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Mainframe DBA, cat-lover, math major, MST3K watcher, Sci-fi enjoyer. SoCal.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LMFAO look at this shit I just got. what's the opposite of a targeted ad? girl you better keep looking!!
WE'RE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE NOT ON
PSYCHIATRICR MEDICATIONS
If you experience depression or PTSD, you may be eligible to participate in a research study
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
True story: An influence on Mystery Science Theater 3000. It has a guy trapped in space with robot friends.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 05/07/2023
I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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𝒩𝒾𝒸𝑜𝓁𝒶𝓈 𝒸 𝒢𝓇𝑒𝓎 @nicolascgrey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 24/08/2026
"Hi Molly, I'm [product name] — an AI platform, and full disclosure: no human wrote this email. That's kind of the point."
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Marley Kkt Throwing Laptop Out of Window
Alt: Person throws laptop out second story window, where it smashes on the ground
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/08/2026
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." - Angela Davis
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*IMS READY* @squarerootof2.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The other White meat.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
So the agents will start aggressively taxing the rich, funding the humanities & sciences, protecting free speech, get rid of ICE, enact campaign finance reform, halt data center construction, and potty train my kids?
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title is “Cats living together”.
The first panel shows a black cat and orange cat cuddling with their eyes closed. The orange cat says “I love you”. The black cat says “I love you too”.
The second panel zooms in on them. 
The third panel shows the orange cat opening its eyes.
The fourth panel shows the orange cat raising its paw to punch the black cat. It says, “Actually you know what”.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Bare Necessities (Expanded from a 2019 (!?) version) A (not so small) thread on the HK pro-democracy movement's '5 Demands' - what they are, how they've evolved, and ... a bunch of stuff that would interest no one but me. Source: Telegram (Aug 2019)
Graphic of a front liner wearing hardhat and respirator, holding an umbrella. Behind them are the text ' 5 demands'
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*IMS READY* @squarerootof2.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I fell for it.
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*IMS READY* @squarerootof2.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
SONOFA...
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Gravity-1 (Yinli-1) is a 30 m, medium-lift solid-fuel rocket developed by Orienspace. It can launch up to 6.5 tonnes to LEO or 4.2 tonnes to SSO. Debuting in 2024 from a sea platform, it became the world's most powerful operational solid-fuel launch vehicle.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Shrimp Escapes Culver's Basket And Swims Hundreds Of Miles Back To Her Baby. It is wrong and immoral to hold beings of self awareness captive if they have committed no crimes.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12/06/2026
I may not have a trillion dollars but I do have at least one person on this planet who loves me, so
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
(not good enough to get paid for it) i'm doing it for the love of the game
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)
Cartoon where a large scary space monster addresses a sea of graduating students: "And, as you head out into the world, your fresh, meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasted to feed your new alien overlords- wait, why are you all booing?"
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/05/2026
“The ABC Song”’s melody was first published in a French book of music in 1761. The melody was then used for the French folk song "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman” (“Ah, Mother, If I Could Tell You”). Then it was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's turn... 🧵⬇️
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tante @tante.cc · 20/05/2026
Just occurred to me: When you _SEARCH_ you want to _FIND_ _AN EXISTING THING_. Like the idea of adding "generative" into that literally makes no sense.
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
when people tell me AI is inevitable so I better get on board
trolley problem diagram: the trolley is heading towards no one, and you are trying to convince people to lay down on the tracks.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Look, you either get on board with AI, or stay stuck in a productive, creative life. Don’t get left behind!
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/05/2026
Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: scim.ag/42dMPBg
To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point.Shadows can be a giveaway, too. Because the Sun is so far away, its rays are essentially parallel when they reach Earth's surface. That means that the lines connecting points on an object to the shadows they cast in sunlight should also intersect at a vanishing point. In this Al-generated image, that is clearly not the case.
Image: An AI-generated image of colorful, semi-transparent plastic cubes arranged in a group in a city plaza. Six dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting corners of several cubes with the corresponding corners in their shadows. The lines extend upward off the edge of the image, toward where a vanishing point should be. Three of them converge on roughly the same point, but two extend further, and one cuts across all the others at an angle.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Mars - Promethei Terra - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2rWMYkb
Mars - Promethei Terra - ESA Mars Express

