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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings?

4 panel comic: Panel 1: pink blob guy on a table, pencil in their hands. Grey circle on a piece of paper and a glass of water on the table. They say “look here” Panel 2: Proudly, they hold up the drawing of a grey blobby character on two stick legs up in the air. The pink blob says “I drew this!” Panel 3: Satisfied they sit back down on the table. They now go “it’s not much, but..” The grey drawing looks a bit peeved because the drawer is calling it “not much” Panel 4: But it’s okay, because now the pink blob is very pleased finally. He says “it came from my brain!” Holding the pencil up. The grey drawing blob is happy again, too. End well, all well!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Software developers think "if AI automates coding, I will be able to spend less time on producing widgets, and more time on strategy and architecture." Bosses think "if AI automates coding, I can get my devs to produce 100x more widgets."

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John Paul Davis @johnpauldavis.org · 16/09/2026

New episode of my podcast #theuncomputable : Job Application Question: Describe How You Use AI In Your Day-To-Day Workflow johnpauldavis.org/podcast/job-appli… #podcast #poetry

The Uncomputable: Poems by John Paul Davis

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 22/09/2025

dudes rock

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Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Jennifer Grand @jennifergrand.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Its just like the death of popular retail stores like Toys R Us. Initially everyone blamed online shopping but it was really private equity pirates. Everyone hates these guys as much as they hate data centers. Maybe Democrats could run on stopping them before they plunder every inch of society???

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/09/2026

a) wikipedia creates, rather than destroys, context b) wikipedia is the result of people expressing *care* about both subjects in particular and having well ordered information in general slop is the opposite of care. it is indifference

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 10/09/2026

Little girl in Leigh-on-Sea pointing to a puddle and then at the sea: Little sea, big sea. Her mum: Yes, the little sea is a puddle. Can you say 'puddle'? Little girl (determinedly shaking her head): Little sea.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Historians, help me out: Do we have precedent for what to do when the media interviews members of cults and just platforms them, with zero acknowledgment that they are living inside their own delusions? www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

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The Hugging Face hack shows what happens when AI agents work together

Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, says the attack presents a narrow window for humans to act.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

a lot of work goes into being one of the only large brunet men in Gotham who could theoretically afford a Batmobile and not being immediately obvious as Batman, and that work is done at parties

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is about tech/AI but honestly applies to so many fields of expertise that I wanna walk into the woods and never return

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It really sucks, doesn't it? Instead of getting excited as I used to when I get a new message, I'm just like ugh, another changeling wearing an uncanny approximation of a human face trying to trick its way into my cottage

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 02/09/2026

so if you want to redistribute the wealth of billionaires, it's (mostly) not a pile of stuff to grab and hand out because if you also believe workers should have power in their workplace, then the value of controlling those workers is not a thing you can seize and redistribute

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Eileen Whitener @eileenwhitener.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Realization: Dessert forks are lowercase forks. 🍽️

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So, coming back to the sign, there are two mini-conversations here, with two diffferent authors, and with two overlapping intended audiences: >>

Photo of a sign with a doorbell attached. The printed sign reads:

CURRENT GUGGENHEIM ACCES BY HUSKY CARD ONLY
[Logos for Amazon, FedEx, UPS]
DELIVERIES/VISITORS
PLEASE RING THIS DOORBELL

Delivery hours M-F 9:00am-(obscured)
University of Washington

Taped next to the doorbell is a hand written note that reads:
yes! it rang! Pelase wait 30 seconds before pressing again.
thanks!

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 05/02/2026

You're absolutely right – this actually *isn't* a place of honor. * I thought esteemed deeds were commemorated here, but that was wrong. * The message wasn't about treasure, it was about danger. That's on me. * I won't sugarcoat it – the danger is still present, and now it's in your body.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 02/08/2026

"why can't we find any senior devs to hire" because you fired all the entry level people 5 years ago gerald

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Tanya. @tanyaduncan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This. Thread, also women’s Suspicion of Flattery serves as emotional labor- “what do they really want?”. At both home and work, it’s a sign you’re about to be tasked with more.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 01/08/2026

context window is a misnomer

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 31/07/2026

My car went rogue after I turned on cruise control and jumped out

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

While I understand old books get destroyed all the time, I also think it's fine to get mad at the AI guys for doing it. You can get mad at the AI guys for any reason. It's allowed

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm weirdly happy People decided to publish this article. this lady got very close to the peak and decided to turn back because she wasn't totally confident in her technical ability. That's praiseworthy wisdom, and a good example for others. share.google/d8Xi4aZ8aKkW...

