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Filmmaker when I can afford to be, starving writer when I can't

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.
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jjgaut.bsky.social @jjgaut.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Oh, yeah, nothing at all suspicious about and agency's internal affairs division halting internal affairs and redirecting its power toward people who hurt the agency's feelings
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
LOL, well, damn. Okay, Merriam-Webster.
Merriam-Webster's official account on Twitter tweeted this: "Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776."
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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jjgaut.bsky.social @jjgaut.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Finally watched KPop Demon Hunters, and man, that would have been a movie to see in a theater.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's funny (ha! hilarious!) that the code names for the first two A-bombs--Little Boy and Fat Man--both apply so well to 86 47.
A glowing mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2026
there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 08/06/2026
The entire Epstein regime needs to be removed, held accountable, and sentenced to life in prison.
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jjgaut.bsky.social @jjgaut.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is impressively deranged even by 2026 standards
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jjgaut.bsky.social @jjgaut.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'd hate to be Hegseth's lawyer at his trial for war crimes
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
my tax dollars vs somehow also my tax dollars
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services
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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Every single day, Aaron Rupar watches broadcasts of these horrible, stupid people just so we can have clips of them and I think Aaron legit deserves some kind of award for not pouring acid into his eyes by now.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
New in PN: The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulness "There’s nothing partisan about the CIA World Factbook, so it’s hard to imagine how allowing people to use it could impede the MAGA agenda. Unless, that is, you realize the Factbook had to go *precisely because it was useful.*"
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The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulness
Wherever government does something helpful, the regime wants to kill it.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
ms.now
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
he should be impeached for this alone
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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jjgaut.bsky.social @jjgaut.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Astonishing watching Schumer continue to think he can Neville Chamberlain his way through this. But then, Chamberlain realized he screwed the pooch and resigned.
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
my rewatch of THE X-FILES coming in too hot
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 28/12/2025
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:

When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"

If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!

But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.

It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
America is not nearly angry enough about the fact that Donald Trump has turned a building we all collectively own into an exact replica of the antechambers leading to Saddam Hussein's sex dungeons and torture cabanas
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Donald Trump interrupted national tv today to promise a million people (with guns!) two billion dollars he doesn’t have on a timeline he cannot meet to buy Christmas gifts he has personally fought to make less affordable
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Taylor BLOODLETTER @tlrledbetter.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
If anyone in Southern California is listening, I’d like to ask a favor: In the event Skydance attempts a hostile takeover of Warner Bros, I want there to be irl protests at both the Paramount studio lot and Skydance HQ. Also contact any WB shareholder you may know and tell them to reject it.
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It’s the 10th anniversary of “Heaven Sent,” not just DOCTOR WHO’s best episode but one of the best TV episodes ever! In another world where Capaldi’s era was not underrated, it’d be on all the “Best TV Episodes” lists www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
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10 Years Ago, The Oldest Sci-Fi Show Delivered One Of The Best TV Episodes Ever — And No One Noticed
"Heaven Sent" is not just 'Doctor Who's best episode, it's one of the greatest hours of TV ever. So why isn't it considered such?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
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Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Donald Trump can completely turn around his legacy and the way historians view him with two simple words, on the last day of his presidency, during his farewell speech, if he closes by saying The aristocrats
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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now. Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-thre... 🔭 🧪
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Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA
The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/05/2025
Boy it’s a good thing the Trump administration hasn’t been doing things to make a lot of very talented lawyers mad
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
In case you need to send this to some dingus the next time they bring up how using AI is fine + good, actually.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Plea to media friends: STOP posting the dehumanizing images of piles of detainees in CECOT, people handcuffed by ICE in the US etc. There are easy to find photos of the HUMAN BEINGS. e.g. This mom is Elsy Berrios, 52, ICE agents smashed her car window and grabbed her. No charges. THREAD
Latina mother hugs her teenage daughter. Both are in dresses.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
can't help but remember the time Elon Musk threatened to fire half the FBI alongside them saying, "Yeah if you burn down a Tesla dealership we probably can't catch you". wonder if there's any connection between those things
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Team Leader: Tiger One through Six are you in position Tiger One: All are a go lead Pete Hegseth: God go with you boys Brent: Susan? Tiger Two: Tango is crossing the souk. He has four bodyguards. All appear to be armed. Lots of civilians Team Leader: wait comms are compromised /1
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB
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