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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I mean, reading this /does/ bring joy to my heart.

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If an AI lab makes progress on this problem it definitely will not be due to formalization efforts. I don’t think those would even be productive for this class of problem.

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Br. Robert Macke SJ @brbobmackesj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A little something I found in the Vatican Observatory guestbook:

Signature dated 12 June 1975 of Nancy Grace Roman, Washington DC USA, NASA

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme of #Coastal&River here's a juvie Tundra Swan who found themselves alone at the Holy Water above William L. Jess Dam back in 2016. Not your typical T-Swan hangout! #birds #becurious 🪶

photo of a young tundra swan standing in a shallow spot in a river with wings open and forward. they are reflected in the water as well.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/08/2026

Ah, I see that people are discovering the DSA paradox: Local chapters can be very competent challengers to the Democratic Party but the national org has been largely captured by kooks, encouraging the independence of local chapters.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

gets incredible air here

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/08/2026

See recent images of canine competitors riding the waves in surfing competitions for dogs, via The Atlantic Photo: theatln.tc/gzIZZkl2

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Cormac McCarthy novels should only be read as audiobooks.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

There is only one real American. He lives in a suburb with real american values. He has never had a matcha latte. He is a great favorite. He knows that real education can’t happen at universities. He has never used a laptop. His feet are light and nimble. He says that he will never die.

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Ooooh, that’s a really solid analogy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026

it is racial discrimination to try ensure that the representation of a minority group is roughly in line with its proportion of the state’s population. it is equal protection to allow a state to obliterate a minority group’s representation.

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Claire Lamman @clairelamman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

DESI finished its originally planned survey last night!! ..and will keep going :) I made a cake to celebrate. 🌌🔭 @desisurvey.bsky.social

A black, single-layer cake. The top is decorated with a pastel-rainbow telescope and galaxy map behind it.

A different view of the cake, showing the galaxy map spilling over the side.

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Up next is Beloved. I listened to part on on my commute to work this morning (Toni Morrison is the narrator!) and I think it's going to be excellent.

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I read a famous chapter where an antifascist partisan describes her traumatic memories from the massacre of a small town's land-owning fascists in-between two of my crisis hotline shifts and felt like it really captured how reasonable people can find themselves slipping towards doing horrific things

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I finished For Whom the Bell Tolls yesterday. Truly incredible book. Hemingway is understated and forces you to infer characters' emotions until you get to the crescendos of the book and the effect makes those moments really hit hard.

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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Was it like this one? bsky.app/profile/nytd... I’ve been following it for a while and I agree that you learn a lot from what they change.

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Yeah, 10^8 seems to be about where things start getting spooky without some serious attention to detail in DESI LOWZ.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

hey, if AI proponents hadn’t been making up nonsense about AI tools while forcing them on us, then maybe people wouldn’t reflexively block AI tools, even when they actually work. that’s not on normies for being rational consumers. that’s on AI proponents for being systematically full of shit

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I still remember where I was when I learned she said this. It’s unironically a flashbulb memory for me.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/03/2026

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

Comic. Planets and Bright Stars Identification Chart. [Bright glowing dots over black background with labels underneath: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Sirius, Procyon, Antares, Altair, Betelgeuse, Vega, Polaris]

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James Bullock @jbprime.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A real treat to return to my old stomping grounds at the @uciphyssci.bsky.social for the advancement exam of my exceptional PhD student Patricia Fofie, who passed with flying colors on her research using numerical simulations to understand how super massive black hole feedback affects galaxy shapes

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 28/02/2026

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

They're calling him Socialist Wormtongue

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Since yesterday, the Einstein AI cheatbot website underwent some rebranding. The tagline changed from "Einstein does the busywork so you don't have to," to "Einstein is the personal tutor every student deserves." In the FAQ, "How does Einstein do all this?" became "How does Einstein help me learn?"

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is correct, but I also finally understood something from a really cool globular cluster simulation paper that was published when I was in fifth grade and want to make plots.

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Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Yeah, I’m certainly impressed. But like you I’m not sure that a programming task with a painstakingly designed standard, formal and qualitative descriptions, tons of pedagogical walk throughs, and many reference implementations in the training set is a great analogy for all other programming tasks.

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

As an HIV hotline operator, I agree that the logistics are the most impressive part about this. I've heard people talk about trying to take a hundred loads in one day via cruising apps and even that level of planning is an unbelievably impressive undertaking.

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It feels like a lobster trap to me. Once you’ve vibe coded something it’s basically unmaintainable by a human so you’re kind of stuck interacting with your code through that interface forever.

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

New: The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the birthright citizenship case on April 1. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

Monday, March 23
(1)
24-1260 WATSON V. RNC

Monday, March 30
(1)
25-5146 ABOUAMMO V. UNITED
STATES
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25-83 JULES V. ANDRE BALAZS
PROPERTIES

Tuesday, March 24
(2)
25-6 KEATHLEY V. BUDDY AYERS
CONSTRUCTION, INC.
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25-5 NOEM, SEC. OF HOMELAND
SECURITY V. AL OTRO LADO
Tuesday, March 31
(3)
24-7351 PITCHFORD V. CAIN
Wednesday, March 25
(4)
24-935 FLOWER FOODS, INC.
V. BROCK

Wednesday, April 1
(4)
25-365 TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF
UNITED STATES V. BARBARA

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I’m at the part in Moby Dick where Herman Melville spends pages upon pages just listing every white object he can think of, and I think this book might actually just be bad.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

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John Farrell @johnffarrell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It's worth noting that the population of Minnesota is about 5.8 million, so close to 1 in 100 people in this entire amazing state showed up to say #FuckICE today

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/01/2026

“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/01/2026

BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good? BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.

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Phil Mansfield @pawsitronium.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Yeah I was wondering why the focus made no sense

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

AG Rayfield announces investigation into shooting involving federal agents
in Portland

“We have been clear about our concerns with excessive use of force by federal agents in Portland and nationally. We have also been clear about our intent to investigate circumstances involving federal agents to ensure they are accountable to acting within the scope of their official duties. Today’s incident only heightens the need for transparency and accountability. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure that the rights and security of Oregonians are protected.”

The Oregon DOJ is opening a formal investigation into an incident in Portland in which two people were shot and injured during an encounter with federal agents. The investigation will look into whether any federal officer acted outside the scope of their lawful authority and will include witness interviews, video evidence, and other relevant materials. If evidence of criminal conduct is found, cases may be referred to the Multnomah County District Attorney for potential prosecution.

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