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Jason Raitz @jasonraitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The titular short story in George Saunders' "The Braindead Megaphone." There's a party where everyone is having a pleasant time, then in walks an idiot with a megaphone. slowly, every conversation becomes reactions to what the megaphone guy is shouting. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

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The Braindead Megaphone

The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"…

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Jason Raitz @jasonraitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

goodreads.com

The Braindead Megaphone

The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"…

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026

"Purchase a crockpot. Make nothing but crockpot recipes you frequently post to Facebook. Confer with the crockpot. Fill your crockpot with secrets. Introduce your crockpot to your family. Abscond with the crockpot because it’s the only thing that understands you." buff.ly/ux2yV5x

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Fall DIY Projects That Help Numb the Pain of Existence

“Find an abandoned barn and weave excessive amounts of string lights through the rafters until you’re satisfied with your oversized altar to fall. Heavily dr...

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atomless @atomless.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Friendly reminder that you can just do this and no one can stop you.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The atmosphere, the earth, the water & the water cycle-those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them." -Wendell Berry #RIP

Tall slender moss covered trees on a misty morning with filtered sunlight. Bramble covers the ground and there is no trail...smack dab in the middle of the forest

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For the people and bots reading this without context: it is not necessarily good news that the best open model has been jailbroken and will happily conduct offensive cyberattacks, and that inference is being hosted by a company that keeps no records of how you use their system.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Miss Candy had outfitted the Blue Angels for 43 years. The Navy was paying her $127,000 per year for the contract. Without telling her, the Trump regime gave the contract to a white man 900 miles away and paid him almost triple. Original post: www.instagram.com/reel/Db8Yh5b...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Mteague @mteague.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

WAS NOT PREPARED for how moving this is. I read McSweeney's for the silliness, but this is anything but.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 17/07/2026

It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly!

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Steven Ray Morris @stevenraymorris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️

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Jason Raitz @jasonraitz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Every year I become more of a Georgist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

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Georgism - Wikipedia

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

when it zoomed out I gasped

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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I know it’s not a popular position but I really don’t see mass unemployment from generative AI soon because of structural and technical features of the tech. Gift link where I explain the reasons. It’s distraction when AI will really cause many other big problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

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Jason Raitz @jasonraitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What are they subjecting their trans community to?!

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court reverses a decision in favor of Pedro Hernandez, a mentally impaired man who was pressured into an allegedly false confession of murder through these👇unconstitutional tactics. The supermajority says he did not face a deprivation of "clearly established" rights.

The State’s evidence as to Hernandez, who has a
limited IQ and a well-documented history of mental
illness, consisted entirely of his asserted confessions—
particularly two recorded confessions obtained by law
enforcement after seven hours of questioning in an
eight-by-ten-foot windowless room in a police station,
during which detectives intentionally chose not to provide Hernandez with Miranda warnings or to turn on
installed video recording equipment. Hernandez
asked repeatedly to leave during that session, telling
agents he was there against his will and that he
wanted to go home. After seven hours, Hernandez finally gave the officers what they had made clear was
the only way for the interrogation to end: a purported
confession to a crime he did not commit. Only then did
law enforcement provide Miranda warnings and turn
on the video recorder, after which the detectives led
Hernandez through the same purported confession
again.

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11/06/2026

i'm spending a bunch of time today thinking about what makes a website good and i have to say i think A History of Jailhouse Lawyers might be one of the best websites i've ever seen history.jailhouselawyers.org

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Our Roots • Flashlights

A brief historical overview of the emergence and impact of jailhouse lawyers in the legal system.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/01/2026

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ask yourself: Why would a settlement over leaked tax filings include a prohibition on examinations of previously filed returns? One answer, which lots of people are missing: For years, Trump has been fighting an IRS audit that could have resulted in a $100M bill. No longer, apparently.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

TN eliminated only majority-Black district AL, LA eliminating majority-Black districts SC planning to oust only Black Democrat since Reconstruction MS planning to oust only Black rep GA planning special session to eliminate majority-Black districts This is what return to Jim Crow looks like

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

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Jason Raitz @jasonraitz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

TIL about Chesterton's Fence. Thanks!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2026

wow -- Nancy Mace enters a number of documents into the record highlighting GOP Rep. Cory Mills's lies and stolen valor

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Emmett Initiative @emmett.click · 26/04/2026

if any of you want to know how transformer-brained I have become over the past week at 160MW of generation, it would take this complex 10.6 hours to fill an energon cube SCIENCE

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/04/2026

"The suggestion that one has 'sat on' revelations of grave public importance until they could be accompanied by a handsome dust cover, embossed serif typography, and a coordinated morning-show rollout is both reductive and hostile to the long tradition of political nonfiction."

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The Shocking Truth About This President That We’ve Been Sitting on for Months Is Now Available for Preorder

“The suggestion that one has ‘sat on’ revelations of grave public importance until they could be accompanied by a handsome dust cover, embossed serif typogra...

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The Jer Witch Project @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

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Jason Raitz @jasonraitz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Hard to see, but it looks like he only needs about a 1 or 2 inch vertical to dunk. youtu.be/R19rCLD0HuQ?...

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7'9" Olivier Rioux Makes 6'8" Look TINY 😭 THEN SLAMS It 💥

YouTube video by House of Highlights

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/03/2026

Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/03/2026

Via this post from @thebloggess.bsky.social, I learn that my book Lock In has been banned from schools in New Braunfels, TX. There is irony here in that Lock In won the Alex Award from the ALA, given for "adult books suitable for teens." thebloggess.com/2026/03/25/t...

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Today they banned my book. It was not the first. It won’t be the last. Here’s what I want you to know.

This is not what I wanted to write. I wanted to write about how I’m about to go on book tour for my new book in a few days. Instead I am writing about the fact that I was just informed that m…

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/03/2026

the core arg that ending the two party duopoly would greatly defuse polarization and extremism is true I think. even just a third party to diffuse the resentment would help a lot

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