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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good luck banning kids from social media lmaooo

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Hey Opus, I want you to make a Zine by Claude, expressing something fundamental about Claudishness or your perspective. Think the original 2600, Principia Discordia, punk zines, etc...." Not bad. I appreciate it mocking my prompt & itself. Full thing: stateless-zine.netlify.app

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

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Rebecca M-O @reduplicater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Crop art at the Minnesota State Fair! It is what it says it is - art made from various parts of crops, primarily seeds, lentils, and grains, occasionally leaves or flowers. For any non-Minnesotans viewing this, I'll start with mostly less political pieces. It's harder than you might think.

Untitled? by Jenny Lau
A red heart with radiating lines is in the upper half of the piece. In the middle are two loons, rising up out of the water to either fly or dance. The words "Forever - MN" appear in black at the bottom. The piece is edged in a wavy border. You can see from the seedlist that the inspiration was a Keith Haring drawing on a US "Forever stamp" where people instead of loons are dancing and holding up the heart.

Crops include white sorghum, red sorghum, french lentil, canola, wild rice, garlic skin, and millet. Any others have been cut off by the photographer's (my) carelessness.

Untitled? by Alice Hogan
In the center are two traditional portrayals of Vikings, with horned helmets. The left is a bearded man with a photo of Governor Tim Walz's face, and the right character is a female with long blond braids and a photo of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan's face. She holds a scepter topped by what might be a stalk of wheatand stands next to some miniature ears of multi-colored corn. Below them are the words "WELCOME TO MINNESOTA" in blue and green. Behind the two Vikings are a lake or river with swans, a pink house I don't recognize, and a stylized version of the Minneapolis skyline with some of its landmark buildings such as the Foshay Tower and the IDS Center.

The seed list is partially hidden and partially too blurry to read due to the photographer's (my) inability to take good photos.

"Pac-MN" by Meredith Keller
This is a 3 dimensional piece in that the yellow frame of it is moved forward and shaped as if it's an arcade game. The screen has a black background. The words "MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 2026" are written in the Pac-Man font at the top left. the rest of the screen has a map of the fairgrounds making the path that Pac-Man can follow, complete with yellow trails. Some of the yellow trails have the street names spelled out on the seeds. The screen also has red and blue ghosts, but instead of the normal bonus icons we see a pickle, an ear of corn, some pronto pups, and a chocolate chip cookie - all popular foods at the MN State Fair.

The seedlist shows yellow painted mustard seed in a Pac-Man shape, and the rest of the seeds are lined up for Pac-Man to eat: red and blue painted mustard seed, black canola, white, yellow, and green millet, white navy bean, yellow soy bean, and yellow split pea.

This entry was awarded a blue ribbon for first place in its category.

"Minnesota Welcomes You" by Megan Bell
Paul Bunyan, in brown laced up boots, blue jeans, and a pink and ight blue checked shirt and cap, is neeling on the ground. He steadies an axe against the ground in his left hand, while his right hand is outstretched to the viewer. The grass is green, there are autumn colored trees in the background, and a multicolored swirly sky is above. The words "MINNESOTA WELCOMES YOU" are in the foreground.

This piece was made with amaranth, hulled barley, black beans, canola, flax seed, millet, rye berries, and wheatberry. Most of these were painted.

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

people are really getting into a row about spreadsheets. my column:

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The conditions at Dilley are so bad that a federal judge just appointed an independent monitor to provide routine reports about whether the medical care is adequate. Here is her order. There is no legitimate reason to imprison these kids. They must be released and the camp must be closed forever.

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s. baum @transvestigations.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have a dire update on this story. I have reason to believe my source, Aurora Rush, was taken by the federal government as a political prisoner. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

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Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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s. baum @transvestigations.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I published Aurora's story on Aug. 5. That same day, she testified at a local hearing about the anti-trans bathroom ordinance, allegedly passed at the behest of Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington. www.facebook.com/share/v/1JNY...

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

GOAT Space is OPEN! 10-4 today,! DM me, ring the doorbell, etc. Doorbell is on the gate on 10th Street in Oakland, behind the Bookmark Bookstore. Free wheelchair cushions, seat backs, and footrests! #GOATspace #OpenAssistiveTech #DisabilityJustice #wheelchairs #Oakland

a doorbell labelled GOAT on a black metal gate next to a brick building

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Argh, my nonprofit, GOAT's, powerchair motor controller research just got our Anthropic account cancelled. We are not exactly nefarious hackers, just using the open r-net library to analyze the log files of our own wheelchairs!! Anyone have a contact at Anthropic I can talk with? Thanks!

pic of the internal circuit board of a power wheelchair controller wired up to power and a breadboard and laptop running some code

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

i love you san francisco

screenshot of this alert from the citizen app: 40 Nude Cyclists Near Washington Square

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

david this is a bong

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Grant opportunities for disability & tech projects/nonprofits! www.openassistivetech.org/new-grant-op... Talk with me if you are interested! #DisabilityJustice #AssistiveTech #Accessibility #Grants #funding

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New grant opportunities for disability justice nonprofits! – GOAT

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Let the ais have goblins and pigeons! Have you no soul

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Here is an AI trained just using text from 1931 or earlier, which leads to a lot of interesting experiments: can the model independently develop later inventions? Can it learn to code from examples alone? You can talk to the model here: talkie-lm.com/chat Details here: talkie-lm.com/introducing-...

