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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that he is renaming AI for use in official documentation by the federal government. That’s it. Anyone who tries to say Trump is renaming it for everyone should be ridiculed and persecuted

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 15h

I understand the world the right thinks they’re building by rolling back civil liberties (the imagined world of their grandparents) and while that’s truly monstrous, I genuinely don’t understand how they think society can function if nobody can get an education. It just makes zero sense to me.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If anyone reading this has a similar art style, please let me know. I want to see everything you’ve ever made

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t know, I’ve done dozens of interviews and one of the things I’m looking for is a sign that the candidate is able to ask for help, and if someone walked into an interview with no drink, then struggled with a cough or dry throat during the interview, I’d disqualify them for not asking for water

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i don't have anything to say about noncitizen voters, but i do live with two citizen nonvoters. they're 5 and 7 and they're annoying as hell.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I need everyone to understand what the AP Stylebook is and who this post is addressing before commenting. Please?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm pretty cynical at times but "what if a Nazi controlled much of our information and entertainment infrastructure?" stretches even my cynicism to its limits. Anyway, organizations are racial structures.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The level of “ew the world scares me” coming out of the GOP should be terminally embarrassing. In a rational world, the second this escaped his mouth he would know his days in politics had just abruptly ended. We do not live in such a world. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/sena...

And in one bizarre tangent, he claimed that
"many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community."
"Lord help us," he said. "It's terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it's possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal. You can't make this up."

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.

Close-up of a small wild cat with brown striped fur, large rounded ears, amber eyes, and a dark nose, staring directly at the camera with an intense, slightly irritated expression.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They’re calling 3d platformers parkour games?? Jesus, I feel like I got 20 years older overnight

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 15/09/2026

After the Civil War, Congress mandated that Southern states could only disenfranchise people over a handful of crimes. But these states quickly ignored those rules and manipulated the criminal legal system to prevent Black people from voting.

boltsmag.org

A Voting Rights Promise, Betrayed for 156 Years - Bolts

After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, with a federal court ruling against Virginia and reviving the Reconstruction-era promise.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 14/09/2026

It's kind of like characters--you aren't *actually* trying to build out an entire world. You just want enough to *seem* like a world. When you make a character you are not really making a person, just a series of words that give the impression of a person.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

my six year old gave me a cold. what’s the appropriate punishment?

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AK Faulkner @ravenswordpress.com · 09/09/2026

I must once again remind you that, since 2016, I have been unable to run Facebook ads for LGBTQ+ books which explicitly state that the books are LGBTQ+ because the ad manager constantly rejected them as unsuitable. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

arstechnica.com

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

tater-tot hot dish is just a better living through chemistry version of shepherd’s pie and i need every minnesotan to know this

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about

ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What is the last short story or book you read and loved that was written by a trans author?

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m not someone who is against education in any way. I think is hugely important and I think a college education is important and I think public universities are very important as well. But I’m not sure I understand what we as a society believe the purpose of colleges and universities is in 2026.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Taken on their own, these facts constitute an extraordinary business story: one of the largest corporations in world history has converted its two largest cost centers into profit centers, and those profits are substantially generated by extracting payments from the company's own competitors! 10/

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I can tell you with confidence that Jimmy Beast did, in fact, write some of this book with his own hands (derogatory)

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I found a Rarity-78 word worth 90 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 806 points · 10 rare words. Only 33 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 4 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/4X3EY5

playoutlier.com

OUTLIER · Day 106

espthelies scored 806 on Day 106. Can you beat them?

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The multinational mega corporation is laying it on a little thick with the whole “copyright fuels creativity” stuff, don’t you think?

An ironic photo of an ereader with some front matter, including the following text: “Penguin Random House values and supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin Random House to continue to publish books for every reader. Please note that no part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.”

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

even now, she's still teaching us

screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Rewatching Prime Suspect and this show is remarkable for being both problematic as hell while also seemingly having the opinion that if a topic is a third rail, it needs to grab it and hold on tight.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Now I thought this was about how we don’t all need to carry around massive bpa-free buckets because we only need 4-8 glasses of water per day. But clearly I’m stupid. Because bluesky has decided this is actually the elites telling us to get used to water shortages. Y’all what are we doing?

