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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 23h
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

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D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What about the fascists? Oh, right.
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Spooky Professor Lifestyle Giant @magnumt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Which Greek myth is the one about a pedophile dictator who starts wars and wrecks a country and yet faces zero consequences and ends with him dying peacefully surrounded by his awful children
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.
Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ETAs the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.
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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, now we know what it takes to get Trump to go from criticizing your university to calling it “a fine school.”
independent.co.uk
Trump calls Cornell ‘a fine school’ as he breaks silence on alleged gang rape case
The president was asked whether the Ivy League school had ‘done enough to investigate’ the alleged sexual abuse
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lord, spare me the confidence of a floundering, sub-mediocre, white-knuckled sexual predator who changed the name to the Department of War and then immediately lost a war in three days.
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setnoclip01.bsky.social @setnoclip01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's a structural consequence, Facebook made the internet this way and it's become so woven into societal and cultural expectations of what Internet communication is and means that it's invisible, and there's really no reason for it to be
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
I very much recommend that you watch "Ends" by Ahir Shah on Netflix. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you think and it will stay with you.
A poster "Ends" by Ahir Shah on Netflix. The comedian Ahir Shah in front of a microphone
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Kenneth Nunn @professornunn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This needs more publicity.
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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now
He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The question that'll really bake the noodle is: would these miserable assholes be able to perceive how shitty their genAI stuff if they weren't using it?
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 24/09/2026
Tweet by merman_melville: Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
There would be no ethical use of generative AI even if it weren't *literally* bankrolling the goddamn gestapo and its concentration camps and providing them the ability to generate infinite nazi propaganda slop. But it is also doing that too.
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terry gross’s ass double @sherylcrowbar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it rocks that meta keeps trying to make consumer electronics and they all suck hole and cost a half billion to develop so they have to keep selling data to advertisers in disgusting ways to make up losses so the dumbest person in your hometown can poast slurs
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause." Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BTW, for anyone looking for evidence of a vibe shift: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
usatoday.com
Conservative Freedom Fest with Kid Rock canceled after only 6 VIP tickets sell
Patriots Day Freedom Fest was canceled days before it was set to take place in northern Kentucky due to low VIP ticket sales.
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Nick Garcia @nwgarcia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump keeps exacting petty revenge on people who he thinks hurt him. Have we considered that the whole tariff thing might just be retribution on all of us for not re-electing him in 2020?
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is still happening, every day, at airports across the USA.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In news that should surprise no one at all
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James Knox @i-jamieous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The genius of this attack is that if, despite how crass it is, & how awkward it is to say, somehow it catches on there's absolutely, positively no possible way it could be turned around and used against you by hypothetically substituting the word left with some other or perhaps opposite direction.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Oh, you want to abolish ICE? Well, if they're gone, who's going to be terrorizing our cities and killing people in the streets? Huh? Did you think about that?"
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Alexander Laufer @alexlaufer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Even just replacing "AI" by "software" paints such a different picture. "our software broke out and hacked some organisations". Who's reponsible now?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Earlier this year, Kanye West “performed at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and Raymond James Stadium without issue, despite his affinities for Adolf Hitler, the Nazi regime, and his long history of antisemitic remarks.” newrepublic.com/post/215395/...
newrepublic.com
NFL Owners Band Together to Boot Macklemore From Ed Sheeran’s Tour
The musician was pulled after he called for a “Free Palestine.”
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Had my head shaved Sunday
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is how the attrition of state capacity from unsanctioned forms of money compounds. It is beyond time to start taking these threats seriously, as if it were akin to a massive scale criminal enterprise to fund illicit activities and evade tax. Because, well…
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A scene from wolf of Wall Street wheee Leo asks someone to sell him a pen. In the meme that person is labeled anthropic, and he says it’s going to kill everyone
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This attempt to construct a narrative of persecution around being a white guy in America is at base, an expression of profound jealousy and insecurity towards people who have to overcome challenges they will never face
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"GE warns its toaster may grow human arms and shoot you with a gun" Ok that sounds like their fault. They should do something about that
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Tokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why won’t she let me LIVE!?
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Sue Kirk @suekirk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tr0mp: "There should be a united Ireland' Pundits: "Wow. What a statement. What does this mean? Do we have America's support for a united Ireland? Is it a dig a Burnham? It is a tactic for mid-term votes?" Tr0mp 2 days ago "I was pulled from the rubble of 9/11"
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The same BBC that did this investigation is the same BBC that is soft launching Patriot Platform. Go figure 🤷🏾
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
AND—as if all that wasn’t enough excitement for the day—it’s also the 107th anniversary of this extraordinary (but also disturbing) nonsense
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12/09/2026
we can argue about how to appeal to 51% of texas voters on issues, etc, but this Dem obsession with "winning republican voters by getting endorsements from 'elite' republicans" is bizarre. you don't throw the bums out by pointing to all the bums who love you, actually
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So obviously this is just racism, when he says 'dirtier' he means 'less white.' But, like, also anyone paying any attention at all - America is richer and cleaner than it was in the 1980s when I was born. Like, come the fuck on. Y'all remember the smoking section at a McDonalds? Gross.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.
Arron Banks 

Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one
white face in security or airport services. The
Home office is staffed by the type of people we
are trying to keep out! What hope?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Would we say this argument is being made in good faith.
Kemi Badenoch
Opinion
Labour's anti-Israel obsession shows it hasn't changed since Jeremy Corbyn was leader
Settlement trade ban is de facto boycott of the Jewish state - and cannot be squared with claim to fight antisemitism
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Auntie Social @auntiesocial.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Near-curse words like darn, gosh, and dangit should be known as amateurfanity.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
tbf, it was an underappreciated scandal of his first term, too www.politico.com/story/2018/0...
politico.com
How Trump favored Texas over Puerto Rico
A POLITICO investigation shows a persistent double standard in the president’s handling of relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Maria.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
theintercept.com
The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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James Knox @i-jamieous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The P should be silent!
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