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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 2h

The real cause of death was Leonard Leo’s “courageous” Catholic Supreme Court judges, after perjuring themselves in confirmation hearings.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 8h

A Friday night scene at pub-kicking-out time in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry (2021) by British artist and illustrator, James Murray aka Jim'll Paint It #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 20h

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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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h

AI is an employee who never says no, never talks back, and who has no emotions, so you're free to be an asshole to it without consequence. Certain men have been fantasizing about this for their whole lives. They will happily burn the world down to create it.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10h

Got a front row seat tonight to a number of high school freshman girls talking about what happened at Cornell and they. are. terrified. about what the future has in store for them, even as some of them have already been violated. “Nowhere is safe.” The world is so fucking unfair.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“After the 51-year-old British author's lifeless, rain-drenched body was found on the moor, the manner of his demise was not entirely certain, but one look through the camera roll on his phone offered several clues.”

A dappled cow getting all up in my grill.

A rain-wet pony inspects my body, trying to work out if I am till breathing.

A donkey marching towards me, annoyed, because I have told it the song 'Cannonball' by Damien Rice is fucking awful.

A sheep looking at me with doleful eyes after I made an allusion to its weak ancestry.

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✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.social · 18h

We all understand that MAL and Trump properties are practicing birth tourism for profit, right? Young women come to stay in hopes of getting visas. Many are probably trafficked for profit, and who knows what actually happens to their kin. Many are Russian. www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/lo...

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Russians are giving birth to dual-citizens at Trump's US properties

While President Trump cracks down on the children of undocumented migrants, wealthy Russians are using his properties to secure dual-citizenship for their babies.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

PSPP platform, 2027-2028:

Never Thought I'd Die Fighting Side-by-side with Canada

What about side by side with a friend?

We're doing another referendum after this

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: Susan Collins team bragging in its canvassing materials about her having "delivered" the conservative Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe. tinyurl.com/3mxnybe7 #MEpolitics

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 17h

A local dog walker is taking a group photo at the dog fountain in Berczy Park

A woman in white has posed six dogs of various kinds on the edge of a large fountain with numerous statues of dogs

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 21h

We must consider the why Why do they want tech to have moral standing so badly? Imo it’s so they can be legally freed from their own liability

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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 18h

the slogan for a new dating app

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 22h

I don't describe a lot of stories as a must-read, but this one should be for Toronto voters. I heard the words 'ideologically rudderless ambitionist' used to describe a different politician. But I think they apply to Brad Bradford, too. #GiftLink 🎁 #ToPoli #BikeTO www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

I’ll have more on Chow in a later column. But the Bradford conversations have been striking for their near uniformity. Most of the people I’ve spoken to, from across the political spectrum, don’t disagree with Bradford so much as they dislike him as a person. Several supporters told me they found Bradford weirdly intense. Chow backers — including many who once stood with Tory — and those with no horse in this race went much further. They told me — almost to a person — that they find Bradford unprincipled and disloyal.

This is more than just the normal political griping. For whatever reason, many who have worked closely with Bradford over the past eight years think he is almost uniquely unlikable. I’m not sure I’ve ever covered anyone who inspires so much personal vitriol. Many — and not just progressives — think he would be a terrible mayor, not because he believes in awful ideas but because they don’t think he believes in anything at all.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Ukraine is doing the meme. And it's working.

Meme of a crying man going "noooo you can't just vaporize my entire armored division, we had such a manly recruitment ad" and a woman with classes going "omg integrated fire support?? go off queen sksksk, JDAMs are such a gemini thing."

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 22h

People are complaining it's difficult to drive on. It's a residential street. That's the point, it slows you down. I want to write a column that is just THIS IS A SKILLS ISSUE over and over for 800 words. Drivers here are skillless. ok rant over, needed to get it out, living rent free for days

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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

please help… my son…

photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is almost incomprehensible. California’s Habeas Corpus Resource Center (a state agency) reported in May of this year that the death penalty costs the state over $200 million a year, meaning California spent at least $6.8 billion on its death penalty system between 1978 and 2025.

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Ms . Penny Oaken @skywitchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A cut of cow was rendered to provide the world with the cooking fat in which these chips were made I was rendered speechless I vigorously brushed my teeth to remove the lingering slick of beef tallow from my mouth - for fear that if I didn't, birds would mistake my mouth for a suet feeder

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Ms . Penny Oaken @skywitchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And then there is the _mouthfeel_ The mouth - cheeks, tongue, palate, teeth, throat - are coated in the mouth feel of beef tallow a pervading, insistent film of rendered beef fat, that blocked the flavour of the (pretty strong) iced tea with which I was washing the chips down.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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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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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is like getting a phone call or email that starts with "Don't get angry, but"

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man looks like the drug dealer on a very special episode of Baywatch

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man looks like he's selling ketamine outside a Circle K

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man looks like Vlad the Inhaler

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.

New York Times homepage link reading:
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence

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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm waiting for the feedback from the beta reapers ivacheung.com/2026/10/read...

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Read 'em and reap - Iva Cheung

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard).

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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every text I ever get Every phone call I receive Apps I haven't heard of yet They're all trying to deceive It's a scam

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Liu Renjie (Chinese, b.1951) "Summer," 1994 Oil on canvas 170 x 160 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026

I mean I'm glad she's coming at us instead of doing some incoherent racism, but once again: JCO is the truest chaos poster and you can't let your guard down for a second. LOL

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"They stole all the stuff that we worked so hard to steal" is a real thing that doesn't sound crazy at all in the year of our lord, 2026

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm thrilled to announce my upcoming book: BY DEFINITION: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary To be published in February! read.macmillan.com/lp/by-defini...

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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today's word tasting: scam. Just about 90% of the phone calls I get anymore are scams. Those scum—I wish they would scram. It makes me want to scream. I won’t pick up anymore if I don’t recognize where it’s from. 1/21

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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the book that is responsible for my reading books on my phone now. I had resisted that for a long time, but I wanted to read On the Beach and couldn’t find a print copy of it in any store I went into (in Toronto!). So I gave up and got the ebook. And now I nearly always read on my phone.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reconciliation has boiled down to a Tim Hortons trauma doughnut, an orange shirt from Walmart, and an AI-generated land acknowledgement.

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