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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 05/10/2026

Simon Andriesz, Howard Nutlick's associate that outed his relationship with Epstein is dead. I know who was responsible.

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No lessons learned @snarkypotato.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Recontextualizing legacy media as often reporting personal claims as facts without researching for even five minutes whether they're lies is an important critical skill to learn

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺

A close-up of an undamaged, translucent glass vessel shaped like a dove. The vessel contains a clear liquid with a reddish sediment visible at the bottom.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Gleaners, 1857, realist masterpiece by Jean-François Millet, French artist, a founder of Barbizon school, born #OTD 1814. Described as an “epic hymn to labour”, which prefigured the laundresses of Degas and floorscrapers of Caillebotte. Musée d’Orsay

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Adorable 🥰 Gorilla 🦍 Family

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 30/09/2026

Recently been rereading CS Lewis on Paradise Lost, and he understood this perfectly well -- Milton wrote what he wrote because he was writing in the form of the epic poem. Had he written in another form, it would have been very different.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 30/09/2026

The thing about formulae is that what's interesting about work done to a formula is precisely the way a skilled human artist will work within the constraints of the formula and use those to create something which is uniquely expressive.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 30/09/2026

New mixes are copyrightable. The copyright to the Beatles recordings starts running out in the UK/EEA in 2033. But if they can make the new versions the defaults, they can collect royalties on the new mixes for another seventy years.

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Powerful

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💀 Shalloween 💀 @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“There’s a feeling today that Britain really only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942, the year in which most victims of the Holocaust were murdered, you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC.”

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ukraine recently recovered a relatively intact Russian Geran-4 drone after an emergency landing. What investigators found inside is striking: beyond the airframe and final assembly, many of its key components appear to come from abroad.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026

Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows that Prince had a period in the late 80s when he was quite enamored with Chicago house music, and he created (at least) a gospel-tinged house album, for which he tried to enlist Mark Moore of S’express, Patti Labelle for vocals, and maybe William Orbit.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026

I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What keeps me digi-subscribed to the NYT are the obituaries.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted

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Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New paper: In Nov 2025, X began showing where accounts actually operate from. We studied 8,200 politically engaged accounts claiming to be in the US half were revealed to be elsewhere What happened when the mismatch went public? @yuweichuai.bsky.social @thomasrenault.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The reason that lesbian bar mask story blew up is that an insane amount of cruelty and emotional abuse is tolerated in certain lefty communities as long as it’s justified by the right buzzwords. Similar to how certain churches torment their members in the name of Christian love.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can we call it apartheid now

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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To the extent that there is a core to Trump, it is a need to fill up what can’t be fulfilled, to make up for a child that was never loved. Asking desperately to be loved is sad really. A sign we’re past the beginning of the end.

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I did an analysis of Russian and Ukrainian grain export data for the 2026-2027 season. When comparing to the prior 2025-2026 grain export season Ukraine's grain exports decreased noticeably but Russian grain exports outright collapsed.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026

Silicon Valley is primarily an industry of vanity lifestyle businesses based on selection for social and cultural affinity, but which heavily propagandizes its bourgeois small-business owner class (close cousins to car dealership franchisees) as being cognitive elites and titans of industry.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Bocc Kob @bocckob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've been going entirely off his haircut and it hasn't steered me wrong yet. His entire persona screams slimy businessman from the 80s scheming to defeat Robocop.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Frog,” said Toad, “let us eat one very last cookie, and then we will stop.”

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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thread regarding Hasan Piker’s view that the US eliminated communism in post-war Western Europe. My quick take: Piker is both a street fighting Marxist-Leninist, a view that diminishes individual agency, and a somewhat typical American can-doist. It combines here in the CIA ‘NATO’ being omnipotent.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Still find it funny that he “subscribes” to exactly one account on X and it’s Richard Hanania

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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s like the story of the lady who only had the first VHS tape growing up. Quite a lovely story without the second half.

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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Representation without taxation is our billionaire overlords in a nutshell.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 19/09/2026

if I were a police, I would simply decline to be photographed next to a giant pile of toilet paper

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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

FBI warns ICE agents not to trust any women willing to date them gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ic...

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

illustration, technopolis, magazine (1987) archive.org/details/tech...

a boy and girl using computer in different places are chatting to each other on screen via keyboard/text (the girl's screen reads: konnichiwa!)

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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Even if it is only the core of AI rationalists / effective altruists that are a sex cult, it is fed by a millenarian religious belief, that we live in a soon to be replaced world, therefore all conventional values are stuffed.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🇷🇸🇺🇸 Somebody on the Polish internet described Sydney Sweeney as "an actress with the eyes of a retired Serbian infantry major" and from now on I'll probably always think of war crimes when looking at her.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Snippet here from a Lex note on how Chinese restaurants are using AI as.ft.com/r/8b876bd4-9...

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

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JBR @jbred56.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From the NYT article, quote from Mr Maisel who passed at 95. Never thought of photography this way before. My answer, it is about the process of seeing, feeling, thinking, sharing the experience. Photographing is more important than the photograph.

Do you like photographing or do you like photographs?
Mr Maisel’s quiz.

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AGT is basically broke as of the last report but the district she's running in is essentially a DSA vote sink and her incumbent opponent, who has nearly lost to leftist way more crankish than AGT, is newly under House Ethics investigation for allegationS of sexual misconduct

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026

"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"

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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Toyota Jihad $44,999 Oshkosh armored car for Pentagon $999,999

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