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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also, libraries have copiers!

Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is what people tell me when I ask about their lives in any qual study I do about literally any topic - soft drinks, tech, libraries, online shopping, higher ed, whatever. People are EXHAUSTED. They don't expect things to get much better, but they do expect them to be at least this hard forever.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just want once more to complain about CRM systems that catalog the Mr first and the Ms/Mrs second, which means that even though I am the policyholder, I am the person who filed the claim, I am the person whose name is on the check/email/letter - the response is always addressed to my husband.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this reads like a Douglas Adams bit. "Naturally these serious men measured their devotion to safety by the number of pages they wrote about it in a big book. The books got longer and longer until eventually no one could lift them." www.reuters.com/business/fin...

The company, which has positioned itself as a safety-first AI lab, devoted roughly 80 pages of the 261-page main body of its prospectus to laying out risk factors, nearly twice the 48 pages it used to describe its business.
For comparison, SpaceX, which owns xAI, dedicated just around 38 of the 277-page main body of its prospectus to risk factors.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 25/09/2026

Halo 3 was released 19 years ago today. What a media phenomenon it was, supported by a formidable marketing campaign. If I remember correctly, this diorama was built by New Deal Studios (Interstellar) and Stan Winston Studios.

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Halo 3: Believe

YouTube video by Bungie

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 25/09/2026

“I’ve been getting ready to vote,” says Djvan Carter, who is incarcerated in Maine, where prisoners never lose the right to vote. “But the facility itself, the administration, they don’t help us or guide us. It’s all on us.”

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Maine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - Bolts

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:

A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you are a comms pro in any industry, you should be hyper aware of how core touchpoints of your ecosystem - especially the ones that are monetizable - are susceptible to a currency arbitrage-motivated scam business model. Content, influencers, surveys, email lists, voice mails, texting. All of it.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Always interesting to ask these but sometimes I do wonder if what gets coded as neutral was always used in a neutral sense. But then maybe I’ve had morissey’s “we hate it when our friends become successful” stuck in my head.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this was always inevitable given the right's longstanding investments in SEO and the left's apathy towards it. As soon as chatbots released, SEO freaks started trying to understand and game them and all those guys also happen to be conservatives or work for them.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

👋🗳️Hi, U.S. Voters, Please double check your voter registration. Especially if you live in Texas. Thanks 😊 —❤️ an election law professor

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 24/09/2026

This quote by haunts me. From Wilcox's "Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing" #stats

To begin, distributions are never normal. For some this seems obvious, hardly worth mentioning, but an aphorism given by Cram´er (1946) and attributed to the mathematician Poincar´e remains relevant: “Everyone believes in the [normal] law of errors, the experimenters because they think it is a mathematical theorem, the mathematicians because they think it is an experimental fact.”

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you are going to build your content strategy - even in part - around reporting on polls, would it kill you to LINK TO THE POLL????

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

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It's the accountability, stupid.

Doing crime

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New @crosstabspodcast.com episode: @pewresearch.org released its ninth political typology this year, and for the first time, political style earned its own place in the model — not just policy. I talked with @baxteroliphant.bsky.social & Gabe Borelli about what that means. 🧵

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have to keep saying this. Trans rights are very unpopular on face but extremely sensitive to persuasion and question wording. In other words very few people care deeply about them, one way or another. Electorally, there is no advantage or penalty for Democrats to take one way or another.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is an absolutely mandatory read for anyone who cares about ... I don't know, anything at all related to democracy or education or race. Remember to take deep breaths though, because it's devastating.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am on a plane and inexplicably watching CNN and i need to know does Abby take beta blockers to do her job because i would need to, and also are these people for real

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Little Business Man On My Shoulder

A crude drawing of a little man in a suit sitting on an even more crudely drawn person's shoulder.
Caption text says "the angel and devil on my shoulder have been replaced by an incredibly dull businessman.
All he does is drone on and on about 'quarterly earnings' and 'diversifying portfolios and 'maximizing potential revenue streams' and invite me to happy hours where he threatens to do karaoke.
He says he can do a mean rendition of 'Dancing On My Own' by Robyn.
I don't think he can."

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 10/09/2026

definitely some humans out there who are severely misaligned and I'm worried about what they're getting up to without even telling anyone or explaining what they're doing

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My love for the New York Public Library is pretty much unbounded, but in general, the importance of archivists and librarians and LIBRARIES is almost incomprehensible. The 9/11 video archive is now at NYPL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGKe...

