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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/07/2026

Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Air to Ground Message: PAX ARE ASKING FOR WORLD CUP SCORES. THANKS Area: Jersey Shore, NJ, USA Type: Boeing 777-200 A: #a9aadf4296f F: #f8373dd6472

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”

That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 24/06/2026

This is absolutely right. Voters aren’t making a right-left-center decision when looking at Dems. They’re making an effective-ineffective decision. And Dems of all stripes can fail that test.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Feeling kind of emotional about how much collective joy and rooting for human achievement and creativity has powered this year - from Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl to Artemis to the Knicks and World Cup. At first it felt like balancing out the evil, now it feels like something bigger.

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Bernie Lomax @bernielomax.extranapkins.net · 18/06/2026

It took 250 years but American cops finally racially profiled a white guy

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

hello what did i miss tell me every thing

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 09/02/2026

PSA: SEAHAWKS KICKER JASON MYERS IS NOW ON THE SUPER BOWL MVP BALLOT VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES www.nfl.com/super-bowl/m...

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Listen to me. This can happen. THIS CAN HAPPEN.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 18/01/2026

I’ve never loved anything as much as the people at Soldier Field rn love being at Bears games either that or I’ve never been capable of being drunk enough.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I need a video of the Pope doing “Good! Better! Best!” at 5:30am in Rome

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I will read every interview with Heated Rivalry writer and director Jacob Tierney because his quotes are truly a reporter's dream: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"They made me feel really old,” he says. “They were like, ‘What is a wolf and why is it on parade?’ And I was like, ‘I hate both of you.’ And I was like, ‘Feist? 1,2,3,4?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, we watched that on Sesame Street.’ And I was like, ‘Again, I’d like to push you down a flight of stairs. Your youth enrages me.’”

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Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Hudson and Connor will be presenting at the Golden Globes! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/h...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The US has transformed from a (sorta) functioning democracy into a poster regime, a rogue troll state, fueled by internet clout. And the abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is likely just the beginning. www.garbageday.email/p/the-rise-o...

Maduro’s arrest is connected to a new kind of politics I’ve spent the last year struggling to describe. A profoundly embarrassing collision of violent nationalism, illiterate social chatter, and memetic fascism that’s been spreading across the globe since the pandemic. We’ve seen hints for years now that the elites of the world are just as addicted to — and dependent on — the same social platforms that we are. Ignoring the near-constant public embarrassments of our shitposter ruling class that play out on platforms like X every day, our leaders are also digitally networking with each other behind closed doors. There’s Chatham House, the group chat that fried the minds of Silicon Valley’s most reactionary CEOs like Marc Andreessen, that’s been running since COVID started. Which is adjacent to the text message network of powerful men that convinced Elon Musk to buy Twitter in 2022. Last year, the Trump administration was caught planning out airstrikes in a Signal group. And days before the campaign in Venezuela, Republican operatives secretly teamed up with a far-right YouTuber to storm daycares in Minnesota. You take all of that and throw in last year’s Discord-based election in Nepal, the international white nationalist incel terror cells spreading across Telegram, and the fact Charlie Kirk’s killer allegedly carried out the attack for the members of his Discord channel and the picture couldn’t be clearer: Politics — and political violence — is now something performed, first and foremost, for an online audience. It almost doesn’t matter what happens irl if it makes noise online.

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Clare Conroy @missconroy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Tried to walk out the same subway turnstile that Tony Goldwyn was trying to walk in through. (I, of course, moved over one)

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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

There are so few perfect seasons of TV, and #HeatedRivalry just had one. The best possible version of what it set out to be. And let me just say, Connor Storrie AND Hudson Williams deserve lead actor Emmy nominations. Whole worlds pass over their faces in those final episodes. Thrilling. THRILLING!

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Clare Conroy @missconroy.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

“Since rookie season.” “Summer before.” 😭😭😭 Oof. Way to nail the landing. #heatedrivalry

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/11/2025

Our son was born at a Northwestern hospital and sees a NU-affiliated pediatrician and it is really frustrating to know that he or any number of kids we know will be denied by this system care that otherwise would be provided under medical ethics but diverges from political ideology of those in power

Screenshot of the anti-trans provisions of the Northwestern/Trump administration extortion document:

guidance. As of the Effective Date, Northwestern has reviewed and, where appropriate, revised University training modules to comply with the foregoing.
28. Northwestern will uphold its commitment to Title IX by providing safe and fair opportunities for women, including single-sex housing for any woman, defined on the basis of sex, who requests such accommodations and all-female sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities.
29. Northwestern and its Feinberg School of Medicine shall not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries, including but not limited to mastectomies, phalloplasties, vaginoplasties, and/or any other procedure intended to alter an individual's sex characteristics, on any individual under the age of 18 years old, effective immediately upon the Effective Date of this Agreement.
a. Northwestern shall revise all policies, protocols, and public-facing materials at Feinberg School of Medicine to reflect the commitment set forth in this paragraph on hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries to individuals under the age of 18 years old and ensure compliance with federal laws.
b. Northwestern shall notify all faculty and administrators of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwester's commitments set forth above regarding transgender surgeries on minors within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date.
30. Together with its first quarterly certification as set out in Paragraph 49,
Northwestern shall submit a report to the Assistant Attorney General, confirming compliance with the preceding paragraph. The report shall include documentation of compliance, such as revised policy documents and copies of notifications sent.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 28/10/2025

There’s a @briancassella.bsky.social shot for this from just today!!

Greg Bovino and his CBP team in their car leaving the federal courthouse with the reflection of a Chicagoan giving them the middle finger in the car window glass

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/10/2025

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

A map image from the Flight Radar 24 service shows the flight track of a NOAA P-3 Orion aircraft flying over the Caribbean Sea, where Hurricane Melissa threatens to bring catastrophic rain and flooding to Jamaica and Haiti. Most other aircraft appear to be steering clear of the area.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

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AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Unanimous First Circuit takes pains to emphasize that this was an incredibly easy case to decide, despite writing a very long opinion knocking down every ridiculous argument the Trump admin made.

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one. It
is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since
a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001. www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them.
This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.
Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.
The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.
The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

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Jacob Whittaker @vonfunkenstein.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Subscribe to the physical copy if you can. The Onion has indeed, through no fault of its own, become America's Finest News Source

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This is step one in how we lose free and fair elections. It’s not that Trump will “cancel” the midterms. It’s just everyone has to vote in person, and urban downtowns will be filled with ICE checkpoints and intimidating National Guard troops to “double check” that only citizens vote.

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Women know AI creates more work. Without AI: do the task. Double check it. Submit it. With AI (& integrity): write the prompt. Read the result. Write more specific prompts. Read. Double check the result. Verify any “proof” provided. Make it sound more human. Proofread again. Submit.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 25/06/2025

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 15/06/2025

Pope is definitely a White Sox fan.