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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Generational damage being done right now
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 29/09/2026
It’s a guy. The world is his bathroom. It’s not even a Buc-ees.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FLOCK OFF
CEO of Flock Garrett Langley doesn't like his photo being shared publicly
NOTICE NEWS
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Okay, I made a chart, it's every month since 1977. The blue line is how many people are citing high prices as a reason for worse finances in the U Mich consumer survey. The orange line is the annualized change in CPI. Do you see how the very close correlation MASSIVELY BREAKS DOWN in 2022?
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∞ Monkeys @somanymonkeys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Democrats introduced zero anti-trans bills the last time they held both Chambers of Congress & the White House. In states where they hold trifectas, they've enhanced trans rights rather than take them away. Once it's the general election, the main thing that matters is getting the majority.
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join me this Sunday at the OLDEST TREE IN MANHATTAN for a very special climate week drawing session 🌳✍️ All ages & experience levels welcome. Look up and draw this wonderful tree with us. Materials will be provided. Sneak peek of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES (special edition) 👀 #Tree #ClimateWeek #NYC
Digital poster with a photo of me beside a large tree holding a copy of the new special edition of my book. Text reads: Join us for a special climate week drawing session at the English Elm led by Katie Holten author of The Language of Trees. This Sunday, September 20th, 11.30am - 1pm at the oldest tree in Manhattan in Washington Square PArk's northwest corner! 

Tree Wonder is brought to you by Washington Square Park Eco Projects and Behold and made possible by support from Tamara Hoover and Blick Art Materials. Logos for WSP Eco Projects and Local Nature Lab.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CEO of MicrosoftAI on anthropomorphization: “AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans.“
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A warning about ‘model welfare’
AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge...
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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🧪 "“There are a lot of chances in your career, but the important thing is to keep thinking.” scienceblog.com/m-a-58-year-...
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A 58-year-old lecturer who had published no original work in 12 years, and who had spent years keeping the books at a friend's Subway sandwich shop, mailed a paper to the Annals of Mathematics on Apri...
An obscure adjunct, working at a Subway while publishing nothing, solved a centuries-old problem that had defeated the world's elite mathematicians.
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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MC @tempest67.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How precious and fragile life is!
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MC @tempest67.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is the best news today! Thank you, mayor! ❤️
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MC @tempest67.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here’s how T is preparing to undermine the vote:
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Tåsi @islandgoth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My brother was one of the scientists fired during the DOGE cuts and his entire lab got shut down. The research from their multimillion dollar program will be rendered useless. Their work was focused around helping local farmers increase their crop yields. Our gov't hates us and wants us to die.
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We built an artificial baby model that learns language directly from raw sound and trained it to imitate whale speech. Then we looked inside. Our interpretability method recovered the properties biologists already thought were meaningful and pointed out those that had not been considered before.
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why2cake.bsky.social @why2cake.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
BTD: Dorothy Parker. Portrait by Al Hirschfeld.
Portrait of Dorothy Parker drawn in Hirschfeld's elegantly elastic line work
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It’s also the 53rd anniversary of *that* letter from Hunter S T to Anthony B
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Hunter S. Thompson Writes a Blistering, Over-the-Top Letter to Anthony Burgess (1973)
We know Anthony Burgess for having written A Clockwork Orange, but in total, according to Shaun Usher's More Letters of Note:
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MC @tempest67.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
THIS is exactly how you learn a language! I don’t think I have a talent for it, but I want to know everything and think my own mistakes are hilarious
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2025
Every single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power. Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Change of address postcard (Offending the Powers That Be), Chicago (1909) Image: Alfred Holzman / Chicago History Museum
Printed card in white, orange, yellow and black. In the middle panel, a man with long hair and stylized historical costume smiles and points to the left and right panels with opposite hands. The left panel text reads "My Old Residence number .... offended the right of the Powers that be and...."   While the right panel says "has been changed to ......  Please do not get twisted between them as I am. Yours."
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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Not only are you not alone if you believe things don't have to be this way. In fact you are part of a powerful American majority, one with the power to decide our future.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If Trump dies in office, expect Vance and Miller to cite "stability," "national security," and other bullshit excuses to go on an authoritarian bender that makes Minneapolis and the Charlie Kirk purges seem quaint.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Possibly the pettiest loser government in the world. The US has withdrawn Iran’s allocation of World Cup tickets for supporters days before the tournament starts, Iran’s football federation said.
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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
As of late I’m favoring knife-only painting for plein air. That’ll probably last a couple of months; I still “go through phases”. This one is a 6”x8”.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities
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MC @tempest67.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Can any Googler help a Xoogler out with just a wee peek at memegen right now? 😅👀
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This entire administration and the billionaires supporting it should be properly seen as an attack on democracy with intent to kill it forever
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
So a bunch of men are going to tell a bunch of women who is a woman and who isn't. Sounds about right.
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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
When you dehumanize people, then round them up in response to the dehumanizing propaganda, the mistreatment is inevitable. These are human beings, just like you or me. Imagine yourself in a detention center, crowded far worse than any prison, bad food, cruel racist MAGA guards...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.
Bugs Bunny giving a monster a manicure, caption: My I'll bet you monsters lead interesting lives.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Albert Einstein passed away #OTD in 1955 due to complications from a ruptured abdominal aneurysm. Doctors recommended surgical intervention but Einstein declined, saying “I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." Here is his office as he left it. 🧪 ⚛️ Image: R. Morse/LIFE
A black and white photo of Einstein’s desk, blackboard, and bookshelves after he passed away. Journals, magazine, and papers are strewn over the desk and shelves. A few of the shelves are organized, but mostly they contain haphazard, listing stacks that seem like they could fall over at any moment. The desk is a beautiful disaster, with papers and journals covering every inch. A pot for tobacco, a small glass jar, and Einstein’s pipe sit near the middle. The dark leather chair is pushed back slightly from the desk. The blackboard is sectioned off into several different regions, each of which contains one or more boxed formulas from whatever Einstein was working on when he fell ill.
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 12/04/2026
The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?
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MC @tempest67.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
War crimes in our name.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is powerful, if true. More of this. Refuse. Stand on principle.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2026
this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 02/04/2026
finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks
The new tool should be cheaper than the one
it replaces.
2 It should be at least as small in scale as the
one it replaces.
3 It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably
better than the one it replaces.
4 It should use less energy than the one it
replaces.
5 If possible, it should use some form of solar
energy, such as that of the body.
6 It should be repairable by a person of ordinary
intelligence, provided that he or she has
the necessary tools.
7 It should be purchasable and repairable as near
to home as possible.
8 It should come from a small, privately
owned shop or store that will take it back for
maintenance and repair.
9 It should not replace or disrupt anything
good that already exists, and this includes
family and community relationships.
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Very sorry to hear that Glen Baxter has died. He lived in John Ruskin Street when Coracle Press was in Camberwell, and often around. I first saw his work in the late 1970s and bought his books at Compendium; this battered NYC-published one from 1977 still going strong, great bw drawings and texts.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I did ask this lady if I could photograph her #NoKings sign because I enjoyed it 😄
Photo of a protestor whose sign reads "They're eating the checks! They're eating the balances!" over an image of the ICanHazCheeseburger cat against an orange background
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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This is what the collapse of the rule of law looks like.
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