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The Left Flank @rist3902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After pernoctating I watched a youtube video about a scrabble genius. Said video has a misleading title. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfH2...

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The Best Scrabble Player is GENUINELY insane

YouTube video by s0ngbird

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kirsty Elson who creates small sculptures by upcycling driftwood and other found materials #WomensArt

Stylised dog small sculpture created with pieces of wood and metal resembling a poodle with nose in the air

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The only press coverage Trump should get right now is coverage of how he's banning the press. Nothing else. None of what he wants them to talk about. Just coverage of his anti-American, anti-first amendment authoritarianism. Then go back to covering the results of his disastrous policies.

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The only thing out of Dems’ mouths for the next six weeks should be: Donald Trump single-handedly drove up gas prices by starting a senseless war, and it will only get worse if you re-elect Republicans

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This man delivers a no-bullshit takedown of Trump and his MAGA supporters, no fucks given. We should all be this mouthy and vocal. And I love his hat.

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When Shel Silverstein predicted AI

HOMEWORK MACHINE
The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine, Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen.
Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime, Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds time, Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.
Here it is-"nine plus four?" and the answer is "three."
Three?
Oh me . ..
I guess it's not as perfect As I thought it would be.

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The Left Flank @rist3902.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Throwing caution to the wind and eating some carrots.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026

Admirable clarity @science.org

The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

So the bread has glass in it, the lettuce has diarrhea-causing bacteria, the eggs have salmonella, the beef has screw worms, the produce is somehow bad all the time now, AND everything is more expensive. What the actual fck is going on?

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 25/07/2026

Nope. No, you haven’t.

r/WritingWithAl
u/Dazzling-Major-5620 • 13h
ChatGPT not letting you emulate specific authors anymore
Prompting
Join
I've been writing my book for several months now, paid for a more advanced model. Took a break. Came back.
Now Ms. GPT says she can't generate content in the style of specific authors. My prompts were soooo specific and I got exactly what I wanted out of them. For example,
'rewrite in the literary style of 'author here' with abundant dialogue and detail avoiding staccato prose. That was my go-to. Or 'please write and flesh out in the style of
'author' etc. they tightened the ropes. I have no idea how to get around this other than maybe feed it prose I already edited that's technically mine? Fuck.
& Locked post. New comments cannot be posted.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thought we didn’t have money in the USA for healthcare. Yet the Defense Department’s latest estimate puts the cost of the war with Iran at $37.5 billion. Funny how we’re always told we can’t afford to invest in people’s health, but somehow tens of billions of dollars for war can be found.

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Generative AI is an attempt by tech bros to own our voices, our experiences, our creativity, our hard work. They want to feed our creative efforts into a machine so that they can profit off of it. AI art is hollow and soulless and without human intention.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 09/07/2026

God I miss the days when every other news item wasn’t “this awful person with way too much money just made your life worse in unimaginable ways for no good reason.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026

Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/07/2026

My posts most days. I'm sorry.

"Let's not talk aobut politics anymore. I can't bear it"
"Same"
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"THE THING IS THOUGH"
"THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

@emilyscartoons

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The Left Flank @rist3902.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Progressives want to improve things somewhat Centrists want things to stay the same Conservatives want to make things worse

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Baya weavers build nests where the entrance tube points down and the egg chamber sits above, leaving any climbing snake suspended mid-air with nothing to push against.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The oceans are hot, this should be all we talk about today

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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Microsoft blaming the rising costs of computer components after spending $146 billion dollars on AI investments

I Think You Should Leave's hot dog sketch saying "We're all trying to find the guy who did this"

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/06/2026

This Mamdani kid is going to have play nice with the party elders after all this irresponsible nonsense of becoming extremely popular, effectively implementing positive policy, and helping to get similarly minded people elected

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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The Left Flank @rist3902.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hulu, if I select the Dune remake and you suggest The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey rather than the sequel to the Dune remake as the follow-up then your algorithm has failed miserably. 'Would you like to follow up that quality movie with a garbage movie instead of the sequel?'

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/06/2026

the strait pass was damm’d

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"We suffer from a peculiar delusion in this country. We think that if we vote for a fool, he will represent us, instead of just being a fool." - Frank Moore Colby #RadioFreeAmerica #politics

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"André," is a collaborative kinetic sculpture created by artists Amora Doris & Jules Bonnot. It functions as a hand-cranked mutoscope, driving a series of 100 ink illustrations that create a delightful animated scene. IG: @amoradorisplasticienne

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/06/2026

Remember a little while ago when we all found out that a bunch of prominent right-wing influencers were straight-up paid by Russians and everyone just shrugged?

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I think being anti-Nazi and having zero tolerance for it is a fairly objective and fair position to take. If we do not say Nazi=bad what sense of morality are we bringing to any supposed objectivity.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Being an American now is just waking up and being told how much more money the president and his billionaire buddies are stealing, then being expected to act like it’s a normal fucking day.

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It seems like identifiable members of the Supreme Court actively helping one political party to choose its voters to maximal electoral advantage should be a bigger scandal

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I could not love @edzitron.com’s latest newsletter edition more. We should shout this from the rooftops. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researchers who don’t want to research, and the lawyers that don’t want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful AI is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs’ outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ha, I had friends demanding I drop everything and watch this the moment they finished it, and now that I've gotten around to it, I can understand why. Dan "Folding Ideas" Olsen was invited to visit Beast Studios, went, and came back with OPINIONS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dwa...

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Why was I invited to Beast Studios?

YouTube video by Folding Ideas

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Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @luckyshitt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

DAMN, SON! Reinventing how a thousand year old instrument is played!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Onion is a national treasure

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2026

just a breathtaking self-own here from Ted Cruz

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The Left Flank @rist3902.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This seems like it would be an excellent time to avoid flying until this ICE bs is no longer a part of it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Stuck in an hours-long security line at the airport? It’s because Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ bill to fund DHS agencies that don’t conduct immigration enforcement, like TSA. That’s how dead set they are on allowing ICE to keep terrorizing communities with impunity. Remember this.

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