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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Afternoon adrenaline rush in British Columbia: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cool, cool. Lots of reporting that theres a suspected pneumonic plague outbreak in Russia, and several hospitals are under forced quarantine. Obviously, it’s Russia, so accurate information is scarce.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oligarchy is ridiculous, part 247839

Elon Musk: No more Al
SI
It's better

X Freeze: Any possibility of renaming to SpaceXSI??

Elon Musk: Yes, we will make that change

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The models for ‘American Gothic’ pose in front of the iconic painting, 1942.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

destroy it with fire

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

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TitaniumMan @titaniumman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In case anyone hasn't come across it yet, the trailer is on YouTube:

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

tilly norwood vs fred flintstone made up: ✅ / ✅ has a job: ❌ / ✅ catchphrase: ❌ / ✅ pet dinosaur: ❌ / ✅ is a virgin: ✅ / ❌

Tilly Norwood, an inhuman gollum shaped like a perky brunette

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 16/09/2026

So, if I'm reading this correctly, the Yankees just got through the 12th inning on... two pitches. Inning started with the Manfred Man on 2nd, then there was an intentional walk. So 2 men on base, no pitches. Then a pitch and a pickoff catching the guy on 2nd base. Then next pitch is hit into a DP.

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Turns out it literally pays to bet against Trump. New study examines how well pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump trading strategies have performed on Polymarket. The results show that the anti-Trump trading strategy consistently outperformed both the pro-Trump strategy and the neutral benchmark.

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Political Bias in Decentralized Prediction Markets: Evidence from Trump-Related Contracts on Polymarket

This paper investigates whether political bias influences pricing dynamics in decentralized online prediction markets. Using Polymarket, a blockchain-based pred

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026

So "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk is threatening to sue basically everyone connected to Alex Gibney's documentary. But Alex Spiro's blustery threat letter appears to admit the key part: that Musk told his girlfriend that he has access to space lasers.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For months, the burners who posted Maddie’s video remained anonymous. They even made a cryptocurrency out of her name, valued at $11k. So she hired a lawyer to unmask them. And what she learned stunned her. Read my investigation for @wired.com, out now: www.wired.com/story/burner...

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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey wait a minute: maybe the quicksand we grew up worrying about turned out to be our phones

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious

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Phase Blowly @phaseblowly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI Schmuck: Guys, I quit my job because we’re making apocalyptic murder bots. Real bad. Gonna kill everyone. [a week or so later] AI Schmuck: [on LinkedIn] I’m excited to announce my new consultancy, Rumplstlskyn, founded to find creative solutions to the emerging murder bot problem.

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Adam Cook @motorcityadam.com · 01/09/2026

Why not just leave the diseased tooth untreated indefinitely? Now that’s how you 10x the badassery. First Principles.

"Sequoia partner Doug Leone reveals he got a root canal with no Novocaine to see if he was really a badass"
"I had to get a root canal. And I had to go to a meeting right after that. I told the dentist, drill without any Novocaine."
"My whole life, I wanted to see if I was a badass or not. Am I a fake badass that has this envelope nobody could tell, or am I really a badass on the inside?"
"He drilled and I jumped. And I told the dentist, I won't move again. And I didn't move again. I used the trick of thinking what it must be like to go to war and lose an arm or two legs. That's pain with consequences. Mine was pain with no consequences."
"It's just nerve endings from there to my brain to my spine, f*ck it I'm not moving."
"I had to go home and change my shirt because I was a puddle of sweat. But I didn't move. And so I love fear. It does wonders for me."

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My former Yale Law professor and later dean, Harold Koh, had a saying for incoming law students, a translation of a Korean proverb: “Never let your skill exceed your virtue.” He meant shit like this ⬇️

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury convicts Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis of first-degree murder in orchestrating the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur.

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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Tucked and Cucked

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

People are falling for the DSA vs Establishment trap again. Didn’t we learn our lesson in 2016 and 2024? It’s the establishment’s job to build a coalition that can win EVERYWHERE. In some places, that means ultra-progressive. In others, it means establishment. The tent is big enough for all of us.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

For reference: When I had my background check it was held up because I had a speeding ticket from when I went home sophomore year in college that I forgot to put on my SF-86. I got grilled about why I didn’t disclose it (they eventually believed it was mistake). The FBI as we knew it is gone.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2026

I have kind of been expecting this since the whole AI thing broke, because if you read the original SCOTUS cases discussing CSAM, they say that CSAM bans are allowed because CSAM always involves the use and harm of an actual child.

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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A massive flash flood in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and ‌China's Tibet. Initial report say it may have been caused by a glacial lake rupture.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I didn't realize the Dodgers losing stretch was that bad

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Patty Shenker 🌱🕊️ @pattys06.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

PITY AMERICA

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This account consistently has S-tier alt text

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As soon as there‘s a Democrat in the White House again, John Roberts will discover all kinds of new limitations on their presidential powers, but for now, President Make-a-Wish gets whatever his little heart desires

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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 21/08/2026

looking for a bad bitch to hunt me like T-1000

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/08/2026

There is no functional difference between people looking for rampant voter fraud and ghost hunters.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now: