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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Turns out a great way to best work related burnout/anxiety is to not work and walk around a park on an autumn morning with no plans

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

First overseas holiday in 2 years put in jeopardy because of a broken down freight train. Public transport doing me dirty in a big spot

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026

Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vele showing out again

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If the saints get a stop on the next drive, the Superdome will start to go off

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

DPI on an overthrow? Imagine

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eh I think it’s a pretty accurate mirror for how much of society thinks about violence and SA against women

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Carmen Vitali @carmiev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Had to explain to my mom today why I didn’t want to watch Deshaun Watson. Having to have that conversation because a person like that is somehow still playing in the NFL is exhausting and I really, really wish it wasn’t necessary.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unfortunate picture of Joe Alt used for the most penalties stat

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gibbs is something else

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bengals WR love to catch TDs falling down

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Brutal penalty there by Moss

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Metcalf has seemingly fallen off a cliff

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Seems like a bad move to leave Brown one on one with either of the Texans ends at this point

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How the hell did Chase catch that and keep his feet in!?

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Labor: Let’s tell Australians that we’re cracking down on intl students, but tell intl students that Australia is wonderful and welcoming. And the whole university funding model will be based on their fees. Yes that’ll work.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The anthropic whistleblower is like "no other activity has the potential to create human extinction." Well, speaking as someone who works for a climate think tank, I can think of one

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rodgers is looking OLD

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Marcas Grant @marcasg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Zay Flowers 👀

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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Superb Fairy-wren in our Persoonia. #birds

Photo of a small passerine bird perched in a persoonia tree surrounded by very narrow leaves and small green fruit. The bird is light grey on its belly and black and sky blue on its head. It is looking the the top left of frame as though something in the sky caught its attention, and the sun is highlighting its eye.

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A day off work and the 10am screening of the Odyssey will save me

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

personally, I questions her racist and bigoted views and policies

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

what i'd like to contribute to the ongoing masculinity discourse is that the truest sign of a fella's manfulness isn't his strength or his height or his successes with women. it's not about his job or how he dresses. it's about whether he has a cell-level desire to dig a big hole at the beach

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the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I keep thinking about this Alex Ross painting of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that is, for some reason, also the cast of 30 Rock

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

may have hit on how much a like porridge too hard on hinge today. ended with recommending the Golden Spurtle doco

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charles (west coaster) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

lisa salters is a pro’s pro

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/05/2026

> be apple > give up on in-house AI ambitions immediately > win

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Oh no, my kettle died. I guess I'll spend the afternoon looking into which kettle is best instead of tidying my home 🤷

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

remember that dumb time in the aughts when richard dawkins was like, The Smart Guy

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

exchange on X

Christoffer Bjelke @chribjel
We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks

Sameer goel @sameer_goel
Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again.
Full circle innovation.

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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 15/04/2026

why oh why is it necessary to explain what’s bad about pushing to *replace* income tax with wealth tax, instead of y’know, expanding the tax base so everyone feels invested in society. “tax wealth NOT work” is a perversion of progressive taxation + frames tax as a penalty rather than a contribution.

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

asked the boss to read over a technical response to a client, came back with "minor" edits. he had run my email through chapgpt. feeling fine about being late with my timesheets now

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

While you're dealing with sky high fuel prices, I'm dealing with new ev owners who don't know the basic public charging etiquette eg being plugged in while fully charged for longer than 5 mins

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Sam W @ddx98.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

While I am good at doing most activities alone, there is something about fine dining alone that I am still working through to be fully comfortable

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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A war by any other name. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert in which a journalist asks Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, " Have you just committed us to a war?" And the PM responds, " No, I've committed us to a (preemptive retaliatory de-escalation action to protect and defend Australians and other citizens in response to a request by our new strategic partner by sending defensive missiles & surveillance equipment to protect the airspace and assist the region with its collective self-defence against reprisal attacks that come as a result of the ongoing operation launched as an anticipatory response to perceived threats by historical allies acting against the established international rule of law who are too powerful for us to in any meaningful way challenge.) There's a very big difference." The words in brackets are arranged in such a way that they completely fill the word WAR written in a huge, hulking, bold khaki font.

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I can’t even begin to express the level of contempt I feel for the Labor Party and its sniveling, smarmy bullshit in doing this. How fucking disingenuous: grant asylum to a few members of the women’s football team why supporting the bombing of a girl’s school. We live in the times of the most craven

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Presented without context, because that’s a journey you deserve to take for yourself.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Seeing a lot of cynicism on the timeline. What if this is one of the good wars?

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Food ways could be different

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

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Jim Malo @maloism.com · 10/02/2026

Why have I never seen a video of a cop beating the shit out of a nazi?

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