Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialMike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 5hRemember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today. 2255115
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much 321350161
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 952516671
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is… not a good mental image. Brain bleach please. 2151
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance... 1862458889
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026"Against this backdrop, the widespread assumption of the field that polarization is inherently detrimental warrants re-examination. ... In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable." 116234
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialJesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of 105100052093
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026Damn. With the alt text: 3219110
ldrberi.bsky.social @ldrberi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have never withdrawn from my 401K so clearly I am a fake person. 000
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There'd be a whole operation to shut down a secret bioresearch lab and not only was the lab entirely funded by monsterfucker donations, but was tipped before the raid by a 19 year old college student who runs a monsterfucker forum 1704
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialInspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 14848216
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Last thing: men put TOO MUCH on women. We don't make friends. We don't build community. We live in isolation. We never ask for help. We believe this makes us tough. Then we put ALL OUR NEEDS on a woman who cannot and should not bear all that, and then we get mad when she don't. It's insane. 2215
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole." 12457561515
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ask yourselves why people want panic for you and power for themselves. Who does that serve? 127976
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible 172748673
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9555462163
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialLisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.  329253035782
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialThanks For Sharing, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I think the only real lesson I’ve learned about American politics is that rich people will vote in their own interests and poor people won’t 832731601
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.social👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated. 162162360
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/b... #Pluralistic 37824
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.” 675791287
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059762393
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.social👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/09/2026Acadians, we ride at dawn 2424120
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad. 333776
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?" 4520142
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Which is not to say that the OpenAI/Hugging Face hack is *nothing*. It's something, all right: but it's a *specific* something, with an explicable, even foreseeable trajectory. 11418
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/09/2026Because I’m white, it was easy for me to conflate the solidarity we witnessed on the ground among New Yorkers on 9/11 for some kind of colorblind national unity in the months and years that followed. The reality is and was vastly different. 26868911573
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialbeloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026 5463141644
ldrberi.bsky.social @ldrberi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I knew I wasn’t kidding when I said we were going to have to figure out how to hack chem testing toilets to maintain reproductive freedoms. 110
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialBob @definitelyjustbob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hey. From someone who knows about those intrusive thoughts and how loud they can be, the world is better with you in it. I promise you that. 029446
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialRoland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comNo cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in ScotlandA study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective". 6360692262
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialTaryn @thayden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You can make these kits from things at your local Dollar store and donate them to your local food bank. 19512107
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026That's infuriating but it's understandable. The cause-and-effect relationship between herd immunity and disease elimination is complex, and it plays out over a long timescale. It's notoriously hard to reason well about phenomena whose causal relationships are attenuated and multifactorial. 1795
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialBerin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel 398208404808
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialMaureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 08/09/2026As a New Yorker who was here that day and who is really, really trying to avoid anniversary coverage this year--and who remembers his famous call in from ACROSS TOWN where he said he now had the tallest building in NYC--I am so enraged by this I think I temporarily went blind. 34960235
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialMurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other. 07613
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialMichael C. Bailey - Indie Author, Stage Combat Guy @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Oh, in addition to selling the racist blackface Halloween costume, Target was also selling a Nazi costume? Guys, look, if you want to torpedo your company, just sell it to a private equity firm. It's much faster and less humiliating. newrepublic.com/post/215102/...newrepublic.comWalmart and Target Pull a Literal Nazi Costume Off Their WebsitesThe mega retailers pulled the costume off their websites after backlash. 319175
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026fetterman's leap to the right seems closely related to his laziness. R electeds don't have to try. the right wing media sphere lets them do and say anything without any pushback. you don't need to prepare. you don't need to pay attention. just regurgitate garbage and soak up cheers and donations. 934860
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialseven possums in an AFI hoodie @volare.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Anyone in MA know of good legal help against a car insurance company (that'll take a disabled and broke client)? I just got absolutely fraudulently ratfucked by Progressive and the county DA doesn't help with that. Known: MA consumer affairs hotline MA DOI online search legal aid TV reporters 2713
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026More likely is that Vance - a weak, unimportant charisma-vacuum who is loathed by *all* of Trump's factions - will end up presiding over a *far* more chaotic period in American governance than *anything* that happened under Trump. 19/ 319124
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialOstrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 01/09/2026This is absolutely cheating. If this actually happens, no Republican politician is legitimate. 010129
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialMike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 03/06/2026lmao 23111203326
Reposted by @ldrberi.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Someone at Xitter did this for me, in honor of Kash Patel accepted bestiality aficionados into the Bureau. 14464115
![The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture':
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whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship.
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When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreifpdv74ajtas7sepr67o7cd5g2er47mv23tpoll2ddie7ri44wjge)
