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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4h

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

Looking forward to the aliens reconstructing our civilization through half decayed episodes of season 19 of taskmaster

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 5h

Is it good when the announcer says "You can see his spirit is broken" in the first inning?

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Heather @alainnfocail.bsky.social · 5h

This feels like a humiliation exercise against the Astros. Top of the first and they’re being booed already.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting to turn on the White Sox/Astros game, see that it's 3-0 and then realize it's still the top of the first.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 6h

Sounds kinda similar to the FedEx plane hijacking out of Memphis back in '94. Still probably the wildest aviation story I've ever heard.

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Federal Express Flight 705 - Wikipedia

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 5h

Love it when we get postseason Sicko Ball

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 5h

This applies to synthetic respondents in social science surveys as well.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 5h

Didn't intend to make it an extended digestion metaphor, but it's appropriate: synthetic users are not merely slop, they are shit. If you let them into your decision-making, they will contaminate your product and give your users diarrhea of the brain.

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one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 6h

the people who made "Liberty Biberty" knew he would be reviled. it was an intentional part of their marketing. when given the chance to play God, they chose to create just so they could inflict suffering. the implications should terrify us.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 6h

Tbh, if I was Gingrich, I'd be seriously offended at being lumped in with the other two like that.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h

"pete hegseth's idea of a smart guy" is such a brutal own

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 6h

Sounds kinda similar to the FedEx plane hijacking out of Memphis back in '94. Still probably the wildest aviation story I've ever heard.

en.wikipedia.org

Federal Express Flight 705 - Wikipedia

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 7h

People say his brain is mush, but he's out there inventing whole new racisms like it's nothing.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h

I love the tech industry and their cool new product: fraud

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Daniel M Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 8h

It's Wednesday but my books are still good and you can still buy them

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9h

google should be forced, by law, to fully fund wikipedia for a thousand years

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

It’s been another expensive kitten season and I know we are all struggling, but if you have even a few extra bucks to help us save our girl, please send them our way. linktr.ee/crits4cats

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Crits For Cats, Inc Cat Rescue Official: TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, Twitch, Threads | Linktree

A small cat rescue in Eastern Maryland focused on TNR, Fostering, & Adoption

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 10h

don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

I have a Big Ask from our community. Many of you will remember our graduates Pikachu and Eevee, who were adopted together. Eevee had dealt with some very challenging chronic diarrhea while she was a kitten, but before adoption, we figured out a food that worked for her & she was all better (thread)

Eevee, a soft dilute torbie cat, hunched over looking uncomfortable and thin.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 9h

Setting aside the fact that most of these people did not, in fact, break the law, what does this suggest about how the next administration should handle the members of this one, nearly all of whom have broken many laws?

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 10h

One of the most underappreciated unforeseen consequences of the smartphone/streaming/social media era is the elimination of boredom as a key driver of creativity. Without boredom, there just isn't enough impetus for most people do go out and learn and do things.

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Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 11h

Once again the biggest mistake with AI is that it's a consumer product. World historical mistake. Ought never have been made publicly available. Just bad.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11h

We Have Never Been Post-Antique

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 11h

Deleted my previous quote-skeet because I misread this as saying that Shapin will be canceling his Gifford Lecture, not asking. Hopefully he does.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 12h

I know everyone jokes about how executives and management are the only jobs that AI could actually do in many workplaces, but tbh the idea of reporting to a chatbot sounds like literal hell.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 13h

This fixation some of the AI bros have with "personalized" music, tv, books, movies, etc is so weird. Just completely unable to understand art through any lens other than maximally atomized consumerism.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 30/09/2026

Baseball with butt rock background music is a hell of an innovation by NBC

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shut every fraternity down.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is this headline blaming the fish for being overfished?

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Andy Kostka @afkostka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BARCS announces the families of Pete Alonso, Kyle Bradish and Samuel Basallo are sponsoring a program at the shelter in which adoption fees and take-home essentials are covered by those. BARCS’ MVP Program highlights animals who are there a bit longer find loving homes.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if you are anywhere near Baltimore/DC, this cat and her sister are looking for a new home where they can be together forever. they are recovering from their spay surgery and will be ready to find their new home in a week! they are the sweetest kittens, and I wish I had room for them myself.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you are invited to her gallery opening

A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hell yeah, Adley. Love to see it. (N.b. this is not an endorsement of the Red Sox generally)

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every nationally broadcast Yankees game needs an anti-Yankees audio option

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026

oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”

america.gov

America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Consultant: this is a great ad Marie, I give it my seal of approval Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: *eyes narrowing* your what

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is bananapants crazy. How do rescues that operate like this ever place any dogs?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

pet rescues turning people down for not having a college degree, what we doing here, man

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gracie made a friend on our morning walk!

A cocker spaniel in a pink collar looking at a groundhog hanging out on the sidewalk

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026

pretty sure "lands" is the wrong word here for at least two reasons

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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