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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 10h
For others in the I'm a weenie but want to enjoy the season folks "Ready or Not" 1 and 2 are very fun. Limited gore and jump scares.
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
things are somehow both horrible AND boring, which is impressive. but at least nothing is going right and everything sucks. we've got that going for us
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some board member is really in the Portland working moms facebook group shilling for the districts closure plan. Like aren't you actually supposed to do oversight and decide if it's a good plan first?
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've given birth, it's not a miracle. (Probably I needed to hear this but you can't tell me what to dooooo.)
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
wisn.com
Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If you're not old enough to remember 9/11, remember that when the Tonight Show returned to the air on 9/17/01 the musical guest was Alien Ant Farm dressed up as American flags playing "smooth criminal", and it's a pretty good microcosm of what the 2-3 years after 9/11 were like.
youtube.com
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Live - Leno)
YouTube video by Faders Up
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 07/09/2026
if people were genuinely interested in preparing children for an “inevitable future” they’d be stopping global warming and solidifying concrete pathways to homeownership, not teaching kids how to play with Claude The Guessing Toy
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 04/09/2026
*Slams dictionary shut til Tuesday*
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I love you Dolly
IF YOU'REEVER SAD, JUST REMEMBER THIS:
THE EARTH IS 4 BILYON YEARS OLD, AND YOU MANAGED TO EXIST AT THE SAME TIME AS DOLLY PARTON.
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If a baby hands you a toy telephone to answer, that's a sign of great respect in their culture.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.
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τreez 🎃 🎂 10/22 @zoetreez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
you are a human being not a human doing. stop doing so much shit. you can just be for a bit
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 11/08/2026
Someone reminded me of this banger today
JUST WALK OUT
you can leave!!!

work
social thing
movies
home
class
dentist
clothes shoppi                                       DA SHARE ZONE
too fancy weed store
cops if your quick
friend ships

IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!
Real winners quit
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Call their bluff. If they hate it so much then they can leave.
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 28/07/2026
what idea will you not have tomorrow because you let the machine solve a problem for you today?
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If I catch you wearing this garbage at a park my kid is at the only thing you'll have video of is me ridiculing you incessantly until you leave.
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
SCHROEDINGER I'M COMIN' FOR YO TRIFLIN' ASS
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 10/07/2026
the thing about llms is that they copy old work and have no ability to intentionally pursue lateral leaps of creative insight, so a world ruled by ai is a world of endless recycling of the past. imagine that. culture eating itself. imagine that. totalitarian nostalgia. imagine
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I’m going to settle the UK/US debate once and for all: both of our societies suck shit
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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"Its swimsuit season", I whisper, eating another swimsuit
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My only comment on the Great Corn Slurry debacle is that enriched and nixtamalized corn is the reason pellagra rates fell from more than 3 million and more than 100,000 deaths between 1906 and 1940, to nearly eliminated by the 50s. Pellagra was epidemic. We ended it by adding niacin.
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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not
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Dayv (scary version) @dayv.wtf · 08/06/2026
"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.
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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Untitled Goose Game: Goose Asserting Dominance
Alt: A gif of the goose from untitled goose game circling a crying boy while holding a walkie talkie in its beak.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/06/2026
A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate
JOSHI'S WORKSLOP POSTULATE
"l use Al all the time
but I always check
the outputs"
Daniel / David / James / Andrew / Robert etc
Either
LYING
Ridden with heaps
of catastrophic
errors
Definitely quicker
than doing actual
work I guess
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Or
FOOLISH
Checked and
corrected every single
error manually
Took longer to correct
errors than just doing
the work 101
"Always check the outputs for errors" = "please re
information pollution rather than plastic pollu
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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
You'd think one of these yeehaw motherfuckers could aim
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026
As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"
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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
fortune.com
America's math and reading scores tanked after schools ditched textbooks for screens—and AI could worsen the brain rot | Fortune
A major Brookings Institute study of more than 500 students and educators across 50 countries found the risks of AI in the classroom “overshadow its benefits.”
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I hate the argument that kids need to be exposed to AI/technology or they'll fall behind. Unless you are relatively young then you probably didn't touch a computer until middle school or later and yet here we are terminally online on bsky.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
lemonsharks
My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:
Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her.
She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.

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I like this so much better than the idea that our ancestors would be embarrassed or ashamed of us for being "soft" or some crap like that.

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My ancestors, watching me stuff my face with fried chicken while studying: She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar. WE MADE IT
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
stylized orange burger bun that looks like it has red teeth. brown text below says "I got orange lips".
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Probably general knowledge but due to the amount of time I spend on timezone fuckery perhaps not: 1) before storing a date consider if you even need time 2) store all date times as UTC and convert as needed sincerely, currently sailing the utc midnight means 2/1 is actually 1/31 for offset -5/-4
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
goblin, pussy, pussy, goblin, goblin, pussy, goblin, pussy, pussy, goblin pussy
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
ten years of highly robust software services have trained people to not think too much about reliability but in 2026 we once again live in a world where you have to think about if your rental car saas provider is run by someone who gives claude unrestricted access to their production environment
tomshardware.com
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
You'd think one of these yeehaw motherfuckers could aim
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
how to switch timelines
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We should bring back these lost pronouns, partly because they are cool, and partly to annoy the TERFs (bonus point to the article for mentioning Chaucer’s use of the singular ‘they’). www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
bbc.co.uk
Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Does anyone genuinely prefer Pepsi over Coke?
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Nic @lvl13charlatan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The ob/gyn that delivered my kid was positively gleeful to inform me I had extra nipples and for some reason that experience lives rent free in my head.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Hi, America. We're bankrupt. No, I'm not kidding. fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...
fortune.com
The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it | Fortune
The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.
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