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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19h

A Paul Noth cartoon that goes harder than it first appears

Two armies face each other there can be No peace until they renounce their rabbit God and accept our duck God. Both banners have the illusion duck rabbit

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 18h

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a little dog is sleeping on a couch, kicking its paws. A person says, “look! The little kicks!” Panel 2: in awe of the cuteness, the person continues, “what do you think he’s dreaming about?” Panel 3: in the dog’s dream, the pup is wearing a captain’s jacket, holding tightly to a wooden ship on stormy seas. In his other paw, he is gripping a harpoon as an enormous vacuum cleaner breaches violently from the water.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

i do unironically think people that are cosmopolitan need sorta paradoxically be more chauvinist about it tbh. places and people that are cosmopolitan in outlook are better than places that are provincially minded. the kind of performative handwringing about not being 'authentic' is bad and weak.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 13/10/2026

Huh????? Oh! Wow lol

A push notification from Flightradar 24 that only repeats the 😱 a bunch of times

Opening the app reveals N1810R, drawing the famous painting the scream in the air

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If the modern economy is based on flows, and modern politics is based on performance, power will reside with those who have the power to ensure or disrupt flows and the platform to poast epically about it

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Count Nikolaj Bill-cula @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Logging into Gemini AI to see what they hype is on what it can supposedly offer me.

Gemini ai screen

Gemini Flash-Lite v
Wouldst thou like the taste of butter?
Wouldst thou like to see the world?
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When one of my nation's chiefs, Yonaguska, was asked of what he thought of the bible he said "It's a pretty good book. I wonder why Christians aren't better people if they've had it for so long."

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

back at it again (researching the history of peanut butter cups)

Sparrow Chocolate...
Another new line added to our

Confectionery Department

such as

Chocolate Broquet, with Peanut Center.

Chocolate Wanda Bars with Cream Center. Chocolate Gordons filled with Peanut Butter. Prize Mixture of highly flavored Genesee with Molasses Center.

Fruit Pudding of all flavors, at

20c per lb. at

..Pero's Store

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/10/2026

"The Data Lord has all the money, so now we just pay with blood instead. It’s even easier, if you think about it. No need to worry about 'savings' or 'inflation' or whatever it is your generation was so obsessed with. Now it’s all about platelet count." buff.ly/DwVTmBG

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It’s Cute How Grandma Doesn’t Even Know How to Blood Tithe to the Data Lord

“You can’t pay for anything by card anymore. That stopped being a thing in the 2030s. The Data Lord doesn’t take AmEx. It’s half a pint now, or a full pint e...

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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 11/10/2026

Snort.

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 11/10/2026

This month’s sticker design for Patreon!

Medieval style rendering of Godzilla in front of a cloud of smoke and fire, with text written in red gothic letters that says “Go ahead and destroy the data centers, Godzilla. Make the people happy.”

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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Every Earthbound enemy looks like this

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Every community manager/mod in the world read this story, raised an eyebrow, and realized there was another solution to their bot problem.

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mayaenaise.bsky.social @mayaenaise.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That’s a bummer! I’ll keep an eye out for any Portland markets

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mayaenaise.bsky.social @mayaenaise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Amazing pieces! Will you be coming down to crafty wonderland again or any Portland markets?

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is not just an AI problem but a general tech/private equity management vibe problem we began to encounter when those guys moved into Hollywood due to either money or streaming dominance. Small top-heavy staffs who don't go to set don't make future show runners.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 10/10/2026

i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.

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Julia Lundman 🩵🧚🦄🧌 @paintkatt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I promise I won't spam the feed with my stolen art, but I wanted to share this one because I enjoyed painting it. I used black watercolors on toned paper, something I hadn't tried before. (There is a Leyendecker watercolor that made me want to try this combo of materials) "Nocturne"

a fairy with elaborate wings sitting on some flowers

a fairy with elaborate wings sitting on some flowers, framed in a cream matte and barn wood frame

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I really hate this sort of take. someone saying "we're better than this" is speaking aspirationally! you are not clever for insisting we aren't, you are giving people an excuse not to try to be.

