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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 5h

Peace

comic about a puppy scrolling on a phone and saying; "I don't like this ship/character/art/post/comment etc" and blocking + muting words before putting the phone down and enjoying nature

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Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.social · 2h

I keep thinking there’s a 43 that you also need to vote no on, but best practice is right here

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2h

tbc, if they try to go after omar’s citizenship, throwing elon, thiel, andreessen and that whole crew out of a helicopter back in south africa is nonnegotiable

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 3h

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

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Diana Joy @dianajoy.bsky.social · 4h

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social keeps saying, fascism isn’t coming, it’s already fucking here. This is textbook.

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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 4h

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 3h

This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)

The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.

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Zach-o'-lantern @zachlipton.com · 10/10/2026

I, personally, would not go on the record with a reporter to announce I’m in favor of destroying the playground my kid is currently loving because I drive to work once a week (and the road still wouldn’t go there anyway), but everyone lives their lives differently I guess

Ryuka, 5, said he’d prefer to keep the park — and the playground — over a road during weekdays.
“Playground,” he said softly, avoiding meeting this reporter’s gaze. “I like the ship.”
Asked what would improve the park, which sits feet from Ocean Beach, he was decisive.
“More sand,” he said, burying his hands in the stuff.
Ads separate from the “no” campaign but featured on its Instagram page (opens in new tab) argue that car crashes in District 4 have declined since the Great Highway closed and that Sunset Dunes is the city’s third-most-popular park.
Ryuka’s mom, Denise Leo, 50, supports Prop. G because it would restore the road for weekend commutes. She drives Friday mornings for work as a library aide in San Mateo and wants the option of taking the Great Highway, rather than 19th Avenue. The pathway above the highway always worked when she wanted to go for a run, anyway. Or, wait, does she oppose G?
Told that a “no” vote keeps the road closed to cars, she paused. In 2024, she pointed out, it was the “no” vote that kept the highway open.
“I’m gonna vote to open it,” she said, looking at her son. “Even though he likes it.”

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

Good for you if you missed this but if you want to be in the know: MAGA right has been pushing a conspiracy theory all day on X that Talarico checked into a mental health facility in Ohio. A MAGA activist appears to have lied to the facility about being a relative to get info & posted a recording.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 23h

every elected official they interview in this article, except derrick van orden who they lead with for some reason, had their death threats instigated & encouraged by donald trump. the country doesn't have an incivility problem, it has a maga death cult problem

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

An irony of this era is that Trump’s opponents and Trump share the same exact opinions about Trump supporters bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 @deltahead.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

please read the article, it provides important info on how ICE will be moving over the next ~45 days in california. stay alert & melt ICE

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Zelenskyy: "If President Trump really wants to have elections, tell Putin give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire -- 60 days -- and we will organize elections. Of course, we will be ready for any choice of our people."

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There are two types of people

Megatron saying: I suffered! Why shouldn’t they?

Optimus Prime saying; I suffered? Why should they?

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.

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John Breen @breen.tech · 08/10/2026

If any streaming platform shows this, none of us should ever use that platform again

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Yuri Lowenthal @yurilowenthal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

While it may seem unnecessary to many of you, today seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trans Rights Are Human Rights and the trans community will always have my axe.

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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026

more business owners need to be like this

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I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

well this is the most horrifying story out there today, what the absolute fuck (article contains graphic descriptions so be careful if you click through)

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Land of the free, home of the brave

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

does look like they've figured out how to do this effectively unfortunately. not really much you can do legally or practically to stop expanded 287(g) in places where local officials and electorate broadly support it except hope that it fucks the economy enough for money to complain.

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it

NYT: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it."

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"But landlords would lose money" I don't care. "But vax-hesitant people would feel discriminated against" I don't care. "But jilted Trump voters would feel unwelcome" I don't care. "But people who like ai would be mad" I don't care. "But that's not fair to the rich" I don't care.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To be scrupulously fair to Alito, he doesn't really believe women are people, so I guess it isn't surprising that he doesn't think they have concrete reliance interests.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.

The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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