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man-in-taxi @man-in-taxi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Having Mike Shinbone's meditation hit as I was driving through a major international airport departure dropoff zone is the type of cosmic coincidence I'm here for. crowleytom.com/crowley-time... @atomcrowley.bsky.social
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Mike Shinbone: A Life of Pain and Fury — TOM CROWLEY
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let’s talk about Medicare for All. What would it mean for the individual American? ⬇ The day you’re born you get a card that gives you health insurance with no premium, co-pay, or deductible. Doesn’t matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26 or 65, get married or divorced — it's there for you.
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Beth Eyre @betheyre.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Check out The Tiny Angry Witch’s Stop/ Motion Adventures. Voiced and narrated by me and created by 4 brilliant humans and no AI!
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man-in-taxi @man-in-taxi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
That's gonna hurt a lot of c-suite feelings in those ivory towers.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 10/08/2026
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Amazon funds biggest gas power plant in US despite climate pledge
Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.
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man-in-taxi @man-in-taxi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
well, that was 35 minutes well spent in a quite unexpected manner.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/07/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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man-in-taxi @man-in-taxi.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
@proton.me Having the ability to report spam and phishing from the inbox, not from an open email, would be a very nice enhancement.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Her name is Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova, PhD (Physics) and she loves to teach. 😃 people.tamu.edu/~etanya/
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/06/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "christ almighty you're a dumbfuck"
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 16/06/2026
Sports scores now show up in a sidebar widget next to search results, so you can quickly check upcoming games, live scores, and recent results, just in time for the World Cup!
A sports widget displaying World Cup football fixtures on a yellow background
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Miz Anthrope @mizanthrope01.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Harvard and Princeton graduate, Grammy winner, and former First Lady Michelle Obama appreciation post
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby—a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist—to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.
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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I’ve just found out a bunch of industry people to A Passion for Passion at the Bill Murray in London next Friday 12 June and have apart from that sold NOT ENOUGH TICKETS AT ALL. Please come and be a human person in the audience, I’d love that. www.angelcomedy.co.uk/event-detail...
Me in a clinch cover pose
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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Housebound
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man-in-taxi @man-in-taxi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
posting as requested youtube.com/shorts/pAVm4... #whatisitnow
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Someone’s stealing my book.
YouTube video by Farming While Beige
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 21/05/2026
Users of Chromium browsers should be suspicious of download dropdowns that appear for no reason.
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Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users
Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 42 months earlier, is fixed.
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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 21/05/2026
"I’ve been a paying subscriber for a couple of years now, and I have no plans to stop. My search results are better. They come from sources I actually trust. And I’m not being tracked, profiled, or served ads based on whatever I looked up yesterday." www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/05...
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Still on Kagi, Still Happy - MacSparky
John Gruber wrote about Kagi again this week, which is a good excuse for me to update my own take. I’ve been a paying subscriber for a couple of years now, and I have no plans to stop. My search resul...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 19/05/2026
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Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers
NextEra’s blockbuster deal with Dominion likely means higher bills for consumers.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/05/2026
Sick of this ever-expanding surveillance state? Want to claw back your privacy? You can do so by supporting EFF! eff.org/spring
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Claw Back Your Privacy
Support free expression and fight the mass surveillance used for control and intimidation.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Okay, how's this? WITS. Returning to www.mprnews.org. Available to everyone. Sunday, May 10th at 5pm. It's a broadcast of our show from last September with @pftompkins.bsky.social , Your Smith, John Munson and the Witnesses, our acting company, Cop Squadron, Pop Song Correspondences. Okay! Yes.
