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JThomasAlbert @jthomasalbert.bsky.social · 1h

"Honey West" (1965-1966) Starring Anne Francis youtu.be/qenyttSzp-8?...

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"Honey West" TV Intro

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 6h

Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

Samuel Alito has recused himself from a Supreme Court climate case, after ethics watchdogs uncovered his fossil fuel stockholdings. Instead of relying on the justices to occasionally do the right thing, we need Congress to enact real SCOTUS reform.

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How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich

Justice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 3h

The fact that Schmitt’s team alerted the media to be ready for drama is the part that too few of you are focusing on. I did PR for years. It would have been a big deal, had it proceeded as planned. That it didn’t, for the precise reasons it didn’t, is revelatory. It speaks to incompetence.

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 15h

What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

Joyce Carol Oates
This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Bunch of Einsteins By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels.

PANEL 1

A bearded man in a red cap is recording a video of himself.

JAKE: Why should taxpayers be on the hook for science research with no real-world value? If their research were worth anything, private industry would already fund it!

PANEL 2

Jake’s rant continues over a cross-section of the landscape, from farmland and suburbs to a city; his voice is coming from a little cabin. A fiber-optic cable runs underground all the way across the panel.

JAKE: Believe me, these researchers aren’t a bunch of Einsteins!

CAPTION: There wouldn’t be high-speed internet for this doofus’s videos without fiber optic cables!

PANEL 3

Under the ocean, a fiber-optic cable runs along the ocean floor. Word balloons coming from the fiber optic cable contain the icons of many internet-based services — Facebook, Zoom, Discord, Netflix, Minecraft, and more.

CAPTION: Without fiber optics, the internet would be far too slow for how we use it today.

PANEL 4

CAPTION: So where did fiber optics come from? Well…

CAPTION: 1966

In a laboratory break room, an excited scientist throws his arms wide while another scientist eats at a table.

SCIENTIST: Now that lasers exist, we can use ultrapure glass fibers to carry light long distances!

OTHER SCIENTIST: How does that do anything?

PANEL 5

CAPTION: 1960

A scientist proudly holds up a diagram of a newly invented device. Another scientist sits at a microscope.

SCIENTIST: I call it a “laser”! It’s based on the old theory of stimulated emission.

OTHER SCIENTIST: But Theo, what use is it?

PANEL 6

CAPTION: 1917

Outside a university, a pompous-looking man gestures indignantly as he reads a scientific paper. He's speaking to a young Albert Einstein, who rolls his eyes.

MAN: Albert, where’s the practical value in this “stimulated emission” drivel? It’s a waste of taxpayer money!

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Jellybox Studio @jellybox.bsky.social · 8h

UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 8!!! Why are Queer cartoon characters censored?! #UmbertActually #UnionYaoi #MistermanGuyfella #Jellybox #IndieAnimation

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8h

It gives me no pleasure to report that Steve Bannon won.

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sticky comics 🚴‍♀️🚶‍♀️✍️ @xiann.bsky.social · 8h

The 3 stages of accountability for a privileged white male #comic #privilege

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 8h

Today is a great day to support your indie bookshop with an audiobook purchase 🙃

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As well as books, posters, games and all sorts, I also do editorial illustration. Here's some of my work for the independent, (award-winning!) news site londoncentric.media Thanks to editor @jim.londoncentric.media for being a pleasure to work with! #illustration #art

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 9h

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

Russian bots are trying to impersonate us and flood your feed with misinformation. It’s never been clearer that freedom of the press is what stands between democracy and autocracy. We’re ready to keep uncovering the truth that those in power don’t want you to know. We need your support to do that:

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12h

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 9h

Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.

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CoachN @coachn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

John Oliver’s superb piece on trans athletes should have been a final end to this conversation. But it’s too politically and financially (see Gaines, Riley) profitable for hate grifters than to accept scientific, moral, and common sense.

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Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

it's telling that instead of letting the free market decide who's labor is more valuable they are passing laws to mandate lack of freedom of movement for (young, black) players to put the thumb back on the scale for (older, white) coaches

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘The presence of human remains still buried under the rubble remains one of the most urgent humanitarian issues in Gaza. According to estimates cited by the UNDP, between 8,000 and 10,000 bodies may still be buried.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies

Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern history

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Social media users have been sharing Google Maps satellite imagery of Gaza over the past day. The damage visible on the map reflects the scale recorded by UN assessments. "It doesn't need scholars, it doesn't need anyone to justify this as a genocide because you can see it from Google Maps."

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found these French gift tags from the 1970s awhile ago. Got a frame and made some custom backing out of black cloth so I could display them. These are just four of a larger set. Aren't they beautiful?

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 12h

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Rick Scott: "Obamacare has been a disaster, so what we gotta do is we gotta go back to let the private sector work. Give you the choices ... treat it like a cell phone. You know what plan to buy."

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 12h

christ this infuriates me. ACA bridged the gap between my divorce (with loss of spousal benefits) and medicare eligibility. without it, I would not have had access to health care for eight years.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

It's interesting to think: what would your life have to look like, for chatGPT's regurgitated nonsense to sound intelligent and well-informed and coherent etc. Obviously you couldn't be a big reader, for one. Or have many friends. Or experience with subjects. Or curiosity.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15h

& 5 minutes later when the next shipment of weapons arrived as scheduled, netanyahu concluded that biden was a weak bluffing fool who he could completely ignore to zero consequence

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Pendle Mills @pendlemills.bsky.social · 15h

And because Epstein was an Israeli Mossad sleeper agent, they have all those recordings. Trump couldn't say no to Netanyahu...because his life depends on it!

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 23h

We need MeToo, Part 2: Actual Fucking Consequences

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

💔🕯️No Justice No peace.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 23h

Primetime is now in theaters from A24.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 23h

“Fewer”

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I get the feeling that Meta tried SO HARD to make this mascot thing the cuddliest lil’ guy ever but all I see is an unholy amalgamation of the Snuggle fabric softener teddy bear & the Adipose Babies from Doctor Who. Its an echo of both but not either, and feels viscerally WRONG

Adipose Fat Babies flying up to the mother ship in series 4 of Doctor Who

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The same people who's mantra was "back the blue" immediately pivoted to "back the blue...except the ones trying to stop an insurrection at the Capitol, fuck those guys." This was the moment that confirmed that MAGA is a cult, choosing violent criminals over police officers. All for their leader.

“IT’S INCONCEIVABLE TO
ME HOW YOU CAN PARDON
PEOPLE WHO BEAT POLICE
OFFICERS… AND THEN
VILIFY THE OFFICERS”
Jack Smith

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 29/09/2026

surprised by how much damage control is being expended in defense of a newbie senator from missouri with negative charisma who makes jd vance seem empathetic.

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Hate to tell you this” No, you don’t. You fucking love it. You’re a dirty little pedant and you’re giving us ALL a bad name by pretending you don’t enjoy it. That’s why people think we’re joyless when truly we are the embodiment of glee, the leaping dolphins of humanity.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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