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@felixmeanslucky.bsky.social
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i have an incurable case of can’t-put-down-my-phone disease so here I am (he/they)

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
using the computer without AI is fun and using the computer with AI isn't fun
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda
Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The billionaire controlled SF DCCC is so corrupted. The latest: “The same month she blocked a resolution calling for restrictions on Flock Safety, the chairperson of the SF Democratic Party accepted a $10,000 donation from a tech mogul bankrolling the police department’s surveillance deployment”
sfstandard.com
SF Dem Party chair who blocked key Flock vote got donation from surveillance backer
Nancy Tung spoke at a conference hosted by the camera company in the weeks before the vote.
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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 25/09/2026
"Why do you need cis people to be the ones to stand up for you?"
screenshot from Control Resonant. Dylan Faden stands in a fight ready stance, weapon in hand, in an open area with no apparent features. text above him reads "Cannot Transition During Combat"
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
The liberal notion of acquiescing to reduced-to-removed rights by fascists so everybody else can I guess defeat fascism with the power of the ballot betrays their perception of us: that our identities and sexes and genders and lives and loves are a choice and that we have been humored long enough
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026
great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: A TECH BRO running through the street, holding a laptop over his head.
TECH BRO: GREAT NEWS! I THINK I WROTE THE COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE.

PANEL 2: MATTIE peers at the laptop, which just says KILL ALL HUMANS on it, with a blinking cursor. Another WOMAN runs away.
MATTIE: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST TYPED A SENTENCE HERE ON THE LATPOP.
WOMAN: AHHH! DON'T LET IT NEAR THE NUKES!

PANEL 3: The TECH BRO shakes his head.
TECH BRO: NO. YOU CRETIN, YOU DON'T TRULY UNDERSTAND ITS CAPABILITIES.
TECH BRO: PLUS, IT'S SCRAPED FROM SOMEONE *ELSE* TYPING IT. IDIOT.

