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“People who love animals once loved people.” - Howard Moss Ancient, gay, occasionally nsfw. 2+ decades with this guy bsky.app/profile/where-we-are.bsky.…

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2h
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 2h
Goddamn. Waking up to find were post literacy.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 18h
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 30/09/2026
The secret to American tech domination isn’t innovation; it’s lawlessness.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I didn’t believe it at first, either. (via David Sacks)
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Greek life is so cool because, even if they aren't cooking meth in the basement and some are, they create similar disincentives to blow the whistle or confront other members as the mafia: doing the right thing risks blowing up your housing situation, current social life, and future networks.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026
DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT
I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah. Fuck John Roberts.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s been almost 35 years and I’m still having panicky nightmares about unfinished undergraduate coursework and not getting my degree. I’ve completed graduate school and had decades of professional experience in that time. w😬t😱f🫠
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 20 years the cultural divide between people who can and cannot actually read is going to be so, so dramatic
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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 29/09/2026
this feeling is just depression
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this 1/3
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Better Things Are Possible @internet... • 8h
It's good that we invented things like
"government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support

Better Things Are Possible @internet... • 8h
It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point 3/3
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Texas Tribune, one of the most reliable news outlets in Texas, just named the ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Gregory Feathers www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Archaeologists excavating near Naousa in northern Greece recently uncovered a roughly 2,400-year-old school complex, or gymnasium. The site which stood in the ancient Macedonian town of Mieza, may have been where Aristotle taught in the 4th century B.C.E.” 🚨 allthatsinteresting.com/greece-ancie...
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Archaeologists In Greece Found An Ancient School Complete With Intact Benches Where Students Like Alexander The Great Listened To Lectures More Than 2,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists excavating near Naousa uncovered a 2,400-year-old school that's believed to be where Aristotle taught a young Alexander the Great.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lol @pupamp.bsky.social
L->R: Sampson, Pup Amp and Mr. Kristopher
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People are only reading the dialogue in books to meet their reading goals. Yep, you read that right because you DIDN’T skip over my post because it wasn’t dialogue.
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How are people reading so many books?
YouTube video by Hidden Rabbits
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CEO: I have invented the off button.
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eyes up here, buddy.
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Dana McKay @danachatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These are the (mostly men) who are creating the tech that shapes our lives. Making it difficult for women who expect consent to be normative to be part of the conversation changes the world for all of us
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Uh, sure, Jan
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
this is a very good thread
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every so often I remember that motherfucker stole sensitive, highly classified documents and kept them hidden in his bathroom next to a gold toilet.
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
9 out of 10 of my job interview invitations on UpWork are to edit and revise content written by AI.
Job details
Content Writer for an Affordable Housing Media Platform (Newsletter, LinkedIn + Blog)
Article & Blog Writing
Posted Sep 27, 2026
What we do
We're LIHTC Leaders, a media platform for the US affordable housing industry, with our job board at the center of it. Developers, lenders, syndicators and anyone with an affordable housing focus pay us to put their open roles in front of our audience. Since launching in November 2024, we've grown to 13K+ industry professionals following us on Linkedin, and every week we publish Placed in Service, a newsletter on the deals, policy and people moving the industry.
What we need
Someone to give our content a human voice.What we need
Someone to give our content a human voice.
Most of our newsletter is researched and drafted by Al. It's fast and thorough, and it reads like it. We need a person who makes it sound like someone who knows the industry and cares about it. And on Linkedin, someone with ideas for giving our audience a reason to stop scrolling.
The work
1. The newsletter. Each week, Placed in Service arrives as an Al-drafted issue: the stories chosen, the facts pulled, the
summaries written. Your job is the human pass.
Pick the story that should lead. Find the angle that makes a deal worth reading. Rewrite the lines that sound like a machine. Cut what a busy reader would skip. Every name, number and date still gets checked against the source, because Al gets those wrong in ways that sound confident.
2. Linkedin. Anything that engages our audience: job alerts, industry news, stories from the newsletter, polls, questions, takes on what's happening in housing, people and projects worth celebrating. We have templates and a voice guide to start from, and we want you to go past them. Pitch ideas, try formats, watch what lands.3. The blog. Our Library of explainers and industry pieces is drafted with Al and research, like the newsletter. You give each post the same human pass: tighten it, make it readable, check the facts, and turn each one into a few Linkedin posts. Over time, you'll pitch and draft new topics yourself. You'll also work with guest contributors, people from the industry who want to write for us: coordinating their pieces, editing them into our style, and getting them published on the platform.
4. Learning the industry. Early on, a lot of the job is reading. By month two you should be able to tell an award announcement from a groundbreaking, a 4% deal from a 9% one, and why our readers care about each. We'll teach you.
You'll start with work in hand: a backlog of finished drafts ready to go out (spotlights, blog posts, Linkedin posts, guides) and a running list of content ideas.
This list is a starting point. Some of it will get automated, and new things will come up. We're looking for someone who wants the scope to grow.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We should not assume our social connection is a guarantee of virtue, particularly when people present difference faces to different people.
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This Backrooms sequel looks terrible.
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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#caturday Kitty almost dies falling down the stairs
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amazing stuff.
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Siegfried Woldhek
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey now scritches are my job
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's Laura Rutledge explaining that the secret service will not interfere with the radio communications at this game immediately followed by the broadcast audio going to hell
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mood
From VintageLifelnBnW community on Reddit: man sitting in a ridiculously small wood tub bathing while another man washed his back; they are outside near a brick building with broken windows
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Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mariticide is on the menu today.
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