bills a chance to go back down! (And vote Rohit for City Council President, too!)

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Updating my LEGO White House

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I click "cancel subscription..." and get this. Not letting people unsubscribe has the whiff of fraud, don't it? Got the same -- what a coincidence! -- when I tried to unsubscribe from Hulu. ("Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later.")

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John Rittenhouse @cryect.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Oh yay new CDC guy will help bring us Rapture.

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John Rittenhouse @cryect.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Had to go check my first 10 on Steam as well and seems the really old purchases are actually in license activations.

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

"We have just folded space from Legoland. Many playsets in Legoland. New playsets. Better than those at Playmobil."

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Abi Stevens MCM Ldn R-12 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

APPARENTLY YES!!! I LEARNT THAT THIS WEEK! :OOO Increased muscle tone (especially areas like your calfs), increased tension with motion that we then DON'T RELEASE... Read this study: bsky.app/profile/morg...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Oh huh, so for the kids who are Not Alright (and voted Trump), this is. Huh. Vape pens have a shitload of lead: www.ucdavis.edu/news/disposa... Lead exposure might help explain why Gen-X was so uhhh, Gen-X: news.virginia.edu/content/gene... Anyways @garbageday.email doing actual journalism? Neat!

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Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes

They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than olde...

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

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Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated

U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Getting an explainer on CNN just now that this is "not necessarily at odds" w Trump promising not to get into any Mideast wars. ("He sees bombing as separate from entering a war.")

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John Rittenhouse @cryect.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Well this is going to be fun for UE asset pipelines.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This really *is* Liberation Day: The U.S. Court of International Trade this afternoon struck down Trump’s mass tariffs as unlawful. It’s a fantastic win for the rule of law, human freedom, and prosperity, and a deserved rebuke for arbitrary one-man rule over our livelihoods. /1

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Nikki T in NYC @nikkitnyc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

You do NOT have to accept this! Post on the public comments to pressure them to NOT do this! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

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Regulations.gov

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

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Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The whole administration is one giant conspiracy to scam U.S. taxpayers Trump’s new vaccine research initiative will directly benefit NIH’s new principal deputy director, Matthew Memoli, who awards himself $500,000,000 for in-house vaccine research Reports @katherinejwu.com @theatlantic.com

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‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Skin Deep was released today! 🎉 I wrote about some of the wonderful collaborators on this project. What a privilege to work with them: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 07/04/2025

It's Window Safety Week

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I'm gonna have to frame this one.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/04/2025

VETERAN NARRATIVE DESIGNER/GAME WRITER IN DESPERATE NEED OF A JOB - Almost 20 years experience - Original writer/ND for mobile hit Lily’s Garden - Worked with big IPs like World of Warcraft, Marvel, DC - Experience with mobile, console, and PC Please, please, please help me. I am out of time.

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Stella Sacco - Saber Interactive | LinkedIn

Veteran in narrative, content, and creative direction for hit games like Lily’s Garden… · Experience: Saber Interactive · Education: Sage College · Location: New York · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. V...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If Jeffrey Goldberg was the man for the moment he'd have at least hit send on "new phone houthis" before leaving the signal group

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 07/03/2025

538-style poll collection has now been recreated by a small group of fans and former staff. all fully transparent and public now. return of live public aggregation is imminent docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Polls

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Coincidence @coincidence.games · 01/03/2025

I'm happy to announce our first major game, Kaizen: A Factory Story! Design production lines to create the iconic products of 1980s Japan in this open-ended factory puzzle game developed by Coincidence and published by Astra Logical. Wishlist it now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2275490

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Kaizen: A Factory Story on Steam

Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcord...

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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John Rittenhouse @cryect.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Claude 3.7 Sonnet looking pretty exciting in its improvement as a coding tool. As well, Claude Code for quickly understanding how a new codebase works. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/02/2025

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Leigh Ann (tired girl autumn) @latognetti.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This may or may not have any effect but it only takes 30 seconds and doesn’t require talking to a person. (Also, if you use the “google without AI” option you may need to switch over to regular google)

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico (be sure you are on a Google search engine)
2. "Gulf of America" will be at the head of Google's answer.
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of "Gulf of America".
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text.
6. Select "Inaccurate content".
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in whatever text you want such as "The correct name of this body of water is "Gulf of Mexico"
Takes less than 30 seconds. It may not seem like much but the more people do this maybe Google will recognize how foolish they are.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

BREAKING: Judge McConnell says, "I agree with the states." He wants to know, however, how the order would look, specifically, and is asking for the states to give a proposed order. Then, gives DOJ 24 hours to respond.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Stop calling it a buyout. It’s not a buyout. You have to keep working, you just don’t have to go back into the office (maybe). You’re just agreeing to quit later this year, after which you receive nothing.

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Taki Udon @takiudon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Introducing the SuperStation one. An open-source PS1 FPGA gaming console that supports original games, memory cards, and controllers. Load games from a disk or a backup. Region free. Supports all MiSTer FPGA cores, including N64 & Sega Saturn. Learn more: retroremake.co

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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