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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

rollingstone.com

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

valuing hustle unfairly privileges Indian supremacy over indigenous White ways of knowing

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Andrew Fear 🎃 @andrewfleer.com · 06/10/2026

Iowa: We have nothing good!

Iowa is the only state with no national park, no mountains, no coastline, and no city over 250k people

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just Tom DeLonge soaking it in as all of Petco Park loudly sings along to one of his songs

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 03/10/2026

Houston's helmets for today's Space Game rivalry with UCF are remarkable. Multiple variants.

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Andrew Siciliano @andrewsiciliano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Browns 3-1 *8 straight wins on TNF *10 straight in a row at home on TNF *5 straight wins over the Steelers at home *Browns 8-1-1 at home vs Steelers last 10 years *Browns alone in 1st in the AFC North

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aaron Rodgers: "WHAT THE F*CK?! CALL IT!" Mike McCarthy: "F*cking a**hole."

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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A reminder for tonight

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Pregame Empire @pregameempire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pitt has a dude called Meat Shop

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH FOOTBALL
MEDIA CONFERENCE
September 26, 2026
Demetrice McCray
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Press Conference
Pitt 59, Bucknell O
Q. Tell us about the nickname.
DEMETRICE MCCRAY: My nickname, "Meat Shop," I really got it from when I was in high school, I would say my junior year of high school. I already had the name "Meat." So they used to call me "Meat" and "Meathead," and then my coach, he was just like, this guy is unstoppable, like he's really like a 24-7 meat shop, like he's always open.
So that's where I get "Meat Shop" from.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!!

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The baseline level of Dumb Guy Pretending To Be Even Dumber in our culture is incredibly high at the moment, but this is an all-time performance in that category. Hall of Fame work in any era.

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mmygod

the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky post

today's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Aaron Mendelson @amendelson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Was unaware of this bit of Los Angeles journalism / Cold War history www.latimes.com/california/s...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026

his basic ignorance of the subject is evident in that he equates country music with white rurality. not only does he appear unaware of the diversity of rural america, but he doesn’t seem to get that the principle audience for this stuff is suburban and exurban

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 12/09/2026

The “John Brown Jayhawk” (2003) was commissioned by the local paper from noted sculptor Jim Brothers (1941-2013). When the media company sold the building, it was auctioned and moved to a private residence.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wrote about Trump's 9/11 lies. He's been spewing this nonsense for decades. He lies out of entitlement & self aggrandizement and "believes" his own lies for the same reason. His cognitive failure is a result of moral failure, not the other way around. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-911...

everythingishorrible.net

Trump’s 9/11 Lies Are A Moral Failure, Not A Cognitive One

He is a fool because he is evil, not the other way around

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Collinsworth specifically praised Doubs as great at contested catches last night, which had me screaming at the TV (again)

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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well, now, printing something like that is conclusive. It's interpretive, requiring an absence of objectivity, rather than simply describing a cut-and-dried piece of evidence, like Zohran Mamdani's responsibility for 9/11, when he was under 10.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He puts words together in ways that words have never been put together before. An AI proof man.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since Kansas and John Brown are in the discourse, I would encourage folks to read WEB Du Bois’ biography of Brown. It’s a heater.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

FUCKING INCREDIBLE, KANSAS

The official KU athletics and football account posting a picture of John Brown for Mizzou week

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 06/09/2026

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 03/09/2026

University of Chicago football has added a Nobel Prize sticker to their helmet.

UCEICABO
UChicago Football @UChicagoFB
101 Nobel Prizes. One standard.
Honoring the minds that built the legacy we represent every Saturday.
RECERTIFIED
MEETS
NOCSAE
20
26
STANDARD®
INITIAL SEASON
2024
Maximum life
10 years with annual recertification
59
101
AND COUNTING
THE NOBEL PRIZE
Rinde

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 02/09/2026

Today marks one year since the United States began an unlawful campaign of lethal military strikes targeting vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, claiming 227 lives. US officials should be urgently held to account for these killings. Read more: bit.ly/4cnFJ2t

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"If you put them in a toga and have them eating proper food and speaking Latin, you're Roman, simple as. Start dressing and eating like a barbarian, you're a barbarian." That's essentially the Roman approach to ethnic identity. It doesn't map onto modern categories in any meaningful way.

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DVS @dvsblast.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

screenshot of business insider. some old bald guy with a white chinstrap beard and glasses, prolly a government guy. quote says "ABRAHAM LINCOLN: "I'M MAD OLD NOW". guy kinda looks like lincoln, iunno. iunno who he is. see, u dont really want me writing these sometimes. what guys do i know? jimi hendrix, gordon ramsey, thats it. johnny 5. ionno if that counts. hes LIKE a guy. at the end especially, he learned to forgive or whatever.

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 01/09/2026

Governor Mike DeWine has now expressed more sympathy for the victim than Dr. Acton or Sherrod Brown. I suppose their teams would argue they have elections to win but Brown’s silence on Springfield didn’t help him against Bitcoin Bernie Moreno.

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This shit is so funny, bar exams should legit be testing the Mr. Trump Is a Special Boy Doctrine, it is the law at least as much as, like, the first amendment. More so in many cases.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Guys there is a TikTok trend right now where high school OL are posting videos like these and I am watching and liking every single one

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A Bloody Woodstake @tenderbeefsteak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My SIL is teaching remotely at a school in southern Illinois and I was not ready to learn about the mascot

A mascot painted on the wall of a high school. It says “cornjerkers” and the mascot is an awful ear of corn with brown hair holding a football and kicking, I want to say, a soccer ball.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

to the extent you're a piece of crap who needs technocratic arguments as to why you don't torture and beat confessions out of people, in a functioning legal system that confession will not be admissible. fortunately for you if you are such a piece of crap, our legal system is rarely functioning

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026

Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic on a land line phone to astronauts on the space station is an SNL cold open

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/08/2026

This is from the plaintiff’s response to the Trump DOJ brief and it is as close as a lawyer gets to saying “Your Honor, can you believe this shit” in open court

Defendants' Response confirms that this Court's urgent intervention is imperative. The
filing is not signed by any career government lawyers including those who have appeared in this case. For good reason. The Department of Justice has offered up a cocktail of fabulous
pronouncements and stunning inaccuracies untethered to law or reality. In open defiance of the
Court's decision, Defendants take direct aim at the Court's prior conclusions of law, disputing whether Plaintiff has a "legal right to vote" at Board meetings and repeatedly advancing statutory arguments which they admit the Court "previously rejected." Defs.' Resp., ECF No. 68 at 3, 7.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For far too long, business and tourism have plagued this country.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

uhhh thanks comrade crawdad

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 25/08/2026

Piker: “The fear I always have is this: It’s far easier to teach Americans tribalism, it’s far easier to get Americans on board to opposition to Israel through an antisemitic framework than it is to teach them about anti-imperialism, anti-fascism, to have a morally consistent anti-genocide position”

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Deshaun Watson has completed only one pass over ten air yards in two games, btw.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026

This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state

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Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state

“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 20/08/2026

Our Ira Gorawara got the story of the Pitt player eating fish out of the river that Pat Narduzzi mentioned. Incredible: www.nytimes.com/athletic/752...

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 17/08/2026

Hahahah we got video.

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