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Ryon Frink

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

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@nic_carter
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social obligation
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NO ITS NOT LMAO - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELITON "AI IS BREAKING OUT OF THE COMPUTER, NO ITS NOT, AI IS HACKING THE GOVERNMENT, NO ITS NOT, AI IS SURPASSING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE, IF YOU CAN BE SURPASSEDB Y A STATISTICAL AVERAGE OF REDDIT POSTS, THATS A SKILL ISSUE MOTHER FUCKER - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Yes, I fell for the "Got your nose" trick, but that shouldn't distract us from the real issue of nose theft in our society
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whenever AI CEOs say anything this is all I can think about
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Ryon Frink @frink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I gave a talk about the history of Fraternal Orders last night. I had a wonderful time. It made me wish I could afford to teach college or something.
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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Filling out my ballot in the traditional way: based on a complex series of online grievances and estimate of which posters annoy me the most.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."
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John in the Mountains of Madden @mathletesfoot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
ape attack survivor
@pissvortex

Tried to flex this on a first date but the waitress
took it and asked what it was and why it said
"pissvortex" on it. I explained that it's called X
Money and she said they don't take that but
when I tried to explain she just kept laughing. I
told her just to try it so she did but it declined
which made her laugh harder. WTF @elonmusk
@Support

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Austin
@pissvortex

Issued by Cross River Bank
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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026
An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think a lot of things go wrong when we mistake programming metaphors for how the computer works. You might have object-oriented programming but it is only one computer; it's just a way of keeping track of how the program works. Similarly, we'd think about AI differently if rather than "agents"...
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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LeDonne Essential @ledonneessential.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Death Cab for Cutie
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.
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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 25/08/2026
…but the cost of producing the *decisions* that determine what the code should *say* hasn't budged this incidentally is why i hate the phrase "building software" because it's not a construction project, it's a lot closer to a writing project (you know, being made of language and all)
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
RESPECT ONLY 1 KILOGRAM - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETEAN BRAVING DA WIND'S OF CONVENTION TO PROCLAIM "THE ONLY KILOGRAM I GIVE A SHIT ABOUT IS THE 1889 INTERNATIONAL PROTOTYPE OF THE KILOGRAM STORED AT THE INTERNATIONAL BUEAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, THE 2019 REDEFINITION OF "SI BASE UNIT'S CAN KISS MY ASS - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
“With the rise of gen AI tools, offices have had to contend with a new scourge: ‘workslop’ or low-effort, AI-generated work that looks plausibly polished, but ends up wasting time and effort as it offloads cognitive work onto the recipient.”
hbr.org
Why People Create AI “Workslop”—and How to Stop It
With the rise of gen AI tools, offices have had to contend with a new scourge: “workslop” or low-effort, AI-generated work that looks plausibly polished, but ends up wasting time and effort as it offl...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
NEW: A progressive prosecutor in Vermont has over the years defied police union, business groups, and 'law and order' critics. Earlier this year, she didn't prosecute many people arrested during anti-ICE protests. She beat back a challenger yesterday, and is now near certain of a new term.
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With Latest Win, Progressive Vermont Prosecutor Looks to Double Down on Reforms - Bolts
Over nearly a decade in office, Burlington’s chief prosecutor Sarah George has pursued a platform of restorative justice and dialing back low-level prosecutions.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/08/2026
Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
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Hermione, Texas Granger @misterfungi.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
the Wikipedia entry for axolotls reads like a Cake song
Their heads are wide, and their eyes are lidless. Their limbs are underdeveloped and possess long, thin digits.
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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, as a child. Off panel, someone says to her, “Enjoy your youth!”
The second panel shows child Sarah again, now frowning. The person off panel continues, saying “After you’re 30 you’ll be old and your life will basically be over.”
Before the last two panels there is text that reads “LIFE AFTER I TURNED 30.”
The third panel shows adult Sarah opening a door.
The fourth panel shows the door opens to a beautiful field with flowers, a rainbow, and a pond. Sarah says “Wait what.”
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Who says cops never have to face any consequences.
Times

LA Times 4m

LA Times

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I come back to this tumblr post again and again
Tumblr post by sunderwight: The current AI situation is like if the people who were pushing NFTs had successfully gotten everyone to start referring to any and all digital transactions as an NFT, thus allowing them to pretend that things like online shopping, downloadable video games, bank transfers, etc were closely related to convincing middle-aged would-be techies to invest serious money in ugly digital paintings, and hold the former examples up in defense of the latter any time someone pointed out that the whole NFT thing was a racket. What do you mean NFTs are bad, don't you want disabled people to be able to use their phones to have medication delivered to their doorstep? Wow. Horrible of you, really.
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Christopher Wade ✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.com · 26/07/2026
Extremely underrated Satoshi Kon movie. One of my favorites of his. Its still trippy and hypnotic as Satoshi Kon is known for but its also quite beautiful, VERY in love with filmmaking and thoroughly bittersweet. Catch it when youre able!
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 25/07/2026
Mild-mannered public servant Tony Shorris is back on the scene, to the relief of the business class. And Lina Khan is also here, to their dismay.
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Welcome to Zohran’s Economic Development Corporation: We Quote David Graeber Now
Mild-mannered public servant Tony Shorris is back on the scene, to the relief of the business class. And Lina Khan is also here, to their dismay.
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Whenever someone shows you a new song that means a lot to them it’s like, I can’t stand to go, In the kitchen anymore, There’s a dried black bean from dinner…. 😞 Two nights…. before… 😔 Before the sea crashed onto our… 😞 Countertop shore And then you just have to say like. Wow.
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Ryon Frink @frink.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Let him uh cook? I mean, has anyone tried curing the gay with govt mandated all expense paid vacation?
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Ryon Frink @frink.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Do people actually enjoy success? I just feel empty. Like finishing a book. No parade. No well-earned rest. Only some quiet tears for no reason at all. Success only feels slightly better than failure, but at least failure comes with a mandate. Just me?
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
snow plow
for sale: snow plow. works good. should rhyme but doesn't. 
also available: 
- enough dough 
- freak steak
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/06/2026
Oh my god, I Elizabeth Bennet-ed Pride and Prejudice—started off real wobbly, and now I would pledge my life and heart to its service. I did the thing the book was about to the book. I— Jane Austen, you saucy little so-and-so!!!
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Ryon Frink @frink.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Teens should take over more things and be more disruptive until the adults give up and give them a place to gather.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/07/2026
Onthisday in 1789, the Bastille was stormed in Paris, a key turning point of the French Revolution. 3.5 years later Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. We look at the deluge of prints that emerged depicting his death publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8221146...
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
nice, france
A screen shot of a weather forecast for nice, france. On this date, a saturday, at 13:00, it was sunny and 69 degrees out . The graphic shows a cream colored background with grey and black text and a yellow circle depicting a sun
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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Ha ha I hate it here
From the New York Times:

It is a chaotic scene on the National Mall.
Several hundred people have refused to leave despite an order to evacuate because of severe inclement weather that is approaching. Some are even arguing with Secret Service agents. At one point, a crowd of people began running back toward the stage. An officer is sternly repeating the order over a bullhorn and the crowd is booing. Many have begun chanting "U.S.A., U.S.A." A federal law enforcement officer is trying to assure people that the event has not been canceled. Many are not convinced.
One man walking by blamed the situation on "liberals in the weather service," adding,
"I think this is baloney."
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.
A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
When people talk about taking kids' devices away w/o addressing how they have fuck all else to do, I think about the insane shit all the bored suburban kids I knew got up to before cell phones You can't just take their phones away or they're gonna get into making homemade napalm & burn a field down
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.
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