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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

my new favorite conspiracy theory about why all the AI bros are asking everyone to back off on developing AI

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14/09/2026

It never dawned on me that younger people would not understand how the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 were able to call their loved one's mid-flight to say goodbye, until I saw a video explaining sky phones. They didn't know about sky phones.

photo of a phone built into a seatback on an airplane.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026

The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system. (Published Oct. 2023)

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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

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AngoraFish @angorafish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Someone walking through a CAR PARK suddenly wonders whether we are engineering physical activity out of daily life because of... e-scooters?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/09/2026

Daily life on death row nearly robbed him of his sanity, Jimmie Duncan told @veritenews.org and ProPublica. Like all inmates awaiting execution, Duncan remained in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day — for more than 20 years.

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He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next?

23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana's Angola prison -- and how, even after being released, he still isn't truly free.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Please understand this. The legal appeal didn’t challenge the ample and undisputed evidence in the first trial that removing protected bike-lanes would significantly endanger lives, ADD to traffic conjunction, etc. The appeal decision simply concluded that Ford had the legal right to do all that.

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Steve W @swartable.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today is the feast day of the beheading of John the Baptist. Here's a graphic medieval depiction of a beheading to observe the occasion

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Also, Rick Rubin recently declared AI to be the "new punk rock" and Palantir touted Raekwon visiting their facitilies. All of this happening this past week, I believe smh

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

I think people who claim using genAI makes them artists and people who tweet stolen jokes have the same mindset. They want praise for creating something other people actually created (be it one joke writer or a thousand artists) and get extremely defensive when their theft is pointed out to them.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. See my latest essay: "Capitulation Day: The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery." snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is doomer horseshit and I’m appalled that as many people subscribe to it as do.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Bluesky is dyeing

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Stop calling the leisured provincial gentry "working class"

About 25 miles southwest of Wiggins, Jim Miller was elbows-deep in the engine of his ailing Dodge pickup.
A 65-year-old retired commodities broker raised in the liberal city ‌of Boulder who ⁠now lives in tiny Prospect Valley, Miller considers himself “half-hippie, half-cowboy.”
He said enduring the momentary pain of high gas prices was worth preventing Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon.

In the unincorporated town of Roggen was Mike Urbanowicz, a 66-year-old trader with multiple college degrees whose farming cooperative moves 150 truckloads of grain each day.
He voted three times for Trump, but like many interviewed by Reuters, he considers himself a political independent, saying he distrusts the Republican Party nearly as much as their ⁠Democratic foes.
Gas prices were hurting his industry, he said, and Trump was “naive” to think he could quickly solve the issue. He expected prices would remain high into the fall, even if there was a breakthrough in stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks.
But he preferred the status quo to Democrats, whom he saw as moving towards "full-blown socialism."
"I voted for Trump because the alternative is so bad," he said.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/04/2026

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial

A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

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Chuck (translucent) @mrcott.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We have kitten updates! @darthbluesky.bsky.social Right picture: orange tabby (Trance) Left picture: Black and White (Spell)

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I don’t understand why we even bother with non-flying squirrels these are much better

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

They can live to be 100 and look like mossy owls, but they are parrots. LOOK.

Kakapo face! He is green and brown with fluffy feathery cheeks and a large, smooth grey beak.

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Look at this majestic jerk.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/03/2026

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

For Valentine's Day this Allen's swamp monkey fell in love with Dave and tried to give him food through the glass until the large male chased her off

A tiny monkey staring lovingly at my husband

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My Cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If you’re on LinkedIn, Mastodon or Threads, I am too. Please look me up there.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 10/02/2026

China has been a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation since 1963. They have a national team that competes in international tournaments www.iihf.com/en/associati...

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Steve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 19/06/2018

In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 02/02/2026

It is unprecedented because it is expressly forbidden by the constitution -- the only specifically enumerated cause of action for impeachment and removal.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 30/01/2026

Elon Musk owns a website that generates child porn and was an eager associate of Jeffrey Epstein long after it was known Epstein trafficked children for sex. How is anyone continuing to be associated with any of his projects companies or operations

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"Senator Chuck Grassley, a lifelong Iowan, has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee since 1981, when he was first sworn into the U.S. Senate." www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/chair He questioned and voted on every single justice on the U.S. Supreme Court during their confirmation hearings.

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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.

Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.

“That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 28/01/2026

📍 The Permanent Other · Vancouver, British Columbia, CA beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbqnjkwyplmp43/3mdh6zy6ic22t Brewster is kicking things off talking about the history of Internet Archive. Great start to 2026. w/ @chadkoh.com @kai.ingroup.social @calvin.sh @brewster.kahle.org #BeaconBits

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A few months ago I read a story about a whale that was tangled up in fishing gear and another whale tried to lift it up to the surface to breathe and then stayed with it as it died so it wouldn't be alone. I still cry when thinking about it. But hey, gotta keep taxes down for the wealthy somehow.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Not guns. Not ICE. Not election-stealing, racism or fascism. Whistles.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

NYT says ICE shot him in the back: An “agent aims his own firearm at Mr. Pretti’s back and appears to fire one shot at close range… A third agent unholsters a weapon. Both agents appear to fire additional shots into Mr. Pretti as he lies motionless… At least 10 shots appear to have been fired…” 🎁🔗

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Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Bovino, as required for a Trump Administration job, is a shameless liar. What’s scarier than that is perhaps 25 to 35% of the nation are totalitarian-souled bootlickers eager to believe him. How do you make a nation out of people like that?

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Steve W @swartable.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The Pretti shooting was the first thing I saw when I looked at my phone after waking up this morning. I was not prepared. These fucking ghouls must be stopped.

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