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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h

when people ask me "what do you want democrats to do" and when i say "just fucking say something," right now el-sayed is the model of the pugilistic wwe style i want: charismatic progressives who talk shit about how the other guy failed and progressive solutions are the logical, popular answer.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 19h

GOP midterm messaging

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?

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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026

I don't know if it's because social media overrepresents clueless comments or if it's a real trend, but I see way more people treat contradicting information or characters not saying what they mean in a story as "mistakes" and not, like, how fiction works.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

Seems bad, I dunno.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

INNER MONOLOGUE: Oh, shit, there's someone in the office's cafeteria. Okay. It's fine. Play it cool. Greet them. Are we smiling? Shit, we're not smiling. Smile. They asked how we are. Okay. Here we go... 1/?

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Jack of a Couple of Trades @tcepsa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean, we got a pretty sick new album cover! ...but aside from that? Yeah, not great.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

no we aren't. no it isn't. that isn't true

HEADLINE: Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'

PIC: Sam Altman

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✨‧₊˚ meh ˚₊‧✨ @ericgerhardt.com · 23/09/2026

For those sadly denied by Jessie: I *am* giving high fives for your bare minimum. Did you do anything at all? Do you feel good about it? Do you at least feel better than you would have if you did nothing? Awesome! Up top! 🙋 🙏 deluxe 2-emoji dap also available: 🤜🤛 Good job! Keep at it! ✨🎉

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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

you know what’s infinitely more rewarding than telling the computer to do it learning how to make the computer do it

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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Simone J. Skeen 💥🤍 @simoneskeen.xyz · 22/09/2026

I read the Globe and I was waiting for this mess to hit the TL today. There’s a far more interesting potential story about the mis/use of social justice and cultural trauma concepts to harass and manipulate but unfortunately I do think the author was going for “look at these crazy queers”

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

And then her book won and I took second and I felt pretty darn good about that. I had written an excellent book and she had stuck the landing on a series that redefined an entire fucking genre and our rankings, you know, reflected that whole reality.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

I have no problem with devoting SOME funding and effort to understanding the risk of AI killing us all. But I think it's insane that in 2026, as we're watching AI cause right-now harms to right-now people, that the ethical tech space has been almost entirely taken over by these galaxy-brain fears.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s easy to pivot toward explanations & indignation rooted in individual responsibility. & I believe that does play a role. But we need to see how AI is like a virus latching onto a deeply flawed system. A provost, tho, isn’t just a student acting as the system incentivizes. He sets standards.

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026

In an ideal world you will kill the grass by throwing cardboard and mulch on top for long enough for it to die, then remediate the soil, then plant a variety of waterwise native plants that provide habitat for native species.

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Two Questions @twoquestions.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The proper time to complain about Dems is before the primaries and after election. After primary candidates are in, can it and vote blue no matter who, then proceed to raise hell at them! Call, write letters, poast, all that. Right before the General though, shut one's piehole.

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For when there's a dodecahazard.

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Cloud's Strife @jmgreene28.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Actualizing that principle is a big part of the promise of a liberal, democratic society.

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can confirm ;-;

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

calling in sick to the kickflip factory and confusing everyone as to whether i'm coming in or not

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i don't care if the danged chat bots are "thinking." that's not my problem. stop putting them in my computers

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i have a new business idea where you go find an AI evangelist, say some shit like "AI sucks cuz it can't make [software]" and then let them spend their own money and time vibe coding it for you to prove you wrong

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/09/2026

and while I am no fan of AI or data centers, this is hardly the first time conservatives have said "no really we're gonna build this and it'll be great yay jobs yay community" about something that will not be great boo jobs boo community... they just... usually get away with it???

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

Meetings 3 story points Focused IC work 34 story points Documentation 2 story points Managing up 144 story points someone who is good at video game production please help me allocate time. my milestone is dying

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/09/2026

FUCK YES IT'S A GODDAMN DECORATIVE GOURD MOTHERFUCKERS

A lozenge-shaped pumpkin, ready to decorate the ever-living FUCK out of our front yard

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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

guess the memo went out. take a look at this psyop.

Alt text: A vertical collage of three X posts criticizing complaints about high gas prices and financial hardship. The first says people who spend $60 on wine, $7 on a latte, $16 on a cocktail, and $14 on stadium beer can pay $4.50 for a gallon of gas. The second says people complain about being broke while owning multiple TVs, a $1,200 smartphone, two cars, and buying Starbucks. The third says people carry $2,000 foldable iPhones, wear $800 shoes, and buy $14 pumpkin spice lattes, then say they won’t vote for Trump because of gas prices.

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Jack of a Couple of Trades @tcepsa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Depluralize a film: The Row (And the sequels: The Row Reloaded and The Row Revolution)

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yall cannot wait to write stories of the war between the robots and humans. But the war is between humans and humans and it started already. You’re missing it and the story.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

WAPO is reporting that at least four more service members have died in the war in Iran than DOD is publicly acknowledging. CNN is reporting that the US almost seized a Chinese vessel because AI incorrectly identified it as containing Iranian nuclear material. Clown show.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/09/2026

Honestly "cult" is probably generously downplaying the horror of an industry that has normalized the idea of boundary eroding sex parties attended by all the people who have control over your professional & financial future. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story" Gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be

Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just posting a picture of the price of gas every day and going "look at this bullshit!" and refusing to discuss any other issue seems like it would be largely the correct strategy for these red state independent Senate candidates

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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I hate this. It makes me so upset. Vaccines are one of the v few absolute good things humanity has ever done

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I always live through heavy heat and humidity in a weird type of denial that it's affecting my thinking until my head finally clears and I realize I've been compromised for weeks!

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Windy @windyspirals.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This would be hilarious if it was The Onion and not an entire generation of cooked MAHA brain.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Your regular reminder -- yes, I'm going to keep on with this -- that Republicans in Congress are just fine with everything he's doing.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"So heuristics make no promises. They may succeed on some inputs, they may fail on many inputs. There are no guarantees, they may fail massively, terribly, and often. Using heuristics is more like faith or hope than computer science or engineering"

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sturgeonmouth @sturgeonmouth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My conscience forbids me from voting for Talarico, so I will accept the consequences on these issues 🤯: Corruption Racism Accountability Healthcare SNAP Education USAID Ukraine Iran Israel Palestine NATO Tariffs Climate ICE SCOTUS reform Anti-trans policies Women's rights Voting rights Democracy

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Jen d’Arc @jenonymous.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Commonality in both cases is posters who claim to care about extremely vulnerable groups (more than every other issue combined!) enthusiastically promoting a behavior (not voting) that is extremely harmful to the group they claim to care about to the exclusion of all others. Highly suspect!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this statemement robert kraft gave to @wgbh.org re: macklemore and ed sheeran is so gross, framing his ultimatum to sheeran as though he was doing jews a service by protecting us from "hate speech." there is nothing hateful about saying "free palestine." www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

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