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chloe @laughingandsmiling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve been working with Claude to discover a new number.
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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The statement of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide on the botched execution of Christa Pike is worth reading in full.

CCDPW Statement on the botched execution of
Christa Pike
October 1, 2026
Christa has endured punishment greater than any other person in the history of the American death penalty. The governor must commute Christa's sentence now.
-Randy Spivey, one of Christa Pike's lawyers
Last night, the State of Tennessee recklessly and callously sought to execute Christa Pike, notwithstanding the warnings of medical experts that Tennessee's lethal injection protocol would cause her to experience agonizing pain and psychological terror. Today, Christa remains in the hospital after the State tried and failed to execute her over the course of two hours. We do not know whether she will recover and what her recovery will look like. We are heartbroken for Christa's family, friends, and her legal team for having to endure the consequences of the state's barbarity.
After she was strapped to the gurney, the execution team inserted at least seven different needles in her left arm over the course of an hour. According to Christa's lawyer Randy Spivey, one of the needles appeared to be bent as they removed it from her arm. Medical experts had anticipated these problems based on Christa's small veins and a condition called thrombocytosis. When the executioners finally inserted an IV and injected the poison, something went terribly wrong. Although they injected her with double the usual dose of pentobarbital, Christa did not die.
While some media outlets reported that she was "snoring," her attorney and others stated that she whimpered, heaved, choked, breathed deep and raspy breaths, and moved frequently. At one point she stated that she felt her arm was burning up.
Christa's lawyers demanded that the prison halt the execution, they begged the courts and the governor to intervene, and they were met with stony silence while Christa suffered. Two and a half hours after the execution process began, the prison finally called an ambulance to take Christa to the hospital, where she is receiving t…In addition, psychologist Bethany Brand testified that because of Christa's severe post-traumatic stress disorder, being immobilized on a gurney while being poked and prodded with needles would very likely trigger a flashback of her rapes. Given this, we cannot separate the deliberate cruelty of Tennessee's actions from Christa's identity as a survivor of sexual violence. We therefore conclude that the gratuitous and extreme pain inflicted by Tennessee's executioners was not only torture but was also an act of gender-based violence.
The State of Tennessee bears the blame for this injustice. Its lawyers repeatedly discredited Christa's accounts of sexual violence, calling her a pathological liar even though her rapes at the ages of 11 and 17 were corroborated by court documents, police reports, and hospital records. One month before Christa's execution, the State finally acknowledged the truth of her suffering. By then it was too late. While one court issued a temporary stay of execution to examine the State's about-face, Tennessee appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which vacated the stay and cleared a path for Christa's execution. In their dissents, Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson castigated their colleagues for failing to appreciate "our own fallibility" and for risking irretrievable harm. The majority of the Court was unmoved.
While many media outlets focus on the details of Tennessee's botched execution attempt, the real takeaway of this story is the flimsiness of the legal architecture upholding capital punishment. The courts knew that Christa could face unbearable pain during her execution. They knew that being strapped to a gurney was likely to trigger a flashback to her childhood rapes. They knew that the State had invoked debunked myths about survivors of sexual violence to discredit Christa's accounts of rape, preventing a fair analysis of her trial lawyers' negligence. Yet the courts did nothing.
We recognize Christa Pike's humanity, her right to d…
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wonder how much this is going to trickle down into the arts as a hobby, that going pro is the least plausible it has ever been.
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Robert Pattinson: My ideal role 🤭 would probably be 🙊 Pop 🫨 from Hop on Pop 🤡 Interviewer: 😃 What is that!!!
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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"if history is to retain its distinctive character as a discipline, we need to redouble our efforts to teach the potential of primary documents to yield novel answers that AI’s probabilistic approach cannot."
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There is something really dark about the "hobbies first" march of models through capabilities.
 was inevitable but sad that Al got best at imitating those things that humans are so enthusiastic to make that they share them online for free in large quantity. 9:38 AM- May 27, 2025 Everybody can replyv 1 repost 2 quotes 38 likes
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bs... May 27, 2025 If we had all instead uploaded petabytes of video of ourselves folding laundry or doing the dishes, none of this would have happened.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bs... May 27, 2025 People attribute Al progress in different areas to the motivations of the researchers, when nearly all of it comes down to what data was available, and what was easy. Most of this progress happened before there was even a dream of a product, just playing around.
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geoff wilt @geoffwilt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
my listening is taken care of for awhile. another essential, massive transmission from KD the GOAT.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Watching The Prisoner because they put it on Critereon and this shit rocks dude.
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Rio @texturerama.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hbd king 🫡
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Not to add too much to this but I do think that Remakes are as much about technical prowess and understanding of the original experience as it is the politics of engaging with a fan base. Remaking a game is like renovating someone's childhood home. There is emotion in space.
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We just completed Nusantara, @thedigradio.bsky.social's 8-part series on the history of Indonesia. The fourth largest country is barely understood in the West and yet has decisively shaped the world: from Dutch colonialism to third world revolution to US-backed mass anti-communist genocide. 1/
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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 14/07/2026
Hi #portfolioday My schedule is pretty packed right now, but I’m always up for talking about new projects and stuff down the line. Portfolio: emo-sludge.com
Giant humanoids eating each other in a crumbling libraryA man in 19th century garb leading a horse with a skeleton coming out of it through a graveyard with a large moon in the bgCyber pop star singingFemme having a breakdown with a giant robot in the bg
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Rick Paulas @rickpaulas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This came to me in a dream
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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
something tells me this will come in handy
I am hearing that on his deathbed Mitch McConnell received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now she looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.
