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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Between this and Jay Z this is the most Kaep has been in the press in years and I think it says a ton the people still holding anger behind him protesting the police are billionaires and Fortune 500 CEOs.

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With Hegseth in the news this week, I’ve noticed him using a particular rhetorical tactic: packaging highly ideological messaging to the military & public w/ (superficially) reasonable & substantive policy proposals. Before I explain what he is up to and why it matters, here are three examples:

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can find this image on the artist's website (donatoarts.com/middle-earth). It's oil on panel, painted 2011. It's a well-known piece (although it was new to me!).

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MIDDLE-EARTH

Welcome to Donato Giancola's official website, featuring over thirty years of art excellence in science fiction, fantasy, and imaginative realism. Renowned for his meticulous detail, Giancola offers a...

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No ulterior motive for the federal government to leak a story to the NYT about gangs of teenagers selling guns to cartels. The main people trafficking guns are cops. www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

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Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime

These high-powered weapons are only meant for police. How are they ending up in criminals' hands?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

“In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and the environment, saying ‘our nation can’t afford to lose’ the race for AI dominance.”

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Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers

Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.

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Balderdash @poppycock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lethality Pete is on a bender. Impeach this clown.

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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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Christiana Ellis @christianaellis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bowie Day 336 “Perfect Day (Cover)” (1997) Bowie is just one of MANY big names contributing to this cover of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day”, made as a charity single to highlight the range of musical offerings on the BBC. Debated whether to include it here, but it’s lovely. youtu.be/wP-uxfmD6dc?...

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Perfect Day - BBC promotion (With Artist's names)

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Enough is enough. Public service shouldn't mean personal enrichment. Ann Wagner has lined her pockets and served her donors instead of us. I know what service means. I'm ready to go to DC and fight for the working people of Missouri.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Listening to the hearing in the challenge to Trump banning Politico/MSNow/etc from the WH Parties will get 20 minutes a side. Judge starts with "where I'm at, so you can tailor your argument" "I have to start with the DC Circuit precedent that exists ... DC Circuit held in Sherrill there's a

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is tremendously funny that a group of out-of-state professors who were appointed by a conservative governor suddenly pretend they have faculty governance rights, by doing things like taking votes of no confidence when they don't like how their political project is going.

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Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/n: Because of record-breaking diesel prices, the Trump Admin is reportedly considering a diesel export ban. There is one part of the country that this would squeeze tremendously, risking physical shortages that would prevent people from heating their homes in winter: New England (PADD 1A).

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At least some members of the Supreme Court will say "yes, this is what the founders wanted. They wanted the President to have the power to use his public office to punish his political enemies. That is what the revolution was for."

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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

yes but lets call them what they really are, organized crime doing business as a sovereign state

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For example here is one where they think they can out run a woman athlete in a sprint.

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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

He will never understand monetary economics. He was a non-investment grade issuer in the private sector. He does not have the capacity or the curiosity to learn fiat currency economics. Note, he doesn't mention Warsh.

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DJ Uncle Fishbits @unclefishbits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sensationalism clickbait media & Silicon Valley narrative-crafting bullshits hubris: There is likely less threat from AI vs AI research hitting a wall w/ no growth, AGI is nowhere near. Convenient to "slow" AI development to protect the accounting grift that is the AI bubble coming for them. FACTS

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Congratulations to whoever decided to put the notoriously size-obsessed Trump next to Ireland's biggest unit

U.S. President Donald Trump attends an arrival ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin on September 12, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland.

Behind him is an Irishman in military uniform who is a good foot taller than Trump

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/09/2026

After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats, and Americans are still living with the consequences, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

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A Quarter Century of Panic

After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats. Americans are still living with the consequences.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute convened "Civic Right" gatherings for conservatives who support democratic civic norms. New report distills eight takeaway themes plus various state-specific observations (Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Alaska, Wyoming, Pennsylvania). /1

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Once again we see that Vance and the GOP's preferred media narrative for 2028 will be that JD Vance is an anti-Israel, anti-Iran War dove and the Democrat is pro-Israel and pro-War, despite Vance being one of the main guys in the administration that actually, you know, started the war.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Congress went out of its way to say we can't risk a single district court judge going crazy on redistricting cases, so they go to special three-judge panels only. Judge Clark is flagrantly breaking that law by refusing to convene a three-judge court in the Missouri case. That is not discretionary.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nobody knows how brains do math either tbh. Somehow eight pounds of fatty nerve tissue operating a meat mecha figured out calculus

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As I've written several times here & at the mothership Musk, especially, but also his ultra-high net worth fellow travelers are the most dangerous of insider threats, national security threats, & threats to everyone in every state in the world, the global system, & the world itself. 1/

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Republican congresswoman claims Trump is a…communist? He’s not. But he is what she describes.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/09/2026

When I was coming up, the Republicans and moral majority types were constantly wringing their hands about teen pregnancy.

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Balderdash @poppycock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i wonder if the trumpist party and aipac dems will call them anti-semitic and sanction them?

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/08/2026

"I think we're gonna have to kill this guy, Luke"

Carrie Fisher wields an assault rifle in THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The vast majority of Democrats have no idea who Hassan Piker is. Here's why they need to denounce him anyway.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

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Balderdash @poppycock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“We’re into some real foolishness now,” Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston wrote on social media. “It’s Lake Ontario, buddy.” flashbacks to the south park episode "blame canada." 🙂

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

‼️ Thread: Data Compilation on CIA Chief Ratcliff visit to Moscow This is going to be a thread I slowly add to of data of information. It’s probably going to be messy but it is what is.

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bad takes machine @lordkeynes42.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash I think were likely from the same set of cloth.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Robert J. Spitzer, SUNY Cortland; College of William & Mary School of Law, has published The Unitary Executive and Trump: How Lawyers Undermine the Constitutional Presidency / papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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The Unitary Executive and Trump: How Lawyers Undermine the Constitutional Presidency

As president, Donald Trump has exhibited the same behaviors in his second term as he did in the business world: headstrong, impulsive, demanding, erratic, insis

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

According to this, Gov. Landry signed bills exempting aerospace projects from public review, making unauthorized entry to a spaceport a felony, exempting aerospace manufacturing from property tax, offering rebates for state & local sales taxes, and abolishing injunctions halting spaceport operations

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Bills carving out favors for aerospace companies become state law

Gov. Jeff Landry has signed into law four bills that make Louisiana more attractive to aerospace companies, while curtailing transparency and limiting tax revenues.

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A. Elizabeth West @damewritesalot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Good one for the secret article file by @normornstein.bsky.social

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