PANEL 4: A BUSINESSMAN hands the SCIENTIST a big bag of money. The space behind him is also filled with bags.
BUSINESSMAN: HERE IT IS! EVERY PIECE OF CURRENCY EVER MINTED INCLUDING COINS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD
TECH BRO: THANK YOU.
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i guess my take on the whole "should we throw trans people under the bus y/n" thing is that in this sort of environment, where the opposition party shot itself repeatedly in the dick and balls by starting an illegal war that made gas cost a million dollars, it shouldn't even be on the table
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.
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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
water type bulbs 💧
Digital artwork of three Bulbasaurs modified into water type Pokemons, with conch, jellyfish, and aquarium on each.
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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline
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oblivion.txt @oblivion-txt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What! That really pisses me off!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Everything is so bad, lol.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is very good to read!!
defector.com
The Claude Delusion | Defector
If you asked philosophers what the most mysterious thing about the mind is, most of them would say: consciousness. It’s just a really weird thing. An exhaustive physical description of a brain state d...
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
When people say that the economy being good feels completely disconnected from their lives, this is what they mean. Okay, shoes are AI now, and they get $50 million for that. Reading that sentence doesn't feel like getting bonked on the head with a bowling pin at all.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 04/04/2026
Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!
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felix @felixmeanslucky.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
mitski was so right when she said nothing in the world belongs to me but my love, mine all mine. nobody can take away your ability to love
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
nytimes.com
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Infecting your friend with a stupid nickname that you refer to something by is such a thrill. A friend admitted she couldn’t look up the address to a store because I keep calling it Big Bad John’s and that’s all she could think of and she’s mad.
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Local Eorzean Femboy @t3chw34rslvt.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Rent controlled apartment buildings should be categorically exempt from this upzoning legislation. Instead they are prime targets of it. If proponents are serious about development without displacement and housing affordability, they will exempt rent controlled buildings.
48hills.org
Mayor will face opponents to zoning plan at rallies outside of City Hall - 48 hills
Press conference, silent protest marks first official meeting on upzoning proposal. Here's what to look for
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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 19/06/2025
when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts. the NYtimes launders anti-trans bigotry; this is their victim-blaming victory lap
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/06/2025
the year is 2029. i start my work day by logging into the authentication app and plugging a six digit code from my phone into the computer. after repeating this process 300 more times for every application and website i use, i am finally ready to get to work. it is now 5pm and time to go home
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jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Excellent article that explains the bigger picture here, both about Sweeney in particular and the entire mass culture industry: The arts still pull in comparable amounts of profit, but the share to actual artists has shrunk dramatically. defector.com/the-money-is...
defector.com
The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defector
You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...
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猫分儀スミレ🏳️‍⚧️ Nekobungi Sumire @amaitorte.jp · 16/05/2025
The sentence that impressed me that English is a really beautiful language is "This shit is so ass"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
these fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion
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Mushroomy 🍄 @mushroomyhouse.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Medieval scenes ❤️
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/04/2025
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
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felix @felixmeanslucky.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
this is how I feel about daniel lurie especially
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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/04/2025
it’s so cool that no one knows what’s going on or is going to happen with anything
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My friend and yours @caseyjohnston.bsky.social linked to this piece in a recent newsletter, and it really got at the vibe of what a lot of things feel like culturally these days. Can we bring back SOME sense of shame and integrity? Like, just a little?
culture.ghost.io
The Age of the Double Sell-Out
In the last three decades, youth culture has moved from a deep suspicion of commerce to a passionate defense of anti-anti-commerce to an entire generation of "creatives” who leverage the commercial ma...
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 04/04/2025
husband texted me
two text messages:
There’s a burnt out Tesla covered in graffiti on the side of 40
All I saw was the word penis
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
i don't care about your browser history. show me your terminal history
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felix @felixmeanslucky.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
YouTube just showed me an ad from a Christian college telling me to follow my divine purpose which was to get an online MBA
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felix @felixmeanslucky.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
god I love San Francisco. this city makes no goddamn sense in the same way I make no goddamn sense
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felix @felixmeanslucky.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It’s honestly crazy how much having pets has made me a better, more loving person than i ever thought I could be
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
How do cats always land on their feet? Scientists believed they use the dropper's hand as a fulcrum until these images, captured at 12 frames per second, debunked that in 1894. More on the Falling Cat Problem here: buff.ly/2Ep1orD
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 18/03/2025
Really can't be emphasized enough that Kamala Harris, like most Democrats, did not actually run on the defense of trans people in 2024. The real ask here is for Democratic candidates to join in attacking a minority population that is being persecuted by the current administration for votes.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention – imprisonment without trial or charge – to strip Palestinians of their rights… For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.”
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 14/03/2025
1. ‼️BREAKING: (w/ @ket.bsky.social) A proposed HHS rule threatens to exclude trans healthcare from the list of Essential Health Benefits in the most sweeping anti-trans attack yet. It targets trans care for all ages for people on ACA plans. Subscribe to support us! www.madycast.com/p/proposed-h...
madycast.com
Proposed HHS Rule Would Ban Trans Healthcare From Essential Health Benefit Coverage In ACA Plans
An unpublished HHS rule on the Federal Register could have devastating impacts on trans healthcare, especially for trans people who don't live in trans sanctuary states.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13/03/2025
I mentioned this @amoorelouise.bsky.social article to my grad students recently bc the more I think about it, the more important it seems. LLMs make decisions by altering parameters until you get a desired outcome, not by reasoning through principles. + www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
cambridge.org
Machine learning political orders | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Machine learning political orders - Volume 49 Issue 1
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
yeah this was my life in 2022-23 and it was really effective in shutting people down and gaining support. If you are even a little funny you can already run rings around any ai chud
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
one of the heart breaking things about anti trans propaganda is how wildly effective it has been. Study after study pre 2017 showed the majority of people in the U.S. were generally positive on trans issues and happy to learn more. Jordan Peterson, JKR, Matt Walsh, all those freaks will burn in hell
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onion person @junlper.beer · 13/03/2025
the internet would be so cool if it wasn't evil
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
my fellow Californians of good moral character… trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE
gov.ca.gov
Contact the Governor | Governor of California
You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/03/2025
1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports. He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth. It's so much worse than being reported. Subscribe to support my journalism.
erininthemorning.com
CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast
The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.
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