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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 18m

Hello, I'm related to a romance author who isn't on here, and I'd just like to state on their behalf that Joyce can eat a bag of dicks. The amount of work they put into their books is substantial, and BTW the reason AI can generate those books is because Anthropic stole her work as source material

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cass @cassregister.bsky.social · 10h

bro

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 2h

This kind of elegantly illustrates exactly why genAI is garbage

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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 1h

Thor and Doom fuck each other to death

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 2h

idk what emotion exactly this made me feel but i know it was intense and i know ive never felt it before

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 3h

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 8h

good morning @joanniesen.bsky.social and I built a big ol' report breaking down the finances of D1 softball. Where the money comes from, who is spending it, where budgets are increasing, how it relates to wins, and more: www.extrapointsmb.com/p/division-i...

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Division I Softball Financial Intelligence Report

Our comprehensive analysis of Division I softball program finances, performance and competitive landscape across FY2024-25 and the 2025 season

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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 2h

So @evanmiya.bsky.social put out his team ratings with a column for their rank excluding ineligible players and lolllllllsu

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 3h

A fortune cookie microtargeted at me, specifically

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

INCREDIBLE

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Surely a large part of this is the shift to remote work? My organization, for example, switched to a fully remote office in 2020 and never went back, so now I spend most days at home.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 3h

honestly I can't think of something the CIA would want more than to have everyone believe it is responsible for absolutely everything

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 11h

Most TV is just this now.

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 5h

get yourself a grump Husband who loves old graveyard

FirefighterKindly349 OP • 14d

Amazing thank you! My grump Husband (who was a coal miner in England starting at age 16. Guess he has reason to be grumpy) loves old graveyard.
So do l! I am going to plan activities for us, stuff I know husband will like (kid is happy if husband is) so l have my first thing which is the graveyard.
Thanks! Any good antique stores? Just to look?

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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 4h

Really looking forward to the day when I never again have to hear Sam Altman's opinion on anything

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 5h

Normal people are getting so sick of these “WOKE IS RUINING GAMING” accounts poisoning all video games discourse that fucking Vincent D’Onofiro is now aware

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Vincent D'Onofrio @vincentdonofrio
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Not that you asked, but...
In no way do i agree with you.
Deborah is beautiful and extremely talented.
She is as smart as whip and a complete nerd.
Also incredibly kind.
How perfect she is!
And a good friend.
1 am a fan of God of War. I for one cannot wait to play the new game with my son.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 7h

The CEO of General Mills should receive the title “General Mills.” It should be like becoming the Dalai Lama. Everyone who works there should have a military rank.

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀 @danmynrd.bsky.social · 8h

The GOP: i despise transgenderism because it produces pedophilia, which I’m ambivalent to positive about

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6h

New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 6h

The guy who proclaimed the Iowa Hawkeyes are the Atlanta Hawks also said a month ago that anyone who thinks Michigan fans say "beat Ohio" doesn't know ball. The absolute goat in the crowded "Republicans don't know ball" marketplace. Yes he voted for his govt to control college sports, why do you ask

The Hawks/Hawkeyes guy accusing libs a month ago of not knowing ball

Eric Schmitt
@Eric_Schmitt
“Beat Ohio?”

Tell me you don’t know ball with saying you don’t know ball.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 7h

Want to also add that "enthusiasm evaporated months ago" is a key tell here. We are a little over a month out from e-day. Most voters are p much set in where they are at this point. The time to try & bring more ppl to your side—or not lose the ones you have—was months ago. Last min stuff wont work.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 6h

get the fun book ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun guaranteed to smell better than your phone

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 7h

I had to explain to my students there used to be many Ohio election lawsuits in the early 2000's because Ohio was THE battleground state

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 7h

it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for

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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 7h

Hey guys is it good that nobody's buying houses

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 10h

this is being framed as politically risky but at this point in the uk there is almost no one who thinks brexit was a net positive and much hard data confirming how badly it hurt the economy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Burnham Says Britain Could Rejoin the EU After Next Election

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he could campaign to take Britain back into the European Union at the next general election, reopening the country’s debate on its relationship with the continent a de...

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 10h

ukraine has found a good, cheap way to shoot down russia's new waves of cheap cruise missiles: 20mm shells now they're running low, but the world's arsenals are swimming in this particular type of ammo www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Ukraine Seeks Shells for F-16s to Down Jet-Powered Drones

Ukraine is looking to source tens of thousands of 20mm shells to counter increasingly deadly Russian jet-powered drones, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 19h

On Sept. 1, Dems had a 6-point lead on the generic congressional ballot, per @fiftyplusone.news' aggregate. Today, it's D+8. fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 19h

i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad

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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 18h

This oddly specific sign is at a local car dealership’s service area and they won’t answer my emails or return my calls about what led up to it, so I guess I’m gonna have to actually go there and ask them like in the olden days.

Please do not leave whiskey, guns, money or other valuables in your vehicle.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19h

“There are men who cook for him and men who clean for him. There are men who make his bed and men who do his laundry. There is even a man who gives him Chinese-style massages.”

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Diddy’s pampered life in prison: Massages, nude photos, Hennessy

Sean Combs has spent thousands of dollars a month to bring his lifestyle to a low-security correctional facility in southern New Jersey, sources said.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

Gasoline will have a big impact on September CPI. EIA data show Sep YoY gasoline inflation is 36%. Diesel (not a line item in CPI) will be worse, at 68% YoY. (Diesel demand is half of gasoline by volume; shows up more on the PPI side, and/or embedded in inflation of other goods with lag in CPI)

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Eric Freeman @freemaneric.bsky.social · 22h

I probably won’t see Digger but it would’ve been an A+ Letterman topic. “Hey Paul, uh, you seen Digger?” etc.

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 20h

one thing ai has ruined is those cover bands on youtube that take a song and turn it into a completely different genre

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 21h

the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch

Streamers, wary of both AI and YouTube’s infuriatingly un-transparent hall of mirrors, are not enthused about this new development.

“Ohhh so that’s why ad revenue dropped,” longtime streamer JP "itmeJP" McDaniel said on Twitter.

“I’m genuinely worried that the sheer fact that I’m a lesbian will cause the AI to remove ads,” said Vtuber LuminusRed. “In the past I’ve tested it and confirmed that I get less ad money if I had queer-related tags on my stream like ‘lesbian,’ so I am worried this dumb AI monitoring will mean I no longer get money from ads on Twitch.”

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skoals @muscleskoals.bsky.social · 22h

breaking 1990s brains with the knowledge that chuck will evolve into the most consistently righteous pundit

Charles Barkley: "I don't want to be in no fraternity. A bunch of damn loser dudes getting together all the time... Only losers join fraternities."

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 22h

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 21h

Impressed at his lack of immediate reaction

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22h

A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 22h

In general there is an inability to recognize that parties to the Gaza war had agency & acted on it. One of the things the Atlantic article makes clear is that Hamas kept backing out of ceasefire agreements because Sinwar believed prolonging the war would drive a wedge in the US/Israeli alliance.

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