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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 1h

they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.

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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 9h

I've partied like that before--it's always a total blowout!

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 20h

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i am not a wrathful person but all the rationalization about AI gets to me! every lie or piece of boosterism is a direct attack on an art form i love. i am a professional programmer. all my code was written by me. don't ever make up lies about other people's processes to justify your AI use.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 05/10/2026

If you have love for democracy, I think you have an obligation to diminish the drive for pure efficiency or convenience. Because democracy cannot compete on those terms, and is one of the more vexatious and frustrating forms of government.

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TitaniumTeddyBear @titaniumteddybear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wanna help. Does this count?

Telescopes cause autism in exactly the same way that vaccines and pirates do.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Kelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎶Your own Personal Cheeses Something to eat with pears Not cheese to share🎶

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Siri as it existed prior to 2 or 3 years ago is all the Siri I need on my iPhone, iPad, or Apple watch. If the models & programs marketed as AI disappeared tomorrow it would make no difference whatsoever in my lived daily life. 20/

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think there are three separate issues here. 1) People that know what the LLMs & LIMs, what there limitations are, & have legitimate uses for them & those legitimate uses are things that the LLMs & LIMs doing business as AI can actually do well w/appropriate human oversight. 1/

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ccotenj 🟦 @ccotenj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

he really does fly under the radar of many people when it comes to listing out the stupidest people in this administration. dear me. that man is as dense as lead.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026

the constitutional convention was one of the most epic examples of “we’ll fix it in post” in human history

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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

✨Free Market Competition✨ By introducing a variety of options and forcing them to compete on price and features, it ensures that the final product is the best at surveiling every person in the country for the least cost to the government! (The framing of the above in a positive light is sarcasm)

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Timberdoodle, BUT SPOOKY @timberdoodlydoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Btw the shaving thing is for getting a proper seal with a gas mask. Thats it. Thats the only reason they do shaving stuff. As soon as that Sikh officer could demonstrate a proper seal within the alotted time (yes, we got timed), the board was like "okay we have no further questions. Let him in."

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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You should ABSOLUTELY play Outer Wilds if you haven't already!!

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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh for sure! 11/10 final boss experience, would bawl my eyes out again!

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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can't pick just one! But here are my top five or so! Outer Wilds Celeste Undertale Cave Story Stardew Valley Baba is You

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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

💡‼️ ß IS A LIGATURE OF LONG AND SHORT S!!! (Please excuse my excitement; I have been idly wondering about that shape for like 30 years 🤣)

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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Universal child care [doesn't appeal] to most of the country" LMAO you just made that up!

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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, but Spooky @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 🎃Lanterns🎃 @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 (but spooky) ˚₊‧✨ @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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Someone’s Skin ☠️🕷️👻 @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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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lol yeah I have to remind myself every time (and honestly, I kind of hope it stays that way because if it changes that means I'm having to think about Effective Altruism more than I should)

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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe I don't understand the subtle nuances of public policy but... Could... could they not have waited the implied additional day or two until the pothole was actually fixed, and then shot a triumphant video of it actually being gone?

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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 PervoSCARY @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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Jack of a Couple of 🎃Lanterns🎃 @tcepsa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, for sure! A fire is cozy on a chilly night, or while a winter storm is raging outside. On the flip side, a fire during a hot summer day is uncomfortable, and wearing a weighted blanket all the time is, well, a drag (sorry not sorry 😉)

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