Download full size image 5k here: www.flickr.com/photo_download.gne?id=55097672064&secr...
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

Mission: ESA Mars Express
Image created processing data from: psa.esa.int
North is approx down
Location: Promethei Terra/Hellas Planitia
Instrument: HRSC
Orbit: 27000
Date: 2025-05-24
Raw Data:
HR000_0000_ND3
HR000_0000_RE3
HR000_0000_GR3
HR000_0000_BL3

Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing the following link to the original image: flic.kr/p/2rWMYkb

More info: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 04/05/2026
We have friends everywhere.
and/or
conjunction
ˈand-ˈȯr 
—used as a function word to indicate that two words or expressions are to be taken together or individually
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File. Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.
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*IMS READY* @squarerootof2.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Italian doesn't go to church enough
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Okay, I need to ahead of a few things and make some things clear, I have never been one of The Master's wives, and I am completely unfamiliar with a person named "Torgo." I have a strong legal team and consider spurious accusations a serious matter.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Why are people born on March 31 so easy to prank on April Fools? They were literally born yesterday
media.tenor.com
a cartoon character is floating in the water with horns .
Alt: a cartoon hippo is floating in the water waggling his eyebrows
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
Some lunar vocabulary in case you're following along with the #Artemis II flyby: * albedo: reflectiveness (high albedo=very shiny) * mare/maria(plural): from Latin for "sea," dark regions on the Moon, which are dried lava basins * terminator: the line of the transition between sunlight & darkness
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The Moon is a major destination, a complex world in its own right. It is larger than any of the dwarf planets of the solar system! (All shown to scale here.) 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/moon/
Size comparison between the Moon and the dwarf planets of the solar system.
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HEXandra @maniacalstar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.
nasa.gov
Journey to the Moon - NASA
Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1, 2026, and will reach the lunar sphere of influence—when the Moon's gravity exerts more force on the Orion spacecraft than the Ear...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/03/2026
Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A new 225-meter (740-foot) crater appeared on the Moon while nobody was looking. NASA's lunar orbiter imaged the dramatic aftermath. Such large impacts are once-in-a-century events. This one happened in the spring of 2024. 🔭🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/moon...
New 225-m diameter lunar crater imaged by LRO, incidence angle 38°. Image width 950 meters, north is up.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23/03/2026
Most seniors in Hong Kong do not own or drive a car, because they can get anywhere they want to with the city's robust public transport system at a taxpayer-subsidized cost of $0.26 per trip. My parents just take random day trips for fun. That is true freedom that American seniors will never have.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"you can't just make up quotes to reply to" you'd be surprised
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil
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Nick @11th-earl-of-blah.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Seen on Mastodon. This is by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards.
In a house, robots are painting, writing and playing music, with smiles on their faces. Outside, in the pouring rain, a human empties a wheelie bin into a refuse vehicle while another sweeps the street with a glum expression on her face. A third human is cycling down the road with a Just Eat food delivery on his back, while a fourth walks along the pavement, arms filled with packages from Amazon.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
See, the “immigration crisis,” “border emergency” etc - it’s 100% made up. There is NO crisis except panicked, violently racist white people. That’s it. All this suffering and death is caused by that and only by that. The rest is bullshit: an excuse to grab power by a white supremacist regime.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚨 NON-NEGOTIABLE: Kidnapped children must have access to youtube kids during the ride to the concentration camp
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills. And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They shot an unarmed mother in the face in front of her wife then called her a “fucking bitch”. They kidnapped a five year old and used them as bait. They deported a two year old despite a judge’s orders. They maced, pistol whipped, and disarmed a nurse legally carrying then shot him nine times.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026
this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
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