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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Feels to me like the U.S. government livestreaming the shooting death of a guy in a wheelchair is going to be in all the history books, and hopefully framed as the end of an era that was very bad, and not the start of an era that was much, much worse
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How a factory for AI-powered weapons, a data center, and a needy public school collided in rural Ohio. New at Matter from Taylor Barnes at Inkstick Media. matternews.org/community/de...
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An Ohio school needs funds. It voted to cut Anduril’s tax bill, anyway – Matter News
How a factory for AI-powered weapons, a data center, and a needy public school collided in rural Ohio.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Where have you gone, Lee Corso? College football fans falling out of love with Saturday pregame shows
“I miss when this show was about an old guy putting on funny mascot heads.” That comment came from an X user quoting a video of ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday. Specifically, a clip of Mississippi Army National Guard helicopters flying overhead as analyst Pat McAfee says, “We certainly appreciate the hell out of the…
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Universal free school breakfast and lunch is a great proposal. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: The Next Big Dem Proposal: Let Kids Eat Free
School lunches were free to all kids during the pandemic; a prominent think-tank wants to bring back the idea and make it permanent.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026
that’s right the internet started going irreversibly downhill the day Reader died
Technology you’re most nostalgic for: Google Reader
Especially when I was a writer and business journalist, but even afterwards, I loved Google Reader as a way to organize news articles and feel like I got through them. It was just a great interface. I use Feedly now, which is pretty good to read news, but doesn't quite hit like Google Reader used to hit.
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Defector @defector.com · 06/09/2026
A loss would have been less embarrassing than Michigan's win over Western Michigan: defector.com/a-loss-would...
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A Loss Would Have Been Less Embarrassing Than Michigan's Win Over Western Michigan | Defector
Even before it slipped into janky comedy in its dying moments, you wouldn’t necessarily say that Michigan’s season opener against Western Michigan on Saturday was “a good football game.” But also just...
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ostentatiously counting out thirteen fresh $1 trump coins for the blue-haired barista, smug satisfaction on my face. oh are you triggered? i say. sir, a small coffee is *seventeen* dollars, she says. lol, i say, lmao. let me hit an atm real quick and ill be back. youre going to be so mad lol
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
After you read this harrowing article on ESPN you can click one of the other tabs up there at the top to get today's top odds or flip through a Beginner's Betting Guide to learn how you too can get in on the action!
ESPN article, headline: "We Are Broken" -- one family's fight against gambling addition
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.
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Ohio Federation of Teachers @oftunion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
SB 1 is a disaster for students, for faculty, and for Ohio. @matternews.bsky.social talks to students about the impact of SB 1:
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A year after the implementation of SB1, Ohio State students reflect on its impact – Matter News
‘You’ll see less Black, queer students graduating. You’ll see less Latin students graduate. You’ll see less marginalized identities going through this university successfully.’
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
is it that hard to be nice and normal? seriously. you don't have to be a saint even. just believe you are part of the world for fucks sake
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump/Republicans' "big beautiful bill" has so far cut one million american kids off food stamps: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
‘Mom, are we OK?’ Children worry their families can’t afford food after Trump’s SNAP cuts
The Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” slashed spending on food stamps. Now, more than 1 million fewer children receive benefits.
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.
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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Traditionally situations like this have only *almost* tanked the world economy so I think we're probably fine
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 25/07/2026
Nope. No, you haven’t.
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u/Dazzling-Major-5620 • 13h
ChatGPT not letting you emulate specific authors anymore
Prompting
Join
I've been writing my book for several months now, paid for a more advanced model. Took a break. Came back.
Now Ms. GPT says she can't generate content in the style of specific authors. My prompts were soooo specific and I got exactly what I wanted out of them. For example,
'rewrite in the literary style of 'author here' with abundant dialogue and detail avoiding staccato prose. That was my go-to. Or 'please write and flesh out in the style of
'author' etc. they tightened the ropes. I have no idea how to get around this other than maybe feed it prose I already edited that's technically mine? Fuck.
