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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

In which I engage in heresy: The purpose of a system is NOT what it does: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/202… #POSIWID

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The Purpose Isn’t What It Does

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How do you explain recursion? This one is pretty fun. I had Claude Opus 5.5 make: "A video explaining recursion, where every explanation about recursion has a radically different video style, make this self-referential & clever & fast moving." All code, no images. Nine genre shifts, one prompt...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tim Cook just logging into the maps admin interface and renaming the frontier lab companies directly on the map

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

The line about "not a third bloc only to become a third party rival just with better manners", following up with "resilience so no-one, *no-one* can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten out territorial integrity or undermine our freedoms, our democracy, our rule of law" - OUCH.

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Pelle Sunvisson @pellesunvisson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nu händer det! Vi tar facket ut till några av landets allra mest utsatta arbetare. Och du kan vara med! Du kan vara med fysiskt på den buss som åker mellan gårdarna. Och du kan vara med vara med och sponsra busshyra, boende, tryck av material, mat, skyddsutrustning med mera.

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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 15/09/2026

Everyone is unique, but not everyone has an outgoing style that is distinctive and appealing to the segment they want to be appealing to. So, “be yourself” definitely works for some people, but some people need other ways to execute marketing and positioning.

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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

10 klimatbeslut från Tidöregeringen – en påminnelsetråd 🧵 1. Miljödepartementet lades ned Tidöregeringen nedmontering av Sveriges klimat- och miljöpolitik symboliseras kanske tydligast med att det första de gjorde var att stänga Miljödepartementet www.di.se/hallbart-nar...

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Miljödepartementet skrotas – ”förödande konsekvenser”

Ulf Kristerssons nya regering lägger ner miljödepartementet. Istället ska frågorna inordnas under klimat- och näringslivsdepartementet.

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 10/09/2026

The billionaires have already been building bunkers for a while. Whether that is for their plan A or their plan B is anyone’s guess.

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Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 08/09/2026

🚨 Announcing Pushin 🚨 Now officially: I'm announcing Pushin.eu, a git hosting platform built and run entirely in Europe. Think GitHub/GitLab but European, better, and faster. Built with #ElixirLang and #RustLang. peterullrich.com/announcing-p...

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Announcing Pushin

I'm launching Pushin.eu, a git hosting platform built and run entirely in Europe.

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 07/09/2026

Interesting and educating article, but I would say that Spain falsifies the theory: motorcycles here enjoy all the same benefits mentioned, but only cyclists are hated.

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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Besser kann man es nicht treffen

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David Brax @davidbrax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

En återkommande tankefigur på Ms valaffischer är att ”ansträngning ska löna sig”. Tycker de verkligen det? Tycker de att människor ska få lön i förhållande till hur stor ansträngning de lägger ned i sitt arbete? Är inte det ett jätteradikalt omfördelningsprojekt?

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

To international historians in the 2050s, the major geopolitical story of our time will be entirely obvious: the oligarchic and institutional self-destruction of the United States and its displacement by China as the global number one.

US per capita income may be high, but its biological living standards are shockingly low. The Chinese live longer, are better fed, and kill themselves at dramatically lower rates. Their kids are now taller than ours; they score higher across the board, including on IQ tests.

China’s defense-industrial base now totally dwarfs that of the US. Chinese state capacity is an order of magnitude greater. China’s overtaken the US in top notch scientific publications. China now occupies the dominant position in global manufacturing. It’s share of global mfg value-added is 30 percent to America’s 18 percent. They can outproduce not just the US in weapons, but the entire geopolitical West. With ease.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Daurmith @daurmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Una Dolly Parton menos en el mundo quiere decir que los demás tenemos que ser extra amables y hacer cosas bonitas por los demás, como ella hacía, para llenar el hueco. Y que rebose.

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Emil @herroblomov.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Det här är toppen för alla datacenter som inte vill förarga lokalbor men stigade elpeiser. De producerar sin egen el med gas. Det här gäller ETT av Googles nya datacenter. "Det tillåts som mest släppa ut 33 miljoner ton koldioxid om året. Inget annat kraftverk i hela USA släpper ut så mycket."

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Enorma gaskraftverk ska driva AI-revolutionen

Amazon, Elon Musks AI-företag XAI och Google satsar på gas för att driva AI-boomen.

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Vi ska absolut inte göra några uppoffringar för att rädda liv och undgå en klimat- och ekologisk kollaps. Men vi ska vara beredda att offra våra liv för en stat som föraktar fattiga, invandrare & arbetslösa, som ställer utsatta grupper mot varann samtidigt som den ekonomiska eliten blir allt rikare?

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 17/08/2026

Well, pointing *is* a very rude thing to do.

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 16/08/2026

Hade det där varit en teckning på en ledarsida hade man ju knappt höjt på ett ögonbryn. Och det finns ingen risk att någon tror att det är M:s eller SD:s eget material.

