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Jackie Young does the intentional FT miss and Chelsea Gray gets the ball but her shot is blocked and the Valkyries take a 2-0 series lead

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 22h

fuck yeah Veronica Burton

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Those arguing for mass-adoption of AI art always seem intent on proving the wrong thing; that AI tech will change beyond all recognition. They seem less inclined to prove their argument's much wilder claim; that human nature, and all previous modes of taste, emotion and investment, will change too.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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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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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

listened to @seraphina.diceexploder.com and @sam.diceexploder.com 's Dice Exploder episode on Triangle Agency and it was incredibly helpful. I sorta think "two people who actually played a game, one of whom liked it and one of whom didn't" might be the ultimate actionable review format?

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Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have lost count of the number of dates I’ve gone on where I’ve not been asked a single follow up question to a thing I’ve said. The bar is so low.

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Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last night a man hit on me at a bar and would not take no for an answer. He followed me to the bathroom. And then followed me to my car. The problem with modern dating is not that women see themselves as superior. It’s that women want to be treated like people — and a lot of me hate that.

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Simon Boccanegra at SF Opera was FANTASTIC. Awesome production, orchestra sounded incredible, and the cast was tremendous — especially Eleonora Burrato as Amelia, Christian Van Horn as Fiesco, and The Verdi Baritone Of Our Lifetime Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Boccanegra. Orchestra got great cheers.

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Art by @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social from the RRD server. I like how actionable this one is

Image of a seven-fingered hand that’s become a sort of hydra creature. It has been run through with pencils. Text reads “DEATH TO AI, KILL IT WITH HUMAN HANDS”

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I still believe that AI will only kill us spiritually and intellectually. Not physically.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism."

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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lol my buddy just sent me another angle and it's somehow even more ridiculous

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Working my way through the Ursula K. LeGuin prize shortlist: - Slow Gods by Claire North was good! I wish it had been a little weirder. Also I wish it had more gods. But it was memorable and had some tense and exciting moments! Definitely liked it more than Harry August.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026

COYOTE VS ACME is legitimately great

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The book titled “How To Wait Dramatically” was a good bit

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Coyote vs Acme was really, genuinely delightful, and so clearly made by people who loved the original cartoons, and by people who cared about the movie they were making. It’s so reassuring to see an IP movie that doesn’t feel like a cash grab. I’m so glad it exists and so glad it got a full release.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Coyote vs Acme was just delightful. We are all of us Wile E. Coyote

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pleasantly surprised by The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey. I didn’t really like the first one — too full of its own ominous foreshadowing mythology, too brutal, too much “I’m obsessed with the hot lady and she wants to fuck me.” Only read number two because I liked the aliens so much…

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m in dozens of Reddit book communities and I can confirm this. More and more readers are talking about turning away from indies because of a fear of AI. So fuck you very much, gen AI users. Absolutely heinous, loser behaviour.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I really, really, really, really loved @rainbowrowell.bsky.social ‘s SLOW DANCE. It was exactly what I needed. Felt beautifully real, almost obsessively scuffing every perfect-stereotypical-romance-moment back into the complexity of reality. Wonderfully paced and structured. Basically perfect.

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

one of the best things in Fields of Mistria is the music for March’s cutscenes, which is the only track I can remember from any game that goes so hard that it makes me want to romance a character I don’t otherwise have any attraction to

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Assistant to the Villain was a stupid fun romp until the very end, where it instantly pissed away all of my goodwill by doing a pointless cash-grab cliffhanger instead of tying a nice bow on a serviceable small story

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/08/2026

The article isn't all gloom and doom. There are some encouraging signs.

In a different video, the same boy films another upset girl approaching him with a metal stool in her hands. An adult intervenes before anyone is hurt.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Someone writing in the press about a subject is the equivalent of turning an incredibly bright floodlight on a person in a dark room. It's not a morally neutral act. Your life becoming a subject of public debate about your morality is not a morally neutral act.

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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thank you, @drstaceypatton1865.skystack.xyz for this list (screenshot from Facebook). Read it to remember the discrepancies in how different people are treated when plagiarism is proven.

