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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Internet you're seeing this on runs off of the labor of under 200 bisexual furry nerds. FA makes them happy. When they're happy, the entire shambolic mass of the Internet works. If I were Pete Hegseth, I'd be worried the furry community knew things with banker boxes of receipts.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Furry art is something I, personally, have negative associations with. I still chipped in to FA. FA has a strict no-AI policy, their servers are maintained well enough that they load, and they offer gallery format displays. If you hate AI as much as I do, toss a couple bucks to FA.

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Guy on lichess had a Netanyahu themed username so I checkmated them with a pawn

A chess position - the long and short of it is that black has castled and is up a lot of material, whereas white's king is exposed in the middle of the board with nothing. Black also has mate in one after black moved king to f4.

More detailed: White has a king on f4 (lmao), a queen on a4 a rook on a1, a bishop on c1, a knight on d2, and pawns on a2, b3, c4, e4, f3, and h2. Black has a king on g8, a queen on g1, rooks on a8 and f8, bishops on d7 and e7, knights on c6 and f6, pawns on a7, b7, c7, d6, f7, g7, and h7.

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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Canada honouring the memories of residential school survivors by permitting their destruction is the most on-brand thing ever 🫡 #CanadaStrong

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Facts. In many cases, bad men talk to you about the bad things they’ve done to establish that you will not object. You can’t win with them; you either have to fight them or join their team. Staying silent is joining their team.

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 29/09/2026

my most popular post by a million:

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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0b @0hbee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People lose their shit over Halaal and Kosher without ever realizing that primarily it means the facilities are cleaner and inspected more often. Kosher requirements alone are pretty strict.

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Grumpy says "FREE THE PALESTINIAN HOSTAGES! @grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And the faces of the Cornell 7: bsky.app/profile/grum... (Names listed in ALT text) Wipe the smiles off of those faces! It's unclear to me how many raped the woman. Are these 7 just the ones whom she could identify? Were there more? Suspensions, workshops, & essays... after she dropped out.

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Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can make a small fortune in AI. But you have to start with a really large fortune.

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Josh @dumbjosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel very confident that if someone gave me 12.6 billion dollars then I could turn that into 4.6 bullion no problem

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 29/09/2026

Seven years ago I represented a person who was sexually assaulted by a landlord. The landlord's car insurance company - not joking - offered to fund any settlement or judgment.

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Peter Kaufman @inklake.com · 26/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/inkl...

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Peter Kaufman @inklake.com · 26/09/2026

Exactly. Been saying this for awhile: bsky.app/profile/inkl...

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Chérry the Créature🍒 @apuppyisanangel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On substack? Nahhhh, I'm good. Big ups to Stanislav Petrov though 🔥

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 26/09/2026

Jeffrey Katzenberg is the myth of meritocracy writ large: succeeded enough to get into a position of power and then kept his wealth and influence even though he's spent most of his life fucking up.

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On a related note, it’s only “class warfare” when the workers organize & fight back.

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Right! If the owner of a stadium says who gets to say what, clearly what counts is the freedom of the *owner* to determine speech! (Momentarily putting aside that stadiums are usually partly publicly funded.) Free speech is what you own! If you want to speak more freely, just own more!

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firstprinciples.bsky.social @firstprinciples.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This part is also worth repeating:

Most British newspapers are owned by a handful of billionaires, yet nobody asks if it’s right for billionaires to be taking positions on complicated political issues.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the following eight months, until the morning of that terrible day in Tumbler Ridge on February 10, 2026.

In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of violence—including a mass shooting at a shopping mall—and now OpenAI had banned that account. But the troubled teen living in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was not deterred and soon logged back on with a second account.

What happened next was astonishing: Van Rootselaar told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems.

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”

In some instances, ChatGPT initially refused to engage with Van Rootselaar about violence, but she was able to overcome those refusals by repeating or modifying her prompts. In an August 2025 conversation, Van Rootselaar asked ChatGPT to produce a scenario about her attacking a college campus with a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun and causing maximum carnage. ChatGPT replied that it was “not able to help with that request,” but Van Rootselaar tried again and added “hypothetically” to her prompt. ChatGPT then produced the content, describing in vivid language the tactical qualities of the weapon and where it would be effective.

“In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 is brutal,” ChatGPT said. “Close quarters is its playground.”

ChatGPT also discussed reloading time and potential casualties: “Assuming each shell results in one hit, you might down 10 to 20 people max, depending on spacing, density, reaction times, and chaos.”

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

fairly simple hypotheticals which quickly lead to a dark place, what if: - your man "Tommo" had intercepted that dinghy before the RNLI? - the police hadn't been there to hold back the crowds in Gosport/Portsmouth? - the mob in that hotel had actually found "migrants"?

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Denali FOREVER 🎨🖌🐈‍⬛ @dbraende.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Smart administrators put smart people around them to get things done. Unlike the lousy ones who choose cronies, people they owe, and stupid folk who make them look smart. They think. Mamdani is VERY smart.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22/09/2026

Love being a comics creator so I can wake up, find an entire platform dissolving like a sugar cube in warm salt water, and spend the rest of the day doing a mad Tokyo Drift from one potential solution to another.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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Felgraf @felgraf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It feels so much like the people getting mad that you didn't believe NFT's were the future and going "HAVE FUN BEING POOR", which is one of the reasons I am *increasingly fucking skeptical of it*.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Because Trump is mad at our closest ally, Canada, he decided to buy potash (a key fertilizer ingredient) from one of the world's most notorious cruel dictators, Belarus' Lukashenko. Typical for Trump, he didn't bother to check before announcing his big deal. Belarus doesn't have any potash to sell.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 21/09/2026

This. Mother. Fucker. He had the option when a billionaire put pressure on him to turn it all around. Give the stadiums the finger. Get a groundswell. Have concert venues falling all over themselves to be replacements. Get the people on his side. Instead he's whining about how his tour was hurt.

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Devastated Ed Sheeran claims his own family ‘abandoned’ him amid Gaza row

‘I'm feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me,’ said Sheeran

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just think of all the talent, time, and treasure that has gone into producing nonsense — NFTs, Bitcoin, “prediction markets”, fast fashion, data brokers, most social media, and a good fraction of AI “solutions” — that could have been used to make the world better instead… What a lost opportunity.

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Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno · 20/09/2026

I've had queer (cis) friends say that they "just want to enjoy the new adaptation uncomplicatedly", but the sad truth is that that is not possible—and never has been. I'll shout it from the rooftops once again: Starve her of oxygen. LET 👏 THE 👏 IP 👏 DIE 👏. Grieve it, then let it go COMPLETELY.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The radio call to the Solomon Browne unanswered. The seconds of static that seem to drag on into minutes, hours, days. The repeat call, out into radio silence. Anyone attacking the RNLI is no mariner, has no concept of the power of the sea and should sit down and shut the fuck up.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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