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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 13/07/2026

the wedge live band of all saxophonists is called george and the michaels and they played the sax part of “careless whisper” under a bridge by the mississippi river after we biked here

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Kim Scheinberg @tiltmom.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan played clarinet and saxophone with jazz great Stan Getz. When he realized he'd never achieve Getz's level of greatness, he switched to economics

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Paul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Mark Singer's obit reminded me how in 1990 Spy magazine sent 58 prominent people $1.11 checks for an unexplained "overcharge... for services rendered." 26 signed it. Then Spy sent 64¢. Half signed that. Then they sent 13¢. Two cashed it: arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, & you can guess the other.

Screenshot from the New York Times obituary for Mark Singer: "Mr. Singer sent a mock thank you to Mr. Trump for the publicity, which apparently bumped his book higher on the Amazon book charts. He also enclosed a check for $37.82, “a small token of my enormous gratitude,” he wrote.

Mr. Trump returned the letter with an all-caps note at the bottom, reading, in part, “MARK — YOU ARE A TOTAL LOSER.”

Mr. Trump also cashed the $37.82 check, Mr. Singer later said. Mr. Singer framed a photocopy of it for his apartment."

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

What a quote: "Unfortunately, human influencers killed the market for themselves. Brands are moving to AI to cut out issues like bad press, personal opinions, hourly rates and photographers.” Tragedy of the commons but it's labor.

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Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media

Investigation finds AI content that purports to show genuine customers, prompting calls for greater transparency

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org · 17/06/2026

President Trump has annouced that he has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Supreme Leader of the Reflecting Pool Algae. They will be allowed to continue to occupy the pool in exchange for their uranium stockpile.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Obama doing a history podcast on US Reconstruction with a British-Canadian non-historian airport book guy really does capture his whole post-presidential vibe huh

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 07/06/2026

It’s a Beatles fight right now on my house. The 11 yo is listening to Sgt Pepper (vinyl) in her room and the 8yo is listening to the White Album (streaming) in his room.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The really telling part about Jilani & Stoller using "HR Lady" to describe the situation with Platner is: that didn't involve work / HR at all. By "HR Lady," they mean, "any woman who objects to something I think I should be able to do." Every woman who says "no" is the "HR Lady."

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Should be part of his next test.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Gonna be a lot of people whose last words are "Is...that...Nicole Kidman?!"

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Kim Scheinberg @tiltmom.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The Americans From the opening notes of Fleetwood Mac's _Tusk_ to Tchaikovsky's _None But the Lonely Heart_ and everything in between We had a job todo [Hi @angus.bsky.social ]

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Bezos has gone with a different Calamity Jane quote for the current iteration of his rag: "Question I wake to in the morning and pass out with at night: 'What's my popularity with my fellow white people?'"

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"Don't you know, Jane, the world says its fucking name to us?" Calamity Jane, quoting Charlie Utter, as he spoke to her in a dream. I'l like to start a newspaper with this as its motto, better than that bad joke on Bezos' Post, "democracy dies in darkness."

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 01/04/2026

If you don’t stop in mid-sentence to check a thing and then three hours later you’ve learned the entire history of canned food but not finished the sentence, why even be a writer?!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 20/03/2026

We do a deep dive on what it is like to be on Jeopardy, and Jason’s game, which aired last night (watch the replay on Hulu).

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I STG, when Angus King comes up for re-election, I better see every single Mills Ageist out there screaming for his retirement, because if you don’t? You’re just being misogynist. And you have proved it. He’s 3 YEARS older than Mills.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Heidi has been relentless on this. It's great news, but it shouldn't take a nationally-recognized legal expert working tirelessly to get city officials in a Democratic city in a Democratic county in a Democratic state to provide for constitutionally protected speech and assembly.

