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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 01/10/2026

An absolute hero. I am SO fucking proud to be a nurse and among such courageous people. Please spread the word of this Florence Nightingale level bravery. I hope that a way to support her legal fees becomes evident soon. Thank you, Chloe 🫶

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's the thing about "warriors" If you were in a fight and had to face 100 warriors or 100 soldiers, you'll do better against the former. Why? Warriors are (mostly guys) who train and get all into the details of hand to hand combat, courage, manly-man stuff. Soldiers fight as units. /1

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Front page news, Boston Globe: Ivy provost leading charge to infuse AI into higher ed discovered using AI in academic & public work w/out disclosure--an action for which a student could fail a course or worse. Free link: archive.is/JoJbA

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a great primer on *why* supporting Israel is not a get-out-of-antisemitism free card, and why many Jewish people have not supported the Israeli government at *many* junctures, not just the more recent ones. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-thin...

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Trump Thinks Jews Should Be America’s Tools

That’s the Zionist bargain

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So I just saw this ad for tourism in Israel, and it seems heavily marketed to Christians (the scene of someone getting baptized in the Jordan was kind of a clue). Really interesting, this.

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hm. My nominations: Babylon 5 Farscape (almost, I waffle on this one)

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Congratulations to @emsque.bsky.social !

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Very rare to see someone like this with principles

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

when full citizenship is predicated on ethnonationalist criteria, it is also inevitably predicated on one's political opinions. If human rights are provisional, anyone's human rights can be taken away.

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So I see this ad for a psoriasis drug, and they make it sound good until they say a side effect is suicidal thoughts. Somehow "My skin looks great but I want to kill myself" isn't a selling point for me.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Saying this is about us feeling less special when the false equivalence between computers and brains has been treated as common sense for decades is just laughable.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What we are threatened by is actual threats made against our livelihoods and even our actual survival by people hyping up and embracing this technology.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The idea that people are threatened by the idea that our uniqueness as thinking beings is being compromised is detached from the reality of the human experience. Many people want to believe they can relate to computers. See also: the ELIZA experiments. We can be manipulated on this basis.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We have actually been conditioned by beloved fiction for many years to *want to believe* that artificial life and consciousness are not only possible, but probable. If you watched TNG, you may have suspected that Data already had feelings and simply didn't recognize them, bc you *related to Data*.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The idea that we are fundamentally averse to the idea that machines can think is BS. Human beings are actually very much inclined to believe machines can think. Our sci-fi sense of wonder is being exploited by charlatans. We do not accept PR and propaganda that are wholly unsupported by the facts.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pedagogy is not some new, unsolved problem awaiting its Silicon Valley disruptor. If you want good teaching in any given subject, it’s there to be had. If you just don’t want to pay for it, then all we’re really talking about is how much you want something for nothing. That’s nothing new, either.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As for educators working eagerly to convince the salescreeps, tech-but-not-subject-matter experts, and feather-light NextGen university admin that they’re on board, I guess they must hope their careers have time to peak before the bandwagon they’re on reaches its destination. Their students’ won’t.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This isn’t exclusive to AI, by the way, though it includes AI as presented in hundreds of tech journalism puff pieces and finger-wagging Chronicle sermons. My history classroom is not your “sandbox,” and your suggestion that it should be only tells me how unqualified you are for this conversation.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

European Eels migrate across the Atlantic to spawn, in a place called the Sargasso Sea, close to the US. Their larvae then have to swim all the way back to European waters. Closely related American Eels spawn in the same place. The reason is thought to be because eels are older than the Atlantic.

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am in Toledo, Spain. In the old Jewish Quarter there are all these little souvenirs with menorahs on them. Problem is, they have the wrong number of branches - clearly they were drawn by someone who knows they exist but doesn’t know what they are. It is irrationally annoying to me.

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Iran Hostage Crisis, and if it counts the Bicentennial celebrations. The first space shuttle launches and the Voyager pictures.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Folks, this is an URGENT situation- this friend has since passed away and these cats need IMMEDIATE care. Anyone in driving distance of NYC who can take them in please get in touch with Shecky things are looking desperate.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 20/08/2026

in fact, the worst reactionaries will often claim to be forward-thinking iconoclasts, challenging conventional wisdom with deeper truths, while pushing debunked pseudoscience and racist/sexist/homophobic etc. stereotypes. The "AI" pushers, despite their love of the new, are no different.

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My dad had a Chevette and the damned thing was great.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026

We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This book showed 12-y/o me that you could write terrifically funny prose and do so by loving the English language. And on top of that, show that you truly love your fellow humans. I still miss you, Mr. Adams.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Going to try this again; I'm working on a story about the white collar job market. I'm interested in talking to people who have had struggles looking for work. Especially looking for people who are not writers or editors but are working in other capacities. Please share!

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"oh the gestapo destroyed Jewish businesses; we need commonsense reforms to prevent another kristallnacht." that's what you sound like! for fuck's sake beg, borrow, or rent a spine.

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

1. The Warriors 2. After Hours 3. The Martian

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

absolutely none of this is a mystery, it is well documented cause and effect

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

And now of course that water should be tested regularly for exactly this issue but guess what funding got axed

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

(some people pointing out that feces would only contaminate the closest plants- yes, until it gets into the irrigation system. you have foulage close to the start of the loop, bam, entire crop)

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

it just really grinds my gears to see reporting like “huh, we have no idea how this is happening!” No we have very precise knowledge of exactly how it’s happening, but if you said that, then you might have to fix it and the ruling class that owns the media does not want that

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

“but it’s illegal to treat employees that way!” no shit Sherlock but if the options are accept the treatment or report it to the board and get yourself deported by a government that would as soon shoot you on sight like i said. It is not their fault.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

if you didn’t know this- if you’ve never thought of this- time to do some reading and some reflection. The majority of American agriculture workers are immigrants in various states of precarity, and by god do the farms know that

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

you’ve got an employer paying them pennies on the hour and the nearest toilet is four miles away and might not have working plumbing, tf do you EXPECT

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

this is not a huge secret. this is not something groundbreaking or revolutionary that i am saying. you’ve all heard about delivery drivers pissing in bottles. of course they’re shitting in fields and *it is not their fault*

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

any time you get an exploited workforce, especially one being targeted by the government so they are extra vulnerable to the vagaries of their employers, one of the first things that vanishes is ready access to sanitary facilities

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026

Really hate this “nobody has ever figured out how human feces is getting into the food processing” framing it’s incredibly simple if you pay a single molecule of attention to the working conditions of the majority of agricultural workers in the USA

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

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mad-science-guy.bsky.social @mad-science-guy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Am I the only person who feels a screaming rage at the fact that we live in a world where justice seems a sick joke played on all those of us who just wanted to be decent people?

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Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

One of the best things about actual physical books is they don't need usernames and passwords, and sign on websites to work.

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