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Empty out the locker room, let me find my space location: more like GREATEST Boston "delightfully Bostonian", I'm told. • Blog: smadin.net • Fediverse: better.boston/@smadin

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Scott @smadin.net · 6h
I mean sure, technically it's not impossible that the team that's been completely dominant all season, never left 1st place, would suddenly collapse and get stomped by the 8th-place team for two 16-point losses in the first round of the playoffs, in a totally legitimate and fair way.
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Scott @smadin.net · 7h
Homer Simpson at the piano in The Simpsons S05E01 "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", trying to compose a new song for the Be Sharps. The lyrics have been changed to read "There was nothing in Walter Wong's vault/But it wasn't Kink.com's fault"
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7h
Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....
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Surveillance Watch
This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 8h
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 10h
Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.
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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"
"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...
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max @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 16h
comments on the Instagram version of this are about what you’d expect
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Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 17h
Reskeeting with alt text Furries are one of the core dominant species of any online space (right along with the venn diagram of trans folks and artists) When you have furries/trans folks/artists fleeing or gentrified in your spaces then that's a clear sign of how fucked it is
I Don't Want to Wear Pants @xehtfodrol.....

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How have all these tech bros just been completely isolated from furries all this time.

The Lone Wolf...

@satrina.m....

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that's just it they're tech bros, they displace furries like WD40 displaces waterJames Endicott @076923.bsky.social

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Tech bros are business students who gentrified computer science spaces. Their connection to programmers or any other kind of nerd is tangential at best.


no_name any/him @noname-invalid.....

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Tech bros are an invasive species from buisness (specificly scamming) that is dispacing furries. Tech bros dont actually develop or understand any of the tech/programs, hence why furry is foreign to them
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richard @halkyardo.bsky.social · 15h
if you pee in these in the right order, a secret doorway opens up
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 12h
Okay so this explains not only how the song has succeeded, but why it does make sense that I haven't heard it! Great grounding for how charts and success work these days in here.
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 13h
My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...
image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 20h
I wrote about the end of the MAGA makeover, the aesthetic normalization of bigotry, and the mall store selling fascist sweatshirts to teenage girls. New for @theflytrapmedia.com!!
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The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying
Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.
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Scott @smadin.net · 14h
I see they've been vibe-coding the bsky servers extra hard today
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David E. Sullivan @dsulliva2.bsky.social · 14h
NO on 3: Powerful, convincing argument by @senatorledwards.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0jJ...
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Why We're Voting NO! ... on Mass Ballot Question 3 with Senator Lydia Edwards
YouTube video by Java With Jimmy
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Scott @smadin.net · 14h
the other day someone argued to me that "AI" software services can be used (and should be thought of) as automation for tedious tasks. I think that's a frankly dangerous way to think of them, because one of, if not the, most important qualities of automation is being deterministic.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 15h
One fun (?) thing about this conspiracy theory is that it's an in-road for anti-disability eugenics. Not that it's a surprise, anti-trans bullshit is the preeminent slippery slope of our society, but we're really seeing it in action
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Steve Koczela @skoczela.bsky.social · 15h
Wild stuff here.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 15h
a fictional chart from 1995 to 2025 showing "guys who like sports" becoming more left-wing coded and "guys who says sportsball is the opiate of the masses" becoming more right-wing coded
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@makeherway @makeherway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New electronic signage up outside Target Center this morning. Rated D for Dubs in the Chat. #wnba #loslynx
Sign outside Target center in downtown Minneapolis reads: "coach of the year starring Cheryl Reeve." It's sort of made to look like a movie poster. On the side, it also says "This award made possible by the Lynx motion picture association, All rights reserved." It goes on to say that it's "rated D for Dubs In The Chat, WNBA awards voters approved"Sign outside Target center in downtown Minneapolis reads: "rookie of the year starring Olivia Miles." It's sort of made to look like a movie poster. On the side, it also says "This award made possible by the Lynx motion picture association, All rights reserved." It goes on to say that it's "rated D for Dubs In The Chat, WNBA awards voters approved"
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17h
womp womp
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EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h
mein gott!
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22h
Oh bsky.app/profile/ecmc...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22h
Holy shit www.wbaltv.com/article/new-...
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New York Times games engineering director allegedly shot and killed by in-laws
A man and woman in their late 70s allegedly shot and killed their son-in-law, a New York Times employee, in the parking lot of a Bay Area park, officials said.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Researchers find that one-time trainings about consent can actually increase perpetration. In my interviews with young men, they told me that they knew no one believed what they were saying because it hadn’t come up before—and no one actually held men accountable anyway.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17h
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19h
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 17h
This is a huge shift. The data is so clear even Third Way is on board. Strength and clarity beat “heterodox” mumbling and weakness every time. Hopefully next time we have this debate Dems can skip over the years of running ads that help Rs.
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Leeja Miller @leejamiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here @apnews.com I fixed this headline for you. He didn't use a "rare authority" he violated the constitution. You're blatantly buying into administration talking points by saying he has "authority" to just decide not to spend Congressionally approved funds at the last minute
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19h
What is the point of these stories? She earned a big pension because she worked for the city a long time. She retired and is owed her pension. She also got a new job working somewhere else, and her new job is paying her, as jobs are supposed to do. What part are we objecting to here?
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 19h
If all AI disappeared tomorrow I'd be down to only a million things to be sick/sad/angry about every day but I would try to cope
[Two posts from some unidentified social media something, probably X but I dunno...]

kavishj611
All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?

Pyramid Chad
This is like being a meth head and asking someone who's never done meth how they're going to get through their day without meth
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 19h
This civilization? This hellscape we are in now???? You should thank the self-righteous crones for bringing on its fall.
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Phoebe78 conetits @funkjunkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
so some lady around here runs an lgbt nonprofit, and they recently announced that they don't tell the truth about where any of their money goes. nevertheless they were included in some official statistics printed yesterday: i spied her gay org, which is an out liar and should not have been counted.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they like rape and rapists, is the thing.
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Quinn @ampersands.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"What kind of outfit is Kelce wearing?" "Imagine if they had Colonial Williamsburg, but for Irish people."
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"wow what a low effort post." yes. exactly. it's a post
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Scott @smadin.net · 29/09/2026
I mean, with all due respect, when did they ever start?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today
Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the past decade there has been a group of men who screenshot everything I post and every article I publish to be like “This woman created the Shitty Media Men list btw. And she has a JOB.” As if I’m ashamed.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 29/09/2026
this is tonic masculinity + semiotically clever as hell 👍
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
If you have the Anthropic S-1, please message me at ezitron.76 on signal, i will protect your identity
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recession indicator
A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com
Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
i maintain my position that the only real goals here are about making money for already very rich people and devaluing labor and that should give everyone pause, as well
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
AI cannot and will not ever be able to employ contextual judgment the way a person can. it does not have any social adeptness. it does comparative pattern matching, it doesn’t actually KNOW anything in the way a human does
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
static.klipy.com
The Office: It's Happening!
Alt: The Office: It's Happening!
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Scott @smadin.net · 29/09/2026
Genuinely astonishing that people who (undoubtedly sincerely!) consider themselves "well-informed" on "generative AI" will still insist they don't see how anyone would consider it inherently unethical
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026
Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!
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