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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Tim Robinson: I'll Punch You!
ALT: Tim Robinson: I'll Punch You!
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@espn.com I don’t need a miller light recap. I ALREADY KNOW I LOST IN ALL MY LEAGUES.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I kinda get why people hate on fussy philosophical stuff, but on the other hand don't you think we live in a time where it'd be especially helpful to have rigorous conversations about things like personhood, meaning in life, the point of art, the point of pure mathematics, & operationalizing ethics?
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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Sara Goudarzi @saragoud.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone with insider information can place bets on prediction markets, creating an operational security nightmare by giving allies and adversaries advance warning, write David Szakonyi, Michelle Kendler-Kretsch, Michael Hornsby of the @acdatacollective.bsky.social
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Insiders are betting on war: How prediction markets are becoming a national security threat
Prediction markets allow those with insider information bet on national security issues, giving adversaries a potential heads-up.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fukuyama said it before me, Hoffer said it before Fukuyama, and Nietzsche said before all of us
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Within two years, Australia has managed to drastically reduce its use of fossil fuels because #batteries supply the electricity at peak times. We need much more #energystorage for the energy transition! #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 28/08/2026
Devastating before-and-after satellite photos show Nepal flood destruction
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Devastating before-and-after satellite photos show Nepal flood destruction
Satellite images provide new insight into the catastrophic flooding that took place in Nepal. The images show several locations before and after the flood.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/08/2026
your Tesla supports mass child death
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/08/2026
Elon Musk should never be able to show his face in public again without getting asked about this.
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 06/08/2026
"How many people were killed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?," a video by Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social, based on an article by Alex Wellerstein.
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Video: How many people were killed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
It may not be possible to ever fully account for the devastation of the only use of nuclear weapons in history.
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atomicbell @atomicbell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thrilled to finally share the great news that Sharon Weinberger is joining the @thebulletin.org as our next Editor-in-Chief! thebulletin.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Bulletin welcomes Sharon Weinberger as editor-in-chief
The Bulletin’s new editor-in-chief, Sharon Weinberger, has dedicated her career to covering the intersection of science, technology, and national security and will guide the Bulletin’s editorial effor...
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Puffins in flight. Goodnight Blue Sky
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
They say: “American History is Worth Learning” [Posts picture from British history].
Facebook post from the US Department of Education with an image of British suffagettes that ironically says “American history is worth learning.”
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I think it’s an underrated or at least under-discussed problem that, like, everything gets counterfeited now. The economics and logistics of counterfeiting have improved so much in the last two decades such that it is now trivially easy to accidentally get a fake version of almost anything
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
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Jacson A. Bevens - XLVIII, LX @jacsonbevens.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
*sigh*
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
not now, mysterious entity that lives inside fog
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.
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Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Nothing defines our modern moment better than the “Bullshit Asymmetry Principle”
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A clarinetist, a high school student, and four climate deniers write a science paper, with a little help from AI…
Papers like this are like kindling for anyone 'just asking questions' about climate change, or 'doing their own research,' stoking the flames of climate denial.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I'm sorry but when I post about the importance of making a rapid transition to electric vehicles and you comment that the real issue is eliminating cars completely, you're not helping.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/03/2026
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
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Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ugh the Paramount+ app is easily the worst of all the streaming platforms
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Congrats to Benjamin Netanyahu, the worst prime minister in Israeli history by a wide margin
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
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Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What an absolutely insane story
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 04/02/2026
Happy last day of nuclear arms control to those who celebrate
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mattyfield.bsky.social @mattyfield.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Watch Nobel Peace Prize winner and journalist Maria Ressa talk about technology and disinformation at the Doomsday Clock announcement. "The operating system has been corrupted." @thebulletin.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulvU...
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2026 Doomsday Clock Announcement
YouTube video by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"When governments become unaccountable to their own citizens, conflict and misery follow." —Daniel Holz, Chair, Science and Security Board @thebulletin.org The Doomsday Clock is now at 85 seconds to midnight.
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François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🚨 It is now 85 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT on the #DoomsdayClock, the closest it has ever been to midnight. Learn why here: thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
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Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Hell yeah love this
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mattyfield.bsky.social @mattyfield.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The @thebulletin.org asked three experts to peer into the future and say what they think the public health picture will look like in 10 years. Here's the tape: @erik-english.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QrU...
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Will the world ever be healthy again?
YouTube video by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The latest issue of the @thebulletin.org digital magazine is a collection of winners from the Write Before Midnight fiction contest. The winners were selected by Kim Stanley Robinson, who declared a “seven-story tie” for first place. Highly recommended reading!
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January 2026 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/01/2026
new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...
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Everything is Gender
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Looks like another great time to revisit this interview with Daniel Immerwahr, the author of How to Hide an Empire. thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
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Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take
How seriously should the world take the Trump administration's threats to annex the lands of other countries "one way or another?" The author of "How to Hide an Empire" says that while a land grab may...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s been a real tough day for CBS News overall, but I’ll still give them credit for this sequence of paragraphs. www.cbsnews.com/news/bear-un...
Johnson told CBS News he can hear the bear underneath his house, clawing and scratching. He said he's worried one day the bear might possibly burst up through his living room floor.Johnson has alerted the California
Department of Fish and Wildlife, which set up more cameras and has tried, unsuccessfully, to lure the bear out. Several weeks ago, the department set up a trap: a large metal cage sprayed with cherry and caramel scents. A bear was found inside it on Dec. 16, but officials said it was the wrong bear.
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
While home for Christmas, I learned our neighbor John Hertlein, the soybean farmer I interviewed in 2018 when Trump was making things hard for farmers the first time, recently passed. Grateful he was willing to sit down with the neighbors' curious journalist kid from NYC and tell me about his work
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The explosive dominance of soy over a century went unnoticed by most Americans—except for those growing it.
Soybeans were a fixture of the landscape as I was growing up in Kansas, but I never stopped to wonder why that might be, or whether that might ever change.
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