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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 1h

they were the ones who decided to come out with "this is going to make poets obsolete" rather than "this is going to make coding easier." the fucking hubris is incomprehensible

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2h

That can definitely be frustrating, and especially when you feel like you're losing your center. Here are some common reasons why your falcon cannot hear you:

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 6h

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 8h

The thundering lack of awareness. My gob, it is smacked.

Engaged in a flirtatious conversation at a bar in Manhattan, 23-year-old Gary stood with a Guinness in hand as he explained to a woman why he took an engineering job at Palantir, the data analytics company cofounded by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel. Raking in a $250,000 salary would allow him to help pay off his parents’ mounting medical bills, he explained.
Gary wasn’t met with sympathy. Medical debt, the woman told him, was “not an excuse to work somewhere like that.” She was referring, of course, to Palantir’s controversial work with governments, including the US and Israel, which use the company’s surveillance tools for law enforcement and military operations.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12h

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 13h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 14h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 12h

Eugenics is for some fucking reason so tempting for ppl to believe in—something about the poisonous yet addictive combination of feeling Superior while constantly secretly terrified about being revealed to be Inferior actually.

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 14h

Study as a “contest”? First of all, that’s not how studies work. Second of all, interventions to improve health work on population groups, not necessarily individuals. If you “win” at being healthy as an Old, you probably did healthy things but also you almost certainly got very lucky.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t want to see a bunch of wanna be Brian Johnsons, vampirically sucking their own longevity off the backs of everyone else. Anyway, this person just turned 40 and is doing the study for free, she doesn't have data yet. She's doing it for six months. There I read it so you don't have to.

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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The Hearth (1/21) A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.

An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

We remember Botham Jean. It’s been 6 years to this day when he was killed while sitting on his couch eating ice cream.

A picture of Botham Jean in a suit and tie

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My day was very much like Darwin’s! This has to be one of the more relatable famous-person quotes ever.

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy October! I am not really in the mood for much beyond wallowing rn but hanging up the Halloween decorations is a lil thing I can do to make things feel stable and normal for my kids, while their sibling’s away & both of their dogs & their grandpa are dying of cancer, so: 🎃👻🕷️🕸️

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The other day, I passed a marijuana store called FWEEDOM, and 🤷‍♀️ I cant even tell if that’s funny or the stupidest fucking thing I’ve heard in ages. It might be both?

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This alllllmost feels like one of those witchcraft punishments wherein if you die of the the drowning/burning/whatever that shows that you were human all along (oops!) while if you survive, it shows you are a witch after all & another attempt must be made.

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Nils Wilcke @nilswilcke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cette stratégie de défense d'un parlementaire du RN au Monde face aux preuves apportées par Médiapart sur Bardella: "Qui n’a jamais tracé une croix gammée avec son compas sur une table au lycée ou à la faculté?" 🤪 Comment dire... www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

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« Mediapart » publie ses éléments de preuve sur les propos antisémites de Jordan Bardella, mettant à mal la défense du RN

Le site d’information a rendu publics, jeudi, les e-mails et extraits de conversations privées sur Messenger de l’eurodéputé lorsqu’il avait 17 ans, s’appuyant sur des documents authentifiés auprès de...

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 01/10/2026

Yesterday we received a "public safety survey" being circulated by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce and it's a doooozy. It's also worth taking a closer look at since it shows how the crime panic propaganda sausage is getting made...

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Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Long story short : Bardella a été en partie trahi par son autobiographie publiée chez Fayard, dont certains éléments ont permis d'authentifier le compte Facebook auteur des propos antisémites. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

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Écrits antisémites de Jordan Bardella : les preuves du mensonge

« Propos délirants », « dinguerie », « faux grossiers »… Depuis nos révélations sur ses écrits antisémites, Jordan Bardella, soutenu par Marine Le Pen et le Rassemblement national, a violemment mis e…

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No surprise that the spokesmodel of France’s far right has done some pretty horrendous hate speech. The best thing about this is imagining who threw him to the wolves though. I’m tempted to think it was Marine LePen.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New bro code: "Protect women. Respect women. Believe women." The code is accountability, human decency, human kindness, respect. It has to be.

New bro code:
"Protect women. Respect women. Believe women."

Photo of Mychal in Valkyries shirt.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

honestly the most depressing thing to me is that we have to talk about this again and again and again and again and again. how to teach men to have human feelings, how to get people to believe us

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Book of the day is Premee Mohamed’s “Wickhills.” SQUEEEEE my library hold finally came in and I cannot wait to find out exactly which variety of fucked up this book will offer. Every one of her books is so good!

The cover of Premee Mohamed’s “Wickhills”, which features a blue painting of a night cityscape, featuring particularly what looks like a bridge over a river, perhaps

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@elizmanderson.com my library hold on Keeper of Lonely Spirits just came in, & I remember you saying there was some kind of Easter egg in some part of it and I cannot find where you said that or what to look for when I reread! 🥴 mind jogging my memory? TY!

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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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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is so, so true. My whole family is spoiled for life and none of us will eat salmon outside of the northwest anymore. We try not to be snotty about it but y’all simply don’t understand.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think that ultimately the problem with uprooting fraternities from American colleges is that the individual chapter houses full of kids are, essentially, mushrooms: the fruiting bodies of a much larger mycelial network of alumni donor money and cultural control. That's what you have to attack

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/09/2026

We should absolutely protect Jane Doe and talk about what we can learn from the failures before, during, and after the harm in this case, but we gotta keep pointing out that this is but one case in an overwhelming, gigantic sea of experiences like this.

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well fuck. Little guy has cancer, too. Both dogs with different forms of cancer sucks extremely much. He’s on meds that could alleviate his symptoms or, alternatively, might not. In any case, he’s home now and so happy to be reunited with his favorite toys and beds and people.

An elderly Boston Terrier lies on a brown furry blanket on a dog bed with an absolutely massive furry stuffed soccer ball jammed in his mouth. One of his front legs has a red bandage.

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just *incredible* resentment for anyone with knowledge, experience, or expertise he’s had to defer to.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's funny because noted sex-cult leader Big Yuds' argument for the AI murdering us all is that it will be a ruthlessly "logical" machine, whereas current AI is a gaussian blur of the Collective Unconscious and if it nukes us all its because we wrote a lot of fiction where AI tries to kill humans.

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Horribly relatable. 🥴 I was *just* washing out the jar that was holding habanero vinegar & dumped the last shreds of habanero in the very hot sink water, which aerated it right into my windpipe and I had to leave the whole sink area from coughing

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have often been told  that my fears  are all in my head,  but then I go  and look at the studies  and look at the reports  and I usually conclude  that my fears  are not in my head  rather they are in  the studies and reports.

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Sébastien Fontenelle @vivelefeu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bardella: «Les banques sont toutes détenus par des Juifs.» Bardella: «Le juif doit dominé les autres peuples, les ecraser et les voler, un sioniste est forcément juif, et en profondeur.» Macron: «Pouvez-vous clarifier ces propos?»

Emmanuel Macron juge les propos antisémites imputés à Jordan Bardella « gravissimes et inacceptables » et appelle le RN à les « clarifier »

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NicoValmont [France Tapette] @nicovalmont.fr · 30/09/2026

Chéri part au travail ce matin. Passe devant un lycée avec des gens devant, il ne se passe RIEN. La police a chargé. Il a du s'enfuir pour se réfugier dans sa médiathèque et s'est prit du lacrymo dans la tronche. "QUI VA VOUS PROTÉGER ?" Bah pas la police française. A👏C👏A👏B

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem with AI art is that it's human only in the sense that Soylent Green is people.

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