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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

NYC: @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani & @CurtisSliwa get flu shots together… Curtis was nervous he’d faint so Mayor Mamdani offered to hold his hand. Again: the problem the fearmongerers have is Zohran exists

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 16h

Instituting a new security policy at my company that every reset password has to be longer than the last

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Like this monologue is incredibly written and incredibly delivered. Nog manages to thread the needle of throwing off Ferengi motivations of profit while maintaining the underlying Ferengi motivation of status, but does so by choosing his own definition of status. He wants to Be Somebody

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DS9: Nog Wants To Apply to Starfleet Academy || "Heart of Stone" || Aron Eisenberg and Avery Brooks

YouTube video by Joshua Gudiso

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 13h

I only discovered this last night and I've watched it dozens of times already. Instant favourite fan edit. Sound definitely on for this one.

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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And just to note - the return on investment from the mission agencies is generally outstanding, having deep and broad impacts. Spending on the National Weather Service, for instance, has a whopping 73 to 1 return on investment. Other agencies have narrower missions, but become really important...

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 22h

Hawaiian seabirds excitedly sing and dance when they reunite with their mate.

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Instituting a new security policy at my company that every reset password has to be longer than the last

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16h

If blue collar work was inherently upwardly mobile, everyone would do it. But the world doesn’t work that way. Capitalism doesn’t work that way. And people who romanticize blue collar work as having a quiet dignity are being patronizing, even if they don’t intend to

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 24/04/2025

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is an incredible show, we need six seasons and a movie

screenshot from moon girl and devil dinosaur showing lunella (moon girl) in her pjs and bonnet being lifted up by her friend Casey María Eva Duarte Goldberg-Calderon who is portrayed as an angel with maxi pads for wings. there are roses and sunbeams and lunella looks very surprised

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So grateful I get to include this comic in my book as a way of saying thanks ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ultimately I think human authorship is impoetant, even if AI tools are part of the process. (Part of, not the start and finish)

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 ⓘ Rude 🐈 @lucavi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is too late, I have already depicted myself as the άνθρωπος ίσχυρός and you as the άνθρωπος παρθένος 🫵

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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reminder that David Ellison's fortune is entirely contingent on Larry Ellison & Oracle's fate The whole Skydance Project sits on top of a parent balance sheet that the credit market is actively betting against This merger has virtually no chance to actually survive unless AI magically turns around

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

The noises you make in the bathroom are between you, God, and the paramedics

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 02/10/2026

my husband and i have been rotating the idea of some kind of fighting game where all the characters are billboard lawyers

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I confess that Taylor Lorenz’s recent comments about social media addiction and her use of X were part of what made me want to finally go ahead and write this. www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...

Lorenz is not patient zero for social media addiction, but she is a good example of its deleterious and transformative effects. She was once a stock figure of the online progressive left. But Lorenz has recently boasted that Elon Musk's X, the site once known as Twitter and which Musk took over with an explicit goal of turning into an anti-woke "free speech" haven, is now roaring and "better than ever." X continues to be a festering pit of far-right activity and remains a key site for the proliferation of revenge porn and SAM by users, some produced by X's built-in Al tool Grok.

Lorenz has continued to insist in subsequent days that X is a good experience, a position that seems wholly derived from her dependence on the platform and the hits of networking and social affirmation it can provide, all this despite her own admission that she also fields
"awful" replies on a regular basis. There's something of Thomas De Quincey to Lorenz, who has credited an adolescent fixation on Tumblr for beginning her journey to turning her extensive use of social media into a prolific career writing about it. Her most recent book is a paean to entrepreneurial gumption of never logging off-people following opposite and much less wise advice than my colleague Katherine Alejandra Cross has offered. Lorenz's Extremely Online is a journalistic work about the rise of content creators over the last two decades, but there's an undercurrent of confessionalism to her public
persona.

