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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 20h

“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:33-34 (ESV)

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hot tip if you want to be a VIP to a late baby/early toddler acquaintance who you see often but not often enough to be one of their main people: Make yourself the person in their life who makes the best silly faces. Once you establish that niche they'll always be excited to see you.

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I didn't know of him before my dad (who's spent a lot of time in the Eastern Carribean) mentioned his passing yesterday but been listening to legendary calypsonian Mighty Sparrow this morning and wow what an artist

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hot take: The Rolling Stone guy's wrong to think everyone who says "I don't even know what that is" about a pop thing actually does know it and is saying that for antipop cache, BUT people saying that *actually* not knowing the thing are still often doing it for antipop cache and it's still annoying

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hang on gang, think I've made a breakthrough in why they call it "home plate" #baseball

Picture of a baseball home plate, which is flipped upside down and details drawn in to show that it looks kind of like a house this is pretty stupid and I cannot be the first person to make this "joke"

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Transphobic publication posts bad list of TV shows." Sure

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TFW you see a thirty minute "full live radio performance" upload for an artist you like and put that on to excited for half an hour of music and then it's a 13 minutes of music plus 17 minutes of the artist mumbling answers to the emptiest questions from a DJ with zero interviewing chops

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But at this point, I’m not sure I know the equivalent of the news value of this. I’m not sure she is all that fascinating beyond what’s already been reported. I’m not sure how many unanswered questions there are about her. She went hard on “fake it till you make it” and got caught.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

at a time when prominent black voices have been purged from news rooms and airways it would be nice if one or two white journalists regularly reported on the world's richest man being openly and proudly racist but we can't even get most of them not to be on his stupid app.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Elon Musk agrees with white supremacists and Nazis literally every single day at all hours of the day and no one in the mainstream press or even the independent press writes or reports shit about it and that is EXTREMELY frustrating. White people treat reporting on racism like it's passe and boring

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ahh yes, what a unique differentiating feature in the casual trousers marketplace

Snip from an ecommerce listing: "Adjustable Cuffs: Can be rolled up for a cropped, trendy look or kept down for full coverage, adding styling versatility."

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's funny when there's a manufactured "[insert IP] day" and you do not see a single straight up post about it but a million "hah how stupid that they think we'll engage with this, anyways here's me engaging with it" posts

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's kind of sweet how any time you watch a how-to or craft-demonstration video there will be dozens of "you are the Bob Ross of ______" comments (even when the presenter isn't particularly Ross-ish)...

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As a long time @jordanjessego.bsky.social listener I am way ahead of the curve on the healing properties of donks and minis

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can young people actually comfortably follow those awful titles everyone likes to do on vertical video platforms where it's ONLY ONE WORD DISPLAYED AT A TIME IN RAPID SUCCESSION ?

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Does you ever find yourself just scrolling around the "List of Sandwiches" page on Wikipedia some days and getting "homesick" for local specialties you have never actually had or heard of before, or is that just me?

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"wow, everyone knew this already" is such a cynical, annoying and unfortunately extremely common response to tech news. assuming your privacy is being violated and proving that it is are two very different things, and the latter is the result of hard work and rigorous reporting

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Was just randomly reminded of one of the most simultaneously funny and profound comics I've seen this decade so have to share again

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe this is just the search algorithm kinda working for once, or maybe different learning styles appreciating what works for them, but it feel like the majority of how-to videos have "I wish all the other videos for this were as clear and helpful, best how-to ever!" as the top comment

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dreamed I’d bought a bag of fortune cookies but each one had two slips in, one had the actual fortune and lucky numbers and all, then the other packed tightly with super-tiny-print advertisements, and I got so mad that I’d paid full price for these cookies and they were the ad-supported model

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When you think about it, being raised up on eagle's wings, borne on the breath of dawn, made to shine like the sun, and held in the palm of hands all sound fun separately but all in one go seems like it'd be a lot...

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh this is interesting! Climate scientist @leahstokes.bsky.social shows that candidates who talk about climate change *get a bump in preference from voters*. "Common knowledge" is that climate is a losing issue, but this survey shows the opposite is true: voters care. mailchi.mp/9af4ccd3280e...

