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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 21m

It’s striking that the GOP has a massive cash advantage even when Trump is currently causing lasting harm to the US and global economy. What does that say about the interests of capital?

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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 53m

DOCTOR: have you been under any stress recently ME: come on

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4h

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 09/10/2026

We do not have a serious economy in this country, we have an ongoing series of expensive brazen insults to all the hard-working people who *actually make things* despite the incompetent whims of mediocre upfailing assclowns like this guy. No greater lie than the meritocracy.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am learning to be more and more concise in my responses

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Update: The remnants of Hurricane Rachel, likely as a post-tropical (perhaps still tropical) storm, now appears likely to bring significant impacts to northern Baja CA, far S. California, AZ, and UT--mainly Sunday into Monday. [Brief thread]

Map of currently projected track or Rachel and its remnants from NOAA's National Hurricane Center.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

its genuinely incredible that the government has been taken over by vandals, thieves, and bald-faced liars and the media is more or less reporting on them like they're normal heads of state

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]

Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The defining quality of so many tech guys is completely missing the point of nearly every social or leisure activity

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

forbes.com

Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shoutout to all the pets around the world who are literally keeping millions of people sane right now.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/09/2026

The peace Conan describes here is what I find so psychotic about Capitalism: The unnatural systemic need for more, growth, bigger, up, is constantly making people feel - mentally and financially - like where they’re at is not what success looks like, even if it’s exactly what makes them happy.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The problem that we need to solve isn't rogue AI, it's that companies increasingly think they can just price crime into the business model and get away with it

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I promise you that in this very stupid moment, our book will help you stay grounded, fight the renewed gaslighting about prevention, and gives you tools to stay strong while staying safe: linktr.ee/covidbook < also BookLife Prize 2025

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An inclusive, practical guide.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really wish that Covid hadn’t happened, but it did, and either we adapt to the reality that it makes some people permanently sick and at risk, and they still deserve humanity, or we keep scapegoating and ostracizing anyone who points that fact out, anyone who has to survive it, anyone broken by it

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OMFG if I see one more person suggest that people talking about Covid in 2026 want permanent lockdowns I’m going to lose it The asks are clean air in public places, treatments for long covid, masks in places like healthcare + normalization of masking elsewhere, expanded vaccine access, sick leave

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The disconnect between the millions of dollars being thrown at biosecurity / biodefense right now and the simultaneous mocking of people wearing masks is so painfully, tragically stark. A respirator is a tool, just like a biosensor or a biological countermeasure.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a complex graph we post periodically that has implications for understanding an unusual time period in the pandemic. See Alt text for analysis.

This is a special graph we only post periodically. It shows 2 things that have considerable implications.

1) Transmission has been lower than anticipated since December, and *only* since December. It's a recent phenomenon, not a long-term trend. WastewaterSCAN has poor longitudinal standardization so sometimes people mistakenly believe waves are getting smaller and smaller (or they say this because their listserv subscribers like to hear it). CDC and Biobot make very long-term data difficult to find. On the PMC 13-wave graph (which integrates long-term CDC and Biobot data, some of which is measured weekly by hand!), wave height gets smaller, but the waves are wider (hard to perceive visually). The take-home is we're in a very weird place in the pandemic, not a trend, but either an aberration or shift.

2) Cumulative levels for the current year (Y7) closely resemble that of Year 2. This is where the debate of aberration vs shift gets interesting. If we are in an aberration of lower than typical transmission, that means many people are walking around with limited short-term infection-derived immunity, and most people are not recently boosted. That would be a tinder box for a saltation variant (MANY variants are circulating), and put us on that scary Y2 path. The alternative is that this is not an aberration but a more meaningful shift, some population-level immunity building through a combination of boosters, infection history, and the most vulnerable dying (social murder), meaning time between infection starting to increase. These divergent hypotheses are the difference between 150 million vs 325 million infections for Y7. If I were a gambler, I'd bet about 200 million. However, you can see the uncertainty. This is a time like no other to monitor the data closely.

