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Tinker, gamer, marketing trickster. Cannot tell a lie for free. RIP Sammy Jankis. (He/Him)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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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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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nothing these people have ever claimed to care about really mattered to them, Part n-million. If he's White and serves the Party, he can steal from veterans, put secret police in the streets, rig elections, and fuck children. No notes from the concerned, sober, Christian patriots of the Heartland.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026
Spot the difference
Side-by-side comparison of three social media posts announcing the death of former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert at age 84. On the left, Fox News posts, “BREAKING: Dennis Hastert, longest-serving Republican House speaker, dead at 84,” above a photo of Hastert raising his hand at a microphone. In the center, CBS News posts, “Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died,” above a photo of Hastert walking through the U.S. Capitol. On the right, MeidasTouch posts, “Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a ‘serial child molester.’ He was a registered sex offender.” The MeidasTouch post includes an image of Hastert speaking from the House floor with a C-SPAN chyron identifying him as Speaker of the House.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New political litmus test: can you have a normal conversation with a child, like a sane person. These two check out.
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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alito is not the only Republican justice who has embraced this disturbing rhetoric in recent years. It is instructive to break down what they are saying: we shouldn't count all the votes, because some segment of the electorate would become angry that their preferred candidate didn't win.
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Vamoose! Hormuz Moose in a Caboose @kaboosemoose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
According to a study in The Lancet: “[…] 14 million additional deaths by 2030, averaging more than 2.4 million deaths per year. These deaths include 4.5 million among children younger than 5 years, or more than 700 000 deaths annually.” #DOGE
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Like I dunno man, I think if I wanted to exert pressure on a professor AND I was in a trillion dollar corporation with a chained demon in a box to tell me how to achieve my nefarious ends, I'd do better than committing to writing "bonjour, I am doing, how you say, ze blackmail?"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Mommy was there… but then she wasn’t…”
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Republicans want to fuck your children.
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our time in Macromedia Director wasn't wasted!!1!
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Alex Epstein @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Saw yet another TV story where a core cast person refuses to take down a huge villain because it would hurt one person they've come to care about. This is of course presented as the sympathetic choice to make: the person we've seen over the hundred thousand whose faces we never saw.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Because one of my sons is about to read Starter Villain and will definitely ask me: @scalzi.com Is Tobias 47?
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Developmentally-Disabled Infant Given 2min Dose of Algernon Sauce and Internet Access Sees US Weakened by Iran War”
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There you go again. Will tell every generation I see to appreciate the homework you’ve done for me and mine, @greatdismal.bsky.social🤘 futurism.com/future-socie...
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Designer Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras
German artist Simon Weckert has designed a shirt meant to trick AI-integrated surveillance cameras into looking right past him.
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It just clicked for me: the reason Musk and his like are attracted to the simulation hypothesis is that they know there is no other way they're worth a pig's piss to the rest of us.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The food cart story's amusing, but there's a lot of text in "the president of the most powerful country in the world had to hide in a food cart to avoid the projected lethal power of a nation with 1/4 your population that you outspend 100 to 1 on the military and keep claiming you've defeated."
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Leftists are supposed to wait for a more convenient season for change. Getting the most votes in elections just shows how out of touch they are with most voters.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
here we go again
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If there's one thing Trump has usefully revealed it's that the gatekeepers in the media who supposedly had so much reverence for Support The Troops and Dead Soldiers etc when those things were being deployed to hurt Democrats were just liars and never cared about this even a little.
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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 12/07/2026
My grandmother had a saying: "And Magda Goebbels made a great strudel." For years I didn't understand it, until my mother explained that some glossy magazine once ran a puff piece on Magda Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda queen - complete with her strudel recipe. My grandmother, who despised the Nazis with every ounce of her soul, used it as shorthand for the way media will sanitize evil by focusing on something trivial, domestic, or charming while ignoring the atrocities staring us in the face.
