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mr pussy (prison arc) @nat.haus · 30/09/2026

there's this new trend with furnishing retailers where they're referring to all-foam furniture without internal beam structures as "boneless" and I think that's so.... fucked up isn't the word.... you know, I don't have any words that feel right for the feeling it gives me

Boneless 119" Modern Curved Sectional Sofa Compression Modular Sofa Couch (photo: modern looking very smooth couch that sits right on the floor. $920)

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Our printer is broken AGAIN! We need a new one!” Ma’am, someone unplugged something important while trying to find the waste toner container and here’s the event logs to prove it. “You gave me a broken laptop!” The privacy shutter over the camera is closed, just slide it open.

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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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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s far too early for people to be making me send “please phrase your question in the form of a question” emails. Screenshots without further explanation don’t constitute a question, barely even a statement.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

happy birthday to the best to ever do it

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 27/09/2026

Guys I don’t think the president of the United States knows what he’s doing.

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Tarlton @tarlton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Paul McCartney in the shining: woke up got outta bed, hugged a ghoul and bonked me head

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Sorry bro, this is a Red Bull shop”

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is how we end up with Tech Priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus needing to perform the Ritual of Ignition to appease the Machine Spirits.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Things fall apart.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the Pope is immune to psychic damage until you take out the Orb. the Orb respawns 45 seconds after you kill it, so there's only a brief window; frontload your infohazards

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:

realtimetechpocalypse.com

Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That’s… not how any of that works. This isn’t merely wrong, it’s a non-sequitur.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Despite pledges by foreign companies and nations to invest in the United States — in many cases to curry favor with the White House — capital is starting to seek alternative destinations." 😯 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“.. J.B. Hunt doesn’t typically provide explicit financial guidance. But the company is experiencing ‘some of the most radical and abnormal swings in fuel prices’ ever.” @barrons.com $JBHT www.barrons.com/articles/jb-...

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026

“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

important to note that the prospect of human extinction makes them Horny

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"moderator of r/doordash by the reddit username u/i_love_femboys6969 attempts to commit an act of terror on behalf of ISIS" is the most 21st century headline I've ever read.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well, every time somebody posts this, me & my drummer get tagged, so, preemptively: mountain goats are wild, majestic animals. The Mountain Goats are a band. Out of respect to our namesake, we do lick pee from rocks when we’re in a national park, but nobody ever airlifts us anywhere. We walk home

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

Busta Rhymes popping an entire bubble with one line has to be added to his resume

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For parents who tolerate their kids' existence.

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As an elder millennial myself, history ended at WW2, at the most recent, in all of my formal schooling. Conveniently leaving out things like the Civil Rights movement, for example.

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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

all you fucks with giant ass ungodly trucks how you going to feel about $7 a gallon bitches

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Mike Sager @mikesager.net · 10/09/2026

They built a feature without thinking about how it would work. This is just idiots testing in production on an internet connected server. The answer to stop this idiocy is to use existing laws and legal resources to go after the humans who did this. Stop assigning agency to tools.

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Mike Sager @mikesager.net · 10/09/2026

If you write a math program to predict text fairly accurately and then build a layer to run other programs, and then spec your programs to use your language layer and design a task for it to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities, it is going to do that using vulnerable websites.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

so this is like 1.4 trillion dollars in debt when we're being told ... what were we being told?

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ChriSCREAMa Stephens (🐯🏈💜💛) @christinastephens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s his emotional support trash.

A black and white mini Aussie lies on trash he has pulled from a container

A blurred photo of a mini Aussie with trash

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EEK! Semper Tyrannis! 🕸️🦇🍬🍫 @nicksempertyrannis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For whoever needs to know, the best $40 polearm available at your local hardware store is called a "Brush Axe" or "Bush Axe."

A brush axe, which is basically a hook-ended, two-sided machete sticking straight off the end of a three-foot axe handle.

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The Not Chaotic Cherub 😇 @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

Today on stories that are supposed to be heartwarming but become an indictment of a very f*cked up society when you think about it longer than 3 minutes:

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

pretty hate machine voice: INFLATABLE SLIDE

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I heard about the first plane from the Bob and Tom show, playing on my alarm clock radio. Went to the kitchen and told my mom to turn on the news, just in time to see the second plane hit in real time. I said, “whelp, someone just started a war,” and then left for my first class.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026

They all want to be the Oppenheimer of Death Star Ouija boards and that is not something you should want to be, even though it's a very silly fantasy

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026

I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026

We believe we are actively creating an extinction event for humanity. We will not be asking your county planning board for zoning variances because fuck you. Why are you being so hostile

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In news that will surprise absolutely no one in HE... ‘It notes that institutions “routinely” hire consultancies for these restructures as well as change management specialists, however, these processes often introduce additional management layers, “adding cost rather than removing it”…’

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What, and I cannot stress this enough, THE FUCK? This definitely sounds like a cult.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 07/09/2026

mike pondsmith in the 90s writing Cyberpunk 2020: i created the concept of Cyberpsychosis as a cautionary tale about losing one's humanity through contact with technology openAI: at long last, we have created the Cyberpsychosis from famous role-playing game Don't Get Cyberpsychosis, Idiot

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very informative thread about how corrosively Amazon us using its monopoly power: A reminder (to myself as much as anyone), if you can't get off Amazon, you can at least use it less.

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