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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Who among us hasn't registered in error on a white supremacist dating website?

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 15/10/2026

Seen this reposted into my timeline twice now. It's clearly fake. Among other things, the product codes apparently haven't changed in 24 years.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In case you were curious about why you're poor, this is emblematic of the big brains in charge of California housing policy. This is how stupid people think about affordability.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15/10/2026

This article quotes a sociology professor, a lawyer, and an architect who reject the notion that housing prices are set by supply and demand and do not believe that building more homes reduces rents. It is the housing policy equivalent of platforming climate change deniers.

sacbee.com

Would building housing reduce poverty in California? Sacramento-area experts split

A recent study argued that building housing could lower state’s poverty rate, currently the second-highest in the U.S. behind Louisiana.

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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Decided to test this for myself and Pangram told me with "high confidence"(!!!!) that sentences of a fic I wrote in literally 2018 were AI-generated

A pangram screenshot. The actual text is: To Victoria’s surprise, Alex is the first to voice his support. “Fuck it. Let’s do it,” he shrugs, standing up and striding over to the front door. Victoria raises a skeptical brow at him, but swiftly turns her gaze to the rest of the group, awaiting their responses.
“If it’s going to… for lack of a better term, eat us, no matter what… then it might be easier, psychologically speaking, to speed up the inevitable,” PupDOS agrees; and then suddenly, she smiles. Not polite, not humouring, but genuine, almost… relieved. Sazley sees the smile, and barely conceals a frown, but no one else seems to take notice. “I’m in,” PupDOS says, and she is surer than she’s been about anything of late.
Sazley is quick to follow, breaking out into an awkward grin to suppress her nerves. “I, uh, I guess this is our best shot,” she says.
Sabrina and Rebecca exchange worried glances, neither one completely confident about this plan. Both of them sit for a second, just processing the possible pros and cons of going along with Victoria’s idea. Finally, Sabrina reaches her hand over until it is resting overtop of Rebecca’s, and she leans over and whispers something in her girlfriend’s ear. Rebecca smiles a little, and then she nods.

18% of it is highlighted as AI by pangram with "high confidence": Only two spans are highlighted as AI: the end of the Sazley paragraph, "I, uh, I guess this is our best shot," she says, and the first two sentences of the next paragraph: "Sabrina and Rebecca exchange worried glances, neither one completely confident about this plan. Both of them sit for a second, just processing the possible pros and cons of going along with Victoria's idea."

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This speaks to the deep trouble the Tories are in. Retired military men with a code of honesty & concern for national security used to be core Tory voters. If the party has lost these people, what is its constituency?

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kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

THE SHRUGFLATION TRIANGLE I wrote about what happens when the two biggest borrowers in the economy seemingly stop caring what money costs: (1) oil, AI, and Treasuries feeding into each other (2) who ends up paying for it (people) and (3) why nobody seems to be able to stop it

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Over the last year with budget constraints, they’ve not hired new nurses. Anytime a nurse left, they weren’t replaced.” - Starship children's hospital whistleblower. (paywalled) #NzPol

nzherald.co.nz

'Horrified and appalled': Starship suspends child cancer treatments amid staff crisis

A hospital nurse said the move increases the risk of complications or death from cancers.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Ukrainian air force confirms that russia's ally, the United States, has stopped providing early warning of ballistic missile launches. The Americans withdrew this support from Ukrainian defenders in order to make strikes by russian terrorists on civilians more deadly.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the thing is there is no real israeli left - or hell, even israeli center, as we would recognize a center here - worth discussing, unfortunately. they all believe the basic right-wing policy on palestine

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Key pt for those who want to cut transit funding because agencies are "inefficient." A big growth in transit costs since 2020 has been security, partly due to pressure from some of the same people who now want that to be evidence of inefficiency. By @idothethinking.bsky.social. Link in 1st reply.

