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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.

Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay it's actually worse: NOBODY STOOD UP THE ENTIRE SHOW! NOT FOR DEL, NOT FOR LIL SIMZ WHO FUCKING BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN, NOT FOR GOTILLAZ I gotta say, quite a lot of cities rock more than Cleveland.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

White people of Cleveland, I am severely judging the stationary position of your booties while Deltron 3030 preaches. Why was I the only person in this dang arena doing anything but sitting inert? Pearls before swine I tells ya. For shame.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You (may have) heard of @thethoughtemporium.bsky.social's Jerry the Slime Mold, but have you met Jerry Garcia? (I'm experimenting with making art with a Physarum polycephalum slime mold as an assistant.)

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I keep seeing matcha + pumpkin spice as a flavor combination and, as a basic bitch myself, I am imploring whoever is trying to make this a thing to knock it the hell off. Not all trends need to be combined together into one megatrend. Just let matcha be match and pumpkin spice be pumpkin spice.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh look, it is the platonic ideal of the use case for my poster magaro.net/tles/product...

a hand-printed poster that says I DON'T ACCEPT THAT with a linocut image of a goose flapping and honking

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dennis Hastert, convicted pedophile, dead at 84. The fact that we still refer to one of the most asinine unofficial "rules" of the Senate as the Hastert Rule blows my mind.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hey Pittsburgh, do you know your chicken? New public art addition here at Lorenson Acres (well 6% of an acre). Watch out, Randyland, there's a new weirdo in town.* *I've been here the whole time, but I've been busy, okay?

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For one night only, you can have perhaps the most awkward, cringey and enraging five hours of your life at the Manor Theater in Squirrel Hill.

Movie listing for the Manor Theater for Thursday, October 15. The two films playing are You Can See Everything and The Social Reckoning.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For one night only, you can have perhaps the most awkward, cringey and enraging five hours of your life at the Manor Theater in Squirrel Hill.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gosh what happened around 2015-16 to make national bad vibes spike 🤔

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only thing I know about this game (Dressmaker) is that it's getting a lot of buzz right now and I went to watch a let's play to see whether I want to get in on this action. Do you get to decorate your shop or does it come like this with no customization? Because this is hung upside-down.

Screenshot from the game Dressmaker showing a Victorian-era dressmaker's shop with (for some reason) a framed picture of the Chinese character Fu (fortune or blessing), but it's upside-down.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a time to be alive but also IN YOUR FACE SMUG ASSHOLE NARC WHO ARRESTED ME IN 1997 FOR HAVING AN EMPTY BAG OF STEMS AND SEEDS IN MY POCKET ABOUT 90 MINUTES AFTER I TOOK 50μg OF EXTREMELY GOOD MISSILE SILO LIQUID IYKYK Did not enjoy county lockup, zero stars, walls melt in a threatening way.

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Anders @derzquist.net · 29/09/2026

Lots of Third Space Discourse envisions a pattern where individuals go to a place and then connect with others to form a group. But I think the real dynamic is where people first form a group and then go adopt a space to (formally or informally) make their own.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At Yet Another AI Tutor Demo and this one explicitly made note that the students' logs and history are totally inaccessible to anyone, because their testers needed to be assured no one would see their "stupid questions". We are creating a generation of humans terrified to talk to other humans.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who's gonna tell him about hyperparasitism and that his magical anti-parasite worms all have their own parasites?

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This might be the cutest thing I've ever made. (That's my Head Chicken in Charge Dodo)

A brown cartoon chicken painted on a piece of white pressboard

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Chat, is it nicer to live in nice places or not-nice places? Y'all, come the hell on. Pointing out a problem and proposing investment to try and fix it is not the same as pointing it out and then beating the ever living hell out of random people on the street to try and fix it.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I did the research and instructional design for my critical AI literacy class last winter. I taught it for the first time this past May. I'm teaching it again at the end of October. The vibe has shifted to such a huge extent, I'm gonna need to spend some serious time redoing a whole lot of it.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oof this one hurt. We're white but also chose to send our kid to public school, which here in Pittsburgh means majority Black and under-resourced even while my well-off parents continually offered to foot the bill for private (which they did for me all but two years of my schooling as well).

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

TAKE ME DOWN TO PLANARIAN CITY WHERE THE WORMS ARE FLAT AND SO ITTY BITTY

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026

going back in time to tell my teenage secular atheist self that when the war comes i am fighting on the side of the pope against the libidinous rationalist forces

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Q: What do Porno for Pyros, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Iain M. Banks have in common? A: They all wrote about what great pets humans would be. (I remain unconvinced tbh)

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I present the most baffling graffiti in Pittsburgh. I know these people are deranged but who tf was still worked up about Tampon Tim in the year of our lord 2025?