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They worship and love death. It is their god

The Christofascists of today do not view themselves as existing outside
Christianity, but it can be said that they worship a different god: the god of the plantation, concentration camps, prisons, punishing your enemies, apartheid, and genocide. Again, Söelle says as much, stating that in the Religious Right, she saw
"a God without justice, a Jesus without a cross, an Easter without a cross-what remains is a metaphysical Easter Bunny in front of the beautiful blue light of the television screen, a betrayal of the disappointed, a miracle weapon in service of the mighty."
Their political objectives reveal the god of Christofascism as a god of death, a god who proclaims a gospel of counterfeit life while feasting upon life itself. Within this god's political project, being a good

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

See you

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 08/10/2026

SOURCE CALL: I'm looking to interview with folks who sold PBR (either as an employee of Pabst Brewing Co., or one of its distributors or retail accounts) in the early Aughts. If that's you or someone you know, please get in touch. Email dave@dinfontay.com or text dinfontay.11 on Signal.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 08/10/2026

But the boom is also being driven by what the booze business likes to call a "health halo" effect—i.e., drinkers are reaching for Super Lyte et al. because its marketing scans as athletic and vodka scans as "clean"/"pure."

meme. shows an evolution chart. caption reads "a brief history of Health Halos"

from least evolved to most:

miller lite
michelob ultra
white claw
high noon
super lyte - "we are here"

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

What if AI is evil not because it is computer, but because trying to build cognition from the discarded thoughts of the past is like trying to harvest graveyards for meat or tapping into Hell for geothermal energy?

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026

“Getting social issues off the table never, ever happens—the reactionaries merely up the ante, because what they really want is the elimination of the disfavored group, and we inconveniently refuse to go away.” www.liberalcurrents.com/concede-noth...

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Concede Nothing

Trans people are who we say we are, and we will fight and organize on those grounds.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is why neoliberals since the Washington Consensus have understood that free trade is economically good, not just because of comparative advantage, but also because it improves the political economy by removing one avenue for clientelism, forcing companies to instead make better products.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is why imperial collapses can often seem extraordinarily sudden: They come as the culmination of decades of undermining the institutions, relationships, and structures that keep states functioning. A jenga tower can stand with missing blocks until it's given a tiny push.

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lot of “THIS JOB WILL BE DISPLACED BY AI” stuff doesn’t answer the question of “who has legal liability if a mistake is made?” Google is gonna be liable? OpenAI? If that’s your answer then yeah but a lot of human industry is buttressed by “who gets sued” when a mistake is made.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People in Portland spent a decade and a half complaining about the costs and burdens of growth, but: we stopped growing and it is way worse

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Brandon Miracle @brandon.gvg.io · 05/10/2026

Remember when King Neptune AI slopped his hundreds of awful burgers in seconds and SpongeBob painstakingly made one delicious burger by hand

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Michelle Rapp ➡️ MagicCon Atlanta @kilnfiendpotter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of the hardest things about raising a small child is watching their peers take on toxic behaviors that you *know* will evolve them into monsters if no one stops them. All you can do is teach your kid how to defend themselves against them. And try to keep them from becoming monsters themselves.

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 05/10/2026

Yang wen-li, a character from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, saying in two panels "I believe that being ruled by the worst democracy is preferable to being ruled by the best autocracy"

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Triple Locke From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1627, July 2024.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hope everyone has a Hussein

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

So we're back to having to individually invent the wheel because we can no longer find accurate instructions that aren't buried or corrupted by AI. I'm so sick of this.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

so i think that the major difference between this and a human personal assistant that matters is that you are actually the employer, there are industry-specific professional norms, and legal contracts/reliability. additionally, the PA is often looking to advance to a higher position and has more

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Moist had worked hard at his profession and considered himself pretty good at it, but if he had been wearing his hat, he would have taken it off right now. He was in the presence of a master. He could feel it in the hand, see it in that one commanding eye. Were things otherwise, he would have humbly begged to be taken on as an apprentice, scrub the man’s floors, cook his food, just to sit at the feet of greatness and learn how to do the three-card trick using whole banks. If Moist was any judge, any judge at all, the man in front of him was the biggest fraud he’d ever met. And he advertised it. That was . . . style. The pirate curls, the eyepatch, even the damn parrot. Twelve and a half percent, for heaven’s sake, didn’t anyone spot that? He told them what he was, and they laughed and loved him for it. It was breathtaking. If Moist von Lipwig had been a career killer, it would have been like meeting a man who’d devised a way to destroy civilizations.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz

Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said,
'Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country."
Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week.
"It is not our proudest product placement," he said. "But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability."

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is all about their inability to handle dealing with other people and their emotions. I once worked for a CEO who spent all weekend writing code to monitor an employee to avoid talking to them about a concern. AI is by and for people like this.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The reason I'm so skeptical of the AI industry's latest breakthroughs is they are operating with infinite money and pretending that doesn't matter. So many things become easier when you have infinite money to throw at a problem. The Infinite Money Trick davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-infini...

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The Infinite Money Trick

Guarded skepticism about AI product releases

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