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The Feathered Raconteur @enigmaticskald.bsky.social · 3h

Bought at a discount. Hope it's worth it! I guess I should play the Generations part first.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 5h

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 15h

For the love of Kirby please do not listen to anyone who says you should be doing two finished pages of comic book art a day. It is a recipe for burnout, misery, and eventually, the destruction of your career. Industry standard is one a day, five a week. Period. Got it?

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Cat and kitten door knocker, Clun, England

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 18h

One thing that I keep thinking about with policing overall, and this is a particularly egregious version of it, is that cops generally don’t have any sense of risk modulation. Either they act like there’s no risk or that there’s extreme risk and that assessment can change in a split second.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 5h

(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 10h

Knowing what’s wrong is the first step to breeding back better veggies.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10h

Surveillance pricing is a dowbrught evil form of predation, but it’s a choice that governments can stop. This is an easily bannable practice. And it can be legislated out of existence.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 7h

You don't hear about those, because they don't go mad during the transformation - which occurs because of the caloric deficit caused by adding on all of that body mass. When you get smaller, you wind up with energy surplus - so you can quietly just do dog stuff until the full moon passes.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026

If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.

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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's so much good stuff we need to build: Housing, Schools, Vehicles and Transit Infrastructure. But data centers are sucking up all the available capital investment and crowding out everything else. It's time to reevaluate our national priorities.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

I see a lot of this as men trying to outsource to technology the kind of lovingly nagging labor (think: "drink more water, honey" "don't forget to take your pills, honey" "I scheduled you a doctor's appointment, honey") that has traditionally fallen to wives.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 16h

"...Little public things—like designing postage stamps or National Park Service photographer stipends or spending the pittance of pre-DOGE NEA dollars on public programming—did something to cohere a nation. Everyday aesthetics made place."

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i'm interested how the tech hype spiral progresses from feasible but too-soon promises, to unfeasible sci-fi nonsense, to 'you know what, fuck it, we're gonna cause a doomsday event and kill everyone' like that last step seems counterproductive, but maybe it's the only way to keep turning the dial

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah I’m not quite sure he thinks we’re all going to be doing with our air-gapped computers. Filling out our 1040 forms and diligently filing our taxes on time through snail mail?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Railroad tycoon James J. Hill with a speech bubble below him to suggest he's saying the quote-tweet below

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.

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J0SIE Mostly @j0siemostly.bsky.social · 17h

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Fio Fiorello @fiofiorello.bsky.social · 11h

all the people on American TV went to the same island, so we get it

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 14h

He needs more infusions of young blood it’s clearly not working

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20h

Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16h

Modi has lost it. "The govt has responded by massively increasing the security presence in the capital. Around thirty thousand police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed, internet services have been disrupted, trains to Delhi have been cancelled, metro stations and roads have been closed."

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Aaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 17h

Your daily reminder that paying actual artists and writers and programmers isn't just the morally correct choice, it's also often cheaper.

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 11h

What Cage has done for literally the past decade is exactly this, he finds a weird eccentric script by a first time filmmaker, signs on, his name brings in clout, he makes the film, and sometimes it's not very good. But it's still artistic as hell. This is why I *love* Cage.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 13h

This is what happens when you eliminate your Women’s and Gender Studies program.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16h

Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 10h

"Hurt people hurt people" is an explanation for harm, not an excuse for harm as we often use it as. Even if you are the victim of abuse, that does not excuse you doing abuse in return. Shit like that is what ideologies like Zionism are built on. We only break abuse cycles through accountability.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 14h

alt right/incel pipeline is so dialed in i'm starting to feel extremely grateful whenever i meet an adult man and he's just normal

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 14h

Fascists can’t stand being ridiculed. The same is also true of antivax leaders like Andrew Wakefield, because it punctures their pretensions of being real scientists.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 13h

(Also, fascists tend to spend huge amounts of time obsessing over their public image so poking them with the slightest bit of goofiness, eg couch fornication, will often cause them to crash out and spend weeks trying to fix _that_ instead of doing new evils. Which is also fun to watch.)

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 14h

The fascists being made fun of will not change their behavior, but to communities, knowing there are other people out there who hate Thiel or Musk or Trump's guts is _hugely_ important. It gives them permission to show their own contempt, and it swells from there.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 14h

So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 11h

My support for bluesky/atproto is pretty much explicitly a "political" project. It is bad for a small number of (mostly right-wing) people to literally own all the sources of media. Open-source algorithms + the ability to move your account without negative network effects opposes this.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 14h

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 11h

Under a corrupt or authoritarian leader, wealth concentration incentivises the crazy-rich, with widespread business interests, to make loss-making media acquisition. By currying political favor, they gain rents - whether with enthusiasm (Musk) or more reluctance (Bezos). Here's the economic model.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16h

Well at least the crimes are becoming sufficiently cyberpunk

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

There are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Meta’s A.I. leaders also incorporated OpenClaw into their own lives. Mr. Friedman hooked his agent up to cameras in his house, where it would instruct him to do things like drink water to stay hydrated.
“It sent me a snapshot frame of me drinking a bottle of water and said, ‘Good job,’” Mr. Friedman said at a recent tech conference.
In another instance, while talking to his agent about ways to get better sleep, OpenClaw took over Mr. Friedman’s self-driving Tesla and redirected him to a grocery store to pick up magnesium pills. At Meta’s annual developer conference last month, Mr. Zuckerberg said he had connected his agent to cameras in his martial arts gym so that it could critique his fighting form.
Yet there were safety concerns. Agents could sometimes go rogue or take over software apps. In February, one agent took over the work computer of a Meta safety researcher, deleting her emails uncontrollably.
“I couldn’t stop it from my phone,” Summer Yue, the researcher, wrote on social media. “I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.”

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 20h

NYPD keeps insisting it’s not working with ICE in the narrowest scope of not literally participating in kidnappings but then goes silent when people present evidence of ICE using their precincts/parking lots, of NYPD doing crowd control. Big difference in technical and de facto assistance.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 13h

the witch emoji 🧙‍♀️ is undignified. it should be a silhouette on a broom in front of a full moon. 🧙‍♀️ could be anybody at the co-op

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 11h

I know two words in French and they're both here

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 13h

the news: there was a flood and people’s homes are damaged. normal ppl in replies: no mercy. no pity. you reap what you sow. 30 years ago you bought a house near the ocean. now Christ’s vengeance is raining down upon you. you deserve to lose everything. I will be laughing from the safety of Kansas.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve thought since first seeing it that this logo would make great t-shirts for those of us recovering from alcoholism.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 18h

In my Gender and Jim Crow class, we have a whole session on lynching images. I don’t show the victims, I show the crowds. We zero in on the faces in the crowds, their expressions, the children, the mothers, the picnics, the jubilation…all of it.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 13h

A council has been called to determine the fate of humanity this fall

A pic one of my neighbors got on their wildlife cam of so many turkeys and also some deer

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 10h

Almost every hobby or passtime I've had my entire life - comic books, action figures, trading cards, personal computers, even *the movies* - has been consumed by a bunch of gambling addicts desperate for some new speculative market and we should make gambling illegal because it's their fucking turn

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 10h

ahab is shaking crying throwing up

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder how many of the guys in "Fight Club" went to one meeting of the fight club and were like "Eh, not for me" and joined a cooking class or something

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16h

That goose said “fuck what you thought!”

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