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Kyrsten Sinema's stepbrother and former optometrist said he threw her accordion into her sump pump in part because he felt resentful of her relationship with a major airport carpet manufacturer as the search for the escaped kangaroo drags on.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17h

Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.

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generalmcmill @generalmcmill.bsky.social · 9h

I’m no military booster, but having a guy who looks and sounds like a bad corporate motivational speaker in charge is plain embarrassing.

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Thinking of that tweet re:everyone in academia knows a 60yo woman only known by her 1st name, who actually runs the dept/uni. (Which is almost at an anarchist understanding: not "make Dolores president" but "many Doloreses, no president" and "how can you Dolores too") +

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

but seriously you can’t really study history without studying science and engineering because. even if you just stick to military history; the history of war is a history of logistics and guess what that involves. boats and roads.

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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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Marc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's disheartening the number of media critiques these days that amount to: "the villain is doing bad things, I can't believe the author condones his behaviour!". The author doesn't!! That's why he's the villain!!

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

There's what DHS said...and then there's reality ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Screenshot of the first three paragraphs of the linked Balls and Strikes article, reading as follows:

On the morning of Sunday, September 20, police officers in the Chicago suburb of Evanston responded to a 911 call about a confrontation in the street. When the officers arrived, they found a man on the ground who reported injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. Soon, the officers learned that the injured man was a U.S. citizen, and his assailants were federal immigration agents.

The Department of Homeland Security put out a statement on Tuesday claiming that the beaten man “resembled the target” of an immigration enforcement operation, and that he was “not cooperative” with agents’ investigation. “Once the individual finally identified himself,” said DHS, immigration officers “left the scene without further incident.”

A video of the incident shows that immigration officers pinned the man to the ground while he repeatedly yelled, “I’m a fucking U.S. citizen,” and while concerned witnesses asked why the agents were “fucking him up.” Eventually, the agents drove off without rendering medical aid. People tried to comfort the man, who remained motionless on the ground.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What’s really peculiar about the “rapture” theology is that it’s based on a really convoluted and selective reading of scripture, dates back no further than the 19th C, is rejected by the Orthodox, Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed, and is basically contradicted by the Apostle’s Creed. But…

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 22/09/2026

*eyetwitch* *eyetwitch* MODERN English! Shakespeare wrote in MODERN English! The same English we use! Middle English is Chaucer, which you MIGHT be able to decipher a bit here and there. MAYBE. Old English (NO E) is Beowulf and is a completely fucking different language you will NOT recognize.

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generalmcmill @generalmcmill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Terrifying obstacle for families and lawyers trying to find these people.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a New Yorker is a person who lives in New York and is incredibly annoying about it

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

E.B. White established this in 1949! Move on already!

Screenshot from E.B. White's essay "Here is New York": "There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter —the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last— the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

fascists only have one move, which is to find people to blame problems on. they can't address any real problems bc that's not part of the story. they just have to find people to blame. and anybody who doesn't play along becomes somebody to blame

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

ended up talking to the 4th grader this morning about fascists, which can be hard to explain simply. i said fascists get mad the world isn't how they want, so they make up a story: things used to be good, but certain people ruined it, and if we just get rid of them everything will be good again

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generalmcmill @generalmcmill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My uncle’s earliest memory is being held up to a hospital window and told, “Look, that’s your family—wave to them!” He was hospitalized for polio, and his siblings weren’t allowed to come any closer than the parking lot.

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It brings me to tears to see people fighting for our civilization amidst *gestures at everything*

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

I HOPE you were already assuming that humans can read what you put into your AI chat bot, but just in case you weren’t, here’s confirmation that it’s an explicit part of the training.

