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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If I were in that room, I would pitch that the premise should be: It's time to play the music; it's time to light the lights. Indeed, it's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Really tried of the genre of bsky discourse that goes: "Here is an incredibly pointless thing I use LLMs for, now please bsky be normal about it." >>
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Have you watched “Somebody, Somewhere”? Because if you want to have hope for human beings that is a great thing to watch. It is so funny and heartwarming and zero percent corny. I wish it got half the attention Ted Lasso did.
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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
<3
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I’m proposing we end the gender binary in clothes and simply call the options “big butt cut” and “flat butt cut”
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Hi. If someone tells you about their depression, anxiety, or even insomnia, try to avoid responding with obvious remedies that they have of course already tried. They’re suffering, not stupid. Also please avoid banal mental reframing efforts and quackery. Perhaps just listen kindly. Okay then.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 29/04/2026
Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.
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AmandaTheHerder @amandatheherder.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
MaxFunDrive is here and I just have to say: if you support independent media, you should consider supporting MaxFun. Truly independent networks are rare, and they're dedicated to maintaining that for themselves and the shows. Support the art you want to see in the world (if funds allow obviously)
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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:
“And what I think is so amazing about that is not only do you start to feel like you you are welcome in and belong in this place, the public library, but also you start to learn what it means to be part of a community. Because, let’s say you love Curious Georgebooks and you take out a Curious George book. You get the generosity of your society because it’s like “Here, take this Curious George book home, it’s free. Just bring it back and keep it in good shape. Don’t tear out the pages. Don’t write in it.” And you learn that you want to do that—not only because they tell you—but also because when you return it, you want to get the next Curious George book. And you realize that if the other kids in the community don’t return the book, or don’t take care of their books, you won’t be able to take it out. So, you learn mutual obligation and reciprocity from an early stage.”
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 11/04/2026
LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important. #ArtemisII
Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed
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Arvind Venkataramani @avenk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
One of the insidious ways in which times like these affect us is that we are upset and angry, it’s hard to trace the sources of that when so many things are wrong, one is tempted to call out every available wrong you have energy for, in order to experience validation and agency ↓
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Slashley Cooper 🔪 @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
You don't need to watch this. The trailer, the show, none of it. You are not a child anymore. There are other stories. Potter may have once been a well of inspiration or joy, but that well is poisoned by the venom of its creator who sees every engagement as endorsement of her war on trans people.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 20/03/2026
We are at the “Dems should listen to His Holiness instead of James Carville” part of American deterioration.
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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
hearing someone say they regularly talk to ai chatbots for anything does feel like they just rolled up their sleeve to reveal a festering zombie bite
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/03/2026
WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK
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I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling
It became my ultimate distraction
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
2026 basically
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 17/02/2026
I do think habitual chatbot usage is kind of like smoking; there's a range of outcomes, and we very clearly see the worst ones (psychosis, delusions, addiction) but they're all negative. thousands with the cognitive equivalent of being out of breath after one flight of stairs.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The angel of abundance, the Dolly Lama of literacy, the distributor of almost a third of a billion books for kids.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
abby from broad city on her phone saying 
(Chuckling) Uh, it's just this Onion article. It's Just cracking me up, man.she follows up: that’s the times
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Did not watch halftime show, am hearing Bad Bunny married all of us to him through the tv? Woke is too much now I fear
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 09/02/2026
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 09/02/2026
We’re onto you, Ring
Screenshot of posts from four different people talking about a ring commercial that I completely missed. (God bless the “popular with friends” feed)
Brandon Friedman • @brandonfried... • 31m
The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've
seen in my life

Adam Gurri © @adamgurri.liberalcur... • 33m
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance
network they can leverage all at once huh

Tressie McMillan Cottom • @tressi... • 34m
I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people's empathy in service to a corporately controlled
surveillance state.
Tell them it will find your dog.

Joshua Erlich •@joshuaerlich.bsky.... • 34m
fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism
behind dogs
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent. And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?
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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · 01/12/2025
I have low vision and use alt text and image descriptions to provide context about images if double vision or blurry vision distorts them too much. If you don't know how to write #AltText, here are several guides from my website that can show you how! veroniiiica.com/how-to-write... (1/11)
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How To Write Alt Text And Image Descriptions
The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/12/2025
*not shopping at Target intensifies*
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/11/2025
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit. www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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fae⁷ @onthistangent.eurosky.social · 19/10/2025
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
exwife-of-frankenstein on tumblr:

Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call.

#IM GOING INSANE #NOTHING WORKS NOTHING
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John Horvick @horvick.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
For the last 50 years, what Americans heard about government economic policy was similar regardless of education. This started to break down during Trump's first term. Now it has completely separated.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/09/2025
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Agreed. A very important and uplifting read. Please share—and please support your blue state guvs and AGs.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2025
Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic: Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place.

This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.
Daniel Lawson @DanielLaw1998: Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. 

I cannot see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times.

Jennifer Lee Rosman @JenLRossman:
We’re disabled, Daniel, we’re not werewolves
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/03/2024
All those things you want your shiny new technologies to fix won't shift even a little bit unless the humans involved fix their fucking hearts, first.
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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
One of the things that shocked me most while covering federal transportation policy was how many insane design choices NHTSA, the agency tasked with making cars more safe, let Tesla get away with. I was never able to quite figure out if the agency was toothless, or actively choosing not to step in
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