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the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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suzannf.bsky.social @suzannf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If your day needs some brightening, here’s ~45 seconds of Fern getting belly rubs and making air biscuits, plus some good purrs if you have the sound up. I think she would let me do this for hours if I wanted to. What a goober.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"AI is what you use if you don't care if the job is done well," Cory Doctorow to Adam Conover on his Factually podcast.

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A Red-rumped parrot pauses for a moment to drink from Christina Stead Pond in Franklin, Canberra. #photography #AustralianBirds

This is a male Red-rumped Parrot. His colours are particularly bright, because it's Spring here. He's a blue-green parrot overall, with blackish tips of his wings, and a red back and base of his tail. He's perched at water level on a dead branch that emerges from the pond's water. His black beak is making round ripples, as is the very tip of his tail which is dipped in the water.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After a bit of a break, I took a trip out to ponds in Franklin yesterday. Birding is wonderful right now, lots of baby birds and nesting activities. Many human Canberrans were also out enjoying the sun and reacting with delight to having baby birds pointed out to them. #photography #AustralianBirds

A family of Black Swans walking up a grassy incline, with a Casurina tree in the background. There are two adults with four cygnets total. Three in the front and one trailing behind the parents. The adults are large black birds with long curved necks. They have bright red beaks with white tips. The cygnets are a medium grey with dark grey bills and very fluffy looking. They're already the size of normal ducks and they have a lot of growing to do. This group was moving up to take advantage of the mowing that was just done to find cut grass and weeds to eat. Later they moved back down into the pond as people with dogs (on leashes, thanks Canberrans!) walked along the path.

A Willie Wagtail sits on top of a sign that says "DANGER SHALLOW WATER". The bird seems unimpressed. In the background are some blurry tree branches. The Willie Wagtail is a black bird with a white chest and a stern white eyebrow. It was also taking advantage of the recent mowing to nab insects just above the newly short grass. They are very agile fliers.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Aside from the naked imperialism here, and cash grab, he admits it’s a war. A war without UN or congressional approval. A war which Rubio denied was a war and claimed was a law enforcement action. Trump as ever undermines his own people’s claims. It was a war. An illegal imperial one.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Read only the first and last sentence of this paragraph

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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Paying ten bucks for one dollar is easily the most accurate metaphor for his entire economic agenda.

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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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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO

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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

theguardian.com

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

me: I just want to drink coffee and look out of my office window cat: no

Felix the polydactyl cat and self appointed union leader of the crew, performing political protest at the poor quality of breakfast service the last few days

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.

Two cats on a platformed tower. One is on the lower level, head hidden behind the middle section. The second is on the top tier with only their head showing.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026

My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”

A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

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HALLOWEENTime, M.D.🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @saigontimemd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

CHAPPELL ROAN IN FIFTH ELEMENT STEWARDESS MODE AT DAISY CHAIN FIELDS OH MY GOD

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/08/2026

hey just making sure everyone knows tom hardy put out a rap album where he does the “"now is the winter of our discontent” monologue from richard III in the bane voice on one of the tracks. okay have a good weekend

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 27/08/2026

“Antisemitism is a canary in the coal mine of fascism. It's one of the oldest bigotries that has caused those of the Jewish faith a tremendous amount of pain. From pogroms to the Holocaust, Jews have always been singled out by those in power …

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

years ago me and Ms. Moreno talked about how this came together and it was the greatest www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

“The contrast is outrageous! There’s this sex bomb in front, and this, this creature—I don’t know what else to call him—this fuzzy, violent, nasty creature in back who only got pleasure out of making people and other Muppets unhappy. A creature of impulse, let’s put it that way. And when I watch myself—’cause I’m usually so critical—but when I watch myself, I just laugh at me. What I love about it is that my character’s trying so hard to be sexy and sultry. And this horrible creature in back of me is acting up. [Laughter] See? I can’t stop laughing. It tickles me to death.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One of the delights of taking photos is finding details that were invisible to the naked eye: like a female White-throated Treecreeper's little red ear covers, or her extravagantly curved claws. And discovering the second bird was a male: yes claws, no red ears. #photography #AustralianBirds

A female white throated treecreeper perched on the side of gum tree with silvery white, smooth bark. Behind her is another similar tree. She's a small bird with a sharp straight beak and mostly dark grey above. She has a white throat, as you'd expect, and her lower body has a panel of white spots on dark grey below her wings. She has a dark eye, and just below that in this picture, you can see a faint reddish patch which is her red ear covers. She's hanging on with claws which are almost as long as her toes and which are strongly curved and look very sharp. The claws support her slight weight as she creeps (hops) up and down trees looking for insects to eat. This photo was taken in a forest near North Canberra Hospital in Bruce, Canberra.