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They built the largest 9/11 video archive. Here’s what was discovered.

YouTube video by NY1

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

right to trial before a jury of your peers now unpopular in UK. great job.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also if you’re thinking this would be “bribing” voters, I think SCOTUS has made clear that gifts in exchange for political favors, if given after the favor is performed, is not a bribe, it’s a gratuity.

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Brett Kavanaugh with Deal With It Glasses Meme

ALT: Brett Kavanaugh with Deal With It Glasses Meme

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This. When we bought a hybrid what I wanted was both to use & pay for less gas. And I have! When we got a solar roof, I loved watching my electric bill drop by 30-90%. If you can absorb a one-time cost that causes your monthly cost of living to decline, don’t worry about the “pay back” period.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

After a long summer of renovations (and renovation-related tendonitis), @crosstabspodcast.com has returned, though this episode with @aedwardslevy.bsky.social is a bit of an “end of summer” fun discussion about polling in general. Heavier topics to come. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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The Weighting Game with Ariel Edwards-Levy

Podcast Episode · Cross Tabs · September 10 · 48m

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 31/08/2026

The solution is not to run petting-the-cute-animals harder the solution is to recognize that the constitution says "cases" and "controversies" not "concrete snd partlcularized injuries and not ones created by Congress because fuck those losers in Congress" which is basically the doctrine

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At some point we’re going to realize this is like how China handles its great firewall right? Like - Taiwan is not an independent state, and protest sites are deleted (to say nothing of the whole Mars coordinates thing where your GPS marker in Google Maps is always wrong).

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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Inmenso escrache de Gandalfs a Peter Thiel” 😂😂😂 so well deserved. Send more Gandalfs to Buenos Aires!!

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We wrapped up a lot of our house projects this weekend which means I can return to using a desk, and sitting in a chair, and doing things other than operating saws and sanders and nailers and drills. I feel like if I told you everything I personally did to this house you wouldn’t believe me.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I was talking to someone who worked at the department of ed in NYC the other day, and what they told me they remembered most about the early days of the pandemic was being called a child killer because they were trying to figure out how to open schools. The way we have totally retconned Covid…

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 29/08/2026

The Canadians, realizing they could completely destroy the Republican Party in November by shutting down oil exports and driving us gasoline to $9/gal

“The power of the sun in the palm of my hand” memes

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Never ever use Nerdwallet or other aggregator sites to do research about business loans, debt consolidation, or any other kind of loan instrument. It has been almost a year of nonstop robocalls “about my loan” (which I decided not to get). They sell your info - you can’t use your phone ever again.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The starting point for post-MAGA Reconstruction, imo, should be like the public tribunals in S Africa after apartheid, or Guatemala's post civil war Historical Clarification Commission. Both efforts sought to repair the shredded fabric of shared reality, without which no other repairs were possible.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Vindman just sent $250k to the DSCC to help: Peltola-Alaska Brown-Ohio Turek-Iowa Jackson-Maine Sayed-Michigan Pappas-New Hampshire Cooper-North Carolina Booker-Kentucky(?) Osborn-Nebraska

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So my Milo story is about the time I woke up in Palm Desert and told my friend that according to Milo in the long-defunct The Kernel, she was in Palm Beach hooking up with a TED attendee, when she was in fact in my hotel room, bunking with me, 130 miles away.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Anyway… will Democrats denounce a Twitch streamer?”

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The concept “abortion is healthcare” is true but people don’t know wtf that means until banning abortion means banning a whole bunch of healthcare you don’t think of as ‘abortion’. It took banning these procedures for a lot of women I know who’ve had miscarriages to see themselves in a ban.

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Mark Allen @markallen.io · 29/08/2026

Sweet, just learned that my overseas voter registration from the spring has been canceled. Very cool democracy we've got, working great. Anyways, now I'm even more excited to vote against Ken Paxton.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An institution run on metrics has no metric for the labor of producing metrics

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m not sure I can communicate how insane Brooklyn politics is… oh wait, yes, I can:

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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And finally, they end by misspelling Brooklyn. *chef's kiss*

White text on a blue background. It reads:

FORWARD
BROOKYLN

FORWARD BROOKLYN.

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Listen the only thing I want to hear out of a billionaire’s mouth is “we figured out how to make it so dogs live to be 50 years old … and it’s free for everyone.” That’s where I want you spending your absurd money after we’ve taxed it, ok?

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:

data4democracy.substack.com

The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side

This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.

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