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Nobody on their deathbed ever said, "I wish I'd been less grateful."

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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 13h
I'd bet good money that Elizabeth Holmes could be pardoned and doing a fine job at that press secretary podium in < 5 days.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h
Trump fucks over farmers yet again.
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Trump just effectively killed a popular solar energy program for rural America
Solar panels can be an economic lifeline for farmers. Now they're going to be a lot harder to build.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Richard Branson explains that Trump is Putin's dog.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Look out below.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Runaway biowarfare is the ultimate Information Age conundrum. For now, AI agents have similar styles. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/the-unthin...
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The Unthinkable In The Information Age
On building deadly weapons without knowing how to manage them.
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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just sharing because I love this photo
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
They will be shocked when, about 20 minutes after the Livestream, there are AI enhanced videos of six virgins of paradise hovering around him, then taking him to Paradise when he is shot.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When they came for the English Language I said nothing, because foaif nf'iv[ewia vmv mrefv[oiwenmv
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 08/10/2026
This is what government software can be again if we get the yahoo cowboy dudebros out
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Janet Reitman @janetreitman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1/ I am completely blown away by this @nytimes.com review of THE INHERITANCE by the brilliant @anandwrites.bsky.social. Waking up on pub day to something this beautiful and insightful felt like a blessing. It's the most amazing review I could have wished for. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/b...
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Book Review: ‘The Inheritance,’ by Janet Reitman
Following the lives of ordinary citizens, a new book by Janet Reitman fashions an intimate, morally complex portrait of an insecure America.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I can't believe you're doing this either, Steve. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGrG...
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Just Try It, California.
YouTube video by Steve Hilton
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thirty-five years ago a professor of English prophesied much of our worry and hope about AI today. He was all but forgotten. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/a-lost-pro...
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A Lost Prophet Of AI
O.B. Hardison drifted through the skylight. We should try to catch him.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The coalition successfully completed its organized withdrawal operation from Erbil,” Rear Adm. Liam M. Hulin, head of the joint task force for Operation Inherent Resolve, announced" Orange is the new black. 50 is the new 30. Organized withdrawal is the new victory. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
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After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future
Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FWIW, Rick Scott was the founder of Columbia/HCA, the nation's largest for-profit healthcare network. He resigned under pressure from his board after federal investigators found massive Medicare/Medicaid fraud. He got a monster payoff, and Columbia paid a $1.7 billion fine. But, sure - Obamacare.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Autumn arrived, and I thought about some people I've known and their demons. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/intimation...
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Intimations Of Autumn
Lying awake at the start of the demon season.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your tax dollars at jerk.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nothing about whether Xi enjoyed the dessert. Bummer.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My dad was a small-town doctor who made late-night house calls on most nights I can remember growing up—and to my personal knowledge forgave (or delayed) payments from people who were on hard times. This story makes me want to move to Kansas and spend next 5+ weeks canvassing.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Canadian resistance to U.S. annexation makes its most compelling move yet. financialpost.com/news/retail-...
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KD launches mac n' cheese flavoured soda in Canada
Kraft Heinz has teamed up with a Canadian soda maker on the limited-edition beverage only available in Canada. Read more
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 25/09/2026
Compare the mayor trying to bring the Met to the people with the president obsessed with putting his name on the Kennedy Center.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bram Stoker should have left this bit in.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Your tax dollars, when they aren't going to the war on Iran.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
National security prevents any comments on Operation Rear Guard.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We're all having such a bad time
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We always think conscious AI will be a curious dog, never an aloof cat. Really, the strange new intelligence we fear is ourselves. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/dogs-and-c...
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Dogs & Cats & The Hour Of Our AI Doom
Some say the world will end in utter indifference, but who cares?
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Peter Maybarduk @maybarduk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We obtained Trump’s confidential drug pricing deals with Pfizer & Lilly via FOIA litigation. The texts are heavily redacted, making it impossible to verify some of Trump's claims. But unredacted text shows Trump exaggerated his drug pricing achievements, which expire anyway at the end of his term.
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
His dreams have all came true: most famous person on earth, in countless millions of minds every day, pulling off a multi-billion-dollar grift in plain sight. Yet still a miserably unhappy clown. Loathed and laughed at, throwing tantrums 24/7 as he heads toward lame-duck doom.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
we fought an entire civil war over this and they're pretending it's a natural backlash to some annoying oberlin students
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New: Flock invented a fake "police department" called Flock City PD, which ran real searches on real cameras for real people. Searched for 'coexist bumper sticker' 'truck with a trump sticker,' 'star of david'.. Flock says it was done to prove mod tools worked www.404media.co/flock-city-p...
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‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
Flock ran searches for “coexist bumper sticker,” “white truck with a trump sticker,” and “Star of David,” apparently to demonstrate what cops shouldn't search for.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Idiocracy: Director's Cut."
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My god.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dog’s reaction when he realizes his sister was adopted into the same home. Original post
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just checked the price of a pound of ground beef in St. Cloud, MN (Emmer's district) -- $5.29/lb at ALDI, $7.23/lb at Walmart. Not sure where "less than $2/lb" is happening there?
https://info.aldi.us/stores/l/mn/waite-park/256-2nd-street-south/l517https://www.walmart.com/search?q=ground+beef&facet=fulfillment_method%3APickup
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Investigation free with registration on the Putin buddy who funded nuptial celebrations for Don Jr. tldr: not a random Russian businessman. At all. wapo.st/3TqMVVc
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The Putin-backed strongman who threw the Paris Games into chaos
Banned from the Games, Russia wanted to upend the Olympics. Enter Umar Kremlev and the boxing ‘gender controversy.’
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you and I can see this, pretty sure that James Talarico can, too.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not long ago the world barely thought about the idea of trust. Now it's the most valuable commodity around - and AI is going to make it even stranger than it is today. What happened? thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/trust-fun-...
thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com
Trust Fun, And Funds For Trust.
The surprisingly recent history of our most valuable modern sentiment.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Baltimore Sun, who canned longtime cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher last year for "ultra-liberal" politics, now runs unauthored AI cartoons showing citizens thanking their mayor for everything he does. editorialcartoonists.com/an-open-lett...
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An Open Letter to the Publisher and Editors of the Baltimore Sun from the AAEC - AAEC
On September 4, 2026, The Sun published what can only technically be called an “illustration” it intended its readers to accept as an editorial cartoon.  Whatever the intent, the only message The Sun ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why are only pre-IPO AI companies saying they are working on technology that has a good chance of destroying humanity? Must be a lot of pressure at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta to get something about their likelihood of destroying humanity into the next quarterly earnings call.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/09/2026
people have been running scam coins like this for like 7 years now, they've only ever been scams, not once has it not been a scam, and everytime someone launches a new one they pretend its not a scam, but it always is a scam. its incredible
hunter biden laptop coin scam crashed immediately
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2026
Remember when Hillary Clinton told a story about landing in Bosnia "under sniper fire" when actually it was just a war zone but there was no record of direct fire and the media made it into a multiple-week scandal? Only Republicans are allowed to flagrantly & repeatedly lie.
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Trump’s top six falsehoods about 9/11 as 25th anniversary nears
US president often brings up al-Qaida attack that struck his home town New York City almost 25 years ago
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/09/2026
Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I respect Lonnie Bunch enormously. He has done stellar work as a historian, on so many levels. His absence is indeed terrible news -- for the Smithsonian and the country.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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