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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got
Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16/09/2026
I, too, was curious about the theory behind “AI will doom us all” so I spoke with one of the smartest tech writers I know, @jwherrman.bsky.social. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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What we can't predict is the unknown unknown here — which is both possibly true and begging the question. "AI will kill us all because it will think of novel ways to kill us all" is a tautology but not necessarily an incorrect one.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
omg there's a tree in British Colombia named Big Lonely Doug en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lon...
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Big Lonely Doug - Wikipedia
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And most importantly, two future governors of major American states
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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 11/09/2026
sauce = -1.19 + 1.39 ln(nuggets)
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I told Extremely Offline Husband that some of you started calling the Anthropic employees who said they might or might not be ending humanity “Sloppenheimer” and he thought that was funny and clever.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A lot of people asking me how this isn't the New InfoWars and guess what maybe it is?
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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Scott Bessent told me bond markets keep eating his buybacks so I asked how many buybacks he has and he said he just borrows more money afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding buybacks to bond markets and then his traders started crying.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 03/09/2026
Getting to meet Senator Whitehouse was a real treat today. My grandmother loved the guy and would have been tickled to see us hanging out. Maps depict the past but they also help us envision better futures.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien look at a map held by Andrew Middleton
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New most New Mexican crime just dropped
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Slammed" Volkswagen Beetle: the classic German with a lowered suspension
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Have seen several versions of this video floating around. Can't find an original source yet, but if this is legit umm... going to need some sedimentologists in the chat 🧪⚒️ via www.reddit.com/r/geography/...
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 27/08/2026
A hiker crushed the overall speed record on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, becoming the fastest person to trek it end-to-end — and he did it without the aid of a support team.
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Exclusive: This speed-hiker just smashed the record on the Pacific Crest Trail, hiking alone
A hiker crushed the overall speed record on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, becoming the fastest person to trek it end-to-end — and he did it without the aid of a support team.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
it is not actually the job of a United States senator to "support the president" that's pretty central to our entire system of government, such as it is
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/08/2026
I am getting reports that in retaliation for scuttling the deal, Mark Carney has deployed Caillou to John Roberts' house
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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 21/08/2026
I would have needed to fit it into a single-post dramatic arc
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just remember, there was a time when it was perfectly acceptable for a professional football player to look like this
An old Ray Nitschke football card with the image of a balding, wobbly eared gentleman in a Packers jersey, grimacing at the camera
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread
A Mid Century Modern ad for tableware, quirky hanging laps, weird wood paneled kitchen bar, oh yeah it's MCM as hell up in here (kinda love it)
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
law.berkeley.edu
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Woah.
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/08/2026
Trump: "It was given free of charge by Scotts Miracle-Gro. Scotts. A great company. They actually contributed to my campaign ... I want to thank Scotts."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every day you read two headlines, one like "Trump orders U.S. Aircraft Carrier to get him Chik-fil-a" and one like "Hakeem Jeffries: We Must Be Very Cautious in the Way We Consider Speaking About Methods of Bringing About Incremental Change to U.S. Tax Code"
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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lgmudder.bsky.social @lgmudder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Mark Kelly had the best response: “ballrooms, bankruptcy and bullshit”
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C. M. Alongi @cmalongi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Heh. #vaccines #autism #autisticmeme
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
Tim Henke
@TimHenke9
eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Select all squares with traffic lights
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Damien Owens’ tweet from 2022:

“I’m 50. All celebrity news looks like this:

‘CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT’

but I’ve changed “celebrity” to “business”
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
At least he's admitting that his role on the Hill wasn't in service of Congress but rather in service of Trump.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I remember when Bill Clinton—a FORMER president—met Obama’s sitting AG on an airplane and it was a massive scandal. Now, here’s Trump’s new AG just doing Trump political rallies like it’s NBD.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'll never steal your pen.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
Pix of Norman
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
i burst out laughing

Kirsten Swanson
@KirstenKSTP
Lindell will not concede. Claims there are anomalies in the numbers that his teams will be looking into overnight. 
@KSTP
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Ben Collins O @bencollins.bsky.so... • 35m
It's me!
Peter • @notalawyer.bsky.soc... • 2h must've been terrible to date AOC as a regular man because one minute you're dating a bartender who's a bit out of your league and the next there are tabloid stories like "you're not gonna believe how ugly this guy is"
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The President of the United States continuing to bring the full force of the federal government down on a guy *everyone knows is innocent*, just like he did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and so many others, is absolutely 1,000% impeachable IMHO. This is just straight up tyranny
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Edvard Munch, The Sun
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
gets incredible air here
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
*They used genome *language models* to generate the viruses?! Like with William Burroughs, "language is a virus from outer space"? *Obviously "They" are gonna cull the human population with this, but death by AI-virus would be a cool William Burroughs way to die www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Generative design of bacteriophages with genome language models
Many important biological functions arise not from single genes but from complex interactions encoded by entire genomes. We report the first generative design of complete bacteriophage genomes using g...
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doc shartman @docshartman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
[under breath] holy fuckin shit
Cinemagic theatre with three movies on the marquee: starship troopers, mars attacks and tremors
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