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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A quote from when I tried this: "They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries. What did this constituent dream?"

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One time I was at a party for a bunch of music graduate students and I told someone I didn't pay an instrument and instead was employed as a web developer and they said "Oh! There's an English teacher and a scientist over there. Maybe you could talk to them?"

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And yet, being anywhere in the vicinity of design is feminine coded

Of a few thousand respondents in the State of CSS survey last year, 11 percent were women and 3 percent were nonbinary or gender-nonconforming. Pathetic, I know. But the State of JavaScript reported only 6 percent female and 1 percent nonbinary.

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Joseph Kohlmann @jkohlmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The people who have dismissed CSS have ruined the tech industry, straight up

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I initially read this as http status codes and it almost worked

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is there a German word for "Wanting to text my graphic designer friends a video they must have seen?"

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I got interrogated about what kind of super power I'd have by a tech bro whose company is astonishingly no longer a thing. Like, asking which I'd choose initially was cute, but asking for a full analysis of why I'd choose that was certainly a choice

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)

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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reminds me of the Radiolab episode of a person whose last name is Null getting every unpaid parking ticket for a person with no last name in California radiolab.org/podcast/null

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A story about folks who’ve disappeared and the computers that deleted them.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look there was a period in the early 2000s where I used to use Napster to make CDs as Christmas and birthday gifts for my parents. They thought it was magic! How dare they take my wholesome copyright infringement memory!

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I had a genre it would apparently be "Dark but hopeful shows with lots of plot twists on Netflix"

Angels in America, 30 rock, The Wire, Battlestar Gallactica, The Office, Dark, 1899, Midnight Mass, The Diplomat, Rutherford Falls

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not touching the NYC transplant discourse, and instead suggesting everyone check out the Denis Leary's coffee flavored coffee and beer flavored beer bit from the 90s: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HB6...

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Denis Leary - Coffee Flavored Coffee

YouTube video by RED HOUSE TRAINS

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

plenty of people would try their hands at interesting little businesses if it they did not need to generate a huge profit at the outset and i think this is something governments should encourage. (and lots of little businesses makes a place more livable!)

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When we were in our early 20s, my high school BFF was an army wife who was a first Gen college student. She would call me (college graduate) for help on her homework problems, and it took me awhile to realize that all I was doing was rephrasing the questions

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can only assume they're talking about the most recent season of Deadloch

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My husband just told the kids Paul Simon was "one of the Beatles". Where can I register a complaint?

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My friend just became allergic to chickpeas as an adult and folks in the group chat are posting mourning thoughts

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

touche. "Defendants do not dispute that the reason ChatGPT and Copilot are 'good at news' is because they trained on stolen news content." /6

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Years ago, I worked at a charity for a popular respiratory organ, and people used to write in asking what we were doing about chemtrails. This the theory plane exhaust is intentionally spreading toxins or disease.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

HELL YEAH!! I check Wikipedia every year to see if it's time for another edition

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"I WORKED AT THE WRITING CENTER IN COLLEGE!" I shout, as I comment "Word salad" on Glean's draft.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

To put a finer point on it: he is right.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's too much enthusiasm here, you're clearly an uncle.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12/09/2026

you may think i am joking but i am not. they’re talking about AI the way protestant zealots talked about the end times. in both cases we are hearing people talk about themselves — their desires, their lust for destruction, their yearning to trample their rivals underfoot.

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My oldest kids are able to understand 9/11 now, and we had a long talk about the emergency workers. My 7-year-old asked me if they'd had their bravest people working that day, and I said "No, they thought it was a normal day. That's just who was scheduled to work "

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I remember 9/11 as a game changing moment, a violent shift from to my childhood, which started during the *checks notes* Cold War

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Katie S Pumpkins @realmaplesyrup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The kids are starting to ask questions about 9/11 but the available documentaries seemed too advanced for ages 3-9. So thrilled to be able to show them Come from Away.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/08/2026

Lt. Robert “Bobby” Regan and Firefighters Vernon Cherry, Leon Smith, Joseph Agnello, Pete Vega, and Scott Davidson — their names remain on the chalk riding list on the wall at the Middagh Street firehouse, and their unrelenting courage will be remembered by this city forever.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/09/2026

"...solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal."

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NEW: Fr. Mychal Judge, a gay Franciscan priest killed while ministering to firefighters in the North Tower on September 11, 2001, could become the first canonized saint connected to 9/11. He would also be the first openly gay person canonized in the two millennia history of the Catholic Church.

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Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint

The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.

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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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