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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/10/2026
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from criminal negligence
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 26/06/2026
doesn't feel like the best time to be a person who cares about craft whatsoever
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tante @tante.cc · 08/09/2026
The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 09/09/2026
the quotes of this are a fun mix of depressed scientists trying to explain it, bored people who hate fun, and delightful smartasses encouraging a variety of wildly unhelpful suggestions
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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Separate cycle tracks alongside rural main roads give the elderly or people with mobility issues far more freedom. Someone on a mobility scooter can travel safely from town to town, without having to rely on a car or public transport. This is what accessible transport infrastructure looks like.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/09/2026
One of the reasons people are viscerally mad about AI is that it is constantly publicly being used to violate millennia-old but today-largely-unspoken social taboos.
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CDRE Fool Mental Jackass VI @uncle6.org · 07/09/2026
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people in an office with hourly wages, no bonus program, no revenue share and no path for advancement that they must not be labor because they’re on a laptop
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
obsessed with this from @racketmn.com. one of my core principles is that we need like 20x as much scene/street style photography from media outlets as we have. it's so wonderful racketmn.com/enjoy-43-lov...
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Enjoy 43 Lovely Portraits of Minnesotans Thriving at the 2026 MN State Fair - Racket
At the Great Minnesota Get-Together, humanity shines as bright as the midday Midway sun.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The person you should all be voting for in the most influential Bluesky thing is Kyle MacLachlan who has made exactly one post and it was a reply to someone and it was a hot dog
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/09/2026
Imagine giving Baudrillard different kinds of Gatorade to try and watching him get progressively more depressed as you told him the names of each flavor
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 01/09/2026
really good "how did we get here" on the current enclosure of OSS commons by wealthy, phobic fascists brennan.day/normalized-f...
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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is a hanging crime
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 31/08/2026
Anyways, I’m gonna go to bed and think about all of my mistakes
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If a mug says "dishwasher safe" you can put it in the dishwasher. If it doesn't say "dishwasher safe" it's still ok to put it in the dishwasher. If it says "do not put in dishwasher under any circumstances" you can still put it in the dishwasher a little bit
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Kylé Pienaar @kylepienaar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
once you see missing missing reasons you never unsee them issendai.com/psychology/e...
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The Missing Missing Reasons – Issendai
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/08/2026
Last year, I wrote about how awful it is that many states and cities are still using Facebook and X to communicate vital disaster information. We desperately need to fix this.
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We Have to Stop Using Facebook and X to Warn People About Disasters
In the early morning hours of July 4th, as the Guadalupe River reached catastrophic heights, city officials in Kerr County, Texas turned to an all-too familiar mechanism for getting the word out to ar...
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
the anti-vaccine movement is just an anti-science movement that spills over into other parts of medicine and the misinformation kills
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Perhaps professional associations of journalists should convene a working group to address these kinds of non-responses. A new norm is needed here to dis-incentivize it: if a *professional politician* claims to be unaware of a serious news item, end the interview there.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 14/10/2023
There’s about a 20-year period between 1995 and 2015 where actors from the 90s got 20 years older
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/08/2026
Listen here, pal: this is a Megan Follows bar. You don’t come to the goddamn Avonlea Alehouse and start shit-talking Megan Fucking Follows unless you want someone to take you the fuck out." buff.ly/C6klcGj
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Say “Megan Follows Is the Best Anne of Green Gables” or I’ll Beat the Living Shit Out of You
“Listen here, pal: this is a Megan Follows bar. You don’t come to the goddamn Avonlea Alehouse and start shit-talking Megan Fucking Follows unless you want s...
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Simmer @simmer.ooo · 09/08/2026
Cosigned, a former homeschooled kid
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cursedthing @cursedthing.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Minnesota’s most recent error rate was 2%, one of the lowest in the nation, compared with 6% nationally and 7% in Florida, 8% in Ohio and more than 20% in Wyoming and South Carolina, all red states."
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Hard data and context are missing in Minnesota's overblown fraud furor
Trump's claims that this state is an outlier when it comes to fraud don't hold up, and the politicized attacks must not go unchallenged.
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Alex Parks @parkerbro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
my fav @michaelhobbes.bsky.social hot take that i have now stolen as my own: we need broken windows policing for white collar crime.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
new issue of Vizier Monthly is out
a fake magazine cover with a cruelly smiling old woman in red vaguely Renaissance garb, leaning on a staff with a serpent twined around it. Headlines around her:
So He Saw The Strings: What To Do When Your Lord Thinks He's a Real Boy
Chalices, Knives, Nooses: How's a Girl to Choose?
Why Satraps Rebel: 10 Cautionary Tales
12 Moves For The Ambitious Concubine (and a 13th for the New Favorite!)
"I'm Just Getting Better With Age": Catching Up with Brynza, the King's Eye
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/08/2026
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Biclops
A giant emerges from a cave, a large eye peering from within a cave at ancient greek soldiers.The greek soldiers run away in fear, each of them having just one eye. It turns out that the giant "biclops" has two eyes.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The latest SpaceX unscheduled rapid disassembly into the fuckin moon happening right on Einstein's Crater is 🧑🏻‍🍳💋 terrific subtext great work, writers
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
yeah i'm a gamer
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/07/2026
This last bit is significant of the way that networked amplification of lies (and hate, and other propaganda) works; where fact-checking, counter-narrative messaging, and attempts to “shine light” are relied on to *spread* the original message through participatory information sharing behaviors
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Again, the most important legal and ethical issue raised by this is something like "no you didn't, that's a lie, that didn't happen"
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Musk is calling for the assassination of a journalist. It's so difficult to comprehend why someone in his position would do such a thing that we naturally give him the benefit of every doubt, but it's crystal clear what he's saying.
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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ok but what if I WANT to terminate my thoughts with a cliche
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/
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Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Nolan’s biggest departure in The Odyssey is his refusal to have the actors use the natural British accent that all history happens in
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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
the reason jimothy looks like that is because he's traveling very close to the speed of light but y'all aren't ready for that conversation
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Excuse the qp, but I don't see the world in terms of optics and you shouldn't either. If the police are lawless violent thugs who ignore and even threaten the people's democratically elected leaders if they attempt to bring them back under control, they should be defunded, and we should say it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/07/2026
the mcgriddle is a miracle of modern technology
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Being spaghettified by a black hole must feel so good for a brief moment
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/07/2026
www.tumblr.com/mutant-what-...
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable
Album cover photo of the Marina apartments in Chicago for Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD
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Daniel @orphanrefugee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Why do you all continue to do this?! You are grossly underestimating who you are representing in this country. We actually look LESS FAVORABLY on our elected officials who publicly honor the people who giddily, and without a single ounce of remorse, cause deep and irreparable harm to us. Stop it!
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When a politician dies, they weren't your friend, you aren't close to their family, they are not owed your polite fictions or any obligation to not speak ill of them. They were public figures who wielded immense power and their death is as good an occasion as any to say what you think of them.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Age verification for social media is just a backdoor way of silencing progressives and members of disempowered groups. Just watch. Anything fascist meatheads don't like will magically become "pornography," even a link to an AMA report on gender affirming care discrimination in red states.
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Dan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 08/07/2026
You’d think that Jevon’s paradox would saturate our demand for paradoxes, but in fact we see only a growing hunger for paradox.
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