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Paul G

@paulgoodman.bsky.social
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All around awkward human being. He/Him. Videogame/tabletop game guy. Quite enjoyed Pacific Rim. Formerly @WMDogma from the bad place.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h
this is very funny
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Paul G @paulgoodman.bsky.social · 4h
So much for fostering! As a birthday present for @inkingimps.bsky.social, I paid the adoption fee and we’ve officially added Pumpkin as a member of our cat family. That she has gets along well with out other kitties definitely helped cement the decision 😄
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Paul G @paulgoodman.bsky.social · 5h
Surprisingly relatable!
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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 5h
I'd like your help. I would love suggestions for any non-Western horror movies that are missing from my list. I just don't have enough awareness to be sure I'm not missing some gems.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 10h
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 6h
When he’s right, he’s right
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Jesse Graves @jessegraves.bsky.social · 14h
There are men whose worse "sex offense" is being caught pissing outside because they couldn't find a bathroom in time and are now registered sex offenders for LIFE yet Jacob Geller gets no criminal record and has admitted to raping one woman and gets eloquently written rape apologia.
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 21h
I guarantee you AI won’t kill us all. The claim’s a projection of reckless rich buffoons who can’t wait to be the only humans alive, openly fantasizing about a cull. Again. I’ve never been scared of AI, but the megalomaniacs forcing it on us are terrifying. I can’t guarantee they won’t kill us all.
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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
what to watch this weekend: pvguide.ghost.io/weekend-watc...
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Weekend Watchlist, 10/1: Seasonal
What to watch this weekend
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · 17h
Light in our Thoughts, Fire in our Hearts, Power in our Paws. A new poster illustration for day 2 of the October art challenge. #artober #inkdrawing #cats
An ink drawing of a socialist cat propaganda poster. The drawing has three cats, one with a halo of light, one pointing to a flame over their heart, and another with their paw forwards and outstretched. Each has a phrase by the drawing "Light in our hearts," Fire in out hearts," and "Power in our Paws" followed by the line "To bring peace permanently" at the bottom. The artwork is based on lines by Erich Weinert.
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Paul G @paulgoodman.bsky.social · 17h
Incredibly anti-climatic.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Munah @heathenqueen.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
They want slaves.
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i just cannot get over how large parts of the Pentagon are being used in the service of this one man's desire to do Patton LARP i cannot believe we're doing Make-A-Wish shit for a Guantanamo prison guard turned Fox News personality. i cannot believe a major priority is producing hype edits, content
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 02/10/2026
When military police found Adrian Martinez's body, his bags had already been packed for his trip home to Houston. The army says he took his own life, but their investigation seemed to ignore one key fact: He was a sexual assault whistleblower.
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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections
Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trying to think of some other policy areas where we should expect similar moves. *ever-more-brutal immigration enforcement *crackdown on nonprofit status of left groups *more press bans and FCC actions against news outlets *another round of tariffs *bogus charges in "grand conspiracy" case
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mark Carney announces a new "national council" on digital asbestos, but so long as the underlying motivation is to find ways to force adoption on Canadians (usually by gaslighting us into believing that it's "safe" and "responsible"), it should be treated with derision.
Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence


October 2, 2026
Ottawa, Ontario



Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way Canadians live, work, and connect. The speed, scale, and intensity of this transformation present both opportunities and challenges. Canada’s government has a pragmatic, ambitious, and informed plan to ensure all Canadians are empowered to use AI in a safe and sovereign way.

AI for All is the government’s new national strategy to ensure that AI is adopted responsibly, in a way that truly serves all Canadians – building trust, expanding opportunities, and reinforcing our sovereignty. With investments, programs, and new measures underway, the strategy will help position Canada as a global leader in this field.

As AI becomes all-encompassing, spanning sectors, industries, and geography, an increasingly wide range of expertise and experience is required to understand and effectively harness this technology. To that end, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, today announced the launch of a new council to provide independent, practical advice on Canada’s AI transformation.

The Prime Minister’s National Council on Artificial Intelligence will bring together public and private stakeholders and advise on the evolution of the government’s AI for All strategy, including accelerating adoption, fostering national champions, and building sovereign AI infrastructure. Its members will advise on making AI safer, protecting our democracy, and ensuring that all Canadians prosper from AI.

