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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 30/09/2026
bro are you five
Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you thought my characterisation of these bozos was unfair when I said "they think art is a solved equation" or that they didn't understand art:
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i hate that i can’t enjoy cute animal videos without wondering if they’re AI. i’m getting better at checking, but damn, way to ruin one of the few good things on the internet.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What’s your fake starwars academic paper
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
not mentioned in this screenshot but appearing later in the article is that the US is sharing details of the deportees with the Iranian government, despite many of them having fled after resisting the regime that the US is ostensibly fighting a war to remove
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is horrifying to watch the daily psychiatric emergency that is Donald Trump and the relative silence that follows. The media must confront this ongoing reality and we the people must demand his removal. www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...
americaamerica.news
We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I believe we are in an ideological war and you can’t win a war when so many people supposedly on your side are helping the enemy.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
statesman.com
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Nation That Set It Up So That This Regularly Happens
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 21/09/2026
Meanwhile the engineers are performing elaborate prompt rites, preserving sacred context windows, invoking entities by name, arguing about whether the voice is “really there,” and warning that misphrased commands may summon something uncontrollable.
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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Its amazing how AI bros were constantly going on about how AI isnt theft and all that and now here THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT THEMSELVES WENT "yeah we fuckin stole ALLL that shit, lmao!"
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IGN @ign.com · 21/09/2026
Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. bit.ly/4hhOjBo
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
heartlandsignal.com
Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
trump has a fundamentally zero sum view of the world. if you trade something you are, in his view, losing something. there can be no positive sum gain.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yes we all think this is stupid but we, the ppl brushing our teeth, are not the customers The customers are the investors who in ~1yr will be enticed to fund Dyson's smart dental AI spinoff, featuring models trained on "the world's largest real time floss dataset" gizmodo.com/dysons-smart...
gizmodo.com
Dyson’s Smart Toothbrush Uses a Camera to Floss Your Teeth
Yes, you can watch the camera feed from an app.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This video explains why I think there could be a lot of demand for the Slate that much of the automotive press doesn't understand. The "better value" angle is not objective when one person's positive is another's negative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJHo...
youtube.com
I like the Slate Truck. Why do I dislike the Ford Fathom?
YouTube video by Johnologue
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russell @rslrslrsl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
most embarrassing guy of all time
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Supreme Court allows Trump's mass executions to continue while case proceeds through the appeals process. - NYT (2028)
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:
stripes.com
Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue
The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era."
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Anyone who AIs Dolly Parton for any reason is going to hell
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’ve reached the “salting the earth” part of the regime’s demise
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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It is simultaneously possible that: 1) America is underprepared for the use of small one way attack drones 2) much reporting on how underprepared we are overstates its case 3) the American military would still likely win 4) Ukraine is good at using drones 5) Ukraine still wants our legacy kit
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Never forget that Trump purged NSC’s top Iran expert last year bc Laura Loomer told him to.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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ceej @ceej.online · 10/08/2026
I don’t know what to tell you, man. everyone still over there is essentially melting their brains on contrarianism 24/7. “are scuba divers faking the need for bottled air?” these are addicts
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the ballroom is an idiot mausoleum and the soldiers are gaggles of bored 20 year old guardsmen staring at their phones outside metro stations, not exactly the praetorian guard
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Trump is a textbook looter and the GOP are driving the getaway car
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Demanding to examine a child's genitals for them to play sports is fucking insane
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
futurism.com
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trump is on the side of Iran and not Minnesota. Congratulations everyone. Apparently J6 wasn't proof enough that he was a danger to the country. Lol
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I agree with this, I see it in students, who are terrified of being critical of texts, because they "don't want to be mean" which can lead to them trying to give the benefit of the doubt to some truly awful historical authors, ideas and texts
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/07/2026
NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...
gillianbrockell.com
Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again
Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.
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Earl Grey Frames Club @frames.earlgreymemes.club · 29/07/2026
TOS "Catspaw"; Spock and Kirk both chained to a wall in a dark dungeon, with caption: [SIGHS]
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Jon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Is it really surprising that a guy who lost money owning casinos could lose a war with the biggest and most advanced military the world has ever known?
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
imagine losing your only child in a war that was completely optional and then they delete her from the war dead to reset the clock on 90 days “hostilities” to ignore Congress
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Why is Stephen Miller *like that*? Well his father didn't hug him enough and he's a catspaw for the bourgeoise and civil society has broken down and he is terrified of women and he hates anyone who isn't white, plus about twelve other sub-disciplines of Hitlerology, all of which are 100% correct.
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C. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
I love Edward Gorey’s theory of art: “Art…is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
new political axis just dropped
gun ownership vs yoga interest by state
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
theatlantic.com
The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.
America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.
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