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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This has been for the last like 50(?) years possibly the most desired job in the legal profession

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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Mei, lvl. 38 Warlock of the Expensive Paper @meithemouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ladies and theydies... You're both terrible compared to my theory of a strong regulatory and welfare state setting the rules for a capitalist system with substantial state ownership but fundamentally primarily private enterprise.

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April Kepner: I'm Better Than Everyone

Alt: April Kepner: I'm Better Than Everyone

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

musk (again) agrees with ending women's right to vote

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is frightening to watch white nationalism grow and grow. That such a virulent thing now has multiple billionaire backers, among them the richest man in the world, is not a good sign of things to come

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 01/10/2026

ok time to stake a claim: I don't generally think there's any evidence LLMs could write a rewarding novel of any sort EXCEPT they could definitely do a better job of _Ready Player One_

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Tinfoil Hat Consensus is a very real political bloc and they do not Just Want A Better World

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GODDAMN IT THIS IS AMERICA

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 28/09/2026

Oh my god, it looks like a Russian bot forgot to pay their Claude bill but was still configured to reply to posts about Putin

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 23/09/2026

going forward you should assume that any video which neatly and cutely supports your views about the world is AI-generated

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Shadow only wins if we give up, and also it can't make us give up, so it can't win

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It...uh...is not meant to be a competition

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026

"While Stephen Miller may babble about an unprecedented 'experiment' in immigration in post-1965 America, the reality is that the foreign-born population in the United States today is only slightly higher than it was when Lincoln wrote those lines."

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The GOP’s White Nationalism Problem Goes All the Way to the Top

The blood-and-soil extremists have donors, institutions, administration ties—and plenty of friends in MAGA.

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.

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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

dog fuckers FBI mitch mcconnell didn't die measles outbreak, diesel ban plus ten generic dem 🎵we didn't start the fire-

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 14/09/2026

I say again: there is one particular group that is *desperate* to depress Dem votes. By *any means necessary*. *Republicans*. And they *love* this. They *love* that they can make every last big name wrap themselves around their finger and do their bidding.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I suppose my opinion on AI regulation is that at present, you have to mentally add "as enforced by Donald Trump" to the end of every legislative proposal and for that reason, I'm functionally a libertarian until January 2029.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 12/09/2026

We absolutely are obliged to join the united front to defend everyone’s liberties, and to fight alongside people we may find distasteful, because, again, It Is Happening Here, to immigrants, and by It I mean “concentration camps and mass deportations”. You know this. Get serious. Do the right thing

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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

in the 60's and 70's, the religious right realized they could make themselves indispensable to the GOP by showing they could deliver wins, even if the GOP candidate of the day wasn't their perfect guy once they proved that, they had levers of power in their control

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

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John Lieske @johnlieske.social · 10/09/2026

I'd also like people to understand that this is an iterative thing. Companies didn't go from "not eroding consent" to "let's all erode consent" at once. Tech has been doing this for more than 25 years. The longer we keep making excuses to keep using these things the worse it will continue to get.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026

liberal democracy is not a luxury. liberal democracy is the magic beast that ran the table on fascism and communism and totalitarianism. we did not do this by giving up on liberal democracy and embracing evil. we did this by sticking to our most dear principles.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Be honest. If any Democratic president did this, what would be happening now

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bronze Age? You could've told someone in the 1700s the shit that went down from 1926 to 2026 and they'd think we're deep in the Book of Revelation. The stuff machines can do now would seem like sorcery even to a Frege or an Ada Lovelace.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 04/09/2026

per astra ad aspera

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As I’ve said before, this does not relieve us of our obligation to help the needy. It intensifies it. We have wealth to spare and can afford to help people with little. “We are rich, some are suffering” is a much better case for social welfare than “We are united in poverty.”

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Michael @mjsp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This ignores the most obvious answer, which is that God created the Minions to weaken evil by turning it to farce, and as the events of the Gospels were preordained, the Minions kept their distance.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Scrooge was confronted with his deceased business partner, sentenced to wander the afterlife in heavy chains for all eternity because he sort of had a point” is a hell of a take.

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Jake Christie @jakechristie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

perhaps the only completely correct observation I’ve ever made

A tweet from me from 2023: angry Internet dude behavior is easy to understand once you realize 90% of their anger comes from not being made horny by something they wanted to make them horny or being made horny by something they didn’t want to make them horny

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is literally the difference between Saruman and Gandalf. Tolkien is very clear about the necessity to go out into the world and yap with strangers, preferably while smoking and drinking.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

explicit endorsement of white genetic superiority from musk

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is appalling. These Haitians were here legally under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. The Trump regime spread racist lies, ended the program, declared them illegal and rounded them up in chains for deportation. Now DHS is proudly posting videos of Black Haitians in chains.

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security posted a video of Black Haitians in chains after ending the TPS program

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 27/08/2026

The thing about math and coding is it’s internally consistent enough that in order for the guy to have a good story he has to do the math or coding somewhat correctly. We get theorems and software as a byproduct.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The politics of this show are best described as “the only thing worse than the gangs of illegal immigrant sickos lurking our streets waiting to rape behind every corner? Homophobia and not respecting trans rights.”

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Palmer, Dolly Parton has been famous for two verified miracles for longer than I've been alive

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Grace (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly was so happy for three reasons: - she used her creativity to make things - she gave away what she had to make other people's lives better - she knew and loved God, and did the first two things in that context. All these things are available to all of us.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

I got nothing pt. 2

The bot told him, as Baldeo recounts, "Your mom very much values new experiences, being around people from different cultures, different socioeconomic backgrounds, and this is how you should frame it to her: that you're exploring a part of Chicago that is more diverse." Her son took this tact to Baldeo, and she said yes. It was only later that she saw the chat history that let her know he had gamed the bot to manipulate her.

"My instinctual reaction after the fact was, 'oh my gosh, I was manipulated by my own reasoning,'" she says. "I reflected on it and I thought, that's a really clever way to use it, because that's not how I built it."

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/08/2026

Every progressive gets chased around about their relationship to Hasan Piker. Has ONE reporter ever asked JD Vance about his embrace of the insane and anti-democratic ideas of Curtis Yarvin? Or about his relationship with democracy-hater Peter Thiel? The imbalance is stark.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I just constantly mutter "she's so cool", because KBJ is just consistently sitting there stripping all the bullshit away and showing the court nakedly for what it is.

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