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Thomas G. Atkinson

@darthmarmalade.bsky.social
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Katie Sanders (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🫐 @katiesandfox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I didn’t think the revival could ever top the original but this might be the hardest I’ve ever laughed at anything.
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Post Apocalyptic DJ, Motormouth in the morning. Kids in the Hall
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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 12h
In Euro-English, we distinguish repatriation of an immigrant to their country of citizenship with deportation of a native or immigrant to a country they have no ties to, which is a war crime. The United States traditionally engaged in repatriation but is now guilty of the crime of mass deportation.
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Gespenst MK-VII @callgespenst.bsky.social · 20h
tweet from @topherflorence

peanuts is a cool comic cause the babies are always unsupervised in a dirt field saying stuff like "suffering is the cantaloupe in the fruit salad of life" and then the dog does a skateboard trick
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Darth Astris (COMMS OPEN!) @darthastris.bsky.social · 11h
Is there a way to bake some malicious code into our websites so that it fucks up the AI instead?
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12h
they're going to try and launder accountability for war crimes this way, aren't they?
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Guy on lichess had a Netanyahu themed username so I checkmated them with a pawn
A chess position - the long and short of it is that black has castled and is up a lot of material, whereas white's king is exposed in the middle of the board with nothing. Black also has mate in one after black moved king to f4.


More detailed: White has a king on f4 (lmao), a queen on a4 a rook on a1, a bishop on c1, a knight on d2, and pawns on a2, b3, c4, e4, f3, and h2. Black has a king on g8, a queen on g1, rooks on a8 and f8, bishops on d7 and e7, knights on c6 and f6, pawns on a7, b7, c7, d6, f7, g7, and h7. Black plays pawn g5, mate.
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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
one big political problem is liberals are always looking for conflicts to be over, and conservatives thrive on conflict liberals saw Roe and Obergefell as the end of the fight, conservatives saw them as the beginning of the fight
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Doc Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So the most important thing to know about Sam Alito is that however stupid you think he is, he’s actually stupider then that
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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 03/10/2026
"But there is another story of print entirely independent of book history in Europe, one that also determined world history with the preservation of Buddhist, Chinese dynastic, and Islamic texts."
openculture.com
The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
The history of the printed word is full of bibliographic twists and turns, major historical moments, and the significant printing of books now so obscure no one has read them since their publication.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 02/10/2026
Star Wars: Squadrons was released 6 years ago today. So it's a good time to revisit the "Hunted" short by ILM that preceded the game's release. Arguably the best fiction showcasing the TIE Interceptor from the Disney era. Lucasfilm should produce this kind of promotional project more often.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.
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Thomas G. Atkinson @darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Heptapods. Or a Vogon Constructor Fleet.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump's Kennedy Center is apparently fencing the Steinways boingboing.net/2026/10/02/t...
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Trump’s Kennedy Center is apparently fencing the Steinways
First the signage, now the Steinways. The Trump version of renovation has a funny way of looking like liquidation.
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𝗟𝗨𝗖𝗔 @behemow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In regard to FurAffinity being at risk due to censorship: Furries are now political targets. We are getting namedropped at high levels of government. They know that we are a large, influential, largely queer, community. Fighting for the spaces owned by our community is incredibly important
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Thomas G. Atkinson @darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
KARL URBAN’S STAND-IN IS A SUB URBAN
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you've got some free time on your hands one of the best things you can do is to learn a language. It doesn't matter which language it is, learning any language makes the world a smaller place and brings you closer together with people you wouldn't otherwise speak to.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pointing out that EVs are imported on diesel ships is the same as pointing out that the lightbulb was invented in a candlelit office.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 02/10/2026
Sashi (@sashikantsingh_) on twitter: "Open AI's internal benchmarks show GPT-6.1 Sol crushing Opus 5.5, with Anthropic struggling to keep up"

[A line graph with the horizontal axis labeled "Release date" and the vertical axis labeled "Model number". Three ascending lines plot various AI model names and their version numbers: a top green line plots "GPT-5.6 Sol", "GPT-6 Astra", and "GPT-6.1 Sol". A middle orange line plots "Fable 5", "Fable 5.1", and "Opus 5.5". A bottom black line plots "Grok 4.5", "Grok 4.6", and "Grok 4.7".]

