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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ashley Hinson said the war in Iran that she voted seven times to continue is “out of sight, out of mind” for Iowans. Watch this Iowa farmer react:

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J E Gunter 🇨🇦 @jegunter.bsky.social · 4h

Silly bint thinks she's actually going to get that $5K?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 7h

Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.

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Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)

All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.

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Un granito de arena. @1granitodearena.bsky.social · 13h

There are about 30,000 homeless in Mexico City. The authorities recognize only 2,978. While López Obrador's regime gives voters cash handouts... It has reduced services provided by the State. Which hits the poorest harder. While removing tax deductions for NGOs. cc in English.

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El abandono en las calles: las personas sin hogar crecen un 150% en la CDMX

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 12h

Republicans eagerly accept money from their largest donor, who generates and distributes nude fakes. He's welcome at the White House and he's welcome to run ads supporting their campaigns

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 12h

It's been said a million times before but damn it's refreshing to see a mayor who actually likes the people (not just the corporations) in the city they lead

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

having thought about this a bit, I think that it is actually a waste of the potential of the LLM to use it to simply automate the production of genre literature

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 12h

1000%. I'm interested in LLMs ability / inability to create conventionally suspenseful, well-plotted stories because I think the difficulties of that task *will teach us something about stories.* Not because I think that's the best way to use them or the limit of what they can achieve here.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 11h

TLDR: I bet Trump lies awake at night wishing he could be more like Bukele.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 12h

Seen this morning at El Supermercado in south Wichita.

Packages of 1.5-liter bottles of Jarritos mango soda. On the label, we can read the words "RESPECT THE TACO."

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 14h

Chubby Checker and Steve Reich share a birthday. "Come on, baby,/Let's Minimalist."

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 15h

Albert Bierstadt, The Wolf River, Kansas (1859)

A riverside scene, with the bank of the river angling downward to form a sloping lower-third of this landscape and the crowns of the cottonwood(?) trees mirroring that same angle. In the distant foreground, a white man sits astride a horse and is accompanied by another horse serving as a pack animal. Above him, on the sloping bank, we see three teepees and several Indigenous people standing among them. The whole scene is suffused with that familiar Bierstadt light.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 15h

"The length of vision from a place is a limitation in me, not in the place. You can see all the way to the stars from almost any place you are. To live in a place and have your vision confined by it would be a mistake, . . .

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16h

It’s 186 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This would be unremarkable were it not for what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig

The Kiltinane churchSheela Na Gig – a strange, naked, stone female figure, with one hand raised, and the other holding open her vulva

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 16h

Those people thinking a couple of weeks ago that Carlson's turning on Trump was some sort of sign that he's become a better person or something? Well, broken clocks remain broken, even if they're occasionally right about something.

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 03/10/2026

'Synonym' happens to find Meshell Ndegeocello taking on a few songs that were trending this week: "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)," which RAYE sang at the VMAs; "Hunger Strike," which Stephen Wilson Jr. and Eddie Vedder performed at Ohana; and "Islands In The Stream" (R.I.P. Dolly).

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 03/10/2026

Meshell Ndegeocello has been releasing boundary-breaking original music for over three decades. One of her biggest hits, though, was a Van Morrison cover with John Mellencamp in 1994. Today, Ndegeocello releases ‘Synonym,’ an album of covers with a fascinating collection of collaborators…

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/10/2026

#OtD 2 Oct 1968 the Tlatelolco massacre took place in Mexico City when police murdered hundreds of students demonstrating peacefully, just prior to the start of the Olympic Games in the city stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9228...

