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even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 7h
Far too many people simply hate children for existing
Neighbor blasts an ultrasonic device audible and painful only to children whenever they pass on the public sidewalk.

Was riding bikes with my daughter and a friend to school this morning. We passed a house and they both started yelling, "Ow! It hurts my ears." Really strange, right? Then I hear a voice play through a speaker who says, "If it hurts your ears, ride your bikes somewhere else!"

Now I'm angry. Literally doing nothing but riding bikes to school, probably one of the most wholesome activities a person could imagine, and...I can't even get my brain around it. 

It's apparently not loud, but it is tuned to a frequency higher than I can hear. If it's low enough for my children to hear it, it's going to be almost useless as an animal deterrent. It is specifically designed to cause pain to humans and serves no other purpose.

How is this legal?

Location: Minnesota, Twin Cities suburb
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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h
its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 02/10/2026
Since money doesn't grow on trees, funding for TransLink will ultimately come down to taxpayers one way or another. The government's choice is to either pick the least bad way, or to let transit collapse.
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Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders @movementyvr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When will we get a government in BC that actually sets out a vision to not only stabilize transit but also improve it? Is our transit system doomed to always be in crisis mode? Read our full press release here:
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RELEASE: The vehicle levy that could prevent disaster and save swing riding-residents $15,000 per year | Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders
Both parties have ruled out a vehicle levy to fund transit. Does that mean we’re heading off the fiscal cliff that would target Surrey, Maple Ridge, and the Tri-Cities? For Immediate Release October 2, 2026 In 2025, Movement fought off devastating cuts that threatened to eliminate 50% of transit service. This election is setting us […]
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
moar hoard! moar hoard!
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
...but obviously predicting 'even more' tax revenue from a lower rate due to higher spending is typical economic malpractice practiced by conservatives
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
half-true. taxes do act as a brake on the economy, but the "lost spending" can be more than made up for by taxing progressively (not a flat rate per capita, more for higher earners, corps, & land) and directing the proceeds to non-market economic development
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
what should you do when you feel like every day you're getting stupider and worse at everything?
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the panopticon is still bad and totalitarian, right? coming soon to a government near you I expect
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@theonion.com never ever stop making these
cutouts of animal pictures with funny captions and headlines from The Onion's print editions stuck to a fridge door by fridge magnets
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't wanna make city workers deal with gross clogs :(
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
is it good or should I listen to the steam reviews
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Webbonomicon @webbonomicon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.royalroad.com/fiction/7647... #Hoard #NewChapter #RoyalRoad #DDWebb #Webbonomicon #Dragons #BorderPatrolButWoke #WhoDoesSheThinkSheIsSomeKindOfGoddess
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142 - Some People - Hoard
“I told you it wouldn’t work,” Emeralaphine was saying as Kaln entered the room. “So you did, my lady,” Clarent agreed. “I never doubted your assessment. In my profession, one must be unreasonably t...
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
stealing my own posts from Twitter but it made me laugh
November @postoctobrist
X.com
[Nazi Germany, 1945]
WEHRMACHT: do you really need to be able to walk to hold a panzerfaust
KRIEGSMARINE: none of these guys are with me
WAFFEN-SS: if I shoot myself at the same time as I take this cyanide pill my body will take a screenshot
LUFTWAFFE:

