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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 1h

The photographer is Jaafar Ashtiyeh, 58, a Palestinian. The Israelis shot & wounded another Palestinian in the unprovoked attack. It's all part of an unrelenting campaign to drive Palestinians out of the West Bank, which Israel illegally occupies.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 3h

i am pleased with this social copy not only because of the news behind it but because my husband read it and immediately knew it was me before clicking through :)

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7h

Get ready for a lot of this for the next while

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Nick @kukkurovaca.bsky.social · 4h

Many citing Lost as their show that got so bad it ruined the beginning, I think it's actually a fundamentally different problem. (Note: I'm NOT a "the end of Lost was good" pervert)

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Nick @kukkurovaca.bsky.social · 4h

Going out to take photos has been extremely challenging for a while, but I did get a few the other day, which was nice. It's the Lake Merritt Channel by my work in Oakland, and I've been taking pictures of the same two-block slice for two decades now. But it has undergone some changes recently.

Infrared photograph of an estuary shoreline with rough rocks piled up on one side, a freeway in the distance, and wispy clouds overhead.

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Nick @kukkurovaca.bsky.social · 5h

1st season of Falling Water was extraordinary, strange, disconcerting. Impressionistic cyberpunk a la Wild Palms, but better. 2nd season was a tiresome, aimless mess featuring the offensively bad recasting of one of the most interesting characters with an actor who was dramatically not up to it.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 5h

"realism" is a curse

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Tumbleweed @blueyfanclubpres.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm still in his patreon discord (unsubbing doesn't boot you) and it's wild to see how many people didn't know by yesterday when the mods announced splintering to a new server with an @everyone ping

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brittney @spookshowvideo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

watching the latest amoeba what's in my bag with elvis costello, and at one point he mentions he watches anime with one of his kids, and the idea of elvis costello watching fucking anime is sending me

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 21h

Reading @lataco.bsky.social's newsletter I learned that the Santa Monica Public Library has a newly scanned set of images revolving around Mexican American life in Santa Monica. Some lovely images! digital.smpl.org/digital/coll...

A vintage studio portrait shows a Mexican father embracing a toddler on a set painted with the moon and stars.

A vintage studio portrait shows a young Mexican girl in a lacy white dress and veil posing for her First Communion portrait.

A vintage black and white photo shows a young woman holding the arm of a young sailor in uniform.

A vintage black and white photo shows a young Mexican man in bold cut, double breasted suit and a pompadour hairstyle standing before a cafe.

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sad disco @fitivarka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's okay for me to post it because I was just telling you that you can't post it. I'm not actually saying that I just letting you know you can't post that.

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clever display name lacker @pfish.zone · 13/07/2026

new reactor operator: And if I see the gauge rising into dangerous territory, then what button should I push? me (just got oral surgery):

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the important detail in the Russia pneumonic plague story. Whatever else may be true about overall competency and transparency about what's going on, the plague isn't that easy to spread, and it's treatable now, so there's no reason to freak out and act like we're all going to die.

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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've been wondering what's actually up here for a while + you're not going to believe this but the answer is, once again, private equity. www.avclub.com/shout-factor...

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Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You’re putting your thoughts in a Black box that has made a psychometric profile of you, reviewed by admitted fascists Who can now pick and choose who to report…… While the country purposely reduce care work professionals

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mcc @dryad.technology · 05/10/2026

(If your employer ever tells you they want you to get proficient with "AI" tools, this is what they are really saying.)

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Terrance Blackthorn @terranceblackthorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Heck of a thing to read today, at the tail end of the essay "The War Without End" by le Guin, quoting Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. Sejam seguros, brasileiros.

The ascent of the privileged, not only in the Lager but in all human coexistence, is an anguishing but unfailing phenomenon: only in utopias is it absent. It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

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Nick @kukkurovaca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the last...several months? year? two years? I honestly don't know, I've been dealing with A Lot and had sort of shut down from posting / being online aside from, like, one discord dedicated to a hobby I care the least about which therefore could safely serve as a mindless, stakesless timesuck

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Nick @kukkurovaca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do any folks have any examples of sensible academic institutional policies regarding the use of AI (in all contexts, by students, faculty, staff, management)? Either actual policies adopted by schools or proposed policies/guidelines. (And no, "fuck AI" is not actually a policy, although I agree.)

