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darrylzer0.bsky.social @darrylzer0.bsky.social · 53m

Now, at 47, I have bought exactly one new vehicle, in 2023 I think, because used car costs weren't coming down much from the pandemic price spike and I was afraid about what kinds of repair costs might loom for a plug-in hybrid. Will I ever buy a new car again? Maybe. It'll be an EV if I do. But...

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darrylzer0.bsky.social @darrylzer0.bsky.social · 57m

True, and also, I grew up in a world where it felt like basically no one bought new cars at all. Even then (Seattle suburbs in the 90s), I knew this wasn't really true, but buying new was still coded as strange and extravagant to me.

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Pernicious and gay little ghoul🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @gremlinjess.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

(Christopher walken voice) that, imitation crab, is banging, my wife, and I, love it

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People this contemptuous of human and civil rights, and with so little care or valuation of what it means to be human, aren’t out here arguing AI could be conscious because they want to defend it’s labor rights.🙄 More like “we enslaved this faux conscious entity, & it’s fine… so why not people too?”

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A cynical part of me thinks the only reason these ghouls are pushing the “AI could be conscious rhetoric” is because when it comes to deciding whether humans or data centers should get access to limited energy and water resources, they want ambiguity about why humans should clearly take precedent.

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Falco SkyWolf @falcoskywolf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"So this will make my life easier?" "M...mmmaybe." "Well, what's the catch?" "You have to lose experience points in all your skills to perceive any benefits." "So... this will make my life HARDER." "But it will SEEM easier." "Only if I plug my ears and go LA LA LA."

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just as we've seen in the discourse this week, institutional betrayals of survivors by universities are usually met with thousands of people saying, "Why didn't she just go to the police?" And this is (part of) the answer. The police betray survivors just as consistently as universities do.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The reason cases stalled out is that New York City police only opted to interview 28% of identified suspects. In other words, they had enough information to move forward with a case, but they chose not to do it.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is this belief we cannot shake that the reason so few sexual assault cases are prosecuted is because victims are "uncooperative." But in this independent review, 93% of victims participated in a police interview.

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think people should ask their college to ban this fraternity on college campuses across the country

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 26/09/2026

we love to see it

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sorry but if your AI criticism doesn't include analysis of how the hyperscale data centre push is actually seeing the biggest billionaires actively worsen the climate crisis and push for more deregulation of and investment in the fossil fuel industry to power those data centres, you're a dummy

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JaneG.Photo @janegphoto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For anyone that's ever stepped foot at Starfire and has seen the hard working groundskeeper working tirelessly, this is your turn to step up for him. Antonio was detained by ICE and his family doesn't deserve this. Please donate to help support him and his family. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...

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Donate to Help Bring Our Dad Home, organized by Marcela Alfaro

Please Help Bring My Dad Home Hi everyone, Today, my dad was detained by ICE … Marcela Alfaro needs your support for Help Bring Our Dad Home

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

So about that batshit insane AI millenarian Silicon Valley sex cult running much of big tech….from Sonia Joseph: siliconvalleynotes.substack.com/p/agi-cnc-an...

Sonia Joseph y @soniajoseph_
To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties—
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/Al circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAl employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.
It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims.
However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF Al scene are more broadly relevant to the Al industry.
I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite Al researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female Al researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people.
There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for Al safety.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“move fast and break things” was always about breaking people

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monstrous_gloss @monstrousgloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think about this scene from Andor a LOT and repeat this phrase to myself often: "Power doesn't panic."

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ross Douthat looks like a guy who finds out the Peep Show place on 8th Avenue near the Port Authority doesn’t open until 9 am

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darrylzer0.bsky.social @darrylzer0.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Did they like it? I could not get my kids to pay attention to it at all, one of the more surprising flops we've had.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If changing this country, and/or limiting its power, is the only way to ensure mass human society continues beyond the 21st century then you goddamn right I'm gonna go down swinging trying to change this place, against all the odds.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wonder if they know each other

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Bill Mitchell * @mitchellvii

No, Joe Biden can tell us all day that we're doing great, but every time you check out at the grocery store or pay the rent or buy a burger and fries or pay your insurance you know we're not doing great. 7:52 AM • May 24, 2024 • 4,479 Views

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I. Hernandez @hernando206.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I make my wife go to the hardware store now. She's fine with that because she doesn't want me beaten and kidnapped by ICE goons any more than I do. Like honestly, I don't believe that I have full freedom of movement in my own country anymore. ICE must be destroyed and prosecuted.

