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Scalli @viceandviolence.bsky.social · 3h

There's a type of fungus called the Little Wizard noted for its long white stem and tall blue caps that look like wizard towers. Its gooey spores attach to the back of hard-shell insects to spread, giving the impression of a little magician on a quest during growth. Good in Dwarf Risotto.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 3h

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 16h

Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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Zamafir @zamafir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I installed solar on my previous home and don't have it currently on my new place in Portland, but thought it prudent to illustrate the incredibly flat nature of EV charging costs in progressive states with competent leadership, so I added it to the average gas price graph to help people understand.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13h

this is a fascinating way to say "they are paying a toll under the table"

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dudes brag about writing a diss track and dunking a basketball. I don't complain about that. Diss tracks can be fun. Dunking is cool! But damn, if you could be the one Cornell dude out of 50 who got that text, immediately checked it was real, then called the cops, that's better than a good beat.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So yeah, if you suppress all knowledge of queerness, then on some level, you do end up with fewer openly queer people. You get to have more miserable, self-hating stunted people instead. YAY YOU WIN. If you just want us gone, then yeah, that's a victory condition.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, there has been an absolute explosion of 287(g) agreement since Trump took office; more than 1,000 new ones. Multiple GOP-led state legislatures have actually mandated that local police departments signed these agreements, even if they don’t want to.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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かわわぎ @kwwg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...

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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This. When Andrea Dworkin said rape is the weapon that all men use to control all women, she wasn't saying all men rape. She was saying 1. Non-raping men permit rape to be as common as it is 2. Raping and non-raping men use the fear of "other" men to gain "good guy" status a short thread...

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T E Hodden @tomhodden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In twenty years time, a kid in history class is going to ask how RFK Jnr could just be *allowed* to endanger so many Americans… And a teacher is going to have to explain the power of the Kennedy surname, even when it’s worn by the dumbass with the dead bear.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 27/09/2026

Charlie Kirk was good example. If you asked conservative people, their feeds were full of nice, warm things he said about family, and the angry liberals happy he was dead. If you asked liberals, their feeds were full of clips of all the vile, hateful things he said. Now imagine that for everything

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eugenics is the tool of the oppressor. We do not need it. We will not use it. Hate to break it to you, but this means: Mentioning “the gene pool” The concept of IQ and BMI Standardized tests “Gifted” AND “special” education Rawdogging viruses “Social Darwinism” “Effective altruism”

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

every time i talk to someone who's in college i'm like, oh, it's less of a "literacy crisis" than it is a "literally every online system required for getting a higher education is garbage bloatware designed only to collect a fat paycheck from universities, protect copyright, and steal data" crisis

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026

Ron Cobb’s original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8286472...

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized

We are spending almost five billion more on AI related construction and ten billion dollars less on other private construction since 2024

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Average annual spending as % of US GDP

A chart of percentages of US GDP at various tech splend periods, from canals to AI. AI is outpacing all of them

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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 26/07/2023

Ask your doctor if the great clown Pagliacci is right for you. Pagliacci is intended for treatment of ennui, despondency, languor, lassitude, phlegmatic distemperment, the morbs, or melancholia. If you are allergic to or ironically yourself are the great clown Pagliacci, then vesti la giubba, clown.

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Boog @das-boog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Shits fucked because all of our slacker buffoons went into programming instead of inheriting their dads roofing business. Like, look at Sam Altman or the bsky team. They shouldnt be making big decisions, they should run a shop they opened with three friends after high school called Statuatory Vape

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now @benjanun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's genuinely funny because in some countries people commonly speak 3+ languages.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone memes "shrimp is bugs", but the truth: BUGS IS SHRIMP Insects are WITHIN the crustaceans, and closely related to remipedes, branchiopods (brine shrimp, shield shrimp, fairy shrimp), and cephalocarids (horseshoe shrimp!) All are more closely related to insects than to crabs and lobsters!

A phylogenetic chart of the arthropods, showing hexapoda (which includes insects as well as three groups of obscure soil arthropods) firmly embedded within crustacea, with close relatives in the remipedes, cephalocarids, and branchiopods. The chart places copepods within malacostraca, but more recent phylogenies have them closer to insects. and branchiopods.

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songbird @noctsilk.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

phoenix kiss

an illustration by Spindle of a phoenix girl with fiery skin colour (orange and red) and black hair, with massive fiery wings on her back, kissing Asimov, a half elf with short white hair

Note: tis also pre-otti

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a suspicion, which I recognize is conspiracy-flavored, that the shrinkage in conservative countries is by design. 1/?

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T E Hodden @tomhodden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Any post I see from somebody claiming to have *missed* the entire JKR controversy, and to talk about how *many* versions of events there are... should be assumed to be a bigot JAQing off. If you didn't care that a franchise you threw money at was funding a bigot: THAT IS A RED FLAG.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fucking this. If everything is a computer, then every company needs to be a software company, and the vast majority of them fully do not want this, even if they think they do.

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 24/09/2026

The thing that I think a lot of people don’t get about LLM-based hacking systems is that they don’t need to be smart or sophisticated — just persistent.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spiderbat! Spiderbat! Knows just where the trouble’s at!

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I should start keeping track of sources of good writing advice, and start compiling records of that advice for sharing. I don’t mean fictional writing, either. I mean general advice that can help people not need LLMs. If you know what you’re doing, you won’t need AI’s hand in your writing.

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

back in 2016 i made a mesoamerican riff on the oneill cylinder/bernal sphere in "HABITAT"- i love every mossy tube city in space

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Takel, Twelve Birds in a Trenchcoat 🔜MAW, MFF @takel.gryph.one · 24/09/2026

this is why I refer to AI as brain poison

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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Covid still exists and is still disabling and killing people. The powers that be just stopped recording sufficient data. Yes you still need to wear a mask outside your home.

Facebook post by Jaylen Jean Cozadd

"why is everyone using mobility aids now?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why are all these young people disabled?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why is my family getting sick a lot lately?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why are we all dumber and meaner now?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why can't my friend remember anything?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why do simple activities make me tired?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why aren't there more doctors available?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic
"why are too many of us dying so young?"
there was a mass disabling pandemic

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As much as it’s obvious that the companies are hyping “rogue” AI to get more $$$, it’s worth remembering that it’s also strongly motivated by an ethos of “we don’t want to be sued for bad things we do”, and this narrative helps that a lot.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tapping the sign. Alt Text is a usability aid for people who have vision difficulties. Always try to capture the important bits, and make it possible for people to follow what you posted.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

If there's one thing I wish I could get across to cis people it is that as a community there are vanishingly few of us who expect to make it through the next ten to twenty years and that sense of having no future really does weigh on you; it's so vast you can't really look at it directly.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you can, look up Boidmin's later work: "Syrinx the Savior and the Soteriology of the Scream"

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And in the latest episode of “That’s good … That’s bad …” If MBS turns out to be the next Saddam Hussein … this is going to suck something fierce. If only we had a president who wasn’t allergic to renewable energy supplies.

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