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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 26m

A generation of scrooges could not figure why the kids don’t visit and help

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EsmeWrites @esmewrites.bsky.social · 34m

real talk👇

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Main character syndrome, symptom 11: anything heard happening to someone else happened to the main character, but **!worse!**, too, uhhuh Corollary: the worst stories are amplified and shellacked with “believe you me”

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/10/2026

In July, we released Courtney 50.0. It may not be the fastest writing machine, but it has been honed fifty years of intensive language training. Based on the benchmarks demonstrated by this chart, Courtney 50.0 crushes the competition so significantly that we should have used a log axis.

An incredibly long graphic, using the graphic in the post text at the very bottom (a chart showing Open AI vs Grok vs Fable release date on the X axis, and model number on the Y axis). There is a long piece of whitespace, and then Courtney 49.0 and Courtney 50.0 are graphed at the very top.

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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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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As for custom vs machine made clothes: 1) for the buyers that’s more a available income issue, not a taste issue; 2) for the makers, those are still humans operating the machines. In summary, we should not say that some people are less human or tasteful just because they are different.

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Eli~Journal Sauce @eliharlan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where do your #ROADS lead? My favorite, leads straight to my art table. Please join us for the weekly #artchallenge Mixed Media 52 #mixedmedia52 #mm52w40 #painting #drawing #ink #watercolors #watercolour #artjournal #collage #stamping #pens #markers #collage #arttherapy #artjournaling

A flyer for the "Mixed Media 52" weekly mixed media art challenge. WEEK 40: ROADS

The background contains muted letters that spell out mixed media supplies or techniques. There is a yellow puddle of color on the upper left. A grapefruit on the top, right of center. The center of the flyer has the week number and the theme. The hashtag is #mixedmedia52 But also feel free to use the week number hashtag: #mm52w40
Rules include: 1 ) create physical or digital art 2) Use at least 2 mediums 3) Employ the theme any way your heart sings. Also: use Alt Text, No AI, New or previous art, Safe For Work.

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Off loading the cognitive load is a wild tell: it means a person is giving up on a zone of proximal development

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The style would fit to end like LBJ’s daisy count down ad.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m with Homeland Security Investigations. I came here to talk to you about some online threats you made against ICE. Get the fuck off my property.

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

About gender, it is only in my lifetime that I could get a bank account and a credit card without a hassle or a “man” co signer. Any super asserted definition of gender gives energy to the old super abusive binary. Sing out with Elsa!: Let It Go

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If one dressed as a betta fish for halloween , one could wear a fish head hat !!!!! Bishop me up, Scotty!

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s an entire generation of British politicians who’s entire worldview is made up of buzzwords and corporate jargon and that really doesn’t translate to places like Northern Ireland where politics is actually real

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pin the tail on *the* season 4 Ted Lasso villain. No explanations. No caveats. No spoilers. Who do you think will be the big season 4 antagonist? My guess: Jane.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

if you find yourself needing to make a John Calvin meme, i found a great template

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Bryan @bryan.broketheinternet.com · 23/09/2026

they're disrupting the fraud industry

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have every faith that someone is making this pitch to investors completely in earnest right now.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026

Quite the shot of Trump disembarking from Marine One last night. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a classic in the genre of “isn’t it nice to see strangers helping each other out and also isn’t it absolutely deranged that corporations treat paying customers in a way that makes it necessary for them to have to like rescue each other”

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we're boarding now. a gate attendant literally screamed at us to board by boarding group... and a hundred people just laughed in her face. we have formed a self-governing society at this point and her attempt to order us around is oddly funny

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“War is never holy; only peace is holy, because it is willed by God.” — Pope Leo XIV

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I see the worst minds of the generation After they gave up the love that draws us out And became the stalked targets of looks maxing pushers With main character plot armor they wear everywhere Which is nowhere except inside the shell Of indifferent carelessness of ungoded evangelisticness Unlit days

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I cannot express how concerning this is, and how worried I am that nobody has the political will yet to crack down on it before things get really bad

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don’t like the ubiquitous way we use the word “cooked” — it describes a real dipped-in-the-zeitgeist thing, yes. But now we imply winning a horse race at the expense of the cooked. It feels slightly dehumanizing. I’m saying that saying cooked too much cooks ones empathy. Six seven math, you know

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s interesting to think about effort being sometimes a count noun or a non count noun. I think it hinges on how much energy we want to give to our observations? Or hope we have of being able to see effectively? Yoda/Holmes’ “do or do not—there is no try”: there is a limit on looking at effort?

