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Sam "ProXy" Kolins

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i liked the part where I said "IT'S PROXIN' TIME" and ProX'd everywhere on Bluesky

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 19h
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Sam "ProXy" Kolins @spectreproxy.bsky.social · 16h
I kinda wish he would anyway so that I don't have to be depressed by the fact that Matt Yglesias is maybe the most financially successful Substacker
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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 04/10/2026
When every bank and social media and journalistic outlet keeps "accidentally" silencing, censoring, and debanking LGBTQ people specifically, then it's not an accident. The purpose of a system is what it does.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
god grant me the dexterity to dodge the attacks I cannot guard; the timing to perfect parry the attacks I can; and the wisdom to know the difference
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
take a look at my new book 🎉 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Khayyaam #LIUKANGGANG @khayyaamb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Phone has familiar number "hi I just called about a coffee meetup" I'm about to say oh I remember blah blah then she goes "A young lady picked up last time" uhhh no that's not true
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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't think they'll ever recreate what it was like to be on twitter in the 2010s. Soap opera stuff happening constantly. Poster you were vaguely aware of involved in federal fentanyl bust. Poster whose jokes you occasionally liked posed as his aunt (or wife?) for 6 years. Pastor who steals jokes
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sociohat @sociohat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what if you were dating a tvtroper and you showed them pics of you pre-transition and they said "lmao... Early Installment Weirdness"
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Ellieween Dawn 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥺😏💜 @awkward.gay · 29/09/2026
The pay me in shoiks
The famous "they pay me in woims" Nancy comic but edited.
First panel is Nancy talking to teams femme Sluggo with shoulder length hair with a bow in,  and wearing a she/her badge: "I hear you're working at the Ikea". The bait shop has been edited to have 2 IKEA logos on it.
Second panel: Nancy asking "Do they pay you well?"
Third panel: Sluggo saying "They pay me in Shoiks" and holding up 2 different sized blåhaj shark plushies
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Former NFL/NBA/MLB national network sportscaster here: Gambling has absolutely fucking killed sports. RIP
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Baby elephant enjoys his shower Original post
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Since the Phillies pulled to within one day of clinching, they've been outscored, 25-2.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 19,1960
P1 - ONE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS WANTS NANCY TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN
KID: MY BABY COUSIN JUST SAID HIS FIRST WORD 
P2- NANCY IS FOLLOWING HIM TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN 
NANCY: WAS IT "PAPA" OR "MAMA" ?
KID : NEITHER 
P3- KID: THIS IS A MODERN BABY 
P4- THEY ARE LOOKING IN THE WINDOW AT THE BABY BEING HELD BY HIS FATHER 
KID: HIS FATHER IS A BEATNIK 
BABY: DADDY-O
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Jake @jking-dev.games · 20/03/2026
I vaguely remembered this had to look it up, old Sid Meier rule glad to see it's still kicking around! www.designer-notes.com/game-develop...
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
there's a great interview with a developer on Civ where they said, paraphrased, "a feature should never be the computer having fun instead of the player" and I think about this every time I'm working on procgen. It's often a strong argument to expose more of what you're doing.
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spooky flatline 🔞 @dixie-flatline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Doug O'Loughlin - Comic Cave PDX @comiccavepdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow, this is amazing. I've tried to kinda not complain about our current mayor too much but seeing what's possible in Seattle, Denver, NYC makes it obvious.
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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This made me spit up my tea
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this is wrong for several reasons, chief among them the fact that at least one person is on record saying L. Ron Hubbard was good at sex
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a guy is putting on his jacket, getting ready to leave his apartment. He says, “gonna go get some ice cream.” Panel 2: the guy peeks around a corner into another room in his apartment. In the room, there is a monkey with glowing eyes floating in a large, shimmering, blue tube and some unusual technology lining the walls. The guy asks, “you want anything, omniscient monkey in hypersleep?” Panel 3: answering his own question, the guy scoffs, “psh! Duh… banana flavor.”
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Kiana Mai @kianamai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🌟 OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE 🌟 Out for just a couple more days!! kianamaiart.store
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A minor league player just found out he's headed to the majors, and the moment is pure joy on camera.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's not possible. In 2025, the smartest person in history took complete control of federal government IT and his "DOGE" modernized and secured everything. Right? Surely that wasn't just a data heist by a billionaire white nationalist and a bunch of 20-year-old freaks from neo-Nazi chatrooms?
nytimes.com
Hackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel Records
The compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
my takeaway from this is that she is thinking of these things in the right terms. she is asking whether she truly wants to do it since, if the answer is yes, it is absolutely the case that there is no better time than now.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
America is free only when the media is competitive, independent, and accountable to the people. apnews.com/article/warn...
apnews.com
States settle lawsuit over Paramount-Warner merger, clearing key hurdle for $81 billion deal
Twelve states and Hollywood writers challenging Paramount’s buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to settle their lawsuits against the mega merger.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/09/2026
It's very validating to watch normal anchors on non-US news programs openly making fun of our stupid president
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Sam "ProXy" Kolins @spectreproxy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
astronomers still can't explain why the moon eats itself and then reforms out of nothing once every month
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
usually when i hear people say that the moon is a planet, i just have to shake my head. like, yes, if it’s a full moon? okay. you’ve got me there. a full moon is a circle and therefore a planet. outside of that, though, a planet either has to be a circle, like jupiter, or a dot, like stars
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sociohat @sociohat.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
omelas mayor: there's only one way to stop roko's basilisk.. you've trained for this, omelas baby omelas baby: heh.. that machine thinks eternal torment means anything to me?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It happens everywhere, but Hollywood is my beat. And that is an industry that *loves* to present the active choices that individuals made over time as inevitabilities that nobody could have possibly prevented. It’s rank, ridiculous nonsense as a PR strategy & we don’t have to buy it, ever!
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Sam "ProXy" Kolins @spectreproxy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
orbflation
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 18/09/2026
“I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM” is going to be psychically load-bearing for the rest of my life I fear
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I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM!!!! LIFE IS NEITHER INDIFFERENT NOR CARING!!!! SHE IS ONLY MOTION!!!! BROTHER GET IN THE BOAT!!!!! OR SINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nathan Bulmer @natemorebikes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
ballsandstrikes.org
A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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