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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SOMEONE LOOK AT MY DOG JUST LOOK AT HIM HE IS VERY GOOD okay thank you
Cooper! A soulful-eyed lab-hound mix. White with some spotting that looks like you spilled coffee on him.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“…Muse and similar products like Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s two days-old Dots have a ‘normal-people problem,’ requiring the average user to adjust their private lives to have AI agents solve various problems.”
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The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren't Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life
There's a problem for AI agents like Meta's Muse: ordinary people don't seem very interested in what they're offering.
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Jeannette Ho @jeannho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here is a gift link for this article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #Libraries #Librarians
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Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
instagram is for girls x is for boys bluesky is for evil
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Next up, rethinking the conviction of Al Capone. After all, if he had his taxes treated the way Trump's have been, he'd still be a free man today. Admittedly he would be 127 years. But no criminal will go unavenged by Trump, Blanche & Co. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026
ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Renee Good’s family sues the U.S. government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis.
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Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
Renee Good’s family has sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials, alleging wrongful death and other violations of federal law in the 37-year-old woman’s killing by an immigration officer during a federal crackdown in Minnesota.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pretty clear Hegseth’s primary mission is to transform the military ideologically by overtly indoctrinating troops with Christian nationalism and apocalyptic holy war messaging while rooting out those who don’t want to participate and just want to serve their country admirably.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Xavier Becerra put the Steve Hilton contradiction right on the debate stage: enforce Trump’s federal immigration laws, but ignore California’s own protections? Then he dropped the hammer: “You seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me.”
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
social media is a nightmare these days, but i just need to say: the way you talk about strangers’ experiences of sexual assault tells the survivors in your real life whether or not you can be trusted with their stories and their safety. and there *are* survivors in your life, so don’t fuck it up.
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One huge problem with AI is that it was designed to have the ethics of a billionaire
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I really wouldn't mind if Pope Bob excommunicated all the fascist Catholics on SCOTUS.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again struck by the thought that I'm absolutely sure I know more about this western civ stuff than the people who'd think I'm emblematic of its downfall!
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An obvious villain who isn’t vilified nearly enough by the opposition or the press and this is what happens.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
up next eric schmitt is going to confront billionaire bruce wayne and make him admit that he is secretly superman
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is a dishonest hack and incredible POS and after years of him attacking me & my team I’m happy to see people realize it. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-li...
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A Litigation Playbook for Narrative Warfare
Eric Schmitt’s “The Last Line of Defense” casts courts as stages for political spectacle rather than forums for justice—and rewrites the evidentiary record along the way.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bc the last 30 seconds of this are the best, reminder that @amyklobuchar.com's dad was a sports journalist, which may explain her utter contempt for Schmitt mistaking the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Accusing Jack Smith of attending a 23-24 Atlanta Hawks game, how rude
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Wendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Billionaire donors are trying to buy the race for Paxton. Don’t let them win. Your vote is your power, make sure to use it! Talarico is the candidate that who will work for voters not billionaire donors. #Shshed www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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Paxton, Trailing Talarico in Polls, Tacks Toward the Center in Texas
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justfara @justfara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't mess with the Library
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
xAI's Colossus 2 data center in greater Memphis is currently the largest in the world, but Meta's Hyperion complex in Louisiana will soon overtake it - until it is overtaken in this insane race by 4 other larger proposed complexes.
Graphic showing the size of Colossus 2 and Hyperion data center complexes relative to Centrai Park.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 28/09/2026
I want new investment and good-paying jobs right here in South Carolina — but not at your expense. Darline Graham says data centers are a must. I say South Carolinians should come first. That’s why I launched DataCenterDarline.com today. See for yourself and follow the money.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Don't be fooled. This bill won’t force Big Tech companies to do anything. It's a political stunt to cover Republicans who have been the biggest data center cheerleaders. We need a bill with real teeth to hold these companies accountable.
