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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for
Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 12/09/2026
excuse me @alixeharrow.bsky.social made me read this short story and now I am having FEELINGS (she also wrote about it! buttondown.com/alixeharrow/...)
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26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss - Kij Johnson
Winner of the 2009 World Fantasy AwardWinner of the 2008 Asimov’s magazine Readers Award for best short storyFinalist, 2008 Nebula AwardFinalist, 2008 Hugo AwardScience Fiction World has accepted Guo ...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/09/2026
“these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods & ideas, & citing relevant previous work of others. … We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose.”
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 11/09/2026
The technology should not be released with a guaranteed non-consensual recording system however Apple says they are processing the audio.
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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
- ideally there's a sense of momentum and expansiveness *in the writing itself*, a speed and flare with which images & concepts are developed — I like a sense that the book is *going* places, perhaps vs. a sense that it's going to stay *here* deeply
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yeah I think the sheriff 100% straight shooter, full legit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/08/2026
Ominous photo of Francis Fukuyama with speech bubble attached to the quoted post below.
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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Tim Curry, who had the range to star in the two greatest movies about a mutiny in the middle of a transatlantic sea voyage, and also the crew occasionally breaks into song
Tim Curry as Dr. Petrov in The Hunt for Red OctoberTim Curry as Long John silver in Muppet Treasure Island, and also Sweetums
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Tim Curry: www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/t...
tmz.com
Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80
Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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Justin Williams @jww.wtf · 26/08/2026
Dolly covered Stairway to Heaven and it rocks.
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I think this is how Gods are born
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W1tch D0kt0r @w1tchd0kt0r.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I checked this out, it's legitimate.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/08/2026
Ah, god, not Dolly Parton. We’re going to need another pillar to hold up the universe.
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We'll never see another Dolly Parton: unanimously beloved by teens & geriatrics, country obsessives & twang atheists, rural evangelists & bohemian cynics. Blessed w/ the emotional depth, charm & songwriting gift to induce tears, laughs & joy. The last American we could agree on.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton. Lotta folks gonna be crushed
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Apple’s play in the last 3 years to just keep making decent tech and not lose their minds has been a solid strategy for them, for all the flak they’ve taken for being “behind” on LLMs.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 17/08/2026
It's really weird to deny this all occurred and degraded the information space in a lil-baby munchkin act. Like, we were there and saw it happen, lol? Jump back to the ~2012 Wikipedia article of a contentious topic and you often find a much better and complete one.
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 14/08/2026
"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
carlsonlab.bio
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper
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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 06/08/2026
Holy shit this blog is amazing.
productionalchemist.com
I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow
AI is optimising the cheapest part of production
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/07/2026
Any editor worth working with, this is a NEGOTIATION. "I really think it's important that the bears are purple, here's why." Or even "I don't want brown bears that's too normal." Whatever. "No actually I like my first sentence the way I have it. I can see your argument and thought about it but no."
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laperry2.bsky.social @laperry2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...
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Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose
One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 17/07/2026
Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/07/2026
This is a really useful post about what you need to know about Cyclospora. I learned things. You will too
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
Explosive foodborne outbreak
It's a real shit show out there: What we know, don't know, and what it means for you.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11/07/2026
Gurren Lagann is correct about its central conceit that the entirety of the power of the human spirit is ignited at the intersection of hope, belief, faith & trust. And that despair not only limits imagination but is also a spiritual death that leaves us helpless when facing humanity’s adversaries.
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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 08/07/2026
This is honestly only surprising in the sense that he's not a booster for AI as the Holy Grail App That Does Everything. At some point there's going to be a fascinating psychological monograph about how so many PUA coaches turn into Business Seminar Bros. www.wired.com/story/pickup...
wired.com
Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend
A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 06/07/2026
If I tried to do that now, I’d die.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.
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I worked at Smithsonian, specifically raising money for 250th. What I want people to know is we secured millions of private philanthropy to host a month long Folklife Festival on the mall, "The Festival of Festivals". Was going to feature well known festivals, think Burning Man, Farm Aid, Grand Ole Oprey etc. as well as smaller local and regional festivals from across the U.S. and territories. Goal was to feature truly the best and most beautiful creative expression in music, dance, arts and craft traditions, food, community etc. Can't name names but plan was to have headliners every night for free concerts.... Think the types of names who might be affiliated with the aforementioned large festivals. Stars were willing to perform because was under banner of Smithsonian. It had to all be scrapped bc the administration would not release permits to host on the mall. The money went elsewhere, but our nation was robbed of what would have been a once in a generation cultural moment.
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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
fixed your headline
A hit song on the Billboard 100 charts is termed *$k$-good* if it is _ever_ in a weekly top-$k$, and *$k$-immediate* if it _debuts_ in the top-$k$.


An artist is *$(n,k)$-Olivian* if their $n$ first $k$-good hits are all also $k$-immediate.

*Headline 1.* Olivia Rodrigo is the first $(10,10)$-Olivian woman.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 19/06/2026
A+ Reddit post
A photo of Zelensky, back when he was an actor, as Napoleon. The caption says "Volodymyr Zelensky playing Napoleon Bonaparte, 15 years before actually burning Moscow."
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
EXLCUSIVE: An analysis by two MIT researchers shows how Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile actually works. And guys, it's not pretty. 🚀☢️🤢🧵 www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...
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Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous
MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."
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Jacob Haller @jwgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I wrote a blog post about ‘welcome datacomp’ in 2004! jwgh.dreamwidth.org/tag/welcome+...
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Lanika @lanika.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
@danhon.com cited @xkcd.com on this amazing post on Mastodon but Bluesky's search can't find it here so I'm posting the print I received from... Threads. Via @rafarigues.bsky.social
Dan Hon: Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions.
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KetrinaDrawsALot @ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Whose Larva Is This?" A quick guide to figure out what you're looking at when you find something that resembles a worm or a Zerg unit crawling around. #insect #bug #education #SciArt
A flow chart to help identify insect larvae
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SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the children’s book world, is saddened by the news that author, mentor and friend, Jane Yolen, has died. She was 87 and her loss cannot be measured. Please find the full obituary here: www.scbwi.org/remembering-...
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“As the annual Pride parade weaved its way through Durham… the rainbow flags were almost matched in number by trade union banners, as miners, postal workers, and train drivers swelled the parade’s ranks in solidarity, making it the biggest in Durham Pride’s history.” Solidarity is our strength. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners
Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 05/06/2026
god damn, i was just reminiscing with friends about Once More with Feeling a couple hours ago. sad news. a great actor and wonderful TV presence.
bbc.co.uk
Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 04/06/2026
Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
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Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
The French-Iranian 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
thehandbasket.co
Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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