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My review of The Drama is that I’ve never watched anything where the characters’ coffee cups were more obviously empty throughout.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

FAFO aside, his shock is a great distillation of how whiteness as a social construct is built around shattering communal understanding of our interconnected human ecosystem in favor of a mythical individualism How whiteness leaves its adherents defenseless against our shared oppressors: capitalists

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/10/2026

Every so often I think about how so many people do not know about the Beaver Drop. We used to be a country.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The greatest threat to our planet, is the belief that someone else will save it” Robert Swan

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How the police defund cities: Part infinity

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100% this, correct #medical analysis of this.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s amazing how after 40+ years of working, a retired person immediately forgets that other people are still working and cannot answer the phone at odd times of the day. “What are you doing?!” Well, it’s 10:04 am on a Thursday so I’m doing about what you used to do at this day & time.

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There were so many more teens and tweens out and about in my neighborhood this summer thanks to e-bikes. Heck, there were even more kids out on regular bikes. It was great.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God fucking dammit: Nashville Symphony is suspending their 2026-27 season and furloughing everybody. Because it’s not like anybody in Nashville could afford to save it, right? We’re just a smol bean, golly gee, nobody’s got world-class Grammy-winning orchestra money round these here parts

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If a productivity task is easily automated, chances are good that some invisible labor is managing the work that makes the task easy to automate. bsky.app/profile/tres...

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Insane rain potential in France as drought parched land may receive nearly a year’s worth of rain in two days.

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Tiricohairline @trejames.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Working customer service in a call center will make you an atheist. You know a God wouldn't make all these muthafukkas that fucking dumb and mean. No way.

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sarahphym @sarahphym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a UX designer, I find myself at a loss to find good design guidance right now. designers are either firmly on the AI bandwagon or against it (like me). i've resisted as long as i can, but now execs are forcing it on us.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in me being insufferable: A number of the zines and band posters inside that record shop, uh, belonged to me. The HF production design team borrowed* them from myself and other Chicago music scene/record store folks. The More You Know etc [*no I didn't get paid lol, I did it For the Culture]

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.

theintercept.com

The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of people* seem very aggravated by the idea of existing people who aren’t future projections. Yes, current people are using the technology as it exists today and I talked to them about it why are you so mad?

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Kristel Clayville @kristel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I did AI training this summer because I teach CS ethics. I realized quickly that any task I would have an agent do was worth doing myself. I do it better and get important info from doing it. And as a prof, I don’t have a ton of truly iterative tasks.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:

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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks

Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states

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Alicia @heyalicia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People handle tasks so complex and with so many shifting variables as part of our day-to-day existence that the complexity is underestimated. It’s like how knitting machines have existed for over 400 years but there still isn’t a machine that can crochet, though we think of those tasks as comparable

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Correct. And for a lot of people that kind of reflexivity wouldn’t just be new and hard to develop, it will be emotionally challenging to accept.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Run on the platform of “public goods shared in common and distributed to everyone.” That's it.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool

The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every Sunday morning should be like this. Thanks, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social

Masked lucha libre wrestler standing on the ropes

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t even know what to say anymore. The only thing Covid conscious people are trying to do, truly, is not get sick. That we’ve become the country’s newest freak show is predictable given the pandemic, but truly despicable on a base human level.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 23/09/2026

The thing about public education is that all private education should be banned. At every level.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nor’Easter is heading towards the east coast so reminder that if you have any other option DO NOT put your body in flood water. It has raw sewage, gasoline, chemicals, medical waste, radiological waste and more — anything the water touches. People die from infections after contact with it.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 27/09/2026

I think that 30% of why Tom Holland seems so secure in his masculinity in a way that doesn't seem (at least publicly) as horrifically toxic is because he came up dancing.

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Exploding Helicopter @chopperfireball.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Watched ROOP KI RANI CHORON KA RAJA (1993) the 7️⃣2️⃣6️⃣th film I've seen with an exploding helicopter. 🚁💥📽️ This was absolutely wild. What I love about Indian cinema is that there is no set of coincidences too outrageous that they can't be the plot. An incredible film.

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NPR answered a question I've long had: why do people let their beach houses collapse into the sea instead of tearing them down first? A timely video given the current weather system in the Atlantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=71qc...

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Why are doomed beach homes left fully furnished?

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Baddies will destroy liberal order to play chicken with climate disaster. They don’t care about the rest of us. We can build better but the window to get in the fight is closing. We have to stop appealing to moral authority here.

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!!

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 07/07/2026

wrote about the still-broiling anger—like, check this morning's posts—at PlayStation's decision to go disc-free by 2028, the numbers behind the decision, and why even titans like @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp are "frightened" by the implications of a gaming world free of physical media

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