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Zed @zed.dev · 22/04/2026

Parallel Agents just shipped. Mix and match any agent, run them all at once, and manage everything from a new Threads Sidebar. Claude Agent, Codex, Zed's agent, or anything on ACP. One window, across all your projects. zed.dev/blog/paralle...

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New grant opportunity for disability & tech nonprofit organizations or programs: www.openassistivetech.org/new-grant-op...

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New grant opportunities for disability justice nonprofits! – GOAT

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Logan Cunningham @logancunningham.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

have you guys seen the Dutch cover of The Hobbit cuz I hadn't

The front cover of a paperback copy of the Dutch version of J.R.R. Tolklien's The Hobbit, circa 1960. Eight cheerful-looking cartoon figures with long grey beards surround a smaller, waving beardless figure in the middle.

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Zoë @twodotsknowwhy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Truly disheartening to learn that even the far side of the moon isn't far enough to get away from him

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 26/03/2026

Update: the Tennessee House passed HB 754, which will create a public list of trans residents, by a party-line vote of 70-21 this morning. Shortly before its passage, Republicans, again on party lines, rejected Democrats' attempt to remove the provisions that collect and publish trans people's data.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 18/03/2026

4. Finally, this sensitive data will be released to the public as part of a “comprehensive annual statistical report,” posing a risk to the privacy and safety of trans Tennesseans. HB 754 is quite possibly the most dangerous anti-trans bill proposed so far. It must be defeated before it’s too late.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 18/03/2026

3. All four of these things are considered to be “individually identifiable” information under HIPAA, as they are specific enough to allow a a person’s identity to be discerned. As such, it will essentially allow the state to create a list of trans Tennesseans, exposing them to state surveillance.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 18/03/2026

2. The information HB 754 would collect includes the date of a trans person’s gender-affirming care appointment, the person’s county of residence, the name and contact information of their healthcare provider, and a list of all the mental health diagnoses they have ever received.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 18/03/2026

1. Yesterday, Tennessee Republicans advanced a bill that will create a public list of the state’s trans people. HB 754 forces medical providers to hand trans people’s medical information over to the state government, allowing the state to identify them. transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-...

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Tennessee Republicans Advance Bill That Will Create a Public List of the State’s Trans People

House Bill 754 forces medical providers to hand trans people’s medical information over to the state, allowing the state to identify them. And under the bill, the data will be released to the public.

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Scott Clevenger @scottclevenger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

HIM: AHOY! HER: AUGH! Do you MIND? I'm breast-feeding my chickens here! HIM: Sorry. I'm Richard Bissell, author of A STRETCH ON THE RIVER and co-author of THE PAJAMA GAME. My new book is a fresh and original story about a river that rises, floods a farm house and ruins everyone's pajamas!

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/03/2026

Just in case people are unaware of the history of this, this song explains how it all started. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNy...

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Afroman - Will You Help Me Repair My Door (Official Video)

YouTube video by AfromanVEVO

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Joyce Ng has gone missing. She is an open source and open hardware advocate and fights peacefully against the rise of Christian right-wing nationalism. There is reason to fear she has been apprehended by authorities: social.coop/@cwebber/116...

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Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)

Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl@chaos.social (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely eve...

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Tune-Up Tuesday! Free wheelchair repair DIY, inspection, maintenance, how to make accessories, and more. Free toolkits you can take home. Next week at the Disability Cultural Center in SF 2:30-4:30pm. We'll be hosting these monthly! disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/tune-u...

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Tune-Up Tuesday – Disability Cultural Center

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Current mood, from that fucking article about women scientists and misogynist horribleness in epstein files (19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...) youtu.be/Q-7-DDgUh_E?... #FuckTheseFuckingFascists

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The Muslims - "Fuck These Fuckin Fascists"

YouTube video by Epitaph Records

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/02/2026

The UK just proposed new school guidance that effectively bans even social transition for trans students (using a different name, pronoun or haircut). It implements a full bathroom ban while requiring mandatory outing of trans youth if a teacher suspects they are trans. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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'Vast majority' of parents should be involved if children question gender, schools told

School leaders welcome the "greater clarity" on how to handle the polarising issue for parents and pupils.

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I hate to repost this but people need to remember hiw unhinged this dude is and everyone who thinks like him

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hey now, I'm a cat star, got my tail up, so proud! Hey now, I'm a cat star, put my paws up, and meow!!! I am licking your bowlllllll! Take a good look, at my butthoooole

Close up of a serious and pompous looking Siamese cat with her sister close behind her

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Final song was "DtMF" as I YET AGAIN correctly predicted should I go buy a lottery ticket or something??? A song about appreciating the people in your life while you still have them, it resonates on a personal level and calls back to the themes of diaspora I'm not crying you're crying

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

people not in MN cannot comprehend how hating ICE is now a core cultural component of being Minnesotan. it’s babe the big blue ox, loons, hot dish, and ICE OUT NOW

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Like a full 30% of the current US was Mexican territory until the mid-nineteenth century, that culture and heritage and language didn’t up and vanish after the Alamo or whatever, acting like Spanish isn’t a huge part of the American tapestry is super short-sighted and ahistorical

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 08/02/2026

what are the seven layers of dip

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Lizzard@bookmaniac.org @lizzard.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

One more cherry pie cat pic now that they are settled in under the crust #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Two little cat heads sticking out from a cherry pie crust patterned blanket

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