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Hiker Forced to Make Impossible Decision Just 405 Feet from Grand Teton’s Summit. Now She’s Issuing a Warning to Fellow Climbers (Exclusive)

After stopping just 405 feet below Grand Teton’s summit, a 25-year-old climber whose emotional TikTok struck a chord with millions tells PEOPLE why she chose safety over the summit and why she’d make ...

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André Staltz @staltz.com · 28/07/2026

Me as a developer/designer: let's do a redesign. We'll inform the user with a tutorial, it'll be fine. Me as a user on an app I just opened: BLERGH NOOOO WHY DID YOU REDESIGN EVERYTHING. SKIP TUTORIAL SKIP SKIP SKIP

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 28/07/2026

People keep using the "can't put a genie back in the bottle" metaphor for "AI", even though in the stories they always get back in and current "AI" is more of a "we're spending trillions of dollars and the energy output of a continent trying to keep this bastard out of the bottle" situation

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 26/07/2026

Love this new metaphor for AI. It’s basically a katamari. 😅 (Read the full thread)

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Katamari Damacy: Rolling Up the City

Alt: Katamari Damacy: Rolling Up the City

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It reminds me of the height of the pandemic, when the constant hyper-vigilance started to wear me down. I was so tired of thinking about everything I touched as a vector for serious illness. With AI images, I've become so used to scrutinising everything, and I hadn't realised how exhausting it is.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The more I age the more I think it's really important for people to try, and KEEP trying: 1. One thing they are very good at. 2. One thing they are average at. 3. One thing they are ACTIVELY BAD AT. I really do think never sticking with a thing you suck at makes your empathy atrophy.

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Evangeline Warren @evangelinewarren.com · 23/07/2026

Thinking about a paper idea I tossed around with my office mate in grad school about fatphobia as a fundamental cause of disease. If it constrains access to resources (jobs, partnerships, medical procedures or research) it may fit the bill.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20/07/2026

my view is that we have reached the historical moment in our relationship with technology where this maxim ceases to be inspirational and increasingly reads as a dire warning

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's striking to me that in addition to continuing to ship right up until the day before yesterday, they shipped this lettuce to Iowa and Wisconsin but not Minnesota, the state with the notoriously good team for sourcing these outbreaks.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/07/2026

This is the food supply chain equivalent of “[software] is insecure because they put out a lot of CVEs” It’s GOOD that they patch and disclose a lot of vulnerabilities, actually. Who you really need to worry about are the ones who don’t think they have any

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

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Another stolen summer day

What are we still waiting to learn?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/07/2026

This is exactly it -- if you make a kid use generative "A.i." or an LLM, you're telling them they're not good enough. That their own minds and ideas and experiences and abilities are not enough. That's a terrible, thoughtless, cruel thing to do. Shame on Kaepernick and everyone involved in Lumi.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/07/2026

I think I like Elizabeth because she complains loudly and loves deeply in the same breath. Most of her crueler thoughts are internal dialogue—she *feels* in messy ways, but she’s not always expressive of it (except to Darcy lol), not the way Lydia is. She is AN elder sister, after all.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/06/2026

*someone rude joins the chat* Elizabeth: WELL, I have to go suddenly because uh the sun is at a weird angle that makes our shadows a size that displeases me, so see you later, nice chatting, good-bye. I love her.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/07/2026

In Washington state, a proposed bill threatens to force all girls, but not boys, to undergo invasive, medically unnecessary genital inspections or hormone tests to play sports with their friends. Policies that seek to exclude transgender youth end up putting all youth at risk.

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Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters

Megan Rapinoe pens an op-ed for Marie Claire about anti-trans legislation in sports.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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