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Michael Bunting

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 10h
RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 11h
I'm so tired, y'all.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
SCOTUS in a 6-3 decision decides states must help enforce the fugitive grandchildren act
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21h
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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Lorelli - Read My Comic @exitrealitystudios.com · 12h
FYI, Discord users; the Halloween notification sounds are back. I know lots of folks don't like when Discord just does this without warning for whatever reason, just giving y'all a heads up.
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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No, self, you do not need to share every hopeless thought that flits through your head. Just go to sleep. You'll feel better tomorrow. Maybe.
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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Does anyone out there have a good lamp they use and would recommend for seasonal depression? It's been recommended that I get one.
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Becky @beckymew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CW: cancer and eating advice ... ... ... Looking for advice. My brother has advanced cancer in his stomach and lower esophagus, which is making it very hard for him to eat and hold down nourishment. He needs calorie-dense mild food but strongly dislikes the chalky shake formulas.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I probably wouldn't resent having to sleep quite so much if getting up in the morning weren't so abominably difficult for me. Even when I'm not suffering under the weight of depression, I wake up slow and hard. I have yet to find anything that makes it easier. Oversleeping is frustratingly common.
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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.”
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Becky @beckymew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey friends, if you were looking for guillotine earrings there are some in the shop right now, and I'll be adding more this week. Check out my product! www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
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Becky's Choppy, Choppy, The Earrings | Peculiarity Shop
It's time we did something about *gestures*. Components: Czech glass, stainless steel, base metal alloy.Some very minor variations in construction may apply. Lead/nickel free
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!
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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.
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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Absolutely not the point but I went to high school with this guy and he is younger than me what the hell is up with all that white hair. (Watch the video though. It is so goddamn true and I am so fucking proud of him.)
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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"it's been an honor to decimate this institution and make a shitload of money i don't deserve"
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Crabs Rave: Thousands of Crabs on a Beach
Alt: Crabs Rave Animation: Thousands of Crabs Dancing On A Beach
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today is the first day of the Supreme Court's term. My yearly print preview of all the things the Republicans will take away from us this time, is now avaialble on Al Gore's Internet in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The People vs. the Supreme Court
This term the Supreme Court has plans to trampleeven more of our rights. But we, the people, are not powerlessin the face of their power grab.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I know so many of you who need this.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
wrote about the major progressive successes over the last couple years. wins in elections, wins in primaries, and some important wins in getting the D party on side. everything is still horrible, but these are important! www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
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Progressives Are Winning
Everything is still horrible. But there are hopeful signs.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 05/10/2026
We need to reinvest in the rule of law, because the other ways of processing our collective trauma are gonna suuuuuuuck.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is one of the most spectacular pieces I'll probably ever have on the shop and it's real weird.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons" A small Canadian study of 24 people with Long COVID found signs that dopamine-releasing neurons may be damaged. Those with bigger changes had worse memory, slower movement and less motivation.
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Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons
Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Thing is the whole thing is premised on the idea a child should need a six figure loan to keep going to school rather than educating people being a public benefit.
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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
*rubs temples* When the internet first went mainstream people generally 1) enjoyed it, 2) weren't sure what to make of it, 3) didn't entirely trust it because anyone could say anything which, yes, is true, see also Mr. Radium Water Makes Me Healthy of recent fame. Nothing like the AI reaction.
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Becky @beckymew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I made cute ceramic bat sets for spooky season!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists.
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Michael Bunting @daedalus4096.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Widget is a good boy. Hope you feel better soon.
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Becky @beckymew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Liz is going through it, if you can help.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the thing about impeaching Vought is that it will ruin his life. pull his kids and wife in for sixteen hour depositions. refer them all for perjury. scream in his face. when you're done, if it didn't work, do it again.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.
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