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Maud O'Bedlam

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 1h
Shared this before (thank you @lizthegrey.com). Read up everyone because this is what's happening. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202....
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A NEW FIGHTER HAS ENTERED THE ARENA
independent.co.uk
Gang of eight sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific
Crew described terrifying encounter as they were woken up by “loud thud” as the 52ft vessel was struck
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 2h
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 2h
I also don't think it's all that hard for people on our side to learn and understand the perspective of people on the other side. Our entire government is made of people "on the other side" and we're force-fed the perspective of a lot of their supporters in soft profiles in the Times, for example.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h
Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6h
Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 4h
Redoing D&D's playable species so that instead of having "races" you just pick a standard monster type (Construct, Elemental, Fey, Humanoid, Undead, etc.) and roll or choose from a list of type-appropriate features. Owing to how the type feature tables are laid out, orcs are now plants.
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Jesse @jaawerth.bsky.social · 5h
musicbrainz has also repeatedly had frequent outages because of this. they offer API access! but AI scrapers don't use it; they just scrape, which hits the servers harder it sucks, because the way this is going, even retreating to the "small internet" increasingly bcomes a non-option
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InbeeTalks @inbee.bsky.social · 4h
BBEG: [About to execute hero with a sword] Look at me, swine. Hero: [Autistic as fuck] No. BBEG: [Threateningly and angry] Look. At. Me. Hero: I cannot. BBEG: YOU WILL LOOK ME IN THE EYES WHEN I CLAIM MY VICTORY! Hero: I'd rather you kill me 7 times and revive me 6. Do it bitch. No balls.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 5h
We're in here quibbling about community standards regarding the #nsfw tag while major online advertising networks are out there defining all depictions of fat people regardless of context as "adult content" because their clients don't want their products displayed next to a fat person.
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KikiDoodle & Purrmaids @ BLFC @kikidoodle.bsky.social · 5h
Yeaaah, their newest campaign on Backerkit is ALL AI generated 🤮
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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 19h
This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off
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Naomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Couples costume idea: A time traveler giving a dorito to a medieval peasant
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 19h
Anyone still supporting Aus Labor should watch & listen to Sarah Kendzior & other's discussions of the complicit role of the Democrats in setting up the authoritarian apparatus the Trump regime uses to oppress & terrorise 👇 As Albanese, Minns etc keep turning the ratchet to the right #auspol
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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 7h
www.oglaf.com/damselfly/
Comic strip!

panel 1
a prince climbs through a window. A princess watches him enter.
Prince- Sure I could rescue you

Panel 2
Prince- but withing three months, ninety percent of rescued princesses are back inside a tower

Panel 3
Prince is really narrating this one now
Prince- at 'staircase down' we believe real change comes from accepting you're part of the problem

panel 4
Prince- and that's the most difficult part of the journey

panel 5
Princess- apart from the fire breath
Prince- The what?

Panel 6
Princess breathes fire, incinerating prince

Panel 7
Princess stands over smouldering prince skeleton

Panel 8
ghost of prince hovers over the smoking bones
Prince- I have to accept, on some level, that I needed that to happen
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8h
I think what it has done is financially and societally reward people for being aggressively dumb which always happened, but not at scale like this and certainly not in the spotlight of the public eye
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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026
As requested the reason, I want a tortilla press
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404 Media @404media.co · 7h
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual…
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Stick (Bastard Forever) 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🩸 @diflas-iawn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A public memory book for PAC has been set up, All entries must be made by Monday. "Leave a message about pac for a book that will be left at Grey's monument in Newcastle on Tuesday 6th of October"
newlywords.com
Memory book collection page | Newlywords
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Alex Ripstein @axelripper.bsky.social · 8h
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Gespenst MK-VII @callgespenst.bsky.social · 22h
tweet from @topherflorence

peanuts is a cool comic cause the babies are always unsupervised in a dirt field saying stuff like "suffering is the cantaloupe in the fruit salad of life" and then the dog does a skateboard trick
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 17h
Donald Trump has announced that if Republicans maintain control of Congress after the midterms he will give every American a little kiss
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A24 accidentally and unwillingly becoming one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates in America by being the only people who are aware that highbrow liberals spend more money than anyone else
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18h
Like, every so often, someone comes rushing out to say 'I think we invented AGI' and, if that were true, the next words out of your mouth ought to be "and so we now have moral obligations towards this new being we created" and somehow that is not generally what I see comes next.
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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026
*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)
Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps. 