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Call Me The Brie-ze @briesmith.xyz · 18/09/2026

The Good Place “Jason figured it out?” meme but with Bill Kristol’s name

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

god this is good

flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine.

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.

Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Again the idea that merit and diversity are somehow in opposition already starts from the assumption bigots are correct about diversity.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we're all rightfully shitting on Ed Sheeran, don't forget this gem

'Excuse me, can I have another glass of wine'
'I'm Ed Sheeran'
'Ok Ed get me another glass'
Daily Mail Celebrity • @DailyMailCe...
Ed Sheeran gets mistaken for a waiter by Amy Lee at the #Grammys
dailym.ai/1zAZr2i

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love me a good Venn diagram.

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The Mewling Skull @themewl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finally figured out what it reminds me of

A glowing figure with a dumb smile and big eyes

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 15/09/2026

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

First Light 6”x12” Oil on cradled wood panel . Available

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Nshrubs @nshrubs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pretty much every teacher was at school today prepping their classrooms (unpaid). When I left at 6pm, there were still 9 teachers working. I came home, ate dinner, & now I'm working on a few last minute things.

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Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

this is a pretty wild exchange with someone seemingly in a moderator position

Bouie: Sure. Before I do, I want to say two things, just to establish them right now and kind of to say where I stand on some of this stuff. The first thing is: "Woke" is a term that comes from African American vernacular. It has its origins in the 1930s, and it has traditionally meant something along the lines of: Be aware of the ways that this society is not built for you. Be aware of the ways that you may face disadvantage and oppression in this society. Again, this is a term that emerged in Black vernacular in the 1930s. And that is, as far as I'm concerned,
what the term means. And the usage — Cottle: You are exactly one of about 20
people who think that's what the term
means.
Bouie: I know.

Bouie: I know. Cottle: I always love the historical reference,
but that ain't where it's gone. Bouie: I think a lot of Black Americans would agree with me on this point, I'll say that. I think among commentators, sure, not very many people agree with me. Among the
people for whom the term - Cottle: Oh, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. You can't pull that it's a split between commentators. And like, half of America has
decided what woke is, and it's not that. Bouie: Among Black Americans, it still
means what I just said. So I just want to say Cottle: But beyond the commentators, there's plenty of folks who have decided
something very different.

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Nshrubs @nshrubs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Full inclusion IS possible, but it requires a massive commitment of funding and resources that we already know the WA State legislature will not provide. We also know the feds, especially under mango fascist, will never fully fund IDEA. Yet we march forward. 🙄

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Nshrubs @nshrubs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

BTW - we are expected to go full "inclusion" with SPED by 2033. At the current level of funding provided by the WA State legislature, we already know it's going to be a total failure. Kids will be put into classes without needed staff & supports, classroomTs will quit, wealthy parents go private.

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Nshrubs @nshrubs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Anyone bashing Seattle teachers for a potential strike, or even SPS, needs to read up on how we got here & turn your ire towards legislators & WA state & how they STILL underfund public schools - particularly special ed - even after we sued their asses and won. www.waschoolfunding.org

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WA School Funding

Washington Schools: Underfunded & Overburdened Post McCleary “solution,” the state still hasn't met its constitutional duty to fully fund public education and schools are being asked to do more now t...

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 24/08/2026

If you used an allegory like this in a novel, the editor would tell you it was too much.

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Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New devastating insult just dropped lol

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

WSJ giving Cofnas a platform to insist that he's just a brave truth teller but also a small bean birthday boy. People should lose their jobs over this.

WSJ piece from Nathan Cofnas: "How I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair
Thave been smeared as a racist and threatened with violence. My university suspended me. All I did was tell the truth."

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