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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck
RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Abdul El-Sayed published a health platform proposing bans on pesticides that are already banned in Europe, support for the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act, and opposition to legal immunity for agrochemical manufacturers. 🧵
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/10/2026
Experts say now is an ideal time to get a flu shot, before influenza starts spreading widely.
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Here's why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu
Experts say now is an ideal time to get a flu shot, before influenza starts spreading widely. It's also a good time for vulnerable people to get vaccinated against another winter risk, RSV, and to get up to date on protection against COVID-19.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
borg assimilation opt out
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Artist: @ChronicallyMeh on Insta
illustration showing a person with long, dark curly hair wearing a pink shirt and blue pants lying completely flat on the floor, seemingly melted into a puddle.

A speech bubble from off-screen asks, "Are you ok?"

The person on the floor replies in a speech bubble, "This is my baseline". Near their head is a small watermark logo that reads "CHRONICALLY MEH".
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026
Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍
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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I see this has left my usual bluesky circle so uh, yeah, fuck AI, don’t be a snob. ✌️
Bubble letters in pink yellow and blue saying create don’t generate
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Star (WA): 'Nurse now homebound from Long COVID: Only Congress can change what happens next' 'Long COVID is real. ME/CFS is real. It came for me, and it can come for anyone. What’s left is a single line in a spending bill and lawmakers willing to write it.' www.grandcoulee.com/story/2026/0...
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Nurse now homebound from Long COVID: Only Congress can change what happens next
I spent nearly 30 years as a nurse, including in an infectious disease clinic, before I stepped away, worn down by the relentless work. But when COVID swept the nation, I came back to help my fellow S...
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Starry Sparkles @starkitty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today someone asked why I was masked…when I said it’s because I’m immune compromised & local COVID lvls are rising…they just stared at me blankly, then said ppl never masked their entire life until COVID & that ppl masking scares them…🙃…I tried explaining but nothing I said seemed to click w/them…😔
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
in 20 years kids are gonna be like "This was ILLEGAL??? WHY?" and all we're gonna be able to do is shrug and be like "The government really likes controlling our bodies and rationing pleasure, I guess"
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need universal health care for every American. It’s time to fight for Medicare for All and ensure that everyone receives the care they need.
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Universal training data. Universal dividend.
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Starry Sparkles @starkitty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Woah! It’s nice to see another game do this…the only other one I know of is Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
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Lagerwhat @lagerwhat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Craigslist could be weird and creepy as fuck, but it never gave away my home address.
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i got nothin @shwonline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Does this mean Craigslist will start working again?
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 27/09/2026
bugs bunny in a tux

I wish all tech pervs a very burned head
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27/09/2026
Instead of spending nearly $270 BILLION on mass deportations ($2,358 PER taxpayer), we could fund: Medicaid for 12 million people. Healthcare for 5 million veterans. Free early education for 6.7 million children. Money for cruelty vs. money for community.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Bianca 🌺 @biankadonk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Not just that but Tolkien also said, “Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” Sound familiar? 🙄
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Signe Dean @nevertoocurious.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I really really really wish they'd stop naming their evil companies after nice things in LotR.
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: 
Using Generative AI?
You’re prompting with Hitler!
GenAI is a Fascist Project!
Try using your brain instead
Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BILLIONAIRES: We’re not ‘confiscating’ anything. 45 years ago, you made society a promise that if we reduced your taxes, you would use some of that money to improve conditions for all Americans. Instead, you chose to do the opposite. You had a great ride…your greed is why we’re here. ➡️ TAX THE RICH!
A post by Stephen Tramontana with his color close-up photo and white print on a black background:

“Dear billionaires, we’re not “confiscating” anything. 45 years ago, you made society a promise that if we reduced your tax bill, you would use some of that money to improve conditions for all Americans. Instead, you chose to do the opposite. That was the choice you made. So now we’re demanding to go back to what worked before - taxing you at the proper rate. You had a great ride, but, let’s be clear - your greed is why we’re here.”
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/09/2026
The research implies that a local newspaper creates $114 per resident per year ($84 in 2018$) in local government efficiency. A case for subsidies for local news, perhaps in the form of consumer free-subscription vouchers like @deanbaker13.bsky.social advocates
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
… I need to write this essay … but They’re mad that the manipulation of metrics hasn’t led to generative cultural cachet themselves and are projecting Everything they do is about a relation to art that is more social dominance and they assume other people do too
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Xeynon @xeynon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A lot of people listen to country, but a lot of people don't. There's a big overlap between the people who do and the type of people who get big mad that America isn't a monoculture and not everyone looks, talks, thinks, or acts like they do. Their music being ignored reminds them of that.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The Dead @lunchisgood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ridiculous to use drones in populated areas. Regardless of drone routes.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you have more empathy for the box of blinky lights than you do for, say, trans people or refugees, you are frankly a bad person
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026
in the age of AI, making art is a radical act
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麦コスタ @mugikosuta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🍾🍾🍾 #FF14 #FFXIVART
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am always gonna suggest a domain of your own as the best choice for hosting a webcomic, but if that simply isn't a possibility for you, check out this thread. You have options.
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⛓️Nye🐇 @nigelgraz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All my beloved lesbian vampire OCs so far...i was put on this earth to draw beautiful evil women
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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And what if it was in some kind of retro futurist dystopia 🤔
A Sci fi courtesan with cat ear buns, and a long dress train
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Along these lines: Doubt anyone needs a reminder, but Gumroad is owned/run by profoundly shitty ppl. They booted Iron Circus from the platform years ago after an unsuccessful Smut Peddler applicant began demanding all adult material be removed from Gumroad, despite there being no rules against it.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
News: “Racehorse Renamed Due to Apparent Hitler Reference” Me: Ok, must have been subtle News: Austrian Painter Me: 😳 News: He had an alternative name Me: Thank heaven News: My Struggle Me: 🫪 News: His sister is named New Order Me: ”Apparent”???!
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/09/2026
Mass layoffs kill people. Thousands of quiet tragedies follow every billionaire's predatory decision. Never forget.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.
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Astrotuna (but spooky) @astrotuna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I would like for one (1) entire day for a new dumb thing to not happen. Just one day where the news is just an old lady who knits hats for stray cats or something. And the weather because that's important.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22/09/2026
Moral panics are manufactured concerns created to push an agenda, don't hold up under scrutiny, and the fallout always harms more people than will ever be helped. Stand up for trans people.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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