Lorenz told Wired this year that "I think caring about screen time is stupid. It's a waste of mental energy." In the same interview she admitted to screen time of around 17 hours a day. Across platforms like X and Instagram, she regularly celebrates heavy social media use and castigates those who warn about addiction or the risks to young users. Lorenz's repeated assertion is that content cannot create addicts:

"Before doom scrolling btw there was the exact same moral panic about TV, radio, books and more. Instead of feeding moral panics over content we need to fight the moral panic that mass surveillance laws are predicated on"

This is a slippery comparison. At its best, it's not unlike the distinction between beer and high-proof liquor. As to the substance of her claim that social media isn't addictive and that calling it such is "very harmful and anti-science," the reality is that researchers disagree.
Plenty of psychologists and other academics do see social media as something that can be addictive. Writing about the research on social media and teens at The Conversation in 2023, a group of Université de Montréal academics noted:

"Social media are designed to be addictive-driven and reinforced by dopamine. Teens and emerging adults are susceptible to acceptance and rejection through social media, making them particularly responsive to such media and emotionally addicted.
"Daily use of social media is associated with a significantly increased risk of self-harm and depression for adolescents. The added sleep cycle disruptions explain part of the association with depressive symptoms."

Other research has suggested that total screen time is less important than the nature of social media use, with some children who have managed screen time exhibiting increased problematic use when granted access. There is indeed debate within the scientific community about whether social media can be classed as addictive the way we think of other habits like gambling and substance use, but there is also considerable agreement that heavy social media use is most dangerous for younger users.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For my latest, I wrote about some of the modern addictions shaping American life, from social media to celebrity to sports betting. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...

liberalcurrents.com

Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater

Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I promise Philly is a real place and I am a journalist and this is all true. When you put unwanted dystopian robots on our sidewalks, you never know what Philly may do in response. Meet Orifice the Awebot, who's spreading joy, surprise & mild terror - for free. www.inquirer.com/life/orifice...

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Orifice the Awebot is Philly’s ‘magical’ response to Uber Eats robots

"She’s part of our bringing delight and surprise and letting it ripple through the city."

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Jane Fonda calling Dolly Parton the voloptous embodiment of empathy

janefonda I am devastated. I just learned
that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are
all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her.
She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to alwavs know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right...and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us
all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

Help me choose which one I should use to rebrand my profile for the month

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you 💚💖

fanart of the two main character from the lesbian romance The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai
they are lying on a bed, cuddled up together, sharing earbuds & listening to rock music on Mitsuki's phone
they are bathed in green light and the whole scene looks very sweet & tender

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.

Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3:
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This reminds me of this bonkers story from the Marshall Project: www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/f... ... which was also told on the podcast Crime Show: open.spotify.com/episode/0MfW... Anyway. It sort of shifted how I think about DNA evidence.

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Framed for Murder by His Own DNA

We leave traces of our genetic material everywhere, even on things we’ve never touched. That got Lukis Anderson charged with a brutal crime he didn’t commit.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

like tears in rain

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

😍

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i love this so much

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Sax! ⬇️↘️➡️➕🏳️‍⚧️ @saximus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On a related note,

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again.

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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cartoon Network first went on the air on this day in 1992. Turner Broadcasting gave us a network and childhood stable filled with reruns of classic cartoons, eye catching bumpers, critically acclaimed shows and cult favorites. Nothing can deny the impact that Cartoon Network had on animation.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s time for vampires, werewolves, seahags, and all the other wonderful creatures that can be alone with you in space as you drift along the unfathomable cosmos. So Monster Mash your way to the Space Hotel, which is opening in only two months!!!!!!!

NEW YORK POST
New York Post V @nypost
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First ever space hotel slated to be operational by 2027trib.al/iswu2uU
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KHARU @kharuart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dudelett

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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Shawna Benson @shawnabenson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 'Please Don't Forget About Prodigy' Star Trek Day! #livelogandproper

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Rob Ryan @robryanreviews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Then the film’s Renée Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van. Described with the subtlety of a brick as “MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,” the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent “Juan” with her car” The wish fulfilment levels are off the scale.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

unclear aside from the single source in the original article if they're being sold because the Kennedy Center is shuttered; other confirmation that they've been removed slippedisc.com/2026/10/they...

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They're removing the pianos from the Kennedy Center - Slippedisc

Someone has given the order to evacuate the...

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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David Lovejoy @philadlj.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Hell yeah

Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko pointing at someone

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 08/05/2026

You know it's going to be a good episode of The X-Files when Mulder finds some goop

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