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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 13h

the past week reminds me of this @lopatto.bsky.social piece about *just how much* of the past several years has been shaped by powerful men dismantling the court of public opinion, because it was the last court they might face any consequences in

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How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm gonna start a restaurant whose gimmick is that all the food is real-life constructions of horrible AI slop (which is then photographed beautifully for our menus).

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the rise of artists with a grasp on complex gender politics has robbed us of a rare opportunity for feminine power fantasies: horror/thriller media by dudes who at some level really are terrified of women

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.

A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"The recklessness of the tech oligarchs pushing AI on our society has been matched only by their rampant dishonesty." - WGAE Executive Director Sam Wheeler on what Hollywood's unions think about existential AI warnings, and how policymakers should step in. Read: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are focused on what’s actually happening now.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"has the pope weighed in on the robot apocalypse yet" just one of the many very normal things I have to think about these days

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am not going to read the new Jon Ronson book so I can't truly form an opinion on it, but man every story I read makes it sound like a book dedicated to disproving its own thesis.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

my sort of obvious issue with "AI will kill us all, so *we* need to build it first, so we build a good AI that won't kill us" is that it seems unclear advancing "good AI" won't also provide a roadmap for less scrupulous actors who can then outcompete it by playing fast and loose

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Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’

A departing researcher says AI companies are ‘gambling with our lives’ by racing to develop self-improving AI.

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charlesjpratt @charlesjpratt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of Hideo Kojima's real talents is that he would have exactly this idea but the stew would be dropped off by a drone that sings a little jingle which can alert enemies if they're in range. You then get a phone call from a nuclear scientist who warns you not to eat too much starch and dairy.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can't believe I'm getting nostalgic over terrible '00s remakes like rollerball, because at least they were meaningfully different from the source material albeit by being vastly dumber and worse

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charlie deeds done kirk cheap @gizmouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

made this edit in a fit of rage

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

liz plank finally came out and said the thing i kept thinking after that cut piece about women whose boyfriends make less than them lizplank.substack.com/p/is-being-a...

But while women are always expected to solve the things that men broke, the discourse leaves out one thing: their agency. Sure, gen z men certainly seem to be expecting women to cater to them, but if women have the money and the power in the relationship, why are they giving it up? And of course I know there are numerous social forces at play that strip them of that power. The way women and men are socialized is very different and women are encouraged to over-nurture others and are punished when they don’t. But are women really powerless or did they just forget how powerful they really are? If we want real change, we need to acknowledge the freedom women have. And no longer making it women’s job to get men sober from the patriarchy is a good place to start.

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i do think it's strange how it seems like everyone decided to forget whatever supposed excesses or annoyances 2010's "wokeness" or "SJW" culture may or may not have had, so much of it was a direct reaction to the bloodthirsty islamaphobia and grotesque leering misogyny of 2000's mainstream culture

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ok but consider: where else could you film a logan's run remake in the most densely populated major city in the us

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

AI-powered smart glasses exacerbate power imbalances in the workplace, especially for service and retail workers. It's "part of a larger story about the way in which being an employee means taking on increased suffering as part of the job,” says @hartzog.bsky.social. www.theverge.com/report/98241...

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Meta glasses are a workplace menace

“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

without scrolling up in the thread it's almost impossible to narrow down who this is referring to, the range of options is so wide

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i dunno man the fact that people are hyping up the totally wild super subversive genre of "woman suffers and then — get this — takes revenge on abusive men!" this summer makes me feel pretty dismal about the state of writing about gender

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I've admittedly let my finger slip off the pulse lately, but how the hell has nobody written a superpopular romantasy ripoff of Dune. A Court Of Spice And Sandworms.