Dietary recommendations
The most cited recommendations for water come from the National Academy of Medicine, which calls for a total daily fluid intake of 3.7 liters for men and 2.7 liters for
women.
But here's the thing: That is total fluid intake, not water specifically. And here's the other thing: Roughly 20% of our fluids come directly from food, studies have found.
That leaves roughly two liters of fluids daily for women and three for men, says Kavouras. That translates to about 68 ounces and 101 ounces from beverages.
Kavouras estimates the average pour of water in the U.S. is 12 to 16 ounces. So that works out to about four to six glasses of fluids daily for women and six to eight for

Bottom line
Drink with your meals and when you're thirsty. For most of us, that will keep us well hydrated. One caveat: Some researchers warn thirst can be delayed or reduced with age or certain medications.
"Our kidneys are really, really good at holding on to water when we need it and excreting it when we have too much," says Derek Daniels, a professor of biological sciences at the University at Buffalo, who studies thirst.
So hydration is important, but you don't need to turn drinking water into a full-time job. In other words, you can safely leave the
40-ounce tumbler at home.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

27 year old "Francisco" shares, "Right now, the winter strawberry blossom season is beginning. Managing the blossoms properly is what causes strawberries to develop. This is the final season of the year and helps us get by during the cold and rainy months." #WeFeedYou

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i grew up in a place where some people pronounce “wash” with an “r” sound and i get so confused during conversations about warsh and the fed

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I missed the spreadsheets people conversation, and from what I can gather, it was silly but not in a fun way

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

I think they're making the wrong trade-off because *copyright will not protect their livelihoods from AI-based wage erosion*. 12/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

From the OED to search engines to the Internet Archive, so many beneficial activities rely on the fact that copyright permits unlicensed collection and analysis of every copyrighted work as a single, massive corpus. 6/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

This is a losing strategy. First, because banning scraping, or requiring permission to count the elements in creative works, or demanding a license to publish collections of facts about copyrighted works will inflict enormous collateral damage on a wide variety of socially beneficial activities. 5/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026

But a sizable group of my peers think the way to protect our interests is to expand copyright so it's unambiguously illegal to scrape the internet, analyze files retrieved by scrapers, and publish that analysis (a process more familiarly known as "training AI"): pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/h... 4/

pluralistic.net

How To Think About Scraping – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m ready to vote for anyone who wants to make pushing the “unitary executive theory” a treasonous offense.

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prince egregious, heir apparent @sonofahurricane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

They’ve already been using the shock gloves on children.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m reading a chapter in my textbook drafted in 2025 and already some of the fraying bonds on presidential power that the author describes have snapped.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gathering notes for teaching intro US Politics (for the first time) and it is in fact hard to see how you would describe the 2026 presidency as anything other than an elected dictator.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I just pledged at $1 per month. You should too!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026

Guys like Yglesias keep using the "HR training" and "HR lady" shorthand because it's less obviously odious than honestly saying that they don't think racism or misogyny are important issues worth dealing with and only matter as "luxury beliefs" for prudish upper class people

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm not going to tag Ursula in this (though she's welcome to reply) because my thread isn't going to be about the Astarion book or if BG3 is a "horny" game or any of that nonsense. Instead, this is about the online demands for the perfect rape victim in fiction. (thread)

Just chiming in on this. Astarion is very much loved by people bc of this trauma and SA survival. Reducing the audience to just horny poeple and its a horny game comes across as a bit disrespectful. Why did you make it smutty during a time when he was gtting SD'd like A LOT?

Ursula: the book also covers large chunks of his youth.

reply: while you ask us to give the book a chance, some current reviews raise concerns about asterion being out of character, esp the choice to give him intimate moments during a period when he's heavily affected by SA. I'd genuinely like to understand why.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 16/08/2026

Everyone wants some blazingly pure woke paragon of virtue, but we only want that so we can tear it all down. The truth is humans are gory and messy and complicated. We are all, each of us, both the hero and the monster in someone else's story

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The shift in tone of posts about Jason Arday over the last week is giving some real “someday, everyone will have always been against this” vibes.

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