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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 15h

As a fun exercise I thought it would be useful to game out the worst-case midterm scenarios for Democrats. Consider this a form of exposure therapy to reduce one’s worst fears. For today, it’s about whether the polling is systematically overrating the Dems. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/exposure-t...

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Exposure Therapy for Democrats, Part One

Democrats are rolling towards the midterms right now. Is it a mirage? Could it change? Assessing the worst-case scenarios for November.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I searched for Pearl Jam’s “Black” on Spotify and the suggested playlist was “Depressed Dad Rock” and I it’s too early to in the morning to feel attacked like this. Not wrong though.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watching 7-up for the first time and it is incredible how even at the age of 7 those kids knew their place. The English class system is absolutely vile.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pretty impressive data viz

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I know the birthday paradox is so counterintuitive but it gets even worse when you increase the probability. You need 23 people in a room to have a 50% likelihood that two of them share a birthday but you only need 82 for the probability to be 99.99%.

You need 23 people in a room for the probability of two sharing a birthday to be >50% but you only need 82 for the probability to be 99.99%

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was talking about the plot of final destination with my 12-year-old daughter and she asked me what age the kids were in the movie and if they were 8 to 10 years old. I had a visceral reaction to the idea of making this movie with kids that young. It was horrifying.

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David Shor @davidshor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We cross-referenced the psychometric personality data of ~ 1 million people with their zodiac astrological signs: 1) There is a small but statistically significant effect of zodiac sign on personality controlling for demographic and attitudinal variables

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New development in the social video-era trend of “filming the radio announcer as he makes a big call” The Westwood One clip of Kevin Harlan calling Drake Maye’s game losing pick has the disappointed Pats coaching staff in the back

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Is there a Doctor of Semantics on board? We urgently need a Doctor of Semantics!

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this …. makes sense

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New supernova (SN2026 aaiv) in NGC 7331 Video showing the appearance of the new supernova. Each frame is a stack from ~2 hours of exposures captured through RGB filters to see it in color. 📸 Andrew McCarthy x.com/AJamesMcCart...

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 01/09/2026

today you should read @radleybalko.bsky.social's hair-raising, vital investigation of a pair of outrageous charlatans who got a guy sent to death row based on evidence they falsified by desecrating a toddler's corpse:

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The framing of Chris Duncan

Part One: “You won’t believe the videotape we have.”

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Traffic to bookstores is up, new stores are opening all over the country but there are still think-pieces talking about how we are in a post-literate society. None of those journalists actually spoke to the people making a livelihood out of books - this article does.

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What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I asked a urologist today about the risk of a patient's kidney stones moving into their urinary tract and obstructing their kidney and he said that they were "one cartwheel away" which I thought was brilliant (and accurate).

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

tbqh everyone should use the browser's provided password manager. It is consistently better than every third party service

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026

“I need a detective. I also need you to listen to this mixtape. It’ll change your life.” She handed me a plastic cartridge, and—like the fool I am—I took it. I muttered back. “I don’t have a cassette player.” “Good, because that’s not a cassette. I use 8-Track for all my mixes.

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My Manic Pixie Dream Femme Fatale

“Her legs went all the way up to the fringe of her babydoll dress. Presumably further than that, but that’s where the bright polka dots distracted me from th...

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The last German POW in the US. Georg Gaertner escaped from a POW camp in 1945 because he was afraid he would be given to the soviets. He lived in the West working as a ski and tennis instructor, got married and eventually moved to Hawaii. His wife eventually convinced him to come forward in 1985

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Georg Gaertner - Wikipedia

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Reading Mike Wallace’s last book about New York -“Gotham at War”. It starts with the response in NY to the rise of the Nazi regime. I hadn’t realized that boycotts against the Nazis had started as early as 1933 in response to their antisemitism. Even then people were aware of just how bad they were

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/08/2026

"You said it’s an 'easy trail.' I’ve learned that hikers use “easy” the way restaurants use 'family style.' It means someone is lying. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ill...

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I’ll Give You Fifteen Thousand Dollars to Stop Asking Me to Go Hiking

“You insist hiking is about ‘the journey.’ That’s exactly what worries me. Any activity whose fans tell you the destination doesn’t matter is admitting somet...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.

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Governor Maura Healey @massgovernor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We will always love you, Dolly 💕 The Longfellow, Burns, Fore River, Braga, and Zakim bridges are lit up pink tonight in honor of the Queen of Country.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Went to a Red Sox game with daughter no. 2 while my wife went to the musical “Six” with daughter no. 1. Worked out perfectly and the Sox won.

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of my favorite things about Mayo winning the All-Ireland finally is that someone wrote a book in 2007 about the curse and how miserable it was to lose so many times + they went on to lose another 7 finals before they finally won. I don’t think there will ever be anything like it in sports again

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.

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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My station has broken 30c and likely now an official station will record 30c making it the 4th month this year to have recorded 30c or above. The previous record was 2 months!

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Really interesting video about where AI citations will send you www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAoaSB15/

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just so we all have the information

TikTok video by Deana Burke

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's almost like not all rich people value tax avoidance at the expense of everything else in their lives! Just the anti-social unpatriotic selfish jerks, and there aren't that many who will actually pack up and move.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"BlueSky can't read" is undefeated in these replies

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I can’t imagine that the phone calls they are going to get are going to be anything productive.

Boston globe asking people to call and leave messages about the Clancy trial.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is a good way to explain the issue to law students. And, for that matter, to practitioners who are unfamiliar with the tech. It's also, in my experience, correct. Most models now get most of the basic rules mostly correct most of the time. But they are total dogshit at nuance.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 09/08/2026

A blistering reminder that only 5 U.S. states provide air conditioning in all prison units. And states like Texas and Florida, known for sweltering heat, are not among them:

Color-coded U.S. map showing which states provide air conditioning in their prisons. Only New Mexico, Nebraska, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Kentucky provide AC in all units.

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gearoidmm @gearoidmm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Juxtastat 1069 5/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

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