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grace under pressure @persisting.bsky.social · 2h

Rickrolled in the Uber. I missed you LA.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 10h

MAMDANI SCANDAL: Mayor Said To Think Several Songs From “We Shall All Be Healed” Are On “The Sunset Tree”

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

'The Kelpie Pond' by Jaimie Whitbread

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 29/09/2026

We have a bunch of high follower account types with institutional incentives and perhaps personal predilections towards performative cruelty who should absolutely know what they're doing, and then we also have a platform that enables it.

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Mallory Where @malwhere.northsky.social · 26/07/2026

all my opps are morons and I am beautiful and I will never die

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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morbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 29/09/2026

explaining original sin to a shitposter

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

got too much done today. need to sit for 3-5 weeks or months

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grace under pressure @persisting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me too girl

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You gotta demystify Roko. That shit was a forum post, not a wise philosopher's deathbed fear for the future.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Introducing Gurpo

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even a terrible translation needs that human touch to be memorable.

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 28/09/2026

L + ratio + don’t care + didn’t ask + it shall be engraved upon your soul + divine assault + nibelung valesti

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Syn @eunisyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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🦌 FEER 🧛 (like fear + deer) @feraldeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HI GUYS, so! Bad news! I got fired. I'm doing all I can to find work again, but I need help making it til then. I'm sorry. 💔 If you could please share, I'd be so so so grateful to all of you. Venmo: feraldeercolony Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/feraldeercol... PayPal: www.paypal.biz/kiweird For context: 🧵👇

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Rat Squinks 🐀 @ratsquinks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

hi welcome to cage full of rats can I take your order?

disco the grey and white hooded rat curiously peeking out from around the door of her cage

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ SleepyTime Holiday @angeloslh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me staring you into the eyes while continuously hitting the button that electroshocks you: " The button that electroshocks you is a risk to humanity as a whole "

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Owl Attacking a Bat, by Horaku, early to mid-19th century

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Adonis was 5 when the rescue finally trapped him. he was already living on borrowed time, and barely survived his injuries. can you fucking imagine just putting him back outside?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the average lifespan of outdoor cats is 3 to 5 years. indoor cats regularly live to 10, if not 20 years. imagine personally shaving off 3/4 of your cat's life because you're too stubborn and lazy to take proper care of an animal you're responsible for

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors

orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :(

orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Republicans never actually believe that Republicans are in charge of anything, it’s one of their more baffling pathologies.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 27/09/2026

credit carp

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weibun🔞 @weibun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I hope nothing bad happens #leonskennedy

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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grace under pressure @persisting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jensen Ackles politely put his whole hand on the small of my back today. He also said “FUCK” in my ear.

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Our product is so amazingly cool and badass and futuristic that it can act like a hacker kid in an 80s computer movie. We’re going to pretend to be apologizing, but really we’re trying to make our product seem awesome so you’ll want to use it for your own purposes.”

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Jo 𓆦 FESTERING FEMME FALL @necrologos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

omg, mr. mayor! i'm a huge fan

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dinosaurs in watercolor #sciart

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

I need to write this up but I think this is a really, really important point for understanding why openai and anthropic in particular are doing what they're doing. They never wanted to work on LLMs as such, and they don't think of the things that LLMs are clearly good at as an important goal.

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ceej @ceej.online · 25/09/2026

Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once

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　　　the　　　 postes @rem.bsjky.team · 02/07/2026

see the thing is, in order to post like dril, you have to be funny

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danvargue.bsky.social @danvargue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

109 years ago, on September 23, 1917, Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, better known by his ring name El Santo, was born. To this day, Santo remains the most beloved wrestler of all time. The man had more in common with Batman than Stone Cold and is still a cultural icon 42 years after his death.

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