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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Enough with the niggers, enough with the jewrats" This important message on X the Everything App has been brought to you by Home Depot, McDonalds and Disney.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm so tired of hearing tech bros say "first principles". But I really think somebody on the Messages™ team at Apple needs to embrace first principles and get back to the one task we need the app to do. I don't need you to hyperlink names, replace text with emojis, or make one sentence into three! 🤯

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thesis: www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@kylec.bsky.social as somebody who appreciates good reporting and experienced the Tebow phenomenon first-hand, you may appreciate this from @pablo.show! youtu.be/uh7s2jr0b48?...

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We Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OMG! As a Denver non-religious resident, I was always skeptical of the Tebow phenomenon. But this is absolutely incredible stuff. My first PTFO experience and I understand all the praise now.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

are those droids

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Commerce City doesn't want data centers?!? On the one hand they have the best perspective on bad business in their town, but on the other hand, data centers seem way better than garbage and petroleum refineries!

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mapquest stands firm and continues to call it Artificial Intelligence (AI), despite Google and Bing changing it to Super Intelligence (SI).

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is in some ways at the heart of our political dysfunction. For a lot of folks, so long as the basic civic infrastructure keeps (kept?) humming along, they don’t feel much personal effect from electoral politics, so it becomes a kind of entertainment & mode of self-expression.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wow. A big deal and I am impressed with Fox and CBS for sticking with the pack here

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Americans are so strange... "Its website says when it opens in 2027, it will feature a cowering space, golf simulators, a coffee bar—even a conversation lounge. What it will not feature is women." - OR TAXES!! Funny coincidence! www.outsideonline.com/health/train...

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No Women Are Allowed at This "Lust-Free" Gym. Why? Their Presence Is Too Tempting for Men.

Jeff Hambrecht founded Proverbs 27:17 Fitness with one major goal in mind: to build a community where women are absent, thus making the temptation to cheat on your wife supposedly off the table—aka a ...

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Travis is me when I talk with my friends who actually know movies

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally someone speaking out against the media conspiracy to cover up for these tree rats. All that glitters is not gold, and all that is furry is not fren.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/09/2026

This is the greatest news report I have ever seen.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

The best way to parody the MAGA right is to point a camera at them and let them talk.

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The Good Liars at the RNC

YouTube video by The Good Liars

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Promise made, promise kept?! 🥴

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A big part of the problem is that even if we got “the right leadership” the American electorate has demonstrated it will readily install a maniac ganster to replace them if the economy ever stumbles. You can’t really plan long-term alliances with that sort of partner.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/09/2026

gonna say it one more time: snag a cheap used EV while you can!

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u... Don't have time to fully comment on this article, but I would love to see a parallel article about the much more plausible assertion that the Republican party, from the President and the VP on down, has been captured by right-wing extremists.

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Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists

Communism, in the president’s hyperbolic telling, is a graver threat to the country than the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks were. Whether this midterm strategy works is an open question.

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I really hope anybody and everybody involved in Democratic politics is reading @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social’s book! Very straightforward assessment of how we got here and how we hopefully get out! I’m only halfway through but it’s an enjoyable read and so informative! bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

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How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time

The playbook for consigning MAGA-style politics to the ash heap of history (where it belongs). Featuring a foreword by Jonathan V. Last.After Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Sarah Longwell did wha...

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Does everybody know you can explicitly tell Claude not to hallucinate? I learned this and gave it these rules months ago, and it’s remarkable how different the results are!

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I started this podcast thinking it would be mildly interesting only to find it one of most interesting of year! From an 80s start in mining with fellow hippy Steve Jobs(!?) to the real issues facing the US from China's lock on precious minerals for tech & climate. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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Robert Friedland on the World's Monumental Shortage of Copper

Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · September 12 · 1h 10m

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So I was in NYC on 9/11 and my then future husband was in Chicago sleeping through it because 9/11 is his birthday and he’d had an epic bday night out the night before

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JL Croner @jlcroner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@brianbeutler.bsky.social in today’s mailbag: “If Chuck Schumer had quoted any one of Elon Musk’s recent antisemitic comments and demanded Republicans renounce him and reject his spending on their campaigns, it would have made news.” Why aren’t Dem leaders doing this nonstop?!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is like me steadfastly refusing to play for the NFL.

