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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

goddamn...

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My #1 desire for a lead-pipe-cruel 2027 Oversight Committee is subpoenas specifically of every transplanted 8channer and lapsed school shooter they have running the social media accounts. I want their dehydrated, unfuckable mugs on TV perpetually creeping out Pennsylvania swing voters.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

oh bezos is *juicing* juicing

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the Lone Futurist @thelonefuturist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sounds parched, like he needs a big sip of water.

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the Lone Futurist @thelonefuturist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anxious about the elections? Imagine that you’re walking in a desert when you see a tortoise, crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. You’re not helping. Why?

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No, it is proving that a bunch of things we assumed were optimal because they “looked nice” in a certain sense were wrong because a far uglier solution was better. Example: the tightest way to pack 9 squares into a big one is with a 3x3 grid of side length 3. The best way to pack 11 is this:

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Der Fisher @blackholefun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unpopular opinion: LLMs are generally deradicalizing people whose beliefs are based on pure propaganda. I've been watching this happen slowly with some people I care about. ChatGPT is one of the reasons they finally accept that the NRA, OAN, and NewsMax are lying to them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

what an asshole

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

American voters, a bit late:

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hegseth purged all the trans and woke cybersecurity specialists aaaaaaaand

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026

I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio

The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.

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the Lone Futurist @thelonefuturist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rotating Democrats in her mind as spin 1/2 particles.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I see that digital consent is brought up a lot this week because Meta's Muse seems to do a lot of actions without people's consent (insert surprised face) So I want to share again my open access paper about the myth of digital consent journals.oslomet.no/index.php/se... ->

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A feminist Critique to digital consent | Seminar.net

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one thing that isn't accounted for in the SuperPAC discussion is that it changes the economics for partisan media firms from "pick the ads most likely to elect your principal, donald trump" to "pick the ads which are most likely to induce further donations by your principal, elon musk"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For decades, parents complained that foreign students were taking their kids’ places when actually they were expanding US higher ed. Anyway, now that the bull has trashed the china shop, people will ask who let the bull in

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the Lone Futurist @thelonefuturist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saw an ad for an AI chatbot and the example use case was a teen building an anime boyfriend, then telling him that he had a crush on his cousin. Bot asked if she was into him and he said he wasn't sure. Then he made his own avatar and replayed the chat as an anime of them chatting over drinks.

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Maebe Funke: I Can't Do This

Alt: Maebe Funke from arrested development: I Can't Do This, what am I doing? (Dressed like she's about to marry her cousin)

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Peltola's the only Dem who had a prayer at this seat, until it comes out she did something criminal I will judge her by her public record (which is not flawless, to be clear)

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Please learn to read or forget how to write” is a new canonical insult

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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Blake Smith @basmitharts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In a sane world, this alone would wipe out the GOP in Texas for a generation.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All of this ends in one of those deadly nightclub fires, am I right?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

my takeaway from this is that she is thinking of these things in the right terms. she is asking whether she truly wants to do it since, if the answer is yes, it is absolutely the case that there is no better time than now.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

wait what they are using is evidence of fraud is the fact that they have been paying for a service which they do not use?

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the Lone Futurist @thelonefuturist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is flatly untrue for those traveling at relativistic speeds.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

lmao jesus

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026

Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.

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the Lone Futurist @thelonefuturist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As I understand it, pawpaws aren't commercial because: 1) They spoil too quickly. 2) They're pollinated by bloat flies, nearby dead animals are needed to attract them. 3) They contain neurotoxin at an unacceptable level for regular consumption.

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