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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In 2022 and 2023 I became somewhat obsessed with the warnings about surviving “radiation emergencies” that were posted around northern New Jersey. For this week’s DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I share my obsession with you, and analyze the motivations, messages, and methods of the campaign. 🐕
doomsdaymachines.net
“Do you know what to do in a radiation emergency?”
New Jersey’s strangely-decontextualized nuclear terrorism PSAs
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AGTMADCAT 🇺🇳 @agtmadcat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This can't be right, this nurse was at my house, playing a rousing game of scrabble.
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Far Edge @faredge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m gonna miss how much Knies fuking hated tampa
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Far Edge @faredge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s that time of year where I winder why I’m struggling so much and then I look at a calendar.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A white nationalist group gathered just outside the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve in British Columbia over the weekend wearing white masks and dressed in all black.
aptnnews.ca
Masked white nationalists gather on reserve in British Columbia - APTN News
A white nationalist group gathered just outside the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve in British Columbia...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm not trying to get canceled on here but, as someone who actually was a housewife with a bunch of kids in my 20s ... Persuading these young women that 2+2 = DON'T YOU WORRY YOUR PRETTY LITTLE HEAD ABOUT IT is the greatest trick the devil ever pulled. Babies. Cost. Money.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Freda Wallace She/Ra @missfreda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
S.Peggie loses on every point apart from the administrative failures of NHS systems. GC lawyers have wasted NHS time and resources for a vanity project with net-zero result for them or Peggie. The aim is never to win legally but use the story to lobby politically through media.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
today in Stop Romanticizing Canada: Quebec’s Bill 9 has just taken effect, barring women in veils from receiving public services. Public employees include university faculty, so professors have been instructed to require veiled women to uncover their faces or be removed from the classroom.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
my steam account is old enough to buy alcohol. i signed up with a credit card. my username is a reference to a game from 1992. what do you mean age verification. my hair is going grey
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Adam ✊ @elseldo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I really hate how much this speech became a, what ya call it, metaphor for now.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Far Edge @faredge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh hey, new Dr Fatima video. Nice!
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Danny Page @danny.page · 25/09/2026
"turns out we need to have windows that open" - the company with the highest market cap in the world, for some reason
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🎃Komodo Dad [spoopy]👻 @komododad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New wars will continue being started until morale imoroves.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026
whether it's cars or robots, Tesla just can't stop Tesla-ing
Per The Information, the hand and forearm contain over 100 screws and small components that workers still assemble by hand. Fixtures on several stations, including hands, joints, and electronics testing, can’t consistently line up parts that are far smaller and tighter-tolerance than anything on a car. The result is more robots needing rework after coming off the line.
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're cooked. Completely. Labour has decided not just to hand the country gift wrapped to the nazis, but do gratuitous PR for them while doing so & ensure all the infrastructure of state repression & violence is in place for them to exploit from the day they seize power
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Adam ✊ @elseldo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/09/2026
more than 70% of kalshi users are underwater, just imagine: now you can lose money you don’t have. my assumption is that in their internal product pipeline, they already have a collections agency ready to spin up.
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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Writeups for #MinCup26 Round 2 Match 7 may be delayed as I’ve spent my “volunteer precious time to a fun geoscience outreach project” allocation to identifying and yanking out votes from a BOT NET. For real?? It’s a game about pretty rocks! Knock it off.
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zakarpat.bsky.social @zakarpat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hes not just a fascist because of that, Shopify's C suite are one of the primary sources of funding for every nazi website in Canada. If anyone wonders why all these weird zoomer chinless guys are all over Can twitter, its because Tobi and the guy who left for Opendoor are paying for it
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Ty @sprunt87.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can’t strike. Can’t protest. Selling public property to private companies. Removing protections for the environment and endangered species. Cut funding to fighting forest fires and healthcare. Helping AB violate federal laws while they attack trans rights. Boy are we lucky in Canada.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m going to crash out man. These are some of the gatekeepers of media career success. They were once mine! For many, they still are. And they’re showing ZERO ability to think, plus anti-Arab racism and/or a willingness to engage in bad-faith attacks to protect corporate interests. Bad times!
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Adam ✊ @elseldo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Liberal partisans are awfully quiet about this. No quips about "lefties calling this a conservative party are wrong" or calls for people opposed to this to "go sit in the corner with your crayons"
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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Loosening regulations in the name of speed is not how you speed up projects. Demanding that government, corporations, and project proponents have the appropriate staff to do their mandated jobs properly is how you speed up projects while ensuring safety. This is a bad decision.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Solidarity Comrade canary.
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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Carn(ey)age. Rolling back a half century of progress in environmental and climate protection. For what? Oh right, profits for the already very fucking rich & some jobs in the extractive sector, while the rest of us are fucked by climate, ecological and democracy’s collapse. Danger: Banker At Work.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What's being described in the AI/EA community is not consensual group sex: it's coerced sex ("consensual non-consensual" they call it) with ppl who control your earning & advancement opportunities. It's revealing bc pressure to engage in group sex is ALSO a hallmark of mafia & criminal groups. 1/x
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 21/09/2026
What's happening in Alberta is even more batshit than I ever thought. Danielle Smith is a dangerous psychopath, and the AB separatist movement largely exists because COVID broke far-right brains, and is led by Christo-fascist religious white nationalists, relying on dark money. 2/n
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In French: “There’s no causality between the method and the end result. This pretext that there’s Donald Trump, so we’re going to dilapidate the collective wealth of Quebeckers and Canadians, in a way that’ll have no impact on the economy until well after the end of Trump’s reign,” Blanchet said.
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Far Edge @faredge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
His supporters don’t see this as relevant. It’s a cost of doing business to create a greater ethnostate like their movement has dreamed of for literally hundreds of years.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
A mocked up FBI wanted poster with six variations of Bugs Bunny dressed as hilarious women

Left to right:
Classic housewife bugs bunny in a peach dress with French curls and a blue bonnet 

Sexy snow bunny bugs bunny in a form fitting yellow ski suit & red lipstick 

Classy rocket bra bugs bunny in a pink blouse and a choker and red heels and a blue skirt 

Green nightgown bugs bunny looking alluring 

Cavewoman bugs bunny in an orange tattered one piece slip making a come hither expression 

Flapper bugs bunny in a red dance outfit and a big bowler hat
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...
popsci.com
The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever
Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.
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Lisa Jaffe @wordywoman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That someone thinks there is a market for this and has found funders that agree should be the top line story. "Men spike so many drinks that a start up for an alert found quick funding"
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