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NEW: Trump wants to transform the 2030 census in ways that'd dramatically skew representation. So we asked you to send us your questions. And we invited an expert on the census, who just published a new book interviewing 100s of census workers, to answer you. I learned a ton reading her replies:

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Trump's Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered - Bolts

The Trump administration plans to upend the census. They’re proposing to exclude noncitizens from the count that determines the distribution of congressional seats, a move that would subtract politica...

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Carol @pinkgodzilla2.bsky.social · 10h

Heading home from work so will catch up on the news later tonight. Signed up for the Kickstarter notification already so will check email too. 😉

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 11h

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 17h

Hey Bluesky, have you grabbed a Halloween gift yet for your doppelganger or homunculus? I'd love for you to check out my shop. Each Jeremy Creature is designed and hand-sewed by me and takes many hours to create. You can learn more about each Creature at the shop. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 17h

"Joel" sent this vid of farm workers harvesting tomatoes in Gilroy CA. They earn 93¢/25lb bucket. Pickers carry two buckets as that allows them to work quicker. Walking over the uneven terrain with this heavy weight puts a lot of strain on their body. #WeFeedYou

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

I've been told the "freelance pie advisor" is a famous chef who wrote a book about pies. I did not know. I also learned that he models for a friend's clothing store, Anglo Italian in London.

Calum Franklin wearing a navy double-breasted overcoat with a gray single-breasted suit, a light blue shirt, and a navy spotted tie. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.

Calum Franklin wearing a navy track pullover, gray hoodie, and blue washed jeans. He's with a dog. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.

Calum Franklin wearing an olive waxed field coat, with charcoal flannel trousers and a brown sport coat. He's holding a bag. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.

Calum Franklin wearing a gray suit, stripe blue shirt, and striped blue tie. He's holding a gray cat. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 17h

In the beginning the political spam texts were spaced by twenty-four weeks, then twelve, then six, then every two weeks. In four days, we could be seeing the spam every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 22h

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Ghost Cat Pin. Ghost Cat spends his days knocking things off tables with his invisible paw. Making inexplicable noises in the dead of night. Resting in an ethereal slumber. Very little has changed for Ghost Cat after death. collabs.shop/wfrg5d

An enamel pin of a cat wearing a white ghost sheet costume with black eyes, paws, and tail peeking out.

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 20h

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 19h

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 19h

In a hearing this morning, the state said it couldn't answer questions about whether it would try to execute her again:

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mcc @dryad.technology · 19h

When you send a bug report to Unity, there's a heavily-recommended option to pack up and include a snapshot of the unity project. They send the whole thing, gigs of assets and all. Thinking about all the projects I sent copies to Unity over the years this way. I wonder if they were used for training

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 18h

My wife is a therapist and she tells me that Gen Z sexual assault survivors often say "SA" instead of "sexual assault" and it kind of makes me want to cry.

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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 18h

It's the perfect time of year to remind everyone I have a series of three in depth pieces about the original Halloween, and why its characters and themes continue to be relevant to audiences 50 years later. Free. www.patreon.com/collection/2...

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Halloween's Legacy | Collection from Alex Pagliuca | 3 posts | Patreon

A series exploring the legacy of John Carpenter's Halloween, and what it has to say about us today. Explore Halloween's Legacy, a collection of 3 posts from…

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Carol @pinkgodzilla2.bsky.social · 22h

The title alone has put me off reading it. Deliberately conflating one group with another pisses me off so I scroll on by.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We should focus on the fact that Kemi Badenoch has *made this up out of thin air.* Opposition parties do not commission innovative defence systems. This is all bollocks. Either some lobbyist has slipped her a pack of lies, or she asked Claude.

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Kemi Badenoch says proposed £10bn air defence system would be 'specific' to UK threats

Asked by the BBC how the plans would be paid for, Badenoch says the Conservatives have already announced savings in areas such as welfare and net zero.