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Exactly.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you are one of the people replying with something like "he plagiarized and got caught and that's good": Do you suppose this is the only plagiarism scandal in academia? Why do you know about this one and not the others? This is rhetorical. You know exactly why

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Bluer Lights @bluerlights.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This thread is such a good reminder that there's no point to writing a million caveats to things you say online. People who want to be upset about internet strangers' posts will find a way. It's Typical of the internet but at the same time it's fucking wild. And I'm sorry that happened to you.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A dark day for human rights.

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 01/08/2026

Inte bara lite fint. Tack för att du delade.

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Kjell Rautio @kjellrautio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

En tidigare utrikesminister och vice generalsekreterare i FN har något viktigt att säga som den nuvarande svenska regeringen borde lyssna till.

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 26/07/2026

I am very much for restricting social media for kids. I am very, very much against all of the age verification schemes that have been proposed. There’s a joke to be made here with babies and bath water, but this is not a time for jokes. Democracy is at stake, believe it or not.

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 25/07/2026

20/20. Som tonåring fick jag checkar innan jag fick betalkort.

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Sofia Zettermark @zettermark.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Att det inte passar alla kvinnor tycker jag inte är konstigt alls. Vården har en enormt viktig roll i att riskreducera och bedöma, men kan aldrig garantera utfall. Men vad vi ofta glömmer är att födandet inte bara är en medicinsk risksituation. Det är en djupt existentiell upplevelse.

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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Russia is committing hidden atrocities across Africa, and the world is looking away. I’m on the ground exposing the truth, but I can’t do it alone. Stand with justice. Support the investigation. Every dollar brings hidden horrors to light. Share & donate www.gofundme.com/f/philip-oba...

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Donate to Help Philip Obaji uncover Russian atrocities across Africa, organized by Yarno Ritzen

A brave journalist and an unparalleled champion of the protect… Yarno Ritzen needs your support for Help Philip Obaji uncover Russian atrocities across Africa

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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History Will Judge the Complicit

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 30/11/2023

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

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Niklas Blomqvist @blmqvst.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Tja, det är väl det högern säger, allihop? Tycker de ska vända på det, dock: "Det ska vara kostsamt att bli sjuk.", är en ärligare beskrivning.

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 23/06/2026

The US is becoming an absurdist art project.

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Cronopia @cronopia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Si es que nos complicamos la vida porque sí. Si te llama 100 veces en 10 horas, te cambias de móvil. Si te persigue hasta tu casa, te cambias de casa. Si te espera a la salida del trabajo, no vayas al trabajo. Y así con todo. Nos acosan porque nos dejamos. cordopolis.eldiario.es/cordoba-hoy/...

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Un juez absuelve de nuevo al hombre que llamó 100 veces a su exmujer y defiende que ella debió cambiar de móvil si se sintió acosada

El caso, juzgado por segunda vez, vuelve a decantarse a favor del denunciado, pese a que en la sentencia se reconoce que fue "una barbaridad" la cantidad de llamadas que hizo a su exesposa

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 12/06/2026

tying our future as a society to a company that sells rental parrots and exploding rockets, I'm sure this is fine

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Groxio @groxio.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Teams keep treating the junior problem as talent. Bruce's argument is harsher: the work moved up the stack, agents took the basics, and we kept teaching for the old job. That is a training failure, not a hiring one. grox.io/blog/31-the-trainable-things

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 07/06/2026

“FYI, your partner drugged you and raped you, here are the photos from his phone of you don’t believe us. If you want to press charges you need to find him; we’re not looking.” Sent in a letter from a judge to the victim. And they say we don’t need feminism anymore.

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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Jag, som allmänt känner enorm fosterlandskärlek - häggdoft!förskolan! ljusa sommarnätter!pappaledighet! kantareller! fungerande byråkrati! - har väldigt kluvna känslor i dag. Att Tidö valt att införa sina retroaktiva medborgarskapslagar just idag är ett direkt hån mot allt jag älskar med Sverige 💔

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David Vrensk @david.vrensk.com · 31/05/2026

He needs to be paraded naked in chains from Washington to Florida until he drops dead.

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Svenska Doomfrämjandet @doomlobbyn.se · 27/05/2026

Vi kan väl alla enas om att ingen förtjänar att utsättas för Wold på grund av sin könsidentitet, sexuella läggning eller andra egenskaper.

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Mackan Andersson @standupmackan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Fatta nån gång: Människor med funktionsnedsättning i det här landet är nu i sitsen att en av tre TIGGER MAT HOS KYRKOR O FRIVILLIGORGANISATIONER. En av tre. I Sverige. Idag. Det är den politik som förs.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

So this “deal” includes unfreezing Iranian accounts, lifting the US blockade, pulling US forces out of the Gulf, reopening the strait while allowing Iranian tolls, and allowing Iran to keep its enriched uranium? That does indeed sound like “unconditional surrender”! www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

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US, Iran inch closer to deal to end the war: What to know

The proposed US-Iran peace deal seeks to reopen the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz amid lingering disagreements.

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