Stacey Patton • • Following
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Doris Kearns Goodwin - Plagiarism/improper attribution. Career survived. Still a celebrated bestselling historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual.
Edmund Morris - Inserted fictional characters and invented scenes into his authorized biography of Ronald Reagan. Controversy notwithstanding, continued publishing and remained a prominent biographer until his death in 2019.
Joseph Ellis - Lied about serving in Vietnam. Suspended for a year, returned to teaching, continued publishing bestselling history.
Laurence Tribe - Acknowledged improper attribution in a book.
Career survived; Harvard's Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus. (Harvard Law School)
stephen Ambrose - Plagiarism/improper attribution across multipl books; later evidence challenged claims about Eisenhowe nterviews. Continued writing and remained a bestselling historiar until his death in 2002
Mike Barnicle - Resigned from the Boston Globe amid fabrication/ plagiarism controversies. Rebuilt his career. Longtime television commentator and MSNBC contributor
Mitch Albom - Published a column falsely describing athletes attending an event they didn't attend. Suspended briefly; remains a bestselling author, columnist and radio host.
Jonah Lehrer - Plagiarism/self-plagiarism and fabricated quotations. Lost major jobs and had books recalled, but returned to publishing books.
stephen Glass - Fabricated sources, quotations, people and entire stories. Journalism career ended; later earned a law degree and buil a career as a paralegal.
Michael Bellesiles - Serious research-integrity problems in Arming America. Lost the Bancroft Prize and resigned from Emory. Later returned to teaching and publishing.
Marc Hauser - Found responsible for multiple counts of scientific misconduct at Harvard. Left Harvard but subsequently wrote books and pursued work outside traditional academia.

Marc Hauser - Found responsible for multiple counts of scientific misconduct at Harvard. Left Harvard but subsequently wrote books and pursued work outside traditional academia.
Brian Wansink - Cornell found academic misconduct involving data, statistical methods and authorship. Resigned from Cornell; continued professional work outside his former academic position.
Brian Williams - Falsely embellished accounts of his reporting experiences, including the Iraq helicopter story. Lost the NBC anchor chair but returned to national television at MSNBC.
Ruth Shalit Barrett - Plagiarism and accuracy controversies during her journalism career. Continued writing after the original scandal, though later faced another major journalism controversy.
Marc Tessier-Lavigne - Stanford president whose laboratory papers contained serious errors and whose handling of corrections was criticized. Resigned the presidency but remains a Stanford professor and laboratory head.
White academics and journalists do face consequences for lying, plagiarism, fabrication, or misconduct. But that disgrace does not become a death sentence for their careers or their humanity. Many have been allowed to apologize, regroup, keep working, publish again, rebuild their reputations, and have second acts.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When we talk about "civil rights," it's important to keep in mind that the right of women and girls to access the public sphere without being subjected to sexual violence or harassment is usually considered less important than the free speech rights of men to harass them.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

was expecting Fields of Mistria to be more different from Stardew Valley. It is the most clone game I’ve ever seen in my life. It is just Stardew Valley with mods. Also it’s really good so far. Turns out that just doing Stardew Valley again but you get new characters and town layout is awesome.

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Two thirds of the way through @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s Inventing the Renaissance. I have become completely insufferable by spewing Renaissance Facts constantly, and I have ugly cried while reading about Machiavelli, my new favorite bisexual icon, at least four times. Can’t recommend it enough.

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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026

Okay this was funny (absolutely right about the pet thing)

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

wow what a blessing to exist

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Leo Milos @signalyourturns.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

happy to say that Season 2 of Crowd Control has The Juice

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/08/2026

smartphones and the internet, man. they might have destroyed journalism, driven people insane by the tens of millions, fueled a rise in global fascism, and literally touched off genocides, but at least they seem to have caused a global collapse in relationship formation too

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

By the statements of the very people constructing these machines and driving this political project, that project will fail, or at least be severely hampered, if people do not adopt LLMs fast enough; which seems like a sufficient grounds to encourage such rejection. Thus also data center protest.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

Rejecting LLMs isn’t about rejecting their utility or failing to be aware of their power —it’s about rejecting that political project; born out of an awareness that any use of these machines at all promulgates that project and assembles me into adjacent responsibility for its commission.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Trust, I’d argue, is the most important thing we have as scinece communicators. People come to us because they trust that *we* have done the work to figure out what is true and what isn’t and we can explain it to them. Once that trust is broken, it’s really hard to get it back.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For the record, this Emily Wilson Odyssey review furor is ridiculous, and largely fueled by algorithms designed to work us up over practically nothing. She wrote a very interesting review from her perspective and I personally enjoyed it. Now, it feels like people want her arrested for a crime.

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