& Locked post. New comments cannot be posted.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Barstool Sports scores zero points on ‘Family Feud’
Thursday night’s edition of the ABC game show Celebrity Family Feud featured Barstool Sports taking on the family of Dallas Mavericks star Cooper Flagg. And while Flagg has many impressive performances in his young NBA career and his one college basketball season at Duke, he hasn’t experienced anything like the dominance he and his family…
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Brad Whipple @NYCC @bradwhipple.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.
variety.com
Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
At a certain point, once you recognize the destruction of the middle class in one aspect of your life, you kind of can't stop recognizing it in all aspects of your life
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Timothy Simons @timothycsimons.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Bryson wanting to call Trump from The Open. Argentina with more punches thrown than shots. Trump trying to sneak into the lifting of the cup. This might be an all time bitch loser shit weekend. Hall of Fame first ballot type stuff.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You sell whatever was left of your soul, betray whatever was left of your principles, defend sexual predators, kiss ass, post humiliating tweets about golf, lose all your friends, become an international joke, and when you die the guy you did it for is like "we'll get someone else in there no prob"
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 08/07/2026
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"We cannot choose to become idiots": The AI cheating scandal roiling Brown University
AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Look, I know it’s frustrating to not know if a US Senator has died, but Mitch McConnell wrote it into his will that if he were ever incapacitated, his last wish was that “Republicans engage in one last bit of indefensible fuckery” to honor his life and career. And I think that’s beautiful.
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
slowly developing a brain that only wants to see two things on tv: - live sports - movies I have already seen 25 times
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 04/07/2026
"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...
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Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
more like "Incredibly Cool and Good Al" variety.com/2026/biz/new...
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Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Despite Offer to Make a ‘Nice Pile of Money’: ‘I Can’t Be the Poster Boy for AI’
Weird Al Yankovic revealed he was offered “a nice pile of money” to appear in a commercial but backed out after realizing it would involve AI.
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Tom Moroney @etmcalifornia.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Trump v. Barbara is the stupidest Supreme Court case in recent memory: the nation’s nine fanciest lawyers spending God knows how many hours pondering a question about the Fourteenth Amendment’s meaning that a bright sixth-grader could have answered without difficulty in roughly 30 seconds."
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026
Three votes for the proposition that the Fourteenth Amendment does not mean exactly what it says. Three votes to strip citizenship from people to whom the framers guaranteed it. Three separate opinions explaining why. Three fucking votes. Broken institution, not worth saving.
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WalkingTaako but Spooky 🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jefferies and Schumer making it very clear that they are very much not up to the challenge, as they view the birthright citizenship ruling as a big win rather than an ominous warning of the future
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If there's one thing Americans can agree on, it's that there's too much money in politics. But the Supreme Court just decided to demolish some of the last safeguards we had left - creating an even bigger role for special interest spending.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States." That's the 14th amendment. And four MAGA activists in robes said, "nah." They barely lost while demonstrating how illigitimate this court is. Term limits and expansion or bust.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
People say America can't accomplish anything, that we've stopped dreaming big. Well, today, after *years* of work, the combined resources of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches (as well as the media) came together to prevent some girls in Idaho from playing high school softball.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Slaughter belongs in the anti-canon, a decision so egregiously wrong it has zero precedential value and is self-discrediting. It is not a plausible reading of a constitutional ambiguity, it is constitutionalizing the structure of an autocracy.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
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X.com
You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 26/06/2026
There’s nothing wrong with Haitians! I’m getting sick of this state enforced bigotry & violence against them just like I’ve long been sick of the US sabotaging them at every turn with its imperialism. This is the world’s first Black republic! A proud free people you’d be honored to know some of.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Linda Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Maybe it’s naïve at this point, but it bothers me that filing pertinent information away for a future book while working as a journalist isn’t considered a conflict of interest.
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