The Council will convene Canada’s leading thinkers, builders, researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, public servants, and international experts to advise on current challenges associated with AI, while helping to generate new ideas, partnerships, AI-focused missions, and initiatives. This includes world-leading experts on AI safety, governance, and oversight.

The Prime Minister is pleased to announce the following members:

Ajay Agrawa…
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Inking Imps Art @inkingimpsart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is my birthday. 🎉 In lieu of sharing my artwork, I'm asking for people to share and/or donate to Kate’s Cat Rescue. Even $2 would help the rescue build to their next TNR day. I've worked with them in the past. They're amazing at helping the strays and ferals in Cornwall, Ontario.
Kate’s Cat Rescue is based in Cornwall, Ontario and works to TNR the feral and stray population, helps cats find foster homes, helps supply the foster homes with food and litter out of pocket to keep the burden off fosters, and to end the cycle of cats being placed in harsh conditions.
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SoldierExclipse || 18+ Illustration @soldierexclipse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is no longer a joke
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Mike Vincent @mikevincent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is truly bonkers. I can have zero experience, refuse any certification, curriculum, or accreditation AND take public money while teaching literally whatever the hell I want to in my choice of 9 states
You could open Ye Olde Free-Range Academy in South Carolina and eight other states.
Your school's name comes from your answers to Question 3, "No. I want the freedom to teach whatever I see fit, whether it's Scripture or homesteading," and Question 10, "Old-timey words like 'Heritage' or "Ye Olde!"
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"When your hardwork is labelled AI" (by Studio LKY) www.studiolky.com
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Lot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.
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2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff says
One deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028
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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reflecting on the Resident Evil movie, and a thematic takeaway that's sticking with me with me is that it posits that no matter how insecure and incompetent you feel, you will never be as stupid as the people in power whose real incompetence will fuck up your life way worse than you could yourself.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lmfao
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/10/2026
I will be forever grateful to @tristanelwell.bsky.social for his Starter Villain cover art. The moment we all saw it we were all, "Oh, we're gonna sell a LOT of this one." And we were right! Authors, please use Tristan for all your cover art needs.
The cover of Starter Villain, which features a delightful business cat.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3: 
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey, if anyone has any screen recordings of Echoes of Sekigahara, esp cinematics, I’d love to see it! (still need to buy and download my own) And with permission, I’d also like to use it in a little video I’m hoping to post later today and/or my acting reel. I’ll tag and credit you!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, this is dumb. I guess they're mad that Americans were angry that ICE officers killed a woman, so they decided to completely invent their own version of events for a low-budget movie that nobody is going to watch?
The film’s first minutes will likely get the most attention. As Pawn Shop opens, two ICE agents in Minneapolis arrest the Latino man, later revealed to be an MS-13 boss. Dimwitted liberal activists film and scuffle with the agents as they try to take their suspect away.

Then the film’s Renée Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van. Described with the subtlety of a brick as “MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,” the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent “Juan” with her car. Then his ICE partner, “Mike,” shoots her in a justifiable killing.

Melanie reacts to the drawn gun with panic...

She MASHES on the gas as she throws the car into reverse, accidentally SLAMMING Juan out of the way. He goes flying into the gutter, bleeding...

And as the car reverses, Mike FIRES TWICE through the

windshield...

The first shot takes the [sic] Melanie in the neck, below her covid

mask. The second in the head, above her covid mask.

Blood SPLATTERS on her PASSENGER’s (40s, female, overweight)

forehead and matching covid mask.

From there, the ICE agent drags his suspect into the pawn shop, with an Antifa mob hot on their heels. The stage is now set for a siege, during which numerous Molotov cocktails will be thrown and shotgun shells will fly. Rest assured that no liberal piety will survive.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's one of my cat propaganda posters. If you like what you see please follow me here for more and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com - Thank You, Cats of Yore.
A cat poster done in the style of a mid-20th-century communist propaganda poster. A line of three cat faces face left in unison. Below them is a large crowd of cats marching. They represent various kinds of cats, ages, and jobs. The background is a large red flag. Text at bottom reads: The purrletarians have nothing to lose but their collars. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, Unite!"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Phil Hornshaw @philhornshaw.com · 01/10/2026
Libel is a thing that exists.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Evergreen
Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? 

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.
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