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shawniee 𓅒

@sraf10million.bsky.social
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math professor, fiction, idiot, really bad artwork is mine, he/him, writing pop-up book about the eight different geometries in dimension 3

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 8h
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Tara Shoe @tarashoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
no YOU stop Donald Trump! bitch. i can’t do shit. I can’t even get an in-network referral for annual blood work and youre physically mailing me from your dc office YOU stop him
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump backtracks and begs Republicans to vote by mail as Democrats’ odds of taking Congress improve
Trump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.
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shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
sometimes, i think it's a shame when i get feelin' better, when i'm feelin' no pain... Listen to Sundown on your streaming service tidal.com/track/302934...
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Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Listen to Sundown on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 04/10/2026
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All the spaceships in the Alien universe #1: Alien (1979) | The Spaceshipper
Following the modest success of the article on the spaceships in For All Mankind, I spent the week combing through every book in my sci-fi l
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Consequences of Feminism (1906)
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shocked. Shocked.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every friend group has that one friend who was dissected in 1854 and is now a brain in a jar of formaldehyde, screaming soundlessly from deep within a museum's basement a continent away.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/09/2026
lolololol
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Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Poland had some wise words, for Russia. They can puff out their chests all they like, they can keep killing... But this Polish Foreign Minister is 💯 correct. They will never win.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He is so out of his depth it’s embarrassing. We have the worst possible president at the AI inflection moment. The opportunity cost of putting this guy back in office is vast.
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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 18/08/2026
patient is the night 🐸🍂🎃🫖
art of a silhouette of the beast from over the garden wall, a man that looks as if he is made of branches has bright white round eyes. he sits in a skeletal tree with crows perched on other branches. the background is a deep pumpkin orange colour with the moon sitting behind the beast and the tree. golden yellow stars are dotted around. a teal green border frames the image with a lighter green text that reads “patient is the night”
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/09/2026
Definitely. It's ridiculous to talk about climate change as a scientific/technological problem, in this day and age. It's a political one and a societal one, but the science of it was solved more than a century ago.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And those others were at least in some nominal way developments for use by human beings. This is exclusively for make number get bigger, exclusively over the next few quarters and however much longer we can make the chicken dance before we run out of quarters.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donald Trump hates democracy. He hates free speech & a free press. He hates free & fair elections. He hates an independent judiciary & its duty to justice & the law. Yet he adores murderous dictators, particularly Putin. Who exactly is the enemy of the people? American voters have one more chance.
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shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i would rather my breath smell like i ate something spicy than smell like i haven't eaten anything all day.
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
John Coltrane. Born 100 years ago today. Acrylic, ink and pencil.
A painting of John Coltrane
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
what the fuck do you mean "could"??? www.realitytea.com/2026/09/21/e...
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Elon Musk Could Face New Scrutiny if Democrats Take House
Journalist Maggie Haberman said Democrats have privately discussed subpoenaing Elon Musk over his DOGE work.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🇺🇸👀 Fox News interrupted the broadcast of Vance's speech, and the host stated: "We'll be back if he starts saying something important."
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
"Rumpelstiltskin is backed by the same venture capital firm responsible for sports betting, artificial intelligence startups, and tech-forward fast-casual restaurants, so you can trust that we have the best interests of your family at heart." buff.ly/stGSoST
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Rumpelstiltskin Isn’t Your Typical Fertility Startup
“Our founders took years of experience in casino design and timeshare sales and swaddled them together into a first-of-its-kind solution that asks: Do poor p...
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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As various AIs are trying to displace us as mathematicians, this is a great thought on the essence of creativity, in music and otherwise.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026
But there's a second hurdle that makes it hard for a small but important subset of humanity to understand that chatbots aren't people: the billionaires to whom nearly *everyone* isn't a real person.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026
My first encounters with AI-generated text and images invoked wonder, out of the tension between the part of my mind that knew this was a product of mathematics and the part of my mind that insisted that painting must have painters, paragraph must have writers, conversations must have interlocutors.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026
One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect.
Two cross-sectioned anatomical drawings of men's heads revealing their brains, which have been filled with marching robots from old pulp magazines. Their stare at one another with raw, exposed anatomical drawing eyeballs, which radiate a halo of spiky lines. The background is a psychedelic, fractal-shot colored cloudscape.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Prosecute ICE. Top to bottom, indict every single one of them. Abolishing ICE will cut tens of billions in federal spending. Put a chunk of that money into consequences.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1/When you learned Trump banned MS NOW, CNN & Politico from the WH, the first thought that crossed your mind was probably, “That has to violate the First Amendment.” You would not be wrong. joycevance.substack.com/p/its-a-nice...
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It’s a Nice First Amendment You’ve Got There…
Mea culpa for the long post on a Saturday night, but read on and see if you don’t agree that it’s essential.
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Caidyn‎ @caidyn.net · 19/09/2026
scientists reveal the secret
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

                                  CURTAIN
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Tomorrow,” said Toad, “I can just take life easy.” Toad went back to bed.
Toad settles into bed, ready to take life easy.

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Frog on dahlia.
A small green tree frog sitting inside a Break Out dahlia.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
is it possible to bait the "user was blocked for this post" account into posting whatever i want?
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Path (seasonal)🎉 @demandavoider.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
a broken clock is right t̶w̶i̶c̶e̶ ̵a̶ ̵d̶a̶y̶. time is a hallucination. don't be ignorant.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The meaning of maturity – Ursula K. Le Guin on what it really takes to grow up www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/17/l...
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The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up
It is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities, this business of growing up, this unfinishable project of becoming ourselves. It is less like the evolutionary diagram of th…
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shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Abolish is the baseline.
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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
71% seems low
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The biggest political brains in the cosmos : if u stay very quiet and still the oligarchs with literally unlimited funding and strawmen candidates and a maniacal fear of working class people will overlook you, their vision is based on movement
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Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
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shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
still one of my favorite karaoke go-tos. Listen to Style (Taylor's Version) on your streaming service tidal.com/track/323856...
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Taylor Swift - Style (Taylor's Version)
Listen to Style (Taylor's Version) on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service
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shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
just sittin' here, imagining the hubris that leon black must feel. the entitlement. the privilege. i suspect it's magnificently robust. it'll make his fall that much more just.
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The US government is like if something you got out of a gum-ball machine was intent on eradicating all complex life on Earth.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
waiting for trump to wade into the bestiality discourse should be an all timer
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shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
phil collins was a drummer, and it's wonderful that his vocals sometimes hit the backbeat. it makes songs like this shine. Listen to Turn It on Again (2007 Remaster) on your streaming service tidal.com/track/349867...
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Genesis - Turn It on Again (2007 Remaster)
Listen to Turn It on Again (2007 Remaster) on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am old enough to remember when openly expressing the kinds of racism we routinely see in current politics would be a major career ending scandal.
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