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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 5h

The unspoken corollary to “not everyone deserves to live here” is “and we get to choose the worthy ones” sfstandard.com/2026/10/12/e...

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‘Not everybody deserves to live here’: Renters find empathy — and mockery — on Nextdoor

Wanted: A one-bedroom in San Francisco, under $3,800, no lectures about rent control.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 9h

Up to a point, these terms are used to threaten consequences. But for a consequence-free system, they appear to be the closest to a consequence that some players can imagine—words not substituting for deeds but becoming the deeds themselves

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Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social · 9h

Running the guy over was naked display of power #1. Straight up lying about what we can all see on video was naked display of power #2. A Putinesque lie like this means they believe they’re untouchable, and they want us to know it and to fear them. We must show them otherwise.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 11/10/2026

The last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 11/10/2026

“Give us the money we need to make Stephen Miller cry on national television”

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Newsom is a spineless centrist Dem wanting his turn at the lobbyist trough. He doesn’t care about you unless you can write him a large ass check.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mark Fisher says weird things are 'hypernatural'. The monster ought not to be here, but it is here, therefore it is not the monster which is wrong, but our model of the world. That's profoundly destabilising. The monster & my old way of thinking cannot co-exist. This is the threat of the neuroweird.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A monster is something that defies our expectations. It does not fit into our current models. It is always unwelcome. It is, as Jeffrey Cohen puts it, 'the harbinger of a category crisis'. They are weird. They are something where it ought not to be.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 08/10/2026

When the philosopher with the most explanatory power over the moment stops being Fukuyama and starts being Michel Foucault you’re in a bad way

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 08/10/2026

Third Liam post: one of the reasons I’ve always been more hopeful than most about modern carceral and prison reforms is that prisons *are nothing but* a reform. Prison history is precisely the history of reforms, since what came before was public executions for entertainment of crowds

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"They're using the airport as a weapon against all non-citizens, regardless of their individualized circumstances." This guy is a DACA recipient who was on a flight that had to divert to Bermuda. So CBP treated him like someone who self-deported.

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Passenger held by immigration officials for 24 hours at Logan Airport after travel nightmare

A 30-hour travel disaster has turned into an immigration nightmare for one man, when he was detained U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Tuesday after a routine domestic flight from San Ju...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

80% of the country is pissed off about something and they're blaming GOP incumbents for it, the worst possible strategy for a Dem challenger is to tell the base "I don't share your values" while also telling swing voters "I'm so out of touch I think 'men in women's sports' is a real concern."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you offer a bare bones, factual description of what Guilfoyle has been up to, it sounds absolutely insane. But here we are: America's government under the Trumps. People of Greece, if you are listening, we are sorry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

Here is what happened: the former girlfriend of the President’s son asked an aspiring Republican politician for $100,000 to settle her credit card bill right before her Senate confirmation for an Ambassadorship, which she seems to have been awarded as a break-up present from the Trump family. (The son has since married, with the celebrations partially financed by a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin). She had previously received $300,000 from the donor for what seem to be largely unfulfilled promises of political favors.

As Ambassador to Greece, she has been pushing other countries to do business with an oil-and-gas lobbyist who has been attending her official meetings, and suggesting that the US could bring down the Greek government any time they wanted.

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Novium @novium.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Show up and be part of his posse is one I remember

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Novium @novium.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every time I try a modern rom com I become more convinced that it is a lost art

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

3/ 100+ Americans have been held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. They say they were profiled — detained because of their skin color, accents or jobs. “ICE isn’t looking for criminals. They’re looking for Latinos,” one said.

100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The Trump Administration is proposing to repeal the Roadless Rule, opening 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, destructive timber harvest and energy development." Today is the last day for public comment. Weigh in: defenders.org/roadless-rule

defenders.org

The Roadless Rule

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026

just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now

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Novium @novium.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In my experience, someone absolutely brought this possibility up internally but it was dismissed as an edge case

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

nytimes.com

Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)

The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026

The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade

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Novium @novium.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think it's not lack of spine as much they prefer a sort of gentle oligarchy where they get to rubber stamp things and have big lunches so obviously fixing democracy is a no go.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Was wondering if the UK Amazon does this. It does. It also tells me that I organise home spaces systematically, so not only do I feel slightly surveilled, I also feel as if my housekeeping is being weighed in the balance and found wanting. (You haven't seen the front hall.)

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I started this account when I saw how many of my friends and loved ones followed the Alt National Park Service. This was at the peak of AltNPS's "code number" phase, and people I knew, SMART people, were getting pulled into the fiction that AltNPS was spinning.

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Novium @novium.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are some really sad cases with very severe mental illness (though that tends to be *not just* parents when it happens, but everyone). Sometimes the genetic lottery deals a cruel hand.

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)

Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed]

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

donmoynihan.substack.com

Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Novium @novium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That I remember is "willy Wonka and the chocolate factory" which some bigger kids were watching at some holiday party my family went to

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Abolish ICE.

Haitian Bridge Alliance President Guerline Jozef said that Pierre Damas Bel had complained of heat emanating from the ankle monitor and needing to wear a sock between the device and his leg to protect his skin. She said when Pierre Damas Bel brought those concerns to ICE at an appointment asking for it to be removed, they instead tightened the monitor, saying it should not be lose enough for a sock to fit underneath it.

This revelation was met with horrified gasps among those in the sanctuary.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Again, journalists, what are you doing?👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 The most mind blowing thing about these people is that they are so out in the open with their eugenics & predatory cults. Epstein wasn't as out in the open (at least from what I see now). Everything is right there for you to expose them once & for all!

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...

nytimes.com

Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus

Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

I implore all cis people to read this.

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