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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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Steve W @swartable.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

if only we could find the guy who did this

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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 · 02/09/2026

Where else can you make $900k a year to update place names in a web app

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Steve W @swartable.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Looking forward to the rebranding of Niagra to America Falls

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

Marat was a POS who got turned into a martyr. Sort of a murderous Charlie Kirk of the Terror, more murderous than Robespierre

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

There are many stories about men being murdered in the bath. Here's David's famous portrayal of the Death of Marat, famously stabbed to death in the bath by Charlotte Corday.

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

Cuchulain waits for seven years and obtains the apple. Blathnat then prepares a bath and ties her husband’s long hair to the bed, takes his sword and her lover cuts the apple in two. The husband loses his strength and cries out: ‘No secret to a woman, no jewel to slaves!’ Cuchulain cuts off his head

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

In the Cuchulain version of the story, Blathnat extracts from her husband King Curoi the secret that his soul is hidden in an apple in the stomach of a salmon which appears once every seven years in a spring on the side of the mountain Slieve Mis. This apple can be cut only with his own sword.

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

Robert Graves recounts numerous betrayals by women in The White Goddess: Gilgamesh's deception by Ishtar, Samson's deception by Delilah. In the Cuchulain version of the same story, Blodeuwedd is named Blathnat.

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

As a painter's subject he offers the chance to contrast the flesh and jewels of a beautiful, festively attired woman with the grisly head of the victim, a parallel to the sequence in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the New Testament vignette of Salome with the head of John the Baptist.

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

Holofernes is also depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Monk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales, and in Dante's Purgatorio, in which Holofernes is to be found on the Terrace of Pride as an example of "pride cast down", XII.58–60.

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

This is Artemisia Gentileschi's painting Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1614–1620, not the more famous painting by Caravaggio. Decapitations were a popular medieval subject.

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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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Steve W @swartable.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

oh hey that’s a Joni Mitchell song

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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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