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Buy 500 Kavanaugh bobble heads. In various ways demonstrate the violence of these snatches. Then set it up outside SCOTUS. Add some Stop signs.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11h

So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 6h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1h

the carve-out in originalism for "it just makes sense that it would be this way" is actually the entire doctrine

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1h

Just last week the AI bros signed a voluntary, self policing safety pledge. Today here's yet another attack that -like others before it - "would likely result in criminal charges being filed had human hackers taken them."

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 2h

100 years of September sea surface temperature anomalies... watch until the end (record high) 🫣 Data from ERSSTv6: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext... 🌊

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 17h

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 1h

The academic paper is excellent. What cool work!

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Queen of Castle OCD @sbrndll.bsky.social · 1h

I almost choked.

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Saffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing to see here. Just a bag with whiskers asking you to share your best cat in a bag photos. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

Color photograph. A long haired tabby and black cat looks at the camera from her hiding spot inside a teal and tan colored grocery bag. Her long whiskers and stark cerulean eyes stand out boldly.

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🍂 Megs 🍂 @megshensley.bsky.social · 1h

We all should be better about this. What ideology? When do teachers and administration officials have time to forcibly change the gender of the students? The greatest failure of US education is teaching in such a way that we don't have logic or critical thinking skills as adults.

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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 1h

Once again, @propublica.org is doing the work that would normally be done by the government

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desert-lover.bsky.social @desert-lover.bsky.social · 23h

Can you imagine a family member just disappearing one day and not knowing anything except ICE had been nearby? When everyone selected “CRUEL” as best description for Trump, they were right. I think CRIMINAL goes well with it. Keep fighting to get news of people who DISAPPEARED!

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 21h

Men commit 97% of sexual assaults and men are statistically more likely to be raped by another man, than falsely accused of rape by a woman. Boys and men who've been sexually assaulted understand that rape is about power, domination and humiliation. They know it's rooted in misogyny. They get it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

By all means, let the guy who’s in month six of a two week pool renovation run it.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump doesn’t seek legal rationale to do things. Trump commits crimes and later asks lawyers to do their best. That’s basically it.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Reggie Rink @reggierink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Are these the Doge checks, tariffs check, ACA checks, medicare checks, or elect republicans check?

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🍂 Megs 🍂 @megshensley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When they do shit like this it makes it really hard to not call them Nazis. If not Nazi, why Nazi shaped and draped?

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pro tip: you can cash these tiny checks and then still vote to put a real Congress in place to hold this dumb corrupt asshole accountable

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🍂 Megs 🍂 @megshensley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And this is my annual reminder that Hayes was born in a gas station. Not really. The actual building was removed in 1926 and the site became a Standard Oil gas station. It's still a gas station though a BP franchised gas station. A marker has been in front of the gas station since 1926.

A photo of the historical marker honoring the location of the birthplace of the 19th US President Rutherford B. Hayes. Behind the marker is a BP gas station.

A close up of the marker in front of the BP gas station where the 19th President of the United States was born. The marker text contains two paragraphs recounting the effort to try to save the original building on the site by the Delaware City Chapter, NSDAR, and the eventual demolition by Standard Oil in 1926.

A photo from the Delaware Counts Ohio Historical Society of the original memorial marker placed on the birthplace site of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US President. The photo is from the early 1940s. Behind the marker gas pumps and a gas truck can be seen. The original marker was a bronze plaque on a granite headstone type plinth. It was placed in 1926 by the Delaware City Chapter, NSDAR.

The chapter attempted to purchase the property from Standard Oil in the summer of 1921, but struck a deal with the company instead. They worked with John D. Rockefeller for five years to save the original building and improve the grounds. Unfortunately, the building was too damaged and could not be saved.

All interested parties made the decision for demolition in the spring of 1926. The marker was created and dedicated that fall. The first gas station on the site opened soon after the dedication. And thus the running joke of President Hayes being born at a gas station was born.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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A brief but harmless period of weightlessness @hughsheehy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Classic republican, can’t tell if someone is the wrong age to try to pick up

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

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Geek Grammy @geekgrammy.com · 03/10/2026

So are we at "boils," "three days of darkness," or "death of the firstborn?"

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Scritch, please

Me sitting in an easy chair with my dog Buddy, a small black dog with brown and white patches lying on my lap looking at me with a very obvious theatrical begging face while resting his snoot on my folded arms.

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🍂 Megs 🍂 @megshensley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's Saturday, October 3. I'm at the local diner for breakfast before hitting up the farmers market. The sun is out and it's a lovely fall morning of 48°F. I performed the Riker Maneuver to sit on the stool without thinking about it. It was fun.

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Riker's Flirtatious Moment in Star Trek TNG

Alt: A gif from Star Trek The Next Generation in which Riker (played by Jon Frakes) performs his classic maneuver to sit on a chair, joining a love interest at a table. The move involves swinging a leg over the seat to straddle the chair before sitting.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

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🍂 Megs 🍂 @megshensley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Next week I need to remember to pack a snack.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man looks like he has snorted lines of pure, uncut Fun Dip

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Cheddar @fartycheddarcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spy da Fig Follow Fig Sneek on Fig Pounce da Fig! Wessle Fig Chase da Fig Bop da Fig Bite da mama! #OutsideWessles #BitesMeanLuv #MamaBetterNow #SheLotsTiredTho #IMakesShurSheHasWest

Action shot of Cheddar as he pounces Figgy on the lawn. Cheddar is to the left, and Figgy is to the right. Figgy is on his side and kicking upwards at Cheddar as Cheddar pounces him.

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🍂 Megs 🍂 @megshensley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

^What are numbers? Math is hard.^

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every one of these guys is thinking the same thing: how much money can I extract from giving Defense contracts to the tech industry? Even the govt officials are calculating when to make the jump over to the vendors they are nominally going to be buying from.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I read the news....

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🍂 Megs 🍂 @megshensley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's shit like this why people constantly think math is hard.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

POPE LEO: “There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.”

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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a crazy story, and definitely changed my thinking on how I (boring office job haver) had to think about modern slavery. I recommend reading about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

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Operation Blooming Onion - Wikipedia

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 02/10/2026

If the penalty for getting caught is lower than the profit its just the cost of doing business.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

33. "When people are hurting this much and they literally can’t pay their bills, that [Trump] then spends government money, instead of on the tax credits to help people pay for their insurance, he spends it on himself on an ad to glorify himself," she told MS Now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xepg...

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'Senator now needs rehabilitation': Klobuchar reacts to FAILED GOP effort to shake Jack Smith

YouTube video by MS NOW

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