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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am saying this as a very uninformed outsider, but it seems bad that Lula is running for a 4th term AT AGE 80. I'm not a huge believer in term-limits as a cure-all, but Mexico limiting presidents to a single 6-yr term forced AMLO and the party to cultivate a successor. That's what a movement needs.

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know what, this one is on me. What am I doing here?

Google search results from "how to organize middle class homeowners" and all the results are about decluttering your home.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What kind of scandal will it take to lead to the widespread elimination of Greek fraternities? Hazing so severe it results in serious maiming or death? It's happened. Absolutely hideous sexual assaults? It's happened. Terroristic actions in pursuit of campus political power? It's happened!

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who, in 2026, is already saying “I don’t want to vote for Newsom but I will” is part of the problem. This man is a fucking monster and has betrayed everyone imaginable. He is unacceptable in every possible way. There is no world in which this piece of shit should be trusted with power.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that's the part of the louie story that people always seem to forget about. he did this to female comics, who either quit or whom his agents had blacklisted

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's some throughline here from the economic right's blind faith in rational economic actors to faith in rational gamblers. There will be some kind of national reckoning with legal gambling in the next decade. It can't continue like this.

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CarpinSanDiego @carpinsandiego.com · 26/09/2026

Wait, Rahms brother was turtle?

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Socialist mayors? Widespread betting on the White Sox? Fear of Papal influence on the American electorate? Oh, the stock market is really gearing up to implode.

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, time for a Finding Frances rewatch, but I should probably just do a straight NFY and Rehearsal rewatch like I've wanted to for awhile.

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Royal 👑 @royaltheartist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Always comes back to disliking renters

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder if I'm too tuned into Bsky discourse, and a lot of prominent voices happen to be trans. Then I remember my nephew is trans, my cousin is NB, a friend is NB, plus gay and lesbian friends and family, and frankly the pro-trans voices here keep me grounded and make me a better ally.

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We need to agree on how to malign people who are stupid and ignorant. We can agree that humans have inherent dignity regardless of their intelligence or ability and also NOT extend grace to politicians, journalists, and others in the public square saying awful things because they're dumb and bad.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In related news, I'll be starting the Medlock sportsbook. Every line is even money, no vig, max bet $580, both sides mandatory, one visit per six months. It's time to gamble our way to Medicaid for All.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

People are on here talking wild reckless to trans people. And it is very annoying because trans people have done everything they needed to do. They educated the public about candidates who were against civil rights. They pointed people towards viable alternatives. They came through in primaries.

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have a friend in IT who was excited about LLMs two years ago, and was/is using them, as directed, for FAQs, process flows, etc. Now she's extremely negative on them. Upshot is everyone above her is comfortable with customers and users getting wrong answers and disinfo ABOUT THEIR OWN PRODUCTS.

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Time for my controversial Starship Troopers take. Verhoven fucked up most of the action scenes with his transition to CGI. They were not supposed to be boring and repetitive as an additional layer of commentary on fascism. It damages the rewatchability of an otherwise brilliant movie.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It might seem that the existence of a Fetterman is an indictment of the senatorial system’s design but in fairness the Founders would have expected somebody who behaved like this to get killed in a duel by an irate constituent.

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Sraars @sraars.comrades.social · 09/09/2026

“Luckily my car doesn’t need diesel” - Average “Surprise!” Enjoyer

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

25 years of tech reporters not knowing what they were looking at, so the SV guys who gave them the most access got written up as geniuses because those stories allowed them to continue getting paid as tech reporters. And now we're here. Hucksters baiting dummies is the model because it's worked well

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The warnings about AI, if taken seriously, mean that its use-case for fraud, decryption, and hacking is so powerful that we could be facing the end of secure communication online, namely banking and ecommerce. I'll go back to using paper checks and keep shitposting like it's the 00s.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How I feel at work with a buttondown shirt with buttoned breast pockets.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/09/2026

Knowing about this nonsense before anyone cared, when knowing about it was itself considered a form of nonsense, and seeing it gain mass pop two decades later but its all been transmuted through a game of telephone by the dumbest people to ever have too much money, and we have to take them seriously

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?

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star @foundbysara.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

people keep asking me if they can fuck Roko's Basilisk. buddy,

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richard @halkyardo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

me and my friends would kill Roko’s Basilisk with hammers, I can tell you that much.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

genuinely cannot imagine anything like this ever happening again.

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Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all.

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Very sad to report that Dolly Parton, one of the greatest Country singers, and far beyond, EVER, has just passed away. This is a true loss for millions of people. There has never been anyone like her, and never will. In her honor, I am lowering the American flag throughout the United States for a one week period beginning tonight at 6:00PM. Rest in Peace, Dolly! The World loves you. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I just blocked this account despite the temptation to see future dunks. Roko's Mangione made me laugh out loud.

Postulating a Roko's Mangione to slay the AI healthcare basilisk.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton taught me it was ok to be universally beloved

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emlowz @emlowz.com · 25/08/2026

I made a mashup of Patrick Stewart from Star Trek and The Sopranos

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

People vociferously defending AI like it was a sex pest cosplay socialist with a Nazi tattoo from Maine

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J “Halloween” B 🎃 @jhb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Plot a graph and print a chart Claim data entry is an art Post degrees from middling schools Call starving desperate people fools But still you’ll never get it right Posting though it every night Wishing you could make a call Ask the Bluesky mods to ban them all

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Nowhere do you see this more clearly than in talking to those obama-to-trump swing voters. They used to be better people, they used to at least profess to believe in virtue, even if incoherently. The incoherence is still there but the values are not, they've become maladjusted & morally stunted

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Jone Greaves @jonegreaves.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The right power tool can unlock new areas in your life like a metroidvania.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The main thing I care about is “is this making my life and experience actively shittier and more expensive by existing” and the answer is yes and you can’t talk about the utility enough to change that.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My wife used to babysit kids as a teenager in the 80s for $1/hour per kid. That'd be $3-4/hour in todays dollars. The minimum wage when my wife babysat was 3.35/hour and in my state it's $15/hour. We never found a teen sitter for my son that asked for less than minimum wage, often more.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

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Metra Eccentric @metraeccentric.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Oof. Read that Emily Wilson review of Nolan's Odyssey and it reads as openly hostile to the point of deliberately misreading the movie and Nolan's obvious intent.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

THE ODYSSEY (Nolan, 2026)

Tim Robinson and a giant pig in a living room, from I Think You Should Leave

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