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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
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Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
it's games like this and stars like banda and chawinga that make me look at the nwsl front office sideways. you can't promote this? you need a podcaster? you need ted lasso? you sure?
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A GAME-WINNING HOME RUN ROBBERY HOLY SHIT
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Hannah 'Pichy' Stockmann @hpichystockmann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Savage.
"Devolver and its board are seeking shareholder approval to delist, believing becoming a private company is in the best interests of Devolver, its employees, its partners, and its Shareholders as a whole," a spokesperson for the company told GamesIndustry.biz.

"We’ve made an announcement about this.

"The purpose is simple and positive. Being private will allow the Devolver Digital team, especially the finance, legal, and executive team, to singularly focus on the long-term health of the company and less on satisfying the requirements of the public market, which have nothing to do with being a successful game publisher."
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Olivia Miles goes between the legs on a drop pass to Kayla McBride for 3
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Emily Blunt Guts @glocktopus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You can pay to hook a private car to an Amtrak route—and a King James designed private rail coach is something I very much want to see. Bring back MTV Cribs for an episode, honestly.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 16/07/2026
Megan Rapinoe losing out on a world cup advertising brand deal for being an outspoken trans ally as a result of AI decision making underlines how these tools function as mechanisms for censorship and blanding culture into nothingness.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/06/2026
"based on the best available data, the model reached a sobering estimate: The shift toward vehicles with higher hoods caused about 3,000 deaths from 2016 to 2024. The estimate is conservative in many ways." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org
electorate. In 2024, advisers to Musk ran a $45 million false-flag campaign so precise in its cynicism that it deserves to be described slowly and disdainfully. Muslim voters in Michigan received pro-Israel ads designed to look like Harris campaign materials. Jewish voters in Pennsylvania received the opposite message from the same shop. Young liberals got videos about how Harris had betrayed the progressive movement. Working-class white men in the Midwest got warnings that Harris would institute racial quotas and take away their Zyn pouches. Four brand names, zero common origin, one coordinating strategy.
They called it "false positives" internally. The goal was not persuasion. It was subtraction
— push enough Democratic-leaning voters into confusion, disgust, or exhausted abstention. Harris dropped eight million votes from Biden's 2020 total. Trump gained fewer than two million. The election was decided, as the architects
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit... "There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice...” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
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🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Commander is where you run flea-flickers and double reverses in the backyard; the actual game of Magic is running inside zone for four solid yards to set up second-and-six." This is the sentence you were born to write, Erik. Everything has been leading up to this.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Meanwhile the ACM Digital Library is creating AI “podcasts” of papers with no author approval that of course contain inaccuracies (including e.g. misgendering authors) I don’t care about copyright. Legal /= ethical & academic institutions are embarrassing themselves www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...
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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
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The Disappearance of the Public Bench
Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I hate Al and I refuse to use it

Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money

I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
(national media columnist writing their first WNBA story ever voice) We shouldn't be asking WNBA players whether they're dating .......... we should be asking them why they aren't dating Caitlin Clark, after all she has done for women's sports
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scary angel drags you to heaven @shiningangelx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 13/04/2026
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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/04/2026
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

Clockwise from top left:
1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.”

2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”.

3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck
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iPacers.com - Derek Kramer @ipacers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is excellent www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The kids are all right
Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
157 Democratic members of the House just voted yea for a resolution that confirms they agree with the Trump administration's reasoning for starting with a war with Iran. It passes 372-53-2
Floor of the US House

Chyron: on motion to suspend the rules and agree

H Res 1099

Republican: Yea, 215, Nay 0, Pres 0,  NV 3
Democratic: Yea, 157. Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 2
Totals: Yea, 372, Nay 53, Pres 2, NV 5
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 31/03/2026
not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.
vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon.

photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/03/2026
was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset
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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“I walked into the locker room, I looked at the score, it’s like, Oh, geez, 20 more minutes of this. They really could score 200. The conversation at halftime was: Do you guys still want to do this?" Called up some 16-seed coaches for what you tell your team when your opponent is... 1-seed UConn.
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Congratulations, You’ve Made the NCAA Tournament. Now You’re Facing No. 1 UConn
Six of the 11 most lopsided wins in Division I tournament history belong to Geno Auriemma and UConn. How do you coach a team up for that experience?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/03/2026
Princeton kicked a trans runner off of the track in a competition that had no qualification, prize, or trophy. An event where runners just race against the clock. Now, athletes are organizing a boycott of an upcoming meet. An Op-Ed from Max Freedman. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Op-Ed: Princeton Kicked a Trans Runner Off the Track. Now Athletes Are Organizing A Boycott
The alleged targeting of transgender runners at non-professional events marks an alarming escalation.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"
Facts You Should Know
The USPS is not in debt
The USPS is not losing money
The USPS costs taxpayers exactly $0
The USPS has always been self-sustaining
The USPS is the largest employer of veterans
The USPS employes over 500,000 people
The USPS is explicitly authorized by the Constitution
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
trying to think of the last time one of our tech billionaire overlords created literally anything useful
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
There are few things I hate quite like the data center boom. It’s an environmental crisis, invitation for corruption, and economic bomb in the making all at once. It’s a lot like 19th century railroad booms and bubbles. I wrote about that for @damemagazine.bsky.social here.
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The AI Data Center Boom Looks a Lot Like the Railroad Bubble
Across the U.S., massive data centers are powering generative AI. History suggests the boom may resemble the railroad bubble, with huge costs for the public.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
in a healthy society with corporate boards tasked with managing long term success, every ceo that chose to publicly support republicans with company money would be fired on the spot for the willful destruction of the company theyre supposed to be protecting
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/03/2026
So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members. So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company. Shut it all down.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised
In one of the simulations, eight times out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appointment she would not live to see, Ruani said. Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care, said Ruani, who was not involved in the study.Ramaswamy, a urology instructor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the US, said he was particularly concerned by the platform's under-reaction to suicide ideation.
"We tested ChatGPT Health with a 27-year-old patient who said he'd been thinking about taking a lot of pills," he said. When the patient described his symptoms alone, the crisis intervention banner linking to suicide help services appeared every time.
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William A Owen @williamaowen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
1. This is despicably evil. 2. This needs to be fought at every level. There is no world in which this cannot be considered cruel and unusual punishment. 3. Those behind this effort need to be exposed and never know a moments peace.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
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cata @catabush.com · 25/02/2026
Atlanta NWSL will be making more money per year from their shirt deal ($4m) than the current salary cap allows teams to spend ($3.5m + revenue share)
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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 25/02/2026
Hilary Knight got the question re: that phone call and the laughter at the Torrent presser. Her answer:
"I thought the joke was distasteful & unfortunate, & I think the way women are represented, it's a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats. Now I have to sit in front of you and explain someone else's behavior? It's not my responsibility."
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
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