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Attention: “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” is now on Apple TV, and it’s very cute.

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I’m going to offer “find the toxic man in your team” as a service. Put us together for a 2-week project, and if a man is wildly insecure or had a god complex or has manipulative, back-stabby tendencies, they will emerge with violence from my mere presence.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

“We’ve built a broken product, but rest assured, we can sell you another product that fixes it!”

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This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Mary Berk @mberk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The little feral I’ve been feeding took a churu out of my hand today, so I’ll be riding high on that for a little bit.

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I had (a lovely) dinner last night with a table full of physicians, and it was really interesting and weird to hear how they talk about patients, their field, and general approach to health issues.

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Mary Berk @mberk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyone else in a horrible Amazon experiment group where a search query opens a laggy AI chat window where AI tries to chat with you about what you’re looking for? Holy crap, it’s unusable.

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Mary Berk @mberk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All evil people are competent Competent people are good Therefore evil people are actually good. Quite the argument.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

This is actually hell, right?

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Mary Berk @mberk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“So the head of federal hiring named, as his model employee, a 20 year old who was fired from his only real job at 17 for leaking company secrets, ran a web service for a cybercrime group, and is named in a whistleblower disclosure over a live copy of every Social Security record in the country.“

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Mary Berk @mberk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Professors, are we recording lectures these days? Why or why not?

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Democrat Haderach @anonabel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If Flock isn't doing anything wrong, it has nothing to hide.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026

"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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Mary Berk @mberk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone else here constantly retweeted by accounts named things like “please save my family I’m begging and we’re dying?”

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Today is the last day to leave a comment on the FTC’s proposed policy that gives carte blanche to personalized pricing. Link below.

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“Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?”

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There is a type of man that just does not know what to do with me except to try to control, constrain, and contain my every thought and action. And it is absolutely bizarre.

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“…when Infillion’s Mediamath platform seeks to acquire the data from Infillion’s Foursquare platform, it doesn’t count as a sale of data, and it isn’t subject to those restrictions or prohibitions.”

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Saw my first jack o’lantern yesterday. Not ready to say goodbye to summer.

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Today is the last day to leave a comment on the FTC’s proposed policy that gives carte blanche to personalized pricing. Link below.

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Matt Ramsey @onenerdyopinion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Soon, Americans won’t be able to import medications from Canada (even with an Rx, which is the only way now).

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How does this keep happening to me?

A disheveled man with a small black kitten tucked into his hoodie.

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 23/09/2026

43 years today since asylum, 38 as a citizen. I don't mention it often because patriotism's been invaded by jingoists and nazis and no thanks, but I pledged allegiance to this country's self-proclaimed values on purpose. I worked to embody those values on purpose. It's a lot of work!

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“I’m disappointed in the way you communicated this criminal activity to me” sounds an awful lot like AU will not be holding OpenAI accountable to the law.

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Tomorrow (9/24) is the last day to leave a comment on the FTC’s proposed “policy” on personalized pricing. It’s a non-policy: disclose that you personalize prices, and broadly how, and you can do what you want. No opt out (or in), no penalties. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FT...

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If you’re sick and going to the pharmacy, wear a fucking mask.

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This is the adventure you need today. You will laugh; you will cry; you will feel deepest empathy with humans you've never met. Godspeed, @sarahjeong.bsky.social

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New popup: "Microsoft Excel would like access to items in your Documents folder." MSFT can already open any XLS file that I click on. My years of working in privacy - including at MSFT - lead me to believe they want to access all of my Documents folder, on demand, for their own purposes.

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Mary Berk @mberk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sealook is a Netflix series for kids - that is freaking adorable - and apparently pets everywhere are glued to the screen

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A mood P - panic I - I’m scared N - nauseous K - death

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It’s a real challenge to get Amazon to stop showing me the cheapest POS and start showing me stuff that actually works or holds together. I’m not price sensitive.

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Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974

One of the most hilarious things on the internet is this (narrated) collection of 1970s recipe cards. www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html So much food horror, and in it, so much joy. It’s also an incredible relic of the old internet, rife with such quirkiness and little gems.

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The Monkees TV show is now on Amazon Prime. Almost 60 episodes of silliness.

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