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We will, in turn, join hands and build an army of the fatties, the trannies, the beardos, and weirdos, the wimps and the radicals. Together, we will scrape these low-T wannabe nazis out of the halls of power from the federal government all the way down to the local DMV.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 1h

Ding ding ding. What if the railroad tracks laid in Maryland were uncompetitive by the time they got to California?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 18h

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 17h

it truly is just perfect that a republican — you know, the party that so badly wants to protect women athletes — used a senate hearing to confidently, and falsely, accuse a lawyer of perjury because he and his entire staff forgot that women’s sports exists

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Limited Edition Ellie @tldrellie.bsky.evl.im · 29/09/2026

Bardstown Road at Dundee Ave/Douglass Blvd. 1941, Louisville, KY. Still today known as Douglass loop, this was the turnaround point for Bardstown Road streetcars that wouldn't be venturing further out of town. This line was eventually extended to Doup's Point and beyond. #LouisvilleTransitHistory

A black and white photo of a dense commercial area. A set of streetcar tracks extend in front of the camera down a one-way street with cars parallel parked down the side. The road is wet with rain.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 23h

it was the best of vibes, it was the worst of vibes

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nix @nix.ai · 29/09/2026

The age old "do I pay a mechanic $400 for 30 minutes of work, or get $400 in tools to fix it myself in a few hours".

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nix @nix.ai · 28/09/2026

That's MY governor

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dragula is actually the number one song in America

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nix @nix.ai · 26/09/2026

really quite a predicament to be both sad and lonely at the same time. who wants to hang out with someone sad? i get it, not me either.

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nix @nix.ai · 25/09/2026

Inhaled a bug on my run today

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Limited Edition Ellie @tldrellie.bsky.evl.im · 25/09/2026

Aww yeah, welcome to your extremely walkable downtown, Louisville

A map of downtown Louisville highlighting all the parking garages and surface parking lots. It's over 50% of downtown land area.

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nix @nix.ai · 25/09/2026

the killer feature of the new Meta AI is just human gig labor. Makes sense when you think about it. How much luck have AI-voiced spam calls had with you? Why should we expect AI callers to have more luck when working on your behalf?

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nix @nix.ai · 25/09/2026

okay everyone, say it with me: Nice

fiftyplusone senate election simulation. republicans: 31 out of 100. democrats: 69 out of 100.

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nix @nix.ai · 25/09/2026

Which makes it all the more impressive that POTUS is still running the old playbook of making it more difficult to vote and assuming that will help his side

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nix @nix.ai · 25/09/2026

You ever watch a pot of water boil just to prove that superstition is silly?

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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

cbpp.org

SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented

SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

not now kitten, the walls are closing in on mommy

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nix @nix.ai · 24/09/2026

The most useful courses of my life were the math curriculum for engineers in the 2010s. 6 or so advanced calc classes, with a quiz and a test each week, all done without calculators. We all complained that we'd be able to use calculators and computers on the job.

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nix @nix.ai · 24/09/2026

A lesbian bar made mascs optional on one night a week? And now they're going out of business? Those little guys really are pillars of the community aren't they

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

“the english are a mongrel people (laudatory)”

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

new idea "one email a day" you should only be able to send or read one email a day

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dragonetti @dragonetti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like we have bi visibility day every 3 months. like we get it, you'll fuck anything that moves (not me, of course)

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hey just curious where did the “protect women athletes” crowd get off to

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nix @nix.ai · 23/09/2026

Do you think it's possible to make a reasonable living by building a website that is moderately good at a few things and doesn't try to take over the world or get hockey stick growth or have a 10% chance to annihilate humanity.

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nix @nix.ai · 22/09/2026

had a brain glitch and read this in Lin-Manuel Miranda's voice

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nix @nix.ai · 22/09/2026

I seem to remember coming to the conclusion that Maciej Cegłowski was an ass but I can't remember why

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

what is 'Latent Space' and how do LLMs get answers from it? The Jargon can be confusing, but the exaplanation is actually relatively simple: It is Hell. The Machine is getting knowledge from demons.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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nix @nix.ai · 22/09/2026

You think Boebert gets pardoned? Lmao

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Jack @jtenroon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is frying me

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nix @nix.ai · 21/09/2026

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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nix @nix.ai · 20/09/2026

trying to keep up with the ravers, with limited success

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 19/09/2026

lauren boebert strap queen ????

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it’s batman day

a tweet by me from 1/6/2018 11:03 AM that became a meme apparently

ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start
BATMAN: check the battery
ROBIN: what’s a tery

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

either it is in principle possible to set up appropriate safeguards (in which case the "AI alignment" story is just as much about who gets to set them up and enforce them as it is about the content of the safeguards) or it is not (in which case we should be talking about transnational moratoria)

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

That’s a load-bearing assumption, Dr Strangelove. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

program.
sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the
familiar with the incident said.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also
"almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese
nations.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.

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nix @nix.ai · 18/09/2026

Driving up to Cincinnati to see her next week

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nix @nix.ai · 17/09/2026

Furries really are at the foundation of all of our tech aren't they?

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...

ddosecrets.org

Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets

Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...

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nix @nix.ai · 17/09/2026

In glad there's more low dose week options these days. Gimme a good fast acting 2.5mg baby. We're chilling out but not too much.

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nix @nix.ai · 17/09/2026

banging on the stove like bongos as the room fills with the odor of burning flesh

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