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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
this Pete Hegseth speech is indistinguishable from parody. words fail to describe the absurdity. here he's talking about governors coming to the Pentagon to grovel to him and Trump so they can be rewarded with a new military base
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 22h
The 2026 Right Livelihood Award goes to women and women-led organisations challenging entrenched power structures: 🏆 Jalila Haider @jalilahaider.bsky.social 🏆 Rural Women's Assembly 🏆 Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association 🏆 Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app rightlivelihood.org/2026-announc...
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 12h
You could say it is Ronald Reagan's fault and it would not be totally wrong.
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 12h
When you have no idea what music is all about.
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 12h
This is just another example of the contempt of the tech bro billionaires for ordinary people - in these case Meta employees (probably not the most ordinary, but still). Zuck just wants to avoid to interact with real human beings. They are just not worthy.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 20h
*Sneak Peak* Das buch ist so kontrovers, dass der Postbote hineinbeissen musste.
Das buch faschisierung, ein rosa suhrkamp bändchen mit einem dicken knick/riss an der seite
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
The data on the difference between chat interactions vs agentic use is absolutely bonkers - such a significant increase. And this is as the hyperscalers keep reporting ever-increasing emissions. What is this going to look like in 5 years, if there is widespread adoption of agentic AI?
a chart showing a huge increase in energy from agentic usea chart showing each company's total energy consumption
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy 479th Birthday to Miguel Cervantes who was born #onthisday in 1547 🎂 In his most famous work Don Quixote, the title character charges at windmills, mistaking them for monstrous giants with swords, so in tribute we're all going up Burgar Hill in #Orkney to tilt at the wind turbines. 🎉
An illustration of Miguel Cervantes
The cover of the Penguin edition of Don Quixote
A painting of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza at a windmill
A wind turbine on Burgar Hill in Orkney
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Leonhard Dobusch @leonido.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nicht dass jemand hier glaubt, Bluesky hätte ein Monopol auf Zeiler-Content. Auch auf Facebook geht's ab, z.B. liefern Robert Menasse und Fabian Eder lange Zeiler-Danksagungen:
Robert Menasse zu ZeilerFabian Eder zu Zeiler
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Stefan Kappacher @kappachers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
„Glaubt Gerhard Zeiler, er ist Godot? Und da ist er endlich?“ Der Robert Menasse priceless.
Sarkastischer Text von Robert Menasse über Gerhard Zeiler und seine Ambitionen die SPÖ zu übernehmen.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billionThe Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.inc.com/jason-aten/m...
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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To
Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 29/09/2026
Hey, give us your money - we may destroy the world (after filling our pockets) but this is just a ‘maybe’. What is sure is that we at least destroy YOUR money. 🤯 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
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Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I like this framing
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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Garden of Earthly Delights
Garden of Earthly Delights
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 28/09/2026
Whole thread. The sense of entitlement some men are feeling is just crazy. Hey, you’re a fuckin’ human like any other human on the planet.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 27/09/2026
Not sonsure if mainstream media (I mean, media where ordinary people get their information from) is aware that the companies pushing GenAI down our throats are basically lead by a cult. Insecure men with billions give access to their circles only via sex parties. What? 🤯
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small and ancient figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The museum lighting makes the amber glow translucent orange against a dark display case background. The bear is displayed on a small metal stand viewed in profile facing right. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The neck has a polished groove suggesting it was once suspended on a cord. The characteristic shoulder hump of a brown bear is clearly defined. There are some finely incised horizontal lines along the belly. The legs are incomplete. Length 6.5cm. Amber has many properties which may have been associated with 'magic' for ancient peoples. For example, when rubbed against fur, amber produces static electricity which can give off sparks in the dark, make hair stand on end, and attract small things towards it.
The bear was found in 1991 on a west coast beach of the Danish North Sea island of Fanø. It is one of a small number of amber animal figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach and /or other contextual information.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/09/2026
House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber from Republicans in the November elections. to.pbs.org/4hjKHyI
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House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option
“There is a cost to the American people of the out-of-control corruption,” said Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who is in line to become House speaker if Democrats win control at the Ca...
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interior of Dome, Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Roman church at end of narrow courtyard, with landmark spiral lantern cupola 1642-1660, by Francesco Borromini, great Baroque architect 1599-1667; designed ingenious plans for difficult sites. Original site of Sapienza, Università di Roma, founded 1303.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 26/09/2026
Nothing new - the guys (mostly) that voters fall for are incompetent liars and grifters. The damage they do is the only thing worse than their popularity. And still they win.
