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Father. Husband. Reader of books, programmer of computers. Appreciator of fine scotches and elegant math proofs. Sweet tooth.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15h
I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Trump: "Based on my record of peace, a record like no one has ever had -- I'm just saying how crooked the whole Nobel Prize deal is"
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Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Everyone losing their minds on Quebec Street (SOUND UP)
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21h
trump asking natalie what time it is in norway and she just keeps telling him it’s night time there
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21h
In covering the decision to livestream a public execution, the New York Times accurately compares Pentagon officials to ISIS www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be executed in public, a practice that ended in the United States nearly a century ago and is most commonly carried out in a handful of countries, including Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan.

The Pentagon said in a statement that the military execution, scheduled for Dec. 3, would also be broadcast via livestream. Such a broadcast has little precedent, and releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23h
It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó
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Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 21h
Teaching mathematics undergraduates is a slightly demoralising experience this week. They are all extremely worried after the latest OpenAI dump. Not a single student has expressed excitement or enthusiasm (or even ambivalence). It’s worrying. Things are changing. #MathSky
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Cartoonist: Dave Whamond
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h
a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On a personal level, I feel honored that I've met Carson. On a different personal level, I'm glad that the Nobel is celebrating someone shy, peculiar, intense. May all the weird/funny/creative/dark/introverted people of the world live long and prosper.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What if a solution to the housing crisis is right in front of us? My long read on the shrinking neighbourhoods of Toronto and Vancouver and how we could fill them up with people again. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
By and large, people who can't get along with cats are the type to feel okay *demanding* intimacy/trust, without even establishing any sort of foundation of respect. That often extends to humans. Cat-hating is a litmus test that fairly accurately eliminates that sort of yuck from my closer circles.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature today, was denied tenure by Princeton University in 1987.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
FOX NEWS: 77% of voters say the economy is only fair or poor. How does this bode for the midterms? KEVIN HASSETT: People feel that way because of Biden
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).
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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026
"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just yesterday a student told me how interesting she found the evolutionary psychology module a colleague teaches at Brunel. Her enthusiasm won’t survive reading this textbook. Surely it’s a matter of self-interest for the discipline to guard against harbouring this kind of unscientific nonsense
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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the first interview with Anne Carson, by RÚV, the Icelandic state broadcaster. Click the video, it’s in English.
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Tilfinningin er klikkuð, segir nýi Nóbelsverðlaunahafinn - RÚV.is
Anne Carson hlýtur Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum í ár. Anne er íslenskur ríkisborgari og búsett á Íslandi.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I would sign Elon's deportation documents today, actually
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do Cats Really Love Us? gizmodo.com/do-cats-real...
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Do Cats Really Love Us?
We asked experts to reassure us about the loyalties of the internet's favorite animal.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 08/10/2026
find a job that’s right for you.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Systematically destroying US hegemony in higher-education may feel like "owning the libs" but (1) Education is massive export for US (2) Best & brightest from around world stay in US and start businesses here (3) Higher-education is key employer & medical life-line in many *Republican* states.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...
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Harrow and Wealdstone Train Crash Newsreel
Newsreel footage of the aftermath of the 1952 Train Crash at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, which claimed the lives of 112 people and injured hundreds more.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A magnificent thread, which must be read until the very end; and I mean *must*. Many thanks to @andylewis.bsky.social for the heads-up.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
some folk'll never lose a toe but then again some folk'll
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
tfw someone is trying to undo your father’s legacy
Angry Paul Giamatti
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one, we see a crow’s face. It says, “I AM DEATH’S MESSENGER”.
In panel two, we see the same crow’s face. It continues, “YOUR TIME IS NEAR”.
In panel four, we see the crow awkwardly hopping away from a stick figure.
In panel five, we see the grim reaper with the crow perched on his hand. The grim reaper says, “So you should probably fly away dramatically instead.”
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Do you remember... From 1984 to 1988, Honeymoon Suite had three platinum albums and six top 40 hits in Canada including New Girl Now and Feel It Again. In 1986, they won the Juno for Group of the Year. The band continues to tour, and they released their ninth studio album in 2025
Five young adult musicians posed in a moody black-and-white studio portrait, wearing leather jackets and 1980s-style teased hair, all facing the camera with serious, intense expressions.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/10/2026
Good job US gov't getting those “foreign information manipulation and interference” discussions quieted down by [checks notes] engaging in information manipulation and interference... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026
Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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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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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 07/10/2026
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Q: There was universal condemnation across Nebraska for your choice to import 300,000 tons of foreign beef. What's your message to ranchers struggling to make a profit? Trump: We brought some in from Argentina and Brazil because we have to get elected
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ummm
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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PeaceSeeker @coloradocarly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This thread is a hilarious read.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Still not a hoax.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Cole Harrington @vicehii.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hazey was apparently designed by Chuck Jones???
A photo of a white and striped cat ferraly trying to drag a toy into her box cave
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