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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!

Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 Years

Workers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows

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ceej @ceej.online · 8h

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 4h

Satan Afflicting Job with Boils Detail from a 12th-century illuminated manuscript (MS Hunter 229, f. 5v), 1170 Location: Glasgow University Library, Scotland.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4h

thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17h

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 11h

"Where spelling doesn't count, but people's pets do."

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Books of All Time @booksofalltime.bsky.social · 11h

We are not *against* justice for cows, per se, we just weren't expecting it to be roughly the third most-important thing on Zoroaster's mind after a) the difficulty of convincing other people to follow his religion; and b) the coming cosmic battle between good and evil.

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 11h

One thing I was not prepared for when I started reading the Gathas (the oldest part of the Avesta, the part supposedly composed by Zoroaster himself) was all the talk about justice for cows.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 13h

Next week I get to teach one of my favorite books for my “From the New Deal to Age of Reagan” class: MY SOUL IS RESTED, a marvelous collection of oral histories of civil rights participants and leaders. I now have to hold the book together with a rubber band because the cover has fallen off.

MY SOUL IS RESTED: THE STORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE DEEP SOUTH
Howell Raines

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 13h

he is on the keubord again but also on my hands this time help

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 18h

The moment requires "a degree of humility"... and that's why "[a]fter I quit, I enlisted a PR firm, Spitfire Strategies, to help me navigate the attention and scrutiny that I realize I may now receive."

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 18h

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 18h

apparently my typing was disturbing his nap (he has completely covered the keyboard with his pudge here) #caturday

A devastatingly handsome tuxedo cat lies in a passive-aggressive manner across a desk, totally concealing the photographer's wireless keyboard.

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 20h

Stopped to make a bouquet mid-rewrite.

Photo of a cheerful bouquet of autumn flowers in a blue glass jar: burgundy dahlias, white and pink anemones, orange echinacea, and a yellow sunflower.

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futurepastnow.bsky.social @futurepastnow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is old, but...

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Koalas have fingerprints remarkably similar to ours, which is how they managed to frame the zoo's dentist for bank robbery.

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 02/10/2026

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They cannot "run" a program, because they don't have legs

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You will also see a smaller push to advocate for revolutionary or justice AI. They don’t have to court those organizations. most will willingly embrace the idea of it because funding environment for non profits is so bad.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Judging AI by everybody put out of work, who still have a job but that job is worse and making them miserable, who get accused of faking their work because nobody can trust anything anymore, etc. Silly stuff like that

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/10/2026

We surveyed 210 of the most active climate communicators across the US and Canada. Only one pair reported both collaborating with each other AND sharing information with each other. Key results below. Read the full report here: talkingclimate.com/landscape-as...

A screenshot of the top five results from our US/Canada landscape survey of climate communicators - they tend to work alone, funding is scarce, they're helping people understand & act, they're mostly talking to insiders and they need connection.

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a quick reminder that the Vietnamese Crested Argus exists. Critically endangered and restricted to humid forests of Laos and Vietnam, it is widely considered to have a huge-ass tail. 📷 Robin Arnold, eBird

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

days have become so advanced that if you wanted to look at the exact same date from just one year ago, you'd need an entirely different calendar

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s the 109th anniversary today of respected surgeon Beaman Douglass publishing a learned paper in Torreya, the journal of the Torrey Botanical Society (the oldest botanical society in the Americas, fact fans) all about how he accidentally fucked himself and his wife right up with shrooms

Beautifully coloured illustration of multiple different types of fungi all growing together in an imagined landscape—frontispiece from One thousand American Fungi; how to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous; Charles McIlvaine, 1900

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Heard more from him about this than his government’s transphobia and race riots

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me: I don't think you're that sick; I think you just woke up a bit sniffly this morning. The Child: I cannot believe this outrageous harassment. You are such a rude woman. My own mother. (She's going to school.)

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us

The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive

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robertus @robertus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Scholars are unsure why the chorus starts singing Aristophadeez Nuts here but it's consistent across all our surviving manuscripts

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

HYPOTHESIS: repeat exposure to the LessWrong discussion boards is functionally indistinguishable from mercury poisoning.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?

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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the problems of being an American abroad is that I will probably not get to participate in any impromptu street parties.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

[GENTRIFIER WHO MOVED TO TRANSYLVANIA] “Amanda, call the cops, they’re out there doing the Mash again.”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So this just misses the point entirely. Likely impact will be short-term before shunting the problem elsewhere in the system - like the mental health system with associated costs, when it will end up costing the welfare system more in the medium term. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Conservatives pledge 'tough love' benefit rules for under-25s

The party says it would bring in new work requirements for young people claiming Universal Credit.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 30/09/2026

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AP NORC: Trump approval at 31 points. A majority of Americans, 51%, *strongly disapprove*. AFAIK, strong disapproval crushing overall approval by 20 points is unprecedented. There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism.

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Dave @albatrossity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&White — any shot in black and white. Common Raven, Utah 20254 #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #Corvids #Canyonlands #Utah

large dark bird with stout bill and raindrops on its back

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

stop treating the culture wars as an exogenous shock. political actors made strategic choices to create and weaponize them. they are not a curious weather condition public schools failed to dress appropriately for.

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Rose Judson @rosejudson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always a treat to spot some local celebrities. (There’s a big colony of them in Highbury Park.)

Screenshot from the Merlin bird ID app showing the page for the rose-ringed parakeet. Pictured is a male, a bright green bird with a tail shading to blue. It has a small hooked beak that is bright red.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Paddling (canoeing) across Windermere today, into the teeth of a pretty stiff Force 3 wind - lumpy, and just this side of whitecaps - I came across a swimming squirrel, looking very stressed. Not a planned swim, I'm guessing. It was 300m to either shore, so I'm not sure s/he was going to be okay.

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 01/10/2026

Interesting: “Raise the Colours” are citing the European Convention on Human Rights in defence of their flag-raising campaign👇 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbc.com The ECHR protects us all.

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Raise the Colours' members in court for Birmingham injunction evidence

Birmingham City Council is seeking an injunction to stop the Raise The Colours group's activities.

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