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This was Colorado's hottest summer on record, and it wasn't even close. Average statewide temp of 69.4° beat the old record (2012) by 0.7°, a wide margin. It was also Colorado's hottest August on record, and it's our hottest start to a calendar year on record as well. #COwx

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Andy Welfle 🛰️ @andy.wtf · 08/09/2026

(Yes I know this is a parody and I'm not super comfortable with Amish people being the butt of this joke but I'll admit it did get me for a second)

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Andy Welfle 🛰️ @andy.wtf · 08/09/2026

While y'all are watching the Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, I'll be out here waiting for the documentary about the Amish handyman who moves to San Francisco and uses Claude to write his flyers and accepts crypto as payment

A satirical flyer taped to a black lamppost on a sunny sidewalk. Headline: "Noah Powers, Amish Handyman." It lists services including carpentry, fence repair, chair making, horse care, wagon repair, barn raising, and executive retreats. Below: "Handwritten estimates. No electricity. No engines. No shortcuts." Fine print reads "Stablecoins or seasoned lumber accepted. Rush jobs require four horses. Surge pricing during harvest. AI companies must bring their own extension cords." A QR code says "Book online." Bottom line: "Now serving Palo Alto." Tear-off tabs with QR codes hang from the bottom edge.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

173,000 terawatts (trillions of watts) of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. That's more than 10,000 times the world's total energy use. Sunlight travels 93 million miles to the earth in 8.3 seconds and guess what? Not one bit of it has to pass through the Strait of Hormuz to reach us.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

2. Kenny said Phish was one of those groups he had heard of but didn’t really know, and that it wasn’t until then that he realized how big they were. Kenny had performed his own set earlier that afternoon in one of Bonnaroo’s large tents.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

3. Later that night, he joined Phish on the main stage to sing in front of 70,000 people.. Kenny said the last time he had performed for a crowd that big was probably in the mid 80s. So great.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1. Oh man, I had no idea Kenny Rogers sang “The Gambler” with Phish! This was at Bonnaroo in 2012. In interviews, Kenny said Phish came to his dressing room and asked if he would join them onstage for a song, and he said yes.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So cool to see Zach Bryan and Jason Isbell together. Bryan, now the bigger country star, giving Isbell his flowers. “He’s my McCartney. He’s the greatest songwriter to ever hold a pen, in my opinion.” I agree. youtu.be/DUP2jPVoQ4c?...

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Jason Isbell - The Belting Bronco - Episode Nine

YouTube video by Zach Bryan

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

laws, what are they, to whom do they apply? apparently not HSI ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What happened as the agents were leaving told me more about who these people are than almost anything else I saw. They had already made sure they all knew I was videotaping, pointing me out to each other as they prepared to leave. Then, as they drove their unmarked vehicles slowly through our street, windows tinted dark, every single one of them slowed down as they passed me. One agent put two fingers to his eyes and then pointed them directly at me. "I'm watching you." Another leaned forward and made a heart with his hands as he drove past. Another blew kisses at me. These were armed federal agents who had just descended on a residential neighborhood in masks and tactical gear, taken people away, terrified families, and now they were driving away laughing and trying to taunt a woman who had dared to stand on the sidewalk and record them.

What I saw next is something I don't think I will ever forget. From what I could tell, at least two people were taken from our street. The one I witnessed was an older man with no shoes on, who did not appear to have a weapon and was not resisting. From everything I could see, he looked like someone who had simply gotten up that morning and gone to work on a neighbor's property, never imagining that before the morning was over he would be surrounded by masked men with rifles and taken away. His vehicle is still sitting in that driveway tonight, exactly where he left it. They just grab them and disappear them into the system. And then I watched something that made my stomach turn. Agents removed what appeared to be a gold cross necklace from around the man's neck. But instead of putting it into an evidence bag or securing it with his belongings, I watched one agent hand it to another agent, who then put it directly into his own pocket like a souvenir.

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

every Republican incumbent or candidate who takes Elon's money should have to answer for why they are in bed with a guy who got ratioed on his own site by chess.com

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Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games

Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is what Trump means when he says the world knows we‘re “a hot country”

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