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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“it came as President Donald Trump has taken steps to reshape the country’s relationships with its federally protected wilderness.” Jesus Christ I hate this phrasing more than I hated the idea of this happening. Fucking COWARDS

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every day out of California is Gavin Newsom vetoing a bill that guarantees puppies a loving home so he can drop out before Nevada

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Kal ⁉️ @kalx58.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw the literal version of this earlier this week via a comment on a fanfic telling the author that "at first I thought I was reading wrong, then I realized this was just confusing" (!!!!!)

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Emoji Mashup Bot @emojimashupbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

😠 angry + 🥰 smiling-three-hearts =

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not even abstaining out of snobbery like I simply know that TikTok would ruin my life. that would be a wrap on "my brain." I recognized this immediately and never touched the stuff

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

people really gonna say AI novels are "close enough" to the real thing when they gave me shit for eating boca burgers in the 90's

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Putting the :/ in https://

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uncle leyla (scary) 🎃 @leylses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not to be too uhhHH honest on main about my personal life but man

The worst part about being chronically single isn’t the solitude, which I enjoy. I even enjoy loneliness; that melancholic note, issued from a single, plucked string pulled taut over an emptiness. The worst part is the ambiguity, which makes me susceptible to folk remedies, trite platitudes, and magical thinking. It will come when you least expect it. You’re looking too hard. What’s your sign? You’ll know it when you feel it. You’ll just know.

Thank you. I’ll stop looking until I find it. I’ll stop thinking about it so it can take me by surprise. This isn’t how anything else works, but I’ll give it a go. I wake up most mornings with a vague hope, smothered by the hour, and cruelly rekindled in sleep. I’ll have to stop doing that.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s just a kind of hasty, under-thought hot take that isn’t about AI—it’s about the contempt for genre fiction that some people actively seek out opportunities to express from new angles, because if they just say “romance is stupid, boo,” they know nobody cares.

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dafoppishdandy @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

mamdani has approved free suppressants and bite-resistant neck wraps for all uninsured omegas living in new york city

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zero surprises here: www.instagram.com/p/Dd4peLpEpF...

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

as always, the answer here is to listen to survivors and then to push for actual, meaningful change. but when that doesn't happen, the focus shifts to pressuring survivors to relive their trauma and share it in public forums, be confronted by it in public forums, and THEN have nothing happen

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Testosterone testing on top" sounds like an alliteration from a particularly gay Gilbert & Sullivan aria. Which would be nice, in circumstances other than these

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a ghost in two panels. In the first, the masked ghost is, "HERE'S WHY THIS GENRE I HATE IS BAD." In the second, the ghost is unmasked to turn out to be, "I HAVEN'T READ OF IT BUT"

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punky 📝🦐 @punkymacc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

there is no person on planet earth sitting down for a romcom with the expectation that it will be Just Like Real Life. except I guess misogynists on the internet

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”

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Kal ⁉️ @kalx58.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"deciding what to have for dinner" is the truest thing

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gal 🌿🛏️💚 @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

do you need fic recs?! I have fic recs! going to be traveling later this week, and downtime in the airport would be a perfect time to play fanfic sommelier, just saying.... #reylofic

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sex Pest Government

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do you have to write a whole article to give yourself permission to feel joy, all while beating yourself up and quoting other people beating themselves up? If you actually participate in fandom—making things with other people—you don't sit there stewing in your constant-consumption shame-hole.

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punky 📝🦐 @punkymacc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hey, friends! i posted this on ao3 for archival purposes (of course). throw a kudos my way if you feel like it 💖 #reylo #reylofic #punkymicrofic 🔗 ao3.org/works/93423991

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atomly @atomly.com · 23/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_c...

Origin of patient zero
"Patient zero" was used to refer to the supposed source of HIV outbreak in the United States, flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas in the popular press, but the term's use was based on a misunderstanding (and Dugas was not the index case). In the 1984 study of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of the earliest recorded HIV-patients was code-named "patient O", which stands for "patient out of California".
The letter O, however, was interpreted by some readers of the report as the numeral O. The designation patient zero (for Gaëtan Dugas) was subsequently propagated by the San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts in his book And the Band Played On in 1987. William Darrow, a CDC behavioral scientist responsible for figuring out why gay men in Los Angeles were dying of a strange illness, said: "That's correct. I never labeled him Patient Zero"

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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's also worth noting that Gaëtan Dugas, the man targeted by the label, spent the last months of his life assisting epidemiologists in contact tracing. There are some understandable reasons a gay man in the early 80s might have been skeptical of medical advice to stop having so much gay sex.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Right-wing commentators were quick to make the connection: that “woke,” feminine, or nonbinary people can’t be trusted in their warnings on AI. “There is no committee or regulatory body with a ‘they/them’ that will make any good decisions,” far-right activist Chris Rufo declared.