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The scammers are double-teaming victims right now. One will be on the phone with the customer and the other will call the bank. So if your bank calls, *call them back*. Given data breaches, it's not impossible fraudsters can stick a tester transaction on your card so they can claim legitimacy.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bloody hell. This is not, as Simeon Brown has claimed, doing everything to get enough nurses on the ground. It’s the opposite. #nzpol “The Government has told nursing schools to train fewer nurses next year.” www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

stuff.co.nz

Government tells nursing schools to stop training so many nurses

The edict came from the Tertiary Education Commission, to the surprise of many nursing professors and lecturers last week.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Okay we’re going to have to get a lot better at teaching queer history here because this isn’t how that happened at fucking all

They never learned to do any better, th
The only reason homosexuality isn't illegal throughout the western world rn is because of the Stonewall Riots; then, all of a sudden countries were quick to decriminalize & even legalize it

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

COP: some sicko locked a cat in a box POLICE CHIEF: bring him in dead or alive

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Johnny Silverpatch @johnnyredlives.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I love the retro-futurism styling. If Elon wasn't such a style-less hack and a fraud this is what a cybertruck would have looked like.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/10/2026

Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

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Burk @burkle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They didn't trick an old man, Trejo is a chud and took a big paycheck to sell out immigrants. This is his SECOND Daily Wire show btw, he just didn't expect the backlash so he's covering his ass now.

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The real problem with media coverage of National’s proposals to cut the number of public servants is they’re not asking the right questions. To cut 8,700 jobs (while still exempting teachers, doctors, nurses, police) Ministers can’t just pass the buck. So: What things will govt stop doing? #nzpol

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Also, the Alberta independent movement basically disappeared after the Yandex site was bombed. Fancy that.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

We live in a surveillance state which spends an order of magnitude more on policing than any other country, how is the most powerful people in the country still feel unprotected? Why do you think that it?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Jake Broe: The US is the world's largest exporter of diesel. There is no shortage of diesel in The US since Trump continues to allow its export. There is only the global price and global market place. Buying Russian diesel does not increase supply and it will not make anything cheaper for anyone.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh, yikes. Paul Krugman making some new (to me) points about the AI boom with some terrifying math. "AI taking over all jobs" is alarmist bullshit, but "AI boom sucking up all capital causing a job crash" is distressingly plausible. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-ai-cr...

paulkrugman.substack.com

Will AI Crowd Out Jobs?

A different and alarming take on the economic risks

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘World’s largest democracy’ removes 130 million people from the electoral roll, and then arrests people who try to protest against this, and arrests journalists trying to report on the protest. Fascism all the way down with Modi & his cronies. Meanwhile in Aotearoa, many young people not enrolled.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

People with stacks of cash. The hidden (primary?) objective of monetary policy is to protect the real value of savings. When inflation outpaces interest rates, savers lose in real terms - and losses are proportionate to the amount of wealth they have stacked. Now, where was I? Ah yes... [5/n]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sorry, I'll explain. We currently react to inflation by reducing the disposable income of spenders so that demand falls and unemployment goes up. We use a bufferstock of unemployed people to keep workers desperate, so wages are suppressed and we don't get a feedback loop (wage 🔄 prices) [🧵 1/n]

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two charts (ftpoo). First shows Govts actual financial position. Yep, we are one of the few countries where Govt has a positive financial worth. Graph two, related to the first, Govt interest payments, net. These two charts should be force fed to the commentariat. Scarcity mindset is killing NZ.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Actually, re: bot vs. spammy human, I feel like the Poe's Law of the AI age is that sometimes it's hard to tell humans from AIs, not because the AIs are so good but because some of the humans are so bad.

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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think the appeal of New Zealand First for many of their voters is that it's a party in NZ that allows them to feel good about their bigotry.

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Many not shocked to see the same rhetoric deployed against trans people go via mental health then be used in favour of forced birth

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 08/10/2026

In this photo, they’re at Book Hero, who posted a blog post and social media in favour of the PM. So you can, yknow, never shop there again.

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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026

more business owners need to be like this

Coldstuff Ice-cream • Follow

I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.

bad.baltic.takes 12h
Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026

Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly.

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Johnny Silverpatch @johnnyredlives.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can't fool me, this 100% Sloth from The Goonies after a glow-up.

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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seven years on, it's finally public knowledge that Neo-Nazi Wargus Christi, Dominion Movement and Action Zealandia co-founder Jack Captein/Johann Wolfe is the New Zealand Army soldier that is currently imprisoned for attempting espionage. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/jac...

Image description: Picture of Neo-Nazi Jack Captein with the following text above the picture:

"Jack Captein named as former New Zealand Army soldier in attempted espionage case

Tracy Neal
Open Justice multimedia journalist, Nelson-Marlborough·NZ Herald·
6 Oct, 2026 03:00 PM
5 mins to read"

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New York State declares a “Measles Emergency”* (*Latest Fad) Thankfully, help is on it’s way ... @theonion.com @governor.ny.gov

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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