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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 7h

stop treating the culture wars as an exogenous shock. political actors made strategic choices to create and weaponize them. they are not a curious weather condition public schools failed to dress appropriately for.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15h

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2026

Bee and flower break

Bees collecting pollen from the local pink and purple asters.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 30/09/2026

happy birthday to an album that i think is bruce's best work

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You have to understand that conservatives are so terrified of the stigma of racism (though not its results, which they enjoy and endorse) that they have to totally offload it onto the minorities who actually suffer from it. "Wokeness" blows their cover, hence their vicious backlash against it.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When you *wildly* overestimate your own charm.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

"irreparable harm" is donald trump getting his feelings hurt over being told no and not people being deported to countries they have no ties to with no resources and no support system

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 29/09/2026

In June a game designer initiated a legal complaint against Dungeons & Dragons, alleging (in a series of logical long leaps) that they stole his monster. But what does it mean to own a game, and what happens when assets are more valuable than experiences?

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What does it mean to own part of a game?

Products Of Your Imagination™, owned by everyone.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump. The charges against Trump were the result of the evidence. Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Located in Nagano Prefecture, Matsumoto Castle—famously nicknamed Karasu-jō ("Crow Castle") for its striking black cladding—is one of Japan’s twelve surviving original keeps (genson tenshu) and a designated National Treasure.

Rising majestically out of early morning mists, the five-tiered keep (tenshu) of Matsumoto Castle casts a near-flawless inverted reflection across the glassy surface of its surrounding moat. The bold contrast between dark, lacquered wooden wainscoting and stark white plaster tiers gives the fortress an imposing visual gravity, illuminated by the diffuse, golden-blue light of dawn. In the foreground, two white swans glide effortlessly through the dark water, their gentle wake sending delicate ripples that softly distort the mirrored silhouette of the ancient timber tower. The scene invokes an immersive sensory landscape: the crisp, chilly mountain air of Nagano, the soft lapping of water against stone foundations, the faint scent of damp pine needles and morning fog, and the profound, reverent hush of a historic stronghold awakening to the day.
Originally founded during the late Sengoku period and significantly expanded in the 1590s under Ishikawa Kazumasa and his son Yasunaga, it stands as one of the finest surviving examples of a flatland castle (hirajiro). Uniquely, the architectural complex joins a heavily fortified wartime keep with an open, red-balustraded moon-viewing pavilion (Tsukimi-yagura) added during the peaceful 1630s, physically charting Japan’s transition from feudal warfare to Edo-period stability. The structure exemplifies supreme monozukuri (artisanal mastery and structural craft), featuring complex interlocking timber joinery, mortarless stone wall construction (anozumi), and protective black lacquer wainscoting engineered to withstand both harsh weather and siege warfare.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super intelligence.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Damn, if only there were some sort of well-known historical comparison to make for this.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lizabeth Scott by A.L. “Whitey” Schafer, 1945. #botd

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[S] Never bring a stupid to a smart fight.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How can Kimmel or SNL top reality?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026

mein gott!

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love @felicia.day, she is so ridiculously inspiring and kind and talented and lovely. More people should be like Felicia.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not a fan of online pitchfork brigade actions, but I sure hope the internet mob goes at least as hard after the people trying to reveal the name of the Jane Doe in the Cornell case as that mob will go after her if they find it.

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🕷️Spectre of Communism🕷️, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's trying to deliberately wreck the grand jury and get the victim SLAPP-ed. Vile stuff.

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible stuff.

Commentary|Essay

AI and the crisis of the author

By Anchit Sathi

September 4, 2026
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Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026

It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's not surprising that the AI tech bros who built their entire industry on stolen work hate the idea of consent.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 27/09/2026

Honestly amazing that no one can convince him that this is not going to have the political effect that he thinks. Probably letting him do it just so he doesn’t waste PAC money.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”

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ash @ashhull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Guy in line ahead of me at the pharmacy got all the good drugs.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are not past Trump yet, and this is a good reminder of how we have to collectively act to make it to the other side.

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