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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 18h

Flag yourself... I'm a Night Weirdo.

Chart purporting to show the 10 categories of bird, from Birb, Berd, Borb, Tall and Judgy, Night Wieirdos, etc. to "Honorary Mention: Chicken, The Original Dinousaur with commitment issues.

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 9h

I find this choice of imagery very interesting.

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

what I hope this thread makes clear is two things: 1. expanding the court has real problems, and these are valid concerns 2. there are no good options left, and this is the best of the bad ones unless we want to accept a conservative supermajority for the rest of our lives

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 13h

top tip: If your boss doesn't like your work, tell him you did it with AI! Then he'll have to pretend to like it!

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Rob Lion @rnlion.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks to the Forgotten Books Classic Reprint Series on Amazon, now your personal library can include the much-loved tale, "Beetlebusters: An Educator's Guide to Stopping the Asian Longhorned Beetle", a 40-page USDA curriculum for middle- and high-school students from the 2010s.

A screenshot of an Amazon product page for the Forgotten Books Classic Reprint Series book "Beetlebusters: An Educator's Guide to Stopping the Asian Longhorned Beetle". The front cover shown is a mashup of classic library binding styles: the upper half tan with a black spine and a wax seal, and the lower half red leather with gold lettering and seal; a torn-paper effect separates the upper and lower halves.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

Not beating the charges that Ivy League universities are now hedge funds with colleges attached. 46% in private equity is wildly irresponsible financial management for an organization that is supposedly focused on safeguarding the long-term projects of teaching, research, & higher education.

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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 14h

I need everyone involved in coastal planning/engineering/hazard mgmt on the US West Coast to watch this. It is so, so much better than I could have ever anticipated. youtu.be/qAYF63a67MI?...

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Kelvin Wave — An 80s Power Ballad About El Niño & Sea Level Rise

YouTube video by Dusek Coastal Science & Consulting

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14h

If you read accounts of successful terror groups, one of the things you realize is there’s a recurring pattern of the handful of smart or even average intelligence ones tearing their hair out trying to keep these violent morons on task.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 15h

Wow! A whole fifth-eighth century century hilltop settlement 20km south of Dijon with big stone buildings and even a hypocaust heating system.

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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 23h

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

Marks & Spencer in-store signage for a tomato sauce that says "The same Calabrian recipe for over 20 years"

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 19h

Public libraries are becoming so popular even the bears have started trying to get cards. www.instagram.com/reel/DeftV9x...

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 23h

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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b9a1baa8.bsky.social @b9a1baa8.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

She's violating both: 18 U.S.C. § 597 (prohibits offering money or anything of value, including gift cards) and 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c) (separately bans paying or offering to pay anyone for voting in an election that includes a federal office like U.S. Senator. Penalties up to 5 years in prison.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21h

We’ve all done this before becoming employed and I fully support claiming there was a good reason

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21h

As I first reported on Monday, Katie Zacharia is not a lawyer and has never been licensed to practice law. The WSJ reports that she took the California Bar Exam but failed. Nevertheless, Zacharia appeared on media programs for YEARS and repeatedly called herself a lawyer. Here's a super cut:

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 20h

Saw this on the shelf at Target and it’s like a portal to an utterly unknowable parallel world. As if i was peering into the dimension from Stalker

A YouTube kidslop thumbnail in real life

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Rob Lion @rnlion.bsky.social · 20h

I think a lot of people have ascribed sentience and sapience to tools they found temperamental and frustrating to work with.

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Garrett Wollman @gwollman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

At some point after independence they decided that 1524 was a weird number and rounded it down to 1520.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 15/10/2026

My finest ever work. I wrote it on a treadmill in a gym, recording each title, as I thought of them, into the notes app.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/10/2026

not at all surprising that we would lose metallica and the crue in the national divorce but still bewildering that we kept guns n roses

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Prax Jarvin is Kenough @praxjarvin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hitchcock deadpanning “ba-da-ba-da-buh I’m loving it” straight to camera

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mobrantley @mobrantley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I cant imagine how to anything other than self flatulate, unless you hold a baby too tight around the middle?

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Aloysius Thudthwacker @thudthwacker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I now desperately want a band called "McJagger" that does covers of Rolling Stone songs using Irish folk instruments.

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

OMG where is this from?! Also, I had a creative writing student who wrote the lead Rolling Stones' singer name as McJagger and I think about it all the time.

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 13/10/2026

Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin

A screenshot that reads: Moore throws in a Hitchcock-style McMuffin in the shape of a secret tape recording which will reveal just who has been betraying the gangsters.
The problem is that no-one has a machine on which to play it.