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Climate action comes in waves

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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good thread and I’m sick of seeing people rewrite 9/11 history. The only “shared bond” people had was saying stuff like “turn that desert into glass” amongst other slurs and songs about how we’ll “put a boot up your ass”

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Mat Ricardo @matricardo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sad to see The Proclaimers publicly being bigots. I'll make it so much harder to enjoy their entire catalog of song.

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's kind of cute how often you'll find a recipe on online recipe sites that specifies in the title it's the writer's "mom's recipe" (or some other relation) and it's measure for measure, step for step the same as the one that's been printed on the packaging of some main ingredient for generations

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"check out this nasty thing I found on X" no and you should go set a timer for 10 minutes and look at a tree until your phone beeps

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

But not the Wiretap we need (still bummed that I lost the hard drive I had all the eps of the artsy genre defying ahead of it's time 00s Canadian comedy radio program, most of which now aren't available anywhere even to pay for)

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Next time someone tries to tell you "it's too late why even try..."

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're trying to propose to people with trans children in their lives that their lives are a worthwhile sacrifice for other Democratic priorities, consider whether you'd be convinced that your children should be sacrificed for the greater good of someone else's family.

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 09/09/2026

people who hold irrational/conspiratorial opinions often are intuiting a real problem but misidentifying it. LLMs represent an existential threat to the retention and transfer of reliable information, but rationalist nerds only know sci-fi and thus imagine chatgpt becoming skynet

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Love how every time a game successfully does something visually that is kinda new and different everyone immediately copies it to the point where it becomes even more tired and boring than the previous standard it stood out against

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is fascinating stating to learn an instrument for the first time since I was a teenager, don't have the neuroplasticity that in theory should have made it easier then but do have the practice discipline I ABSOLUTELY lacked then

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm told it's #WorldShorebirdDay so here are some more from my walk last week around Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland, CA. #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

Two grey shorebirds with striking black and white patterns on their underwings (willets, Tringa semipalmata) come in for a landing in shallow water near a shoreline

Two willets (Tringa semipalmata) face off, bills open in a "HEY THAT WAS MY SMALL FISH OR ARTHROPOD" shouting match

A patterned grey bill with a long grey beak and bright yellow legs (greater yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca; no clue why they call them that)

A strikingly patterned tan-brown shorebird with a long pink-to-black bill (marbled godwit, Limosa fedoa) wades in shallow water surrounded by smaller, greyer shorebirds (willets, Tringa semipalmata)

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If they did a spin-off of the California Raisins to promote these things that was white-coded the way the originals were Black-coded what musical genre would they perform?

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

No need to get cute with this one. WE DO NOT FUCK WITH HER OR HER WORK BECAUSE IT IS POISON. SHE POISONED IT.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.

Two cats on a platformed tower. One is on the lower level, head hidden behind the middle section. The second is on the top tier with only their head showing.

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Have "lived" in Oakland a month and a half, circumstances will have me here at most that much more before returning home, already getting defensive when folks clutch their pearls about Oakland, fucking love this city.

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Why 38? What human has ever made a "top 38 list" of anything?

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Geobica @geobica.com · 04/09/2026

I've posted about this a few times because I find this sort of low effort vibe coded project is a real threat in how it makes bad analysis look high quality with its visuals, but there's a noticeable way these things tend to look that I keep seeing

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Geobica @geobica.com · 04/09/2026

it's an AI generated website with fairly naive methodology, which I wrote more on in another thread basically it uses aggregated per-state data with very basic math to average it rather than the raw data which was much more granular bsky.app/profile/geob...

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They may be least sandpipers (Calidris minutilla), but at least they're sandpipers! #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

A group of tiny shorebirds forage in the mud along the water's edge

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I swear snowy egrets are nature's supermodels, have never taken a picture of one that wasn't a glamour shot. #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

A white wading bird with long dark legs and yellow feet stands on a railing; the sun has the bird rim-lit and the wind is gently ruffling its feathers while the light through a tree behind frames it with soft bokeh

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Hunter Elenbaas @hunterje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of two (!) hawks that landed right next to me one after another out this morning, I *think* a juvenile Cooper's though the Cooper/Sharpie ID challenge is real... #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

A streaky-bellied hawk perches on a gnarled branch in the morning sun, looking intently downwards

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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Somebody ought to write a different book

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