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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 8h
Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...
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Ten Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role
November 5, 2021 (her b-day) 1/13/23
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h
The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now
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Brian @pithyremark.bsky.social · 9h
Time to make AI nudes of every 8th Circuit justice, I guess
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h
I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West)
By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,
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𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡: 𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙰 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 11h
Every single thing is The Producers now. Nobody actually trying to do something, just trying to buy companies and ruin them as a stock market scam.
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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 12h
THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1954)
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14h
The kicker is *chef's kiss*
“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 15h
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 15h
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
oh, THAT Shivon Zillis
Alex Shultz @alexshultz.bsky.social • 1h
Musk's attorney just tried this question again, presumably after conferring with Elon and telling him to be less weird about it.
Elon Musk's response: "We live together and she's the mother of four of my children."
Alex Shultz @alexshultz.bsky.social • 21h
Musk's attorney asks him who Shivon Zilis is. Musk's response:
"Shivon was uh...my chief of staff. And uh, yeah. Uh, yeah."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
FLAG AJC: Georgia's Republican-led State Election Board has sent a letter to top Trump officials (Blanche, Dhillon, Mullin) asking the admin to (1) force changes to the state's voting system before November and (2) investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
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Georgia board asks Trump administration to investigate voting machines
The State Election Board's executive director, in a letter, asked the Trump administration to examine Georgia's voting machines and prohibit QR-code vote counting.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 16h
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 17h
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-w...
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Chemo-Free Technique Destroys 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab
Scientists may have found a way to destroy cancer cells without initially relying on chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 18h
why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion
Drugs Fail to Kill Woman
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19h
Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.
Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ETAs the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Texas bragging about eliminating the "Delaware-style" implied covenant of *good faith and fair dealing* in contracting is about all you need to know concerning where we are in the race to the bottom.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
absolutely the fuck not
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Immune to Boredom @immunetoboredom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Or we could just let John Yoo choke her out with his soft, bare hands. Jesus, these fucking people.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026
it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals
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Brian @pithyremark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wish Democrats would start telling these freak bigots to get out. The Constitution prohibits racial discrimination and theocracy. This is our country—not theirs.
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Brian @pithyremark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I truly wonder whether anyone responsible for this fiasco feels even a scintilla of guilt or shame over it. To my knowledge, the only person who has voiced any regret their part in it is the condemned. And that says it all.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
fucking horrendous
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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996
A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think it was @patrickwyman.bsky.social who defined a period of collapse as”everyone knows there are huge problems to fix but no one wants to fix them” or everyone knows that bridge needs repair but somehow it never gets done
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it is kind of funny there is this broad sense of no one caring or bothering to work anymore, everyone just wandering away from their jobs
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"but you won't get enough Republicans to convict" So what. It's not like there's some other more effective option lying around you can do instead. And it's a total failure of imagination to think the only thing that matters is the final roll call.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Oh, a Back to the Future ref... THE MAGAZINE ISCALLED WAHT!?!?"
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Brian @pithyremark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I assume Tim Robinson gave his blessing for this, which is very cool of him
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30/09/2026
jesus christ man
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus Christ dude
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Brian @pithyremark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Potentially actionable defamation in that Schmitt is no longer shielded from liability by the Speech and Debate Clause?
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A query in the new “America.gov” website: “Who won the 2020 Presidential election?”

Answer: “Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 presidential election.
According to the National Archives, he received 306 electoral votes. Donald J. Trump received
232. A majority of 270 was needed.”
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/jfs....
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Lullz
Can the president rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?

No. Not without Congress. I cannot give legal advice.Can the president demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?

Not on his own. Congress created the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a national memorial. I cannot give legal advice.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Is President Trump mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein case files?

Yes. Official materials say President Trump's name appears in the released Epstein-related files. A mention is not proof of a crime.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Does the president have the unilateral authority to tear down large parts of the White House?

No. Federal law does not give the President unlimited power to demolish or rebuild large parts of the White House on his own. I cannot give legal advice.
Main legal limit
• Congress has plenary authority over federal property and the District of Columbia.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
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