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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened)

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 15h

Whenever I have to speak in front of a lot of people (as I did at a regional booksellers meeting this morning), I always think about this beautifully simple advice from @joshgondelman.bsky.social: "Everyone wants you to do a good job, and no one will be mad if you mess up a little." It helps!

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Patrick Meyers @pmeyers7.bsky.social · 15h

I unfortunately have to monitor Twitter for work somewhat regularly and I was struck today that while we think of it here as a radicalization engine (and it surely is that too), it also serves as a nihilism factory. Everything is toxicity, doom, cringe, betrayal - nothing can be authentic or earnest

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 12h

RACE RATING CHANGE: Texas Senate Tilt D → Lean D James Talarico currently has an 65% chance of winning. Our model puts his projected margin at 2.4 points, smaller than an average polling error.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Holy shit.

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 13h

Yang wen-li, a character from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, saying in two panels "I believe that being ruled by the worst democracy is preferable to being ruled by the best autocracy"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

in a just world someone would stone cold stun these guys into concrete

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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 13h

I know it’s a small drop in the “Gavin Newsom is a piece of shit” pond, but last month he vetoed a bill the CA legislature passed that would have made it easier for state agencies to allow employees to telework Newsom currently mandates a min of 4 in-office days a week, and his veto upheld that

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 13h

Susan Collins's antisemitism did not get enough attention. "I don't think it's a coincidence that ProPublica has as some of its funders George Soros, Donald Sussman, and other [pause] left-wing billionaires."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h

As it's currently constituted, the US government is in many ways the house than Dennis Hastert built. Mainly bribes and pedophiles

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gooner, the only online raccoon @sopranos69420.bsky.social · 15h

two weeks ago this guy was the United Nations begging to be regulated before his product wipes out civilization

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IT'S AN EMU! @stargdn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm not sure which one I saw, on TV, first: - the marching brooms scene in Fantasia (Disney), I can't really explain why - the graveyard scene in (had to look up the title/year) Mickey's Christmas Carol (also Disney, 1983) - Freddy Keueger in an ad for one of the Nightmare On Elm Street movies

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

not the only reason but a brand of inevitability, FOMO, anxiety, and, ‘if you don’t see it it means you’re not smart enough’ has become the chief way silicon valley (led by venture capita) markets its products.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

unsurprisingly the "truth" one discovers from this Sigma Male Mindset is that of the opium-addicted aristocrat degenerate: * I should be allowed to rape my servants * Human life has a naturally enforced hierarchy * The people cannot decide their fate * I shouldn't be bound by even capitalism ..

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TruelyEsoteric @truelyesoteric.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Forgiveness comes after repentance which usually comes after justice. It's a process not instant gratification.

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IT'S AN EMU! @stargdn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Does political conservatism, boiled down, really even consist of anything much else

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man of taste

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Staying informed is one of the most important things you can do.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

its because bringing in people from outside the cult turns it into a normal systems safety problem

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They’re laughing at you, this was deliberate

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

wired.com

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From J6 insurrection to Schmitt's humiliation, there is a straight line. The latter covered up the former to confuse understanding of Trump's treason. A THREAD.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

16. Why bother to vet information when every allegation against the Democrats, no matter how unbelievable, is believed? He tracks the pattern going all the way back to Newt Gingrich in the 1980s. Bernstein suggested that the laziness is part of the deeper malignancy affecting the GOP.

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Mega👻Thee🎃Tron @valarmordollars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All Anti Trans folks seem pro pervert

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sid @sidvicious.ca · 02/10/2026

i bring you love

a drawing of mr Burns as the alien in the Simpsons episode but in sids style

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

another assortment of letter boxes

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again, everything is gender studies.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

If you ruin the ~ bright futures ~ of Ivy League rapists, who will you rely on when you need a wet signature for state-sanctioned murder?

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again struck by the thought that I'm absolutely sure I know more about this western civ stuff than the people who'd think I'm emblematic of its downfall!

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Shalune (Usually) @shalune.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're only allowed to pull this cheeky crap if you're simultaneously accomplishing Mamdani-levels of good.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/10/2026

Even when I was in college three decades ago, the guys in frats were typically seen as fucking losers who basically had to pay money to get invited to parties and even then most women saw them as incels before we even had the word

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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the issues highlighted here on this piece is how Marco Rubio diverted 1 million usd to a campaign to smear and dismantle the trust in the Brazilian supreme court and interfere in our elections, with more resources from untraceable channels expected to follow suit. clear US aggression here.

theguardian.com

Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 01/10/2026

Entire generation of tech nerds never realized that talking to the computer on star trek was a narrative device and it is very rare that anyone wants to so this except necessary hands free situations

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IT'S AN EMU! @stargdn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's just a terrible strategy all around, even before we get to the part about how you're selling people down the river for no good reason. (Repeating ourselves with this basic analysis for so many years at this point..)

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IT'S AN EMU! @stargdn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meanwhile, as you try to appeal to voters activated by bigotry while positioning yourself against the candidates most identified with that bigotry, you just look insincere, to all sides. Maybe looking like a phony is the most honest presentation for these squishy tools.

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IT'S AN EMU! @stargdn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you compromise with bigotry, you are granting its false premises, painting it as not unreasonable (so, as not really bigotry – based only on dominant-group vibes), attempting to apply nuance to it; that mode of politics is based on emotion & unexamined biases, so nuance doesn't mesh well with it.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I assure you they ARE talking about it. I know because I had a post about it go viral elsewhere and there was a deluge of comments from men demanding I provide EVIDENCE that these seven fellas did ANYTHING wrong. Some of them call me a bitch and a cunt. #JustProtectingWomenStuff

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You know who isn't talking about the Cornell 7?
The same ones who wanted to
"protect" girls in sports and women in bathrooms.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An ERC committee member said in front of a crowd that there was already a triage of applications based on the applicant's CV. Now he expected that AI would be used. Preparing an ERC takes MONTHS, you have to work out the financial plan as well as the science. Imagine being doomed from the start.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wading into the "relative versus absolute" El Niño intensity debate: I genuinely think both are important--and I think we lose important information if we focus solely on one vs another. And both, as of late Sep, have now reached or exceeded record levels! [Thread]

Plot by Daniel Swain showing temporal evolution of ONI vs RONI index during 2026, representing two different ways to visualize El Nino intensity. The ONI has been at record levels since May, and the RONI has been at near-record levels since June. Data directly from NOAA.

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's genuinely discombobulating to watch someone broadcast their inadequacies so clearly yet unwittingly.

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