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Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's Bandcamp Friday, so here's one of my brother Toby's albums. This time it's Carollei, originally released in 2019. Please enjoy and share—all proceeds to Backline, a nonprofit providing mental health and wellness resources to people in the music industry. tobyoler.bandcamp.com/album/carollei

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Carollei, by Toby Oler

7 track album

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's Friday! Time for chicharrones along the U.S.-Mexico border

a photo of a Border patrol agent apparently buying chicharrones from some dude at the US-Mexico border

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know the bar is so low it's in hell but these are the moments of healthy masculinity that warm my heart. It's okay to be afraid of needles! It's okay to need some comfort! It's okay to get that comfort from another straight dude! At a time when empathy is seen as a weakness, this is really nice

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Joel Mathis @joelderburner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kansas used to have three "parties": Conservative GOP, moderate GOP and Democrats. We've only had one conservative governor - Brownback - in the last half-century, and the mod remnant has increasingly endorsed Dems in high-profile races in the Trump era. Nancy Kassebaum passed, or she'd be here too.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Co-workers in the work of creation" is a beautiful phrase, and one we sorely need to hear.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

". . . a desert that goes on like there's no today . . ." --a character in Women and Men, by Joseph McElroy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs in official data released today—overall, employment decreased by 17k last month and is down 69k over the last year That's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and much worse than the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms

a graph of the year-on-year change in US tech employment

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Healthcare and social assistance: Two areas of the economy that this administration has said, in essence, are of little concern to it.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That second bullet point feels significant.

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She found it on someone else's social media account, but my spouse sometimes describes my occasional daydreaming about Mexico as "Juandering."

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm having fun this morning imagining Mamdani, intent on honing his charm skilz as a young man, using this line back during his clubbing days.

A hurt-your-eyes-to-look-at poster featuring a bust of Karl Marx with glowing fuchsia eyes, bordered by two neon-green palm trees. Above all that is text reading, "Capitalism? More like crapitalism. Am I right, ladies? --Karl Marx, probably"

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NowPlaying: Stickmen: Umeda. Recorded live in Japan 2022, released 2024.

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UMEDA, by Stick Men

12 track album

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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Religion, Conspiracies, and Hate: Orthobros and Catholic Crusades on Social Media.” Come listen to me talk about weird internet religion for academic purposes. 😇⚔️ jcrt.org/blog/2026-08...

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Registration Now Open: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare

Registration is now open for the online JCRT conference Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality, taking place October 1-3, 2026.

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Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"All Hallows" By LOUISE GLÜCK

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John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm having fun this morning imagining Mamdani, intent on honing his charm skilz as a young man, using this line back during his clubbing days.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1. The texts came from the DOJ. 2. Grassley knew about them. 3. Grassley did not include the texts in the memo to the committee. 4. Grassley did not share the texts with the Dems on the panel.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was in a band in high school called Calculus. People thought our music was derivative.

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 01/10/2026

Girl with Death Mask (She Plays Alone), 1938 #frida #kahlo

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me

A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.

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Ellen Jovin is at the Grammar Table @grammartable.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brandt Johnson and I are in Austin preparing for a Rebel with a Clause screening at AFS Cinema tonight. The Grammar Table will be open for grammergencies and other grammar matters by 6pm. If you are planning to come, please buy your tickets now as they are running low. Note: Austin is in the movie.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, responds just now to this leaked audio from Paxton: “I just have a one-word reaction: Whoops.”

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looks like Eric Schmitt has a new website--I guess to campaign to be JD's VP. senatorericschmitt.com

$Schmitt Schmitt: (verb) \ˈshmit\ 1. A sudden and urgent gastrointestinal revolt in which the body issues an unmistakable, nonnegotiable evacuation order that causes a considerable mess and great humiliation. 2. To suffer a sudden, public, and spectacular political collapse, especially after overconfidently attempting a partisan attack. 3. To create such an avoidable mess that one’s credibility, message, and electoral prospects are left in tatters. Example: “I ended up with that cyclosporiasis invection from tainted lettuce and I schmitted myself in the grocery store trying to buy some Pepto.” Example: “During the hearing performance, he didn’t land a blow—he completely schmitted himself.”$

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

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

Most TV is just this now.

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