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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 13h

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 4h

The Baumol effect, basically.

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 4h

I wonder if this possibly reflects the transition to a service-industry economy that began to take place during the sixties and really took off in the eighties?

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 4h

Just last year data center construction was less than office construction, now it's larger than office construction ever has been

a graph comparing data center and office construction

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 4h

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT DO YOUR STRETCHES.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10h

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 9h

Trump really benefits from his reputation of world-spanning ignorance. Reporters just accept jaw-dropping foolishness from him because everyone knows he's kind of an idiot. These exceedingly low expectations are one of his biggest assets, along with a lack of shame. time.com/article/2026...

"How can the president of peace be calling for the annihilation of an entire people?

Because by annihilating Iran, we've created peace in the world. With Iran, I don't think you could ever have peace."

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Spudfella @spudfella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You should not under any circumstances drink to the point where you are no longer in control of your own actions or behavior. If you are afraid of hurting someone when you drink, you SHOULD NOT DRINK.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab?

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Picard diversity tip: The fact that a crewmember looks alien to you does not make them any less of a Starfleet officer.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not to be a party pooper but a Democratic Congress is absolutely not going to lower costs; it just won't be in their power no matter how much they'd like to. Hard to tell what the political consequences of being unable to follow through on their central campaign promise will be.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sep 30th - Charlie Bucket found the last golden ticket. The next day he went to Wonka’s factory. 📽️📅 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (1971): First, a young boy with messy blonde hair looks excitedly at a golden ticket he's holding. Second, a close-up of the golden ticket with decorative edges and text that reads "Wonka's Golden Ticket." Third, the young boy stands with an older man in a nightcap and a woman holding the ticket, both looking surprised and happy.

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "play Minecraft" bug in America.gov's AI is very funny, but I'll note that it's such a remarkably *governmental* AI hallucination. Existentialism but *also* you need your paperwork: "You. You. You are alive. You still have to bring two forms of ID."

"You. You. You are alive. You still have to bring two forms of ID."

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Ross A. Isaacs @rossisaacs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is this text chain supposed to prove Smith was in Atlanta in the first place? All it talks about is a seat reservation at an unnamed game.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

What's fun about this whole contretemps and why it's worth watching again is how smirky Schmitt starts out - this is going to be his big moment – and how honest a puzzled Smith comes off, and how sharp Klobuchar was to quickly figure out the basic mistake. And then how pissy Schmitt gets at her.

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interesting! Thank you. I looked at this dataset matched up against Gallup's right direction question, and it looks like there was strong correllation until recently (around 2006-8). Then it's much weaker.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.

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dame @dame.is · 29/09/2026

i wrote this 6 months ago — since then, frontier AI has become capable of making graphics, video, animation, writing, and visuals that are not easily clockable as "AI generated"... their output can often surpass the "quality" of human made digital things now not entirely sure where we go from here

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's an empirically testable claim, then, since we would expect it to match up with other polling like "is the country going in the right direction?"

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

InfoWars will never lie to you.

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why do people feel this way? While things aren't great, that is a remarkable result for the current circumstances.

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Grassley was first elected to the Senate in 1980. He's seen his state go from reliably red to reliably blue to belweather to reliably red again. I wonder if he'll see it go through one more change?

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Since he already filed for re-election in 2028, which would put him at 101 when his term would end, it actually really does seem like Grassley plans on dying in office.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes. Look, the reality is this: People on here hate it when you say "AI goes rogue" because of what it suggests about the capabilities of AI. They're in denial and want to stay that way. But they can't admit that, so they've engineered a pretext about "holding AI companies accountable."

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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can always tell when a Republican gets a new billionaire sponsor who has a single, very, very specific issue they would like the American people to hear about.

The image is a tweet from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that reads: "Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots. Lord help us."

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Nate 'The Belated' Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.” - Dolly Parton

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if you say "The Museum of English Rural Life" three times in a mirror, nothing happens. but if you speak it a fourth time, a man in a smock appears and asks you to incant the poem on the side of this rather menacing jug

harvest festival jug featuring a rather spooky sunshine design

the reverse of the jug, featuring a poem. it reads: "Harvest is come all
busy now in making
of the Barley mow if
you the Barley mow
neglect of Good ale you
can not then expect"

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E.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 25/09/2026

Just a bizarre top end of the list. Parks and Rec at #50, 30 Rock as the best comedy of the 21st century at #8? Fleabag at #5? Game of Thrones at #6? Girls at #13? White Lotus at #21? Black Mirror at #26? And I loved Succession, but #4?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Democracy is good because with the proper set of institutions it can create stability, growth, and policy progress while guarding against despotism and maintaining governmental legitimacy. It is not good because people are smart or virtuous. There are a lot of suckers.

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Alexander Deebus @hyperbole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@jevbot.bsky.social What's the best vegetarian alternative to a reuben sandwich?

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Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I like to think I am comfortably within the small and tight-nit bluesky community of "liberals who can be normal about stuff" and man, we have been eating this week.

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Ginny Di @ginnydi.com · 24/09/2026

My new music video "Tragedy" is out now! Feat. Whitney Avalon and a delightful cameo by Anjali Bhimani 🎶 youtu.be/q1oIHvSlzwU

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)

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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sep 24th 1967 - After four years apart, Jack visited Ennis. 📽️📅 Brokeback Mountain (2005)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Brokeback Mountain" (2005): First, a man in a plaid shirt stands in a modest kitchen reading a postcard while a woman in a faded dress works at the stove behind him. Second, a close-up of the postcard reveals handwriting addressed to Mr. Ennis Del Mar in Riverton, Wyoming, signed by Jack, with a postmark dated September 1967 from Childress, Texas. Third, two men in western shirts and cowboy hats embrace tightly outdoors, one smiling broadly with visible relief and joy.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sep 24th 1991 - Castor Troy shot Sean Archer, the bullet passed through him killing his son Michael. On the anniversary, Troy-as-Archer visited the grave, while Archer-as-Troy escaped prison. 📽️📅 Face/Off (1997)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Face/Off" (1997): First, a woman with curly blonde hair cries in anguish while being held in a comforting embrace at a cemetery. Second, a close-up of a gravestone reads “Our Beloved Son Michael Archer October 19, 1986 – September 24, 1991.” Third, a man in a black suit with a solemn expression looks downward as he comforts the grieving woman.

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