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Phil Sanders

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is there signal in the noise, or do we just remember the hits? he/him

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
South Branch of the Chicago River, 1880
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title above the first two panels reads, "Dog Toys".
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a bone shaped dog toy. She says, "Look!"
The second panel shows a dog wagging its tail. There is a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It squeaks!"
The title above the last two panels reads, "Cat Toys".
In panel three we see Sarah again. She says "Come, child."
Panel four shows a cat raising its paws in glee. We see Sarah's hands holding cat nip. We see a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It is time to do drugs".
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
First time using oil pastels, I do not understand it, and you better not explain it to me, I love being bad at things. Also don’t explain the accents of the United Kingdom to me, that is none of my business.
A …ummm… cockney neon tetra fish with two teeth says “Oi I don know how he use oil
Pastels mate” and a nail with a purple shell says nufffin matters I fine, and a shrimp says SHIMP, and a frog with buns says I am mentally ill
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🤣 is the #1 emoji for people who are in denial about being in the middle of a crashout
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Top panel is tiny planet Mercury in relation to the HUGE Sun.
Bottom panel is a similar image, a tiny "close ad" button in relation to the fingertip labeled "my finger" which fills nearly the entire panel.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/06/2026
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/06/2026
Is it carbon monoxide
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 14/05/2026
This is what happens when there's historically low trust in the Presidents of the United States of America
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Ocean Film Festival has perfectly captured everything I hate about LinkedIn. 10/10, no notes I'll post a few more below, but you can see all 10 images here: www.instagram.com/p/DYJpsALkhE...
Two columns divided by a black line. One side had a crab with the headline "reality." The other side has the same crab wearing a tie with the LinkedIn logo

Reality

Walked sideways into a rock and got stuck

LinkedIn

I don't move in straight lines -and that's intentional.

Lateral thinking has taken me places conventional forward-motion leaders never reach. Yesterday that included a high-value geological formation.

Disruption isn't always a straight path.

#LateralThinking #Disruption #NonLinearGrowth
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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hundreds of Beavers
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/03/2026
The universe is a glorious, stunningly beautiful place, and it’s offensive & gross when people produce or share fake space imagery. There’s a video floating around on here pretending to be the night sky viewed from Mars. It’s extremely fake, has been polluting the internet for years. Don’t share it
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No, This Isn't What the Night Sky Looks Like on Mars
Fake news.
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fraggle @fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026
Left: Minimal line art drawing of a cat that is enclosed in a pink rectangle. Label: Kitten is completely full of crimes

Right: the same cat art but twice the size. The same size rectangle covers only the bottom of the cat. Label: Adult cat contains the same amount of crimes but it does not dominate all of their behaviors
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I got to interview IL Congresswoman Delia Ramirez about her proposals to dismantle DHS, abolish ICE, and redirect ICE funding to housing and healthcare for the communities it targeted. www.publicnotice.co/p/delia-rami...
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Why Delia Ramirez thinks DHS needs to be dismantled
"Why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?"
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/01/2026
I know that it's not really the point here but this is 100% the Swedish Chef saying Tracy Morgan right
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)
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Alex McLevy @alexm247.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A still from The Shining with adapted lyrics from “Last Resort”: “Cut my wife into pieces / this is a ghost resort”
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/12/2024
The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Be thoughtful with the environmental impacts of your food!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
A map showing a town called Deer Park next to a town called Kildeer
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
bingo
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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through
Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Rubio whispering into Trump's ear
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.
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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Looking at the list of bluesky accounts with the most engagement.
A white cat next to a storm drain. A close up of a white cat next to a storm drain. Their face is concerned.
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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/07/2025
hey, so i see you want to upgrade your wifi speed and need a new router. do you want the Evil Scary Spider or the Tower of Pristine Purity? we can also do a mesh network if filling your house with small dehumidifiers is the vibe
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Joe Biden says he's started treatment for his prostate cancer and the prognosis is good. Donald Trump says Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced with a legion of clones. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is getting a fair amount of scorn, and I’d say it deserves it. The hidden premise is that “corruption” requires the specific proof that the Supreme Court has decided (controversially) is required for certain very specific federal criminal statutes. /1
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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Phil Sanders @pikhz.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
movie u have watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode no star wars star trek or LOTR)
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a close up of a young man 's face making a funny face .
Alt: overly dramatic close ups of various characters faces, from the movie The 'Burbs
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 13/02/2025
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/02/2025
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Every review of AI is like: This isn’t very useful and it makes it harder to do simple tasks than if I just did it myself. Riddled with errors. Can’t see anyone using this. I feel stupider having tried this. That said I believe it will soon make human cognition redundant and eradicate us all.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.
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