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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 18h

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

I wanted to send a special note: Ever since we launched the newsletter on Friday, now have 65 paid subscribers and 206 unpaid subscribers. This is an incredible vote of confidence and I am excited to get to work. Let's do this. thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/a-note-of-...

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A note of thanks

“I said this train… Dreams will not be thwarted This train… Faith will be rewarded”-Bruce Springsteen

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19h

“Instead of asking, “Do I want to keep this?” ask, “Would I buy this today?” Modifying the decision-making framework allows a neural calculation in reward and self-relevance systems to shift, too. A teakettle becomes something you can choose — or not — rather than something you stand to lose.”

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Opinion | Neuroscience Can Make Decluttering Easier

Decluttering is a challenge for many Americans, but neuroscience indicates we can make the process easier on ourselves and our loved ones.

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Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Same vibe. Egypt, pre-dynastic, abt 6000 yrs old.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought: ‘You know what this needs? A leg!’ Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆 Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows an ancient Greek pottery bowl with a rounded, deep body, wide open mouth and flared rim. It has a large handle shaped like a human leg, extending from the left side of the bowl in my photo, bending at a right angle and ending in a flat foot. The bowl has a camel-coloured surface decorated with dark brown geometric patterns, which include zigzags and meander motifs arranged in horizontal bands around the body of the bowl and along the leg. From Attica, Early Geometric period, circa 850 BC. It sits on a light stone coloured surface in a display case at the Altes Museum in Berlin.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ok. Enough agonizing. If I started a fund to pay for freelance solo reporting trips, would folks contribute to it?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I guess I'll write another book

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

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Sebastian @sebastiankauer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great website! The only thing I don't think is ideal is that the direction of travel changes unpredictably 🙃

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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For years, 💀MorphoSource💀 has given researchers, educators, and students 🚨free access🚨 to 3D data on museum specimens from around the world. 🔆Now it is asking for some help to continue its work🔆 www.morphosource.org/donate/

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Why Give | Support MorphoSource

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3:
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”

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scott aa wilson @scottaawilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mask pretty well, but there’s loads of paddling below the surface, and in private I find normal things to be disharmonious with my brain. @pierrenovellie.bsky.social's Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? is a real companion to those discovering their neurodivergence untypically and later in life.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My new nickname. 📸 Dicky Ng

A relaxed tabby cat lounging in a round container labeled MR. DON'T TOUCH, eyes half-closed and one paw draped over the edge, beside a bilingual "Don't touch me" sign at a busy shopfront.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Sebastian @sebastiankauer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It‘s hard to believe that a sane person actually talks like that. You would not want such a person to be in any meaningful function.

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blair @blairaf.com · 19/02/2026

New stickers

Sheet of stickers that say "AI is made of people"

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Political duty, 2025 by Jakob Grosse-Ophoff www.instagram.com/ja.ko.mo/

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Cristina Madeira @cristinarmadeira.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

THIS SHOULD BE ON T-SHIRTS 😍🤣

Funny cartoon clipping: A is man runing scared from another saying "NO", the one chasing the first man is representing AI and is yelling "USE ME" "USE ME"

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

we're facing existential threats from inattentive or lazy work, as well as burnout, fatigue, low sleep — stuff that requires the kind of regulation of working conditions that the tech industry has been ambivalent on, because management was psychotic and workers were happy with the fancy cafeteria

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips

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How to Vote / Cómo Votar

A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.

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Katharina Dröge, MdB @katharinadroege.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Morgen hält Merz seine Regierungserklärung und ich antworte direkt darauf. Was würdet Ihr ihm sagen? Schreibt's in die Kommentare👇👇 #merz #bundestag #rede

Katharina Dröge steht vor dem Bundestag, die Hände auf einem Tisch abgestützt, im Hintergrund die Reichstagskuppel. Bildtext: "Morgen rede ich nach Merz im Bundestag." Darunter auf gelbgrünem Banner: "Was würdet Ihr Merz sagen?"

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Die politische Rat- und Fassungslosigkeit ob eines völlig vorhersehbaren Ereignisses ist unerträglich.

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

😩🎯

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“In a dramatic capitulation, the owner of Facebook and Instagram agreed to the financial penalties for violating federal child privacy and states’ consumer protection laws…Meta also agreed to limit how long teenagers can spend on its platforms and to bans on features that stoke mental health issues”

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Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims

The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of my million favorite things about him was that he didn't disappear after his stroke. He showed the world that people with disabilities can continue to exist and have value after their bodies and capacities change. 💔

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Sebastian @sebastiankauer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just downloaded Tim Curry‘s memoir and started to listen. Sounds great. Captivating. Thank you @billcorbett.bsky.social for making me aware of this.

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Sebastian @sebastiankauer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Love these bees. Bee flat is my favourite. (1. It looks ridiculous 2. I‘m a trombonist)

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/08/2026

I just saw what Ossoff actually said and then a string of the things Republicans accused him of saying and my conclusion is that no young woman should ever get in a plane with a republican.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.

Nagasaki, bomber's eye view: Close-up view of the head of the mushroom cloud at the Nagasaki explosion, as seen from either the bomber or the observation plane.

Nagasaki, distant ground view: Photo of the Nagasaki cloud taken ~15 minutes after the atomic bomb detonation, by Hiromichi Matsuda, stationed at Koyagi-jima Island, some 5 miles / 8 km away.

Nagasaki, before and after, aerial views.

Nagasaki, ground view, some weeks after the attack.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

So I decided to write a book that goes all-in on the fundamental nature of reality. I wanted to give a glimpse of this world to people who haven't been in the classrooms I've been in, who don't have the math but still want the story. How the subatomic world works and how it governs the universe. 6/?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

Story time! Six years ago, my first book, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), came out. It was fun to write! I got to share all my cosmology fun facts and dig deep into all the ways the universe might end. I had SO much fun with it, I thought, "maybe I should write another book?" 1/?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This week marks 5 years since I published my first book We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation. It wanted to shift how people talked about #Autism and #ActuallyAutistic people from treating them like a problem to humans who deserve dignity www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

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We're Not Broken

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...

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Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"TikTok’s algorithm pushed him thousands of videos about suicide, sadness, hopelessness and loneliness, right up until he killed himself." The company did this "by design" to test the effect on "daily active users" "one of the top data points by which Wall Street judges social media companies"

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Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 30/07/2026

I've said before, the internet is really only useful for two things: 1. pictures of cats 2. pornography This is why furries are everywhere, running the internet and all. They're able to use the internet far more efficiently than anthropotypicals, since for them #1 and #2 can be the same thing

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Torsten Kleinz @publictorsten.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Möchte jemand ab und zu mit mir zusammenarbeiten? Wir bauen dann schöne Karten, gleichen komplexe Datenquellen ab und sorgen dafür, dass wichtige Themen Gehör finden. jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/13...

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Redakteur (m/w/d) Interaktive Entwicklung - Ausschreibung

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Non-autistic folx call their desires “needs” all the time. We do the opposite. We call our actual needs “desires” - luxuries, indulgences, things we should be able to do without. We were trained young to put everyone else’s priorities ahead of our own needs.

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

An autistic meltdown isn’t losing control. It’s what happens after you’ve spent hours, days, months trying to keep control for everyone else’s benefit.

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