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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you can only complete the schoolwork with the chatbot, you haven’t learned anything. Your brain has atrophied. Nothing has happened in your head.

A recent study of 26,000 Chinese secondary-school students found that A.I. adoption led to an 18 percent increase in homework scores, but a 20 percent decline in scores on secure exams. The implication was that rushing through homework with help from chatbots degraded the deeper learning needed to perform well when the technology was not available.

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Rick Gladwin 🇨🇦 @rickgladwin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Be honest: The arc of human history bends towards power. It’s up to us to be just and powerful to be good and powerful to be wise and loving and kind and powerful Together.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You do not need to explain, to Queer or Black or Disabled people in America, that you can't always have a perfect thing. That is not news to us. You are not providing new information. It is the height of arrogance to assume that's not already part of our understanding of the world.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

in full support of Canada joining the EU just so I can say that this combo is “the latest European fashion”

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Empathy - I feel it too 2024

My art, digital. Two wolves with arrows out of their mouths

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Kateriffic @hungrykate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Someday we're going to take DV seriously. And then shortly after we're gonna wonder where all the mass shooters and terrorists went.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

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LizzieNuclearWoman @lizzienuclearwoman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit." 1/4

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It'll be pretty embarrassing if the dinosaurs went out with more dignity than us. They can't say they knew about the meteor for decades, knew exactly what to do about it, had all the technology and resources to stop it but didn't so five of them could own everything

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026

I said it in 2021, I've said it a bunch since, and I'll say it again now: You're not afraid of "killer AI" and "robot overlords," you're afraid of white supremacy, ableism, patriarchy, hegemony, extractivism, kyriarchy, and capitalism.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 18/05/2026

In the US, Black people have to borrow *significantly* more to graduate from college than white people. But then we get hired at much lower rates. 🙂🙃 The net effect is that a disproportionate amount of the $1.8 trillion (not a typo. Trillion) is held by Black women. Why women? Higher attendance.🤷🏿‍♂️

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/05/2026

Impressed by the number of bikes and bike lanes in Bristol. The city could have said, look, we are made entirely of hills, biking is madness, maybe we could have a funicular or something. Instead they said no, we are strong, we can do it, we will have the finest quads in all the kingdom 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴

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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Find a partner you're as happy to see as these two are to see each other. Laysan albatross seen at Ke'anu Point on Oahu, Hawaii 🪶

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Let me remind everyone that fierce debate exists over the different classes of ebikes allowed in cities.

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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I love this essay very much!!!!

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Jack G. @jack1973.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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Rick Gladwin 🇨🇦 @rickgladwin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Probably my favourite galaxy. Hard to explain, but images of it give a sense of size and scale and place.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 NEVER AGAIN MEANS NEVER AGAIN #IDF

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

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Rick Gladwin 🇨🇦 @rickgladwin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is the way. LLMs are (complicated) statistical text generators. There are downsides to the fact that they don’t actually reason and understand things. You don’t get to sneak those downsides into work that is *fundamentally* about truth and reasoning just because knowing things is hard. Grow up.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Also: look up Zhang Shan. She won gold at the Barcelona Olympics in 1993 in skeet shooting. Skeet shooting had been a mixed gender event since the 60s, but after her win, they segregated the genders. And in the next Olympic Games, they literally didn’t even have a women’s skeet shooting category.

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Snarky Robot, but Halloween-themed @snarkyrobot.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I want leaders who have been thinking about problems for decades. I want the people who have experienced the consequences of politics or have engaged with understanding them for decades. I want people who first had adult thoughts on matters of civics, society, and politics at the age of 12, not 40.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is my actual objection. Our entire jobs have been transformed overnight into entirely different jobs, of far less social worth, and with zero relationship to the reason most of us got into them in the first place. All we want to do is contribute and AI billionaires are like HAHA NOPE.

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Rick Gladwin 🇨🇦 @rickgladwin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Happy Superb Owl to all who celebrate.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Never talk to me or my giant plastic wife *ever again*.

A finch or sparrow on a plastic decoy owl on a rooftop. The owl is a bird deterrent but its not working very well.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Me when I think about how my lifelong affection for AI as an idea is poisoned every day by the bullshit pretender they are using to ruin everything I love

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Alt: Shatner/Kirk KHAN!!’ scream

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14/11/2025

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

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Rick Gladwin 🇨🇦 @rickgladwin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

If you’re into pedagogy, or language, or… words… this article is worth a read.

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Rick Gladwin 🇨🇦 @rickgladwin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My brain is such that I experience what I and others like me affectionately term “complicated joy” Coviello puts to paper what I might call “eloquent rage” In both cases the standard stuff doesn’t hit the same. If you’re exasperated by NYT abandoning its credibility for cash, this is a good read.

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

"journalist" should be a protected title, like "engineer". that if you misrepresent things, you lose your practice

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Rick Gladwin 🇨🇦 @rickgladwin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

*leans in* *taps mic* You don’t hate AI. You hate capitalism. Thank you for coming to my entire Ted Talk.

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Mikhail Kats @mickeykats.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We need very strong norms for people taking responsibility for what they generate + share, with or without AI tools It should be considered rude to ask for someone's attention or effort if you yourself outsourced your thinking to an AI tool and did not critically evaluate the output

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It’s almost like letting young white men marinate their brains in an algorithm-driven toxic stew of nihilistic hate 24/7 and giving them ready access to guns is a bad idea

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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply. There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/08/2025

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

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The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party – Disability Social History Project

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/08/2025

Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

After blocking Israeli military cargo, the Greek dockworkers union stressed that they refuse to be “accomplices to the genocide of the Palestinian people.” “For us, it is our duty not to allow our port to be turned into a tool of a war machine targeting unarmed populations.”

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