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K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com · 21/09/2026

✨✨✨ Happy 21st of September to all who celebrate! ✨✨✨ Don't forget to put out cookies for Earth, Wind and Fire to show them you remember the 21st night of September! #BahDiYahDiYahDiAy www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_9...

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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Live)

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As a culture we are veering into valuing talking over thinking

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The offensive nature of the ai pushed on me at work is the extent to which it supposes that I want to say something that has been said before by somebody else And theft of other people’s work

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I deleted my post about the Converse shoes ad because it furthered the reach (even in my tiny way ) of that pic. But I still want to say 2 things: 1) corporate culture is yes man culture now, 2) if brainstormed by AI, it shows the racism baked in.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here’s another “Trump Says …” headline in the New York Times. Headlines like this translate to: “World’s Biggest Liar Says Something.” Not exactly news.

Trump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva which was discovered in 1727 during the construction of sewer under Stall Street in Bath. Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Bath

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🤦🏼 no wonder everything he touches goes bankrupt He literally thinks buying stuff from someone is the same as losing money, and nobody around him has corrected him

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

49 years ago, on the 18th of September 1977, space probe Voyager I took the first long distance photograph of earth and the moon together from 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometres) away. #otd #history #space 🗃️

This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon -- the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft -- was recorded September 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth. The Moon is at the top of the picture and beyond the Earth as viewed by Voyager. In the picture are eastern Asia, the western Pacific Ocean and part of the Arctic. Voyager 1 was directly above Mt. Everest (on the night side of the planet at 25 degrees north latitude) when the picture was taken. The photo was made from three images taken through color filters, then processed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Image Processing Lab. Because the Earth is many times brighter than the Moon, the Moon was artificially brightened by a factor of three relative to the Earth by computer enhancement so that both bodies would show clearly in the print. Voyager 2 was launched Aug. 20, 1977, followed by Voyager 1 on Sept. 5, 1977, en route to encounters at Jupiter in 1979 and Sa

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like a mobster who's just been pantsed by Bugs Bunny

Pete Hegseth, looking like a cocktail you found the morning after a party

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the things I learned growing up amid working musicians is: touring players will rationalize away a hell of a lot of bad stuff to book a gig that runs for weeks. A touring band saying, "I can't do this and live with myself" is like mercenaries saying, "This war is too disturbing. I'm out."

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is robust academic literature about how selective groups -- cults, gangs, franternities -- make use of “shame and stigma” rituals that include deliberately demeaning initiations so as to enhance commitment to the in-group and its norms. I believe Alpha School is doing this.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not reported in my story is the conversation I had with one Alpha School parent who is active on Twitter. The conversation was surreal, a combination of radical aggression and deep insecurity. Over and over, it's not just that Alpha School is wonderful, it is that "normal school" is shit.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve been fiddling with this etymology project for like five years, and I need to get it and its research companion finally finished. Go break this public one for me? I’m finishing up the fancy academic version.

diachronica.com

Diachronica — Word Stories

Every English word is an immigrant. Open one and follow its journey.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Generative AI is dangerous to humans, not in the Asimovian way the Anthropic creeps are carping on about, but in the way that it is literally poisoning our air and water www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Flax Blue @flaxblue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s like we each alone farm out our headaches to imaginary other people who may decide to farm it out or say it isn’t their headache. Thus we are a giant slip and slide for crimers who have power

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