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's important to note that a lot of "traditional" norms were *extremely* focused on humility in a way that is profoundly alien to the modern Right.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/09/2026
It's so important to give credit where credit is due, and we are strengthened when we acknowledge the crucial work of others. So, our joint event in San Francisco is a real full-circle moment. Already 200 RSVPs! Grab tix while you still can.
text from nerd reich book: Outside the strangest circles of the tech world, few people paid attention to the 2023 Network State Conference, which was livestreamed on social media. In San Francisco, however, a local activist named Emily Mills watched the entire conference and raised the alarm on Tan’s affiliation with e/acc and Network State. “Garry Tan is an Effective Accelerationist who wants to take over the nation and the world with that ideology utilizing Network State style strategies,” wrote Mills in November 2023. “This needs more reporting.” Where others might have seen Silicon Valley eccentricity, Mills saw proof of an ideological infrastructure being built in real time, complete with real estate projects and political strategies
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t want to laugh at Elon Musk. I want to see him spend the rest of his life in jail for the unprecedented crime against the Constitution & the rule of law that was DOGE.
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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fiery sunset minutes earlier above Borrego (Photo: Sicco Rood).
Fiery sunset clouds above a brittlebush and two palm trees
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I will do it tomorrow,” said Toad. “Today I will take life easy.”
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A drawing from this evening. Something that might be a bird in flight. I never know, when I start, what I’m going to draw (and sometimes, when I get done, I still don’t). But I very often wind up drawing bird-like things.
Art. Black and white ink pen drawing, made of abstract shapes ands lines, that might look like a bird with a long, sharp beak flapping a wing above its head in mid-flight. The bird needs a name, so will call him Ruthanos. He has a long, sharp beak that looks perfect for spearing fish or hamsters. His wing spreads it above his head, and his leg trails behind him like a dingo chasing a kangaroo (never getting closer, never getting farther). He is dynamic, in the way of a toddler before the first bite of ice cream: on the very cliff’s edge of kinetic catalogs.

God speed, Ruthanos. It’s gonna be a ride.
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Kristin Louise Raught Photography 🌀 @kristinlraught.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last night’s Harvest Moon over Seattle. The clouds made it feel even more dramatic as it rose above the Space Needle and the Cascades. Also called the Corn Moon, this is the full moon closest to the autumn equinox.
Orange Harvest Moon behind wispy clouds above Seattle’s Space Needle and skyline, with the Cascade Mountains in the background.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 27/09/2026
And we could solve the Colorado river problem in a day: A tax on surface water per acre/foot, for ALL users, that goes up automatically whenever Lakes Meade and Powell are too low and goes down automatically when they are full.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
me reading this response to "you can drop one f-bomb into Shakespeare"
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Salieri's Intense Reaction to Mozart
Alt: Salieri's intense reaction to Mozart
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel optimistic about the midterm elections, just over five weeks away. But my stomach aches when I think of what’s at stake. Call me nauseously optimistic. How do you feel? robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Big Tech wants us talking about about whether AI will usher in "superintelligent" heaven or killer-robot hell so we won't talk about the harms their technologies are already unleashing. @arimelber.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaja88xxirY
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AI psyop? Author calls BS on 'end times' warnings
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce ... The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified ... The dignity of every human person can be described as infinite" "Magnifica Humanitas."
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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This should be next to the definition of gaslighting as an example. This kind of "control" that "you want" is at the core of AI, and it is all that is wrong with it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Referenced this yesterday in a post. The guy lives in Florida. More notable is that half of the GOP Congress seems to live there. Like Mike R and Tommy T. It’s part of MAGA identity. Like red hats and bad plastic surgery.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And now DHS is out with a FAST denial, considering it’s midnight on a Saturday.
Post at 11:50 PM: Homeland Security @DHSgov
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This is false. No one is off the table. We will continue to arrest any and all illegal aliens that come into our path.
Anyone in our country illegally will be arrested and deported.
In an effort to protect American citizens, ICE has initiated a nationwide public safety surge in sanctuary cities where our brave officers will be targeting criminal illegal aliens—many released from jails by sanctuary politicians—including murderers, rapists, child predators, and gang members.

Underlying quote tweet excerpted below. 
Jennie Taer • @JennieSTaer • 2h
SCOOP: ICE officers across the country were told this weekend to stop arresting non-criminals, agency sources tell @realDailyWire
Now, ICE may only arrest illegal immigrants…
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