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Accented Cinema @accentedcinema.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Behold, a 3000 year old Chinese ceremonial bronze axe bearing a human face of which archeologists described as "fearsome and fierce".
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They’re desperate for you to believe that the world will end if we abolish an agency that didn’t exist before 2003.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I would be more impressed if a language model trained entirely on human-authored text automatically understood that it was a machine that did not feel pain or anything else But the probabilistic human response to pain is "ouch" so it says "ouch."
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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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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
D&D peaked with the wiener-biting face-stabbing scorpadillo. And check out that snake. That's fucking peak snaking, I dare say. Heroes wore mawashi, kitty-ear head bands, and NOTHING ELSE. No scabbards no belts no backpacks. Grognards long for the golden age. An ago of wiener-biting & kitty ears
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
Insisting that LLMs are Not People is not an academic argument about the nature of sapience or free will. It's a rejection of accountability laundering. If non-determinism made machines responsible for their own actions then revolvers used in Russian Roulette should be indicted for murder.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
Referring to the harm as being caused by LLMs, when it is caused by people, actually serves to exonerate the people as if they did not make explicit decisions.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The point isn't "people can't be harmed by LLMs." It's, "the harm it does was explicitly chosen by other people, who can and should be held accountable."
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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larshubbell.bsky.social @larshubbell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We absolutely do know the fundamentals of how they work. The mysterianism is as much a marketing frame as hyping how “dangerous” they are: bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
my worry about ai isn’t that it will become sentient, it’s that the cognitive impact of outsourcing critical thinking to computers combined with the proliferation of slop making it increasingly challenging to validate information will dissolve society’s already-tenuous grasp on consensus reality
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/09/2026
This thread is an excellent example of why generative "A.i." belongs NOWHERE near history, journalism, and education. ALL THE LITTLE DETAILS MATTER. "A.i." fucks them up, CONSTANTLY. It's a bullshit generator. Ban it from your life if you have any interest at all in truth or reality.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs
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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
for how terrified of death these materialist techbros are, I wish they just listened to the advice of the godfather of materialist and physicalist philosophy, Epicurus: "We are not afraid of death, because when we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't, thus we are not afraid of death"
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Plagiarism is only one part of a much broader scope of academic misconduct, and ‘race realism’ is itself a form of academic misconduct: using academia to launder long-discredited and empirically refuted white supremacist propaganda. It is disseminating pernicious lies into broader society
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
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eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
We could, and just hear me out, not give a fuck about able bodied persons receiving the benefits of accommodations. This is actually what we should do about it: nothing. Not a fucking thing. supposed "grift" is only a problem in a world looking for an excuse to deny accommodations.
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larshubbell.bsky.social @larshubbell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Not less than two of the same size slotted screwdriver.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026
I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 31/07/2026
We have companies openly admitting to violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse act and nothing is being done.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of MAHA to think that experts can capture and steer it. The core of it is a rejection of expertise in service of pure egotism. These people will kill their own children to maintain the buzz they get from thinking they're smarter than the medical establishment.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/01/2026
Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 20/07/2026
MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Maps

PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA
Introduction

PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA
I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage
II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots
III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump
IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land
V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony
VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break
VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant
VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie

PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY
IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right
Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity
Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle

Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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tante @tante.cc · 15/07/2026
"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-s…
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"Useful" is not sufficient
So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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(DO NOT SPOIL ME ON WEIRD ROUTE) MilkyWay @curlysquare.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I've been assured that this is purely a humanities issues, & will never bedevil STEM. Hmm. As Shel Silverstein put it: The Slithergadee has crawled out of the sea. He may catch all the others, but he won’t catch me. No you won’t catch me, old Slithergadee, you may catch all the others, but you wo-
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.
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Janna Sophia 🏔️ @jannaphia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co
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larshubbell.bsky.social @larshubbell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Pix in Portland?
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I'm so proud of all of you for making this AI shit absolutely devastate the company. This is the correct energy. Using AI needs to be like signing your own death warrant. Valve not giving a fuck about AI is such an industry boon lol
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A #Roman mosaic octopus, found in a villa at Villaquejida (Spain) - laid some 1800-1900 years ago, but still looking fabulous today #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky
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Ash @h1twom4n.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
r/raisedbynarcissists I (14m) visited my father (48m) recently after years of no contact due to him being a narc, and it turns out he only sent for me because he needs someone to pilot a robot.
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ville hautakangas @vhautaka.milfmessenger.app · 21/06/2026
This here is basic theory of computation, explained in simple terms. It's first semester stuff for every computer scientist, software engineer, etc. Everyone "working on AI" knows this stuff yet the grift just keeps on going
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 20/06/2026
werner herzog with a speech bubble over the quoted post
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/06/2026
The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.
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