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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
arxiv.org/html/2609.03...
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Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus
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James Stanton @jstanton617.com · 09/08/2026
Awesome book in a variety of ways, including being pretty enlightening re: the recent MacArthur discourse on here
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The end
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The ideal outcome is that you get to live a long and mostly agreeable life with the person you end up loving and it goes and goes and goes until one of you has to die and the other has to watch it transpire and anyone on the outside who is apprised of the raw statistics of your lives applauds and cries like wow what a run they had. Up until the end there to be fair what with the agony and pain and fear and unfathomable grief. But setting all that aside what a love they had. I wish I had something like that they say. I can’t even get a date haha. We haven't come up with something better than this for a finale: To wipe the brow of the sleeping person you've loved for decades. Either with a hot towel or a cold towel relative to however their suffering is going. To think how lucky you are to be there doing that. I don't find that concept particularly heartening. I find it a delayed kind of torture in fact. Although I suppose most of the alternatives aren’t much better. I wonder which one them you and I are going to get.
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Learn about your rights when encountering law enforcement at the airport. 👇🏾 www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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Know Your Rights | Enforcement at the Airport | ACLU
At the border, you are likely to encounter Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, and you may encounter Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. HSI is part of U.S. Immigration and Custom...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/08/2026
This is obscene.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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James Stanton @jstanton617.com · 21/07/2026
@nickharkaway.com just finished Sleeper Beach on my summer holiday. Great work! Any chance of more Cal Sounder in the future?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I am not your ex. I did not beat you up. I did not harm anyone. I am very sorry for what happened to you but when you decide to remedy it by treating other people as a safe stand-in for your abusers and attack them instead, you become the villain. My job is not to be abused by you or your friends.
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Justin Case @punchnazisitsokay.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Why the fuckdoes this app refresh my feed everytime that I check my email and come back? Like wtf, nobody wants that, nobody. Now I have to search for that post I wanted to read.
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Telephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen
nine inch nails pretty freight machine
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James Stanton @jstanton617.com · 09/03/2026
@spannersready.bsky.social You've done it a couple times, and at the risk of arguing with a joke, I think the point of the Cadillac JFK speech isn't the "whee, we're going to the moon", the important part is what's after. "do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
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Jane Mayl🍷n 🍇 @janetrad.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Have a few drinks then ramble on about iguanas. Sounds reasonable to me. 😆
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Winter Olympics presenter sorry for drinking before slurred report
Australian prime minister defends Danika Mason, who discussed iguanas and the price of coffee in her live TV broadcast
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
we gotta stop with brioche buns for burgers
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KL @kliakos.com · 14/02/2026
A picture of Greg The Hammer Valentine that says happy Valentine’s Day
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James Stanton @jstanton617.com · 25/01/2026
If he hadn’t said it was the Declaration of Independence, you’d think he was straightforwardly narrating the montage at the end
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2026
youtu.be/H_71MhRqpVM
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ICE Kills Another American
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.
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Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 14/01/2026
/ THIS IS A WEATHER 4CAST 4 MINNEAPOLIS / A WICKED COLDENING UR WAY COMES / W/ ONLY BELOW AVG TEMPS ON UR HORIZON / STRANGE HOW BELOW AVG TEMPS CULD HELP MELT ICE / REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS / STOP UR POWERS & OLIGARX FROM DESTRUXTING U & UR PLANET / REPENT
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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 06/01/2026
Report X to Apple to get it removed from the AppStore: reportaproblem.apple.com/store/333903... And for Google Play, report the X app “com.twitter.android” here: support.google.com/googleplay/a...
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 08/01/2026
ok everything's awful. but you know what's not awful? hot sauce! tell me: what's your favorite hot sauce? (fwiw, mine's cholula; i fucking douse it over everything. i love it.)
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James Stanton @jstanton617.com · 29/12/2025
I ate buffet grilled chicken and pasta salad at the same picnic table as David Bowie. It was backstage at the NIN / Bowie tour in 1995. We did not speak
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vodalus @vodalus.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
NBC Sports does a terrible job covering the Celtics. Whether it's Eddie House Zoom halftime from his garage, hosts and commentators overwhelmingly white and dumb, or the worst color commentator in the NBA, it really sucks to watch Celtics basketball. Sean Grande and Cedric Maxwell are right there.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 23/12/2025
For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI. 10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
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10 Hours Hypnotic Fireplace Ambiance – 4K Macro Slow-Motion Color Flames, Crackling Fire (No Music)
YouTube video by Rob Sheridan
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The Baldfather @solochills.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025
Repost for good luck
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My old friend and former publisher of the Weekly Dig Jeff Lawrence has died. He hired, and fired, me from my first job. I always cared about him over the years even though he sometimes made it very hard to. A fun guy and such a pain in the ass I don't think he would mind me saying.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Song for the Day: Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus www.youtube.com/watch?v=LflL...
