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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...

My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is genuinely the only endearing thing Trump has ever done.

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Sadly Rutschman @flannelgoddess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh shit the White Sox are literally on a mission from God

Letter to Jerry Reinsdorf from the pope

I was pleased to receive the kind letter that you
sent
following the game that took place at Rate Field on August 11, 2026. I am most grateful for this thoughtful gesture.
As I have noted,
"sport can truly become a school of life,
where all can learn that abundance does not come from victory at any cost, but from sharing, from respecting others and from the joy of walking together" (Letter Life in Abundance, 6 February In this spirit, it is my hope that the White Sox will
continue to foster bonds of friendship and solidarity people, and thus bear hopeful witness to the possibility of living and working together in peace.
With
these sentiments, I willingly invoke the Almighty's
abundant blessings upon you and your loved ones.
From the Vatican, 9 September 2026
Leo PXIV

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Prima Nocta was not a thing, it has never been a thing, it was never real www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

feel a little bad about enjoying this but not that bad

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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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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.

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hailey @hailey.at · 10/09/2026

i had to see it so you do too

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This Husted staffer is not to be confused with the Husted staffer who resigned in July after they learned he sexually abused a minor. Also not to be confused with that man's brother, who tried to kill Amy Acton on Labor Day

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Ohio man who was jailed following accusations of sexual misconduct with a minor resigns from GOP Senate campaign

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted’s campaign said that Andrew Havas “did not disclose” his criminal history before being brought on as a volunteer county chair.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Bin Laden was equally clear about how he thought terrorism would yield his desired result. In a March 1997 CNN interview with Peter Bergen, he spoke of transferring “the battle into the United States.” In a May 2000 speech, he told supporters that the war would henceforth be waged “against the United States, in the United States.” Americans, he observed to ABC’s John Miller in 1998, cannot tolerate pain, and will react to attacks not by fighting back and blaming al‑Qaeda, but instead by asking “what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.” In a November 2001 interview, he hinted at a theory of political change in America: Its citizens should “take the same stand that they did previously,” when they protested the Vietnam War and the presidents who waged it.

Nelly Lahoud, a professor at the Army War College and the author of the definitive book on the Abbottabad documents, told me this political pipe dream was bin Laden’s whole plan: “to replicate the anti–Vietnam War movement of the United States, to get the American public to put pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its forces from the Middle East.” The documents reveal a man and an organization blindsided by the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden and his associates “didn’t think that the United States would respond by waging war,” Lahoud said. He did not contemplate or plan for the long-term occupation of Afghanistan, nor did he expect the methodical killing of his operatives in a campaign that lasted years.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

35 years??!! A denial, a denial A denial, a denial A denial, a denial A denial, a denial A denial....

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In 2028 someone is going to tell you (it is going to be Ryan Grim) that Vance is running to AOC’s left on foreign policy. When they do I want you to punch them in the mouth

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hello, i'd like to report a hate crime.

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NoTimeForNinjas @notimeforninjas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Happy 4th birthday to my favorite little void, Wednesday. #caturday

A midsize black cat relaxes on a beige puzzle table.

A midsize black cat relaxes on a body pillow with a white pillowcase. She is surrounded by gold bedsheets.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/08/2026

When I am president (Jan. 20, 2033; mark your calendars), I’m renaming every body of water to Google’s competitors. Lake Bing. DuckDuckGo Ocean. I’m curious how quick compliance will be.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Jackson State choir. And God.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just dawned on me that we lost two officers of the Red October in a month

Tim Curry saying “you’ll receive the order of Lenin for this, Captain!

Sam Neill saying “I would have liked to have seen Montana”

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

sometimes it's good to be reminded that yes, people really ARE that misinformed

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NoTimeForNinjas @notimeforninjas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#caturday A bonded brother/sister pair look out the window of my local catfe. December 2025.

A male orange and white cat sits on the top of cat furniture, staring out the window. His sister, a calico, is behind him, looking at me taking the picture.

A male orange and white cat sits on top of cat furniture, looking out the window. His sister, a calico, is behind him and is also looking out the window.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 19/08/2026

i don't like to stereotype people based on their appearance but every single one of these women has absolutely left a retail worker crying in the breakroom at least twice

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026

dammit i also want a Hello Kitty Godzilla McDonalds toy now

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We’re never ever going to be free from the zombie idea that after a certain point in 2024 there was a DNC stooge with a gun just off stage every time Tim Walz spoke, ready to fire if he said the word “weird.”

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NoTimeForNinjas @notimeforninjas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#caturday A tuxedo cat at the catfe though my shoulder made a great perch with which to look out the window.

A tuxedo cat stands on the shoulders of a human. The human's hair and top/left forehead are visible.

A tuxedo cat perches on the shoulders of a human. The cat is staring out the window, which is not visible in the picture. Two lights from the ceiling are visible at the top of the picture.

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🐈‍⬛🌙 @lune.monster · 13/08/2026

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.

Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/08/2026

Honestly, this is just a fucking child’s view of the world. “Send diplomats” no fucking way, damn, that’s crazy, why didn’t anybody think of that before. Minsk II isn’t real and it can’t hurt me

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NoTimeForNinjas @notimeforninjas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I loved these when I was younger, the height of cheese/cracker snacking. Also hadn't eaten them in years and had no idea they had been discontinued.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don’t wanna single out this person, because this sentiment is so common, but we’ve all gotta update our priors about deliverism after the Biden administration. Because they tried it, on both quality of life issues and sweeping economic policies, and it didn’t work. Sucks but it’s true.

If someone ran for president with the sole campaign promise of ending spam calls they would win all fifty states and get their own monument immediately.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Cool Clouds and Rainbow Cameo on Wednesday Evening in Chicago.

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Dr. Blair Stein @blairstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have taken the 2-3 lbs of copper that were in the camera which you were probably saving for surveillance Forgive me they were so accessible so valuable and so disruptive

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Russian economy is rapidly transitioning to the cloud.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Why should I major in History?"

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My bf is a Giants fan and this coming out one fact at a time over several hours last night was fun. “He was already injured and got hurt out drinking…on a scooter…which he crashed…into a truck? …a FIRE ENGINE? …IT RAN OVER HIS FOOT? HE DID THE SAME THING IN COLLEGE??” nypost.com/2026/07/31/s...

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Harrison Bader suffers ‘major injury’ after crashing scooter into fire truck — which then runs over him

A late-night scooter accident, the details of which remain hazy, will be the memory of Harrison Bader’s forgettable first season in San Francisco.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/07/2026

I genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?

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The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

All I’m saying is that if a quarter of the US population were actually Jewish you’d be able to get good bagels in more than just a handful of states.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Never let someone tell you that you must excuse owning enslaved people or participating in killing Native people because someone was "of their time". Silas Soule was of the same time.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

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NoTimeForNinjas @notimeforninjas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#caturday July 2025, a tabby sploots on the floor of the Gem City Catfe.

A tabby with white legs and paws stretches on the brown fake wood vinyl floor. Full sploot position.

A tabby with white legs partially splooted on the fake wood floor. Rear end and tail toward the camera.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The nice lady on Fillmore selling me pants today asked where I lived, and when I told her, she made a concerned face and asked "Is it safe there?" so I replied "I'm the most dangerous thing there," and this is the only answer I will be using from now on.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Saturday's Chicago Start. This morning in the Windy City.

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