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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @office-anomaly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hits her with the gachafication beam #rkgk

drawing of regular velma (left) and gachafied version (right)

gachafied version is wearing an orange-yellow-white colorblock top with cutouts on the chest and shoulders, and an asymmetrical wrap-around pleated skirt. she is carrying a polearm that resembles a long magnifying glass

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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OPB @opb.org · 2h

People say Portland is the epicenter of women's sports, but how did that happen? OPB producer-reporter Emily Hamilton, who herself grew and played sports in Portland, explores the city's deep history and what she found may surprise even the most die-hard fans.

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How did Portland become the global epicenter of women’s sports?

Portlanders have consistently shown up for women’s sports and helped create the world of women’s sports we know today.

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Rocko’s Modern Basilisk @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 3h

this is how a cartoon dog would stand if it was about to be lifted in the air by the aroma of a delicious pie

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14h

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced an assault charge against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas, accusing the man of striking an officer with his side mirror while trying to drive away. to.pbs.org/3Vabs1s

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Federal prosecutors charge Venezuelan man shot in his car by ICE agent in Texas with assaulting an officer

If convicted Garces Perez faces up to 20 years in prison.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 18h

I think I misjudged the size

I put up a sims CD as a light cover badly

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sid @sidvicious.ca · 18h

13 years ago today i ran out of paper and drew Goku's Pants

a drawing of Goku's pants taking up a whole page

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A mass surrender of Russian forces in Ukraine near Lyman as Russian defensive positions collapse.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 29/09/2026

I made everyone brownies

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Mamdani in response to Kimmel asking him to send Trump a selfie of the two of them: "I love you, but I love housing more"

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not a real planet just a Pluto

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OPB @opb.org · 28/09/2026

In a closely watched decision, Washington’s largest union of state government workers has ratified a new two-year contract that provides no pay raises but avoids takeaways on health care and other benefits.

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Washington state worker union OKs new contract with no pay hike

The agreement approved by the Washington Federation of State Employees allows for more wage talks next summer. It is ‘the best we could get,’ the union president said.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/09/2026

Every day, this administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ kids. It’s incredibly harmful and does the exact opposite of what our shared goal should be: protecting kids. The LGBTQIA+ community and all our students deserve better.

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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…

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Representative Val Hoyle @repvalhoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEWSFLASH: We're not going to give up this fight.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"

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taby 🏳️‍⚧️ @tabymeow.afrolatinsky.app · 26/09/2026

hi pets, we know we have just made an MA request (and we're so grateful that it got met), but things happened, and we need another one for ~400 USD i got prescripted with another medication, and we need to cover that plus our bare minimum furniture, plus rent, food and bills ko-fi.com/baladesilver

bridget from guilty gear gleefully in front of the trans flag, with the caption "reskeet if trans rights are are human rights to you"

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IckyTree @ickytree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Got the bulk of the freehand done, might touch up the VIII on the shoulderpad, i normally do more work there, but i kind of like how it looks. The hand print on the chest is purely a flex. #nightlords #warhammer40k #miniaturepainting #nerdlings

A night lord chaos space marine from warhammer 40k.

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IckyTree @ickytree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just saw the Rambo: First Blood, incredible movie that blew away all my expectations!

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026

Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 09/03/2026

Love is a basic human right🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Gender shouldn’t draw any lines. Why does the world make something so natural feel so hard? Let’s hold hands and shout it loud—love should be free for everyone. love is love♡

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 26/09/2026

thanks🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈HI Friend✨✨you're amazing☺️ LOVEYOU🤍Please follow me😀 Let’s be friends with Chiitan!

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

NO ONE - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELTEN WHOS TORRENTIND SOME REAL SHYT, "NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH AI MOVIES, IF I GAVE A SHIT WHAT THE COMPUTER WANTED, I WOULDENT OBSESSIVELY BLOCK ADS AND REFUSE TO UPDATE MY SOFTWARE" - MAYBE I WOULD BELIEVE THE COMPUTER KNOWS WHAT I WANT TO WATCH IF IT DIDNT USE 20 YEARS OF STEALING MY DATA TO TRY TO SELL ME THE SAME THING I BOUGHT LAST WEEK - MAYBE I WOULD BELIEVE AN ALGORITHM WOULD ENTERTAIN ME IF EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA SITES ALGORITHM WASNT DETERMINED TO SHOW ME DUMB BULLSHIT TO MAKE ME MAD - MAYBE I WOULD BELIEVE THAT "AI" COULD MAKE SOMETHING OF WORTH IF IT HAD EVER DONE SO EVEN ONCE AFTER READING EVERY BOOK AND WATCHING EVERY VIDEO IN EXISTANCE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Paul Noth, The New Yorker

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

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youmonster.bsky.social @youmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can you imagine if this was done with something physical? 2 year wait until you're allowed to be diagnosed with heart disease? Liver damage? Diabetes? Leukemia?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Homan: Yes, we're operating death camps. And we're proud of that fact.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NOW!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELELELTON DRIVEN THERE CAR AND TRYEN TO SHOP AT A FUCKEN STORE AND THEY WONT LET EM!!! THERE LOCKEN ALL THERE SHIT UP STOP ADDING LEVELS TO MY LIFE!!!! DO NOT MAKE ME FIND A GUY WHERE I FEEL GUILTEY ABOUT MAKIN HIM UNLOCK ALL MY SHIT!!!!!!!!! AND TA TEXT SAYS I HATE STORE'S UNLOCK MY ALLERGY PILL'S unlock my monster pop unlock my sock's unlock my lotio unlock lonfey detergenet unlock ibuproffin unlock my tooth paste unlock my deodorant UNLOCK MY DEODOTANT IMMEDIATELY !!!! NOW NOW NOW WHAT THE FUCK - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The PM of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu says that “America deserved 9/11” at the UN General Assembly

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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for

Screenshot of a Twitter post by Val / @shegoingtogloat - it's a Silent Hill screenshot showing a close up of a cork board. On it, a paper says "Welcome to Shorefront Family Clinic" in a classic wiggly 3D font style. The tweet text is: Is this a Silent Hill asset made using PowerPoint lol"

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Representative Val Hoyle @repvalhoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The number of fish and wildlife employees is down 40% in Oregon since 2024. Federal employees should not have to live in fear that they’ll lose their job at any moment. It’s bad for morale and it’s bad for our environment.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w…

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IckyTree @ickytree.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

YOU CANT MAKE ME CARE ABOUT HASSAN POKER I REFUSE TO

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IckyTree @ickytree.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am tempted to hop onto WoW Forever just to make a rouge and gank people in the hell-canyon with all the harpys.

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I believe President Zelenskyy.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

that someone spent time doing this is truly admirable. bravo

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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a thing I've long thought about. So much of what GW does with Warhammer is to make for a balanced and happy tournament scene at the expense of casual play. But the vast majority of players will rarely, if ever, take part in that.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 24/09/2026

Jensen Huang: What are shoes? I don't know, people tell me I should wear them, but I don't think I've ever learned what they are. Are you an elephant? Someone said that word to me once and I'm pretty sure you're one of them. In school they used to teach me numbers but I forgot about them.

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IckyTree @ickytree.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ive noticed my cousin says nearly the exact same compliment everytime i txt him photos my my models lol

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