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Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Bauhaus (1979) full 12" Single
YouTube video by sipsun8
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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help! Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒
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Atlanta Justice Alliance @atlantajustice.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
FREE ROBBY ROADSTEAMER! Detained by ICE...for singing with the Portland Frog. #FuckIce #DomesticTerrorists #ACAB www.gofundme.com/f/robby-road...
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Donate to Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE in Portland!, organized by Robby Roadsteamer
Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE in Portland, Orego… Robby Roadsteamer needs your support for Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE in Portland!
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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Now with #AltText
A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
THE ROAD (Pixar Studios, 2009)
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Hunter @hmck.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Generals gathered in their masses/ to listen to this fucking jackass
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.
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You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual
The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Maine has the oldest population of any state and a high rate of disability. Question 1, on the November ballot, figures to make voting (especially by mail) much harder for many, and particularly for older folks and people with disabilities. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
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A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts
Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 22/08/2025
"We Never Shed the Bones of the Beasts We Slay Within" An experimental collage series about strength from being broken; an acknowledgement that our inner demons remain a part of us even when they are conquered, leaving their bones behind to make us stronger from within. 1/
“Shedding Bones I” digital collage art by Rob Sheridan. Abstract composition of a woman, abstracted animal bones, broken glass. Prints available at robsheridan.storenvy.com
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Power exists for those who are willing to organize for it and to take it.
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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
bluesky, i think, is kinda like the criterion channel to X's netflix. it's never gonna be the biggest, but everyone who appreciates posting as an art form knows it's the place to be
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Yes! In the sense that there are genuine use cases where a chainsaw or a flamethrower are very good, but you wouldn't hype them to bar patrons to make money
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James Stanton @jstanton617.com · 05/08/2025
@extrafabulous.bsky.social just bought the “bag o shit”. Do you / would you sell a framed print of a specific comic?
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The Democratic Party allows a grift machine to operate in its name, eroding trust and abusing the goodwill of the very voters it seeks to cultivate. The smoking gun analysis from @adambonica.bsky.social confirms what I’ve long suspected. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
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AdrianAtterbury @notupmytrousersyoudont.com · 03/08/2025
9 years ago today I was in Luxembourg and found The Bar of Ultimate Despair, a place so bleak I probably wouldn't believe my memory if I hadn't taken pictures. Brightly lit, pale wood officey furniture, one single beer on draught and a clientele whose common mood could not be described as convivial.
Me taking a smiling selfie as an excuse to get a picture of the man behind me at the bar, despondently counting out beer money.Two men seated at a table, slumped forward, possibly asleep, possibly dead, heads in arms. In the background, a man with a thousand yard stare drinks alone.A standing woman addresses three people, two women and a man, all seated, oddly, in a row. They all have expressions of hopelessness on their faces. A pint glass of a mysterious green drink stands alone on a bar of pale, office furniture wood. I never found out what this was, it looked like washing up liquid. When I asked the lady behind the bar, she just said "You probably wouldn't like it"
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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 02/08/2025
It’s rude to show AI output to people
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It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 01/08/2025
Only the right whines about men not getting laid all the time because if you are a dude with right-wing politics/ideals, you are more repellant to women by your nature. They don’t want to change how they think, so they have to blame it on women or woke or whatever. Fix your hearts or die, boys.
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James Stanton @jstanton617.com · 27/07/2025
Post your lock screen
The underground hot tub at the spa at Seafire, Grand Cayman
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Eric Thompson @ericjthompson81.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🎶Pastamania Just put it in a bowl Angelhair and alfredooo Not easily digested Not hard to let it go From a mall to the masses🎶
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
PUP at the Tiny Desk???? Now we’re talking with gas!!!
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PUP: Tiny Desk Concert
Existential dread never sounded more joyful or uplifting than it does in the hands of PUP. The Canadian pop-punk group confronts world-weary discontent with deadpan humor, hard-earned wisdom and a lot...
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James Stanton @jstanton617.com · 08/07/2025
@nickharkaway.com Hello! What’s the best way to find a copy of Sleeper Beach? @bookshop.org doesn’t seem to have it, and even the dreaded Amazon only seems to have shady 3rd parties. Is it officially out in the US yet?
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
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