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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 26/09/2026
We're trying to find a home for, and I quote, "the Pissfingers of cats." Any takers? ❤️
Three screenshots of our facebook post about Jaffa Cake the unlucky mogJaffa in his cone of shame
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The strawberry overkill @tsoverkill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you see this QRP with your moon art 🌚
Black and white inkpen sketch. The motif is designed to look like a portrait

A mask is hovering above empty upper clothing.

The clothes are minimalist and strict, a heavy fabric collarless jacket with round, decorative buttons, inside there's a white shirt with a simple round standing collar.

The mask is a sickle moon shape with a curled up upper tip, below it's designed like a human face, the inside of the moon shape is empty. 

Behind all that an empty, starry night sky, the moon is in the middle of the masks eye hole where it looks like an eye, to the left a star also looks like an eye where an eye hole would be.
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Council of Europe @coe.int · 25/09/2026
How much do you know about sign languages? 🤟   Here are 5 facts you might not know about sign languages - from their unique grammar and regional varieties to the more than 300 sign languages used worldwide.   Still curious? We have 15 more facts to share with you: edl.ecml.at/Portals/33/d...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/09/2026
What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.” [dansinker.com]
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What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com
It wasn't so much a choice at first. I spent much of the summer on the road, which meant that getting online was nearly always a struggle, and so when I didn't have to, I stayed off. And when I did get on—I was working my remote job doing book research—doing work was the focus. I didn't fall prey to
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Even if you think you know the whole Kennedy Center story, this is enlightening and enraging. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Andy Foster (Heresy Miniatures) @heresyminiatures.com · 20/09/2026
i too would like to store vast quantities of volatile ammunition on top of a single target building in the middle of town and am also definitely not fortifying the area around the white house in event I get kicked out of office and held accountable for my actions at even the slightest level
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“Exquisite Class” Posts @embittered.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I suspect there a lot more folks posting here that are on the precipice of crashing out than everyone expects. Times is tough, which is why I just think general grace is needed. It’s fucking scary, it’s feel like madness is seeping in sometimes. So yeah I get it, and hope those folks the best
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the US economy & our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable… that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more than you spend…“
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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From the author of THE LIBRARY comes a magisterial history of bookshops and booksellers 📚️ #TheBookshop connects stories and lives that span centuries, countries and continents. Andrew Pettegree's sweeping history of bookselling and its characterful booksellers is out today: tinyurl.com/5t4p8r49
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The USA experienced declines in Free Political Parties, Effective Parliament, Access to Justice, and Judicial Independence, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press, and Economic Equality. US scores on most of these measures are at their lowest levels since 1975" www.idea.int/publications...
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So, hey, um, heads up?
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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 19/09/2026
I’m making art again, it’s been awhile!
A brightly colored fluffy three eyed cat meowing angrily,with little wiggly lines around it. It has the words “I’m overstimulated” in a bold oblique serif font.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
just thinking about this again!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/09/2026
POWERFUL MOMENT Americans forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center to protect a national memorial from a president threatening to tear it down. JFK’s niece, Kerry Kennedy, called on people to show up, and they did. This will never be the Trump Center, in the people’s eyes.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something I'm concerned about that I haven't really seen anyone addressing is how "AI safety" regs could end up being super authoritarian. Like, if you truly believe that AI could kill all humans, it seems totally reasonable to install a government backdoor in every smartphone and computer.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ICE plans to spend millions more dollars on Tangles, and specifically Webloc. As we revealed, this is a tool that ICE can use to monitor entire neighborhoods. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
escription: PenLink’s Tangles, supported by the Webloc database, provides ICE Criminal Analysts and law enforcement personnel a centralized capability to search, collect, analyze, and monitor publicly available open-source information from the open web and social media platforms. The service supports HSI criminal investigations by enabling users to develop leads and build subject, company, and commodity profiles using timely open-source data. It includes 100 credentialed user licenses for the Tangles Baseline and Webloc Bundle, access to searches and analyses, dark web sources, image and facial analysis tools, Weaver company sources, monitoring, online training, weekday support, 100 Co-Analyst licenses, one dedicated engineering support, and PenLink Academy training resources. The task order allows INTEL to procure licenses at discounted rates, with annual ordering up to $10 million. The total period of performance is September 25, 2026, through September 24, 2027.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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WhinterQueen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JFC. the hand soap was distributed to NC, MS, ND, NE, NC, MD, SC, WI, GA, PA, CA, IL, IA, NY, TX, & WA
