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Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The apotheosis of insanity.” For the 20th anniversary of 30 Rock, I went deep on my favorite thing about it: all the fake shows, movies, and songs. With help from Tina Fey. www.theringer.com/2026/10/08/t...

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From ‘MILF Island’ to ‘The Rural Juror’: Inside the Fake World of ‘30 Rock’

Nothing explains the greatness of the NBC sitcom—which premiered 20 years ago—like its TV, movie, and song parodies. “They were a treat to write,” says Tina Fey.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/10/2026

I do my best to not develop parasocial relationships with people online, but I am powerless to stop it from happening with anyone's cat, and I don't think I need to apologize for that

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a lie, and it's a lie they've been telling since the 1950s. They push the story that technology will give the white-collar populace 4 or even 3-day work weeks, but that never materializes. 5-day work weeks with exponentially greater output expectations does.

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Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s, um…interesting that the documentation req’d by disadvantaged folks to access social safety net programs - in the interest of “accountability” to ensure no improper use - is not req’d by the very politicians who rail about the need to be responsible with taxpayer dollars.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 29/09/2026

PODCAST HOST: the blood from the crime scene was found to actually be from the murder victim PODCAST CO-HOST: wait… the murder victim… died? with blood PODCAST HOST: i know—i was thinking the same thing. but then i read in the report that they died from the blood not being in the body anymore

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026

These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...

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Rabbi Ariel Stone @rabbiariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We have built a world with flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food.”

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

something grimly amusing about the concept of “traditional” families is that the deliberate erosion of the institutional strength of the American worker has mostly destroyed this yet there’s an entire political movement adamantly pretending this isn’t the case.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the loss of privacy for adults is the actual intention; they want all our movements linked to our state ID like most moral panics “the kids!” is a bad faith smokescreen for the encroachment the fascists desire

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allegra frank @legsfrank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you know you have a bad voting pool when there is only one animated show on this entire list

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

I unironically love these lists because it gives everyone something to be incandescently furious about with zero stakes hell yeah let’s take a break from The Horrors and get mad about television rankings

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 24/09/2026

Somehow, @mads.haus convinced me to publish a Sonic essay on Stop Caring. Please read/share this beautiful essay on Sonic the Hedgehog, its ecological themes, and how Sega's current and future actions might potentially jeopardize its own environmentalist messages. www.stopcar.ing/never-give-u...

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Never Give Up The Fight

A look back at environmentalist themes in the Sonic games—and how Sega might jeopardize them.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

All of this is VERY much by design: the faux-"thinking" that the system provides in logs inherently plays to sci-fi narrative tropes in its training data The companies then point at that and say "SEE? IT'S INEVITABLY INTELLIGENT. LET US REGULATE OURSELVES" And it's 100% working. Go watch this:

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The Truth about OpenAI’s “Secret AI Civilizations”

YouTube video by Cal Newport

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

are you fucking serious newsom and bonta should be raked over the fucking coals for settling

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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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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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Taylor Lorenz is proof that Elon's ideological project at Twitter is working. Yeah, the lady who spends 18 hours a day online suddenly got more right wing after he took over, that was the point.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

you can learn a lot about America by remembering that this man lived through the coronavirus

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Tim Smith @dgtlysmitten.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tried to get this year’s Covid vaccine today and was told my insurance would not cover it because I am “young” and “healthy,” and that it would cost $300 if I still wanted it without insurance.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 18/09/2026

I think it is bad that so many people in power appear to hate the world and everyone in it

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He was actually very clear about what he was going to do. Maybe you should have leveled with your constituents about what you were supporting bsky.app/profile/phil...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fact that both Democrats and Republicans are racing to the 10 side of a 90-10 issue really tells you a lot about the state of our democracy (it's a corporatocracy), and how both parties view democracy in general (as a nuisance).

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Has any Democrat of any stature ever said "no single person deserves to go without"? Without qualifying it with "hard-working Americans" or "taxpayers" or some shit. Just a blanket true statement. No single person should suffer. Period.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm a broken record on this but "some number must of course suffer" is just widely accepted as the best any Democrat could ever offer us. In fact offering more than that is considered a liability. bsky.app/profile/luke...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's OK for things to be over. It's OK for things to end. Good stories end.

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

one thing the ai era makes me miss is really shitty bespoke photoshops you used to get just the lowest effort garbage imaginable made by people who have opened the program three times in their entire life, but it had some charm to it and now they just generate the same bullshit as everyone else

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is so rank

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don’t believe AI will kill us all. But I do believe it can make all our lives worse, which has already started to come into effect, and it’s clear that the people behind the technology don’t care at all about the human cost.

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 08/09/2026

sell the joycons separately, i want something other than black 🥲

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the Ocarina of Time remake looks good! Better than I expected! They did an excellent job of threading the needle of "modern AAA game visuals" while keeping it stylized and sticking to the spirit of the original. I'm gonna get it

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