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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.

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First steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials Organization

One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Interesting blog and the conclusions are sensible. What I think it mainly demonstrates is that Solow type models have limited use in thinking through these questions.

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John St. Clair @stclairjohn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“With this proclamation, I, President Ocasio-Cortez, declare that any county containing a Google HQ or branch office will be renamed in the GNIS as ‘Fuck Google’ county, and will be updated as Google’s offices are opened, moved, or closed.”

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Uglesett @uglesett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I am generally not a fan of turning public infrastructure into advertising spaces, but I'm willing to make an exception for this ad on an Oslo bus for the world accordion championship.

Articulated buses are commonly nicknamed "accordion buses" because of the flexible, ribbed bellows connecting the two cabin sections.

The bus in the photo features a large graphic of a Roland accordion being played by a giant pair of hands. The two halves of the accordion are on either side of the flexible section, so that it looks like the bellows of the instrument. When the vehicle turns or maneuvers, the real bellows compress and stretch, making it look like the instrument is actively playing.

Above the windows is the text "VM på trekkspill, 16.-22. oktober i Asker Kulturhus" ("World accordion championship, 16th-22nd October in Asker cultural centre")

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John St. Clair @stclairjohn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Bari Weiss: You know what I loved about the old 60 Minutes? Nick Bilton: The investigative journalism? Mike Wallace? BW: Andy Rooney! NB: But where would we find a someone like Rooney today? Acerbic, funny, but with a heart? BW: I got a guy…

Ross Douthat is Andy Rooney in the new 60 Minutes

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OR Books @orbooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

ANNOUNCING APESH*T: a zine by @monkeywire.bsky.social that looks at the often sordid relationship between humans and other primate species Back in the 1970s, wide swathes of the US media went bananas for a story about capuchin monkeys serving as helpers for quadriplegic veterans...

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

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AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince

At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!

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John St. Clair @stclairjohn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

BREAKING: Aftenposten announces latest XBox logo

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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm delighted to have a piece, along with many friends, in this lovely open access collection. The volume is superbly edited by Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi and Robert Sinclair, as a birthday treat for Bjørn Ramberg. Happy Birthday, Bjørn! #philsky #nordic #pragmatism nordprag.org/nordic-studi...

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Pragmatism, Metaphysics and Method - Nordic Pragmatism Network

Essays for Bjørn T. Ramberg Edited by Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi & Robert Sinclair Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 5 March, 2026 ISBN 978-952-67497-4-7 422 + viii pp. Description This collection honours Bjø...

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 31/03/2026

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

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John St. Clair @stclairjohn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Worst remake of “The Odd Couple”, coming to CBS this fall

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John St. Clair @stclairjohn.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Another #KYE tongue bath of a “reformed” paleo-con. The show has always suffered from some basic conceptual incoherence, but post-Hochman I’ve just found it impossible to listen to. Now the are vouching for their guest’s lack of anti-semitism - hope it works out for you, Sam!

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/01/2026

Right, so video game company stocks are crashing because the power of AI supposedly renders them irrelevant. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Oracle stocks are crashing because they spent too much on AI and the market knows they'll never make a return. The economy is absolutely hosed

Bluesky user shinobi602 says: "Video game stocks are suddenly crashing today with the launch of Google's Project Genie as investors think games will start magically getting made with AI" and then shows four images of stock numbers going down for take two, roblox, cd pronekt, and unity.

From Fortune: "A sharp selloff in tech stocks on Thursday underscored investors' exhaustion with the "spend now, profit later" model that has propelled the AI bull market for three years. Microsoft led the retreat, with its shares plummeting 12% by noon, erasing more than $440 billion in market value, a collapse it hasn't seen since the pandemic. The Nasdaq was down almost 2% at time of writing."

Also from Fortune: "The sentiment shift is not limited to Redmond. Oracle has seen its shares halved from their September highs, erasing nearly $463 billion in value. Once a darling of the AI trade, Oracle has also struggled with investor confidence that the massive data centers it is building for OpenAI will get funded eventually. Additionally, the timeline for several projects has reportedly slipped to 2028, creating a gap between the company's heavy debt-funded spending and the arrival of actual revenue.

OpenAI has made about $1.4 trillion in commitments to procure both the energy and compute it needs to fuel its operations. But its revenue barely crossed $20 billion in 2025."