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This right here is some top-shelf allyship, y'all. Some of these candidates are being told that their anti-trans talking points will win Serious Adult Voters. You've got to show them they're wrong. Make the weather vane swing back again.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026
Major League Baseball built a pipeline in the Dominican Republic to scout superstars like David “Big Papi” Ortiz. But there’s an open secret: It enables an industry that financially exploits scores of kids and their families each year. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: propub.li/3SFfAWo
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
The people ICE abandoned on Malabo are being disappeared, DHS copy-pastes the same statement they sent me two days ago, meanwhile a new ICE jet flies overhead and expels more third-country nationals a couple hundred miles away in Cameroon. It’s too much, man.
"When an individual is no longer in ICE custody then
ICE will no longer be responsible for them. This is common sense.
"For specific questions on the agreement, we refer to the State Department.""When an individual is no longer in ICE custody then
ICE will no longer be responsible for them. This is common sense.
"For specific questions on the agreement, we refer to the State Department."An FR24 map showing N120LW flying past Malabo and landing in Yaoundé.
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Caption your videos, please. Use alt text. Wear a mask in public settings where disabled people have no choice but to be. Stop acting like you “don’t owe anyone anything”. You do. If you want to be a person in the world who benefits from community, you have to help build that.
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Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1/ Exile as "Safe haven" has become an illusion for women & queer activists. Crossing borders is no longer a guarantee of safety when repressive states use digital technology & weaponize intersectional identities to silence them & sabotage lives & rights in exile. Yet, they face such threats alone🧵
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10/09/2026
it's so easy to deflect. Here's your messaging: "It's strange to me that Republicans are spending their time obsessed about a tiny minority of the population - under 5,000 people - when Texans are paying $5 a gallon for gas because our president got us into an illegal war."
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
it is unforgivable how Democrats are granting the right's premise about trans kids in sports even as they attempt to navigate a "moderate" position so they don't look so bad (hint: not possible) they have literally regressed! the first bathroom bans did not have this kind of bipartisan support!!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One of the biggest legacies of 9/11 was the rapid growth of mass surveillance. Whether it's the PATRIOT Act, Palantir, or Flock cameras, Americans don't want more erosions of our civil liberties in the name of "security."
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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today, September 8, 2026 marks the 60th anniversary of Star Trek’s premiere on American network television. From the beginning, there was something special about this show. >> [more]
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A Times Square packed with 300,000 daily commuters, rebuilt one keystroke at a time. No pixels, just typewriter letters standing in for light and shadow.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
UN votes 164-1 to adopt Equal Earth map projection, replacing centuries-old Mercator distortion
UN votes 164-1 to adopt Equal Earth map projection, replacing centuries-old Mercator distortion
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An Flathartach @an-flathartach.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
2 paintings by the same artist, painted 11 years apart.... Top: The Sun Sets Sail, 2001 Bottom: Toward the Horizon, 2012 Artist: Rob Gonsalves
Painting of a bridge, clouds & tall ships, where the arches of the bridge gradually became the sails of the tall ships
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
My book, which is currently on sale for $1.99 (ebook), is the @newscientist.com September book club selection! Some thoughts on the work I hope the book does: “Given the crises we face – genocides, climate change, attacks on transgender people – we need our critical faculties now more than ever.” 🧪
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'Thinking about the edges of space-time can help build a better world' | New Scientist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, New Scientist columnist and author of the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, The Edge of Space-Time, on why the big questions in physics matter so much
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Ian Lahey @ilahey.com · 06/09/2026
How to save money and have fun as an adult.
An image about writing
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There's a reason Indivisibles have been organizing locally to stop Flock- we recognize that the tools used for mass surveillance and attacks on immigrants are ultimately used to crack down on free speech for everyone. We must stand together in solidarity. www.404media.co/flock-taught...
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Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.
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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Making a thread of disabled artists because a lot of AI "artists" use disabilities as a defense for using the theft machine and are really quick to call you ableist for calling out that bullshit You dont need to be of able body and or mind to create.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here's an oral history of maybe the most venerated front page of The Onion of all time. You'll get the 9/11 edition along with this month's paper in the mail in a couple of weeks.
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An Oral History of The Onion’s 9/11 Issue
Immediately after 9/11, humorists struggled with what many called ‘the death of irony.’ Then ‘The Onion’ returned and showed everyone the way
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