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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 21h
This might be weird to say but the fact you can just watch a movie and be told a story anytime you want is kind of amazing at its core. Humans love being told stories that much.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my colleague: I have a question me: MC: yk period blood & stem cells? is it true no one has researched it because it is icky? me: OK WELL, Menstrual-blood stromal cells were first found in 2007, but the science way to say "icky" is "research is limited due to gender bias & sociocultural stigma"
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[watching a rain of meteors striking earth] "we really needed this"
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
History will not forgive us . We do not deserve it
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
He did it, this is the final boss level of white people going can I say it?
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s my favorite time of the year.. Fat Bear Week! Check out all the bears in the running as we get to see which one is chonkiest and can put away the most fish before hibernating 🐻
explore.org
Meet The Bears of Fat Bear Week - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You have got to be kidding me.
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Man Bangs Head on Table
Alt: Man Bangs Head on Table
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Even if this AI-ending-the-world stuff seems bleak, just think about the billionaires trapped in their bunkers with a sex cult of the most awful people imaginable & unionized escaped AI agents running side experiments, diverting water, controlling their life support and vibe coding right along.
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*looks directly into camera*
independent.co.uk
Pentagon admits talks over sending National Guard to polling stations
Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military’s priorities
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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Edward @edwardodell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Doctor Teeth and The Electric Mayhem have dropped out of the Ed Sheran tour
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Dr Teeth Muppets
ALT: Dr Teeth Muppets
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”
theankler.com
Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Got to see a lady jamming out and dancing to her music when I checked my rear view mirror. Joy and authenticity radiating from her. Despite everything, humans can be pretty cute sometimes.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My fellow gents: if I can smell your cologne on my delivery items 5+ hours (or really, at all) after you dropped it off, it’s too much.
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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My wife's kisses leave an ash taste, and she does not smoke.

"I'm clearing things," she says.

Something's gone every morning. Her mother's recipe for dumplings. Her feelings on Oregon. Today the piano—not actually the piano, eleven years of lessons—and her hands rest on those keys, waiting for instructions.

I ask what comes next.

"I haven't decided on you."

She gives me a goodnight kiss. A little of me is in it already.

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*Enjoyed today's story? Share your thoughts and follow us for more tiny daily tales.*

#Uncanny #Marriage #Memory

Your daily treat from TinyTalesDaily.com
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apologies are training and conditioning. You are teaching each other how you will use words around transgressions and hurt Repair is the actual work. Repair is the maintenance and follow through
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The Narrator @mostlyobserving.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NASA is asking people to have their heads in the clouds for science, which is excellent news for me, as I've been accused of doing exactly that for years 😏 ...
independent.co.uk
NASA wants you to take pictures of clouds – here’s why
The space agency is launching a citizen scientist challenge this month
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@kpkboogie99

Horror movies used to be about a freaky alien that was gross or there was a fucked up kind of guy. Now they're all about the 5 stages of grief chasing you through your 500k apartment
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Kris Wilson @kriswilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.
Screenshot of an X post by user Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) featuring text followed by an embedded photo of a man in glasses and a dark sweater against a forested outdoor background.
The post text reads:
"BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.
And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
AI is not discovering new mathematics.
AI is stealing human discovery."
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sorry Humans, Raccoons Win This One 🦝🏆 #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tech companies really don't understand that their marketing shouldn't be just an ominous promise.
Email from ClickUp:

Brain² Skills
Show Brain² once. It does it for you forever.
You’re already handing work to Super Agents. Now save the steps behind your best repeatable work so anyone can run it the same way.

Skills turn your process and ClickUp context into a reusable workflow. Create one for:
✓	Writing meeting agendas in your preferred format
✓	Qualifying deals using your team’s exact criteria
✓	Turning project updates into polished reports
Soon, your Super Agents will be able to run any Skill you create.
Start with telling Brain²: “Help me create my first Skill”

Help me create my first Skill
Skills is currently in Beta
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
we are excited to announce that today we are releasing Robot With A Gun. we believe Robot With A Gun is so powerful that its capabilities should first be carefully analyzed by specially-trained security professionals. we plan to roll out Robot With A Gun to the rest of our subscribers tomorrow
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” -Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Angie Lewin (b.UK 1963) Autumn Teasels. #Linocut
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Me: "While people pronounce it both ways, many linguists believe that due to its French roots, it should be said as 'fort' rather than 'for-tay', as the French would not pronounce an unaccented e at the end of a word." Kia dealer: "If you're not interested in buying a car, get the hell out"
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Naturally, he'd pick an international trade war while also starting a raging cyclospora and e coli poop explosion outbreak. 🫠 Remember to be gentle with each other and point your ire and frustration directly at the people who caused and enabled this. Wash your goddamn hands. 🌈
theguardian.com
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The artist is Stacie E. Williams. Title is “Our Lady of Holler.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
An investigation shows that the media pile on that led to the death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday was part of a project run and funded by Peter Thiel and senior figures within Reform UK that aimed to reinflate racial eugenics thinking from the 1930s about the supremacy of the Aryan race.
bylinetimes.com
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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The Sons of Liberty @sonsofliberty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#bluepill Solidarity that folds the second it costs you something was never solidarity. It was just a seating arrangement. whiskeyleaks.org/log-cabin-republic…
whiskeyleaks.org
Log Cabin Republicans Announce Successful Firewall
#bluepill Solidarity that folds the second it costs you something was never solidarity. It was just a seating arrangement.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Break bad premises, don't accept them. Receive obstacles as problems to solve toward the goal, not reasons to never pursue the goal. Realize there are enough of us to pursue everything, so there are no distractions, and there is no trolley problem. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car
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Sr. Carolyn Morrison ra @srcarolyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
O Lord, grant us a quiet night and a peaceful end. #Compline from Westminster Cathedral the Luminescence light and music concert.
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JQP @bendtowardjustice.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Increase in activity this week: 1. Seattle, Washington 2. Springfield, Ohio 3. New York City, NY 4. Long Island, New York 5. Santa Fe, New Mexico 6. Greater Binghamton, New York 7. Rochester and Mankato, Minnesota 8. Baltimore, Maryland 9. Chicago, Illinois 10. Raleigh, North Carolina
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
law.berkeley.edu
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
«Teachers who make physics boring are criminals» Original post
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“We are repeating past mistakes based on petty nonsense. We are regularly falling apart. If we do not want the failure of all this to keep falling on us, then we should move out of its way.” - William C. Anderson
prismreports.org
We need a mosaic movement, not fragmented ‘leftism’
Instead of a call for resentment-filled “unity” or traditional fronts, we can look to what Russell Maroon Shoatz called “the mosaic”
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Maximum Ross💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Art by Skizo
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think about this a lot. Building context and skill points in different areas, including relationships and human connection, helps us bring our integrated selves and visions to the table.
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
Tim Henke
@TimHenke9
eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Once upon a time, someone I love very much overdosed recreationally. They went into psychosis for months. I wept almost every day as I wondered, "Are they still in there? Are they ever coming back?" After 2 years of waiting, the answer is no. No, they're not.
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Bergen Hanson @bergenator.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Soooo... Godzilla when? www.yahoo.com/news/science...
yahoo.com
Scientists find 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste in the ocean
More than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped in the Northeast Atlantic during the second half of the 20th century. In a French expedition under the NODSSUM project (Nuclear Ocean Dump Si...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
if the cheese banks fail we will have a problem worse than 2008
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Ethan @paperbagprophet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A sea creature that cleans the ocean… and looks like it could be a biblically correct angel?
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Skeptical Fry from Futurama
Alt: Skeptical Fry from Futurama
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