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My passion side project is about the Saturday night soirées Charles Babbage hosted at his London home from the early 1830s until the early 1850s. There were so many fascinating people at those soirées. Last week I ran the larp I'm developing about it for our students. jilltxt.net/larping-babb...

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Larping Babbage’s soirees

I’m developing a larp where participants play guests at one of Charles Babbage’s Saturday night soirées in the 1840s. Here’s a sneak peak – I hope to publish the materials l…

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Letter to the Guardian.
The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

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Norwegian Embassy in Washington @norwayinusa.norway.no · 29/10/2025

After some savory grilled cheese, Chef Eilif is here with something #sweet. Check out how to make #homemade Norwegian #CinnamonBuns – with some American icing. Don’t forget to follow us and Chief Eilif (@chefeilif) on Instagram for more delicious stories! tinyurl.com/44e4h75r

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

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Ray Monk @raymodraco.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Here's the talk I gave in Vienna last month as part of the Wittgenstein Week, held in the very splendid Palais Schönborn. youtu.be/Cgl5cgoInNs?...

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Ray Monk: Preparing for the Second Coming: Ludwig Wittgenstein in Vienna 1925-1929

YouTube video by Wittgenstein Initiative

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

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Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants - FM RF VHS Decode, 4k

YouTube video by Good LD Rips

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ABOOnchio👻 BOOlchetti👻 @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

My twitter is dead. I don’t wanna a burner. All I want is 27K bluski subs

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Google has moved from moral cowardice (removing ICE tracking apps) to direct complicity in the violent, unconstitutional abuse of vulnerable people. As a civil liberties lawyer who worked at Google for ten years, this one hits me in the gut.

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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 07/11/2025

Breakthrough 🤯 You're seeing - ALL my @leaflet.pub articles 📄 - from ALL my Leaflet publications 📚 on my 🚧 new site (in dev) 🙀 that's - version-controlled w/ @tangled.org 😳 - (soon) hosted w/ @nekomimi.pet's wisp.place 😱 EVERY PART is stored in my #PDS 🫠 #ATproto is the future!!! WTF 💙

A screenshot of website in development, with the Leaflet articles embedded, read directly from the PDS

A screenshot of my Leaflet publication called "Annotated" with a selection of posts.

A screenshot of my Leaflet publication called "Marginalia" with a selection of posts.

A screenshot of my Leaflet documents as data in the PDS

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Duende Software @duendesoftware.com · 23/09/2025

Discover a key update in #dotnet 10 that improves local development! 🔥 👉 Our latest blog post explains how a new TLS certificate and unique local domains can solve cookie conflicts and better mimic production environments. duende.link/arbgu89 #aspnetcore #security

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Duende Software - Identity and Access Management for .NET

We help companies using .NET to build identity and access control solutions for modern applications.

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Miljøpartiet De Grønne @mdg.no · 29/08/2025

Ikke stol på gode målinger! Grip tak i tante Reidun, løp til valglokalet og stem MDG i dag, sier @arildher.bsky.social

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 18/06/2025

this all sucks so bad. best wishes to and solidary with my trans friends and to trans kids. bad!

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John St. Clair @stclairjohn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I don't think I've ever read a more cursed acronym:

Wikipedia page about UTF-EBCDIC, a character encoding for mainframes similar to UTF-8.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 07/05/2025

Here’s an oral history of Tom Holland performing Umbrella! Enjoy this tale of an absolute darling collaborating with joyful professionals. archive.is/2024.04.06-0...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 05/04/2025

Start your weekend with this banger from @aselrod.bsky.social

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Carrie McLaren @handle.invalid · 16/03/2025

Dear Left: Please stop using Elon’s Nazi salute on protest signs while assuming everyone reads the message the same way you do. The volume of media messages the average person sees in a day means people don’t pause to THINK about the most of them. 1/4. #TeslaTakedown

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Trump regime tweets this wordless video—nothing but the hum of an engine & the clanking of chains—comprised of closeup shots of a human being shackled for deportation. This is, no hyperbole, fascist fetish porn.

Scenes of federal agents chaining a man to be put on an airplane.

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Anders Norås @andersnoras.com · 12/02/2025

Christie’s auction of AI artworks has gotten a lot of criticism. While I agree that some of the works on sale have ethical issues and dubious artistic quality. There are several works that are interesting. This is a thread about those works.. 🧵 1/9

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Embedding Study 1 & 2. Two AI generated images of a girl with long curly red hair, dressed in a green flight suit in front of a cloudy blue sky.

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