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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 17h

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 11h

I love this set up where he goes state to state and tells voters how much the Republicans there are losers that suck shit

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14h

I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13h

Have GenAI run your hobbies. Your passions. Your family. Then you can focus on what matters most: maximizing shareholder value.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Random find in the unpublished data: A pretty little unnamed crater on Mars filled with sand ripples, about half a kilometer across, seen by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in July.

A circular impact crater seen from directly above. Inside its steep banks its bowl is filled with sand blown into a pattern of ripples.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 04/10/2026

I’m watching in real time what damage AI can do to a vulnerable person with poor mental health who struggles with relationships and seeks solace in the illusion of a meaningful connection with spicy autocorrect (please don’t ask me for details). I don’t know what to do to help them.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺

A close-up of an undamaged, translucent glass vessel shaped like a dove. The vessel contains a clear liquid with a reddish sediment visible at the bottom.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2077 years ago, on the 3rd of October 52 BCE, Vercingetorix, the leader of an alliance of Gallic tribes, surrendered to Julius Caesar, ending the Siege of Alesia. It was the culmination of Caesar’s Gallic campaign and the last major confrontation between Romans and Gallic tribes. #otd #history 🗃️

Stater bearing the name of Vercingetorix. Obverse: VERCINGETORIXS – stylised head facing left. Electrum, 7.45 g, diameter 18.50 mm. Arverni, circa 60 BC. BnF Collection: 3774 (Ancient collection) (GAU-3989)

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mystery saint! I've got a mystery saint on a hand reliquary that is supposedly 16th century and Spanish. Can't share the image, but the inscription says: SANTA RATLRINA MARTIRIS So who is St Ratlrina the Martyr? Any ideas?

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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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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks Steve :) Phengaris available at payhip.com/b/58paC Parch Marks, SF that did sneak in some folk horror (marginalised and spiritually radicalised rural settlers in creepy masks in the Pennines) available here: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... #SFFChat Image courtesy of @marywyrd.bsky.social

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Eco horror - Phengaris
Cli Fi - Parch Marks.

Phengaris has a cover image of a, butterfly made of rusted parts

Parch Marks features markings of ferns on dried earth.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/10/2026

This is a cool photo of Venus! Photographed through the rings of Saturn.

A complex, curving pattern of lines that make up Saturn's vast ring system, in various gold and grey hues. The white arc at right is the limb of the planet itself. A tiny point of light is just upper right of centre.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did you know “Trumpery” is a real English word that has fallen out of use? We really need to bring it back because it is astonishingly accurate.

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading this I feel compelled to remind everyone that back in the 1970s, respected scientists became convinced telekinesis was real after they met with "psychic" Uri Geller and even published an article in Nature about it. It took a stage magician to debunk them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If this is your first time hearing about Uri Geller, the Stanford Research Institute, and most importantly, James "the Amazing" Randi, you're welcome. I hope his work inspires a lifelong skepticism in you. time.com/archive/6712...

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James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam

James Randi Uses His Skill As a Professional Magician to Expose Psychics, Astrologers, Spiritualists, Channelers, Faith Healers and a Host of Mystics and Charlatans

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a long discussion going on in my mentions about whether or not "LLMs" (quotes explained in a sec) apparently getting mostly* correct answers to arithmetic questions is "inconsistent" with the stochastic parrots metaphor. >>

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Kindle edition of The Fortunate Fall is on sale now for $2.99. The deal is Amazon-only and seems to be US and Canada-only. It ends at midnight Pacific so don't dither! www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Fa...

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The Fortunate Fall

The Fortunate Fall - Kindle edition by Reed, Cameron, Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Fortunate Fall.

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Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov. On this day, 42 years ago, he saved your life and the lives of everyone you love. He saved the world. Google his name.

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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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Ivy @becauseivy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's Thinking Thursday, delete your robots

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

When people show you who they are, believe them. Fuck you Gavin Newsom.

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Liz Lets Looooooose 👻 @ghostofelizabeth.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I shot a man once just to watch his image develop in the darkroom

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Mihăiță Baston @bastonmihaita.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also fascinating how this sort of migration can circle back and influence political thought in the home country. We are only beginning to understand how Romanians in exile throughout the Cold War preserved and transmitted far-right ideas and tropes which were re-imported in Romania after 1989.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The alt text here contains my favourite bit of wormhole trivia.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026

virulently anti-Catholic lapsed Catholic here: It's of actual geopolitical significance that the Catholic Church is talking like this this time around with these pigs. It wasn't like that 90 years ago.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a DC resident i really don't like the way news reporting treats "the President, with a history of 1) wanting to kill unarmed protesters and 2) 'joking' about not leaving in 2029 is yelling he is building well-supplied and well-provisioned snipers' nests throughout the city" as just another quirk

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative-abs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just re-upping this review on Nerds of a Feather by @stewarthotston.com, which led me to start reading Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed. It is so far exactly as good as Stew says. (Really good one for the linguistis among us, btw) #linguistics

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Book Review: The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed

Captain (A)merica must die cover artist: Marcel de Neuve Mahmud El Sayed’s The Republic of Memory is that rarest of things - a proper spac...

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Your regular reminder that Matthew Syed, who has his own BBC radio show, enthusiastically endorses the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory.

An opinion headline that reads "Migration is being used to enfeeble us, so it's clear what we have to do", by Matthew Syed.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Extrajudicial killing, often referred to as state killing, is the deliberate act of killing individuals by government authorities or with their approval, without any legal sanction or due process. (Mohn 2023)

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US military says four killed in Caribbean boat strike

The US military announced that four people had been killed in a strike on a boat it said was involved in drug smuggling in the Caribbean.

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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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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026

this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18/09/2026

legitimately this is about as good as you can get at explaining why "ir realism" is the fakest doctrine in history, and also wwii

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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