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Fortuna Horribilis

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 21h
PODCAST HOST: the blood from the crime scene was found to actually be from the murder victim PODCAST CO-HOST: wait… the murder victim… died? with blood PODCAST HOST: i know—i was thinking the same thing. but then i read in the report that they died from the blood not being in the body anymore
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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 6h
How #Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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🦋Fiona McGee🦋🚫👑🐈🐈‍⬛ @judymccarthy.bsky.social · 16h
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 7h
Hey #BookSky friends, I have an interesting bit of info to share—about the state of publishing. Storytime: I am an author of fiction/nonfiction with a NY agent, full time writer for 10 years. I can verify 2026 is the WORST for getting in print. Lots of reasons, but I learned something NEW in Sept 1/
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 7h
Giant ferocious snuggly murder birb 🥰
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you who 🌈 @pipsish.bsky.social · 17h
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amberkitty 🐈‍⬛ @amberkitty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sorry I wasn't listening I was picturing my dog doing excited little tippy taps when I get home later
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
omg 🥰
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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This cat is insisting we adopt him and make him our next shop cat, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Bookstore cat at checkout. (We need to reopen in a brick and mortar format to adopt him, hence the sale.) carpelibrumbaltimore.com
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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know what? I have absolutely no problem posting this. I hope it follows them for years.
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You Gantt Always Get What You Want #InformationInASongOrMovie
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Smartsheet: Grid, Gantt, Card, Calendar Views
Alt: Smartsheet software demo animation cycles through Grid, Gantt, Card, and Calendar displays, with multicolored bars and columns shifting into different configurations.
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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 27/09/2026
Saying that large language models feel pain because they have been trained to avoid certain actions is like saying that calculators can breastfeed because you can spell out BOOBS on them.
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𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧 @bretbatson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spock says:  “Your mother is so fat
that she outweighs the needs of the many.”  His statement is accurate.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ensign, set a course for Planet Baklava, warp 6 💫
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, etc
A screenshot of a Duolingo exercise featuring Lin, a sandwich-obsessed slacker, saying ‘je deteste les lardons’ and the translation, ‘I hate bacon’
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Share a television show that raised you.
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Star Trek Star Trek Tos
Alt: Captain Kirk and Mr Spock, with laurel wreaths on their heads, do a sprightly dance side by side on a black and white checked floor in a scene from the original series episode Plato’s Stepchildren.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Learn why Maine lobster is an unsustainable seafood, rated “Red/Avoid” by Seafood Watch. The way it’s caught kills Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whales, and while solutions exist, the industry and politicians like Jared Golden strongly oppose them! 🧪🦑🐟🌎
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/09/2026
"Well, this shit just got real, didn’t it? Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they’re both extremely fucking real." buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No Mexican sauces involved here.
Venn diagram with 4 circles, clockwise from top left: chemists, dermatologists, zoologists, government agencies.

Every intersection of 2, 3, or 4 circles is "mole."
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 23/11/2024
Whenever people post "what job would you have in Star Wars" my answer is "I'd be writing memos to the Grand Moff explaining why we need more Microsoft Office licenses" and well here we are.
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My witch sweater is rumpled and ready to go
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Astrea1965(pic is©️)💙🌊🦋🐸 @astrea1965.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT HANG THEMSELVES FROM TREES. This man was discovered just before 8AM this morning & it was immediately ruled a suicide by the medical examiner. This is Upper Marlboro, Maryland. THIS IS NOT NORMAL! #BLM Reporting by NBC4 Washington on IG. substack.com/@letsgetinto...
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LetsGetIntoIt2025 (@letsgetintoit2025)
Again. BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT HANG THEMSELVES FROM TREES. This man was discovered just before 8AM this morning and it was immediately ruled a suicide by the medical examiner. This happened in Upper...
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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We're running a sale on our website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Bookstore cat at checkout. Picture of Trinket, one of the cats who put in an application to be our new shop cat, for tax. carpelibrumbaltimore.com
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
To those of you who say that “History is written by the winners” or that “the winners write the history books”, I say this: I write history, and no reasonable person would consider me to be a winner.
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a man in a white shirt and tie is looking at a computer screen in front of a sign that says insufficiaria
ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is looking at a computer screen in front of a sign that says insufficiaria
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
💀
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sam @samthielman.com · 21/09/2026
A nice thing about reaching my mid-forties in reasonable health is that for the most part my problems are incontrovertibly of my own design and construction
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026
"We didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue. We hoped the stories would add magic to your childhood and reassure you that capitalism is a fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos." buff.ly/KM3opmg
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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When your buddy won’t stop talking during the movie #WhenToPressThePauseButton
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Diarra Brickland: Can You Please Shut Up?
Alt: Diarra Brickland, wearing a Kelly green jacket over a forest green top and chunky silver jewelry, looks annoyed. She says, ‘Can you please shut up?’
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speck @notkaspeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Let's get a head start on finding some joy tomorrow #September www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
While at a pet adoption event earlier, these cats all put in applications to be our new shop cat. To do that, we need to reopen in a brick and mortar format, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Bookstore cat at checkout. carpelibrumbaltimore.com
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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guilty
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/09/2026
OH FUCK YES WE'RE ALL AUTUMNAL IN THIS MOTHERFUCKER YOU BEST BELIEVE SHIT'S GETTING SWEATER WEATHER AS FUCK LOOK WE DID NOT CHOOSE THE GOURD LIFE THE GOURD LIFE CHOSE US NOW GET FUCKING COZY OR GET THE FUCK OUT
Two mums, two gourds, all motherfuckin' autumnal
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Drew @drewavery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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you who 🌈 @pipsish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This thought isn't fully formed or polished because I'm operating on two lattes and a piece of chocolate cake at the moment, but quick and dirty thread on AI doomsday narratives as partially an outgrowth of changes in tech industry labor conditions:
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numlocks.bsky.social @numlocks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#memes
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Abbey Rhodes @abbeyr28.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Friday fun stuff #2:
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Primary Maria Cantwell! @moneyshredder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Outside you there are two black bears
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you who 🌈 @pipsish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#MaybeGodzillaCould join Japan’s Olympic luge team
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Godzilla Monster Leap
Alt: Godzilla sails feet-first across a desert landscape with his tail dragging on the ground under him. The automatic alt-text called this the ‘monster leap’ but I distinctly remember this being the setup for a piledriver kick.
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
She’s not angry to have been discovered, she just has Resting Snit Face
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I really encourage Democrats to adopt my "Make Stupidity Embarrassing Again" slogan. It addresses the root of so many voters' frustrations.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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FunHouse Radio @funhouseradio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NUCLEAR HELL FIRE HOT youtu.be/38rvtcwhuw4
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Angine de Poitrine: Zugzegk | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Arthur Dent is finally starting to figure out fetch (not great at the ‘drop it’ part yet tho)
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Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🖤
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