sarah (@SarahStarberry) quotes with: "oh my god read the vertical axis"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump doesn’t give edam www.thebulwark.com/p/who-cut-th...
thebulwark.com
Who Cut The Cheese? Trump Did.
The dairy industry was supposed to be the one sector that benefited from Trump’s trade war.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/10/2026
This week's announcement of an "AI accord" was lazy extraction class performance art, designed to pretend corporate oversight still exists in a country increasingly too corrupt to function
techdirt.com
Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding
Corporations have long enjoyed creating toothless "self-regulatory" regimes that exist primarily to pre-empt real government oversight. While the quality of these orgs can vary somewhat, generally they're just a toothless pantomime designed to pretend that corporate power can effectively police itself for ethical and competitive breaches. U.S. history has a thing or two to say...
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 01/10/2026
Burn down AI customer service systems like raining hellfire It should not take me 45 minutes of navigating AI menus to get to a person who can get me a tow truck, State Farm
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“When you open it, the cutesy avatar asks for a name. Then it asks for total control of your Gmail, calendar and entire computer if you're on a Mac.” Fuck no.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't know whether it's right the first thing I should think of on learning it's James Whitmore's birthday is him singing "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" along with Keenan Wynn in Kiss Me Kate, but that's immediately what sprang to mind. youtu.be/u8Zzl_HH4XQ
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Brush up your Shakespeare - Kiss Me Kate (1953) - Movie Version
YouTube video by Marco
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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 01/10/2026
Her: What do you do? Me: I race cars. Her: Do you win many races? Me: No, the cars are much faster.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 01/10/2026
Now that the federal government is pro-poop milk, we must rely on state regulators to keep us safe. @propublica.org recently revealed how California is allowing grifters to endanger children with no serious repercussions skepchick.org/2026/10/raw-...
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Raw Milk Nearly Killed 2 Kids & Authorities Did Nothing
Transcript: What’s the most dangerous food for humans to eat? When I first contemplated that question, my mind immediately went to exotic fare: fugu, for instance, the pufferfish that contains leth…
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So many different people, groups, and organizations have come together to push back against the attack on the freedom to read, including students themselves. Read more about what students in Florida are doing here:
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No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards
Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education
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Todd Patrick (he/him) @tightrough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI is totally a haint, y’all
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THE HAINT THEORY OF A.I. — ELER DE GREY
Note. This writing may be considered an “information hazard” for people in the early stages of A.I. psychosis. For more information on A.I. psychosis, please see this info sheet . A self-assessment ...
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 01/10/2026
Never in my life have I seen such widespread and uncoordinated defiance of law enforcement in America. That's just stunning. Once regular people decide to start hindering the feds all by their lonesome, you've turned a corner.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is why I call AI a deskilling project.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My mother also said that it was a sin that in the richest country in the world we have people without housing or food. Mom said the solution was simple: Take from the people who have so much and give it to the poor. My mom was the best person I’ve ever known and I miss her every day.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My late mother, a devout Christian and socialist, opposed the death penalty. Mom said the commandment was very plain and clear. I used to ask her — what if someone killed me? Mom said: the commandment is very clear. Mom was right.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 01/10/2026
Man we were losing to IEDs and dudes in pickup trucks as far back as the 2000s. Our military was being driven out of nations by guerilla warfare in the 70s. We have been wasting money on the military for as long as I've been alive, because we cannot fight asymmetrical conflicts. We tend to lose.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ice, cbp, and dhs are disappearing people, beating them, depriving them of their rights, torturing them, and sending them to unstable countries they have never been to and have no way of finding safety in. we know all of this. if she did knowingly abet his escape from that possibility she is a hero
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Former Ann Arbor nurse accused of helping ICE detainee flee hospital
A former Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital nurse is charged under a criminal complaint after she allegedly helped a man who was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to flee the hos...
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 01/10/2026
A cool part of living in the woods is that every 3-5 business days, I meet a new type of lil' guy that I have never seen before in my entire life.
a Hickory Tussock Moth Caterpillar
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
every. time.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this has the exact energy of the kind of fact I’m always learning from @swordsjew.bsky.social because it turns out there’s a sandwich named after it somehow I can’t explain but you know what I mean
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A Dead Sinking Rory @zealousagain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh fuck yeah I love the Blade Runner soundtrack.
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No interest in relitigating the strengths and weaknesses of the sequels but the lamest take as proven by time is “but the good guys won so why are things bad now?”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hegseth is aspirational for some white people. He's proof that mediocrity is rewarded if you are a white man. You can always fail up. That's his appeal and make no mistake, the appeal is real.
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Thomas G. Atkinson @darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you see this, skeet a vampire that isn’t Dracula. bsky.app/profile/dart...
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Misty @purplestarrynight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hope this spectacular artsy dahlia brightens up your day today! San Francisco, Golden Gate Park. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #dailyflowers #flowerreport
Yellow flower
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can't outsource parenting and general adulthood to your wife and expect her to find you a sexy man.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The expression is "one bad apple spoils the whole barrel", so when you say "it's just a few bad apples", you're admitting your entire operation is rotten, Chief Constable.
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