A male white-throated treecreeper perched on the side of tree with rough, furrowed, dark brown bark. Behind him is a tree with silvery white, smooth bark. He's a small bird with a sharp straight beak and mostly dark grey above. He has a white throat, as you'd expect, and his lower body has a panel of larger white spots on dark grey below his wings. He has a dark eye, and unlike the female, he does not have red ear covers. He's hanging on with claws which are almost as long as is toes and which are strongly curved and look very sharp. The claws support his slight weight as he creeps (hops) up and down trees looking for insects to eat. This photo was taken in a forest near North Canberra Hospital in Bruce, Canberra, a couple of hundred metres away from the female treecreeper was photographed.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My latest favourite bird photos. I only recently realised that it doesn't matter if it rains the whole time, or if I only take four decent shots, I have never, ever regretted just getting out in nature to take bird photos. #nature #AustralianBirds #photography

A black and white photo of an Australasian Coot in a pond. Ripples radiate around the bird which is completely black with a white beak and shield. Some droplets of water are visible on the coot which has just come up from a dive.

The rest of these photos are in colour. This one is of a very small olive and buff bird with white rings around its eyes, hence the name, a Silvereye. The bird is percted on a twig of golden wattle which is Australia's national flower. This wattle has bright yellow puffs of flowers and fern like leaves. The Silvereye is facing the camera and has just taken a beak full of pollen from a flower. It's framed by another larger twig which is brown. The background is blurred. Silvereyes are small birds that move unbelievably quickly, rarely pausing. I’d been chasing a few separate flocks of them around the tops of this forest, but they’re so tiny and quick that I didn’t have a clear shot. But while I was trying to photograph a pigeon on the ground, more Silvereyes arrived in the trees above my head and flew and hopped down to feed on these wattle flowers. This bird was maybe two metres away when I took this photo.

This photo was taken late in the afternoon at my nearby wetlands. It has been a few months since I've seen a Nankeen Night Heron in this area, so this was a happy find. I probably wouldn't have noticed this small stocky heron if I didn't see it land exactly in this spot and stay there. The bird has a black cap with two wacky white plumes curving from the back of its head. The lower face and head are a rich brown, fading to a buff underside. It has longish yellow legs. It has a large brown eye and a black and yellow beak. The bird is perched in a Casurina and is partially obscured by a branch just above its legs. The background shows how overcast and dim the day was. These birds are called night herons because that's when they're most active. But they can also be found at twilight, foraging in shallow fresh water.

A male Flame Robin perched atop a flower spike on top of Percival Hill in Gungahlin, Canberra. The bird looks very like a robin should, black head and back with a white stripe on the wings. His chest is very bright red, perhaps even orange, fading to whiter on his underside. The photo was taken on a bright sunny day and the ground beneath his perch is rough with grass and other ground cover. In the blurry background is the suburb of Crace, though no details can be made out. This photo was taken on a Canberra Birds walk.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

when someone gets dog piled on blue sky

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Blue Guy surrounded by a crowd of Purple Guys. Blue Guy screams “You buncha purple assholes!”

Panel 2: All of the Purple Guys now look mad at Blue Guy. Blue Guy folds his arms and says “Oh here we go. Mad at me for no reason”

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now that you can mute my retweets while still following me, I'm going to retweet more things that interest me and which I think will interest you (hypothetical you who follows me). Bwahaha, etc. Also, the birb photos will continue because they make me happy.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"I would never thought the United States would act this way" - Nunca Pensé featuring Mariachi Arcoiris is available on all streaming platforms

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This male Eastern Grey Kangaroo was unbothered by our group of birdwatchers walking past, but the two Brown-headed Honeyeaters perching on him were more skittish. #photography #AustralianBirds

An adult male Eastern Grey Kangaroo lies on his side in some very brown grass and weeds. His butt is towards us, and his face and ears are pointed vaguely towards the camera. He looks lazily interested in what we're doing. Near his rear end are two Brown-headed Honeyeaters in flight. The top bird is faced towards the left and has a dark brown head with a paler eyebrow visible. Its body and wings are greeny-yellow. Closer to the ground is a second honeyeater is flying flatter and moving faster towards the right. It has similar colours to the other bird. This photo was taken on a walk with Canberra Birds at Percival Hill in Gungahlin, Canberra, Australia.

