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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15h
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Do not be saying feminism is over or got overturned or women are worse off when it comes to rights than they used to be if you're talking about the bad old days before second wave feminism. Thread below:
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
lmao
The trolley car problem with Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The trolley car defies the laws of physics and slams into Wile E. Coyote.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
years ago me and Ms. Moreno talked about how this came together and it was the greatest www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
“The contrast is outrageous! There’s this sex bomb in front, and this, this creature—I don’t know what else to call him—this fuzzy, violent, nasty creature in back who only got pleasure out of making people and other Muppets unhappy. A creature of impulse, let’s put it that way. And when I watch myself—’cause I’m usually so critical—but when I watch myself, I just laugh at me. What I love about it is that my character’s trying so hard to be sexy and sultry. And this horrible creature in back of me is acting up. [Laughter] See? I can’t stop laughing. It tickles me to death.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)
At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Rise of The Machines
Fred Flentstone stands, hands on his hips, looking incredulously at Barney Rubble, who is at the corner of the panel barely visible. He appears to wearing tiny sunglasses.
"C'mon Barn, what's with the getup? and what is that on your head?" Fred asks.
"oh this, Fred?"
We now see Barney is also wearing a black trench coat and smoking a cigarette. A small bird is taped to the side of his head. "Just the latest in cybernetic enhancement technology- wired right into my brain."

The background dissolves and Barney stands next to a free floating diagram of a human body with several small birds going into it and says "we're entering a new age, Fred- the synthesis of man and machine as one flesh. This is the future. It's hack or be hacked."
Fred looks incredulous. 

The bird pecks Barney.

Barney puts his hands on his head and screams "the machines are turning against us! We have built God only for him to destroy us!" as the bird continues to peck at him.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.
Democratic women are more likely than Republican men to say they could win a fight with Donald Trump
Who do you think would win in a physical fight between you and Donald Trump? (%)


Bar chart shows the following think they would win in a fight vs Trump

Dem men: 82%
Dem women: 71%
Independent men; 69%
Independent women: 46%
Republican men: 46%
Republican women: 19%
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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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tedsand.bsky.social @tedsand.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
@hankgreen.bsky.social I think you're wrong about slop. It's less about effort, than making something creative/expressive in a utilitarian/optimized way. "Slop bowl" is a term with no AI involved. So the real question is "does/will the audience for short form video view it as a creative medium?"
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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"
Top headlines: Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash. Sources: Sun sold, will relocate to Houston in '27
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Picture of Brian, a cig and salmon 
The text:
If smoking is so bad why does it cure salmon
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
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John @johnmcgivney.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Don't forget the amazing sequel youtu.be/mJExsIp4yO8?...
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" GUNNERY IN THE B-29 " ANIMATED B-29 SUPERFORTRESS CREW TURRET COMPUTER TRAINING FILM 19584
YouTube video by PeriscopeFilm
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tedsand.bsky.social @tedsand.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Either hung out with my whole family at Eataly right before Christmas (wholesome, endearing) or went to see Louis CK on the date of the first Trump Inaugural (horrifically cursed) depending on what counts as a date. The duality of life!
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
how many nights would you guess it typically takes to turn a boat?
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12/12/2025
Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review. For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
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tedsand.bsky.social @tedsand.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A mechahitler in every pot!
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Max Read @maxread.info · 07/11/2025
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1

But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 29/10/2025
Shlub Winnie the Pooh: Kids Menu
Tuxedo Winnie the Pooh: Korean flavors meet American spirit, celebrating the enduring friendship through taste
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
A map of all the different names for woodlice in the United Kingdom
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onion person @junlper.beer · 17/10/2025
saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Cop: So u have any idea how fast you were driving? Me: It's hot. Ice. Cream Cop: Ma'am Me: Tyra's favorite cold Cop, drawing his service weapon: Ma'am step out of the car Me, sitting perfectly still: Tyra's favorite HOT Cop: Ma'am I will shoot Me: It's something that has not been done before
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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
movies have given us so much technical information about water
The Weight of WaterThe Shape of WaterAvatar: The Way of WaterThe Chronology of Water
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Doing my part to bust epistmeic bubbles: looks like the the school district did in fact fuck up vetting and he was legitimately here without legal status and had been lying about background for a while. Not exactly a threat to public order or anything, but still.
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The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer. www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...
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AI isn't replacing radiologists
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.
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Pope of Chili Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
*sad Borat voice* My rights
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tedsand.bsky.social @tedsand.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
@hankgreen.bsky.social In terms of who has the most DNA you talked about ways to have multiple unrelated genomes, but human genomes are very similar to each other... so do pig heart transplant recipients actually win most DNA? It would be satisfying if the answer was specific identifiable people.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Maybe I'm just too demanding Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 17/08/2025
I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person
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Ben Glasner @benglasner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We don’t need misleading charts to show that housing is in crisis. The truth is absolutely enough. Use real wages, mortgage data, and a time-constant metric of work: Hours. Clean code, real data, honest storytelling. That is how messaging needs to be done.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” (1936)
A picture of two paragraphs from Benjamin’s The Storyteller about how modernity has removed death as a public process and component of life. “Today people live in rooms that have never been touched by death, dry dwellers of eternity, and when their end comes they are stowed away in sanatoria or hospitals by their heirs.”
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Michael F. Wells @mfwells.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Hundreds of millions of dollars suspended for cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's research (among many, many other equally important diseases and endeavors) and for what? What is the point of all of this? Help me understand how this makes our country better, stronger, and healthier in any way.
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
Photo of Tom Lehrer
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genna @genna.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
omg its the bi couple from the table of contents 😭 they invented bisexuality!!! and they're still together!!! love is real
inside page from the newsweek story about bisexuality with a ginger couple
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/07/2025
🫵😀 i love pressing the button on skinner box!! 🫵😀 i love pressing the button on skinner box!! 🫵😀 i love pressing the button on skinner box!! 🫵😀
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
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Rep. Veronica Escobar @repescobar.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.” I have some thoughts.🧵
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
he is explicitly stating that antisemites have more claim to america than jews and he is making this case unprompted.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Extremely dark that the entire U.S. government is lying down to be steamrolled by something called the Trump agenda for fear of some force called "Donald Trump" while the actual Donald Trump has no idea what's happening
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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I know JAWS gets a lot of praise for not showing the shark much, but let’s be real, so many movies don’t even show you a shark at all.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 20/06/2025
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Whether visible or invisible, permanent or temporary, almost all of us will have or know someone with a disability. As Mayor, I’ll fight like hell for truly accessible public transit.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social
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