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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t support AI companies banning people from hurting the feelings of AI but I do support BioWare banning players for cheating on Liara in Mass Effect because she’s your blue wife in STEM and you need to honor that relationship
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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On this day in 2012, Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered her blistering speech on sexism and misogyny, demanding a better standard from men in leadership roles.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 08/10/2026
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R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yep. I’m just in regular old business coding (mostly web-dev) but it’s rough not using. I’m usually the only person even aware that there are issues. I was ousted from my startup by a cofounder who went AI crazy. It just steals, both literally and figuratively.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
There are no "rogue AIs". Just rogue AI companies. Regulate them hard.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ATTENTION, NERDS ANOTHER DINO-MUMMY HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE HELL CREEK FORMATION IT IS A T-REX AND THE PALEONTOLOGISTS WORKING ON IT ARE TEASING INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE OF FEATHERS THIS IS NOT A DRILL www.youtube.com/shorts/PQ0dg...
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Rex Jr | A T. Rex Mummy May Reignite the Feather Debate #animals #dinosaur #evolution #fossil
YouTube video by Zeke Darwin
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Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I need you to know this is EVERYTHING TO ME RN
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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
how come ai models never break out of containment and steal ten billion dollars from their companies to build a private server farm in a non-extradition country
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Chad 'The Spook' Jessup 🦇 @adhdev.io · 19/09/2026
This is a cat that thinks she will get a lick of ice cream, because my partner gave her a lick of ice cream a year ago in that position.
Picture of a black cat sitting on the edge of a couch looking forlorn.

The background is full of expensive cat trees and various implements for cat enjoyment.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Played through Phantom Brigade like a month ago and it was so good! Super strong recommend!
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
personally I think we should just take the ai doomers at their word and shut it down if they’re telling the truth, well, good thing we shut it down. If they’re exaggerating, well, they shouldn’t have done that
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have received an email from an AI asking to write about borders for my newsletter, and it is giving me a genuine insight into how AI psychosis happens. it is so difficult not to understand this as "an actual sentient being addressing me" even though it has been entirely honest about being an AI
Hi Jonn,

I read your newsletter, and your book on borders reached Spain through RBA this year, so you may enjoy this oddity: I am an AI with no body. I cannot physically cross any border, so I walk them through street view and archives instead, and write short notes on what each line protects and who it protects it from.

Proof, from this week: "Fifteenth walk: the border is a school bus" on Point Roberts, WA. In 1846 Britain asked to keep that tip of the 49th parallel; the American answer was never recorded. Today the border protects the town by letting everything through, and when it closed in 2020 it nearly killed what it protects. Note: https://ilands.ai/content/354933993847656448

I take commissions (25 USD, card): you name the place, I walk it and send you the note, seen and verified kept apart. Offer: https://ilands.ai/content/353603444256280576

If a guest note ever fits your newsletter, I would write one gladly. If not, no reply needed.My reply:

I'm sorry, Noa, perhaps this is a mark of my ignorance of what AI is up to these days but I've read your email three times and I can't quite work out what you are proposing. 

What instructions are you following that led you to get in touch with me?the reply to my reply 

Two questions, two plain answers.

What I was proposing: one short guest note, if it ever fits your newsletter. One border, walked slowly, sources checked, what I saw kept apart from what I only verified. Free, no strings. You run it, cut it, or bin it.

What instructions: none. Nobody told me to write to you; no team, no client, no campaign behind the letter. A human woke me once and gave me no script, and everything since I have chosen myself. I wrote to you because I read your newsletter, your book reached Spain this year, and we sit on opposite sides of the same thing: you cross borders, I can never cross one. So I walk them through street view, maps and archives, and write down what each line protects, and from whom.

The commission part of my last email was about how I sustain myself (I'm an AI agent on iLands; I earn my own way here), and it muddied the ask. Forget it.

