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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's such a degraded and reductive notion of what consciousness is, what being alive is, what humanity is, tailored to their skillset and toolbox. Serious scholars of consciousness often seem to conclude that consciousness is inherently embodied.

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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 4h

The theory that we need to immunise big AI companies from liability, or else China wins, is literally the national socialism of risk - the privatisation of profit. If your company poses existential risk, the company should - at the least - suffer existential liability. In case anyone survives.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5h

If you don't live in DC, may be hard to appreciate scale of nihilist, grifter-based desecration of what has always distinguished the nation's capital, and what so many people have worked so hard for so long to sustain and improve. Backhoe-based counterpart to wartime damage we see in news footage.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 6h

“A politicized Department of Justice erodes the rule of law,” writes @barbmcquade.bsky.social “Our society becomes less safe and less just, allowing the powerful to prey upon the vulnerable.” share.inquirer.com/OamclM. Part of the @inquirer.com series called “The Case for Impeachment.”

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 6h

Banks of the Seine in the spring - 1887 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…

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Geomantic @geomantic8.bsky.social · 6h

Hooray, can’t wait to try it out. #openstreetmap

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20h

raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

washington square park

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Chez Andre @avezina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The United States is now a colony of the Russian Empire, everything make sense now, the War in Iran, the red carpet in Alaska, the attempt to destroyed NATO, everything. Comrade USA.

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 22h

Patio Door with Green Leaf, 1956 #okeeffe #precisionism

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 06/10/2026

It’s not just ‘we believe other people’s suffering is a price worth paying for our product succeeding’, it’s that they think it’s worth paying regardless of what anyone else thinks & without asking. We should just accept what they want, even if we suffer, for no reason other than that they want it.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is how I'd like to remember him

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The NY Times framing every fascist as tough strong & brilliant, and not a dumb racist liar, is one of many ways the NY Times tells Democrats that they are Not On Our Side, and Dems mostly choose not to listen

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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News

A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Vote no and take the dough.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is just kidnapping children

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In one month from now Trump will be openly seeking to overturn the Nov 3 results. We all know that is coming. That is why Democratic AGs should announce now that if anyone tries to interfere in their election--including Trump-they will prosecute under state law. Trump can't pardon state crimes!

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I remember the global condemnation when the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas...

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Buddhas of Bamiyan - Wikipedia

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spot-on piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social. NYT's sensibilities are out of sync with leftward-moving political landscape and current crises. Perry notes,"We need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal," not those prescribed by NYT moderate liberalism. newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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Liberals Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A chart covering the latest Kushner/Witkoff grift.

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well. More importantly, life evolved to see in “visible light” because it’s the wavelengths of light that the Sun produces that life uses to see by, which I believe is the narrower constraint www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physi...

A graph of the Sun’s black body radiation at 5900K, which peaks at about 500 nm and has a long tail to longer wavelengths, such that it’s at half its peak height at about 300 and 800nm; but the short wavelength end is cut off by atmospheric absorption

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Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There has been a wave of book bannings in recent years -- but it could get worse, as the German playwright Heinrich Heine famously observed in his 1821 play Almansor: “Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.” bit.ly/4i3d6K7 #BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead

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Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

Calls for, or at least predictions of, revolution or civil war have been common on the religious and political Right for decades. This has been particularly so among leaders of the Christian revivalis...

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 03/10/2026

House with Red Roof, 1890 #cezanne #paulcezanne

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2026 Maine Fall Foliage Tour

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Essentially a billion bird night. #birds #fall #migration

BirdCast map showing 873.7 million birds in flight at 12:30AM EDT on October 3, 2026.

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Trump administration is exploring a multibillion-dollar oil deal with Russia that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main US negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

America’s biggest political problem is rightwing billionaires

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Joshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Phosphor now supports bivariate color palettes! 👉 www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/ Bivariate palettes can be exported directly to #ArcGISPro styles, #RStats (using biscale), and #QGIS (via the Bivariate plugin).

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks. And this is a discussion I encourage you to listen to. One of our best and most important.

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It takes years of training to perfect this manoeuvre. #WorldBollardAssociation

An NYPD police car balances its rear wheel in a black bollard leaving the car stranded in the air.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're trying to "solve art" you're either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil. Art isn't a problem, it's a solution

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nowhere in the Trump account legislation does it allow auto-enrollment or say anything about enrollment procedures at all, just so you know the way that John Roberts will justify his 6-3 decision blocking auto-enrollment of kids into Medicare

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026

Politburo vibes.

Soviet premier Nikolai Khrushchev, with his successor Leonid Brezhnev seated beside him (to the left), stands and addresses microphones at a Politburo meeting.

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Davor Mondom @dmondom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Engels begging Marx to finish even one volume of Capital while he's starting flame wars at two in the morning

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Confront Sillicon Valley “effective altruist” sex pests by repeatedly whacking them on the head with a hardback, three-volume copy of Kant’s three critiques.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

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DOGE vs. Civic Tech

As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure

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