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Kemi Stanton: Booth Gremlin 👾🎤 @saiyanserenityv.bsky.social · 2h

It wasn't a prediction, it was already happening at this time, Carlin just saw through the bullshit that most people found easy to buy. Now things are just so bad that everybody is seeing it.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge

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Belsheber Rusape Jr. @belrusape.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trans voice actresses of color (Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Latina, SWANA), I wanna know how many of y’all are on BlueSky! If any of you know any BIPOC trans actresses, feel free to share recommendations as well!🏳️‍⚧️✨

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God @thegodshow.com · 12h

SLAVA UKRAINE! 🇺🇦

Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers

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Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.myatproto.social · 8h

The last time I warned folks about a local dude who harassed women (always only women, of course) who didn't follow him back, he got his "vengeance" by accusing me of making false sexual assault allegations against him. Luckily, nobody believed it. This is very reasonable and healthy behavior!!!!!!!

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Terra, I don't think that's Darkness bro i think he's just a racist.

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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What Cage has done for literally the past decade is exactly this, he finds a weird eccentric script by a first time filmmaker, signs on, his name brings in clout, he makes the film, and sometimes it's not very good. But it's still artistic as hell. This is why I *love* Cage.

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robdog 👾 @robdogdraws.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Probably the coolest thing he's done next to being a potential Bomberman fan

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mcc @dryad.technology · 10/10/2026

War Criminal Opposes Existence of War Crimes Court

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Katja, li'l scamperer ｢Amethyst｣ @vulpine.house · 10/10/2026

you kinda need to be a squeaky wheel if you want your problems addressed, otherwise the wheels that get greased will be the ones potentially inimical to yours. that’s not shit-talking, that’s just the reality of societal functioning.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 10/10/2026

It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the crazy thing about this trend is how badly this exposes that these people have the same attachment and awareness of video games as scalpers do for pokemon

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026

Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.

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Memorandum & Opinion – #51 in COMMON CAUSE v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01352) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM OPINION re the 29 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and the 32 Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment. See the attached document for details. Signed by Judge Spark...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It can be true at once that (1) America was always founded on blood & exploitation & loves to ignore that & "this isn't who we are" feels like more of that, and (2) "this isn't who we are" has been a major part of what motivated basically every progressive thing that's ever happened in America

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 09/10/2026

well the photo was clearly taken in DC so it might be some shit you see in the US actually

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't think LLMs are conscious but I do think (and I don't know if there have been studies on this or if this has been verified, it is just something I think is likely) people who regularly use LLMs and also frequently behave extremely abusively to LLMs are more likely to be dicks to humans too

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.

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Jason @envinyon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

help oomf that's in the direct path of the hurricane if you can

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights

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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Glad this is making its way thru the press. I'd heard rumblings about it and, tbh, the anecdotes I've heard are even worse than what's in this article.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I particularly want to call attention to this bit. Anyone who's worked in gamedev knows how deeply collaborative it is, and how someone refusing to speak to you - ESPECIALLY someone you report to - can completely and utterly derail your work. This isn't a misunderstanding. It's active union-busting.

This included managers. Legally, the only union-related prohibition for managers was that they could not give employees their opinions on unions or encourage them one way or another. But several union supporters said they directly heard managers express concerns that they were no longer allowed to speak to their employees about anything, and a few people told me their own managers or senior members of their teams stopped speaking to them entirely, even about the games they were working on. “They helped enforce this narrative where you couldn’t talk to people when nothing about neutrality required that to happen,” said one union supporter. “Supporters who were confused saw that, and bought into it.”

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/10/2026

You probably think this is a touch of hyperbole. If you do, that just tells me not only are you not paying attention, you are actively ignoring all the trans people this has happened to. This is life in the UK as a trans person in 2026.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on.

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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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JoCat is slow at making videos @jocat.net · 06/10/2026

"this wouldn't have existed without AI anyway, it's not taking away any potential jobs or opportunities" if you do not have the willingness or drive to make something without AI, then it shouldn't exist AI is built off of stolen labor. Want art? Do or fund the labor.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

for the same reason ROGD was formulated from surveys of angry transphobic parents instead of trans people

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*

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Winters @lucyelise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

hi everyone we’ve gotten the horrible news today that BoneFigure, a beloved local Tekken player/TO, has been detained by border patrol on his way back from First Attack. this has been set this up to help cover legal fees, please share around and donate if you can 💔 www.gofundme.com/f/daury-baez...

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Hello. This is an emergency fund coming from Boston Tekken … Brianna Nil needs your support for Help Daury "BoneFigure" Baez Legal Fees after being detained

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it really is a shame how many kids are cutting off their parents over "no TV after 8PM" and "you always have to eat your vegetables before dessert" oh, wait, it's not that? that's not what "strict standards" refers to? but. what else could it possibly mean, though???

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A rule of thumb is that if a guy is doing a how to become successful schtick he isn't as successful as he claims because he wouldn't have the time to be a guru as a side hustle.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

VIBECODED THROW IT IN THE TRASH

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"They also deeply, DEEPLY envy the monopoly on attention places like Hollywood and the mainstream music and publishing industries have. Scratch the surface of many right-wing influencers, and you'll find a failed comedian/actor/author/screenwriter/etc." bsky.app/profile/iron...

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hard agree - if a claimant files a takedown/copyright strike on however many hundreds of channels but NEVER files suit, they get their right to claim revoked. End of. If there's a strike system for us the same should apply for claimants as well.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 07/10/2026

I'm currently the only one of three disabled trans people in my household who can work, but 16 months of being bedridden and an ongoing chronic migraine issue has left me very broke. If you can spare a few dollars, it'd really help, thanks! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you can also boycott something just because you know it irritates transphobes when you do spite is a valid reason for a boycott!

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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This applies to game piracy as well. There's data for how often a game gets pirated, which makes the bigger publishers recognize "this game is popular." (In games it also leads to increased investment in anti-piracy measures which I find typically aren't all that helpful and often harmful)

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 06/10/2026

Wait, so you're telling me that Skydance, the monopolistic conglomeration of Warner Brothers and Paramount that said there wouldn't be layoffs as a result of the merger are already announcing layoffs? I am so surprised by this information.

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Enbyeon, Bearer of the Werepinata's Curse @enbyeon.moe · 06/10/2026

Just an FYI for folks, automation for bug tracking and testing has been a thing since at least when I started in AAA in 2016, so it pre-dates genAI quite a bit. I'm still in a wait-and-see for Capcom, but people being confused about old tech vs genAI is what the current techbros want.

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