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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 11h

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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caithow @caithow.bsky.social · 16h

What gets me, apart from these people being absolute monsters, is that the whole thing is predicated on the belief that testing is education. Like at least 3/4 of their project falls apart if we get rid of high stakes testing.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 28/09/2026

This is me also. I can rationalize a task taking longer if I’m teaching someone to do it, because that time will be worthwhile to both of us. I can’t rationalize it for a chatbot.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Essentially it's the same as thinking customer service can be handled by all the well defined cases in a menu tree--an assumption that's ok if you're the provider and do not actually need people to be helped. But AI agents are like trying to get me to willingly call Comcast on a regular basis

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Look, I don't want to dogpile on the OP, but the sentence "In what universe would an engineering student ever study history?!" may be the single saddest thing I've read all weekend.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 26/09/2026

I feel like I'm done blaming democratic consultants for the candidates going anti-trans. If that's your choice when the polls look like this, you're not pivoting to bigotry for expediency. You're doing it for love of the game. Or you're an idiot. Those feel like the two options.

a poll of top problems facing the country. #1 is inflation at 44%, #2 is Gov Corruption at 36% and #4 is the War with Iran at 21%

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Telle me, what ys it you planne to do Wyth your one wilde and precious iced coffee?

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

look at us doing the thing 💗😅

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 25/09/2026

I wonder if it’s not also a power thing? You show up with your own beverage, and they can’t play the host and offer you one. You’re self-sufficient, you don’t need the company. It also means the interviewer can’t play weird mind games analyzing whether/how you accept a drink they offer.

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.

BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve given this a great deal of thought and I think the funniest option would be to simply pretend I have never heard of the New York Times

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💙⚡❤️ The Haunted Typewriter 💀 @hauntedtypewriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's an Isaac Asimov story where it's far in the future and this very outcome has come to pass. No one knows math except the machines. And then a man learns how to do multiplication on his own, and everyone is amazed. The story is called 'The Feeling of Power' hex.ooo/library/powe...

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Isaac Asimov: The Feeling Of Power

A classic short story by Isaac Asimov.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 25/09/2026

Cholesterol update: after three months my LDL cholesterol is near normal range again. 🎉 Still waiting to hear what my doctor has to say, but my thought is genetic predisposition + in my last training block, I took in 100g/day protein & chose high-cholesterol sources like eggs, cheese, dairy. Oops.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

trump should ask the 25% who think he has a plan for the war what the plan is

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 23/09/2026

My annual checkup showed high cholesterol, so for the past three months I’ve eaten more beans and vegetarian dishes, cut out whole eggs and butter, etc. Kinda mad about how much better I feel. My running is progressing amazingly well too.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 23/09/2026

As someone who has to deal with the Whitecaps’ ballpark being called this, it is indeed a stupid name

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s the 20s and America is ready for an anti-vice campaign to sweep the nation.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

liars believe everyone else is also lying, poseurs assume everyone else is also posing, people without virtue think all virtue is performance, etc. etc. etc.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 22/09/2026

my cousin and I made some truly weird milkshakes, but the one I’m remembering is mint chip ice cream with coffee grounds (Arby’s jamocha shakes were good so logically… ???)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m sure everybody’s noticed but just a reminder, between now and the election the vibes are gonna be real off around here. they won’t get better after either but from now to the election they will also be off

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm deleting most fundraising texts these days, but if you sent me one saying you had identified these consultants and promised never to work with them, I would give you the max

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just a brilliant piece of writing. Heartbreaking indeed.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Asked and answered

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

not enough people boschposting on this website. get out of your bubble already

man i dont know how to describe Beehive And Witches to you. It's a page of bosch sketches featuring a bunch of little chubbby naked people chasing and eventually catching a bird. there is also a guy kneeling inside a large basket-style beehive, with his butt sticking out one end. A little dude is kneeling on top of the beehive with a lute, getting ready to whack the beehive guy's butthole with the lute. Nearby, there is a lady with a wishbone-shaped doodad.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 19/09/2026

Excellent thread. Also shop sales for basics you can turn into anything: flour, sugar, Bisquick, ranch dressing mix, all those spices, etc. A meal is three things put together. Meat, potatoes, veg. Beans, rice, veg. The menu does not have to be intricate. Neither does it have to be sad.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

lol in conclusion, give young people jobs and stop being cheap

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Chaser: Without middle managers, NOTHING gets done including all the stuff "you made AI do" lol

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Shot: Using AI to replace entry-level workers cuts off your talent pipeline to middle management. 🤷🏿‍♀️

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 18/09/2026

I’m disappointed in Running Warehouse. I hadn’t bought from them in a bit, but they used to have basically overnight delivery no matter what level of shipping you paid for. I ordered from them on the 12th, only to find that they’ve ~partnered with Amazon~ for shipping, who then partnered with USPS.

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Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 17/09/2026

unsure if it's a me problem, a you problem or a little bit of both but christ Bluesky is feeling dour these days, every time I open the app I have to ready myself for 75 Very Serious Debates About Serious Issues, whatever happened to getting jiggy with it, don't make me spend more time on Instagram

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 16/09/2026

ooh, I like this take - all the elements are present, so call it what it is: not liminal (which was never quite right, tbh), but gothic for a new generation of people who don’t remember why we built that shit in the first place, or what it was supposed to be *for*

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026

thinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing"

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026

we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked

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Rachel Lee Cherry @rachelleecherry.com · 10/09/2026

As a student editor at a college newspaper in 2001, I remember this issue VIVIDLY

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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