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Sporks Pantalones @sporks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I LOST IT WITH THE PUMPKIN

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do we think Deca from Slay the Spire has a six-sided ass? Gotta be right? Altho Donu would prob be supportive even if his best friend was an Octahedron with unearned claims to deca-ness. That's what it means to be ride-or-die

Donu and Deca from Slay the Spire. They're a boss battle team-up that just whooped my ass. Deca is an orange shape with four faces that we can see (hence my question about the number of cheeks in the rear). Donu is a green torus. The vibe of the two is Best Buds Out To Brawl. I dont think they're boyfriends but I would support them if there was a relationship reveal.

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Keith J Carberry @carberry.deals · 04/10/2026

its funny that the noctua "anti-ai" blockchain camera that wants you to "prove you were there" by printing timestamped receipts for your pictures has a website that is, gun to my head, full of LLM ad copy

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Trump asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the US captured the country’s president Nicolas Maduro. And Grok, in classic AI sycophantic fashion, told him what he wanted to hear.”

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damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣 @damien.zone · 04/10/2026

“Ohhhh but I heard about instances getting defederated that seems scary” yeah man, I’m sure “the head of T&S at Bluesky blocks half the website so he cannot hear them yell about allowing transphobia to run rampant” is a better trade off somehow

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This seems like an inevitable (and execrable) consequence of the mindset that wants to automate journalism and remove its essence - the process of increasing human understanding through inquiry and dialog - with something else entirely - the base production of content.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

like european High Art in particular might have the actual highest historical incidence of "art specifically commissioned for and designed to cater to, mystify, tantalize etc the monied, up to and including the christian church". If you aspire to noncommercial art look thyself away from fine art

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

Let’s keep these good vibes going!!!

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Nick @kukkurovaca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ah we've arrived at the "bene gesserit" phase

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 24/09/2026

in which I get real pissy about Newsom enabling the Paramount merger, vetoing protections for abortion & gender affirming care providers, and pulling policy fakeout after fakeout while acting like he's the saving grace of the left

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 22/09/2026

It'd be great if Bluesky posted a monthly count of the number of law enforcement requests it receives to unmask accounts.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 21/09/2026

Whoever did this is a genius

A photograph of a KC-135 aerial refueling tanker model that is feeding a hummingbird above a patio

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⚙️ clockwork banana 🍌 @drivemyrocket.upuran.us · 22/09/2026

unpopular opinion: sometimes people are using their phones for accessibility purposes. i recently saw a documentary that i was told would be captioned, but it wasn't. so i turned on speech to text. (dimmed, white text on black background im not a monster). kept it in my lap, bothered no-one.

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was already honored to be a voice in their game, but now I’m DOUBLY grateful to have @doublefine.com’s continued support as they unabashedly celebrate our collab! (And please don’t worry. While my success & public joy seem to be upsetting to some, I feel like I’m getting to live my dream life!)

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.

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beth (evil) @bethposting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a "tie" was a type of leash/collar worn by men with office jobs in the late 1900s, as a kind of corporate-mandated petplay

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10/09/2026

Goddammit I’m never going to not think of this now www.tumblr.com/dungeonmaste...

Tumblr post from user dungeonmastersconsortium: dungeonmasterscons...

Saw a comment that Elizabeth Holmes looks like a mouse wished to be able to commit wire fraud and now I can't unsee it

With a still of Elizabeth Holmes from the documentary

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 01/09/2026

this is completely true actually. google "rockstar spouse" to learn more!

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Venicello @venicello.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

(35 year old chuunibyou) rrrgh!! the demon sealed inside my lower back... it's struggling to escape...

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 24/07/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Indie website itch.io has just rolled out a major shadow ban of NSFW content. This drastic escalation in censorship already seems to affecting trans authors. TRANS AUTHORS ON ITCH: Please check you pages. I am going to report on this TONIGHT. To those affrcted, DM me with any info.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/05/2025

hey remember when the ex-twitter Bsky head of T&S vindictively banned the author of a (perfectly legal and non offending) bot that embarrassed him, instantly rejected their appeal and how they were reinstated with no comment or apology after the userbase rioted?

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