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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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
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Sam @spratt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From Pleincœur, clockwise from left: noisette, feuilleté au riz au lait, and kouign aux pommes. The kouign aux pommes - basically an apple turnover with what I assume was kouign-amann dough - was good, but not amazing. The apple filling was less flavorful than I was hoping.

Three pastries. The left, a noisette, is a seashell-shaped pastry. The broad end is covered in a brown topping, while the rest is striped. On top is a feuilleté au riz - two spirals of layered pastry, each topped with caramel. On the right is a kouign aux pommes, a round, heavily baked disc of spiraled layered pastry.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brooklyn at dusk

A series of city buildings/ street and a golden sunset with clouds

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The queer bar story and the bad art friend story and any number of other "toxic person in a small community" stories succeed because they're inherently compelling narratives about people who transgress boundaries in ways we can recognize from our own lives. (FOR FUCK'S SAKE CONTINUED KEEP READING.)

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As a court observer, these "black site" courtrooms have been both dystopian and befuddling. So befuddling that it's hard to explain what's happening, but I WILL TRY. There are two - and only two - immigration court floors at 26 Federal Plaza: 12 and 14. All the courtrooms are on those floors.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

sometimes you've gotta put the watercoloring brush down and give ruining the world another go

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"At some point—possibly when that building sold to Yeshiva University in the 1990s—the Hess land was lumped into the parcel at 110 Seventh Avenue South, losing its claim to the title of New York’s smallest piece of privately-owned land. But the plaque remains"

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The strange story of what was once NYC’s smallest plot of land

The Hess Triangle, a plot of land measuring just two square feet, was created out of spite and remains a West Village landmark to this day.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And this is 100% true for women's sports. Barring trans women from women's sports is domino #1 to rolling back Title IX and saying that women can't play some sports because they're too fragile

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

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Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump went from net-positive to -15 (or worse) on immigration after people did the opposite of the advice given in the quoted tweet. His other negatives also got worse because raising salience is not zero-sum

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

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RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To me, a fundamental truth about the "AI will kill us all" panic is that it's displaced/ interconnected panic for the fact that our lifestyles are actively killing us (via climate change) and AI is an enemy people are more comfortable with fighting

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This summer is fucking cursed, man.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If the Olympic Pentathlon included crocodiles, I would watch the Olympic Pentathlon

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And this is not even all the fucking candidates and we've got various primaries to get through before we even really know the field

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's a certain type of nonprofits/ mutual aid groups for immigrants that basically make it impossible to figure out what they do or how to get help, and they drive me up the wall I DON'T CARE IF YOU HAVE ALL THE RIGHT ANTIRACIST LANGUAGE IF NO ONE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO ACCESS YOUR SERVICES

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 13/09/2026

Fwiw it's straightforward right now why this is happening; and it's the same reason why the global far right supremacist eliminationist movement is happening, the christian extremist apocalyptic immenantization is happening, etc. People are bug fuck out of their minds in denial of the climate crisis

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Re-upping this for everyone who doesn't understand that when Obama didn't support same-sex marriage, gay people did not issue an official and unanimous message of "we understand, that's fine with us"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don't want to have to think about AI at all.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Whether or not LLMs will lead to human extinction is above my pay grade and I really do think this guy believes this and isn't (consciously) doing marketing, but "the end of the world is nigh-inevitable, and only I can stop it, using this one weird trick" is fairly classic death cult logic.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Boosting this again! If you live in NYC and want to get involved in anti-deportation/ anti-ICE efforts, immigration court accompaniment is one of the most helpful things you can do.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

HELLO ALL I am running a virtual info session on IMMIGRATION COURT ACCOMPANIMENT in NYC. In this session, you will learn: 1) What immigration court accompaniment is AND 2) How to protect neighbors in deportation proceedings Training is Thursday the 10th at 7pm on zoom. Sign up below!

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NYC Immigration Court Accompaniment - An Introduction

The New Sanctuary Coalition (NSC) accompaniment program recruits and trains volunteers to accompany people (who we call our "friends") facing deportation to their immigration hearings and ICE check-in...

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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NYC Immigration Court Accompaniment - An Introduction

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is a big stretch, but throwing this out in case: I'm working with someone who needs a Haitian creole-speaking interpreter for her USCIS interview (affirmative asylum). This would be in NYC in late September. Does anyone have leads?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026

Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

(Saving everyone a click: it's a jews for jesus website)

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don't mean to be critical, but I do think this advertisement is a LITTLE BIT MUCH.

Heavily trafficked intersection with a big sign overhead where "jews.com" is printed four times in big blocky red letters

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

An under-appreciated advantage of paper maps/physical media is resistance to the will of a mad king

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In which @jamellebouie.net reveals the Secret Sauce of his punditry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You have not experienced the full depth of the immigration court cruelty until you're sitting in a courtroom, hearing a judge explain to a Haitian refugee that in fact Haiti is *fine* to return to because it's not the GOVERNMENT slaughtering people

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Would you like to see me "project" AKA do a boulder that is at the limits of my abilities? Of course you would!

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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hell Gate reporter Katie Way is not exaggerating when she says that "this video has the potential to become a certified NYC politics cult classic along the lines of the Eric Adams teenage room search PSA." It's cuckoo bananas from start to finish:

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You can be annoyed at things that overemphasize personal responsibility and education over systemic change and greater government regulation. But you should still wear a bike helmet and replace it every three to five years.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Democrats have spent 3 days attacking a streamer btw

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/08/2026

Kind of hard for a professional organization to argue that history is integral to democracy when it goes to lengths to quash democracy within its own membership. And this isn't what I want my members dues to be used for. I suspect many will feel the same. 🗃️

If the AHA leadership continues to heed that advice, its members can expect further silencing of their voices within the organization. In addition to recommending that the AHA frame the historical profession as an arm of the “national security” apparatus, Thorn Run has told its leadership that it should reroute “all future requests for public statements,” “all member concerns regarding conflict zones,” and “all concerns regarding historians in conflict zones” to a leadership committee, so that it can contain and control “out-of-scope debates.” The aim, in other words, is to “utilize the January 2026 veto as a safe harbor precedent to prevent future mission-creep” by shifting from vetoes to a place where institutional silence ensures that there is nothing to veto.

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SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Found out yesterday that my partner hasn't seen Amelie (aka Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain) and thus cannot possibly understand my culture

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is frustrating trying to be an honest, considerate, hardworking person, when many signs indicate it is much more lucrative right now to be a liar and a grifter with no moral core or ethical framework for daily life. I just hope these people eventually get what they deserve.

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