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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 15h

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 12h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 20h

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20h

Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Grayson Morley @graysonmorley.com · 23h

AI companies announcing their new chatbot

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 23h

this investigation on long COVID inside of prisons is out today at the Sick Times! I worked on this piece for months and am so grateful to the folks who shared their experiences with me. I'll write up a real thread a little later, but you can read it now: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...

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I interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick Times

While there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me...

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 23h

11th Cir. rejects Trump administration's attempt to block an order holding that Trump's IRS lawsuit and purported settlement were in bad faith, resulting in sanctions for Trump's lawyers and an ethics referral for AG Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges. BY THE COURT: The appellants, some of whom were the plaintiffs below, move for an order staying aspects of the district court’s post-judgment sanctions order pending appeal. After review of the record and the parties’ briefing, we deny the motion.1

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026

“People want to fuck the mascot for the surveillance app from the company that enabled the genocide.”

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ODB @obitron.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

a lot of white queers don't understand what whiteness is, and that makes much of their interactions with queer folk of color suck, so I'll explain a little. The two facets of whiteness that are most important in this context are that it is a social and legal exemption from racial oppression.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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ellebil @ellebil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In Mitte ist derweil eine Wohnung ohne Bewerbungsmappe vergeben worden. Ein Paar fragt sich fassungslos, wozu es überhaupt gemeinsam bouldern gelernt habe.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the first of ten video meditations I recorded at night in Kharkiv, a frontline city in northeastern Ukraine. They concern matters that came to mind in the general setting of a long and terrible war. snyder.substack.com/p/cowardice

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On Cowardice (Kharkiv Meditations 1/10)

Kharkiv Meditations 1/10

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tenorune @tenorune.lightseed.net · 24/09/2026

Effective Altruism: "In order to save you, they’ve got to hurt you first — that’s the nature of surgery. They’ve got to cut you open to save you. They’ve got to inflict an enormous amount of pain and suffering on you so that they can save you. And so I think A.I.’s kind of like that."

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul...

When I started as a graduate student at Berkeley, I had trouble imagining
how I could "prove" a new and interesting mathematical theorem. I didn't
really understand what a "proof was.
By going to seminars, reading papers, and talking to other graduate students,
I gradually began to catch on. Within any field, there are certain theorems and
certain techniques that are generally known and generally accepted. When you
write a paper, you refer to these without proof. You look at other papers in the
field, and you see what facts they quote without proof, and what they cite in
their bibliography. You learn from other people some idea of the proofs. Then
you're free to quote the same theorem and cite the same citations. You don't
necessarily have to read the full papers or books that are in your bibliography.
Many of the things that are generally known are things for which there may be
no known written source. As long as people in the field are comfortable that
the idea works, it doesn't need to have a formal written source.

At first I was highly suspicious of this process. I would doubt whether a certain idea was really established. But I found that I could ask people, and they
could produce explanations and proofs, or else refer me to other people or to
written sources that would give explanations and proofs. There were published
theorems that were generally known to be false, or where the proofs were generally known to be incomplete. Mathematical knowledge and understanding were
embedded in the minds and in the social fabric of the community of people
thinking about a particular topic. This knowledge was supported by written
documents, but the written documents were not really primary.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"All around the United States, people are organizing to resist the federal mercenaries who carry out Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Here, we announce three upcoming mobilizations and share reports from two recent confrontations."

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hurricane Polo is looking extraordinary tonight. Sheesh.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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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...

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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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s been almost exactly a year since the day ICE hit us with a car, for which the government chose to prosecute *us*. Now we’re fighting for accountability. See you at the courthouse next week.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes a drug trip is a profound experience where you realize that you’ve been carrying pain in your heart for years, that you can forgive yourself. Other times you come up with a concept called “gay money” (money that’s gay) and you text your friend “gay money” days later. Both are healing. ❤️‍🩹

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tenorune @tenorune.lightseed.net · 23/09/2026

I keep thinking about this kafkaesque travel thread and how it reveals me as a cave man. Toothpaste and fresh socks would be the least of my worries in this situation

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As shocking as this case is I know @czedwards.bsky.social is shaking their head at the same thing I am - this is some PISS POOR MONEY LAUNDERING. Check 1001 of a brand new account? Jesus we used to be a proper country.

A check made out for
$150,000 to Susan Collins’s
PAC, check number 1001

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.

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Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029

High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Big victory for Arizona: A court just ruled the Trump administration's attack on Solar for All was illegal. Congress created this program to help families get low-cost clean energy and cut their electricity bills. The EPA needs to release these funds now. apnews.com/article/clim...

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Judge rules EPA illegally terminated $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-incom...

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tenorune @tenorune.lightseed.net · 22/09/2026

Meltdown in the press about the victory of the socialist die Linke party.

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

great i have two brains and they're both broken

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.

"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 21/09/2026

The Stanford Daily just won a lawsuit against the Trump admin for abusing immigration law to target students for their First Amendment-protected speech. “Freedom of speech belongs to the people. It is not the government’s to take,” the judge wrote. @trevortimm.bsky.social explains:

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: WE WILL KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED. Area: Cleveland, OH, USA Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #a146c1833d5 F: #f6cc885adec

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

'Dozens of Minnesota Writers Contribute to ICE-Resistance Anthology' 'American Occupation, Literary Hub’s anthology of letters written by Minnesota authors, poets, and journalists during Operation Metro Surge, releases in January.' mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

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Dozens of Minnesota Writers Contribute to ICE-Resistance Anthology

American Occupation, Literary Hub’s anthology of letters written by Minnesota authors, poets, and journalists during Operation Metro Surge, releases in January.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

President Trump is 0-2 against pools.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 28/01/2025

Gonna ramble about psychedelics and the tech world for a bit. Feel free to mute the thread. “Licensing will be necessary. You must be trained to operate. You must demonstrate your proficiency to handle consciousness-expanding drugs without danger to yourself or the public.” — Timothy Leary, 1963

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tenorune @tenorune.lightseed.net · 20/09/2026

I am sorry about all of the smallpox, we were honestly trying to bring civility and godliness to the New World. Silly

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Anchor Rite @djecchi.bandcamp.com · 19/09/2026

Just a guy, thinking about p(doom).

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb

Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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