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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 29/09/2026
I really don’t think this angle is working for the AI dudes, but too many of them have drunk the Rationalist Kool-Aid. They can’t help themselves. They think “we’re the only ones who can safely shepherd God into existence” is a compelling pitch for normal people.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 28/09/2026
Pretty sick of all this!!
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 26/09/2026
Sorry but if you want stupid Tilly Norwood news to go away, stop sharing the stupid articles about her!
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 26/09/2026
I think things would be better if instead of displacing anger at the bad dad/husband/whatever in our lives and projecting those qualities onto internet strangers, we confronted the bad people in our lives directly and left the strangers, who we know nothing about, alone.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 24/09/2026
After a few days in Vienna I am fully tram pilled. Time to start laying rail Chicago.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!
(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 21/09/2026
My story “A Bug Screamed At Me, Yet I Must Carry On As Normal” is in this! The title pretty much explains it! You better bet I’ll let you know when the story is available online too but heck if you’ve got 3 bucks why don’t you give this a buy!
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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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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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 15/09/2026
Campaign Brandon is back. Would love to see Campaign Brandon stick around this time if he wins.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
not my problem
Some ICE Nazi, who was too dumb even for ICE and got fired, topped himself. Too bad so sad
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 15/09/2026
Besides the point but I like that no one on the left tries to pretend Macklemore’s music is good
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 14/09/2026
That third one is by me :)
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 13/09/2026
I am a newer Bears follower but I can say with 100% confidence they are going to win the Super Bowl
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 12/09/2026
Earnest question, is there any easy way to mute posts that are just dunking on screenshots from Twitter/X? Otherwise, gonna keep the whack-a-mole approach going I guess.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the right wanted to turn Charlie Kirk into their Reichstag Fire, but instead they accidentally turned him into their Harambe
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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 09/09/2026
If you write "I work for Anthropic and I think it might kill humanity" and I'm not reading it off of a Dropbox manifesto after you painted the walls of the HQ I'm inclined to think you're not being sincere
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
theverge.com
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I use AI at my job everyday, it's a requirement. My account was recently reset. I'd had it set to be as impersonal and clinical and terse as I could make it. Like a word calculator. When it was set back to the stock version, I was taken aback at how sycophantic and overly familiar it is.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I have some thoughts on grown-ups whipping votes to win a popularity contest on a website
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 06/09/2026
I have an (obviously not true) theory that the 38 most influential users thing was designed to get me to stop using the For You feed
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 05/09/2026
I really resent the way America treats quality and dignity as luxuries
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 05/09/2026
Creatures, bonding
Hazel, beagle mix, yawns while being pet. She is laying next to her sister, a Tortie cat named Baby Do Good, on a green couch.Hazel, beagle mix, lays next to her sister, a Tortie cat named Baby Do Good, on a green couch.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 03/09/2026
September Heat Wave sounds like a one-hit-wonder top 100 alternative rock/emo band from the early 2000s. Unfortunately it is not that and is a real thing we are experiencing.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Once more, with feeling: Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>
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Rahm Emanuel: 'You Don't Like My Ideas? Show Me Yours'
Rahm Emanuel wants to take on Republicans and Democrats from the "pragmatic center." He talks Israel, the DSA, a possible run for president and more.
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 02/09/2026
Death penalty for Kirk seems extreme given everything but who am I to argue with a judge
Breaking News alert from NY Times. “A judge said Charlie Kirk’s murder case could go to trial, with the possibility of a death penalty.”
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 28/08/2026
Upset the Great Lakes are being used as pawns in a trade war instead of what they should be used for, freshwater surfing
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deuteronomy @thuleanperspective.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Chani: tell me of the dressings of your home world Paul: well you got ranch, buttermilk ranch, peppercorn ranch, balsamic vinaigrette, green goddess, thousand island- Chani: what is this ‘island’ Paul: don’t ever interrupt me
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 26/08/2026
Hi there. Excited to say that I just signed a contract with @thecoloredlens.bsky.social for a new short story to be published in a forthcoming issue! It’s about a sonic virus and our inability or unwillingness to process collective trauma. I think it's pretty good.
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 25/08/2026
Not the 80 year old with dyed blonde hair and unusually proportions I was asking for God
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 22/08/2026
I deadass do not care. Every country should tariff us by a rate of 100000%
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 21/08/2026
Wasn't expecting this from the NY Times but I guess it's important to be objective
Very real Nancy Kissing Death notification from the NY Times app.

"Nancy Kissinger Dies. A politically savvy foreign policy specialist, she joined her husband, Henry Kissinger, to burn in eternal agony and terror. She was 92."
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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...
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How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 18/08/2026
I think if we went from 8-10 spam calls a day to even like 2-3 that would be nice.
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 14/08/2026
Every Chicagoan should get one chance to knock one out of the sky
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 13/08/2026
the quote posts on this are also sad bc it seems like a lot of people are overlooking the covid aspect of this post. ppl still don't want to look directly at covid as something that changed and traumatized anyone, let alone children, EXCEPT if they're saying lockdowns were bad, not covid itself
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 14/08/2026
Going on four years of this shit man
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11/08/2026
This is why you shouldn't believe most people when they say they'll abandon the Dems if they stop worshipping Israel and why you shouldn't waste time on whipping liberals who are insistent on being dumb about it. They will give up.
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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We need to be saying this loudly and clearly: These people have lost their fucking minds.
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PS Cavanaugh @pscavanaugh.com · 06/08/2026
Love that scam calls nowadays are like “you’ve been approved for a $50K loan!” Not telling me I won a boat or the lottery, but that I have the privilege to go into debt.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Any AES supporter would have been thrilled with a win of any margin as recently as a month ago. A few late polls showing a bigger lead shouldn’t change that reality. He won against the Dem establishment and $62M of PAC money. He was barely on the radar when he entered the race.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 05/08/2026
hey guys maybe chill out about drawing conclusions about a state with notoriously bouncy county-by-county results before even 40% of the votes are in
Michigan U.S. Senate Primary Election Results
Democratic Primary
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive former public health official, faces Representative Haley Stevens, who has served four terms and is a centrist backed by the party establishment. The race has highlighted starkly different visions for the future of the Democratic Party.

Latest results from just now
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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