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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 12h

ME: *muttering about deadlines* STEPKID: Ah, I see they’ve moved from ambient horror to jumpscare.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 5h

yes keep banning good posters over the mildest shit about dipshit tech billionaries that are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, that aren't even on here, that'll help your platform.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 6h

This is so cool and I understand the diaphragm better now!

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 9h

Looking at this accidental thread, it reminds me of my belief that a lot of smart people who don’t make engineering things in their day jobs understandably have the idea that, as in human affairs, things like electricity and chemistry have some room for negotiation. Alas, it ain’t the case.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 03/10/2026

Okay. So here's what I know - I lost my day job. - I hated my day job. - I liked having a lot of money and health insurance. - But a lot of money never made me happier, I just owned more stuff. - I do still need health insurance. - I'm really fucking good at lettering comic books.

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Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently my EV conversion is triggering some old snowflakes so here it is again. 😁

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Phteven @2fbs.bsky.social · 11h

Political discourse in this country is a fucking joke. Media giving platforms to racists, billionaires, comedians and a lawn mower guy. We truly will get the government we deserve...

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 19h

Today in, "Correlation does not necessarily imply causation."

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches.

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Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Murderbot: ALL SYSTEMS RED. A new graphic novel adaptation of @marthawells.com best selling book by @ericaschultz42.bsky.social with Yel Zamor, @simonbowland.bsky.social, edited by @paulcornell.bsky.social and published by @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk Sign up here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

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Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.

Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name

Closeup of the photo from the Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name .

As one pal put it, " a very John Conner look "

Closeup of the text for the photo that says

" Ticket wars

Left: The line of area residents waitinng for advanced ticket sales for the May 19 release of "Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace" stretched outside the Grand Central Mall's Regal Cinemas onto the sidewalk outside. Above: Inside, Jordan Baker, Joe Peyton, Mat Lyons, Josh Lemley and Steve Roberts passed time by playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit as they awaited the Lucas epic.

Photos by Tony Kemp

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Jeanette @jeanette555.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OPI saying I’m not their target market: “nails are jewels, NOT tools!”

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Kelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎶Your own Personal Cheeses Something to eat with pears Not cheese to share🎶

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/10/2026

The cars from Cars have tinted windows because otherwise you’d see their bowels.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Transphobes calling me "sir" don't realize I was raised on Peanuts and it just comes off in the deeply sapphic Marcie way.

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Jeanette @jeanette555.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

alleged leftie (Shoebridge) not bothering to notice that refusing to take sides means siding with the illegal invader. eeuw.

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fake POSITIVE Google reviews are my new least-favourite thing. They are impossible to get removed, because they aren't hateful, explicit, etc etc etc. they are just.... AI generated. The pictures aren't real, the details of the experience are wrong. There's no category for that.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What a garbage human being. Let Ukraine be erased, the Ukrainian people be essentially enslaved, murdered and disappeared. Real non-violence from the non-violence guy there. Oh, and that only the UN can authorise force - yep, Russia will definitely vote for that! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

smh.com.au

New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance

David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 03/10/2026

The most effective thing you can do is set up a group chat for mocking content like this. Either with their peers or with you or family members, you need to create a culture where they can go “get a load of this fucking weirdo” and talk it out with people.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A murder of crows? You mean caws of death??

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/10/2026

Anybody accusing Loish of using AI is just admitting that they never paid any attention to online art spaces for the last couple decades.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was on the sidewalk, clearly talking on the phone when some Mormon girls interrupted me to ask “would you like to come to church with us?” And I said “I super don’t” without thinking.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

car service guy: We can fill your tires with nitrogen for only $100 more me: 😑 car service guy: 😑 me: 😑 air... is... car service guy: 😑 yeah i know me: 😑 78% nitrogen

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It happens so often it can be hard to even see. Men having the same experience I am, but I hit a place where the attention becomes unpleasant. Inuendos start. I have to wiggle out of something I did not start (cautiously! trying not to upset any dangerous egos!) so I leave, while the men get to stay

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Because the Greens aren't the government and don't have demographic representative weight substantial enough to be dictating government policy. If we go down this route, we end up like Israel - where small parties dominate government policy and direction. Doesn't that work well eh. Time to grow up..

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Biggest improvement in housing affordability for 40 years”

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Jeanette @jeanette555.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy to report my new Tiger brand rice cooker cooks good basmati rice despite my best efforts to sabotage the thing (I didn't add enough water).

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 30/09/2026

As I get older I'm increasingly disappointed with people who have a sook about what other people choose to do with their lives when it has no effect on them.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was not prepared for how much of adulting is trying to figure out what That Smell is. Not the trash can. Not the other trash can. (Took them out.) Not the garbage disposal, the dishes, or the cat box. (Cleaned them all.) Aha, it’s a rogue potato that decided to liquefy itself in the cabinet! 🥔

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My god... the coffee scale is screaming

My right hand pressing into a small coffee scale on a wooden cutting board. The scale's display shows "EEEE"

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 30/09/2026

We (the left) really beefed it when we uncritically accepted the framing that men were “just worried about fake accusations” when it was far more likely they *knew* a bunch of accusations were coming because they were guilty of them

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want a Batman story in which Bruce Wayne invents video games, ultimately providing a low-cost home entertainment option that helps significantly reduce street crime from the mid-1990s onward.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Behind the scenes with Patrick McGoohan filming THE PRISONER at Portmeirion — North Wales in 1966. This iconic TV series first aired 59yrs ago today.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

One of the exercises I’ve seen to illustrate this is to have kids in intro programming classes tell the teacher how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the teacher follows their instructions literally.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FYI this bill does nothing. It contains no new mandatory rules restricting data centers. It's just fakery to try to fool voters into forgetting that Republicans spent the entire term trying to stop states from regulating AI (as requested by the AI companies). www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill

Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer

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