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Yann Novak @yannnovak.com · 13/08/2026

I wish we could go back to a time before social media reprogrammed our culture to only believe things were good/successful, if they appealed to the largest amount of people possible. There are so many great things that are great specifically because they can't do that.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

we need to bring the vibe of 2000s indie rock snobbery to social media. oh, you like threads? 500 million users? that's good i guess. i'm on a 10-person vintage tumblr subcommunity for discussing medium sized birds, you've probably never heard of it

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

proposing an absolute moratorium on plaintive approval-seeking op-eds by women seeking validation that some choice they made to play into conventional gender roles doesn't make them a "bad feminist"

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Five Cyber Stories @5cyberstories.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Latest doodle inspired by @haydenfield.bsky.social‘s great piece at @theverge.com about spiraling www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... #artificialintelligence

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

the greatest trick commercial social media ever pulled was convincing people it was some salon you owe intellectual engagement with instead of a service you're providing value to

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

*my brain on sunless sea*: better get 50 more supplies and meticulously chart my course so i don't die on my way to the corner store *my brain on fallen london*: eh what's the worst that can happen, i'll jump into this hell furnace

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Rob Gallagher @gealga.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

exhibiting artistic videogames means painstakingly configuring a multisensory playglade & then having to hastily print an A4 sheet that says FRAGILE - PLEASE DO NOT MOVE THE ROCK CONTROLLER FROM THIS STUMP

Alan Kwan's game Scent installed at Bristol's Undershed gallery. Next to the big lithic controller sat on its tree stump table is a sign that reads FRAGILE - PLEASE DO NOT MOVE THE ROCK CONTROLLER FROM THIS STUMP

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

extremely torn that *somebody* desperately needed to write a take on women and desire that is not "vulnerable put-upon ladies need a man to take charge of things, but feministly" but half the book has this too-cool-for-school tone that treats caring or talking too much about misogyny as cringe

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I've fallen deep enough into Fallen London that I'm curious if anybody I know here plays it, I need to start betraying and marrying people I guess.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

this is not remotely my beat, so for anyone whose it is: is hegseth ordering women to get screened for low testosterone or has he just memory-holed the fact that female troops exist

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/07/2026

before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. that way, you can sell the second one to fund your journey. follow me for more Revenge Grindset tips and tricks

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I feel like the unsung benefit of older dystopian novels is usually not that they're "prescient" but that they'll help you understand to what extent the fears and problems of the present also existed in the past

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There's clearly never been a better time to just propose wild online child safety initiatives so I figured I'd throw a thought experiment into the ring: fund people building nonprofit internet services for kids

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Instead of taking the internet away from kids, let’s build a better one

Would a Big Tech tax for kid-focused nonprofit platforms be complicated? Sure. Where we’re headed is worse.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

i would love 1000% less "can women trust any man" and 1000% more "what would a world look like where women are structurally less vulnerable to untrustworthy men" in feminist blogging these days

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I tried to visit voodoo donuts when I was like seventeen and ended up in the wrong state

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Bennett @foddy.net · 09/07/2026

given that there's a contact sensor in the ball, i think the world cup broadcasts are missing an opportunity to implement screen shake

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

the examples here seem deadly boring, but the logical goal is a sneaky pipeline for user-generated bootleg microdramas about mafia-ceo kpop stars and characters from hazbin hotel, and from a business perspective i'm not sure i can fault that

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

this is the least of the problems with progressive masculinity crisis rhetoric, but been a real jarring shift from "women can do conventionally masculine things and it doesn't take them away from men" to "how dare you undercut men's sense of self and you probably suck at it, anyway"

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Who needs a thermometer when you have the cat melting under desk test

A tortoiseshell cat splayed across the floor looking very put upon by this heat

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

8 episodes in and man, amazing digital circus is a fun show that happens to unfortunately include periodic mandated therapy breaks

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So has anyone else noticed this insane series Law360 is running? www.law360.com/articles/173...

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

this is totally unfair. mark zuckerberg was a truly visionary innovator in the field of "what if we just bought everyone else", before those pesky regulators stepped in

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/06/2026

Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.

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Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

there are basically three options for how a crossover this bizarre happens: pop culture reference free association, deliberate goofy nerdragebait, and "no we get the point of the original, we just think evil is powerful and therefore better than good"

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RingConn’s Lord of the Rings promotion assumes smart ring wearers want to be like Gollum

One ring you’re not supposed to toss in Mount Doom.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

isn't this a joke from some vampire media where vampires react to personal symbols of faith and an atheist repels them with a rational argument against their existence, or am i just thinking of a tumblr bit

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"You know, in Turkey, they have a phrase for someone who comes back from long odds. 'The lion will show you his teeth when it's time to eat.' And I thank my good friend, President Erdogan, for sharing that wisdom with me. Now as we all know, a knickerbocker is an ancient demon who steals children."

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