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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Stephen King: so as i was saying, salem's lot King: everyone in salem's lot is excited because a writer is coming to town King: everyone is so excited because he's so cool and awesome King: i mean, a writer is like a real life super hero Poe: yeah that scans Barker: no lies detected

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am still digesting Jason Arday's book, Great and Unfortunate Things. It's not easy to read what he stood for and know how it ended. Here's just one little snippet just to give a flavour. There is so much humanity here.

To this day, even as someone with a relatively senior position at a university, if I go into a boardroom and there's a swivel chair, I'll take the opportunity to swing around on it. That's the great thing about the autistic imagination: a swivel chair isn't just a chair - it's a fairground ride, an opportunity to release tension. I might have learned to suppress a meltdown but not a yearning for a swivel in a chair.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Pictures of Darpan Ray is my first contemporary novel. It’s a reimagining of The Picture of Dorian Gray, set mostly in Mumbai/Bollywood between the ‘00s and the ‘20s: a twenty-first-century vortex obsessed with youth, beauty, power, art, spirituality and conformity.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Back to school. ❤️

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and in 1949 he won an Oscar for ‘Battleground’.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

First look at the Criterion Collection cover of ‘KPop Demon Hunters.’ Out in November.

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Satya @satyaj.it · 13/08/2026

Fuckin' hell, this is AI. @madhav.bsky.social 🫠

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

this came out January of '86, a low point for me, and there were times that making it through until to the next Wednesday, when the new comics came out, was about all that kept me going. (same month as "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" Pt 1 & DD #230 ("Born Again"))

P 7 of Swamp Thing #48, in which John Constantine, in some dark caves, sees something bright coming toward him and realizes too late it's the Invunche and he's about to get smacked.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The TikTok girlies are referring to Amanda Palmer as “steampunk Ghislaine Maxwell” and damn

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Fancy spending part of your Saturday discussing how the Mughals built India in many ways? Yep, me too. Do join us -- #Mughal #history #academiclife

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Melissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When an entire arena boos you for telling the truth, you quickly learn who has courage. Kris Kristofferson walking onto that stage and standing beside Sinéad as the insults rained down remains one of the most powerful acts of human decency I’ve ever seen. Three years resting in peace 🙌🏼🤍🙌🏼

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My two-cents after seeing Nolan's #Odyssey, which trades on moral ambiguity -- Somebody get that director a copy of the #Mahabharata and a massive budget. He'll never look back.

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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 22/07/2026

Guys, Mars isn’t happening and other fun insights from Hugo Award winning author Becky Chambers on this weeks episode. @adambecker.bsky.social @multitudeshows.com #ai #datmpodcast #books #author #booktok #future #mars #sorrynotsorry

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Sing Emily, of arms and the man and the traffic! Fabulous thread by the celebrated (and reviled) translator of the Iliad a the Odyssey.

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The roleplaying aspect always hits me again when LLMs purport to describe their own workings. You’ve essentially prompted the sentence generation machine to generate sentences resembling something a hypothetical thinking machine might say about processes it might hypothetically have?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

love to fucking see it

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

William Friedkin smiling down from Heaven as OBSESSION destroys STAR WARS, finally avenging SORCERER

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Probably my all-time favorite quote about editing is, some clueless individual asked Martin Scorsese's editor Thelma Schoonmaker how such a nice lady could edit such violent movies, and she replied "Marty's movies aren't violent until I edit them."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Listen, I was born poor and rural. My high school mascot was a literal hillbilly. I understand white trash culture. I can say with complete confidence that this is white trash culture.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 26/05/2026

MARENGHI: Writers on BlueSky prefer to live in a bubble. My attitude has always been why settle for a bubble, [looks into camera] when you can have the whole bath. [pauses] [looks off camera] Alright, you can cut there.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The modern horror film renaissance, beginning in 1999 with the release of THE BLAIR WITCH, is the greatest single stretch in genre filmmaking of the 21st century.

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Satya @satyaj.it · 09/05/2026

You had me at Superman, but the Middleman too? What a great list!

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 09/05/2026

Yes! That's why I wrote this: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Every single sentence of this article is more insane than the last, but the standout was this: "When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing."

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/05/2026

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

cover for "Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech" by Paulina Borsook. Foreword by Gil Duran.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 03/05/2026

In the Pulitzer Prize award-winning novel Demon Copperhead, a building is described as being scary, "Like being trapped in a Duke Nukem doom castle." But Duke Nukem has no castle levels, even going back to the original sidescrollers, which clearly aren't being referenced here. ...Yes, I'll hold

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Thaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️‍⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 02/05/2026

i'm convinced that ai psychosis is the mass market version of what happens to rich people when theyre surrounded by yes-men all day every day

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Marīa @solusandra.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I was at the Minnesota Orchestra last night & there was an ad in the program for the opera THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR, based on @therightram.bsky.social & Filipe Andrade's comic. I somehow missed the announcement in 2024, but it's on the schedule for fall 2026! mnopera.org/season/2026-...

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The Many Deaths of Laila Starr -

MUSIC BY KAMALA SANKARAM LIBRETTO BY MINITA GANDHI

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Satya @satyaj.it · 29/04/2026

Insanely well-written.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Quote of the day, from a friend who founded a software startup: "You can’t use an LLM in any context where being wrong is a problem."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/04/2026

You acting humorless and miserable does not actually make the authoritarians go away

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

There is a really fascinating book to be written about race, caste, fascism and tech in Silicon Valley in this The Age of Technofascists. The desi techbros gleefully pushing tyranny through tech, Alex Karp, the multiracial coalition of technocultic haters is something

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I quarreled with a pope once. I was in a bar in Vatican City and got into a shoving match with John Paul I over his use of the sedia gestatoria. I told him it was the same as allying himself with the Mafia. He swung on me, and then the Vatican Guard separated us. Popes ain't so tough.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A primer for writers: Apocalyptic: The world is ending Post-Apocalyptic: The world you know is gone and you live in the remnants Dystopian: Oh, shit. Remember when we almost started WW3 by bombing Iran? That was Tuesday...

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