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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today in "Huh?" - a major file transfer solution vendor sends a warning to customers that can be summarized as "EMERGENCY: Zero Day Attack Imminent! Please shutdown your servers later tonight for a few hours."

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When a company puts out an ad like Converse just did I believe the company has to go further than “shouldn’t have happened.. sorry” and transparently outline the steps that led this insanity to take place. Starting with the photographer’s mindset. 🤯

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel like this is the xkcd equivalent of a Mad magazine cover where Alfred has all his teeth. Yeah I’m dating myself with that reference…

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OMG I don't know whether to be amazed or horrified by "Cable Management: The Game"

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For anyone that needs it - there's an active exchange online issue being investigated

Two posts from the M365 status account on Twitter, saying:

We're investigating reports of Exchange Online issues. Please see EX1464935 in the admin center for more information

We've confirmed that users may experience degraded functionality with various Exchange Online functionalities. We're reviewing service telemetry and diagnostic data to isolate the source of the issue. For more information, please see EX1464935 in the admin center.

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Super hot feature request for @jenmsft.bsky.social or anyoneat Microsoft with influence on Teams mobile: Under Settings > Block Notifications > "When active on other devices" add an "Except..." list because the retirement of Power Automate mobile is going to cause a LOT of frustration. (1/2)

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Hollywood Steve Huey @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton decided to cover "Stairway to Heaven" as a gospel song, and asked Robert Plant for permission to write a new verse for it, and Robert Plant basically said "of course you can, you're Dolly Parton" youtu.be/YhTvxVxXJLQ

youtu.be

Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven (Audio)

YouTube video by Dolly Parton

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The trial is up by four runs but there’s still time for takeaways…

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✯ A Pained Inkwell ✯ @aorticinkwell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I need this energy going forward because it’s so hard for me to stay positive about anything art related at my current age.🥲

Four panel comic. Are you sleeping? Yes, now shut up… Tolkien didn’t start LotR until he was 45, you’re doing just fine….

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

These are the armbands with the stars on them in case you didn’t know.

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’ve seen enough, and… I have no special polling insight I’ve just seen enough. Good night!

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Please stop paying for anything Harry Potter. This is where your money is going. At this point, you're not an ally, you're an abuser and we're your victim.

JK Rowling says the lawsuits will keep coming - to prevent trans women from using the right restroom.

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Dear businesses in eastern Mass: "Conveniently located on route 1" is often an oxymoron.

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

70 billion of our dollars went to murdering you and not healthcare. #ICE

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Peru brought their A game to the tall ships parade in Boston

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm grateful for the journalists I follow here for which this image does not apply

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Elon had this community note removed as of this morning

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

There's no backwards compatibility anymore

A search bar with the question "will GTA be on antikyth..." And an AI summary reply saying "no. Grand theft auto will not be playable on the antikythera mechanism. The device is a 2000 year old ancient greek analogy computer and orrery used exclusively to calculate the positions of celestial bodies like the sun, moon and...". There is a picture of a bronze machine made of circular parts

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Big week over at The Onion. — Thursday: InfoWars launches live at 8 p.m. ET on YouTube, Twitch and wherever you watch video. New handles and everything. Expect surprises. It is insane. — Friday: An entire history of the country, AMERICA: Birth of a Nation, airs at 8 p.m. ET on all Onion channels.

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hearing this makes the photo of "way fewer people on the mall than would be there this time of year if NOTHING were happening" all the more depressing.

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Anybody else still read these in the Trump voice of Stephen Colbert?

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 22/06/2026

Wait, why the fuck is Popehat/@kenwhite.bsky.social suspended?

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Vale @vale.rocks · 19/06/2026

There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Shout out to former colleague Daniel O'Sullivan whose quick thinking helped prevent a Conficker outbreak from exploding throughout the network. In 2011.

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Teams Feature request: Allow user to apply different colors to the background of each chat. Or at least a different appearance for one-one-one vs groups chats. Use case: Help prevent accidentally dropping messages in the wrong chat. Suggesting for a friend. @jenmsft.bsky.social

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This is a sharp uniform but if I were him I would STRONGLY urge him to avoid away-team duty.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/06/2026

The National Park Service ordered the removal of three quotes at the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston after visitor complained to staff about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being “woke” feminist ideology, according to people familiar with the matter.

washingtonpost.com

Park Service orders removal of ‘woke’ quotes at Boston’s Bunker Hill monument

A visitor complaint prompted a review of quotes that are anti-war, pro-immigrant or highlighted American hypocrisy on slavery ahead of the monument’s 251st anniversary celebration.

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Bill Kyrouz @kyrouz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Will “Dark Compute” be a thing in 2028 or 2029?

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

In a Public Notice released on April 22, 2026, the FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to "transgender and gender non-binary programming" and "the discussion or promotion of gender identity themes."

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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My Threads feed is full of Black folks absolutely gutted and despairing over today’s Voting Rights Act ruling. I love Bluesky for so much, but today is one of those historical moments where it is stark that we really live in two different Americas.

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