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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm perfectly happy to be automated out of a job. Jobs suck shit. It's the part where I also lose my living that's worrisome.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

the length of the table of contents in "united states involvement in regime change"

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 07/04/2026

Kid Ma Wrong Wrong -- Seven Stitches [South Africa, Kwela Jazz Instrumental/Ska-ish Sounding] (Early 60's) redd.it/31g18l youtu.be/_qZtTu3chcQ

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Kid Ma Wrong Wrong -- Seven Stitches [South Africa, Kwela Jazz Instrumental/Ska-ish Sounding] (Early 60's)

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s Long Covid Awareness Day (which I think should be the Ides of March, for reasons that will become clear.) Some of you have heard this before. But I wanted to share my Long Covid story, because I think you should hear it. On my birthday in November 2022, I woke up with Covid.

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 15/02/2026

the Black Panthers were right

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES.
IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Delete Spotify

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I realize this puts me in oft mocked MMT territory, but it seems to me the value of taxing the rich is not to fund government but to compress the wealth distribution, so as to ensure those up top are not so disproportionately wealthier than others as to be able to exercise vast undemocratic power.

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Tom Eaton @tomeaton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

If you live somewhere other than in South Africa, and you’ve heard Donald Trump once again claim that Afrikaners are being violently persecuted in my country, here’s a brief explainer about what's really going on. (TLDR: It's a hustle.) anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-imagin...