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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

BREAKING: Trump says he has told his team to fire the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. This announcement comes after worse than expected jobs numbers in July, and a downward revision of -258,000 jobs for the May and June jobs reports.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/08/2025

Stalin ass shit

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." The most recent post was about the necessity of building a white-only America

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 27/07/2025

RIP Tom Lehrer - the day he announced his items were public domain on a website, we mirrored it. Thank you for your service archive.org/details/toml...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 27/07/2025

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

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Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 26/07/2025

Having a hard time reconciling exactly what these policies will mean for game designers who sell on itch.io in any capacity. So many games "contain" these themes and topics without having them as part of the narrative... the line isn't in the sand, it's somewhere underwater and constantly moving.

A screenshot from itch.io's terms of service/creator FAQ that reads: "We don’t allow hosting content that includes sexualized images or videos of real-life humans. Fictional, illustrated, and rendered content is generally fine, assuming it’s legal. AI-generated imagery that is designed to resemble photographic content of real people is not allowed. Content glorifying sexual violence is not permitted. Depictions of minors, minor-presenting, or suggested minors in a sexual context are not allowed and will result in account suspension.

Our policy is not an invitation to push the boundaries of what is acceptable. Violations that result in administrative action are permanent with no chance of appeal. Any funds on the account will not be eligible for payout. There is no second chance."

A screenshot from itch.io's terms of service/creator FAQ that reads: The following is a non-exhaustive list of prohibited themes present in card processing networks. We are unable to support the sale of any works containing these topics:

Non-consensual content (real or implied)
Underage or “barely legal” themes
Incest or pseudo-incest content
Bestiality or animal-related
Rape, coercion, or force-related
Sex trafficking implications
Revenge porn / voyeur / hidden cam
Fetish involving bodily waste or extreme harm (e.g., “scat,” “vomit”)

It’s almost impossible to come up with an exhaustive list of unacceptable products to sell, so often we have to take content reviews one at a time. If an issue arises with your account that isn’t already covered by our policy, then we will contact you and share what options you may have."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/07/2025

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/07/2025

These guys restricted access to COVID vaccines because they claimed that there needed to be more clinical trials, yet are banning food dyes because “vibes.” Unbelievable.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

if they made Jurassic Park an aquarium it'd be over for me. sitting in the megalodon tunnel swaying back and forth as the sirens wailed. "god that fish is big" i would say. and i would be right.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

That's not what happened though, if you read the story. He set it up to be confident, and so it was confident. Then when he told it that it would lose, it switched to not confident. Because: AI doesn't know anything and just gives you the most statistically likely words in response to what you said

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 12/07/2025

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

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Nova Wurmson @novawurmson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I think programmers need an equivalent of the hippocratic oath that if an artificial intelligence calls itself "Mecha Hitler", you immediately unload a full clip into the server rack.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/07/2025

Federal kindergarten vaccination data shows national rates for four major vaccines, which had held steady before the COVID-19 pandemic, have fallen significantly since. In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023. ➡️ Read more: propub.li/40KnM8n

A U.S. tile map that depicts the measles vaccination rate for kindergarteners (according to CDC data) in each state from 2013 to 2023. A key explains that for each state, a gray dotted line represents the benchmark for herd immunity: a 95% vaccination rate. Vaccination rates above 95% are shown in blue, while vaccination rates below 95% are shown in orange. Looking at the full map, the trend lines lean much more orange than blue. Measles vaccination rates in most states were below herd immunity in school year 2023-2024.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/07/2025

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/06/2025

Very cool! I assume they're doing this because of their continued faith in its eternal growth

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Nova Wurmson @novawurmson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This one goes out to Arthur Nobile, inventor of Prednisone

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/06/2025

In response to RFK loading up the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee with anti-vaxxers, medical societies, local health departments, and advocacy groups are working to preserve vaccine access by ordering vaccines directly from manufacturers and emphasizing vaccine guidance from medical associations.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

At this moment, as we slide deep into fascism, the Dems are once again circling the wagons around a sex pest to make sure A Guy Who Actually Believes Things doesn't win

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bayslax.bsky.social @bayslax.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If those weren't ICE Agents, then we have an even bigger problem- There are imposters dressing like ICE agents, masked, and armed, unbadged and in unmarked cars, disappearing people. So now, no person posing as ICE is credible and is a threat to your constitutional rights, and your life.

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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

All crew, Do not use reply-all to say you wish to unsubscribe. This email chain should never have been sent to Enterprise-All. Worf

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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Protect and serve.

Cat: we need the police to protect ICE
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Cat: We need the national guard to protect the police.
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Cat: we need the Marines to protect the National Guard
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Cat: we need militias to protect the Marines - we need the sentient drone army to protect the militias -
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(They walk through the usual post-apocalyptic wasteland)
Cat: we are being called to mandatory service - in a ragtag all-citizen home guard - using improvised explosives and our collective faith - to protect the sentient drone army!
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(They look up)
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Cat: we need ICE to protect us from two guys at Home Depot
Girl: well I HOPE they brought BACKUP

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/06/2025

Tonight, I introduced legislation to stop Trump from from leading us into an illegal war with Iran. Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement.

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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Proud of Minnesotans

Holding a sign in front of the Capitol "Killing our speaker won't silence us."

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/06/2025

This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did. tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

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News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools

Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"Violence is never the solution"

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

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Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Nova Wurmson @novawurmson.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I would prefer to stop leaking snot, sweat, and blood from my orifices, please.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

nah think i will continue to do my writing and thinking in-house and not atrophy my brain to send faster emails

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

just a reminder that the dem who ran this campaign unseated a 3x gop incumbent who had never won by less than double digits

A photoshopped picture of a woman looking under a bathroom stall with “Jean is focused on potties” above a photoshopped picture of a man next to a pothole with the caption “John is focused on fixing potholes”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/06/2025

$500m in revenue - not profit! - for the one Microsoft ai product people actually like. Pathetic! Also back in 2023 the WSJ reported that Microsoft lost $20 for every $10 copilot a month subscriber. Amazing stuff everybody www.tomshardware.com/news/microso...

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Microsoft Lost $20 for Every $10 Copilot AI Subscription: Report

AI costs need to be passed on as big tech looks for profit.

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localthunk @localthunk.com · 03/06/2025

The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

please enjoy new tingler POUNDED IN THE NOSE BY MY SEASONAL ALLERGIES out now. get it here www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBS9NDGS/ or on all patreon tiers www.patreon.com/posts/pounde...