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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I feel like famed UCLA coach John Wooden told us everything we need to know about AI- "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
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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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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Tatiana Gill @tatsgill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I got vaxxed! I made a same-day appointment and it took less than 10 minutes. The pharmacist told me it’s really going around right now. Stay safe friends! 😷💉
Drawing of Tatiana dressed as a superhero with a band aid on each arm. Text says, “I got vaxxed! Covid, Flu. Covid is at high level in WA.”
The superhero is thinking “I’m a good damn hero.*” and underneath “* totally did it for myself, but it also protects others!”
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 24/09/2026
in which I get real pissy about Newsom enabling the Paramount merger, vetoing protections for abortion & gender affirming care providers, and pulling policy fakeout after fakeout while acting like he's the saving grace of the left
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 25/09/2026
San Francisco has, at long last, revealed two potential successor names for Cesar Chavez St. Here they are: missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...
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San Francisco unveils two new names for Cesar Chavez Street
Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco could become either "Sí Se Puede" or "Las Campesinas" after sexual assault allegations.
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HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A pair of small occlupanids who inhabit the rarified ecological habitat of gashapons and similar toy microclimates. Diagonalobus sasa has an especially unique palpular arrangement, with the lesser distal and proximal palps entirely absent. Specimens submitted by FORC occlupanologist D. Mendoza.
Species card depicting Japanese archignathid occlupanid Diplacofelis kogata, "Miniature folding cat". Kogata is the Japanese word for "small" or "compact".Species card depicting Japanese archignathid occlupanid
Diagonalobus sasa, "Sasa's diagonal lobes"Host entity of D. kogataHost entity of D. sasa
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At the time—before a video could be streamed—I got the transcript for this and published it.
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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 21/09/2026
If I could live inside that Sherlock Holmes game, I’d be so very happy. It’s likely that game is partially to blame for my passion for warm-toned interiors and lights. So very brown! 🤎
Nine games that shaped who I am:

Radar Rad Race (Commodore 64)
Summer Games II (Commodore 64)
Legend of Zelda (NES)
Kid Icarus (NES)
Leisure Suit Larry 2 (PC)
King’s Quest 6, I think? (PC)
Monkey Island 2 (PC)
Sherlock Homes and the Case of the Serrated Scalpel (PC)
Grim Fandango (PC)
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
r/crafts has banned all Harry Potter-related crafts due to JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry, after a 53-41 vote
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From the crafts community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the crafts community
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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 21/09/2026
As I get older and my understanding of life expands and deepens, I’m finding that any 5-second bit of anything David Byrne is doing will grip my heart and seize my soul. (Okay, this one sounds maybe a little sledgehammer-over-the-head, but honestly a sledgehammer is warranted.)
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.
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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 20/09/2026
Serious question, and I'd like sources. Are there any dems currently running in the midterms that have *strongly* spoken out about the following. 1. Restoring abortion rights 2. (Pro) Immigration 3. Climate Change
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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 19/09/2026
For my birthday, I got to go to Omnivore Books, a sweet little bookstore in SF’s Noe Valley that is just for cookbooks. Picked up six books, six was a theme. Mostly books about using seasonal produce, plus some pasta books, and a baking book.
Six cookbooks:

- Six California Kitchens, by Sally Schmitt
- Six Seasons of Pasta (signed), by Joshua McFadden
- Making Artisan Pasta, by Aliza Green
- Sift, by Nicola Lamb
- Six Seasons (signed), by Joshua McFadden
- Salade II, by Pascale Beale
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
we're facing existential threats from inattentive or lazy work, as well as burnout, fatigue, low sleep — stuff that requires the kind of regulation of working conditions that the tech industry has been ambivalent on, because management was psychotic and workers were happy with the fancy cafeteria
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Weyodi OldBear- The Root and The Seed is available. @weyodi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1. The REAL danger of now having AI embedded in everything not that the program will become "super intelligent". The best analogy is Doge. The danger is the "Doging" of everything. The AI programs are too big to be understood and maintained properly and embedded in too many vital services (cont.)
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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 15/09/2026
OMG I've been using YouTube for years and never knew about the "," and "." keys as frame advance keys!
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aaron @imaaronrobert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
rip bob mackie 😭🤍✨
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worried about the threat of AI to humanity? There's a simple solution. Engineers, Q/A workers, and scientists creating AI can UNIONIZE to take charge of how their research is being used. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social explains it all for you. open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
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Unionize AI
Is a strike less realistic than building a doomsday machine on purpose?
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bewilderingly @bewilderingly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
new themed puzzle on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/09/puzz...
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Puzzle #268: Cultural Barrier
Back again with a themed puzzle - happy solving ( pdf , puz , pdf solution , fullscreen link )!
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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Thread. Read it.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet: I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort
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John Lieb @boswords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fall is coming ... and with it comes the Boswords 2026 Fall Themeless League! Registration is open at boswords.org. The brilliant constructors below have fun and vibrant puzzles for you! Come solve with us in October and November!
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Talia @adrestalia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don't really have any additional thoughts to add to this intellectually, I just want to have it in the sightline of everyone who claims to be an ally 24/7 for the next year or so.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 12/09/2026
seen at my son's high school
A flyer that says “Know Your Rights! Teachers Must Provide Work Without AI Upon Request!”
