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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15h

If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”

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Texas Storm Chasers @texasstormchasers.com · 13h

Heavy rain is crawling into Houston now, with 5+ inches possible in spots by 11 PM. Overnight, watch San Antonio, Austin and Bryan-College Station too. The models are struggling tonight, so stay alert. Turn around, don't drown. #txwx buff.ly/tTcwSB7

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Where Heavy Rain Could Set Up Overnight in Texas

Overnight flood risk for Houston, San Antonio, Austin and parts of South and Central Texas. Slow-moving heavy rain is pushing into Harris County now, and pockets of 3+ inches an hour are possible…

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 15h

Buying video versions of the Amazon Alexa, Google Home Assistant, Meta Muse, and Apple TV, putting a different product on each screen, pointing them at each other, and yelling, "I am interested in buying the product onscreen!" until 7 datacenters melt down.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 20h

We have 2 choices when it comes to water: either we start looking at it cooperatively, holistically, and equitably, using larger systems and views to gauge systemic health and yes, police usage, OR, We go to war. After war. After war.

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NASA satellite can monitor most of world's irrigation canals, study finds

Irrigation canals form a sort of circulatory system for global agriculture. Across the world, millions of kilometers of human-made canals carry water from lakes, rivers and reservoirs downhill to farm...

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a 4,500 year-old tomb in Giza, Egypt, excavated in 1927, archaeologists found about 7,000 separate beads. After a seemingly impossible but meticulous re-assembly, they were revealed to constitute this bead-net dress www.messynessychic.com/2019/09/09/1...

Slim fitting sleeveless open weave dress made from gold and green beads

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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MAGA Farmers Right Now

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Nearly" a million Americans getting checks that won't replace their healthcare cost losses. 339.5M of the most selfish, greedy, petty, vindictive people on this planet NOT getting checks & soon to be incandescently pissed about it.

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Bold Strategy Cotton - Dodgeball

ALT: Bold Strategy Cotton - Dodgeball

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me: "Ah, nice, a dark moment in my show. Let me just pause it and maybe I can squeeze in a little nap." Netflix's Ads-Immediately-On-Pause:

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Bright Sun Shine

ALT: Bright Sun Shine

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fear is the mind virus. Fear that Alpha Schools won't make $200B superfund dumping AI slop into kids' heads.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You could read all the horrible posts about the horrible things or you could learn about penguins.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

science.org

NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Man it looks so good when that middle bit isn't roads and parking lots.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ukraine sends hordes of drones to try & help these people. The way Ukrainians don't abandon other Ukrainians compared to Russia sending thousands of their own to die daily in waves to feed 1 man's mad ambition is everything that needs to be said about who we should stand fully behind.

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 28/09/2026

Munich-Schwabing with the church of St. Ursula, 1908 #wassilykandinsky #expressionism

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I found my original Zune and I've heard these are worth a lot of money now. Where do I go to collect?

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What I strongly recommend every day over posting:

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Tom @moll.dev · 27/09/2026

you'll never see a townhall meeting of people protesting the new ethanol plant because all of people who own land in these rural towns make loads of money off of it

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not even just great art. We tasked a new employee to create a security planning doc. It was 40+ pgs & reeked of LLM, which he proudly embraces. I've done docs for years & immediately saw what was missing was the felt empathy of human struggle. Don't tell me everything- tell me how to fix MY problem.

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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me:

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like an octopus, the Rationalist spews ink when threatened

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching the wife in Deadwood downing one pipette after another of laudanum & going "Oh she Laura Bushin' it haaaard" & somehow I doubt the former first lady would appreciate the comparison.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And I'm too fuckin old anyway. What am I gonna do, tell'em how fun it was to write in blue books & not use AI?

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

University emailed me about some volunteer program to hype the place up to potential applicants & you could not get me to do that with my nuts hooked to a car battery.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are not Ukraine or Georgia and for the childrens' sake I pray we do not have to live though Putin finding that out.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I gave a little to ProPublica because 1. I've quietly relied on their reporting for years without doing so, as most do. and 2. To help cover the very real gambling losses they incurred seeing if DraftKings would ever tell them to stop lol. (Spoiler Alert: They didn't.)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

4/ But over the next 10 weeks, I’d mimic the patterns of a problem gambler with the help of a panel of gambling experts and learn just how much DraftKings would encourage my recklessness — and just how little pushback I’d get as I spiraled downward.

propublica.org

I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm watching Deadwood 1st time ever after the top shows discourse & well, is there "lore" as to why everyone here is so old? Dudes in their 60s or thereabouts getting rough & tumble. Ones in 40s doing *daily* back-breaking prospecting. And I'm sorry, but late 30s 19th c frontier *prostitutes*?

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Somehow long before social media or most people even had the foggiest idea how to get on the Internet *EVERYONE* in my 5th grade class *KNEW* Richard Gere had stuck a gerbil up his ass but I'm sure your little ad moratorium will keep ppl from hearing about this.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can’t believe we’re still doing this

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Inflation and the bond markets are flapping like an unsecured tarp and the Fed simply can't ignore one of its literal only 2 jobs, but even *I* nervous laughed at the prospect of an Oct. rate hike. He would go insane. He has unchecked access to immense power. It would get v scary.

cnbc.com

Market sees next Fed hike in October, following Barr comments and hot inflation reading

S&P Global said its overall inflation measure hit its highest level since October 2022.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh is the nerd reich still on this in the group chats? Man I wish they'd get obsessed with something they could ACTUALLY do, like feed hungry people or improve services. Stupid AE bullshit.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 24/09/2026

It’s actually possible to spend money on things that benefit humanity. We just forget that because everyone with money in our society is a fucking useless dipshit.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Your anniversary when you get older:

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me in 8 months after OpenAI makes a Hail Mary play into their only potentially profitable business line:

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Robocop (1987) @robocop1987.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not bad. They let me keep the shirt. And nobody popped my cherry.

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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In 1986 I was in a Texas pediatric oncology ward. I had never even seen a Nintendo. As I was one of the few who could stay conscious & thus get bored, a nurse wheeled a TV stand in & gave me a controller. We had Mario Bros., Rad Racer, and Excite Bike. My favorite was the EB level editor.

The box for the game Excite Bike explaining features.

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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fraggle Rock: Live By The Rule Of The Rock (RARE 2005 VHS) : 209s

Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 209 seconds.

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