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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Lene Taylor 𓅃 @lenetaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, listen, we'd love to stand around and chat, but we've gotta... sit down in the lobby and wait for the limo.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I honestly suspect that the recent QAA podcast on the state department under Trump is a better overview for European governments than whatever briefings they’ve been getting. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/g...

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Great Replacement Theory at the State Department feat. Josef Burton (E390)

Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · 25 September · 1hr 26min

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Lene Taylor 𓅃 @lenetaylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my copy just arrived @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social - can't wait to lose myself in it

A copy of Curious Events Lately Occurring in This Neighborhood by Tom Cox

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DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Monday morning, and I am reluctantly entering into the discussion about what The Democrats should do about The Trans, most of which translates to "believe in something, for once in your life, for fuck's sake." No paywall on this guy: jude-doyle.ghost.io/transformer-...

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Transformer: Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

A few thoughts on the queer post-apocalypse.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.

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Lene Taylor 𓅃 @lenetaylor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

could be worse, but still not good - alien tendies

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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Dal @dalstrus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nobody has EVER gotten equal rights by asking nicely, staying quiet, and waiting for a better time. You're either FOR equal rights, or AGAINST them. If you can't universally support equal rights, without conditions, YOU DO NOT BELONG ON THE LEFT. Cross the aisle and don't come back. Own your hate.

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Lene Taylor 𓅃 @lenetaylor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Queen live on Nov 23 1977 - I was too young to appreciate it properly and would kill to experience it again

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fun / yikes drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

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Weird little guys of FOSS

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Routine reminder that police budgets are so bloated cause they use your tax dollars to pay for police brutality, with the officers who break the law not having to pay for their own crimes. The NYPD pays over $100M every year to settle police misconduct lawsuits: >$117M in 2025, >$206M in 2024, etc.

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Jae Krehbiel @jaekrehbiel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A ban on trans health care for children has exactly one objective: no trans people. There is no, none, serious scholarship that backs it up as necessary. It’s literally just bigotry, no reasonable person should support it.

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HoesUp☝🏾PimpsDown👇🏾 @cupcakeredford.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

DOGE only existed to kill the many federal investigations into Elon's businesses, steal as much data as possible, and kill as many poor non-white people as possible around the globe by dismantling USAID.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The PBS showing is tonight, but if you want it via YouTube, that's available as of a couple of hours ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...

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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary

YouTube video by PBS Documentaries

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...

Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But also, want to know how f@%# up AI is? Study linguistic anthropology.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The message of the midterm convention? If only Donald Trump were president! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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A Recap of a Surreal Midterm Convention

It isn’t over until the president’s tenor sings.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

This Jacob Coxon thing is weird. He worked at Anthropic for six weeks and OpenAI for nearly three years. He’s doing a whole media tour without any real statements about what it is he’s scared of other than vague references to recursive self improvement, a theoretical ai that teaches itself.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every terf is terrible. Just a quick reminder of this universal truth.

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RiffTrax @rifftrax.com · 08/09/2026

The not-too-distant future is... tomorrow! Don't miss the premiere of The RiffTrax Experiments in theaters nationwide! Tickets here: www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you could read the alt text and follow the link, that would be much-appreciated. Thanks. www.tom-cox.com

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Lene Taylor 𓅃 @lenetaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

it's always "no". it will always be "no".

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

would love to hear even a single actual argument about how AI "changes the nature of humanity" not based in fanciful speculation

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Lene Taylor 𓅃 @lenetaylor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

i just bought mine and i can't wait to get my hands on it! free shipping from the uk!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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LingComm @lingcomm.org · 21/08/2026

Language Exploration at the Library, a one-day pop-up event with a variety of exhibits to introduce people of all ages to linguistics and language use A new LingComm IRL post from a group of linguists @universityofkansas.bsky.social doing an event at a local library in Lawrence, Kansas, USA

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LingComm IRL at the Lawrence, Kansas Library — Interview with Lacey Wade and teammates

Lacey Wade is the director of the University of Kansas sociolinguistics lab in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. She and her team of faculty and students kindly answered our questions for this LingComm IRL in…

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.

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Lene Taylor 𓅃 @lenetaylor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@dumb-industries.com he was in last night's Movie Jo Night, The Dead Don't Die - along with his Andorian boss, Shras (Reggie Nalder) - casting director had a sense of humor

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 19/08/2026

We all have to be one of two people now: The person who rips these fucking things off the face of anyone doing this, OR, the bystanders who 100% have the back of the person who rips the fucking things off the face. The aggressives and the passives must unite to make it unsafe to wear these.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/08/2026

Meta's smart glasses aren't just for perverts! They are also for the most aggressively annoying people on the internet

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 17/08/2026

If you're wishing you could go back to school for linguistics, here's your annual reminder that Crash Course Linguistics @thecrashcourse.bsky.social exists! I worked on it with linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social and @jessgrieser.com, host Taylor Behnke, @complexly.org and @thoughtcafe.bsky.social!

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What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1

YouTube video by CrashCourse

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