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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

why would you believe electeds who were pro-defunding policing and have now renounced that position (as "woke 1), when they say they will "abolish ICE?"

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Kapsar @kapsar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

New #Books in Conversation! After Covid and Biological War: A Scenario. I discuss the two books together and a bit of what's happening in Russia. it's related! #Booktube #booksky youtu.be/_Xq0CnfeZE0

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Kapsar @kapsar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

New #Books in Conversation! After Covid and Biological War: A Scenario. I discuss the two books together and a bit of what's happening in Russia. it's related! #Booktube #booksky youtu.be/_Xq0CnfeZE0

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11/10/2026

Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Props. 41 and 42 would both amend the state constitution to stop Prop. 40 … Building a Better California, a group bankrolled by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and other billionaires, has raised more than $156 million to support Props. 41 and 42 and more than $88 million to defeat Prop. 40.”

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hillsboro Library tonight! On the west side here in Portland. Feeling adventurous? See you there!

Library Foundation of Hillsboro
An Evening with Author JEFF VANDERMEER

Our 2026 Author Event features Jeff VanderMeer, an award-winning, NYT-bestselling Science Fiction author whose works include the Southern Reach series and Hummingbird Salamander.
Saturday, October 10

7 - 8:30pm

Brookwood Library, Hillsboro
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
Proceeds from the event benefit The Hillsboro Public Library

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 10/10/2026

"Rogue AI agents acted on their own" is the new "officer involved shooting"

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Wow I did not expect this rave review for A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD from Screenrant. Amaze! screenrant.com/wall-is-also...

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The Spiritual Successor To Project Hail Mary Released This Month

Project Hail Mary fans will love this story.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

libraries are the only organizations who should be allowed to be on social media (bonus: this was tailor made for Bluesky, the Elder Millennial Reacher Fan Site) x: www.instagram.com/reel/DeNO8aB...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2026

Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frame

Life size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard).

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Kapsar @kapsar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New #Books in Conversation a memory called empire and a spear cuts through water. Two great books. I also discuss the different approaches to writing LGBTQA+ characters #booktube #booksky youtu.be/ZXVTxrEFd4s

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why they love “Tilly” so much.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026

Frog built a wet lab for the AI model. "There," he said. "Now it can do its own experiments." "What the fuck?" said Toad

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I think it’s hard for people to remember this is possible because we basically stepped back from regulation decades ago.

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Kapsar @kapsar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm reading a book called after covid and reading the section on Long Covid, he lists a bunch of symptoms and it was like reading what happened to me in 2020. New allergies, crazy high heart rate with irregular heart beat, chronic fatigue and brain fog.

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Robin Thorne @whatrobindoes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

After digging through 300 portfolios, this seems to be a hard ask. I am looking to LICENSE (paid) an image appropriate for a tidal witch. Female character, with elements around the moon and/or water. Non-anime style. If you have this in your portfolio and have the right to license it, please shout!

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026

so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Are there scholars and thinkers outside the U.S. who are writing interesting things about how the world is and will be managing U.S. decline? I am really interested in reading these. Please share with me.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

I’m sorry folks, but if you are among those who both understand how insane the Rationalist AI Sex Cult currently running the U.S. AI industry and who can explain it to others, you have a patriotic duty to do so now. Even though reading their writing absolutely does cause brain damage.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Kapsar @kapsar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watching the NFL on fox cause the wife is doing fantasy football. So annoying there's AI art in so many of Fox's mid game explainers

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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Kapsar @kapsar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is way too early and I haven't drank enough coffee today for any of this

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/09/2026

the Pedo Platform owned by the chief donor to the Pedo Party, whose chief was Jeffrey Epstein's best friend for 20 years

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Kapsar @kapsar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know the capital class doesn't believe this would ever happen, so they aren't freaking out. Trump has essentially promised a UBI of about $500/month for his first two years in office. Maybe it's something the Dems should seriously consider.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026

Hi @support.bsky.team @joshuajfriedman.com @rose.bsky.team I was not aware this video limit is still a thing. Can someone please adjust this for me so I can continue posting the RNC event?

"You've reached your daily limit for video uploads (too many videos)"

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026

Turns out you really do need food inspectors after all

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The neo-Nazi party made huge gains in the German elections thanks to the backing of the world‘s biggest billionaire and most prominent publicizer of white nationalist conspiracies on the planet. Good thing there’s no comparable relationship in the US for our media to explore.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/09/2026

I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A bit worrying that the NY Times doesn't recognize democracy when confronted with it directly

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

But if traditional media don't cover Mamdani's good government work, it reduces the chances he will get a political return on this, and so he is incentivized to move away from it. If you are a Mayor not getting coverage for good government work from old media, of course you reach out to influencers!

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