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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

After more than 200 years, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is coming home! I am proud to have worked with Chairman Rupnick to secure $1M to build a Tribal Government headquarters here, on Illinois soil. Honored to have played a small role in this long-overdue homecoming.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 5h

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

@darializaforny.bsky.social says they messed with the wrong fucking city. also thanks the rapid response groups that turned people out (join your local rapid response group, friends)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7h

waiting for Mamdani to speak at the site of the shooting

press behind a barricade on the street - lectern on the other side

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Deathiel Skelly @saffroncomic.com · 8h

If anything, the lesson of Ossoff is that "centrists" or moderate libs should go HARD against Republicans and full Evelyn Normielib salt the earth, because Democratic primary voters are willing to ignore quite a bit of moderate signaling if you shank Republicans hard enough while doing it.

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RobotLyra, Single and Silly @robotlyra.bsky.social · 8h

Really tied of living through the death throes of a fascist nation

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 07/10/2026

I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender.

A stack of business cards reads in English and Korean: Generative AI is unethical, annoying, and anti-art. Anything it touches will fail, and be a mark of shame on human history. I do not wish to discuss this further.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

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RobotLyra, Single and Silly @robotlyra.bsky.social · 10h

The most moving experience I had in a videogame was when I was playing FFXIV Endwalker and the writing for Meteion let me know that a complete stranger in Japan who has never met me and does not know I exist, has known the same kind of depression and emotional struggle that I have.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 12h

lol the number of gays is the same it’s just that kids aren’t idiot marks so they’re not going to volunteer that information to the nazis

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 11h

At the time of his mass murder, Hasan was himself a serving veteran, "an Army psychiatrist who held the rank of major." Army veterans turning to terrorism for various reasons seems to be something not wholly unexpectable.

Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City co-bomber, pictured here not dead.

Terry Nichols, Oklahoma City co-bomber, staring for miles out of his aviator glasses.

Eric Rudolph, Olympic Park bomber, standing in front of a height chart.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 12h

"This will never happen to me," Hegseth added.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 12h

Every single character in that movie had charisma. If any of them ended up with less than others, it's because the narrative radiance of those guys washed it out.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wonder how those Choctaw vampire hunters from Sinners are doing.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 16h

I am learning to be more and more concise in my responses

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Joe @josephtennant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is how i learned Jolteon passed this year too, my heart is with all the Pokemon fans out there.

Six magazines are displayed in a display rack at a grocery store. There are 4 magazines featuring the late Dolly Parton, one featuring the late Tupac Shakur, and a pokemon magazine featuring the presumably late Jolteon.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15h

Commentary: All Right, All Right, You Guys Have Won Me Over, by Osama bin Laden theonion.com/all-right-all-right-yo…

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 13h

In a timeline adjacent to ours, the "trans kids in sports" angle utterly failed as a significant conservative rights-reduction scheme, while candidates for office are routinely asked to state their opinions regarding all the teenage furries shitting in litter boxes at school.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 13h

At least when over-eager towns built canals, the places near them ended up with more water.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 14h

She wakes up tomorrow

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16h

What I *really* want an interviewer to do with these desperate sweaty CEOs is say, "Now that Trump has said he wants you to call it 'Trump Intelligence' instead of 'Super Intelligence', are you planning to update your marketing?" and then don't reveal that you made it up until after they say yes.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19h

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 18h

enshittification is a great book

Excerpt from Enshittification by Cory Doctorow:

You can't be tempted or forced to do something impossible. The instant Adobe moved its software to the cloud and eliminated the non-subscription versions of its apps, it put a gun on the mantelpiece. It was only a matter of time until someone opened fire on Adobe's customers with that gun.

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KOSU @kosuradio.bsky.social · 17h

Indigenous Peoples’ Day remembers the first people of the U.S. and celebrates the current vibrancy and diversity of Native communities. Events are happening across Oklahoma to celebrate.

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Indigenous Peoples' Day is October 12. Here's where you can celebrate in Oklahoma

Indigenous Peoples’ Day remembers the first people of the U.S. and celebrates the current vibrancy and diversity of Native communities today. Events are happening across Oklahoma to celebrate.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

Okay, so. Way back when, in the before times, I made a post about a similar phenomenon on the hellsite. Remember all those cute ring doorbell ads? The ones shoung pet rescues or heartwarming stories? Those serve to affectively prime us to accept surveillance as reasonable through their cuteness.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

oh my god he admit it!

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had not seen the Onion headline.

We are talking in the back of a black SUV, parked in front of his offseason home in the Toronto suburbs, when I mention the bit of satire that went viral during the Western Conference Finals in May. I hand him my phone and he laughs.

“Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Trying to Draw Foul While Shooting Free Throw,” reads the headline, which is accompanied by an image of him flailing on the foul line. “Trying to draw a foul at the free-throw line,” he says, “that would be good.”

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 17h

Hey, what was the follow-up on this?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17h

lol they genuinely got absolutely nothin'. tan suit, gently-patting-his-wife's-bum tier headline

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Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 17h

Shopping in the age of the algo is wild. One time there was a problem with my debit card, so I called my bank: "Someone tried to make a large purchase for Italian clothes. We assumed it wasn't you." "Nope, it wasn't." "But the $100 purchase from Nintendo is you, right?" "...yeah. Yeah."

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18h

Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 18h

Your wife: spend time with your child You: no

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 16h

Administrator came by at my request and took them somewhere quieter to focus on their work, far away from the class. Problem instantly solved. An object lesson.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 16h

Not every day I get an edgy Freshman troll bring up a common white supremacist talking point as a Fun Fact. He and his friends were being disruptions with a vocabulary out of X and peppering their chatter with references to Jews. Sometimes you just have to drop the trap door out from under them.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 21h

I DO NOT WANT TO DOWNLOAD AN APP TO TURN OFF THE HOTEL THERMOSTAT I WANT TO PUSH A BUTTON I WANT ONE BUTTON THAT DOES ONE THING

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Trans people only get rights if they live in safe blue congressional districts" is an openly segregationist stance and I'm sick of anyone pretending otherwise.

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