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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 7m

I don't believe that AIs are alive/conscious/ensouled, and am agnostic about whether they theoretically could be some day. They are maybe on the level of electrical signals being passed through a dead brain? This is an entirely uneducated opinion, idk

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 6h

Reminder to any lefties out there tempted to hand it to tuck tuck - this guy is not our ally

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Thoreau Away @thoreauaway.bsky.social · 8h

“Minnesota is Republican and Kansas is Democratic” no that’s not true, Teddy Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan are dead

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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 4h

Never ask a Mainer their age, their salary, or why they want to keep voting for their emotional support Trump enabler.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 9h

I dunno, one time I hung upside down and it fixed my back for like a week

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026

the constitutional convention was one of the most epic examples of “we’ll fix it in post” in human history

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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 10h

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1954)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 10h

Just saw a bot comment on a youtube recipe video where the profile image was just fully a nude human ass. incredible stuff going on over there

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh yeah. It slaps. Calling all mineheads! games.mino.mobi/orb

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🅱️oofessor Killosk 👻🔪 @professorkiosk.wtf · 30/09/2026

now that’s what I call an abomination

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 20h

The Icelandic word for psychologist is "sálfræðingur". It literally means "soul expert". For short we call them "sáli" or "soulie".

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oliver @eikopf.com · 13h

*frantically flipping through a tourism phrasebook* roflcopter?

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 12h

the thing about helping people with the Computer for a significant part of my job is you find out people's problem usually turns out to be "incapable of reading what is on the screen and deducing what they should do based on that"

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

for millennia you would spend your life dreaming of an audience with the pope and today, through the miracle of technology, Jesus Returns Movie can talk to him with the press of a button and he uses it to say “has his excellency considered the Minions”

What about the Minions? Hundreds of humans working together to bring Entertainment to life... Does the Church Approve of that? Or is that a NO-GO?
Cartoons, Stop-Motion Animation, CGi... they're ALL in the same category. (Now, add Ai Films to it.) They're NOT traditional movies, they are something else... simply PURE entertainment. The Church now DECIDES what
TOOL Creative HUMANS are using?

and there’s a gif of two minions hula dancing in grass skirts that fall down and show their undies.

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bighorse06.bsky.social @bighorse06.bsky.social · 14h

Consider that the minions still work for post villain Gru because his "moon theft" shenanigans killed so many people even the blood and body of christ can not redeem him.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20h

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 02/10/2026

these stories about how biden was totally ready to do something - he was so mad you guys seriously - but had no other option than to let bibi dog walk him into assisting in the mass slaughter of civilians … i’m not sure they’re helping on the legacy front.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 15h

I too oppose the foreign tyranny of dastardly Huns of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 15h

We are building a high trust society by having ICE agents pose as utility workers to perform warrantless abductions

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15h

the thing about these dudes is that they’re really dumb

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are copious sources one can read on this if one is interested in knowing something about another culture rather than simply painting an image of it that matches one's own concept of evil, frequently obtained from looking in a mirror and noticing what one doesn't like about themselves

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The most relatable thing about Trump is his inability to mention Ken Paxton without saying that he’s a freak piece of shit. And Paxton has to smile and say thank you sir. Love that for both of them.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The future of the military is one computer shooting missiles at whoever it wants and thousands of soldiers who stand around looking sexy

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

idunno I think if you believe llms are conscious and continue to use them, you’re just saying you’re down to be a bad person? thats the logical conclusion of winning the debate? like what am I missing

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 02/10/2026

In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)

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Saving Iraq’s Seeds, One Garden at a Time

Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rural community drama - the dedication of the most influential people here to not allowing anything new or multi-story to be built anywhere is incredible to behold. You will pay out the ass for decrepit sharecropper houses from 1927 and you will like it.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

it's actually quite striking to me how much the illiberals are starting to argue, quite directly, "we want a fragmented chaos on our frontier, so we can dominate it more easily" feels like decadent roman empire frontier management tbh here's one about canada:

defenseanalyses.org

The Centrifugal Strategy

Fragmentatation as strategy in the northern Monroe Doctrine.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

in an insane world only the insane are sane

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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there's a lot of awesome stuff going on here, but also its wild to me that a public servant who has spent all but 10 years of his professional life in government service has "private island in Maine with no roads or cars and no public boat access" money. I get that the DC bar is lucrative but.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think it's bad for the insane Nazi Secdef to rant to the generals about how civil society is their enemey

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the executive branch is composed of the president, who is animated exclusively by mad king shit, and the executive departments, which are animated mostly by nazi interpretations of what he intended when he made noises while falling asleep at his desk

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 30/09/2026

If I had to pick a favorite kind of conflict? It’s gotta be internecine

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

on a genuinely respectful note I think a lot of the fear of handing off more of our taste to automated systems is all the systems mentioned have been gamed to death. If you accidentally watch one right-wing-adjacent YouTube video that is all it will recommend for weeks, etc

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The independent voter to the Republican Party:

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking about Hastings and getting mad again. He’s William the BASTARD in this house. FUCK. If Harold had a visor things would have been different

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Len @len.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This might be the funniest achievement Paradox has ever added.

Papal Bull
Make your Puppet Pope sleep with your spouse

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Harold Godwinson telling Harald Hardrada that he would give him “six feet of ground, or as much more as he needs, as he is taller than most men” is an all time great line, all the more because he then actually did that

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kitasoo Dawn Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian 1998

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Your semi-regular reminder that Penguins don't exist - not anymore, at least - but Penguins looked enough like Penguins that we also called them Penguins.

A great auk - a waterbird with short flightless wings, a long hooked beak, and a bright white patch just ahead of the eye on its otherwise black head.

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