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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 7h

Every one of these idiots is screaming "REGULATE US!" at the top of their lungs. They want that because regulation will shut out open source solutions and allow Anthropic and OpenAI to become a duopoly that own the field.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 23h

I left Twitter because I was permanently banned for writing about fascism. . . . . .Because Twitter is now a fascist platform controlled by the richest fascist in the world. Some of us aren’t allowed there. So, the pro-X discourse seems like desperate (fascist) propaganda.

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a brilliant thread. While there was a lot of violence in the Middle Ages, it is crucial to acknowledge that our contemporary attitudes - in their myriad varieties - are all born out of our own historical context. The abhorrent ones are not relict medieval sentiments, but equally modern.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/10/2026

I hate how good this is.

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Kristin Wilson @kristin-wilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That’s not how the House works. Come January 3 at noon, there is no Speaker. The Clerk of the House is in charge until a Speaker is elected. Mike Johnson will have exactly as much power as I do. None.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He cheated on her and he protects pedophiles but she’s going to vote for him anyway because oppressing the rest of us matters more.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 03/10/2026

The tl;dr here is that you always have the option to not say anything at all, and it's an option often worth taking.

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To err is human . . .

[a meditation on a delicate point of etiquette]

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 02/10/2026

More than half of all VA medical centers are now reporting severe staffing shortages. 97% of facilities can't fully staff their doctors, and 58% can't hire enough psychologists. The Trump administration has cut roughly 30,000 VA jobs. Now, Veterans are paying the price. @repvindman.bsky.social

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The competitiveness of the white conservative lasted exactly as long as artificial barriers to entry for everyone else did, what they lost to was the free market they pretended to care about because their entire success was based on not actually facing competition.

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

President Brick Tamland, ladies and gentlemen

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 30/09/2026

Just a reminder that you can have a PhD and also be an idiot

I'm a College Professor. Writing Isnt as Important as We Think.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 02/10/2024

annual PSA

a witch holding a candle saying

if you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know that scene in The Godfather where Michael goes to the trattoria bathroom, retrieves a pistol, and shoots those 2 guys in the head? This is 100X better. Maybe more.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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metacat | standup philosopher @metacat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

RG beans made my spouse a bean eater! I always do mine on the stove, but if you want to simulate a crockpot but safer, you can do them in the oven. And RC helpfully provides cooking instructions on their website. Strictly I think only kidney beans can kill you, the others may make you feel like it.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's fine if people don't want to have liberal arts education. Go ahead, have large gaps in understanding the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Live your life ignorant, incomplete, undeveloped, inadequate. You have the right to be a worse citizen, a shallow dullard, a lesser person.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Why is the U.S. public so much more negative on AI than almost anyone else? Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

during covid, every week I worked with ~22 year olds who calmly did the best they could against a backdrop of nonstop death and then they showed up the next night to do it again. but if one 20something Stanford grad has computer anxiety, it's the apocalypse

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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.

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A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe

Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We can only lmao

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10/14/24

The year is 2026, you voted for Donald Trump:
- gas is 2.87 per gallon
- rent is 1,500 per month
- groceries, insurance & utilities are
40% less
- millions of illegals have been deported
- inflation is less than 2 Show more

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Checking in on this for an update

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The update is that I have been impersonated. I did not post that comment. I have reported it to X.

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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 22/09/2026

I don’t understand this revisionist history happening that says no one was opposing George W. Bush. There were street protests, email chains, songs by Green Day and the Chicks, Jon Stewart became our Walter Cronkite. No one was quiet about hating the president!

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cartoonist: Daniel Boris

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 20/09/2026

I honestly can’t think of a better metaphor than the Department of War inviting a guy who padded his boxing records with scrubs right until he got hospitalized by someone who could actually fight

Department of War E
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Last Thursday, we welcomed Logan and Jake Paul to the Pentagon to meet with our warriors.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

every story like this now makes me think of the boaters in Michigan who thought the river would bring them back to their car, the reason people spend so much time talking about the median voter but never seem to know any is because the median voter is an idiot you wouldn't trust to watch paint dry

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you aren't getting excited for the time of darkness, cold, decay, and death, you have no business calling yourself a fall person

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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?

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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

FBI: While it may be detrimental to agency morale the threat facing immigration enforcement is of such a serious nature we must inform you that, yes, you are all unfuckable losers.

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is a universal truth that if you take a dog on a trip, most of that trip becomes about the dog

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