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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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🚨HAPPENING NOW: Tim Heidecker Gives A Major Friday Night Update On The Future Of InfoWars
YouTube video by The Onion
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/04/2026
New Anti-AI watercolors! Tell the world how you feel. artologica.etsy.com
Three paintings with brains in blue, purple and green. All of them have anti AI slogans on them
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/04/2026
New Anti-AI watercolors in the shop! Artologica.etsy.com 🧠
Three watercolor paintings with brains and anti AI messages
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Echidnoid
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/03/2026
One more www.etsy.com/listing/4476...
colorful dots watercolor with text: destroy the algorithm
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/03/2026
We cannot let companies push face recognition into our glasses, and as a user, you should make your voice clear that this is not something you want. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans
Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But over the past year,
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20/03/2026
The mass collection and storage of license plate data is “by definition indiscriminate surveillance,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told the Provincetown (MA) Independent. “You have these license plate readers tracking somebody throughout their day.” provincetownindependent.org/local-journ...
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Advocates Warn Drivers of ‘Indiscriminate Surveillance’ - The Provincetown Independent
HYANNIS — Every car that drives through the intersection of Main Street and Barnstable Road in Hyannis has its license plate read, logged, and stored in a database that is […]
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
very much considering pitching (threatening?) my editor to let me go to Mariner's opening day to write about the FRIED FOOD SOUVENIR FERRY VESSEL (i do not write about food)
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Model collapse in one image
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/03/2026
Age verification laws are really just censorship mandates clothed as child safety proposals—here’s why. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control
When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with
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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Round the Block
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dawnymock @dawnymock.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Evergreen
dawnymock infinity guns
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 05/03/2026
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/03/2026
The Anthropic dustup has one clear message: Our privacy rights should not be dependent on backroom deals between tech CEOs and the surveillance state.
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The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People
The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over...
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swedemason @swedemason.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
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dawnymock @dawnymock.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Thinking of children everywhere- they deserve a peaceful planet, don’t you think …. Wishing
Watercolour painting of little girl wishing on a dandelion
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/02/2026
The U.S. government on Wednesday shut down a vital resource for keeping tabs on what powerful spying tools its agencies are buying, making it harder to reliably find out how agencies including ICE are spending taxpayers’ dollars. www.404media.co/the-governm...
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The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys
On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying. Its replacement site completely sucks.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/02/2026
This is amazing.
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The Enshittificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/02/2026
The Wisconsin Senate is voting on S.B. 130/A.B. 105, a problematic age verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites. If you live in Wisconsin, now is the time for you to contact your State Senator and urge them to vote down this bill. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EFF to Wisconsin Legislature: VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea
Wisconsin’s S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 is a spectacularly bad idea. It’s an age-verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites for Wisconsinites and censors lawful speech. We wrote
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2026
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/02/2026
Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.
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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 15/02/2026
Kagi Small Web now has categories! Browse and discover amazing blogs, personal sites, and hidden gems in the topics you care about most: kagi.com/smallweb
Category directory listing with post counts, organized into three sections: Tech & Science, Culture & Creative, and Life & World, displayed on a dark background with a blue gradient border.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/02/2026
“It's part of this whole rush to just throw everything into the data-driven machine-learning nexus, and then hoping something more good will come out of it, your private information be damned,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told @CNET.com. www.cnet.com/home/intern...
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Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out
Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.”
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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 30/01/2026
Technology should serve you, not trap or burden you.
Two-panel comic comparing technology use: left shows a stick figure trapped inside a blue screen ("How Technology Is..."), right shows a figure freely holding a small device ("How It Should Be"). By @instachaaz, Kagi branded.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/01/2026
Dangerously unchecked surveillance and rights violations have been a throughline of DHS since the agency’s creation in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In particular, ICE and CBP have been responsible for countless civil liberties and digital rights violations. (1/3)www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence
In the past year, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness, repeatedly refusing to exercise or submit to the democratic accountability required by the Constitution and our system of laws.
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swedemason @swedemason.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
youtu.be/VJSQ-CQOKlM Unhealthy amounts of screentime went into these, but it was a lot of fun. I'm looking for work, and representation. Drop me a line at swedemason@hotmail.com. Ta
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2026 Showreel - Swedemason
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