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jmglachant.bsky.social @jmglachant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Milei net approval at -30% (65 against 35) • Growth concentrated in sectors as hydrocarbons, mining and agriculture, not labour-intensive. • Economic activity in industries that are more so, as manufacturing and construction, still at 10% lower than when Milei took office. From @economist.com
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ganz unabhängig der persönlichen Eignung glaube ich nicht, dass „71 jähriger Millionär durch Männer-Hinterzimmer-Intrige und mit Hilfe des Boulevards an die Spitze der SPÖ geputscht“ eine besonders eingängige Geschichte für die SPÖ-Basis ist.
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 25/09/2026
Was genau sind eigentlich die sozialdemokratischen Werte, die Gerhard Zeiler zum SPÖ-Vorsitz befähigen würden? Seine jahrelange Tätigkeit beim Revolver-Sender RTL? Ich sag's gleich, ich mag den Zeiler nicht als SPÖ-Vorsitzenden.
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 25/09/2026
Einmal einen Tag lang das Ego und Selbstbewusstsein eines 70-jährigen männlichen Millionärs haben, der meint, er könne die Sozialdemokratie wieder aus der Krise führen
Zeiler ist überzeugt davon, dass er die SPÖ aus ihrer Krise befreien kann: "Ich glaube, dass ich die richtige Person bin, um die Partei aus diesem historischen Tief herauszuführen." Am Zug sei jetzt die Partei: "Ich habe noch nie in meinem Leben wo gearbeitet, wo ich nicht gewollt bin. Und jetzt muss die SPÖ sagen: Ist Gerhard Zeiler gewollt oder ist er nicht gewollt?"
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 25/09/2026
WTF.
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Helicoidal staircase at Palazzo Barberini c.1630, by Francesco Borromini, great Italian Baroque architect, born in Ticino #OTD 1599. Palazzo Barberini, Rome
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Art within art: masterpieces by Titian, Veronese, Raphael, in art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria; gallery painting for Theatrum Pictorium, recorded c. 1650 by David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), influential Flemish artist & friend of Rubens. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien 1/2
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Episode 2 is up! Beforecast, my new podcast about history and our present, starting with a deep dive into Machiavelli. beforecast.fm has links to all the podcast sites, and the YouTube link is below.
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Beforecast — Now Live
Historian Ada Palmer on the real Machiavelli. Episode 1 is out now. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube and more.
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 24/09/2026
Very nice article from Adam Tornhill: adamtornhill.substack.com/p/follow-the...
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Follow the Law of Demeter: Reduce the Dependency Surface
Poor encapsulation creates excessive coupling, turning what should be a local change into shotgun surgery. In this article we look at dependencies as that multi-dimensional problem.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 23/09/2026
> The Mozilla Foundation isn't holding back its disdain for Big Tech leaders. > Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do. AT Protocol and the broader open social web is one of the ways we take back power from Big Tech. (If you see me out in these New York City streets, let me know.)
Photo of Elon musk on blue paper.
"Elon buys the blue bird. He trashes the place"Photo of Rudy on orange paper.
"Rudy builds Blacksky. Communities call the shots.""Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do."
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Michael Lühmann @herrluehmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Da ist er, der Anti-Antisemitismus der radikalen Rechten, der Antisemitismus instrumentalisiert, um den rechten Antisemiten den Weg freizuräumen (und der es schafft, die Wiederkehr des Nationalsozialismus unter Verweis auf die DDR als das eigentlich Böse zu verharmlosen). taz.de/Wahlsieg-in-...
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Wahlsieg in Berlin: Willkommen in der islamo-sozialistischen Höllendiktatur
Der Wahlsieg der Linken löst in bürgerlichen und rechten Kreisen eine Kernschmelze aus. Doch hinter der Schmierkampagne steht ein gefährliches Kalkül.
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Robert - DevOpsBob @ruzitschka.at · 22/09/2026
This ist just hilarious. I am lacking words.
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 21/09/2026
“The System From Nowhere” mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-syst… > But the first question to ask isn't "why did the model do that?" The question is: what human decisions optimized the model to do that?
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The System From Nowhere
When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
47 years ago today Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979. She made one of the most famous images in music history. #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hunt in the Forest, c 1470, rare Renaissance nocturnal landscape with vibrant colours and novel linear perspective & vanishing point; tempera & oil with traces of gold on panel, by Paolo Uccello 1397-1475, apprentice of Ghiberti, inspired Piero della Francesca, Leonardo & Dürer. Ashmolean Museum
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