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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 17h

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the thing with proposing agentic solutions is that one person's agentic solution is many many people's agentic problem

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Ian Paul Sieren @ianpaulsieren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Kerns, Portland, OR #pdx #streetjoy

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/09/2026

chucky pig

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We have whittled down all the nominations to our shortlist for the 2026 Tiny Awards! 11 of the most beautiful, interesting, heartfelt, weird, silly websites from the past year, for you to explore and enjoy and vote on - pick your favourite, vote for the winner, TELL THE WORLD! tinyawards.net/vote/

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 02/09/2026

I hate AI slop. I hate AI art. I hate AI music. Writing is definitely best left to humans. But in the field of software development, we've hit a revolutionary tipping point. 2026 is the year when the models became good enough to solve hard problems autonomously. this is the new reality.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026

a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

⚒️ Bronze Age high-tech! Nearly 4,000 years ago, this ingenious stone mould could cast five different sizes of flat axe! Cutting-edge technology from a time when metal was replacing stone, bone and wooden tools! Found in Shropshire in 1961. Shrewsbury Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a carved stone axe mould made from Carboniferous Grit displayed on a clear acrylic museum stand. It is roughly a cuboid rectangular, weathered stone block with a recessed axe-shaped cavity on the top face and two axe-shaped cavities on the front face (one small, one large). In total there are moulds for five metal flat axes though not all can be seen in my photo. It was found at Walleybourne Brook, Pontesbury/Church Purverbatch, Shropshire, in 1961. Dated to the Bronze Age, 1900-1700 BC.

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Samuel Karp @samuelkarp.com · 18/08/2026

oh I just got this too! (@tianon.bsky.social just linked me here when I sent this to him)

Screenshot of GitHub's issue UI. At the top it says "samuelkarp closed this as completed 1m ago". On the bottom, in the issue comment box, there is a callout that says "This issue was closed 57 years ago. Please consider opening a new issue or a new discussion instead of leaving a comment here."

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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I am once again (every day) begging our industry to stop using slop generative art and go back to paying artists 😭 tech can afford it!

Some seriously discombobulated floppy disks created by generative AI

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

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…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.

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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

[logging into GitHub] oh my god am i that old already ???

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 06/08/2026

at long last we have created the Uzumaki from the famous Junji Ito manga "don't create the Uzumaki"

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.

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Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.

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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🔥😭🔥 (painfully real satire)

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Jey Biddulph @jeyb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Was so busy I didn't get to post but our deduction game The Incident at Galley House came out yesterday and people seem to be really enjoying it so far. It's been great fun working on it with @eviltrout.com this year and I'm very proud of how it turned out! store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...

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Save 10% on The Incident at Galley House on Steam

In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

the colonial urge to possess what belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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404 Media @404media.co · 11/07/2026

“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com · 04/07/2026

For me, Pete Seeger is one of the archetypal Americans. His introduction to Oh Mary Don’t You Weep from Rainbow Quest has always stayed with me: “right now, some of these pharaohs may get drowned too”. Power is no protection and justice will always win out.

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Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon & Jean Ritchie "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" (1965)

YouTube video by Gospel World

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 30/06/2026

New feature on @github.com! Repo admins can now restrict issue creation to collaborators only. This is a highly requested follow-up to the pull request controls we shipped in Feb, and a step toward giving maintainers more control to help reduce low-quality contribs. github.blog/changelog/20...

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Restrict issue creation to collaborators only - GitHub Changelog

Repository admins can now restrict issue creation to collaborators with write access. This gives you more control over who can open issues and helps reduce unwanted issue creation, while keeping…

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

can’t tell yall enough what a breakthrough it was for me to learn from this interview that most people just want to feel like they’re being obeyed they rarely follow up on whether you actually obey them

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

you know the economy’s bad when my 4-year-old’s latest tactic is saying “I want to be laid off from preschool” 😂

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Repatriation story time! Aka, how a stolen goddess of dance went from the photo on the left (on display for worship at a Nepali monastery in 1969) to the photo on the right (patiently posing with a dorky admirer in the Nepali consulate in NYC in 2026).

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As already warm cities become more and more vulnerable to extreme heat events, or just the “new normal” of hotter and hotter cities every day, here’s just one more reason why more street trees and other greenery are good for streets & cities. It’s just common sense, really. Cooler, cleaner, smarter.

Images comparing temperature on streets with and without trees. With trees, the temperature ranges from 18 to 26°C. Without trees it ranges from 36 to 50°C. #UrbanHeat

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

if anyone in madison, wisconsin is in the mood for a side quest you should take photos of the area where butter once melted into a river and flowed through the city!!!! and add it to the page captioned "the site of the disaster" or something like that!!!!

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This week's urban sketching trip was to the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Done on site with watercolor and fountain pen

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/06/2026

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

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Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)

SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...

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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Matthew runs AMAZING games, seriously wonderful at it ✨

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The Vermont Historical Society @vermonthistory.org · 16/06/2026

New arrival at the VHS bookstore: Charity & Sylvia, by Tillie Walden! It’s a graphic novel based on the lives of Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant, an openly Lesbian couple who lived in Waybridge in 19th century Vermont. You can order your copy here:

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Charity & Sylvia | Vermont Historical Society Store

An openly Lesbian couple survives and thrives in 19th century Vermont–a true story, as told by Tillie WaldenThe month is February in the year 1807. The place is Weybridge, Vermont: small, cold, lonely...

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 02/04/2026

I am proposing to my fellow archaeologists and museum curators a new, cross-cultural typology: “friend-shaped”. Can be used concurrently with “little guys” as well.

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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It’s the weekend here’s a big ol pile of buttons for YOU

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

People want to work 20 hours a week from home and the economy produced those jobs in abundance and then ripped it away to placate busy body bosses who want to feel special in an office lol

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 26/05/2026

When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/...

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A few notes on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI

Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting …

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Beavers once again doing the heavy lifting for society

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 21/05/2026

"There's no cameras where Tom is."

Poster for the Apple horror comedy Widow’s Bay

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

For today's #MosaicMonday a hilarious #Roman mosaic depicting a boisterous #dog knocking over a basket and pulling out the contents. Life without #dogs is possible but pointless! 😊🐶🐕 On display at the Archaeological Museum Irbid/Jordan. 📷 Alex Brey via www.flickr.com/photos/looki...

A picture of a mosaic showing a dog knocking over a basket and pulling out the contents.

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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Don’t forget maintainers this month! I’m not doing anything for #MaintainerMonth this year because I’m currently on maternity leave myself from Temporal, but I’ll see y’all next time around 😘

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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mothers Day. Every year I soak in Julia Ward Howe’s stirring Mothers Day Proclamation, and dream that “women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of council.” Every word in it aches differently now that I have children. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%...

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Mother's Day Proclamation - Wikipedia

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