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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12h
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h
it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 10h
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Spicymochi @spicymochi.bsky.social · 8h
Little pumpkin thieves
Illustration of a fluffy skunk and possum carrying a pumpkin in their mouths
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 13h
waking up every day in 2026 like:
a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14h
Black text on white page that reads as follows:

New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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Lyadrielle @lyadrielle.bsky.social · 17h
Preview of a full... Kof... spicy... Kof... sketch page available on my patreon. <3
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 15h
fucked up when it's the birthday of someone you've known from the day they were born and they're turning 25
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
not for nothing but the battle of the pelennor fields lord of the rings the return of the king ost howard shore 2003 is the greatest
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
man, everybody knows who you are and we know that you know what's gonna happen after you publish her identity, cause you're in group chats with people who are gonna do it. the ship has sailed on your Intrepid Reporter act. you're a scumbag just like all your friends. stop being a coward and admit it
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The destruction of Gaza is the destruction of the whole world. The Israeli government, with the eager assistance of the United States, is laying the groundwork for for how we respond to genocide and atrocities in the 21st century.
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i keep hearing an ad saying to not get loved ones something lame like flowers or gifts, make them something special customized for them that they'll truly love: a fucking AI generated song!!! i swear to god
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.
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Shux @shux-44.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Squirtle Pokemon Sticker :^
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Crow 🌿 @crowlines.net · 22/06/2026
It's so over ↔️ we're so back #art
drawing of a gray cat crying cartoonishly huge tearsdrawing of a gray cat bouncing happily
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they're doing phantom off broadway here but there's no way i'd go to see it bc it's an "immersive" experience. there's a dress code and it's a masquerade... i do not wish to be perceived, even wearing a mask and a cape (apparently they lend out capes if ur dressed wrong lol)
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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sorry that I haven’t gotten around to playing that critically acclaimed, massively influential game that is deeply important to you on a personal level, I’ve been sleepy for most of my life
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
yeah i am reasonably sure that i have a better chance of winning the democratic primary for president than rahm emmanuel
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Mali 💤 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BUNS BUNS BUNS
Watercolour painting of a whole bunch of white bunnies with a sprout growing out of their backs in different silly moods, arranged neatly in rows on a white background
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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mamdani is hated by "centrist" dems not quite because he's liberal, but more because he's so unequivocal about Republicans being bad. There's no mealymouthed "i love ICE but I'd reform it a little" Rahmesque rhetoric coming out of his mouth. That drives the "centrists" crazy.
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
seems i got caught in a phantom of the opera trap this weekend, all because i watched cabaret again and it depressed me into needing some nostalgic musical. i saw rocky horror live and recently rewatched little shop of horrors which are usually my go-to, so i thought why not phantom.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026
for fucking REAL. the depth of trauma for those undiagnosed with ADHD is real. not just the way we feel like we're constantly failing (because everyone is telling us we are) but not understanding WHY because we have no context to understand other people aren't struggling with the things we are.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WHEN - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKLETEN MADE OF WHEED AND BLUNT'S , "DYSTOPIA IS SO SCARY, IMAGINE IF WE LIVED IN A WORLD WHERE YOU WERE CONSTANTLY INTERRUPTED BY A GADGET YOURE AFRAID TO LOSE, AND YOU CAN STILL GET PIMPLES IN YOUR 30S AND 40S, THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO STOP, WHEN DO PIMPLES STOP " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anus mascot at the Brazilian Congress of Coloproctology (CBCP 2026)
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so many people wanna fuck the phantom (of the opera) but he's such a incel murderer creep asshole etc, tragic backstory and a beautiful voice don't fix that 😩
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laney @saltmalk.in · 26/01/2026
flight
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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 26/09/2026
Meowment 37 #pixelart #ドット絵
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feyzichris @feyzichris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
:D
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i'm trying to stay awake but unfortunately one of the most soothing sounds to me is cars driving in the rain
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
drives me crazy to see my dad's cousin, a well known paris based grafitti artist, posting AI garbage made by his friends in his stories. he had an AI altered picture of him printed on a canvas and it is currently hanging on his mom's wall. i truly don't get it!!!
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a tiny baby
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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 26/09/2026
Like a moonlit conjuring, Arthur Prince Spear's Sunrise Water (1921) has a spellbinding atmosphere that's so mysterious. Gorgeous! Found via Dark & Gloomy
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Friendly reminder: your cat has never looked at you and thought you should be prettier, thinner, richer, more successful, or more productive. they just love you exactly as you are.
Jinx the tabby bobtail cat looking lovingly at the camera.
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
saw some reel about the pronunciation of houston street in nyc and people from houston texas getting big mad about it when they visit or move here.... then fucking leave lol go back to your hOUse and get hooked on phonics so you can learn how "ou" is pronounced in english 😤
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GUESS WHAT ? - dashare.zone ADMIN
A PERFECT SKELITIN ANGEL CHILLEN WHILE A TON OF OTHER SKLETENS ARE WATCHING THEM AND JUDGEN THEM AND THERE DOING THERE BEST OR ,HONESTLY ABOUT HALF OF THERE BEST, BUT THERE DOIN SOMETHING AND THATS GOOD I THINK, AND DA TEXT SAYS "THEY TOLD ME, YOUR NEVER GONNA MAKE IT, YOUR ALWAYS GONNA BE A FAILURE, DONT WASTE YOUR TIME, QUIT WHILE YOU"RE STILL AHEAD, YOU WONT SUCCEED, DONT TRY ,,,,, GUESS WHAT? THEY WERE RIGHT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I feel like the AI Will Be Conscious thing is similar to the idea of the singularity or like Elon Musk insisting that specific memories can be saved or deleted, like it's the same very literal understandings of the mind that yet all rely on magic we have no working model of or evidence for.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Netanyahu did a promo reel saying he’d reveal “the truth” about Mamdani and then his actual speech was a standard NY Post editorial.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
Ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations, hundreds of demonstrators led by Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in protest in New York City on Thursday, stopping traffic for over an hour just three blocks away from the U.N.’s headquarters. Over 100 protesters were arrested.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i'm so glad i voted for her and we got rid of espaillat's wack zionist ass
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
god, rocky horror was SO fun. the entire theater getting up to do the time warp at the end was so good
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
intermission!!!! i am having such a great time. rocky horror truly heals the soul
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i forgot that straight people come to these shows lol
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🖤🖤🖤🖤
a shrine to tim curry at the rocky horror show lobby on broadway
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melissa @mellifera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
yay
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