Extremely poorly written graffiti on a gross cement wall under a bridge. On the right it says "RIP Charlie Kirk" and some good Samaritan has come by and graffitied a rifle site over that. On the left it says "Tampon" and "Tim" as an acrostic at the T and also as an afterthought next to it "Walz" just in case there's some other Tim who is associated with tampons that we might get mixed up about.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also also if you are newly local or newly out or have a loved one who is and this news is making you/them feel alone, you aren't. The Persad Center is a great place to start: persadcenter.org

persadcenter.org

Persad Center | LGBTQ+ And HIV+ Affirming Mental Health Care In Pittsburgh

Persad Center has provided affirming mental health care for LGBTQ+ individuals and people living with HIV/AIDS since 1972. Medicare and Medicaid accepted. Pittsburgh and telehealth statewide.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Disgusting but predictable. (Please note that UPMC the hospital system is not the same thing as the Pitt School of Medicine.) If anyone in the Pittsburgh area is in need of peds gender affirming care, I know of a private clinic that offers it. My kid received care there, highly recommend. DM me.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Incredible banger of a Social Media Post Of Redacted Origin, but this right here? Is Longtermism just anti-abortion for atheist nerds? The most important person to pour all of your compassion into is the one who doesn't even exist yet. nitter.app/banteg/status/2100619607648121199

>stare into cosmic light cone

>10^50 people staring back

>none of them exist
>none of them can tell me
>none of them can falsify my assumptions

>realize I have invented the perfect constituency

>infinitely important
>completely silent
>and always represented by me

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A thing I said to one of our SaaS CSMs on our last call: "It seems like your developers are all ✨AI-first 10x✨ now, but I'm afraid that they do not have 10x better ideas. Or documentation. Or QA."

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ah, poster sessions. Or as I like to call them "Science Fairs for Adults." Where you wander around and try to read a poster other people are standing in front of without seeming *too* interested because then the author will start talking to you and you're not ready to take it to that level yet.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Idk but as a dual CAN/AM citizen my way forward is oh please oh please oh please 🕯️🕯️🕯️

A reddit post:
Fellow American liberals and transatlanticists: what is our way forward if Canada becomes an "associate member" of the EU?
It seems that much of the world order for the past 80 years has been built out of the US, and the alliance between the US and Europe - as well as our united strength and resources, particularly that of the US, as a pole which to build the liberal international order around. This is far from an equal "alliance of democracies," but was, in a way, an alliance between the "free world" (I use that term, of course, very loosely) that's prevented great power conflict in a post-nuclear world, set the rules of international trade, and promoted human rights and raised the standard of living for billions.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As someone who teaches normies about AI, please someone tell me what the strategy is for making my learners understand HOW FUCKING WEIRD literally *all* of these people are. Like, I think they are humoring me when they nod and smile as I lampshade how bonkers all of this actually is.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yeah, I've got a million other things in my life that are more important than anything the Harrison Bergeron Fairness Brigades are obsessed with.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was 26 at the time, married, living in rural Maryland and working as a substitute high school teacher. My first shot of fear was "oh fuck, we're under attack" and the second, once we realized who did it, was "oh fuck, American Muslims are going to get killed over this."

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I mean, *I* didn't stop. Be the change you want to see etc Keep calling these deranged weirdos weird

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I want to sit under-25 doomers down Clockwork Orange-style and make them watch this youtu.be/o2Le9Bf_s3w There's like twelve different things covered here that the Youngs now totally take for granted (the ACA, HIV prophylaxis and treatment, the entire concept of reality tv...) Also, fuck Puck

youtu.be

How an MTV Reality Star Fought an Epidemic

YouTube video by Matt Baume

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I refuse to feel any kind of way about calling out ableism during the campaign because dude's problem is not his information processing disorder, but man fuck him very much. (Also I low-key am dying for some Fetterman marriage tea because Giselle, what the hell is going on here)

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They are gambling with our lives, but in the boring accelerating-climate-change-and-empowering-nazis way, not the cool inventing-cylons way they want to pretend they are.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t use generative AI to give me ideas, to draft, to research, to take any shortcuts whatsoever. I don’t use it at all. Get on my fucking level

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There's some rumblings that I've heard around Progressive YouTube that MAHA moms are "gettable" for Democrats as they themselves (not RFK but the actual voters) aren't particularly partisan, see RFK's hypocrisy and indeed many used to be vaguely on the left back when that meant crunchy woowoo.

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Behold my male regal jumping spider having strong opinions on whether a pupating fly counts as "live prey." (It does not, and he expects that this mistake will not happen again. Good day.) My pitcher plant was not so choosy. A black soldier fly was still harmed in the making of this post.

A macro image with a very short depth of field of a black jumping spider with bright green chellicerae rearing up over a black soldier fly pupa

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My 14 year-old has decided to go as Billie Joe Armstrong for Halloween this year (trick or treating will start with a short front lawn concert) and I just did the math. This is like going as Elvis for Halloween when I was 14 in 1989. (Except BJA managed to not die on the shitter 10 years ago)

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It will cost very little to bulldoze every last bit of this nonsense, and the benefits to our national psyche will be incalculable. Every serious candidate needs to be on Team Raze

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

A digital illustration done in a black and white graphite style with white highlight on a gray grainy paper background of a hand from the front in a fingers-crossed gesture. From the heel of the palm and down the wrist is lettering reading, ‘maybe it will happen today’. The hand is cropped beetle the lettering and surrounded with decorative rays and circles.

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