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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 · 16/10/2026
I was a security guard and lasted one day. On the other hand, I was guarding a parking lot, and it was still there when I left.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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 · 16/10/2026
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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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Please contribute en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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List of short-tenure Donald Trump political appointments - Wikipedia
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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 · 16/10/2026
Imagine the post-its in the writers' room: He decapitates with a breakfast spatula: "The yolk's on you." He chokes with a catalytic converter: "Emission granted." He kills with a can of furniture polish: "Nice finish." He smashes the bad guy with a pot: "It's just a vase you're going through."
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The thing about this week is that it follows last week: www.newsweek.com/who-paolo-za...
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Trump ally who says he introduced President to Melania accused of rape
Model Victoria Drake alleges Paolo Zampolli raped her after he took "copious amounts of cocaine." He denies the allegations.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Manchurian Sycophant?
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Further evidence that people with $100 billion almost never get to do what they want. They have to do whatever's necessary to have $200 billion, and so on.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
She didn't let the don wet his beak. This is unacceptable.
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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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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not to mention, Hairy when Slippery.
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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 · 10/10/2026
Best season. They should have wrapped up the series with that shot of his feet.
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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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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kim Jong Un appreciates your discretion.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"It's a tat so I can look like a baseball. I'm good, but work's gonna dry up for the next few months."
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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 · 05/10/2026
A horse with a corpse, of course of course, And Fitzgerald won't shoot a corpse, of course, That is, of course, unless the corpse ol' Fitz believes is Mr. Glass!
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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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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As someone with no pedigree in this discussion, I was thrilled to attend a Williams-Amherst football game where the Williams marching band honored Lord Jeffrey Amherst by forming a smallpox-infected blanket (sousaphones stand well for bacilli) and charging across the field.
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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
Never hang out with people who think they are "rationalist." It's a delusional term.
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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who thought it was a good idea to have "Exit" be the big word behind him?
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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
Totally plausible, however, that everyone in the Washington Post newsroom has been thinking about job interviews.
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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
"Everyone can't stop talking about" makes me nostalgic for "what happened next will blow your mind."
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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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qhardy @qhardy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Weird. They're not even about to IPO.
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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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