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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

“Trump and Musk continue to shoot themselves in the foot at every turn.”

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Who Betrayed Ukraine?

Musk? Trump? Or both?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

Some days I find it difficult to avoid saying rather counterproductive nasty things to people coming to correct but screamingly obvious conclusions.

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Jimmy Malone @malonespeaking.bsky.social · 20h

This should not happen in a country that brags about being great. "More than half of the counties in the United States no longer have a hospital with inpatient labor and delivery services. " newrepublic.com/article/2166...

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The Increasingly Long Drive to Give Birth in Rural America

Across the country, hospitals under financial strain are shuttering their delivery units, putting expectant mothers at greater risk. As Trump’s cuts to Medicaid take effect, these “maternity care dese...

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Bearded Stoner @beardedstoner.bsky.social · 3h

Ya gotta feel for Democratic leadership. How are they supposed to make a foreign white supremacist robber baron with negative charisma public enemy number one?

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 3h

did he look like this

wallace shawn as vizzini in "the princess bride" looking smug

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

If you told me I’d be redownloading Mapquest in 2026 to try to stay ahead of the surveillance state I wouldn’t have believed you

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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 12h

these guys are so getting laid tonight

the famous Milwaukee sausage race mascots, from left to right: Italian, Hot Dog, Chorizo, Polish and Bratwurst

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

It's so funny that MapQuest was all but counted out on the mat after taking a beating from Google Maps and Apple Maps but they navigated (lol) this current fuckshit political climate like a fucking boss. Kudos to whomever decided they should position themselves as WokeMaps

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h

A fairly conservative friend of mine and I were talking about one policy we would pass to improve the lives of men. Hands down, banning sports betting. Surprised leftists and religious conservatives don't unite on this one.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 11h

Even the greatest baseball team of my lifetime, a decade-plus into a historic run of dominance, is not immune from the effects of close contact with the failking of America. Remarkable stuff. defector.com/the-dodgers-...

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The Dodgers Went To Grandpa's House! | Defector

There are aspects of being president of the United States that Donald Trump is really bad at, and others at which he is significantly worse. It goes without saying that none of that is improving, but ...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 20h

every culture eventually invents its own dumpling and its own bluegrass

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h

Look there are so many admirable italian americans to choose from that at some point you just gotta assume it’s not that they don’t believe he did all those horrible things, but that’s one of the things they like about him bsky.app/profile/jayw...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19h

DOJ a prime target for investigations imo. Let's find out who exactly covered up the president's sex crimes, who tried to hang a felony on a random guy because the president was mad about the reflecting pool. This latest outrage. Why should they be allowed to walk away to law firm jobs

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.

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Athens Grease @athensgrease.bsky.social · 23h

Microsoft Excel has had about 10000x the impact on office workers’ day-to-day lives that AI has, so I’m going to start logging on every day and saying “making fun of Patty, the name I gave my favorite pivot table, is basically a hate crime” and arguing with anyone who disagrees with me

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

I like how his gravied brain got him confused with the guy who died in the car with Princess Diana 29 years ago but now he has to retcon that with some fake explanation and the press has to just pretend like this is normal racism and not Alzheimer's racism.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

But giving water to voters waiting in long lines to vote is illegal

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

His co-defendant, a Mr S. Doo, entered a plea of “Ruh-roh!”

WPXI-11 Pittsburgh: Man accused of planning terrorist attack enters 'not guilty' plea in federal court

Court sketch shows a man who looks suspiciously like Shaggy out off of Scooby Doo.

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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

Marks & Spencer in-store signage for a tomato sauce that says "The same Calabrian recipe for over 20 years"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026

will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

"Hockeytown, USA will always be a coveted destination for the world's top players,"
Rogers said. "The Detroit Red Wings boast one of the league's most storied and respected histories, dating back to their days as one of the Original Six franchises.
Few professional organizations can match the tradition, legacy and rpestige that define this iconic franchise. GO WINGS!"

"I was at the game when Darren McCarty took on Claude Lemieux," El-Sayed said.
"The '97 and '98 Stanley Cup championships are still highlights of my childhood. The teams the last few years have been a far cry from the Wings I came to love as a kid. They're stacking losing season on losing season, yet the llitch family's wealth has done nothing but grow.
Michiganders are sick of sky-high ticket and concession prices buying them nothing but disappointment.

"The team holding out on Simon Edvinsson is just the latest example in a long series of ownership prioritizing their bottom line over the team and the fans. Our teams aren't just assets for billionaires, they're part of our culture and heritage. Hockeytown deserves better."

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

the payoff here is exactly what you'd expect and it's still worth it

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's our job to take care of the stupid people and keep sharp objects away from them, but we need to stop courting evil people who happily invited Fat Hitler back into the White House.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I just opened up a container of ice cream and threw away the lid before I even sat down like Steph Curry turning and running down the court right after the the ball leaves his hand.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 15/10/2026

This works wonders for Hard Water stains

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

talk about nominative determinism

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is illegal and (a) it’s not even close to defensible and (b) shouldn’t be tolerated.

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Be careful out there

Check your Halloween candy carefully. Someone tried to hide the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer in mine. Snickers image with the KPg boundary

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/10/2026

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My man don’t miss

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Daniel R. Epstein @depstein1983.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hearing the Jake Bauers story for the 78th time this month: the dodgers would be winning right now if we had universal healthcare

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Once again. Just like the Paramount Merger Gavin Newsom does what he always does. Sells out the working class people for the billionaires again and again. Not only that but endorses a bill that will make it impossible to tax the wealthy at all. www.commondreams.org/news/newsom-...

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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams

"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally pay their fair share."

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PodKATT @podkatt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Is it "Chased off your Ukrainian center by putting a Russian on the roster"? Because I feel like the answer is "Chased off your Ukrainian center by putting a Russian on the roster"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14/10/2026

you literally never need to tell me why you're canceling a meeting or asking for a meeting to be canceled. Yes, we can do that, and I am sorry and/or happy for you about whatever happened

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

back in the olden days DOJ would investigate a particular crime it believed had been committed, rather than just poking around to see if anything was wrong

The investigation is seeking information to see where it leads, the source said. For example, if records, representations related to age and immigration status contain false information, that would provide material for investigators to scrutinize further. They could also examine communications related to such matters.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Happy Departure Day to all who celebrate!

The Guilty Remnant from The Leftovers hold up signs reading "STOP WASTING YOUR BREATH!"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

New in PN: Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization "With early voting underway, Omar got agents at her door at 6am, when her 14-year-old was inside, over a theory cooked up on an anonymous message board. Republicans never objected to weaponizing the DOJ. They just wanted custody of the weapon."

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Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization

Just kidding, they always love it when they’re holding the weapon.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Chumbawumba laughed at him years ago for his complicity with Guantanamo Bay torture youtu.be/jP76X-9JwVM?...

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Chumbawamba - ABCDEFG - Torturing James Hetfield (live)

YouTube video by Niall O'Loingsigh

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 14/10/2026

One weird trick to solve all your AI problems: Make the creators of AI legally liable for foreseeable problems their product causes, just like every other damn product in the world.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 14/10/2026

Based on a browser funded with public money, and made the founders multimillionaires. One went on to cofound the biggest venture firm in the world and hired a man as a partner because he choked my unarmed neighbor to death. The people who *didn't* become millionaires are still making a free browser.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The worst Ebola outbreak in the world is ongoing in the DRC and you’re not being informed about it in part because the reason it is spiralling is US politics. At least one person who was suffering from the disease crossed into Uganda by road and then flew from Kampala to Nairobi where he died.

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