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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

Joyce Carol Oates
This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

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dame @dame.is · 26/09/2026

If you watched the viral baseball game clip with the mom and dad and jumped to conclusions, you are legally required to read and share this entire post written by the mom, and then go home and rethink your life.

themomoftheyear.substack.com

I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING: SCOTUS keeps the Missouri 2022 congressional map in effect for this election in an order that criticizes the Eighth Circuit's actions in the case. The five page, per curiam — unsigned order — came with no noted dissents. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Holy shit. Well that fits in nicely with the "What the hell was she thinking?" logic we had back when it was going down.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 23/09/2026

You voted for your daughter’s death and it should torment you until you meet your own

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I must share with you this epic community note on Twitter 😂

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”

nytimes.com

RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’

The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise that Rod fucking Dreher belongs on the "Weird Bouie Reply Guys" bsky moderation list.

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Drew Faust @drewwfaust.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 17/09/2026

Marcy Kaptur is the incumbent with a 5 point polling lead so I must assume she put out this ad because this is what she believes.

Tweet from Medium Buying covering a new ad:

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@MediumBuying
#OH09: Incumbent Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) is up on TV with this response spot --

Kaptur to camera:

"We're stuck in another unnecessary war and inflation is making everything worse. But, my opponent won't talk about all that. He'd rather lie about my record"

"Well, here's the truth. I voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools"

There is a screen shot of a white woman in a light blue business suit speaking to two other white people.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whatever Sheeran's politics, it's reasonable for an artist to not allow moneyed outsiders to dictate what happens on their tour. He's a stadium headliner, he has the power to play where he wants and with whom he wants. Bowing down to billionaires is how you end up playing DJ sets on dictator yachts.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It took me a minute but damn this thread is funny

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The thing that's interesting is *how fast* it came up as a topic and reached consensus. Something happened in the last month or so that made the numbers so obviously not work that they can't even pretend any more and are hoping to scrape together profitability on current models alone I bet.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Funny how they always leave that part out.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I remember my mom had woken me up and everyone had been in a state of shock. Mom was crying. An hour or two later my boss from the computer lab at college called me. The campus was closed. He wanted me to come down and work since the labs would all be empty.

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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Republican Midterm convention is now posting thirst trap meat pics of Hasan Piker. Truly, this will get people to hate him the way they want.

Hasan Piker posing sexy is in his underwear

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If Democrats get to 50 or 51, he's going to flip. Which is why if they get to 52, they should strip him of his committee assignments and exile him from the party. No tolerance for this shit. Democracy is on the line.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026

PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today,

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

After a week or two of testing vaultwarden I went ahead and cancelled 1Password. I won't let my money go towards white supremacists and genocidal bigots if I can help it.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Don’t tell me that you remember Sept. 11, 2001. I remember Sept. 11, 2001. But I heard her say she was there that day. I was there that day. I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there.” - Rudy Giuliani

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

While a human may have actually written this garbage, there is no author associated with it on the free side of the paywall that I can see.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is *literally* the Galactic Empire empire

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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

👏GRAVITY👏IS👏FREEMASON👏BRAINWASHING

Some account called PocketSizedHero posted: You think that proves gravity? You wanna bet? Do you think before Newton supposedly was hit by an apple no ever before had understood how reality works and questioned why things fall to the ground? Newton was a Freemason. Humans are easily brainwashed and controlled.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Probably should be California but definitely Western.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In the last 60 days before the midterms I 100% think Trump and the Republicans should absolutely run on the "there's too many holidays in this country" ticket. They should run on taking away birthday cake too. *deadpan* oh no it would own the libs so bad don't do it.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like 1Password but eff this noise. Time to change.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/09/2026

This is pretty catastrophic and I'm not sure how either of these companies reverse the trend. It really appears the AI bubble is based on the whims of maybe a few hundred companies spending money on two companies to justify five companies spending money with one company.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's time to let this goddamn book series *go*. You're doing active harm by keeping it culturally relevant even if you don't send money to JKR, because if it's culturally relevant people will continue to send her money.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well yeah she's an adult

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The current political moment has shown me how many people go through life frustrated that they don’t have the right state apparatus to indulge their worst urges. They‘re not “left behind”, they’re not “lonely”, they want to hurt other people. And this is their generational opportunity.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

it's because she hates you but she loves your money

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every time I see a slideshow by management in a meeting that was *obviously* drafted by LLMs and not even reviewed by a human I get extremely irritated. You can tell they're reading the slide for the first time at the same time we are. The contempt for their coworkers is impressive.

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