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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was told Zohran Mamdani would instantly turn New York into a crime-ridden hellscape. Yet murders are down almost 20%, year over year. 203 people have been slain, about 22.5 per month. In 1990, that average was *251 per month.* NYC has never been this safe.

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 06/10/2026

This really is the AI use case in a nutshell - Automate all the fun, interesting parts of life (learning your kids' interests, planning your vacation, making art, talking to your friends)

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it blows my mind that these bizarre AI people think “the commons” is just sitting around for them to strip-mine for free

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on wikimedia projects. by selena deckelmann 5 october 2026

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 06/10/2026

exactly like how the Brooks Bros Riot was successful- dems ran away and pretended nothing happened, encouraging future criminality

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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TheIrishCommentator @irishcommentator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We’re burning the planet for this

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I thought he wears Brioni." This is the American version of Brioni (Jabroni)

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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026

Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026

We're all 38 on Bluesky, it's just that some of us are a pretty old 38

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People are in here telling me their particular phone does not work when they hold it to to their ear. I assure you it does. I'm so sorry to be a stickler on this point but yes it does

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

my sustained interest in Elizabeth Holmes is really a feminist one. Like...given the opportunity women can also be horrible evil scammers.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/10/2026

Between these unauthorized sidewalk ads and their late night drone show ads, I think Loblaws might want to hire a different ad agency

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And that's completely separate from the whole "pissing people off by turning their sidewalks into ads" issue.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If I were a giant corporation, I would not engage in the kind of guerilla marketing which can be easily replicated by people who want to spread messages that might damage my company's image. No one can replicate a billboard, but this? Super easy to ape and twist into an anti-Loblaw message.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m on a flight next to a guy who is listening to Seinfeld with no headphones and all I hear is the laughtrack and the worst bass noises of all time every 15 seconds and all I can think about is this.

Pftompkins.bsky.social: The music of Seinfeld, divorced from the show itself, is nothing short of disgusting. Imagine if the show didn’t exist but the music somehow did. Hearing it, your face would twist in angry revulsion

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah you can easily tell who's knee deep into a chatbot relationship based on how berserker they go when you say stochastic parrot. So much "trap sprung" shit around these parts lately, baiting the surreptitious AI users into ass-showing

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lesson 1: If want to start replacing US software, start. Lesson 2: Governments can replace proprietary US software. But first they have to see it as a problem. I'm not convinced the Carney government sees MS dependence as a security or financial risk (it's both). Political will is paramount.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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geist, now with double the hauntings @prettyvulgar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I like you so much I won’t even correct you when you’re doing my dog’s voice wrong.

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mave @mave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No one is coming to save you. However, someone is coming to stand in front of what you want to look at in the grocery store

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You ever hear about how Dianetics has remained a bestseller for 75 years? Yeah.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just a reminder, if you're seeing crochet on clothes at fast-fashion stores and you're not paying a lot for it, the person who did that crochet is not getting paid a lot either. There is no machine-made crochet, unlike knits. A human is doing that with their hands.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/10/2026

they'll be packing me into a padded cell while i scream about how autocorrect used to be good

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've been told the "freelance pie advisor" is a famous chef who wrote a book about pies. I did not know. I also learned that he models for a friend's clothing store, Anglo Italian in London.

Calum Franklin wearing a navy double-breasted overcoat with a gray single-breasted suit, a light blue shirt, and a navy spotted tie. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.

Calum Franklin wearing a navy track pullover, gray hoodie, and blue washed jeans. He's with a dog. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.

Calum Franklin wearing an olive waxed field coat, with charcoal flannel trousers and a brown sport coat. He's holding a bag. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.

Calum Franklin wearing a gray suit, stripe blue shirt, and striped blue tie. He's holding a gray cat. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 07/10/2026

nobody finishes a book and concludes “that was great; now I shall never read another one.” other writers are your teammates and coworkers, not your competition.

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Lachlan Waffles @lachlanwaffles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Changing careers to the very lucrative field of chicken photography... No, I will not be taking questions at this time

A black rooster stands on a picnic table under a tree. With long grass in the foreground and a wire fence behind.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

Debating adding "champion amateur horologist" to my bio

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Lachlan Waffles @lachlanwaffles.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I love it when complaints remove books from libraries, the news coverage that generates tells me what's a cool new book to buy or borrow

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/07/2026

IMPORTANT CORN UPDATE: The local corn has well exceeded the "knee-high by the Fourth of July" growth metric even factoring in my relatively modest height, congratulations Ohio, you are a shining example of agricultural ambition in these challenging times

Me looking at the corn surrounding me, which is as tall as I am, and I am about five foot seven or about 170 centimeters in godless units

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Myra! @myrdrottningen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A painting commission i did earlier this year! I had a really cozy time with it!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 05/07/2026

It’s been said many times before, but there’s nothing quite like trying to look something up for a tetchy bit of world building, finding an incredibly useful, clear, and concise comment that speaks to your problem, and then seeing it was posted by u/jesuschristsbutthole

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think the AI boom is the best thing to happen to humanities students in years because one cycle of "AI savvy" graduates as employees is all it'll take for like 90% of employers to peace out and go looking for people who have actual skills

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 06/07/2026

Still a little puzzled by “I didn’t like that the characters thought in italics.” My friend, that ship sailed so long ago that it was owned by the East India Company.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 31/05/2026

i was here three years ago when literally the only people using this site aside from rationalist freaks were OF girlies and trans people and honestly i dont think the admins have ever stopped being mad that they got a broadly left/liberal social media site when they set out to build roko's twitter

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 11/12/2025

The secret lore of book and toy shop owners holds that it is good to have a "Hollywood snow" in early November so that people's Gift Brains turn on, and they start shopping. This year... we're just going to enjoy the flurries around our icicles, and do whatever we can to reduce others' stress. ❄️📚❤️

A window next to a piano and a bookcase of comic trades. Evening has darkened the sky, and the lights of nearby buildings make some truly terrifying icicles glisten - these things are three feet long in places - that's a meter to everyone else. Unsurprisingly, there are no cats sitting on the orange plush cushion next to the window. It's cold and dark!

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Python Coding (CLCODING) @clcoding.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Python Coding challenge - Day 902| What is the output of the following Python Code? Answer with Explanation: www.clcoding.com/2025/12/pyth...

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 12/12/2025

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

i don't know why it's just so fucking funny to me that a spokesasshole for a computer program used about 90% of the time to make busty cartoon porno truly believes his beepboop machine is "real work" when, like, "receptionist at the veterinarian's office" isn't.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Someone on Twitter writes: "Derek would you ever consider doing a thread on how transmascs can dress well and have clothing that helps hides hips and stuff? Only advice I've gotten are straight leg jeans and a boxy shirt"

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