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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/10/2026

The very concept of yelling at the pope on Twitter is so fucking funny

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dear journalists, reporters, whatever: If your editor asks you to go to Greenfield, Mass & “cover” (milk) a certain story, the correct response is, “No.” & if you get the idea yourself to do that, the correct thing to do instead is to GFY & write about something else.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SOMEONE LOOK AT MY DOG JUST LOOK AT HIM HE IS VERY GOOD okay thank you

Cooper! A soulful-eyed lab-hound mix. White with some spotting that looks like you spilled coffee on him.

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Important reminder: atop a long list of reasons why one shld not meet w/ Yudkowski for his advice on AI/AGI, or anything else, is: HE ISN’T A CODER! HE IS’NT A DEV! He literally just dropped out of 8th grade & later posted his Harry Potter fan fic & nonsense mental masturbation online. That’s it!

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jesus H Roosevelt Christ does Bernie not have a single gd staff member that can advise him to STAHP? What the actual fuck

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Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists @cosantifascists.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Data Republican is mad that we unmasked some of the most heinous people in the world.

“The goal of GDL Exposed is to push back against the neo-Nazi organization Goyim Defense League by unmasking their activists who travel around the country harassing people,” a representative of the site told Raw Story. “The GDL is led by Jon Minadeo, whose primary source of income is video chatting with children and rebroadcasting those recordings to thousands of angry neo-Nazis, without the knowledge or consent of the children or their parents.

“These videos have included support for mass shooters such as the Antioch High School shooter in Nashville, who was found to have shared a GDL flyer. Data Republican is right. We do hope to ruin these people’s lives. They are predators who would kill every non-white and Jewish person on earth if they could.”

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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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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As I’ve said before: I’ve been to lots of truly-consensual sex parties, and I’ve been to all kinds of different BDSM play parties. This? Ain’t that. I’ve seen them postings in sex workers forums looking for women to attend these events. But in my opinion, they are not safe events for anyone.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

there’s major media coverage of this happening to a new woman every year or so and they’re always so surprised. it won’t be different for you, babe. it never is.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 27/09/2026

out on the road today I saw a wojack sticker on a cybertruck

cybertruck with a bumper sticker of the NPC meme that says ROCKET MAN BAD

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

PNW lookin pretty pretty pretty good this week 🤘

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would NEVER do this

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What if told ya it appears the mass scraping of web data & intel property & collection/sharing of confidential info “microdata” by entities/non profits & fed & state gov’ts & edu inst began in full force after passing of the 2016 Evidence-Based Policymaking Act? & it was led by Fed agencies…

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

While Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez (a man with no criminal record BTW) was in his car working making DoorDash deliveries in North Austin, ICE vehicles reportedly side swiped his car & then shot him in the back & neck. Fucking ICE then took him out of hospital that night & to a detention center. jfc

Lincoln-Goldfinch shared Garcés Pérez’s account of the shooting, saying he was making a delivery when “an unmarked black truck sideswiped him.”

“He didn’t know it was ICE, and he did a U-turn under the highway. The truck chased him and sideswiped him again, and the agents came out and shot him in the back of the neck and pulled him out of the car,” she said.

A social media video verified by NBC News captures the sound of tires screeching followed by a person exiting a dark-colored SUV as a blue sedan is stopped next to it, both vehicles facing each other. The sedan also appears to be damaged on the passenger side.

At least three gunshots are heard as the person approaches the sedan and runs up to it as it slowly lurches forward. The video shows the person standing next to the sedan’s driver’s side as it stops in front of an intersection.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelan-man-shot-ice-texas-says-s-pain-still-bullet-back-rcna598999

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:

finance.yahoo.com

OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift

The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ICE has shot yet another citizen inside their vehicle, this time in Austin, TX. There’s been little info so far provided by DHS to local officials (per a recent presser) who are demanding answers from feds & to be included in any investigations. The man ICE shot is reportedly now in stable condition

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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Remember that these sociopathic tech lord grifters arguing their valuations yo be more than the US GDP all want to be pooled into your supposedly low risk retirement mutual fund indexes, over which you have no real control over.

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is Trump trying to guarantee Republicans lose the Florida midterms? Because allowing the killing of endangered species as long as you say it wasn't intentional is the kind of shit that could cost Republicans the Florida midterms.

abcnews.com

Trump administration allows inadvertent killing of endangered species

Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/09/2026

(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Great piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on how the effective altruism cult has helped destroy actual philanthropy - with dangerous and deadly results for many people in need:

realtimetechpocalypse.com

Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator

Sticker on a cooler at a convenience store advertising Arizona iced tea cans at $1.50 each.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.

Close-up of a small wild cat with brown striped fur, large rounded ears, amber eyes, and a dark nose, staring directly at the camera with an intense, slightly irritated expression.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, oh god that's 90 billion megatons of TNT all civilization is wiped out earth plunges into fiery inferno and then utter darkness

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/09/2026

“Aella is fighting gyges about if ai safety is just a sex cult” You bolt awake. You are not online. It is 1415. You are Charles d’albret, and you have seen the future. It cannot come to pass. The English army must be destroyed.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW CAT JUST DROPPED!!!!!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The funniest part is the reply telling her to subscribe to gyges' anti-anti-ai labeler

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 17/09/2026

this stuff is both horrifying and hilarious since the more pervasive it becomes, the less reliable outputs from your chatgpt prompt will be. The tech giants should be desperate to smother this sort of operation but short term earnings motives prevents any action

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

important reading for those interested in such things ˅ ˅ ˅

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Agreed. I also don’t think the Dep Dir of CIA for Operations (aka Clandestine Services) shld be a rando kid (?) who appears to be running a side hustle selling “technical surveillance services” through a possibly unregistered company in HI w/ a shitty website? Like wtf is this? archive.today/cHiAk

https://www.honolulutechnicalsecurity.com/

http://archive.today/cHiAk

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

what cursed fandom lore are we doing next snapewives? msscribe?

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Arc de Vlad Drăculea (Derogatory)🎃 @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

lulz As an old head connoisseur of the weird & gothic, my brain is so cooked that while a bunch of y’all been on here joking ‘bout muting “Sankey” I’ve been lmao at Aella lore posting & wanting to mute “Lincoln Center” & “Sheeran.” Sicko. smh

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/09/2026

we’re all going to need to detox for a few days after this

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Aella is the Olivia Nuzzi of TPOT rationalists in that if you understand this you should go climb a very tall mountain and bury your phone at its peak

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