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

yeah i mean there's a lot to disagree with in "they go low we go high" as it turns out, but "tethered to factual reality" really needs to be the touchstone. hannah arendt etc etc

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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 09/09/2026

I’ve been beating this drum since the early days of GenAI. You CANT base your dislike of AI on it looking bad, because one day it won’t. You NEED to focus on the human cost, the environmental cost, the societal cost. Those will never go away

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’M HOWLING 🤣😭🫣 (Book: The Lurker by Rosemary Victus)

“You don't understand, I never finished world-building. I can’t write until I—” “Do you just want to be a world builder?” He tilts his head. “No, I—” “Because world-building is a nice hobby but you—” the Lurker tuts. “You have said day after day you want to be a writer.” “Yes, but I can't start writing until I’ve finished the world-building… What if it doesn't make sense?” You lean your elbow on the desk before you. “What if my readers want to know how the Mage’s magic system ties into different types of trees? I have to—” “What readers?” “The readers…” You stammer. “The readers I’m going to have some day.” “The readers you’ll have when you write your book?” He taps his chin in thought.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/09/2026

no that's totally different, that's a guy

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hegelian vs predator @reachrachelkahn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AI isn't alive, you are just uniquely and profoundly capable of forming social bonds. Because you're human, and that's what our big complicated brains specialized in.

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish · 07/09/2026

The Internet is a series of rubes

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

-stop assigning moral value to food as it relates to health or your food choices. you aren't "being good" or "being bad" in selecting a food choice. -stop assigning moral values to bodies. don't think it becomes ok to do just because the bodies belong to bad people.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

kill the MAHA in your head, a non-exhaustive list: -stop using the word "chemicals" in a derogatory way. When criticizing specific types of chemicals, be specific. -stop saying "clean eating" for whatever diet you're on. food you're avoiding isn't dirty or bad just because you are avoiding it.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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binp @binp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

understandable

Bloody urine (haematurea) was recorded by Ancient Egyptians in papyri 5,000 years ago. They called it Aaa. The first scientific report

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

Periodic reminder that Gavin Newsom has been a gleeful proponent of homeless camp sweeps, one of the cruelest public policy actions ever devised.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Bob @definitelyjustbob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I work in a housing program for homeless Veterans that looks very expensive on paper until a study revealed that we saved the VA system alone $12,000/year per Veteran even after accounting for the thousands of licensed independent clinicians we fund. Cruelty always costs more than kindness.

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Lennon @lennon-s.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When i was homeless the thing that moved the needle for me (and got me from homeless to homeowner) wasn’t sweeps or drug education or “outreach” programs It was having a safe place to shower, use the restroom and store my stuff. A place to catch my breath. House the homeless.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

THE AFTER SCHOOL VILLAIN SOCIETY by Matthew Dow Smith Chapter 01 NEW CHAPTER EVERY FRIDAY!

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I know that it is deeply fraught from a policy and equality perspective, but it seems increasingly clear that there is some minimum quantity of “talk shit get hit” which is necessary for a functioning society.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"they blocked me and i never even said anything to them" buddy i have some bad news about how many people can perceive your behavior in a public setting

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A Rose In Concrete 🔞 @roseinconcrete.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

#InsertAnInvert2024 WHO ARE IN THE FALSE CRABS. The Anomura, on the right side, include: - squat lobsters (contains porcelain crabs) - more squat lobsters (contains Lomis, yeti crabs) - mole crabs - hermit crabs (contains king crabs, coconut crabs) 🦀🦑🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Gross morphology in the convergent evolution of representative true crabs (Brachyura), porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae), hairy
stone crabs (Lomisidae), and king crabs (Lithodoidea). Losses (open circles) observed in frog crabs (Raninoidea). Topology simplified from our previous papers. Body plan features are assumed to be present in the common ancestor of each marked lineage but may vary considerably within each group.
Photo credits: (A, N) Ondřej Radosta; (B, D, H, I) Tin- Yam Chan; (C, E, G, K, M) Arthur Anker; (F) Ling-Kuang Tseng; (J) Michael Marmach; (L) Darryl Felder

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For the last time, nurse sharks are not related to grey nurse sharks. Grey nurse sharks are another name for sand tiger sharks, which are not related to tiger sharks or sandbar sharks. It's easy!

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Facts like this are the main reason people should be on BlueSky

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