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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18h

glad to see someone's taking this fucking seriously

screenshot of Toronto Life article, showing how frat houses will be replaced with an Indigenous hub.

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Erik Barnes @erikwbarnes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dude is one magic school bus away from being Ms. Frizzle and I am here for it.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also believe in restorative justice but I don't think that means you get to become a pillar of a community and garner an audience and an income that relies solely on everyone including yourself staying silent about your actions. In the VIDEO GAME SPHERE no less.

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Michael A. Zekas @michaelazekas.com · 27/09/2026

Say it louder for those in the back. This is especially important in entertainment where predators can abuse parasocial behavior and harass others behind closed doors and often end up getting away with it if someone protecting them choses to "make it all go away" for business.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Gavin G Whiz @loveatra.in · 28/09/2026

A running trend throughout the history of InfoWars is whenever Alex Jones watched a new movie he liked, his conspiracy narrative would noticeably shift to be a lot like the plot of that movie. He has a hard time keeping fiction and reality separated. Onion InfoWars has genuinely fucked with him.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

make no mistake: anyone telling you AI is “just like the dot com bubble” or “just like Amazon web services or uber” is beyond misinformed, verging into the realms of actually wanting to know less about the world. It means they have never actually looked at any of the numbers. Or they can’t count.

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Stephen The Lesser @stephenthelesser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh gee Mister Wayne, I didn't mean to find out your secret. I just heard a tune on the piano in your study, and well I was fascinated by it. See my wife's been getting me lessons. And wouldn't you just know it? A panel opened right up in the wall to a batpole!

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Kelly Brack @kellybrack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Batman | Columbo

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

S i g h .

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

“this show is not for me”, “this show has an annoying fanbase”, “this show started some trends I dislike”, and “this show was actually bad” are all different opinions and people are too quick to conflate them

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Austin Lee Matthews 🐭 @amtrax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if I can live under the poverty line and still quit a voice over job mid-session because I found out the "writer" used GenAI, you can afford to not buy/play a game that uses GenAI.

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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.

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Sorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the modern tendency to excuse or sympathise with villains has gone too far & has led us down an absurd path where you can’t even fictionally hold someone accountable for bad behaviour without exhaustively considering their childhood trauma/mental health/neurodivergence. Bad behaviour is bad!

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: The state of New York is suing Polymarket, claiming the company operates an illegal gambling platform in violation of state gambling laws.

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BedWords @snacklesbian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'm still seeing this get shared so just a reminder, this article is wrong in many places and london daily is one of those fake ai newspapers

screenshot of the london daily about page. it says:

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic.

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Stephen The Lesser @stephenthelesser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To the tune of "if you're happy and you know it" If the man says he has cameras say flock off! ( You Flock off!) If the man says he has cameras say flock off! ( You Flock off!) When the cameras are in play You say SATAN? NOT TODAY! When the cameras are in play you say Flock off! (You FLOCK OFF)

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Bruce Coville @brucecoville.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well, it's that time of year again! Here's the story starter for this year's "Finish the Scary Story" contest. Remember this is for kids (sorry grown-ups) who live in Central NY. But parents and teachers anywhere are free to use it just for fun! www.syracuse.com/living/2026/...

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Bruce Coville Halloween Writing Contest 2026: When the Creature Wakes

Children’s writer Bruce Coville of Syracuse has once again written the beginning of a Halloween story - and he needs an ending.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was just pointing out a couple of days on here that this is the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of low hanging fruit for Democrats to promise if they take control of Congress. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE from $7.25. It has not risen since 2009. It's criminal.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this

special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership

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Ryn @rynbow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FYI, from Toocheke. They added a Tapas migration feature.

A screenshot of an email that says

Import Your Tapas.io Comics Into WordPress
You may have seen the news about Tapas shutting down. If you or anyone you know publish there, you’re probably wondering what happens to all of your comics and years of work.

We’ve just added a new import feature to Toocheke Companion (available in version 2.23+) that can move an entire Tapas series into WordPress for you — including episodes, images, thumbnails, and original publish dates.

It keeps everything in order, so you don’t have to manually copy and paste hundreds of pages.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every article about someone praising some new ai thing is like “and then I never had to think about anything ever again. Just no more brain use! A dream. That my AI agent dreams for me. Bc I do not brain anymore.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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caede styles @caede.sanctuary17223.com · 22/09/2026

what a great opportunity to remind people that comicfury & cartoonists united exist, that comic artists are still thriving outside the app-ified ecosystem, and that everyone should make compilation PDFs so their comics don't depend on platforms that do not respect creators OR readers. #creator_txt

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 22/09/2026

Some people apparently aren't sure about number 9 here, which is distressing but explains a lot

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you could make a lot of this mania vanish by making college free. the worst parents think they're working a new market inefficiency by making their kid out-hustle the "lazy" kids. but even chill parents are holding a psychological lotto ticket that their kid puts up numbers that end in scholarships

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Ash @fishyash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...

If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026

It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.

Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement

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normal not odd @normalnotodd.com · 21/09/2026

Gruesome Newson’s office IS taking calls. I got a live person. Flood it: (916) 445-2841

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know people love to sanitize these decisions in their heads so they can enjoy media without issue, but “they don’t want me” does not imply being asked to audition again.

Yuri Lowenthal’s post from May 2025 that reads:

“And for those who keep asking, no, I will not be returning as Yosuke for the Persona 4 remake. I asked. Maybe I even begged, but they don't want me to come back.”

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yet another example of "the politics sickos need to read more military theory" is the fact that so many politics sickos seem to be wedded to the idea that a decisive battle is the One Simple Trick that will result in eternal victory

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pray they don’t alter it any further…

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