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The Trump administration’s hard-on for AI, explained

“No dooming. America will be AI DOMINANT!”

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petcake 🦋 @petcake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🎶 MY DATE WITH THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER 🎶 MY DATE WITH THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER, OH YEAH 🎶 MY DATE🎶WITH HER 🎶

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

using a payday loan to buy an unregistered security as god intended

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First: the covers. We asked Patti Harrison to help us recreate images of tech’s most powerful men–the same ones who’ve dominated WIRED's pages (and Silicon Valley) for decades. The results are completely unhinged. Patti is my hero and our WIRED Woman forever.

A cover of WIRED Magazine with Patti Harrison portraying Elon Musk.

A cover of WIRED Magazine with Patti Harrison portraying Mark Zuckerberg, wearing sunscreen and windsurfing just like he did in viral photos from several years ago.

A WIRED Magazine cover featuring Patti Harrison disguised as Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, dressed as they were at Trump's inauguration.

A cover of WIRED Magazine with Patti Harrison dressed as both Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, recreating an iconic photo of them onstage where they refused to hold hands.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

fundamentally trump just thinks mamdani is neat and wants to hang out with him, which is maybe the only thing he has in common with the people of bluesky

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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve been a loyal @defector.com subscriber since they launched but I think the biggest impact it’s had on my life is introducing the phrase “grim men’s evening” to my lexicon. I’ve spread it to my friends, including one who just told me about a “grim men’s business lunch”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually

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Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 22/09/2026

Mom: we have Angine de Poitrine at home At home:

Two tiny black-and-white polkadot stools

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vasoula @frazzledfishnun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

robert eggers is set to direct a romeo & juliet adaptation!!!!! life is worth living again !!!!!

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Pen || Penelope Guinn @penguinnwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They showed him Kylux 😩🤣

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026

They even made DoorDash apologize.

DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.

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The Toronto Zoo @thetorontozoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For scale: Maple continues to grow and flourish under Kindia's watchful care, and is approximately 14 Heated Rivalry books tall 🍁🦛 Did you know? A proudly Canadian production, #HeatedRivalry is a Crave Canada original featuring homegrown talent like Vancouver actor Hudson Williams. #TZTinyTank

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Fiona Apple Bot @fionaapplebot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Come on, put a little love here in my void" He said, "It's all in your head," and I said, "So's everything," but he didn't get it I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy Hunger hurts

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mish 🍂 @pocketsofdaisy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

icymi i shared chp4-6 last week starting here!!! and i'll be covering chp7-9 in a few 🫶 #reylofic

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glenn close's reylo burner @soyauntie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the reylo fandom getting a female-directed feature film made before lucasfilm lol

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FranQAmente, me importa un bledo @franqa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

No sabía yo que lo que necesitaba este viernes por la tarde era a Alan Ritchson cantando el Don't Know Why de Norah Jones.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

gavin newsom looks like what you’d get if gordon gekko fucked an irradiated bottle of la looks extreme sport gel

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JunkyardJedi @junkyardjedi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Welcome to the official launch of GET STUFFED! A Reylo Turkey Day Collection! 🦃🦃🍂🍂 This turkey season, we (@binarystars3.bsky.social & @aestivaltide.bsky.social & Junk) encourage you to write a buffet's worth of fic. Let's get stuffed! Read the FAQs for details! #ReyloGetStuffed #Reylo #ReyloFic

Orange background. Top beige text box says: Filling You Up This Thanksgiving On AO3! GET STUFFED! A REYLO TURKEY DAY COLLECTION
Below, Daisy Ridley/Rey looks shocked/mouth is open in surprise. Adam Driver/Ben is winking and making a finger gun.
Cartoon art of a stuffed turkey on a platter and two hands making a P-in-V gesture.
Bottom Text Boxes say: Nov 24 and Anything goes! Stuff Ben & Rey like a turkey and gobble their cobblers.

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