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

LOTR ent sitcom called Tree's Company

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Superb Fairywrens are a bit of a cliché, because they're so colourful and so common, but how cute is this little male, singing in the morning sun? #AustralianBirds #photography

A male Superb Fairywren in breeding colours, singing on some twigs against a blurry forest background. The bird has a bright blue cap and cheek stripe, but the rest of his head and throat are black. His chest and lower body is buff, his upper body is darker brown and he has a thin, upright blue tail. This photo was taken this morning on a Canberra Birds walk around Percival Hill in Gungahlin, Canberra, Australia.

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James Wood @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Roguelike Deckbuilder

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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

$Two panel comic. Panel 1: Omni Man and Invincible are floating in the sky. Two fighter jets are flying nearby. One is labeled "double" and the other is labeled "float". Omni Man is labeled "Mathematicians". Panel 2: Omni Man / Mathematicians turn to Invincible and say "Look what they need to mimic a fraction"$

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Writing headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me.

Two headlines:
As published. ( By NYT.)
Opportunities Narrow for Women as
Hegseth Blocks More Promotions

Would exactly fit the same space. (By me)
Hegseth Narrows Opportunities for
Women, Blocking More Promotions

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Went on a wonderful walk with the Canberra Birds group today to the Mount Taylor Nature Reserve. These Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos, aka cockies, were playing in the morning sun. #AustalianBirds #photography

A group of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos on a dead branch against a perfectly clear light-blue sky on a sunny winter morning. These cockatoos are large white parrots with dark beaks. They have a lemon-coloured crest of feathers on their heads and under their wings is visible a similar pale yellow. They look like a collection of clowns and every one of them (there are nine of them) is doing something different. Starting from the top, there's one with both wings open, flying down. One next to it staring right at it. The one under them has its crest all the way up and wings half open. Under that is one with its crest up, staring vaguely at the camera. To its left is another with its crest up, looking downwards. Just below them is probably my favourite, a cocky perched on the end of another little branch, staring towards the camera with its crest up and its head on a quizzical angle. Under that is three next to each other on the bottom of the image: one's looking down, crest up; one's looking up, wings open and pointed upwards; the third is mostly obscured, but you can see its wings open behind the other two. One of the Canberra Birds experts worked out the reason these birds were so riled up. There was a Brown Goshawk to camera left which was bothering them and making them nervous. Within a few minutes one of the bravest of the cockies approached it and led the group's charge to scare the raptor away.

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Linda @lindaw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Walked around Gossan Hill Nature Reserve recently and identified many different birds, even in the middle of the (winter) day. Spotted this cute little Striated Thornbill gathering fibres for nest building. As always, details in the alt text. #AustralianBirds #photography

All four of these images are of a Striated Thornbill, a new bird for my list which is always exciting. It's a small mostly brown bird, with a buff underside and striations (short darker stripes) on its face and crown. The legs and feet are dark brown. The tree bark is fuzzy with pale brown fibres which look like they've been stripped by other birds. In this first shot, the bird is about to take a beak full of fibres and is standing sideways on the tree trunk. In the background is a pale blue sky and some twigs and leaves.

This image shows the same bird on the same tree (see the first image for more details). This shot shows the bird's dark eye and the striations on its face very clearly. It's now standing towards the other side of the tree, and has some fibres in its bill.

This image shows the same bird on the same tree (see the first image for more details). It's back on the right hand side of the trunk, and we can only see its back. There are even more fibres in the bird's beak. The bird's crown has the same darker striations as the face from this angle.

This image shows the same bird on the same tree (see the first image for more details). This final image shows the bird about to leave, I think. It's even higher on the right hand side of the trunk and only one of its feet is touching the tree. it has a beak full of light brown fibres and clearly shows the striations on its face and chest. It flitted away shortly after this, hopefully to go turn those fibres into a warm, safe place to lay eggs and raise a new family of little brown birds.

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