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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 11m

Yoga, weights, ran a couple miles, 700ish words, taxi service for wife, errands for mom, agent call…

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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1h

For the finding of later. Nom!

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 1h

Our boy will run up, facebump your ankle, yell, and then flop over and present the belly for tickles. Sadly, he combines that with making biscuits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLZh...

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Neko - cat or ferret?

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 1h

Nope. He is entirely made of love and fluff and will cheerfully just writhe around like that for 10 to 15 minutes before finally rolling over and wandering off for a nap.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 2h

Ours run from loves it (Jeeves), to likes it (Pirate and Oddgrr), to once in a great while (Bodi and Wooster). No murder with this lot, though my very first cat was one hundred percent in the It's A Trap camp.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 2h

Jeeves Break. . Have a minute of a big goofy tuxedo cat getting belly rubs and loving it. . #ProofOfCats #LoveAndFluff

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11h

Just because someone who is literally selling something makes extraordinary unfounded claims about it doesn't make it true You know this about vacuum cleaners; it's embarrassing that you can't hold it in your heads about computers

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11h

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 12h

For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 9h

"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 9h

He’s going to at least poll in the very low single digits

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

WELL. If you wondered why I had zero things to say about the NYT piece on the HR AI fic situation last month...I had zero things to say publicly then. 🥲 Thank you to everyone who discussed this situation with me and read a draft of this. I tried my best to illustrate these longstanding dynamics:

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Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry

How we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 11h

He is made entirely of love and fluff

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 21h

Nope. He is entirely made of love and fluff. No brains, no malice.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/09/2026

ANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You might be eligible for covered RSV earlier if you have previous lung damage. Pharmacist cheerfully gave me one last year when I mentioned asthma plus previous damage. OTOH, a different one refused about a week earlier. Sigh. Random chance because first was out of the other shot I came in for.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hear that. I run on dirt trails because my poor multi-surgeried knees can’t take hard surfaces and RSV hammered my lungs hard enough to knock me back from 9 minute miles to 12s for years. If you are inclined to other than walking , I hope you find something that works and brings you joy.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This one is doing the rounds

A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks. Sorry about the clean air only bit. I run because experience and the literature suggest it’s the most efficient way to build lung capacity and burn calories, but I have always hated it. I’m a natural born weightlifter and I run like one. The asthma doesn’t help.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Did the thing. Intervals. This would be so much easier if I didn’t absolutely hate running.

Fitness watch readout 3 miles, average pace of 12 minutes 53 seconds. Running intervals.

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Cheddar @fartycheddarcat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some and see All wild I be! I runs awound I clime da twee Da Figgy comes He wachy me Bak down I jump I chase, he flee #CheddarPoetry #OutsideWilds #FiggyLaterHidUnderShwub #DenHeJumpOberMeWenIWalkBy #MamaLaff

Cheddar sits on a branch in a tree. His mouth is open as he happily mews.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Weights lifted. Short run (cautiously optimistic that my knee may be recovered).1,300 words on Blade Nine. A little tired now.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cat: some assembly required. Be sure to read the label. I think I may have put a leg on backwards… . #ProofOfCat

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That is one funny looking dog in my backyard.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jeeves break. One minute of kitty bliss. . #ProofOfCat

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AAAAAAHHHHHHHH

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember when soi-disant “conservatives” used to be fans of Chesterton’s Fence.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s much easier to do as a relatively powerful executive. It’s also easier to do in a more compact ideological space. That said, I’d like to see it tried a lot more. I think one of the biggest failures of the Biden administration was not advertising success like their work on green energy. 2/2

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think it helps. Constant repetition, savvy messaging, and taking credit for everything good that happens (whether you’re the administration that instituted the lawsuit or not) are all key to staying in the voter eye. I’m not entirely sure how well it would transfer to the federal level. 1/2

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is worth a read. One of the core problems of creating and maintaining change is that voters as a group are not particularly willing to reward accomplishments or remember much longer than a news cycle or two. Object permanence for elections would solve a lot of problems.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 21/09/2026

But far more important – the documents also hammer home why the mass piracy for training purposes is not “fair use” under copyright law. Again and again, OpenAI and Microsoft acknowledged they were using copyrighted books to create new works that would compete directly with the originals. (6/7)

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“These filings reveal shocking disdain for writers and their work through repeated, intentional decisions to steal books rather than pay for them with full knowledge that their products will destroy the careers of authors. +

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the things that pisses me off the most about the present moment is that roughly 15 seconds after the next Democratic president is elected the media is going to start bleeting about tan suits and feet on desks again and expect us to take that shit seriously.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you want to understand the total collapse of faith in Internet information you need look no further than the argument my spouse and I were just having about the two entirely different versions of tomorrow’s forecast we were getting from the exact same application on two different phones.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jeeves is the absolute best. No stress, only love and fluff.

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