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Cornwall coming through for Aphex Twin!

Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 25/09/2026

I call bullshit. There's no way they would bother to define 'widdershins' in their email. If you don't know, you don't get to go.

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 23/09/2026

You're going to write a book about this saga at some point, right? Or maybe a TV miniseries? Would watch!

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 21/09/2026

Has anyone else heard the absolutely fucking insane "Department of War" ad running on pandora now? Holy shit.

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 21/09/2026

If we thought consent/cookie fatigue was bad, "Claude permission fatigue" is the new hotness.

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 19/09/2026

You should! It's a good book.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe... Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:

Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 19/09/2026

"I've made a horrible mistake..."

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.

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evil maid @lenazun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

also today

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 12/09/2026

Yes! I was staring at this picture being like "I THINK I've been here, it's in Lisbon..."

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 11/09/2026

That's just a bridge too far.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 02/09/2026

This is 100% a good point. The books are mediocre at best. I couldn't finish the series because I just. Didn't. Care.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

'Safety first' when sacking Rome.

The same young lady with goth makeup, a black Victorian-style dress, and dark hair: the classic 'goth look'. The original image is labeled "goth", while another one has been composited on with a high-vis yellow work vest like those used on construction sites, and below it it says "Visigoth".

Stolen from the Internet.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Damn, dude. You're telling me that when you join a fascist movement you run the risk of having the state apparatus turned against you in a factional dispute? This is the first I'm hearing of this.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026

I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.

When I was much younger, I knew her mostly as a caricature and the object of jokes, because young men are kind of stupid that way and I was no exception, and because she willingly played along with the joke, in part because she knew it would happen anyway, and this way she got to shape some of how that would play out for her, and use it for her own ends. It took me a while to realize how canny that was.

When I got older, I learned that underneath the caricature was a formidable songwriting and business mind. I had an inkling of what a rare combination that was in any person, but how even more rare it was for someone who was who she was, in the field and environment she worked in. Hidden in all those sparkles was a spine of steel.

When I got older than that I learned that in addition to a brilliant mind was a heart of kindness, which directed so much of the good fortune she amassed to herself right back out the door through philanthropic work, helping those in her communities, state and country, and which allowed to see the worth and dignity in those whom so many others treated (and still do treat) with contempt.

She was always all the things she was. What changed was my ability to see and understand who she was. I'm glad I was eventually smart enough to see it all.

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 23/08/2026

Just finished Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social . Waiting to see which of my 10 library holds comes up next!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🐢 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/response-time-167299662

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 22/08/2026

No. Any other questions?

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 14/08/2026

This is near hilarious levels of "too little too late." Anyone with a shred of sense has been going on about this problem literally since before Flock was founded.

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 14/08/2026

I hate this attitude of blaming the victim. Don't you know the 4-8-12-7 rule?! Engrave all of your family movies in cuneiform on stone tablets then bury them under 10 feet of volcanic ash! Why are you complaining about this business screwing you over? Its your fault!

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neither local nor real @jamessocol.com · 13/08/2026

The Appalachians are a billion years, two supercontinents, and 4 orogenic periods old. They’ve been eroding since 200 million years before the Rockies formed. They are the same range as the Scottish highlands, Scandinavian Mountains, and Atlas Mountains. The caves predate bones.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 12/08/2026

Brenda Romero's beautiful 'Chasing Lilacs' is a personal history told through the lens of gaming: aftermath.site/chasing-lilacs/

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 11/08/2026

Reinvention Blueprint No. 2: Democracy Works When Government Works, by Loren DeJonge Schulman (@lorenraeds.bsky.social) and Rob Shriver (@rshriver3.bsky.social) Their concrete proposals would rebuild hiring, pay, and accountability so the civil service works for the 21st century.

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Reinvention Blueprint No. 2: Democracy Works When Government Works

America’s civil service, built for a bygone era, urgently needs bold, comprehensive reform to build a government capable of delivering for the 21st century.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

At least it's not a 30% discount at a municipal grocery store. Because that would be really objectionable.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Elon Musk is calling for the execution of the Economist editor who interviewed him. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 27/07/2026

I still have a few kicking around here somewhere...

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 26/07/2026

Only exception to this: If you live in DC, call every last one of the bastards until we get the right to vote in our own legislature.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

So we're all clear: The international legal body that evolved from that which held the Nuremberg trials issued an arrest warrant on November 21, 2024. Almost two years later, the Brown, Muslim mayor of NYC says words acknowledging this, functionally and Jews worldwide become wildly unhinged

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 26/07/2026

I want it to be everything 17 year old me felt back then. But it probably won't (and arguably shouldn't) be.

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 26/07/2026

If only. That would be a pleasant read.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 26/07/2026

Holy... Shit... Just ... Fucking wow, man... You know? Like... Fuck me... You actually posted this?

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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 26/07/2026

I spent a lovely four hours on a porch last night grilling yummy foods and bullshtting with my oldest friends and nobody recorded a goddamn thing. Do not let these absolute tossers tell you otherwise.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The White House Correspondents Association is having a dinner for this man tonight.

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