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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 19h
Not to be confused with his brothers, Underage, Juvenile, and Callow.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Trump derangement syndrome is a thing, but it's not what they claim it is...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Brief, powirful, unforgettable - plese repost & share: "Do we acknowledge the necessity of the Humanities—history, art, literature, and all those things that make us human—or, do we fall prey to their erasure by those who benefit the most from them?" rolandbetancourt.substack.com/p/humanities...
rolandbetancourt.substack.com
Humanities Hoarding: Why tech elites want to make you think the Liberal Arts are irrelevant
Do we acknowledge the necessity of the Humanities—history, art, literature, and all those things that make us human—or, do we fall prey to their erasure by those who benefit the most from them?
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oooh! Now for a Big Lugga and some Kuttas!
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Pretty sure I saw this car in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Since they want to amend the Utah constitution: how about an amendment that only allows people with "female" on their government ID to vote for issues that would limit women's access to abortion or other healthcare?
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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The Pasta Queen: Just Gorgeous
Alt: The Pasta Queen: Just Gorgeous
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Steve Lieber: Bedrock City Comic Con AA 112 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"I don't know what you want me to do - I don't control the weather!" I say to my sad dog as I step into the bathroom, flip a switch that turns on a miniature sun and proceed to cause it to rain in the shower.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After a long hiatus, I finally got a #BloodBowl game in! My #ImperialNobility Menshenfresserhoffen Husserls vs. #ElvenUnion. The elves' roster is terrible, but their coach is one of the best there is. It ended in a 2-2 tie, which is good enough for me! #WarhammerCommunity #FantasyFootball #Nerdity
An Imperial Nobility Blood Bowl team resplendent in purple and yellow with teal accents and khaki stone bases faces off against yellow and blue Elven Union on their grassy bases with chunky, white "skill rings".  The pitch is the Old World Alliance pitch with bone-coloured stone and a purple shield with an American football on it and crossed swords behind in the pitch centre.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 09/10/2026
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economics columnist Catherine Rampell said the Trump administration now allows wealthy donors to stock Trum...
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Are we still arguing about whether to call the current government fascist? Because livestreaming a public execution by firing squad is literally what facism looks like.
nbcnews.com
Pentagon says there will be a livestream of firing squad’s execution of the Fort Hood shooter
The execution of Nidal Hasan is scheduled for Dec. 3.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Donald Trump has done & said so many appalling things, but siccing his racist fans on innocent Somali residents is disgustingly dangerous.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In other news, I spent a couple hours learning about the math involved in large language models and I AM SO MAD! IT IS LITERALLY JUST SPICY AUTOFILL IDKY I THOUGHT THE DIP$h!+s IN MY OLD PROGRAMMING CLASSES WOULD BE SMARTER THAN THEY ARE THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST WORSHIPPING A REFLECTION OF HUMANITY
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Attn: A FBI supervisor is blowing the whistle on the Trump administration’s targeting of anti-ICE protesters. Jill Fields states the White House pushed the FBI to investigate people in Los Angeles even after agents determined their actions were protected by the First Amendment.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a slam-dunk for a class-action suit. Hopefully these cartoonists get serious compensation for AI companies' theft of their work. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
niemanlab.org
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As my employer continues their crusade to eliminate WFH accommodations for disabled employees (including some with ALS), I'm especially grateful for people like Brooke who so effectively share stories of the despair, hope, humor, and humanity behind disability. Thank you and well done, Brooke.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Friday night!
A man with a mug sits on a sofa with his feet on an ottoman and a sleeping dog in his lap, with the caption "I love this - us going nowhere together."
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By "coffee", do you mean the horrific sludge that used to be the Iron Hands, Salamanders, and Raven Guard?
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, it's a shame you can't take three squadrons of two.
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Theo Beastly @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The didn't say what the keys are to... you're just assuming it's a house.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unrelated to this article: what's the definition of a Ponzi scheme? You know, I'm just wondering.
thestreet.com
Goldman Sachs has a blunt message for AI stock investors
The AI spending boom is getting bigger, but the numbers behind it are starting to raise new questions for investors.
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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."
finance.yahoo.com
Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally
Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 28/09/2026
“I already hoped Prop 1 would succeed in Idaho to protect women and human dignity;” Brad Price writes in an op-ed, “now, seeing this attempt at religious supremacy, I have another reason I hope it succeeds.”
sltrib.com
Voices: The LDS Church’s abortion message to voters is not peacemaking. It is coercive control at every level.
“I already hoped Prop 1 would succeed in Idaho to protect women and human dignity;” Brad Price writes in an op-ed, “now, seeing this attempt at religious supremacy, I have another reason I hope it succeeds.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🤬🤬🤬
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/09/2026
Me, twelve years old: Only 63 years until the Vulcans come and we fix the world! Me, today: ugh in 37 years, the Vulcans land and we steal their ship to create the Terran Empire
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And Trump will act like he is doing a great thing.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just remember: the cake is a lie.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poll watching right now is like, "Normal candidate with normal opinions ekes out small lead against sweaty bag of farts who sends dick picks to orphans and once dropkicked a puppy with leukemia."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026
you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Guy 50 yards away with a remote control: "The smile button's stuck! What should I do?" Other guy: "Maybe try the 'thumbs up with hollow stare' combo - nobody will suspect that!"
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm always thinking about Garak. Even when you aren't? Especially when I'm not.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm a sucker for Kharadron myself, but I do like a good banner...
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is the Khazalite Holds banner that was briefly visible on GW's website today. What does everyone think? #Dwarfs #AgeOfSigmar
The Khazalite Holds image mistakenly put on GW's site showing mixed units of male and female duardin warriors with banners, a red-haired female hero, and large, dwarfish constructs with hammers.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And if you think this is wrong and needs to be addressed they call you a communist
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think that's just people like Dory the fish...
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Very Cool Thumbs Up Guy
Alt: Very Cool Thumbs Up Guy
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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I would really love for somebody to do an extensive psychological study about entitlement among Mormon church members. From driving to airport welcomes, and all the way to victim blaming and massive financial crimes. There is just something about it!
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ah, so VanDyke then!
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Mary Poppins: A Little Bird Told Me
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Cheney?
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 19/08/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security confirmed it no longer intends to use the Salt Lake City warehouse it purchased in March as an ICE detention camp.
sltrib.com
Feds scrap Salt Lake City ICE detention warehouse plans
The change of course was confirmed in court records Wednesday.
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CygnusMaximus @cygnusmaximus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just generally. Fingers crossed you and yours avoid it!
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