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 22h

The forgotten victims of the Windrush scandal The majority of the Windrush generation did not come from the Caribbean, but the label has left those from other parts of the Commonwealth unaware of their rights to restitution after years of mistreatment ✍️ Seun Matiluko bit.ly/4AUblXZ

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The forgotten victims of the Windrush scandal | The Observer

The majority of the Windrush generation did not come from the Caribbean, but the label has left those from other parts of the Commonwealth unaware of their rights to restitution after years of mistrea...

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 22h

Hanging out with a Map Guy for the day really reinforced for me how much I miss having an IRL cartographic community. Know why Map People are special? They read poetry and also know math. They're nerds. Scientists. Artists. Programmers. Naturalists. Explorers and coadventurers.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 22h

I strongly doubt Adobe is freaking out over this. For many reasons. First, the breathless post notwithstanding, the project probably didn't 'decompile' anything. (At least if the AI followed the instructions it was allegedly given.) It's an attempt to rebuild Adobe from observed functions.

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Carol @pinkgodzilla2.bsky.social · 22h

Get on those washers folk! Pre-circuit board with design to fail programming. You can’t miss!

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pay attention to this: it's a big deal.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 05/10/2026

Actors linked to Iran, Russia, China, and other states are using AI to write and translate propaganda, create personas, mimic target audiences, and produce content at scale. @noupside.bsky.social investigates whether AI-generated influence operations are actually changing public opinion.

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Production, Persuasion, and Power: How Generative and Agentic AI Are Transforming Influence Operations

Generative AI can increase the quantity and quality of malign foreign influence campaigns. However, questions remain as to whether these campaigns influence public opinion.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a thing confirmed by research, to an extent. It’s also why ensuring content shows up in retrieval and in training data is the new battleground.

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🔥 Sochi. Claimed as Aframax Rio tanker was carrying crude oil from Novorossiysk to India and was almost fully loaded.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curious how you can help? We ask that you sign our petition for Wizards to voluntarily recognize our union, share it with your communities, and keep an eye on this account for future updates! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great news. All workers shoulder be unionized. Good luck moving forward!

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Couple that with the very public failures of general insurance in recent years (United Healthcare leading to Luigi, California’s housing insurance crisis leading to delayed/contested payouts on all the fires, the general oppressive feel of trying to get a claim resolved without getting gouged)…

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A Donkey @wrathcough.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also it's a commodity. Every insurance company provides the exact same product as every other insurance company. When it comes to differentiating their product the only thing they really have to say is how much or how little you can buy at ones (bundle home and auto vs. only pay for what you need)

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm not even sure Liberty Biberty is failing. The Insurance Wars exist because insurance is the least marketable industry. You can't really try out different brands to compare, it doesn't work visually on TV. The only way to sell it is to be as loud and annoying as possible so people remember you

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

and hooooo baby do you have yourself a stew going of economic headwinds regarding trust in the insurance industry. Why pay into something that doesn’t protect you back?

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hard work is not the path to success, hard work is the path to maybe doing ok. The path to success is doing massive and severe fraud

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At the end of the day this movie was just about hanging out with your friends and wrenching on cars. It's the sequels that got really ridiculous.

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Lexus SC400 Race Wars: Fast and Furious Drag Race

Alt: Fast and Furious Drag Race

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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s CRAZY Anya Taylor Joy was this young, and this good in this movie. Kate Dickey and Ralph Ineson are also excellent, but they’ve been excellent, and practicing for a long time. #TheWitch #FrightClub

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jack Black's committment to the School of Rock as an ongoing project is legitimately delightful. Also, damn kid, you have let the spirit of Randy Rhoads ride you like a loa.

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Jack Sabbath live at Power to the People (Jack Black with teen band, Geezer Butler as special guest)

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/10/2026

fucking wild conversation. corporations just don't have to be accountable anymore, they are allowed to corporate speak to a standstill and just wait out the clock, and then keep doing whatever the fuck it is they want that'll make them money, and fuck you anyway

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 06/10/2026

I know that it's Scary Movies Listicle Season, and I don't want to get trampled in the rush.

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And Things That Go Bump in the Night

[the collection]

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