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Douglas Michael Massing @michaelmassing.com · 18/09/2026

Is Skynet's level of obsequiousness merely off-putting, or grounds for suspicion? I was tempted to point it out, but we would have been here all night. 😬

Responding to a query about "idioms or slang terms for food and drink names that include body parts", Google's AI proposes "a stiff drink", and seems to connect it to rigor mortis. I suggest that's "a Procrustean level" of stretch.

Google is downright obsequious in accepting the correction, accusing itself of "massive overreach" and thanking me for "calling that out gently" and saving "us" (sic) from "a total etymological stretch!"

I'm not sure if it was trying to riff on the Procrustes joke.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026

OFFS

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fascinating

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Douglas Michael Massing @michaelmassing.com · 16/09/2026

Why is exporting to a PDF from Apple’s Notes app so unintuitively convoluted?

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Fat Man in a Skirt @fmias.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Sometimes you just gotta say "Fuck it," and walk away.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Donald Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026

As someone who has been covering transgender rights for years, let me be clear about something: When you see capitulation over sports, know that it NEVER stops at sports. And in fact, Turek illustrated this just yesterday when he embraced a federal ban on funding for all trans care.

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Douglas Michael Massing @michaelmassing.com · 07/09/2026

Why yes, that is the local ice cream truck. Yes, it is playing “Deck the Hall“ and “Jingle Bells“. Why do you ask?

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Jessica @jessica8710.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

😎😎

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🔥 Charlamagne on Josh Hokit attacking Michelle: “All you do when you bring the Obamas up is remind people what is currently missing from the White House. The Obamas set a standard for decency & class & poise & intelligence... Now that bar is in hell.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Douglas Michael Massing @michaelmassing.com · 25/08/2026

If the person who stopped traffic to video me was hoping to capture something they could use for some online spectacle, they got their wish.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My friend’s child has started a petition to get her high school in TN to address the severe mold issue, which is affecting the health of the students. BlueSky: do your thing and help this kid get her school’s attention by flooding the petition with signatures: shorturl.at/zW0hq

A plea from a student that reads: Hixson Highschool, the school I attend, is having a mold problem and students are getting sick. It started in the band room and has reached the cafeteria air vents. This petition is to shut down the school until the mold problem has been solved, and if anyone could sign it that would be so helpful. https://c.org/Q658gfycYy

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Noam @noamtl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Genuinely shocking news. It's hard to see the closing of the oldest & most influential African Studies Center (at a historically white university) as anything other than an ominous sign of the times.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 16/08/2026

"We just wanna protect women in women's spaces" Fucking start with prisons and detention centers then Oh wait. My bad. You didn't mean those women.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

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Hellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What are the odds that this man works for DHS now? Oct. 26, 2015 A cell phone video shot inside a South Carolina high school showed a police officer, Ben Fields, body slamming a female student. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... (But let's remove phones from classrooms, right?)

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Officer on leave after video shows him drag a student

YouTube video by CNN

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Imagine if Kamala Harris became the first female president of the United States and then tore down the East wing, obsessed about a ballroom, started a losing war with Iran, took away health care and food from children, raked in billions, fired everyone to put her friends in their positions, (1/2) 👇

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Doctors say that childhood vaccines save thousands of lives. A guy who shits himself in public and struggles to pass basic cognitive tests say they cause autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

REP. AUCHINCLOSS: “Trump watches Fox so I will say it to you here directly — Mr. Trump you are the first president in history to start and lose your own war by yourself.”

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Eleanor Sundwall @eleanorsundwall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Andrew Racine from the American Academy of Pediatrics said the current vaccine schedule is “based on decades of research.” He explained that pediatricians time a child’s shots to when a small immune system responds best, and when that child is most at risk.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2026

The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per SSA estimates. (Published April)

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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

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LINDZEE @lindzee2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a solution in search of a problem that does not exist.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Delta Airlines charging me for my bag? That's obnoxious. Delta Airlines charging me to book a seat? That's obnoxious. But Delta Airlines working with ICE to ship people to concentration camps is COLLABORATION. Boycot #delta

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

More like this coming. "An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge on Wednesday for throwing an activist to the ground near Chicago." This one brought by Cook County prosecutors. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...

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ICE Agent Who Pushed Activist to the Ground Near Chicago Pleads Guilty

The agent, Adam Saracco, was charged with misdemeanor after the altercation at a gas station near Chicago last year during the Trump administration’s crackdown there.

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Douglas Michael Massing @michaelmassing.com · 11/08/2026

"The Letter" – The Box Tops "Ode to Billie Joe" – Bobbie Gentry "Respect" – Aretha Franklin "A Whiter Shade of Pale" – Procol Harum "Light My Fire" – The Doors "All You Need Is Love" – The Beatles are all to recent high school grads what the Charleston was for me when I graduated high school.

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Gay Bitterskeets @gaybitterskeets.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm so sick of this framing that gives Republicans and their donors this unreasonable benefit of the doubt. They're not hapless dopes, destroying the middle class was the point. It's like "The Road to Serfdom" wasn't published as a fucking road map in broad daylight!

"Some Republicans Are Finally Realizing They Wrecked the Middle Class" by Alex Thomas

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

They keep trying to make "correlation is cognition" happen. Through asserting: 1️⃣ models with only correlationist powers (data and correlations over that data) work well & 2️⃣ our own cognitive powers are no different to these machines, which can only rehash the past. @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social 1/

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

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Charlie Close @charlieclose.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Well said. Medicare for All means an increase in taxes *in return for* elimination of employee contributions to health insurance *and* insurance that's free and the point of sale *and* not dependent on your employer. That's a good trade.

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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠

An image of a boom box, a cd wallet, a travel atlas, business cards, dictionarjes a pay phone and various things people used before cellphones

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 09/08/2026

It’s an important anniversary today! Exactly 10 years ago today: "Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that his wife will hold a news conference 'over the next couple of weeks' to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S." Still waiting for this presser!

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Melania Trump will address immigration controversy, Donald Trump says | CNN Politics

Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that his wife will hold a news conference “over the next couple of weeks” to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S.

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Keith Googins @keithgoogins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“How bad is the corruption right now in your view?” Hasan asked. “Idi Amin, you know, Putin, those people,” Cobb said, referencing the corrupt former Ugandan dictator, as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin. www.mediaite.com/media/news/w...

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‘We’re Screwed!’ Ex-Trump White House Lawyer Issues Doomsday Forecast After Todd Blanche Wins AG Confirmation Vote

White House lawyer turned fierce Trump critic Ty Cobb told Zeteo's Mehdi Hasan that the country is "screwed" now that Todd Blanche is attorney general.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yet, he voted for the guy. Total coward. "Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) seemed not fully sure about how the new U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche might approach November’s midterms." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Sen. Cassidy’s ‘existential anxiety’ about whether Blanche will uphold the constitution on elections

Decisions about confirming Blanche for attorney general and whether he'll abide by the Constitution are "not black-or-white," said Cassidy.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

if everything had been explained to me with proper context as a kid I would have been a lot better off

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WMTV 15 News @wmtv15news.com · 10/08/2026

Healthcare workers in Portland rallied Wednesday to demand the release of a registered nurse they say was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. STORY: www.wmtv15news.com/2026/08/09/ice-d…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

70 percent of Microsoft's AI revenue is coming from a single customer — OpenAI. I have to ask: is the AI bubble about to burst?

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Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble

Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?

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