The good news is that wastewater monitoring is not going away. Keep watching.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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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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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

PMC estimates 1 in 91 Americans are actively infectious with COVlD. In a room of 25 random people not testing/isolating, that would be a 1-in-4 chance of an exposure. Risk varies considerably by state/county. Find local estimates at pmc19.com/map 🧵THREAD (2/4)

Infections
Proportion Actively Infectious 1 in 91 (1.1%)
New Daily Infections 542,000
Infections the Past Week 3,810,000
Infections in 2026 111,000,000
Cumulative Infections per Person 5.41

Long COVlD
Long COVlD Cases Resulting from New Daily Infections 27,000 to 108,000
Long COVlD Cases Resulting from New Weekly Infections 191,000 to 760,000

Excess Deaths
Excess Deaths Resulting from New Daily Infections 130 to 240
Excess Deaths Resulting from New Weekly Infections 900 to 1,700

Number of People Chances Anyone is Infectious
1 1.1%
2 2.2%
3 3.3%
4 4.3%
5 5.4%
10 10.5%
15 15.3%
20 19.9%
25 24.2%
30 28.3%
50 42.6%
75 56.5%
100 67.0%
200 89.1%
300 96.4%

Alabama Moderate
Alaska Moderate
Arizona Moderate
Arkansas Moderate*
California Very High
Colorado Low
Connecticut Low
Delaware Moderate
District of Columbia Low
Florida Very High
Georgia Low
Guam Very High
Hawaii High
Idaho Moderate
Illinois Very Low
Indiana Low
Iowa Very Low
Kansas Low
Kentucky Moderate
Louisiana Low
Maine Low
Maryland Low
Massachusetts Moderate
Michigan Very Low
Minnesota Very Low
Mississippi High*

Missouri Low
Montana Very High*
Nebraska Very Low
Nevada High
New Hampshire Low*
New Jersey Low
New Mexico Moderate
New York Very Low
North Carolina High
North Dakota Moderate*
Ohio Very Low
Oklahoma Very Low*
Oregon Moderate*
Pennsylvania Very Low
Puerto Rico Very High*
Rhode Island Low
South Carolina High
South Dakota Low
Tennessee Low
Texas Very High
U.S. Virgin Islands Very High
Utah Moderate
Vermont Very Low
Virginia Low*
Washington Very High
West Virginia Very Low
Wisconsin Very Low
Wyoming Very Low

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Use layered COVlD safety: ✅Boosters 💉 ✅N95 respirators 😷 ✅Virtual events ✅Air purifiers ✅Testing ✅Staying home when sick ✅Monitoring local levels (pmc19.com/map) These are evidence-based recommendations. 🧵THREAD (4/4)

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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wavestage @wavestage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 18/09/2026

I think the degree to which no one is really fine is so much more severe than anyone wants to admit.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

YOU SEE? IT IS POSSIBLE TO GIVE ACCURATE INFO ABOUT COVID WITHOUT EXPLODING!

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Skellyton 🦇 @infinitefinite.blog · 01/11/2025

You can pry the Oxford Comma from my cold, dead, and third adjective hands.

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A 2024 study estimated that globally, 400 million people have long COVID, with an annual economic burden of around US$1 trillion. This is in line with similar chronic syndromes from polio, Ebola and Lyme disease after infection. Studying long Covid is a new field of study. 🧪 archive.today/KgFhN

nature.com

When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes

Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/09/2026

3 things about Dem politicians who dabble in transphobia: 1. It's wrong, they're wrong, on a moral basis they're being evil 2. It's stupid, they're stupid, they'll never get any credit from the fascists for it 3. It's proof you're not capable of reading or rising to this, and therefore any, moment

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 11/09/2026

What about a premise where they put on a variety show with different guests each week. They start the music, light the lights, get things started, that type of thing. What if the premise is the thing everyone wants that they recently proved still works

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A lot of people have said to me “but why would the government lie about the risks from Covid?” And I’m sorry but the answer is always because capital is valued over lives and they want you to go back to work, it was true in the mines, true on the railroads, true post-9/11, and true now.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Protect trans kids.

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