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Marcus

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h
Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think about this more often than I'd like to.
A side-by-side of two head shots: at left, Gavin Newsom smiles, baring top and teeth in a strange expression; at right, Elizabeth Holmes smiles in an oddly similar way.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
r/bald in fucking shambles
James gandolfini with a shaved head and normal receding hairline and it is NOT close which one looks better
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/10/2026
Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.
aljazeera.com
What is ‘Herod's Pool', and why is Israel developing it in the West Bank?
Israel is developing a reservoir on land in the occupied West Bank, with water syphoned off from Palestinians.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 05/10/2026
A high profile impeachment, whether it ends in removal or not, brings massive attention to the crimes of a bad president, and anything that can whittle away at his support should be done.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a girl, using obscure Victorian terminology and not understanding what isn’t working, where are you going baby, why are you flagging down a mutton shunter
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
why pay for school photos when, for the low, low price of feeding your own child's sensitive personal information to a machine that churns out child sexual exploitation imagery, you could get a bunch of photos of a creepy waxwork simulacrum of your child instead?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
friend of mine is visiting rome and shared with us that they’re selling sexy priest calendars there now. i guess this is the kind of stuff that happens when you make the pope an american.
Picture of some souvenirs for sale , including three calendars with handsome priests
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Gale Na @poisonjr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If I stay on X the everything app for too long it makes me feel like the world is just miles of people dragging IV lines behind them and asking me if they're pretty in every direction
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
cbc.ca
Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the last shipment of arms (including bombs) to Israel Biden authorized was on January 5th 2025 and I still have people insisting the left didn't give him enough credit
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Full details in the article below
gizmodo.com
Trump Asked Grok About Potential Blowback Before Kidnapping Venezuela's President: Report
It's horrifying to imagine Trump asking AI for advice.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I tend to joke that a lot of bad decisions made both by the U.S. government and corporate America seem like leaders getting bad ideas from Claude. I was wrong. It’s bad ideas from Grok.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
James Talarico walks out to a standing ovation from 50,000 Texans at the State Fair Classic.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Infinite personalized music” was already solved, it’s called learning to play an instrument
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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The big lesson from the Biden era is that you can't be worried about what people will claim is politicized/weaponized/etc. They will claim that no matter what. None of that should stop you from targeting all of the corruption, and all of the enemies of American democracy.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday, Trump’s America dot gov site answered factual questions like “who won the 2020 election” accurately. Today, it no longer does.
Daniel Dale 
@ddale8
X.com
Yesterday, asked about its chatbot's many debunkings of Trump, the White House said it "will continue to be updated to provide more features, resources, and the most accurate information from the federal government."
Today...lots of accurate answers have been simply forbidden, with the chatbot framing information like who won the 2020 election as forbidden "political commentary." x.com/ddale8/status/...

Daniel Dale * @ddale8 • 20m
Yesterday: Trump administration chatbot says it's not true that Trump inherited the worst inflation in history.
Today: Says it can't answer such questions...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Etta James rehearsal ft. Keith Richards, Robert Cray 🎶'Hoochie Coochie Gal' #blues #bluesmusic
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t own individual stocks, and I won’t own them as governor. The only thing I am invested in is lowering costs for Ohioans. Vivek Ramaswamy has over $5 million invested in the data center industry and millions more in many other industries that Ohio’s governor would be in charge of regulating.
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S.J.💙🩵💙🦋🦓 @glimmers2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A study in valor. Imagine testifying against the most powerful criminal on the planet?
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pretty fucked up how refreshing and healing it is to hear someone important say out loud that Trump is a criminal and should be prosecuted. Completely gaslit nation. So bad for our brains.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My wife and I may look like couch potatoes, but we move like a NASCAR pit crew whenever “SKIP INTRO” appears on the screen.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Someone on IG found video of Smith in the stands at the Maryland game. This guy is cooked.
Igor Bobic ( @igorbobic
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Eric Schmitt not backing down after that Jack Smith exchange:

"I asked him if he was in Atlanta. He said he was not in Atlanta. Jack Smith has lied before. He tried to jail the president of the United States. I have no sympathy for Jack Smith. He's a total dirtbag"
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For decades we have been saying: maybe Democrats should run ads that simply quote Republicans saying horrible things about their own constituents. But Democratic consultants convinced Democrats that that would be too effective. So, this is validating to watch. Also, always hated false civility.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026
"Gatsby put on his swim trunks and headed to the above-ground pool he had purchased on sale at Menards. He stopped in the garage for the inflatable sprinkle donut tube he had used all summer long to drag his party guests around the lake with his pontoon." buff.ly/5Pt4hve
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The Great Lakes Gatsby
“In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing someone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that not ev...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
“Guard” US election systems? This is not good.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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