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Mike Locksey vs a Head of Lettuce @convolutedname.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A good third of the problems in this admin stem from reporters asking grandpa Roomba something he has no idea about and him just freejazzing in the answer
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026
Trump will obsess over these idées fixes* as he draws his last breath, gasping "Greenland…tariffs" as he tumbles from his golden toilet, coronary arteries bulging as he strains to pass a half-digested Big Mac, only a viscous paste of rectal mucus and Diet Coke to lubricate that unyielding bolus. 33
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, August 6, 2026:

Jeff Vandermeer's ABDICATION, the last novel in the Southern Reach series, in which an ornithologist exiled to a remote coast stumbles on a terrifying secret,  a self-proclaimed king pursues a mystery hidden in a strange weather station, and a man who can become a cormorant is tasked with a deadly mission through a future landscape transformed by Area X, for publication in October 2027, in a significant deal, to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, by Joseph Veltre at the Gersh Agency and Alex Kohner at Yorn Levine (world).
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Clio's Board Games @cliosboardgames.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New York City, America's financial hub, raised and distributed the capital for the ground-breaking infrastructure of the 19th century - the railway. (Image from #1846 @tomlehmann.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social) Read more: cliosboardgames.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/n...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026
Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
when the scaffolding is finished
massive "sarcophagus" structure built over the Chernobyl meltdown
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
No.
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JJ @jaynegallaghe20.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This isn’t The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
But they were all of them deceived, for another leche was made...
Cuatro Leches cake recipe.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
this is about whether drones randomly blowing up while someone is working on them is a good or bad thing (adam is unsurprisingly on the pro-explosive mishap side of the column)
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We should have never doubted this man
George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
you can get to say slurs or you can have freedom of navigation, but it's one or the other boys
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Daniel Waites @danielwaites.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I dunno a few weeks of “maybe I will nuke a bunch of places maybe I won’t depends on how I feel” will help focus people
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Daniel Waites @danielwaites.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is what I am talking about @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/04/2026
My favorite comment 😂
Lubdha Khandelwal & @lubdha • 45m
So, in order for the phrase to make sense in the original context, is the NYT changing
"A North American Treaty Organization without
America?"
to
"A North Atlantic Treaty Organization without
Atlanta?"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This always happens and then Trump tweets something like “The Prime Minister of Persia (GREAT rugs) came to me in a dream and he’s close to making a deal” just before the opening bell. And he somehow gets the geniuses on Wall Street to pretend like everything is normal for another day.
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Teacher: where's your homework? Me: I, uhhh, forgot to do it My dog [under my desk holding a gun]: good good
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
NYT quoting AOC when she says “um”: This dumb girl can’t talk NYT quoting Trump after sticking a fork up his nose into his brain and rambling about sharpie pens: Doth thine lion howl with instincts known not learned by man, or sound his sonorous roar as prophecy to gaze back upon history itself?
NYT on Feb. 13, 2026:

The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises.

Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.NYT on March 26, 2026:

Mr. Trump is correct that Sharpies are cheaper, but he overstated the cost of past presidential writing instruments. (Whether Sharpies are better is in the eye of the penholder.)
A.T. Cross, which is based in Rhode Island, said it had manufactured the penspreferred by Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, all of whom used the Townsend model. The pen, described by Cross as possessing a “bold profile, intricate detailing and superior writing performance,” now retails for about $200. (The classic black version costs about $265.)
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. preferredCross’s Century II model, which the company says brings “modern flair to a time-honored design.” That model is slightly less expensive, ranging from $99 to $270 a pen.
Luxury pen enthusiasts, it should be noted, often describe Cross pens as relatively affordable alternatives to other famous pens made by Montblanc and Nakaya, which can retail for over $1,000.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It's a system of infinite reflection: the markets looking at Trump looking at the markets looking at Trump looking at the markets. The markets have chosen not to panic and so Trump is experiencing less pressure to cave and thus so far the markets are *making themselves wrong.*
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Trump WH is starting to reap what it has sown in terms of screwing over counterparties: -Iran can't trust a negotiated settlement so why reach one? -Ds in Congress can't trust Trump to follow the law so why bargain w/him? -Universities see past deals leading to future shakedowns so why make one?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Every single day, Aaron Rupar watches broadcasts of these horrible, stupid people just so we can have clips of them and I think Aaron legit deserves some kind of award for not pouring acid into his eyes by now.
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Antiheat @antiheat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Oh, we're all off Discord now. I use Witchhazel now. Lindworm doesn't let you stream your screen. Paprika is actually a foreign surveillance app. Dude, send me your Dingo. I can't sign up for Jester Plus. I don't like the UI for Cabinet's mobile app. Just toss me your Spork. We're on Spork now.
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Jim Henley Music @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”
Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y
X
@elonmusk
For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.
The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.
It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.
That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”
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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
And, I mean, Alessandro de Medici was real www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/f...
pbs.org
Alessandro De Medici | FRONTLINE | PBS
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason
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H Bradley-Hayden @thatgalhope.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Adeptus Females (rhymes with “tamales”)
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Sending thoughts and prayers to everyone employed or represented or by Brad Finstad this morning.
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If you haven’t tried Twilight Struggle or Labyrinth I deeply recommend them.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We'll see, but I don't think the apparent TACO on Greenland will last long. It's just another case of "last person he talked to," and that won't be the Europeans once he's back at the West Wing / Mar-a-Lago. For their own anti-NATO reasons, too many in the inner circle are determined to push this.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Any owner of CBS should be hiring CBS News executives with one mission: Putting pencil to paper trying to figure out how to export 60 Minutes success to the rest of the division, not denigrating *the* flagship broadcast for the network.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19/12/2025
Here we go. Elise Stefanik changed everything she was, everything she believed in, for power. And in the end, Trump endorsed another dude and Elise is out. Shameful
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I'm guessing this explains the lying about Trump's posts. Whatever feed this bot is pulling from (First Squawk on X has the same tweet) is spreading disinformation for crypto dipshits.
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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
What folks need to realize about "peace talks" is that this is all theater for Washington. Ukraine knows that Russia has no intention of stopping the war, and the Russians know the Ukrainians know that. So this is just all a performance for Trump, hoping he blames the other for the lack of peace.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Time was if you talked to a woman like that in public a man would tell you what’s what.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Leonard Schitzenwoods
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.
THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
As he continues to work hard to make the American Dream accessible to everyone, President Trump today has asked the Departments of Transportation and Commerce to make vehicle ownership for all a reality by introducing 15 year car loans! Secretaries Duffy and Lutnick are already working on it!
Delivering for America!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
menswear writer here 👋 camo will not hide you inside a gym
Kash Patel wears a camo polo shirt with a trucker cap and mid-brown pants inside a gym.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Lot of good Monsters died in the trenches. Field Rations Monster. Bully Beef Monster. Morphine Monster was never the same.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Tom Bombadil is a key character to understanding Lord of the Rings and the fact that most adaptations leave him out shows that most adapters don't really get the source material
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 25/08/2025
<Dr Seuss voice> The wars he has stopped number not in the millions, “It’s more!” he still cries, “it’s now in the zillions!”
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