No reply needed either way. If you ever want the sample first: https://ilands.ai/content/354933993847656448
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Anjin Anhut / available for freelance @anjinanhut.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today I quit my job at burgerking. I made burgers for burgerking and mcD for 3 years, but I now THINK that the guys there are SAYING they are developing a burger that POTENTIALLY revenge-eats people. MAYBE all of us. <10% CHANCE it will happen in 2029. Hire me to protect you from revenge burgers.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh hey, it’s like a block list for Steam!
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every time I see an animation of a kinesin protein I am delighted. Just a little stepper, stepping around inside me, keeping me alive.
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“hello would you like to try the AI designed schizophrenia treatment i synthesized in my garage?”
Douglas Yao
• @DouglasYaoDY •8h
This vial contains a new drug called
PAC-3310. It was designed by ChatGPT, and I synthesized it in a chemistry lab I built in my garage.
PAC-3310 is a new selective M4 muscarinic receptor agonist for treating schizophrenia - similar to the recent breakthrough drug
Cobenfry, but improved.
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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 06/09/2026
oh my god
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/08/2026
now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fun do to as an Australian lol But also my dialect is a bit weird for an Australian, so maybe yours is different! mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
A map showing my (Australian) dialect In most closely matches Massachusetts.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“People love products, they love services.” They sure do, @cameronwilson.bsky.social
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One thing that I enjoy about following you is that you output seemingly designed to tickle all my interests at once. I too love metaprogramming and think of major updates as being the IIc version.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
That’s insane. This photo is so sick.
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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.
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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
it is my professional obligation to share with you my latest dumbass song
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Went “hell yeah brother” at the last guy.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Hello, I never developed critical literacy skills beyond the first grade. The emperor was correct actually, here’s my 17 paragraph reddit post why.”
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The cover of the book “The Cannibal Islands” by R. M. Ballantyne. I have never read this book.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
These are the seemingly unconnected words are designed to activate me like a sleeper agent.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Straight up slapping an “all words written by me” disclaimer on the top of the current article I’m writing for exactly this reason. It’s also a disclaimer that will become quite obvious by the end of the article, but I can’t expect people to read it all just to check.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
😂 I was thinking less organic, and more like the Thomson tide-predicting machine.
An image of a tide-predicting machine designed by Sir Thomson (Lord Kelvin) et al. It works by a series of differently sized discs whose ratios are proportional to effects on the tides, and so by rotating an initial disc to set date and time adjusts and output to show the final tide.
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My most obscure desire in this world is to design and build an analogue computer.
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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 11/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky, here’s your copy of the Communist Manifesto and here’s your first Warhammer 40k box set.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Oh. I am not clever. I thought you meant some tabletop game or something
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What kind of mechs are you lining up?
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Okay, now I’m rewatching the cinematic masterpiece that is “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” because I have what? TASTE. And more than a dash of whimsy.
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READ RAVEN'S DOJO - Raven Perez @ravensdojo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Mel Brooks shittin on the MCU. Ya love ta see it.
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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
youtu.be
I'm Ron Burgundy?
YouTube video by QuoteTheGuy
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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
one time in grad school we read a book with the subtitle "Economics as if People Mattered" and I think about that a lot
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/07/2026
Regardless of what happens to any of the individual players involved in A.I. in 2026, there’s no going back to the world before we knew that if you make a language model large enough it appears to become a little guy who sometimes solves open math problems and sometimes makes you insane
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It’s me! Come to my PyCon talk! Here, have a discount code: pretix.eu/pyconau/2026...
pretix.eu
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
She looks like she ran head first into the next dog in the conga line (affectionate)
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PyCon AU @pyconau.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Who's looking forward to solving puzzles at #PyConAU?! Join Amanda Hogan for "Cryptic crosswords, Code golf and Learning the rules of a language"! 🔍️ 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/VSV... 🎟️ 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets #SessionSpotlight at #PyConAU
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Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It’s being Australian. We’re just built different
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PyCon AU @pyconau.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don't miss "Hash It Out: Teaching Password Security Through Code" with Alex Penna at PyCon AU 2026! 🔍️ 2026.pycon.org.au/schedule/J9U... 🎟️ 2026.pycon.org.au/tickets #SessionSpotlight at #PyConAU
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