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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 2h
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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 9h
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If your belief system is against the concept of equal rights, your belief system can fuck off.
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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 06/10/2026
I’m sorry, fucking *what*? Breakfast tacos are A Big Deal in Texas and Faine’s 100% right; a potato egg breakfast taco is like the ur-example of one. It’s like calling someone out on NYC for ordering a bacon egg and cheese.
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Kasia Brz @avatarkasia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
sometimes drawing a bunch of cats from pinterest gives a sense of normalcy against the everyday everything
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/10/2026
Got interviewed by one of the largest Swedish newspapers and they led with the best headline/photo (translates to “it’s easier to see an angry man than the truth”) www.svd.se/a/pB7E0G/ed-...
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”Lättare att se en arg man än sanningen”
Han har kallats galen, bett en AI-vd att hålla käften – och i åratal varnat för en börskrasch. Nu har den högljudda outsidern tagit klivet in i finrummen. Ändå känner sig Ed Zitron fortfarande behandl...
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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And digitally coloured. And that’s that. #Shiptember done and dusted. Bit of a cheat from me because all these were drawn ages ago - still not able to draw because of tendonitis. Which is REALLY becoming a fucking chore.
A pen drawing of a spaceship. Digitally coloured in yellow, ivory, and red.
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Jason Tracy @jason.tracys.org · 03/10/2026
The imaginary AI that uses no resources, 100% renewable energy, closed loop cooling, and *actively pays royalties to the creators it was trained on* is so far from reality that it isn’t worth pondering.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026
Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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Agates from Mexico @agatesfrommexico.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Silica-rich groundwater replaced original calcite, leaving banded chalcedony with that warm amber-smoke diffusion. The haze effect comes from microscopic fluid inclusions trapped during formation. 🔥
Haze Emberglass
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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
look I'm not saying every tech degree should require a humanities minor but can we at least get 20 min to play the simpsons monorail episode
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
Could be jeans, could be a heterosexual with low blood sugar
"Introducing: The Low Straight"
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Start to finish making of process for one of my porcelain tentacle handle cups! Throwing, trimming, glazing You can buy a unique cup like this on my website, www.roseschmits.com
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026
Every day we get closer to this:
Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026
These clowns want to cede the most important decisions in comics storytelling to a fucking bot. And you know this would lead to further underpayment of artists. Boycott any book or publisher that uses this.
Walk me through what the platform actually does.

You put in a manuscript. The system spends time studying the story, including the thesis, the background, the protagonist, and the emotional beats that pay off for a reader, and produces a storyboard that gets you to roughly 60–70% of a finished product. Then an editor, the author, and an illustrator go in and shape that further, because a purely AI-generated output tends to lack soul and be generic. This is not a self-driving car. It's more like handing a Ferrari to someone who already knows how to drive.
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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Typical Friday walking the dog on the Cosmic Cliffs ✨
Yarn bowl featuring the Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula with a small dog walking along the lower section as if it's a landscape. His leash leads to the yarn feed.Yarn bowl featuring the Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula with a small dog walking along the lower section as if it's a landscape. His leash leads to the yarn feed. RightYarn bowl featuring the Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula with a small dog walking along the lower section as if it's a landscape. His leash leads to the yarn feed. LeftYarn bowl featuring the Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula with a small dog walking along the lower section as if it's a landscape. His leash leads to the yarn feed. Detail of dog
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/09/2026
PS: Tommy Tuberville can go fuck himself
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/09/2026
Cool, those suits are heavy and hot, it takes stamina to wear one, that's definitely a plus for pilots, attendants and controllers to have, I feel safer already
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hate this guy so profoundly
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY
cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fuck this guy and anyone who supports him
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
DRAGONFLIGHT (1978)
 Acrylic on Masonite - 20" X 30" 

For the 1st book in Anne McCaffrey's legendary Dragonriders of Pern series, I wanted to create a literal visualization of the title. I selected an aerial POV and tilted the horizon to simulate the dizzying sensation of flight. #art #booksky 🪐📚
A flight of dragons swoops past a rocky mountain peak down that mostly obscures the sun. The light tints green sky yellow along the ridge. With wings spread wide, the lead dragon pulls up from a dive with beak open to expose teeth and tongue. The arc of its climb intersects a red striated planet. The female dragonrider raises one arm up as she glances back over her shoulder.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/09/2026
HOLY SHIT Y'ALL A MOTHERFUCKING BLACK CAT HAS JUST INTRODUCED HIS VOIDTASTIC GODDAMN SELF INTO THIS GOURD AND MUM FESTIVAL OF MOTHERFUCKERY WE HAVE GONE FULL FUCKING AUTUMN NOW GO GRAB A MUG OF SOMETHING WITH NUTMEG AND MOTHERFUCKING CINNAMON CAUSE THERE'S NO GOING BACK NOW
Saja amid the goddamn gourds and motherfucking mums
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
every trans person in America is basically praying to whatever deity will accept them that the democrats don’t turn into Labour and decide to take turns with republicans throwing us into wood chippers. trans women have like a 30% unemployment rate. everybody fuckin’ Chill Out toward us a little
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you gotta buy my pots cause actually they may one day grow to be Emrakul The Promised End and destroy all of humanity thats how powerful and important they are. Every time i throw a pot i am tempting eldritch power. Invest now in pots
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The statue of liberty is the most beautiful statue in the world but we can make it EVEN BETTER next month we will start the changes go make it into the first fully functional great American Mech! MECH AMERICA GREAT AGAIN thank you for your attention to this matter
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
little known fact: Napoleon chose his Marshals based entirely on the quality of their morning wood. Davout was nicknamed 'The Iron Marshal' for this very reason.
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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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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 18/09/2026
That's the Overton window moving. People always wanted to do this to RNLI, but now thanks to politicians and the media repeating what they say without question they feel empowered and entitled to do this
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
new cat! new cat!
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As the opposite of a computer toucher, I sometimes worry that I'm not keeping up with the development of things. Luckily, I'm smart enough to realize that if the "most dangerous" LLMs need warehouses full of GPUs to function, they can't just "break out" and start running on random PCs.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15/09/2026
When the apocalypse comes, my only goal is finding this guy
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Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is so scary (& sad). www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
WEYRWORLD (1990) 
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 27" x 36" My schedule was booked up many months in advance, so Del Rey Books commissioned me to do this cover before the book was even written. #art #booksky 🪐📚
With wings spread wide, a white dragon perches on a rocky spire that rises out of cloud cover. Its legs are set unevenly as it gains a hold. Viewed from behind, a rider is saddle-mounted with legs straddling its neck. A handful of other dragons and riders are gathered on similar peaks for a conference in the clouds. The valley wall as seen only in the distance meanders across the horizon. Two large crescent moons hang in a hazy blue sky.
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