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026

Or just go straight to the landing page: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...

oaklandreviewofbooks.org

ORB Voting Guide 2026

We humbly submit the opposite of the Nextdoor slate.

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15/10/2026

No one asked the Oakland Review of Books to make a voting guide, and we made one anyway. Today we start off with the ballot propositions and the regional transit measure: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/orbs-totally...

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ORB’s totally partisan 2026 voting guide

We made a spreadsheet and everything.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/10/2026

i am deeply frustrated by this market that is not even capitalism, where companies who will forever lose money can claim exorbitant valuations based on the opinions of their friends. we need far more ruthlessness.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/10/2026

anduril is going for an IPO valuation that dwarfs most of the major defense contractors *combined* and their biggest idea is under*ground* submarines. the market should viciously punish this shit.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Fundamentally, I don't understand why anyone trusts these things to do anything. If a person fucked up that much everyone would call him Bullshit Terry and you wouldn't leave him in charge of a deckchair.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/10/2026

we need some CAPEX and OPEX reform, but, generally, companies are finding that they spend more and get less when they cut FTEs and try to replace them with robots, which is not a surprise to anyone who works with the robots

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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.net · 14/10/2026

URL is data is one of my favorite mediums, I've made a few over the years and discovered this iOS "bug" that they are susceptible to: www.patrickweaver.net/blog/imessag...

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Unravelling an iMessage URL Parsing Mystery

Patrick Weaver’s Website

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 14/10/2026

I built a thing. I LOVED making it. It's called TinyLittleOffice. It's a web office suite (word processor, outliner, decks, spreadsheet, calculator, drawing tool, diagram maker, animator, calendar, trip planner) that stores the docs in your URL. tinylittleoffice.com?c=hgmcggn#/v...

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This Link Is This Document

QR code:…

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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

What the FUCK @pbs.org ... you used generative AI for archaeological reconstructions of Great Zimbabwe? Fuck you. How DARE you. You couldn't be bothered to pay actors? Animators? (Africa's Golden City, showing now- they did a "We used generative AI" disclaimer prior to the show starting)

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DAT BUNN @bunnzo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I was just reading about how AI is especially pernicious for any kind of historical restoration / research. They showed ths image from a 1960s flyer that AI "cleaned up", dramatically replacing detail in a way that's very easy not to notice and therefore propogate into the academic record.

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 15/10/2026

I feel like we collectively need to seriously think about incentives and how to make it possible for businesses to spin off pieces of software once they get bored of it but it's it's own product.

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 15/10/2026

but basically on top of everything else, these giant tech companies are each a Bell Labs; a near-monopoly supports their other projects, but the more projects they have the larger they have to grow to support them and the more power capital and labor accumulates under one executive body

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 15/10/2026

the "agentic" vision of computing is a spam world where everyone has their own personal army of spam bots working 24/7 on their behalf choking everything with spam to try and get one over on the next guy. and that's just not something that can really... exist, long term?

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Lord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

regular reminder that evil communist cubans already invented a lung cancer vaccine and are happy to share if we can stop murdering them for no reason

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's regrettable that our most beloved video games trained a generation to think this way: the tech tree moves inexorably from the left to the right as you pour research into it, and consumer products fall from the tree like rotten fruit. They cannot imagine a different relationship with technology.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In the face of criticism, Tim Flock deploys the old "we shouldn't pause progress" canard — because in Silicon Valley brain poisoned culture, any widget with a microchip in it is automatically "progress" and anyone who doesn't think every such widget is good hates all progress

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Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: 'We shouldn't pause progress' | TechCrunch

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company's surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh the risks of abuse.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/10/2026

Update (lmao):

Tweet from Elon Musk:
Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.

Starlink is a commercial service owned and controlled by SpaceX. Usage of Starlink is limited to civilian or defensive activities and cannot be used for offensive military action, as doing so would be inappropriate for a commercial company.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 14/10/2026

There should be a law like with toy guns that they have to be bright colors like orange Also the wearer should be required to wear a hat with a large (at least 20 sq ft) flag of naked Mark Zuckerberg

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Alright what's the over/under that they're gonna let me use this illustration as the example of various ways you can nature journal in my book? I don't see anything wrong with this, why wouldn't they let me use this?

A lightning bug with inaccurate eyes and a comically large ass is poorly scribbed on a nature journal page, labeled July 10, 2026. The bug is labeled with "It looked just like this" with an arrow to the ass labeled "wow" and then next to it "today i saw a bug with a HUGE BUTT. Please alert local scientists!!"

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