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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5h

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 8h

I also really think Dems need to air ads pointing out that Trump never sent anyone a Doge check or a tariff check. Because everyone wants five grand. It’s insulting and illegal but I bet you it works on a lot of people. Remind them that his promises are worthless.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 8h

Same energy.

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I'll take $5,000 dollars over socialism.
It's not a hard choice.
Vote RED!

Jack Posobiec: What if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 12h

every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check"

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12h

If you want to join us for this in person or on the live stream, tix are available now.

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2026 AVL Weekend — The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 18h

endnotes are a plot by big bookmark to sell twice as many bookmarks

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AI is an employee who never says no, never talks back, and who has no emotions, so you're free to be an asshole to it without consequence. Certain men have been fantasizing about this for their whole lives. They will happily burn the world down to create it.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My mother always said “I sent you kids to college so you’d never have to be cold and wet at work. I wanted you to have a job where you got your own chair”

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And note how many of the Republican pundits and elected officials saying these things are white guys with Ivy degrees. Their kids aren’t getting blue collar jobs. They’re unlikely to enlist in the military either.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The people talking about the dignity of being, say, a welder, have never welded anything. And as far as “the pay is actually good” arguments go, the starting pay is good. The pay a few years in is good. But there’s a ceiling and it hits at about the same time the physical toll of the job does

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 30/09/2026

It’s been another expensive kitten season and I know we are all struggling, but if you have even a few extra bucks to help us save our girl, please send them our way. linktr.ee/crits4cats

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A small cat rescue in Eastern Maryland focused on TNR, Fostering, & Adoption

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Catch up on today’s news” no thank u

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

with the caveat that I have never heard of Today’s Guy, so this is a general statement of opinion, I think it is crucial to remember that no one is entitled to be famous and it’s not an infringement of civil rights when a rapist or abuser is deplatformed

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If they succeed at closing the post office it will be because too many people grew up without radio stations that played Motown songs about writing and mailing letters

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i think it’s like super ideal for welders to become civil engineers and for hairstylists to become social workers, by the way, social mobility is great and we need more white collar workers who have some fucking perspective on life. but our systems are NOT set up for that. at all.

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

so basically: careers in trades are much more viable with universal health insurance, more PTO and better protections for workers in general college should be affordable and offer flexible models for midcareer professionals bc sometimes peoples backs can only handle 10-15 yrs of bricklaying

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if claude is concsious it's also enslaved

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Shaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just encountered the word "ontologized" and now want nothing more than to sip a nice beverage on my porch and watch while the meteor falls

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 02/10/2026

in other unfortunate metaphor news, the Carousel of Progress is closed

The Carousel of Progress, from the 1964 World's Fair, at Disney World

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 02/10/2026

13% of undergrad students experienced rape or sexual assault while in college. That’s about 1 in 4 women and 1 in 14 men who experienced “nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force or inability to consent” since enrolling at their school. rainn.org/red-zone

RAINN graphic: '1 in 8 college students experiences rape or sexual assault during college.' National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800.656.HOPE, RAINN.org, or text 'HOPE' to 64673.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I “got stuck” behind the drawers today. Everyone had to come help me so I felt awkward telling them I wasn’t stuck, I was just being a little shit

an orange cat is being snuggled on a halloween blankie with one paw extended toward the camera. you can tell by his facial expression that he has recently been a little shit causing trouble

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the best questions we can all ask these days is, “How?” It’s simple and smart and a non-answer tells you as much as an answer. Skynet is going to kill is? How? We are moving to the moon? How? Build a big net around earth? How??

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Summer is dead. Winter struggles to be born. Now is the time of soup.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 01/10/2026

Its 2026 and file systems still sort files like File #1 File #11 File #12 File #2 File #21 File #22 File #3

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I still remember an afternoon on Twitter when every woman was posting in a blind rage about the Kavanaugh hearings, just *seething* over what was happening, and all of a sudden the game started and instantly all of those voices were swamped by every guy on the site excitedly talking about football.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it would change nothing but it would still be stunning and important to see someone brave enough to withhold communion to certain justices over this

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I see we’re talking about frats and secret societies. I’ll just leave this right here. You’ll never believe which prominent Connecticut ancestor of two (2) U.S. presidents makes an appearance … www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

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Did a Yale secret society steal a famous Native American leader's skull?

New documents provide further evidence that members of the Yale University secret society...

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tove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

was saying to a friend this feels like an even deeper rechurning of everything that came up during the Kavanaugh hearing and she pointed out that the Kavanaugh hearing happened exactly this week six years ago

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Counterpoint: shaking hands with small children will never not be charming

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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New AI guidance for National History Day (laudatory).

What is NOT allowed:

Asking ChatGPT or other Gen AI platforms to brainstorm topic ideas
Using Gemini or other platforms to find potential sources, archives, or libraries
Creating text, images, videos, or audio for a project
Using Gen AI tools to revise or rewrite text
Requesting feedback from companion chatbots

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"For decades, we've provided election coverage that's based on in-depth political reporting by an experienced team of journalists backed by commentary from political leaders. But now we're throwing that aside so we can tell you what some of the most irredeemable uninformed gamblers are guessing."

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe if I avoid all my other responsibilities and just clean my apartment, all my other problems will go away

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: Bring me your fatties, your weirdos, your radicals yearning to breathe free.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I much prefer the historically accurate version where the British conquered the world for spices and still couldnt use any of them until the people they stole the spices from went there to show them how to use pepper

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 30/09/2026

there is a generation of current college students who didn’t realize that #MeToo didn’t end rape culture, in part because the adults around them ridiculed it for going “too far”; the generation in between was silenced and punished, while the schools let student turnover free them from accountability

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm glad we're not only talking about the horrific harm of sexual assault and rape but also the secondary and massive trauma of institutional betrayal. People need this language and community around this compounding grief and fury. And we can't even begin to solve these issues without tackling it.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Students open up to certain faculty about what they’re going through in ways that they simply don’t with others, and that means some faculty end up carrying a much heavier emotional load as part of their everyday work.

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