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Erica Nieves @ericanieves.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reminder that Columbus was put in prison for the atrocities he committed against the Tainos in the Caribbean (by the way, we still exist). There’s nothing to celebrate about him. Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day 🪶

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've noticed myself saying "oh fuck off" a lot again, and I realized something

Muscular handshake meme with Logan Roy and Jackson Lamb meeting at "Fuck off"

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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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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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 01/10/2026

Possums delayed by one hour because I have accidentally slashed ethernet cables while pulling out and inserting an unrelated server in the rack for maintenance

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ALT: Riddlevan Possum Riding Robot Vacuum

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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A woman in her 20s just asked my husband to take a group pic, had a REAL, ACTUAL camera, and tried to explain to him, man from the 1900s, how to use it I loved literally every minute

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Jessica Shortall @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

American firefighters primarily function as paramedics, actually. Up to 80% of calls are for emergency medical services, not fires. They reverse overdoses, take people to hospitals, perform CPR, and do advanced life support. For everyone.

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Aaron Turner @synfinatic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Remember when people were complaining that the documentary was of no value because it didn’t shed any light on anything new? I guess someone cared after all.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I love the reaction of cat lovers upon seeing a cat. Every single time the level of excitement is like they've read about cats for decades but never actually seen one in real life and they're SO EXCITED. Every. Single Time. Even if it's the hundredth cat they've seen that day.

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Aaron Turner @synfinatic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@nytimes.com Thanks for clearing that up! Investigative journalism #FTW

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/09/2026

Really rare to spot something like this in the wild, but The Wall Street Journal ran a "Supreme Court Expansion Is Secretly Unconstitutional Actually" column that directly refutes its thesis in the paragraph that immediately follows. Beautiful stuff. www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...

Last week only one House Democrat, North Carolina’s Don Davis, voted for a measure to propose a constitutional amendment fixing the court’s size at nine. But it’s unclear that such an amendment is necessary. Democrats cite several precedents from the 19th century in which Congress voted to increase the number of justices. But there are no clear precedents that support a partisan court-packing plan and a strong argument that it would be an unconstitutional assault on judicial independence and the separation of powers.

Article III establishes “one Supreme Court,” and Article I mentions “the Chief Justice,” but otherwise the Constitution leaves to Congress the authority to establish the structure of the federal judiciary, including the number of justices. In the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress created the Supreme Court with six justices.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

he got him. he finally fucking got him

real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/08/2026

REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is a very important tankie concept. -When it comes to crimes of USSR, Russia is *not* the USSR -When it comes to "defeating nazism" & being the self declared successor state thst gets the UNSEC council seat, it *is* the USSR It is the Union of Schroedingers Soviet Republics.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I got my dad into Bojack Horseman and he’s loving it in exactly the right way.

Thanks for putting me back on to BoJack Horseman. I think about three episodes in a row is all I can take before I want to lock myself in a closet.

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PodKATT @podkatt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Well, day has already peaked.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The NY Times writes that “Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been hampered by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.” As if it’s just a run of bad luck instead of an ongoing con job against the American people.

U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America’s Borrowing Binge Continues
President Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been hampered by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.

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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026

I think about this a lot.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.

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Aaron Turner @synfinatic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You can always put more clothes on, but take enough off and they call the cops.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 14/07/2026

BREAKING: NYC Mayor Mamdani signs new law that says you don't have to go to work if your pet is asleep on you or just being extra cute.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/07/2026

My legacy may not be much, but at least it won't be this.

Trump "So sad!!! President DJT" photo of Leslie Graham holding up a Trump poster and wearing a Make Iran Great Again hat.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don’t think people need to be “crucified” for thinking Platner changed or whatever but I do think they should engage in serious self-reflection and humility, such as not referring to themselves as being “crucified”

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This Is Just To Say I told you so about that thing you disagreed with me about of which irrefutable proof has now emerged Forgive me it is too delicious too sweet not to remind you that you were wrong

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 02/07/2026

You have never laughed as hard as the Washington Post reporter who wrote this sentence.

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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is a painting from a few years ago Northern Radiance 20x20 acrylic on canvas

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Mikeke352 🏳️‍🌈 @mikeke352.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Some Dreamcast love. ♥️

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 08/06/2026

[your son is getting married] sorry pal gotta work [the Knicks are in the finals] shut down broadway

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hi real archaeologist here, worked in the field for nearly 30 years, this is total bullshit, Indus valley (as one example) had major cities with clean water and clear equality (no rulers, similarly sized housing), we have rats today (ancient Egyptians had cats as pest control) etc, stop boosting 💩

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