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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 1m

Thankfully the President’s party isn’t having any problems with the Hispanic vote right now.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 34m

uh…what the fuck

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 1h

Wtf do you even put in a punitive essay about gang raping someone? Who tf thought that was a good idea?

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 3h

On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1h

One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman

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Gerald C Brown @geraldcbrown.bsky.social · 2h

Look I got the color wrong, but I was way too close here

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t think this is a good idea

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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 3h

It is astonishing how many people have, in worrying about a nonsense problem, managed to find a way to stake out a position that they’d actually be ok with little slavery as long as the slaves are happy.

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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 11h

hey is the strait open yet

Six hundred of our finest warriors joined SECWAR
for morning PT at the Pentagon ahead of his HISTORIC State of the Force address.

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 3h

Cannot recommend these folks enough. Phenomenal quality, pleasure to work with, very competitive pricing.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 3h

Reddit: Oh you liked posts about one specific sport? Perhaps you’d love to see posts about a bunch of different sports that have almost nothing in common with it?

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haunted girlfriend @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 3h

giving a cat one thousand kisses on his soft tiny head

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 6h

Every AI generated event poster is incredibly ugly, but I do think it's interesting that that LLMs have essentially created a house style for flyers, especially one so maximalist and ugly and in contravention of of all convention and best practices established in graphic design over centuries.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4h

Spoke to a class a Columbia earlier about press freedom and anticipated having to explain what Gawker was but it did not occur to me for even two minutes that I would also have to explain who Hulk Hogan was

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4h

Just read @katemanne.bsky.social ‘s fantastic piece in The Cut about the Cornell rape and she points out that students protesting conditions in Gaza were treated more harshly than the rapists and holy shit, this detail

One of these students was my own advisee, and having supported her throughout the the months-long case, I can state with confidence that she did nothing wrong. Moreover, she happens to be deaf and was suspended in part for being “unreasonably loud.” Privacy consideration

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 4h

They've invented a lying-to-the boss machine and bosses love it.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 4h

Maybe firing and driving off all of the smart cybersecurity people was a bad idea? Apparently SI was not super enough to prevent this.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

he could literally send himself right now to go fight in the currently ongoing hot war against "islamists" that he started?

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 5h

Organ harvesting would be my guess

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 7h

I had the distinct pleasure of speaking at the Internet Archive on a number of ocassions. Their mission is to preserve and share the history of the Internet, but also to digitize and distribute all of the ancillary artifacts of the web’s history, including software written in any medium. 🦫🔎

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 7h

sent my niece (a college freshman) a note to remind her of all the ways she and her friends can look out for each other she ended her reply with "and I'm currently sitting at a fountain drinking coffee and eating a pastry so life is as good as it gets" and it made me do this: 🥹

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 7h

lmao at “100% Organic (Your Own).” What a sales pitch.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 8h

To be real though, Aaron is not the problem with Trust & Safety. It was terrible before he arrived, often harming folks from marginalized groups. He’s just continuing that culture, doing what the leadership tells him.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 8h

Give him a break. It’s either this or punch a reporter.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 8h

Aaron is the real victim here on Bluesky /s

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 9h

Content companies are so desperate for ad income at this point. I was just trying to read an article on Yahoo and the damn page was refreshing so often to get new ads. It even did it when I was in reader mode.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 12h

And who knows the private healthcare industry better that Rick Scott, former CEO of Columbia/HCA? www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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HCA - THE HEALTH CARE COMPANY & SUBSIDIARIES
IO PAY $840 MILLION IN CRIMINAL FINES AND CIVIL DAMAGES AND PENALTIES
Largest Government Fraud Settlement in U.S. History
WASHINGTON, D.C. - HCA-The Healthcare Company (formerly known as Columbia-HCA), the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, has agreed to plead guilty to criminal conduct and pay more than $840 million in criminal fines, civil penalties and damages for alleged unlawful billing practices,
Attorney General Janet Reno announced today.
Today's agreement is the largest government fraud settlement ever reached by the Justice Department.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 10h

Wow this is terrible. Exactly the kind of thing people were warning could happen. Fantastic reporting from Jason. 404 is doing such amazing work.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20h

I am the meanest mama in the history of the world and I should be in a dungeon of some kind

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

i dont think people deluded themselves really…they were told by republicans that “mass deportation” was criminals and the media didnt fact check and democrats moved right on the issue there was no alternative offered to mass deportation, no one even argued against it

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 23h

Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

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Surveillance Watch

This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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mizzangelb.bsky.social @mizzangelb.bsky.social · 11h

Notice he said in "your" neighborhood! I wonder how many data centers are in their neighborhoods.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 11h

We tried this when I worked at Hardees. You don't want to drink the concentrate

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 11h

We have a data center in our kitchen, it’s beautiful. It makes breakfast every morning and it guards the house. We gave our dogs to Kristi Noem.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 11h

As usual Uggi does not like when we take one of his children somewhere and then just leave them there

Uggi the dog staring up at a blue door on a yellow house.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 11h

Bad day for Sports Illustrated

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 11h

They say to never give up on your dreams but once again I haven’t won Fat Bear Week.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 12h

A corollary to this important point about AI & invisible labor is that, 100% of the time, the dudes most obsessed with onboarding LLMs into classrooms either suck deeply at teaching or are not teachers at all but instead lifelong administrators who think teaching is “generating feedback” & that’s it

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