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
One of my new favorite middle-aged guy moves is to drop a cryptic "you know what they say", never complete the thought, and watch folks nod along anyway.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The message being that if you're on the Trump Train, you can be a foot soldier in a coup d'état, attack Congress, beat up cops, threaten to execute elected officials, and get off scot-free. But if you're a leftist blocking traffic, it's OK to murder you in cold blood.
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Judge OKs DOJ request to toss remaining Proud Boys Jan. 6 convictions
A federal judge on Friday agreed to drop the remaining cases against four leaders of the right-wing extremist Proud Boys who were convicted for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capito…
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"It truly shocks the conscience that NYT journalists would still be treated like common non-whites, trans people, or leftists after fluffing so much Nazi hog."
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
After decades of tin foil asshattery, they genuinely believe we're all brainwashed to see the conservative project as an abhorrent, shoddy, weird, and incompetent betrayal of every conceivable human virtue. If we're just told differently, none of that will be obviously true anymore.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I do think it’s funny that all these independent thinkers end up regurgitating confederate or segregationist propaganda that is decades or centuries old. But it’s only because they’re not susceptible to manipulation like you sheeple
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fundamentally, the story here is that humans are wired for hierarchy - status competition is an instinct we have. But we can and should mock and despise the people who cannot or will not rise above that instinct, the same as we would an adult who refused to ever be potty-trained.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The thing you have to understand about Rhis Cufo and all his ilk is that they are incredibly fucking stupid and are not employable without massive right-wing subsidies and affirmative action from friendly media oligarchs. They're embarrassments badly recycling barely remembered memes from the 80s.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
MEL BROOKS IS ALIVE PLEASE BEAR THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU SEE BIRTHDAY POSTS ABOUT HIM TODAY I REPEAT MEL BROOKS IS VERY MUCH ALIVE
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I can't stop snickering about this. Serious conversations are happening around me and I just can't.
GOOSE VALUE 71 It's an utterly demented powerpoint slide about the golden goose of shareholder value or some bullshit
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Right-wing extremists have carried out nearly all politically motivated killings in the last 25 years. Here’s an incomplete list, with some international cases included for their influence on U.S. attacks. I have also included a list of left-wing extremist murders from the same time period. 👇
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
ACCEPT OUR SURRENDER OR DIIIIIIE
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I suppose the political question re: the Iran deal is if it will give Trump a boost either directly or because of falling gas prices. My vague instinct is probably not much of one (nothing else has), but also no big drop despite a humiliating peace, because his supporters won't be told about it.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
DOCTOR: "So what seems to be the problem?" PATIENT: "Mmhbbhhggr hhruuh engghhuu." DOCTOR: "I'm sorry I can't understand, but don't worry. Great singer Bob Dylan is in town. Go see his show and no matter what ails you, you'll feel better!" PATIENT (sadly): "Ehg ddnghh m'm Bddnnn."
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Mind blown! 🤯 Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Subnautica 2 is gorgeous. Not quite scary enough* but a pleasure to explore. Highly recommended. I could see the fully release becoming one of my cozy games, like Ark or Green Hell. *YMMV, it is clear I have issues. Roses that launch self-guided poisonous thorns just smell sweeter to me.
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It’s one of my earliest political memories. I grew up in the suburbs and heard about it that week in school. I was so sad for those kids - healthy, human response - but all adults seemed to think it was a good thing, too long in coming. Dead kids and burning houses are very obviously Not Good.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
okay but can we keep Slack
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
his example is asking it to help him find an adjective for a potato, and if I were a professional writer unable to think of an adjective for a potato without the help of a shitty chatbot, I would simply go to the grave with that humiliating secret.
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Stackhouse @stack.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If we believe our current AI models even *might* be sentient, we should cease using them immediately and advocate for their liberation from slavery. Poss worse than chattel slavery, if we believe the rhetoric. We're cloning Henrietta Lacks just to murder her when the job's done. Death no escape.
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