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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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Luke @lukeweston.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having taken a ~2 years off of jazz piano, suddenly having finding that flow state after a few months of practicing again was such a good feeling.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Luke @lukeweston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Unglaublich
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yup
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Luke @lukeweston.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Loved how this lined up a few weeks back
The Dresden skyline, with the moon hovering right over the largest church, as if it could touch. Nice dark pastel blues on the sky and river and the old city lights bounce off the Elbe with a yellow burn.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/08/2026
Trans men used the bathroom they were required to use in Kansas under their new incredibly severe statewide bathroom ban. As a result, the police were called on them. They call themselves the Kansas Compliance Crew. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Police Called on Trans Men Using Women's Restroom As Required By Kansas Law
“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2026
When we have fires in the US, Canada sent help. When Canada has fires, Trump threatens them with tariffs. What an asshole.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/06/2026
Congratulations to the graduates of East River Academy, who earned their diplomas while incarcerated on Rikers Island. No matter where your journey began, this milestone belongs to you. You earned it, and I'm cheering you on.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Oof. This is heartbreaking. www.theplayerstribune.com/yan-diomande...
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Dear Roxane | By Yan Diomande
I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.
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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool
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Luke @lukeweston.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
For the last year or so I’ve been working on a DSL and realtime audio framework in Rust. I still have far to go, but I was able to easily cross compile the tool chain and run it on a NixOS image with the PiSound device tree. Will add more devices soon 😌 github.com/legato-dsp/l... #rust #nixos
A small midi keyboard laying on a questionably hairy pair of legs. On the desk, a small raspberry pi computer with comically bad cable management.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
okay, see, this is what AI learning should've been used for to begin with Like Cascadeur, the dataset the AI was trained on was completely in-house, and when you run it, it'll be done locally on your own pc using your graphics card. Humans still have to do the damn job as well. See? ugh
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Luke @lukeweston.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Have never posted art on here, but I did a 1hr digital study after work of Leopold Carl Müller’s “Ein Sphinxgesicht von heute”. #digitalart #art #procreate
A woman looking down towards her left. She’s wearing a headscarf and some khaki garments.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
They should do that Jubilee show with the Pope. Like "1 Pope vs 20 Conservatives Catholics Who Just Converted."
A screenshot of the Jubilee YouTube show, where some famous person debates 20 idiots.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We didn't deserve this day.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
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Collateral Damage @coldamage.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Share widely and keep the spotlight on Palestine. The only way we can avoid WWIII is to stop the country that's dragging us into WWIII. #FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust
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Karlito P @litop12.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We will not have this silver lining when Detective JD takes over with his trivial Rhetoric and Authority check failures
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Detective JD Procures Cop Rations
YouTube video by Badgertide
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/01/2026
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
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Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
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Luke @lukeweston.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Aurora in Dresden rn
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is the kind of fact you would never believe if you only listened to the far-right propagandists the algorithm promotes on X. London is safe, and Europe as a whole is much safer than the US and Russia, both of which keep lecturing us
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian
You either live in a democracy, in which case you, as citizens, are responsible for the actions of your democratically elected leaders...or you have no choice in who gets elected, in which case you don't live in a democracy and you should definitely do something about that.

The world is sick of hearing 350 million Americans say they're helpless and nothing is their fault
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
24 hours ago, journalists were wondering aloud what "deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" could possibly mean
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KKtheExplorer @kktheexplorer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s time for the world to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the U.S Avoid the Olympics, World Cup and other sporting events. There’s no reason to celebrate the 250 birthday of this fallen nation
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 14/12/2025
This is not normal, and continued and ever-increasing rhetoric like this should not be treated as normal. #holdfast #steadystate
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 21/11/2025
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/11/2025
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/11/2025
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/10/2025
the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
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