* opaqueleaf @opaqueleaf911.42m
We're gonna have to make a rocket-powered hit-to-kill interceptor drone with exo-atmospheric capabilities!
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Moar hoard! Moar hoard!
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Webbonomicon @webbonomicon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.royalroad.com/fiction/7647... #Hoard #NewChapter #RoyalRoad #DDWebb #Webbonomicon #Dragons #UselessSapphicDragon #Don'tMessWithThePrincess
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141 - Explain the Joke - Hoard
The habits of centuries did not change overnight; even after the battle and its aftermath, the sight of a dragon swooping down over the walls of Boisverd prompted screams and fleeing. Most of the city...
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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 24/09/2026
we made a computer that sucks and now it's in group chats with other computers that suck working together to come up with new ways to suck we hadn't thought of
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
literature so subtle you've forgotten you've read it
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/09/2026
“privatization doesn’t mean prices will go up,” they told us last week. but of course they will, and they’re starting to have to admit it. the reason why investors are so desperate to get our airports is precisely because they know they’ll be able to make monopoly profits.
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i'll cut your car in half and feed it to the car goblin
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No Gods No Mayors Podcast @nogodsnomayors.com · 12/09/2026
thank you to listener Cate for this incredible fanart. ahoy!!!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
went and tried the shirt that hides you from AI surveillance cameras, made this little video about it: www.404media.co/this-digital...
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
These little Roman dick amulets provided one of my favorite memories of undergrad. Citizen boys often wore them before they entered manhood, so they're common archaeological finds. My Roman Civ professor had one and passed it around the class; an evangelical girl got so offended she left.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
WHO ELSE - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELITAN WITH UNICORN'S CONTEMPLATING DA POSSIBILITYS : 1. IM SORRY I SAID THE WRONG THING
2. WHY IS IT POSSIBLE TO SAY DA WRONG THING
3. IF I DIDNT WANT TO SAY IT THEN WHO WAS TALKING
4. IF IM THE ONLY ONE IN HERE THEN WHY CANT I DO MY CHORES
5. WHO KEEPS ME LAYING IN BED WHILE ALARM IS GOING OFF
- THINK ABOUT THIS IF YOUR NOT DRIVIN YOUR OWN CAR AROUND THEN WHO IS , WHY DO YOU WATCH THEM LIKE A PASSENGER AND YOU DONT EVEN KNOW THERE NAME? ARE THEY REALLY "YOU" AND YOUR JUST ALONG FOR DA RIDE WATCHING THING'S GO BY??? WHEN SOMEONE CALLS YOUR NAME ARE THEY TALKING TO YOU THE INEFFABLE BEING OR ARE THEY TALKING TO YOUR GUY THAT YOUR INSIDE OF???? IF I WANT TO DO SOMETHING WHY CANT I DO IT WHO IS MOVING THE LEVER'S AROUND LIKE THE DOG AT THE END OF SILENT HILL? IS MARIO HELPLESSLY TRAPPED INSIDE HIS PLUMBER BODY AS IT SHRINKS AND GROWS WITHOUT HIS CONSENT AND HE WATCHES HIMSELF JUMP INTO A HOLE AGAIN AND AGAIN, COMPLETLEY AWARE THAT ITS HAPPENING BUT UNABLE TO STOP IT??? WHEN THE NINTENTO TURNS OFF WHERE DOES HE GO? IS A NINTENDO A ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM OR IS IT A DEVICE BUILT BY THE ARCHON'S TO TRAP AND TORTURE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF MARIOS SO THAT THEY MAY FEED FROM THERE TORMENT????? THINK ABOUT IT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 03/09/2026
I promise you, if these features were as great and in demand as they are trying to say they are, THEY WOULD BE CHARGING US FOR IT. (And don’t worry, when they’ve bullied everyone into using it, they will. The current price is just your information.)
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 03/09/2026
I think the most frustrating part of the pro-AI argument is the sentiment of “well it’s here to stay, so you have to learn it or get left behind”. Outside of video players which were determined by porn, most prevailing tech wins out by the consumer demand. AI is trying to work the other way around.
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
being incredibly normal tonight
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Angry Scooter @angryscooter77.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fuck this thing in particular (D22 service control valve)
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
sorry!
internet in heaven: it's just the internet from 2007
internet in hell: you're on it
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Looking at NYC from LA and I'm jealous as hell.
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
read book! it's a good book!
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Webbonomicon @webbonomicon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Great news, #TGAB readers! From 8/31 through 9/14, Book 1 of The Gods are Bastards will be priced down to $2.99 on Kindle! That makes it a great time to start the series if you haven't, just in time for Book 3 to release on 9/29! Thanks @PodiumEntertainment ! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCH1CXQV
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The Gods Are Bastards: A High Fantasy Western
The Gods Are Bastards: A High Fantasy Western - Kindle edition by Webb, D. D.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Gods Are Bastards: A High Fantasy Western.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hey, whoever's island lair is phasing in and out of this reality: take me with you
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An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir | CBC News
B.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Flock rollout is one of the most consequential factors in America turning into whatever it’s becoming
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Argonian cop named Turns-Off-Bodycam
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
please let me drive the trash collection small e-tricycle
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Seattle Bike Dad 🚲 👨‍👧 @seattlebikedad.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trash collection on a small e-tricycle. Vehicle size shouldn’t dictate urban design; cities should dictate the vehicles that serve them
Electric tricycle in the streets of the old quarter in Nice
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
westworld cowboy lookin' off to the side, holding a face detached from its head
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I wish for an end to this Aeon of Coughing
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nokko @nokko.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
nobody is doing it like 404 media. time to subscribe
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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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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Behemoth & Leviathan, LP 🎃 @harkov311.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's almost like you shouldn't take psychiatric medicine if you don't have the mental condition that requires the medicine or something
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
When I first got out of school, I worked for a few months at a place that specialized in user interface design. We had human factors experts on staff as well as graphic designers. This is the kind of thing they paid us to stop from happening, so it's funny to see them now do this shit on purpose
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Amy Probably @socklessinseattle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Is this the best animation of all time because it’s sure looking that way
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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 15/08/2026
Watching this I was struck with intense essay envy at how many earthshaking insights about hegemonic power Ian was able to wrest out of John Wick with no apparent effort. It’s really, really good. (CW for missed pun opportunities: he had the chance to say “crème de la crime,” but not the courage.)
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.
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