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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I tried to track down the 12 Black-owned public houses mentioned in 1854 San Francisco. Didn't get as far as I wanted but learned about The Anathaeum. alcademics.com/12-black-own...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I write for a living and I do everything I can to avoid using “lay / lie.” It’s just too much pressure.
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Strong Bad @strongbadnofoolin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Crime Scene Tamperer! OUT NOW New party card game from Greater Than Games and HSR! Pin crimes on friends! Get it here: greaterthan.games/products/cri... and mess with the soundboard here: cst.homestarrunner.com
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surfdude29 @surfdude29.ispost.ing · 10/09/2026
@koshersoul.bsky.social's #Smithsonian experience with alt text 💫
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 10/09/2026
As a parent of a trans kiddo - medical care for trans care is clear, has medical recommendations, and does not need you sticking your nose into the business. The only debate is an existential one. Either you support trans people, or you think they don't deserve to exist. Everything else is noise.
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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 09/09/2026
“Two-player hide and seek game ‘Sound Mind’ for the Playdate as part of the upcoming Season 3 sounds intriguing, but I don’t think I really understand it.” That’s okay! I don’t, either! Don’t even worry about it! play.date/games/sound-...
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Sound Mind for Playdate
A two-player hide-and-seek game about getting the most from your inheritance.
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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 09/09/2026
Hey, get a load of the Playdate Update this morning! Reason one billion I love the Playdate is because Panic always puts the focus on people, both inside the company and devs for the games. And my game “Sound Mind” is finally going to come out in Season 3. youtu.be/vmkhLH1xzSs
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Playdate Update 10: September 9, 2026
YouTube video by Panic
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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 06/09/2026
Bad Vibes Coding Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this
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Bad Vibes Coding
Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this
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John Lieb @boswords.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Registration is now open for the Boswords 2026 Fall Themeless League! Go to boswords.org for details and to register. Also, a new practice puzzle is available to solve. We're excited to bring you puzzles from this fabulous group ... come solve with us this fall!
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/02/2026
the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)
Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks  Maria Loconsole1*, Silvia Benavides-Varela2,3, Lucia Regolin1  Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of this association, and whether it is unique to humans, we tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). as a precocial species, chicks can be tested shortly after hatching, allowing us to control their pretest experiences. Similar to humans, both 3-day-old [experiment 1 (exp. 1)] and 1-day-old (exp. 2) chicks spontaneously choose a spiky shape when hearing the “kiki” sound and a round shape when hearing the “bouba” sound. results from naïve young animals suggest a predisposed mechanism for matching the dimensions of shape and sound, which may be widespread across species.main fig from the paper showing the association between bouba/round and kiki/spiky in newborn chicks
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
read in between the lines and you see how white people believe they get to define reality. facts be damned.
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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 28/08/2026
Hey, it’s corn time again! Corn is really good and dirt cheap right now, and it’s probably easier than you think. Here’s last year’s thread o’ corn tips!
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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 27/08/2026
I swam laps yesterday! Like literally just two laps. Wasn’t even a full length pool. It was hard.
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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 26/08/2026
Panic issued automatic refunds of the tariff fees back to the end customers who bought a Playdate from them. Most things this presidential admin is effing up are unfixable or will take decades to fix, so I’m up for cheering when things *do* get fixed, and celebrating the fixers.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/08/2026
The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A wonderful story you may want today.
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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
immediately had to search for the video of Dolly and Patti singing Shortnin’ Bread while keeping the rhythm with their acrylic nails youtu.be/AOxsQNVOhro
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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails
YouTube video by Happy Mag
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I mean just within this story, you get not only the substance of this observation from her, which is beautiful, but the very fact that when she read scripture, she wanted to truly understand it, to see how it made sense to her and was consistent with what she knew was right and sensible.
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Humu Trott @humuhumu.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was love, and light, and genius. That was one of my favorite things about her: she was a constant example of how genius can be kind, genius can be compassionate; how genius twinned thoroughly with love can be so much more expansive than we think, if we just give it room.
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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I tried to investigate why the SF summer camp registration process is so infuriating and it came out as a personal essay about bad web design as a roadblock to populist revolution? www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
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San Francisco’s Parks Are Incredible. Why Is the Rec and Park Website So Bad?
One frustrated parent’s journey into the heart of darkness that is municipal web design.
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bewilderingly @bewilderingly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
another big themeless on the blog: blog.bewilderinglypuzzles.com/2026/08/puzz...
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Puzzle #267: Freestyle 26
Back again with another 21x themeless, this time a 114-worder ( pdf , puz , pdf solution , fullscreen link ). Thanks to Anna Harkins and Den...
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One day Lord Shiva was sitting in Kailash and saw the Goddess Parvati dressing up really fancy in a sari and jewels, ready to go out. "Where are you going, beloved of my heart?" Parvati turned to him. "Who are you, lord?" "Why, I am Shiva the essence of creation."
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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 23/08/2026
It’s been really difficult for me to unlearn the past 30 or so years of thinking of the Democrats as being hapless but well intentioned. It’s not just that the Overton window has moved, or the establishment is too cautious. The Democrats are the Conservative Party. They fight for the status quo.
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