Caption reads: 
CALIFORNIA POST
California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition
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Ofooro Fine Art and Masterpiece Supply Co. @ofooro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve had people say they wanted to tattoo my work on them before but I’m not sure anyone ever actually did it until now. @eddiefuerte.bsky.social choosing PAC was an honour for me. RIP PAC
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Fully Automated @fullyautomatedluxury.com · 03/10/2026
final panel shows nancy looking behind the bushes but the text from r crumbs "lookit that stupid ass-hole!" meme panel placed atop it so that nancy is looking in disgust at sluggo saying 
"I loathe ever person i see on the street! Lookit that stupid ass-hole!"
with text saying "normal guy" pointing at sluggo.
the whistling from the original panel has been removed and the whistling from the r crumb panel has been placed there instead.
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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 21h
“I told you not to become a landowner” - @megelison.bsky.social
A doofus at the Renaissance Faire, about to be executed by means of a crocheted guillotine with big googly eyes and a mustache
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 23h
on a bathroom counter, you see a bottle of soy lotion. there is a little post-it note on it with a hand-written scrawl that says “sí, tu eres lotion”. it is such a basic-ass, albeit bilingual, pun but it makes me laugh every fucking time I think about it.
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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Rights were removed, children have faced humiliation and segregation. My daughter has been out of school since July, as have so many supported trans kids. Sport as leisure is already a no-go. We can’t use our local swimming pool without stress. Public bathrooms are a potential source of aggression.
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Strange Currencies @strangecurrencies.org · 03/10/2026
The best thing about Pentagon and Pentagon Jr. is that they were created to be the nemesis of Octagon and Octagon Jr. I love the idea that certain shapes naturally hate other shapes.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump tweeting out Tom Cotton’s personal cell phone number because he’s angry at him reminded me of this great moment from ELEVEN YEARS AGO. He’s always been this guy. abcnews.com/video/325986...
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Video Donald Trump Gives Out Lindsey Graham's Cellphone Number
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump retaliates against 2016 opponent Sen. Lindsey Graham by reading his cellphone number aloud during a speech in Graham's home state of South Carolina.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For sexual misconduct investigations, I use anonymous sourcing, but they still have to speak to fact checkers, provide screenshots, AND we interview corroborating sources who were told about the allegations. It strikes me all the time that the standards are higher for those than national security.
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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look at this very cute sticker I bought from a kid at the night market yesterday. Look at it. It’s perfect.
A drawing of super Mario bros but Mario is a Fresno Nightcrawler with overalls and a mustache and it says “Super Fresno Brothers”
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Maud O'Bedlam @madmaudlingoes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ah yes, the four genders. (Via @ericoscott.bsky.social )
A sign reading "Renaissance Festival" is stood in front of a white fence. Four flags have been set up atop the sign: the blue and white saltire of Scotland, the dark blue field of fleur de lys of France, the modern Irish tricolor, and a black skull and crossbones.
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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
another thing people who haven’t been through the aftermath of rape don’t appreciate: lying about it just by never mentioning it can warp your whole life if you got hit by a bus, and were SECRETLY in and out of hospitals for a decade, it would make weird unexplained holes in all your stories
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Did OD&D involve a lot of underwater combat" if the assumption you're operating on is that the page count devoted to a particular activity had any relationship whatsoever with the frequency with which that activity was expected to be encountered in play, I'm afraid you don't understand OD&D at all.
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Magpie @shy-magpie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
short thread on cat colors
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
The administration has found yet another way to fuck with solar power.
canarymedia.com
The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump keeps stealing money from the government to bolster his political prospects. It should be seen as a crime spree not legitimate actions of an American government.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 02/10/2026
St Louis and Philadelphia's city councils just became the first to officially endorse the Starbucks Boycott. Starbucks is the biggest violator of US labor law in history, and it's time we ALL push back against corporate greed. ✊
8 city officials and Starbucks Workers United members smile and hold signs and banners saying "BOYCOTT STARBUCKS"7 city officials and Starbucks Workers United members pose with fists up inside the St Louis capital. They hold signs that say BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026
It’s a very minor point amongst the far greater injustices of the situation, but the Cornell case has also just reminded me how much all of society seems to have just accepted the fact that big tech won’t allow people to use the word “rape”. (Or at least people *believe* so — nobody knows!)
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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is also the Big Pharma people. “You can’t trust these big corporations that just care about profits! …Obviously Gwyneth Paltrow’s only concern is my cooch’s wellbeing, which is coincidentally best served by a $300 lump of semi-precious gem that might become actively corrosive when wet”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Furry art is something I, personally, have negative associations with. I still chipped in to FA. FA has a strict no-AI policy, their servers are maintained well enough that they load, and they offer gallery format displays. If you hate AI as much as I do, toss a couple bucks to FA.
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