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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 4h
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 22h
Children's Hospital of L.A. is doing a card drive, for every card submitted to a kid in Hospital that can't trick or treat or celebrate Halloween, they get a $1 donation. The Cards are FREE to send online & it's a good thing to do to make a kid's Halloween great. secure1.chla.org/site/SPageNa...
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Send a Halloween card to a child in the hospital!
You can help a child in the hospital have a spook-tacular Halloween. Send a special card before the deadline.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on ­ post-
­ traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
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Nekrởtzar @nekrotzar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like this must have been done but I haven’t seen it.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western:
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Same, but I feel like I had to escape on a floatplane with some dude and his pet snake.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please share. #Pinks
girlyfeminist girlyfeminist
l've been a SA advocate for decades:
NEVER go to campus resources for a SA. Call a rape care hotline/program (off campus), get a SA advocate (they're free), go to a SART hospital for care (and evidence collection if you choose).
They activate the police. Schools have NO business in this process and will minimize and bury it. It's a criminal matter, not an administrative matter.
Period. No exceptions.
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Short, smart read on reading economic indicators in an age of monopoly. dylanratigan.substack.com/p/the-tech-m...
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The Tech-Monopolies Choking America Out
Watching the stock market and declaring the economy healthy is like watching the growing python and declare that everything inside its coils must be thriving.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This thread. Hazing happens when leaders accept it, and stops when leaders won't tolerate it.
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Dark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If it's any consolation, while someone who writes a plan like "The fastest way to get across a minefield is by running" may succeed without stepping on a mine, anyone who does this once and succeeds will think they've discovered "one weird trick" and just keep doing it until they step on a mine.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026
33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.
The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After blathering on about Fox News' negative space with @gregsargent.bsky.social, @sulliview.bsky.social, @janecoaston.bsky.social, and @johnfugelsang.bsky.social I've finally written out a proper piece laying out the concept.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
JD Vance: "The message is don't give power to the crazy people who started these problems in the first place. If you're frustrated about high prices, you have every reason to be."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026
JD Vance Booed  By Own Reflection  In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-…
JD Vance Booed  By Own Reflection  In Mirror
Image Calls VP ‘Loser’ Right To His Face
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Any news organization that broadcasts the DHS version of events without a tremendous disclaimer is doing their audience a terrible disservice. presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
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DHS's pack of liars | Press Watch
Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You cannot successfully negotiate in good faith with people who operate in bad faith. Also, when they show you who they are, believe them.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.
John Kenneth Galbraith:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026
I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.
A series of high-magnification views of a seemingly smooth human heart valve, revealing the rough texture under extreme close-up.


Image:
Zhaoxing Wang, Kunpeng Wang & Yan Xu (modified)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56485-5

CC BY 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
God, what an exhausting time to have pattern recognition and more than a six month memory.
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Louder for the shitheads sleeping in the back row!
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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
This is exactly why we need to pass the WARRIOR Act. Pete Hegseth continues raising the hurdles to prevent women from serving our country. They keep clearing them. Women meet and exceed these standards, but it’s Hegseth who refuses to accept it. thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...
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Hegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are Passing
Data shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard.
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thoughtful, germane, well argued, and, IMO, correct.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 16/09/2026
An amazing speech by Lexington, KY city council member Emma Curtis on the damage done to the community by the recent cuts to the local paper: kiesow.net/how-to-talk-...
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How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barley newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican, knew the costs of war as well as any man.
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Mad Doctor Mookie @mookiebean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: The Riverbottom Nightmare Band will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.
RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND from Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This guy wrote a stellar book on the interwoven strands of TESCREAL. More Everything Forever is essential to understanding the current moment in tech, politics and culture.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CBO analysis: The Iran war has cost the U.S. $38 billion as of August 1. That’s >$246 million per day, on average. CBO says the war has raised inflation and global energy prices, citing reduced traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and says it’ll raise interest rates on treasuries.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Heat stroke causes severe impaired judgment & confusion, which is why it's important for parents, teachers, coaches, outdoor crew supervisors, drill sergeants, & others to be vigilant in watching for signs of heat stroke in people they supervise. It's hard to recognize heat stroke in yourself.
billfrist.substack.com
We Taught a Generation to Stop, Drop, and Roll. We Never Did the Same for Heat.
Extreme weather is reshaping the school day. Our schools need to change with it.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When I say I've been working on this debunking for *years* that includes academic publications. Here's a quick thread:
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's the thing. We do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them. No common cause with TESCREALists, no platforming their nonsense as if it had any value, no picking up the Overton window and carrying it over to them.
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last voice at Ground Zero today belonged to Catholic Michael Massaroli, whose father was killed in the North Tower 25 years ago. “I’ve had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters. That’s wrong.”
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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This shouldn't be a courageous statement; it should be commonplace.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've said this in the past a few times, and it bears repeating: I'm convinced that most of the tech industry are sociopaths. There is no industry more committed to rationalizing mass destruction, and in our current environment, that's saying something.
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