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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

I'd like to make it clear, although the list is unranked, they called and told me that I'm #1. They said there's nobody more important than me in any list they've ever made. They said, "You won the TIME100 lists" then called the astronaut on the list a coward. Little much but I can't control them.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
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Dario Amodei
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Elon Musk
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 3h

Ok, you may not be thinking about holiday shopping but we sure are & shopping early is very helpful to small businesses. Sooooo, tell us about someone you're buying a book for this holiday season & we'll give you a recommendation!

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Plastic Paddy Eyes @plasticpaddyeyes.bsky.social · 20h

I've been thinking about this a lot recently.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20h

Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20h

Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21h

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 18h

State passes law banning local, state and federal officers from using gloves that deliver painful electric shocks

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California bans officers’ use of electric-shock gloves after ICE reveals plan to equip agents

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 17h

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Indeed. Useful idiots abound. Vibe coders and the but muh spreadsheets lazy asses are the useful idiots on the Death Star.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Exactly. Her shit led to this. And yes AI is part of the scam. You dickheads are gonna get (more) people killed

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I know Musk is high on the list of Most Responsible For How Things Are but the person I loathe most is Jenny McCarthy and whichever editor/producer platformed her. Once someone decided she knew more than a doctor we were fucked forever. She's the reason people believe TikTok and YouTube.

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KPD Max von Sydnow @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 17h

It's walking me through how to search JFK assassination records lol

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 17h

I posit as a trans man that the reward is that you get to fall peacefully asleep at night instead of lying there mortifyingly aware you could have intervened and did not.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 18h

Anthropic's IPO filing apparently warns investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” which is a great sales approach and also, coincidentally, the exact phrase I was told when I brought home this guy.

Sandal, a large fluffy orange-and-white cat, sits upright on a curved cardboard scratcher, staring directly at the camera with a serious expression.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 17h

CA law requires employers to provide tools unless workers earn double min. wage. Many growers and contractors ignore the law despite farm workers making far less. With a union contract they can stand up to the bosses. Make your donation today. act.seiu.org/a/tools?ms=b... #WeFeedYou

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A UFW union contract can stop farm workers being ripped off by growers

CA law requires employers to provide tools unless workers earn double min. wage. Many growers and contractors ignore the law despite farmworkers making far less. With a union contract they can stand u...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Lupe" shares, "Today's my first day harvesting grapes at night. I had to buy my own gloves, scissors, and flashlight because the foreman told me the crew was full, but he'd make an exception if I bought my own tools. What I earned today will go towards these costs." #WeFeedYou

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Dan will be @ London MCM October @deathbulge.bsky.social · 18h

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 21h

Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 21h

One of Mayor Wilson's best hires is Aly Pennucci, who is quietly but crucially doing an absolutely amazing job driving a bulldozer through years of calcified budget and process morass. The mayor is down in the weeds on this as well and they are an excellent team.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22h

these look more and more like late Brezhnev, late Chernenko photos

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 22h

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" [especially to the dim-witted] -- Arthur C Clarke [modification by me]

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I Was Trying To Justify My Manga Hobby To My Parents And I Accidentally Graduated And Now My Thesis Is A Trending Article!?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when people ask me "what do you want democrats to do" and when i say "just fucking say something," right now el-sayed is the model of the pugilistic wwe style i want: charismatic progressives who talk shit about how the other guy failed and progressive solutions are the logical, popular answer.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it really helps that el-sayed genuinely appears to loathe mike rogers, which is not something you can say about way too many democrats and their republican counterparts. that transmits to voters who are angry and need an outlet for that anger right now.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

so post primary what it appears to me is el-sayed is a good candidate who uses every media avail to talk himself up while talking shit about his opponent, precisely the kind of thing the leftist and centrist wings of the party should want.

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Late-career Heinlein has got a lot to answer for.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Democrats don't have any income" is an insane statement, but it's also an admission that he sees the money collected by the United States government as his personal piggy bank, to be raided as he sees fit.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

scenes from an authoritarian cult -- Trump signs an EO, and then all of his cronies keep clapping and clapping for him since none of them wants to be the first one to stop

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Kevin Sonney @sonney.com · 29/09/2026

It's ASTARION day! Did you see that @tkingfisher.com wrote a 1-shot adventure to go with it? You can get it as part of the Book Club Kit at bg3books.com/book-club-kits

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Baldur's Gate 3 Book Club Kits - Official Baldur's Gate 3 Books

Resources for book clubs and adventuring parties everywhere

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

There’s going to be bewbs on the front page by dusk, isn’t there?

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 29/09/2026

Yeah. I had to be told explicitly by a hundred friends in the replies that what I experienced was sexual assault.

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I went to a bar with a friend from work and asked where the bathroom was and the bartender offered to show me and then locked me in the bathroom with him and kissed me and felt me up and wouldn't take no for an answer. I finally got him out and now I've locked myself in here. I don't know what to do. I need to leave but I have drinks on my tab. I think I need to just bolt
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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Harper Collins tried to claim both my stolen books. Harper Collins published neither.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 29/09/2026

America’s labor laws are broken, favoring rich bosses and making it harder for working people to organize unions. Workers want good union jobs, and we need elected leaders who will stand with us and fight for us so we can create an economy that works for everyone.

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Stina Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

for reals beef is expensive in TEXAS (a state practically made of ranches and cows which is why brisket is a THING here) and shit is definitely omni-fucked. also, republicans have been in charge--holding every lever of power--in texas since 1994. (gods, i miss ann richards.)

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another example of science being strangled by the Trump regime.

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katie @supermathskid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh so it was only ever meant to criminalise *as terrorists* people who threw some paint, then. Cool cool cool cool cool

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Gordo! @posting.fan · 29/09/2026

living in Britain is listening to very Sensible People happily talking about how we need to reduce the benefits 'burden' in the cruelest way possible while being cheered to do it, but any suggestion that we abolish the monarchy or reduce our military budget is treated as the ideas of a rambling fool

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Gordo! @posting.fan · 29/09/2026

we can't afford the NHS but we can afford The King

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

Frankly if any demographic has "sex-based rights" in a patriarchal society it's cis men.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

The idea that women are given special rights based on sex is a remarkably absurd framing and not how discrimination protections actually work in practice. It can only stem from a thoroughly right-wing understanding of the world that believes marginalized people are granted extra entitlements.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

okay, strong closing message

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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is evil, cruel, and could have all been avoided. Too many folks still don't grasp what voting truly means, and how many lives are directly impacted. This is what happens when you don't care enough about the marginalized communities, to make sure they're protected.

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Whoa Whoa Whoa.

We really need to see those rapists' accountability essays before we go judging Cornell's policies.

I mean those men could be truly soul-searching about sending, actioning, & ignoring the "free pussy upstairs" text to the group chat."

Sarcasm. OBVIOUSLY. #IChooseTheBear

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morbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 28/09/2026

surveillance is not a solution

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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