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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12/10/2026

An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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K a s s i e D e e @kassiedee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Response to the many, many residential school deniers.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/08/2026

So I’m gathering up my weird nature facts for the Hugo ceremony—I am the toastmaster, and this is gonna be EDUCATIONAL—and I found one that was actually a little more unsettling than I wanted. You all prepared?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

and one person choosing to demonstrate what the world COULD look like is such a scorching reproach to all the people in the world with more money even than Dolly earnestly trying to convince us that we are gullible rubes for expecting better

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

To recap: humans have done war for a long time and we developed both biological and cultural adaptations for it. Those adaptations, when placed in a modern society, make us vulnerable to fascism - they are MAL-adaptive in modernity. Consequently, we must guard against this vulnerability.

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My daughter has the cilantro=soap gene, and I feel so sad for her

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Turning the “destroy the village to save it” knob to 11

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"This might be unpopular but I'd like to discriminate against an entire class of people" If this is you, I hope the next 500 books you try to read are a disappointment.

maybe this is unpopular but I'd love libraries that kids aren't allowed in. truly don't want to be interrupted by running, crying, & yelling while i'm working/reading.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Table of Contents
Preface
List of Maps

PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA
Introduction

PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA
I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage
II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots
III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump
IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land
V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony
VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break
VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant
VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie

PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY
IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right
Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity
Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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Animal @quinnelizabeth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Anne Lamont line that goes “you don’t always have to cut with the sword of truth, sometimes you can just point with it” has been helpful for me.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Gary K. Wolf •
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica.
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica.
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 16/07/2026

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

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Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 10/07/2026

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

Absolutely shit map of a country roughly the shape of Belgium with three regions, and Brussels in the middle but absolutely nothing else is right.

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Brendan Hunt is actually a big Netherlands fan. He co-hosts the podcast “After the Whistle” which is covering the World Cup

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Zero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline: "Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine."

Passage from BBC News article:
"Around 200 lives have been saved in England so far thanks to a vaccine which protects against cervical cancer, according to analysis published in the Lancet.

The first study of its kind, external showed that deaths have fallen sharply since school-age girls were offered the human papillomavirus (HPV) jab in 2008.

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24 - the first time that had happened over a five-year period.

Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected."

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Only because I used Option+Shift+Hyphen on a Mac…

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

What? Triads are an AI thing, allegedly? IIRC I was taught as a kid to try to give examples or make points in a triad (without being taught the name). Plus three always seems like a good number: two isn’t general enough and four is too many.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Go check out the whole announcement - including the cover reveal, which you don't want to miss. But in the meantime, here's my two cents.

An excerpt from the announcement, which is a quote from me. It reads:

My trigger finger’s been itching for years, and now here we are—back in the saddle, riding hell-for-metal into certain doom. I wrote Upright Women Wanted as a story about what it’s like to start getting involved in a well-established movement. Downright Scoundrels Needed is about what it’s like to decide you’re not going down without a fight, a profit, and a body count. This one’s bloody, filthy, and a lawyer has advised me to tell you I don’t endorse any of the actions taken in it. But that lawyer isn’t here right now, so draw your own conclusions. And whatever you do, remember: Don’t get caught.

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A consultant told me that the government of Manitoba probably wasn’t a big enough organization to really justify SAP

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I worked for the government of Manitoba for a couple years nearly 20 years ago. They had an SAP-first policy: if there was an SAP module for whatever, that was the default preferred option. Basically needed to justify the use of SAP.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I’ve followed this story for its absurdity and as an illustration of how police lie and bully the public they are supposed to protect. Only after national media attention do they withdraw a case of accusing a woman of something she can’t possibly have done… cbs12.com/news/local/f...

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Charges dismissed for woman without right hand cited for holding phone while driving

A traffic citation issued to a woman who said she was accused of holding a phone in a hand she does not have has been dismissed.

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

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Leave Me Behind | Android Essence

Simplified Android Development

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Ooh, this sounds good. My library has three copies, and I’m 60th in line 😂

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Danielle Welch for Congress (NY-03) @votewelch.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

With 'Israel and Palestine' trending at #1 on Mother's Day, let me say James Baldwin had it exactly right: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." 🧵

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

A summation of the situation where people are directed to focus their ire at fraudulent benefit claimants rather than at the rich who are the cause of all poverty.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 04/05/2026

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

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ALSO, it's not just little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits," it's "the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed." Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras.
Bra-makers sent us to the moon.
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn't use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you're within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you're usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I feel *so* called out by this thread…

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I mean, I got an A+ on the blood test…

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Graham Davison @grahamdavison.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Oh no… I did this for my first few eye exams, then realized it was self-defeating. Probably partly denial of age-related vision loss

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Paul Philion @acmerocket.com · 25/04/2026

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.” - Douglas Adams

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