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Bill Selman @wselman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Also from A Closer Listen, a nice review of Sumatra Method out now as well on Critique of Everyday Life. acloserlisten.com/2026/06/12/e...
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Émile Zener ~ Sumatra Method
The name of the label fits the release:  Critique of Everyday Life.  Émile Zener’s Sumatra Method is an expose of the past and an indictment of the present, causing listeners to question what…
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steamroom moikai @steamroom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
jos-smolders.bandcamp.com/album/albumin
jos-smolders.bandcamp.com
Albumin, by Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders
4 track album
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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
YouTube is starting to have AI dubbing on by default for non English vids and turning off closed captions totally
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Rowan Mysel Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
NEW YORK CITY I.C.E HOTLINE IF YOU SEE
I.C.E
CALL OR TEXT
+1 (229) 304-8720
6 AM - 6 PMNEW YORK CITY I.C.E HOTLINE SI VE LA MIGRA LLAMA O
ENVÍA UN MENSAJE A
+1 (229) 304-8720
6:00 - 18:00
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
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Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 24/10/2025
WE MUST BAN SHORT FORM VIDEO TO HEAL SOCIETY
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cdbunker.bsky.social @cdbunker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpNU...
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Gil Scott Heron - We almost Lost Detroit
YouTube video by HoraceIsaac SoWhatSessions
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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 23/10/2025
In generated videos like this, the plagiarism really shines through in how much the “people” look like famous Hollywood actors.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 15/10/2025
'There are records that crystallise genres, there are albums that carve out new spaces in established scenes, and there are LPs that, over time, end up symbolising the era in which they were created. Records that create a new musical language... Those are rare.' R.I.P. D’Angelo buff.ly/ldwrgBO
D’Angelo’s Voodoo album cover.
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Rio @texturerama.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My kitchen hack is that your cooking tastes better if you listened to D'angelo while making it youtu.be/m4XI6LXCsH8?...
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D'Angelo - Chicken Grease (Live)
YouTube video by Funkonaut
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Rio @texturerama.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
youtu.be/KKEZym34SC0?... RIP D'Angelo.
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D'Angelo- Unreleased Instrumental
YouTube video by Sweetheart504
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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important. The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.
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Shaun Lewin @sionlewin.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
i think this is the best interview with Mark Fell I have ever read. open.substack.com/pub/toneglow...
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Tone Glow 193: Mark Fell
An interview with the English producer about taking inspiration from structuralist filmmaking, the limitations of the Western classical tradition, and his new album 'Psychic Resynthesis' (2025)
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2025
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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bat ghoulson 🎃 @mathewolson.com · 09/10/2025
damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.
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EKK0💽 @ekk0.digital · 22/08/2025
NEW YORK CITY, YOU LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU'RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN A BAG OF CHIPS FOR NO REASON.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation And if you want these kind of dreams it's…
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Bill Selman @wselman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Here's a recording of my live set in here in Portland from the previous weekend. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/wselman/will...
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William Selman Live Porchfest 2025
Solo electronic works on Digitalis, Mysteries of the Deep, Hausu Mountain, Plustapes, etc. https://www.discogs.com/artist/940138-William-Selman One-third of Wild Card of Cascadia. https://www.discogs
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The 30 seconds of silence / swirling noise at the start is the only good part of most songs.
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Rio @texturerama.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🫡🫡🫡
Light blue shirt featuring a black silkscreen print of artist and composer Maria Chávez.
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Rio @texturerama.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Genuine spit-take moment. The whole conversation is great, too: jewishcurrents.org/brad-landers...
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Brad Lander’s Campaign of Solidarity
Peter Beinart speaks with the NYC comptroller about his principled cross-endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, and the line between “fighters and folders” in the…
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
christ that's so unspeakably sad. looks haunted
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It’s absolutely insane that if an individual person uses 0.5 seconds of a song to make a completely different song they have to pay royalties forever but these tech scum can just take millions of books to make their garbage robots for free.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Amar mayor! Tomar mayor! From Parkchester to Jackson Heights, Bangladeshi New Yorkers have been showing up for this campaign from day one — and I’m proud to have their support.
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Rio @texturerama.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Solo for Wounded CD changed my life. RIP
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frozen reeds @frozenreeds.com · 10/05/2025
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Bill Selman @wselman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
👀👀👀 metaphon2.bandcamp.com/album/passag...
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Passages... à travers le Temps, by Octavian Nemescu
7 track album
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Robert Beatty @edsunspot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Sad to hear artist Dara Birnbaum has died. Her Wonder Woman video has long been a fave, and it beat Mark Leckey and vaporwave to the the punch by a couple decades. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJhE...
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Dara Birnbaum's 'Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79)'
YouTube video by Image Oscillite
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Rio @texturerama.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Rio @texturerama.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Open Duck Umbrella, technical pen on parchment. One of the only drawings I made last year.
A scan of a landscape sheet of A4 parchment paper with an ink drawing depicting an inverted, open umbrella with a handle molded in the form of a duck's head.A close-up of the duck umbrella drawing detailing the left side of the open structure. Tines, springs, and crumpled nylon.A close-up of the duck umbrella drawing detailing the right side of the open structure. More tines, springs, and crumpled nylon. Artist signature and date on bottom left.
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