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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 23h

the fundamental thing wrong with this ai-driven "hyper personalization" pipe dream is that your preferences are constantly changing, primarily in response to experiencing things that are different from your current preferences and expectations, through this little-known process called Living.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look at these gains. Raises. AI protection. LFG.

Unionized Inquirer employees will receive a one-time $5,577 payment before taxes within 30 days of ratifying the contract. They will get a 4% wage increase and a $1,000 bonus in the second year, and another raise in year three.
The amount of that last pay bump varies between 2.25% and 4%, with lower-paid members getting the higher rates.
“This is our third consecutive contract with pay raises at The Inquirer, following a decade of layoffs and furloughs,” said Guild president Marin. “These are meaningful raises too.”
Vacation time will also accrue more quickly, with new Guild employees starting with three weeks per year.

Healthcare costs have been on the rise for many Americans, and under the Inquirer’s new union contract, members will see their weekly rates increase for the first time in 20 years, according to the union. Despite the increase, the union says it worked to keep rates low. Guild members’ contributions to their health plans will increase by $7.50 to $12.50 per week in year two of the contract.

Under the new deal, The Inquirer may not use any AI generated videos or images that appear realistic “for editorial purposes.” The contract bars The Inquirer from using AI to mimic employees without their explicit consent.
Employees also have the right to have their byline removed from any content that is AI generated.
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Under the contract, Guild members must be included in developing, training, and maintaining AI tools. Union employees must be involved in creating or otherwise verifying any AI-generated content.
» READ MORE: WHYY workers get better wages and protections against AI in new contract
The Inquirer will also put together an AI Advisory Committee in collaboration with the union, which will meet on a monthly basis. The group is expected to discuss “the implementation of AI-generated and AI-assisted editorial content, the implementation of AI tools for internal company purposes, and updates to the Employer’s AI usage policies.”

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TJPW @tjpw2013.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The visual for the Princess Tag Team Championship Match at WRESTLE PRINCESS Ⅶ is complete! The four of them are admiring a true work of art drawn by Miu herself. 🎨 They’re all facing away from the camera, so… try to imagine the expressions on their faces. #tjpw #tjpwWP7

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Crispy-Ghee✨️ @crispy-ghee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE One of my favorite scenes from O Brother Where Art Thou. I figured I should try to draw all 3 of the Soggy bottom boys, why not. #art #comic

🍳 A messy comic of a scene from O Brother Where Art Thou. Delmar and Everett are in a movie theater looking behind them in their seats. Delmar is saying " We thought you was a Toad" to a confused looking Pete (surrounded by question marks).

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Emi Sakura's post about PAC is breaking my heart

The first time I spoke with him was in Ireland in 2018. When you're living in an English-speaking country, Japanese suddenly reaches your ears in a startling way. Our conversations always started with his "Otsukaresamade-su." Backstage, I wouldn't sense his presence at all, but then those words would arrive right by my ear like the wind. And so I'd search for him. There's no English phrase that translates it just right—its meaning encompasses hello, long time no see, glad to see you, good work, goodbye, good night, see you later, and all sorts of other things rolled into one. I think it's the kind of greeting that comes from the way he's confronted pro wrestling in Japan. It's time. As always, I grab my bag and climb into the car. I can't believe the show goes on. Today and from here on out, forever, I know I'll keep straining to listen. Thank you, PAC.

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KieranEdits @kieranedits.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So stop. The easiest thing in the world to do is stop doing something.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We never imagined how far that dream would travel, into homes, into hearts, into the way generations imagined what we could still become. In a world that often feels as divided as ever, maybe that's exactly why we need it now: a reminder that unity was always the point.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Movie night in Gaza. ❤️🇵🇸

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JaneSlainLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

THE PRESTIGE (2006), Dir. Christopher Nolan

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

any statement like ‘Gen z have no literacy/cannot write/spell/communicate’ that is not also coupled with ‘their means of learning has been eradicated by tech fascism and government removal of funding’ is not worth listening to or boosting. the kids are living under the regime we allowed

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Drea @forgotaboutdrea.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No what do you MEAN Bryan actually pushed Nigel out for the final two matches and accidentally went the wrong way?! 🤣

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Adameus Mantooth @adameusjmantooth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Years ago from pro wrestling crate

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 28/08/2026

With Metal Gear Solid 4 being rereleased today I’m seeing renewed arguments over whether Metal Gear Solid 4 is good or bad, which is silly because at the end of the day, it’s Metal Gear Solid 4. It exists beyond our binary understands of quality

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26/08/2026

you don't get to make a massive profit off of mass indiscriminate industrialized surveillance and executions of vulnerable human beings and then lecture any fucking body on anything

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Bok3 @gingeadam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Actually watched this video yesterday in amazement at him almost cracking on some of these wonderful lines.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gonna keep telling this story. I watched an hour long "How To Write An AI Novel" how to video out of curiosity and I shit you not, 60% of the video was about how to trick Claude into writing something that didn't look like it was AI. If genAI is a tool, it's core audience uses it mostly for fraud.

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026

Hellllllll yeah. www.criterion.com/films/36058-...

Cover art for the Criterion version of KPop Demon Hunters

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And I say this as an unapologetic grown man who's still into Warhammer. The important difference being that Games Workshop haven't announced that their billions will be used in the persecution of a vulnerable minority. If they did I'd drop it so hard and so fast there'd be a crater.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just remember this message is aimed at your children not theirs.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/04/2026

Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 1: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 2: But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who
"prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces.
The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams.
Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.
We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren't attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I'd take a bite of a friend's salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I'd never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.

Metafilter post from Dee Xtrovert: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"A solar eclipse. The cosmic ballet goes on."

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Old DeuTaranomy🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 10/08/2026

...adding this to my slides for my talk on Wednesday

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

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Austin Wood @woodwould.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

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"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?

"So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat"

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Allan @allancheapshot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Antonio Inoki demonstrates the manji-gatame on a young Nobuhiko Takada for NHK’s 600 Kochira Jōhōbu. Inoki explains how he refined the hold with Karl Gotch to trap the leg, arm and neck. Takada taps, while the presenter calmly asks how it feels and requests more pressure.

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

wait THIS IS CRAZY

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Alyssa Negvesky @alyssanegvesky.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The iPhone camera gods blessed me today with this photo during the DC fireworks show so I thought I’d share

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

At the heart of the Reform project are allegations of big money buying influence. They wrap themselves in the flag while selling our future. We can be in no doubt about what they'd do in power. They would rip apart our communities and serve their crypto paymasters.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

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Me! (she, her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @meteorgirl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Why does Scotland suddenly need 24 mega data centres. What the fuck is going on? This has to be stopped in its tracks. No compromises, just no.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

the year is 2030 and you need a face scan, retinal scan, voice scan and to answer 20 questions about your family, health and employment history every time you use the computer. but don’t worry your personal data is safe with Butterfingers Corp in partnership with The Dark Web

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON RETURNS 21/6/26 ⚔️ Catch me as Lohar the pirate in the action packed new season!

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maffew going to MAGFest @maffewgregg.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

oh man this scared the hell out of me when i first played ff7

kevin nash's troll face while commentating on thunder suddenly appears like the shroud of turin

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Susan @suziqleathers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fck Data Centers!!

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

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Fats Falafel @fatsfalafel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Nobody: Tony Schiavone in 1997:

Youtube thumbnail from In Deep Geek titled "how powerful is Sting?"

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

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