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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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PLDH @pldhnet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Need everyone to see this
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.
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☀️🌸idspispopd🥀🌙 @bhaalspawn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#TillysCursedLibrary 📚 No. 58 #FakeBookTitleFriday
They Made His Video Game Characters ‘Less Sexy’ - Now he will never find love again
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Aaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Your daily reminder that paying actual artists and writers and programmers isn't just the morally correct choice, it's also often cheaper.
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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
nicho-las cage might be the best meme i ever make
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maud @peloriemate.net · 10/10/2026
i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo
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DoctorDoomtrain64 @doctordoomtrain64.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Don't fall for the bait, the headline is disgustingly misleading. It was just a single dipshit developer using GenAI to search something and then glazing it in the article. There's no GenAI whatsoever in the actual game
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Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What Cage has done for literally the past decade is exactly this, he finds a weird eccentric script by a first time filmmaker, signs on, his name brings in clout, he makes the film, and sometimes it's not very good. But it's still artistic as hell. This is why I *love* Cage.
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
American small business owners largely see themselves as lower-level rentiers in a quasi-feudal economy as opposed to service providers in a competitive market economy, and part of that means not having to actually be competent at providing services
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As I said to someone else recently, I eagerly look forward to a time when I never need to think about Rahm or Gavin again. (I get that, as governor of California, that’s not an option right now as to Newsom.)
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BlueCooler54 @bluecooler54.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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silverbeard2026 @silverbeard2026.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FYI
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Would be curious to see similar data about discussion of the Alberta separatist movement.
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7 @callme7.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I am a woman. I don't care what adjectives you put in front of that. I am biologically, socially, and entirely a woman. I will not vote for anyone who denies me myself. You can disagree with me, but I know who I am and I know what I am. I will fight your gods and triumph.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you could avoid the atlantic and read my essay about the right's attack on empathy instead, if you wanted. therevealer.org/what-we-can-...
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What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy” — The Revealer
Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/09/2026
Russia occupies Oleshky. Around 2,000 civilians remain and run out of food, medicine, water and electricity. Russia, as the occupying power, is responsible for facilitating humanitarian relief. Ukraine found another way in: its forces delivered ~4 tons of food by drone to 100 locations across town.
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can we just be done with Skywalkers? Presumably the galaxy has other people in it who matter almost as much who might be entertaining to watch.
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Hex Maniac Alice @ UUSmp 40/157 @haurchy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey, Americans! Here’s a dark, ominous black-and-white advertisement showing your wildly unpopular president slowly waking along a hallway while scowling at you. It says nothing about the problems you’re facing. And you paid for the ad! Please definitely go vote Republican. You’re welcome!!
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Got a new video for you. It's ostensibly about Marvel's Wolverine, but it's more akin to a series of sharp kicks aimed at Sony's bollocks. youtu.be/5UQTABnglQQ
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Sony's Wolverine
YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling
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Chungo Tumpus: Clear Sky @mrfinnmccool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The below is burned into my brain and it's about as appealing a pitch as if video games involved getting shot with an actual gun.
"The year is 2030. It's a rainy Saturday afternoon. You've just finished mining 30 obsidian ore playing Crypto Crush Saga, a match-3 mobile game.
You open up The Elder Chains Online and feel a rush of excitement. Your school buddy has spent years becoming a Master Blacksmith, and he has agreed to turn 10 obsidian into an Obsidian Battlestaff, a HUGE upgrade over the Mithril Mace you’ve been wielding for the last months.
It’ll take him an hour or so. In the meantime, you log into Clash of Guilds, and use the remaining obsidian to upgrade your town hall to the next level. 
That should keep your village safe for now.
You wish you could fast forward time to tonight. Your Guild has plans to go for a deep run into the wilderness in Old School Rune Chains, and your prospects of a successful run (and great loot) have never been better.
All guild members have been spending the past 2 weeks grinding for better weapons, and you’ve agreed (through a vote) to use the Guild treasury to buy everyone a new full set of Red Dragonhide Armor.
Tonight’s objective is to kill the level 128 Frost Giant hiding in the Cave of Sorrow. He has a 5% chance of dropping an Immaculate Orb of Brilliance, of which there are currently only 4 in existence.
The Orb can be used as a power source in an upcoming space exploration game, and should give your guild a great advantage in reaching distant galaxies first. A 5% drop rate is low, but you’re feeling optimistic.
In the distance, you hear a faint 'BloCkChAIn doEsNT bRiNg AnYtHiNg nEW tO gAmES'. You shrug, and join your friends in the Discord voice channel.

Life is good."
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 28/09/2026
wentworth by-the-sea, new castle, new hampshire, 1995
wentworth by-the-sea, new castle, new hampshire, 1995
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 28/09/2026
concord nite club, kiamesha lake, new york, 1978
concord nite club, kiamesha lake, new york, 1978
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 26/09/2026
plains ice cream parlor, douglas, wyoming, 1980
plains ice cream parlor, douglas, wyoming, 1980
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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you can’t even write jokes better than this
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a valuable tutorial on why LLMs run into a fundamental problem of not being useful to tell us true things. And it gives some great use cases on what they *are* good for. Great for users, students, and teachers. Read the whole series!
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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specter @ out of the blender @specterthieving.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.
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Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.
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Omnifitense @omnifitense.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kash Patel, even at the height of his supposed power, has the look of a man who knows deep down what he will be charged with when accountability comes due.
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DR. IRONCLAD, Brunch Democrat @feclad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To every MAGA, Jill Stein, or just couldn't bother to vote person out there, Fuck you. Fuuuuuuuuck you.
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Alexis Vandom @vandomva.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Why are trans people so angry?" Having the same three conversations with intentionally ignorant cis people 43.6 million times while people in power keep finding new and inventive ways to kick you in the head will do that to a mf
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.
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Hellum Dander @kellumdander.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Joe Biden stood slack jawed on TV for five seconds and the entire media establishment dumped him in a vat of acid Mitch McConnell vanishes for months and returns as a virtual vegetable and the press runs copy pretending he said it
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this shit does not work on me. go try it on the centrists who call trans women "biological men."
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 15/09/2026
Yeah, um, hrm. Glad I was on the fence about buying the game because that pushes me firmly into the 'nah' camp.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Valentine 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷🐇 @bunnybelmont.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
before any of you freak out, let this bunny remind you that fortnite has gone full AI for a while now, and the ceo of epic (tim sweeney) fired his staff for it, and has zero shame in it i stopped playing this game a very long time ago, and you can and should too. don’t give in
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