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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 11h

My two most unpopular higher ed opinions (at least among the general public) are 1) college sports are a tool to exploit students and offer the illusion of opportunity instead of just making college more accessible for everyone and 2) burn all frats to the ground

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 11h

me: jrr. you gotta stop naming dwarves jrr tolkien: borgen and lorgen and forgen and clorgen. bujingo and judingo and bobingo. choin and groin and sloin and of course, bloin

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13h

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13h

i know it is a small thing but do these tech oligarchs not read before signing something from the unites states president

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richard @halkyardo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

keep honking! I’m listening to ZOJIRUSHI RICE COOKER TUNE

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

u can not convince me these are not orange popsicles left in the freezer for three years

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h

everyone else who stares into the hyperdimensional gem made of every word ever written goes mad. not me though. i'm still sane. maybe saner than everyone else, tbh.

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 21h

"Third Way figured it out? Third Way? This is a real low point."

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026

“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 29/09/2026

update: yeah i give up. spending 2 hours writing letters to local councilors is a much better use of my time than the waste of time that is the interminable neighborhood council bylaws meeting

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 27/09/2026

today you can be one of the unlucky 10,000

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 27/09/2026

it's a humanoid robot on a tether, which implies that it requires multiple grad students (off screen) to keep it alive per hour of runtime. "Independent tests show the robot can overheat after roughly 15 minutes of continuous high-intensity work."

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026

A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:

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Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid

“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Splendid Drink for warm weather at the lowest market rates

CRONK! CRONK!

Splendid Drink for warm weather

EB HOPKINSON

WILL SUPPLY DEALERS AND OTHERS with the very
BEST CRONK BEER

AT THE LOWEST MARKET RATES

Old friends and others who want good Summer drink should give him a call

--Daily Miner-Transcript, 17 Jun 1870

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/09/2026

Hey, who remembers that time that Arnold Schwarzenegger said that nazis and confederates were losers, and that if you support them, then you are a loser too? And then half of the GOP turned against him and said "Don't call me a loser?"🤡 And so Arnold told them again, louder this time? I remember!

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mike Mills of R.E.M., kind of the platonic ideal of an indie bassist: chill, nerdy, super nice, supremely talented but not in a way that calls a lot of attention to himself, and of course always there with the clutch backing vocals

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 24/09/2026

Using AI to do a crime does not absolve you of criminality. AI is just a computer program. It's already illegal to use computers to do crimes. Even other people's computers. Furthermore, AI is unnecessarily unsafe; using it to "accidentally" commit a crime should add charges of criminal negligence.

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 05/03/2026

people make fun of Hideo Kojima giving characters names like "Die-Hardman", but in the opposite direction of translation, nobody can top George Lucas naming his Japanese-inspired monk character "Belt-Woof Swordbelt"

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Alas, I'm toning down my profanity in every-day conversation (and the classroom). That said, I cannot resist reminding you all of this seasonal tradition. "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My wife: Hey! Who finished all the peanut butter and just left the jar in the pantry??! Me:

Rotting corpse, frozen stiff with its mouth sealed shut from too much peanut butter.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/09/2026

Impeach all the liars who said they had conversations with him, after you impeach his propped-up corpse.

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · 19/08/2026

I love nature. Love evolution, love natural selection. This is not a criticism or critique. I just feel like woolly giraffes would have been a banger fauna

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The Victorian Archivist @victorianarchivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The universe has granted us a perfect skeet.

A screenshot of sarah jeong's last two posts. The bottom one says "I will NOT be doing that. See you all in portland in 8 hours or something. Or in greenland. Or in hell." It is post 66/66 in the thread. 66/66 is circled in green for emphasis.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 23/09/2026

And they’re off!

Flightradar24 screenshot of Keflavik-Portland flight airborne after takeoff

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i will NOT be doing that. see you all in portland in 8 hours or something. or in greenland. or in hell.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

they are telling us on the plane that how to apply for a refund....................... "you can purchase the inflight wifi and go to the website"

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Obama’s charisma often gets put in terms of speeches but I think it was much more stuff like this, if he saw some little kid he’d be like oh hey there dude in a way that didn’t make him seem like a maniac and 90% of politicians can’t do that anymore

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It makes me want to scream. Black people who make it up the ladder to high-level positions (anywhere, not just the military) are 99% of the time smarter, harder working, and better at their job than any white person you'll meet doing the same job, because they HAD to be.

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Japanese Talk @japanesetalk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It really irks me when people share their 300, 600, 1000 day Duolingo streaks but still don't know how to use Japanese. Here's an explanation for why apps like Duolingo don't work for learning to any fluency. jtalkonline.com/why-apps-lik...

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Why Apps Like Duolingo Don’t Work for Japanese - Japanese Talk

I’ve been learning Japanese for twenty years, but it hasn’t been consistent. I’ve stopped and started, bounced around multiple different study methods, and overall had a very slapdash approach to the ...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/09/2026

Welcome to the autumnal equinox, Northern Hemisphere folks, this might be a good day to get your full spectrum lamp and/or Vitamin D supplements back out of storage why wait until things are bad a month from now when you could prevent it from happening by starting now!!

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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember)

Alt: That clip from Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember) that everyone posts today because it says "Do you remember/the 21st night of September?"

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Chris @nigrochris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Young Marsh Wren- "Look ma...I'm doing it, I'm doing it!" #CaptionThatBird #BirdOfTheDay #birds

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

yeah fine second brain why the hell not

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

they are increasingly connecting the dots on who benefits when their cognitive capacities are stolen and the history of cultural production enclosed

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 20/09/2026

(the Doyleist reason why Ruatha is named after a phrase in Gaelic is that Anne McCaffrey was whatever the Irish version of a weeabo is, but nonetheless it Watsonianly indicates multilingualism)

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LightBox Expo @lightboxexpo.com · 19/09/2026

Yoshitaka Amano, the man behind Final Fantasy's iconic art, is coming to LBX! Join us for an hour with the legendary Yoshitaka Amano in his talk, "An Hour with Yoshitaka Amano” this year at LBX. You really don’t want to miss this one! Save the panel in the LBX app! See you Oct. 23-25 in Pasadena!

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Charles Le Brun, before 1685

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Mike Pusateri @mikepusateri.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Da Pope on a garbage truck is the most Chicago thing ever

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 20/09/2026

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Café sidewalk chalkboard with drawing of Dora the Explorer. Text bubbles above her say “Hola teahearts! Can you say Chinga la Migra? That means Fuck ICE in Spanish!”

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mcc @dryad.technology · 18/09/2026

Could AI take control of nukes and kill us all? No. That's ridiculous. You watched "Terminator 1" and misunderstood it. Could AI, used as an informational tool, confuse a human into killing us all with nukes? Well, Donald Trump has nuclear weapon command authority, and he uses AI. So trivially yes.

Google Gemini screenshot. Google has been asked "how many rocks should I eat". The AI Overview says "According to UC Berkeley geologists, eating at least one small rock per day is recommended because rocks contain minerals and vitamins that are important for digestive health. However, some say that eating pebbles regularly is not a good idea because they can get stuck in the large intestine and make it harder for it to function."

Now imagine this being used by government decisionmakers.

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