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Kim Scheinberg @tiltmom.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I have a monetary policy joke from 2014 but there's zero interest

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This isn't the story of a shitty constitutional sheriff redeeming himself, it's the story of a government agency so evil even otherwise Nazi-curious brutal authoritarians are forced to have second thoughts.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thank you Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Michael Powell for everything you did to win Leqaa's freedom in the name of free speech on campus

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This whole Uta Frith autism spectrum thing makes me miss @stevesilberman.bsky.social even more. I genuinely want to know what he would say and know he would say it with great moral clarity.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 11/03/2026

This is very real to me

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mcc @dryad.technology · 11/03/2026

And your body's just like, "ⓘ Something went wrong. Please try again in a moment."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

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Emily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Doesn't fucking matter which is the "better writer" bc only 1 is human writing. When I read, I position the writer & myself in similarities & contrasts of time & place, &relate the art to the artist. The human behind the words reaches across time to connect w/us. Reading is a human–human act.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 07/03/2026

It's both disingenuous to celebrate Proton (who are a business making money in a friendly nation) as bulletproof, and to compare them to Google, who make money by mining your email content. Understand your threat model and message accordingly. www.404media.co/proton-mail-h...

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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day. Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026

So many horrors to go around, but the routine transfer of detainees to 5th circuit jurisdiction is something I feel like has not landed with most people yet, and it‘s one of the things I find most terrifying.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…

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Kim Scheinberg @tiltmom.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I have a three-digit panix UID My first husband proposed to me using the 'write' command

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 05/03/2026

One encouraging theme in last night's NC primaries is the simple fact that being pro-trans is now like being anti-ICE among Dem voters: to them, it means you're a fighter, it means you're not giving into Trump. That's a really, really good sign.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

Images of an old silver 1999 Toyota Corolla for sale

You want a car that gets the job done? You want a car that's hassle free? You want a car that literally no one will ever compliment you on? Well look no further.
The 1999 Toyota Corolla.
Let's talk about features.
Bluetooth: nope
Sunroof: nope
Fancy wheels: nope
Rear view camera: nope...but it's got a transparent rear window and you have a fucking neck that can turn.
Let me tell you a story. One day my Corolla started making a strange sound. I didn't give a shit and ignored it. It went away. The End.
You could take the engine out of this car, drop it off the Golden Gate Bridge, fish it out of the water a thousand years later, put it in the trunk of the car, fill the gas tank up with Nutella, turn the key, and this puppy would fucking start right up.
This car will outlive you, it will outlive your children.
Things this car is old enough to do:
Vote: yes

Consent to sex: yes
Rent a car: it IS a car
This car's got history. It's seen some shit. People have done straight things in this car. People have done gay things in this car. It's not going to judge you like a fucking Volkswagen would.
Interesting facts:
This car's exterior color is gray, but it's interior color is grey.
In the owner's manual, oil is listed as "optional."
When this car was unveiled at the 1998 Detroit Auto Show, it caused all 2,000 attendees to spontaneously yawn. The resulting abrupt change in air pressure inside the building caused a partial collapse of the roof. Four people died. The event is chronicled in the documentary "Bored to Death: The Story of the 1999 Toyota Corolla
You wanna know more? Great, I had my car fill out a Facebook survey.
Favorite food: spaghetti
Favorite tv show: Alf
Favorite band: tie between Bush and the Gin Blossoms
This car is as practical as a Roth IRA. It's as middle-of-the-

When I ran the CarFax for this car, I got back a single piece of paper that said, "It's a Corolla, It's fine."
Let's face the facts, this car isn't going to win any beauty contests, but neither are you. Stop lying to yourself and stop lying to your wife. This isn't the car you want, it's the car you deserve: The fucking 1999 Toyota Corolla.

Google map of cars location

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I was on a flight tonight, so I missed the extraordinary decision by Senator Daines to quit his reelection race minutes before the deadline to pave the way for his chosen successor without triggering a competitive GOP primary. montanafreepress.org/2026/03/04/r...

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As filings close, Republican Steve Daines withdraws from U.S. Senate race

Daines praised Alme in a press release issued after campaign filing ended.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

leveraged, partnered, advanced, precise — somehow even more grotesque when the numbed, bullshit jargon of corporate marketing, already nihilistic, is transposed into the domain of state murder

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 05/03/2026

In Terminator 2, the Skynet Funding bill is passed because Cyberdyne systems had a *perfect* operational record, whereas in the real world the quality of the operational record appears not to matter one bit.

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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A development such as this has been a goal for HIV researchers for decades. It is important because people who are faced with difficult treatment regimens are less likely to be compliant. Single Daily Tablet Shows Powerful Results for People With Drug-Resistant HIV share.google/RjULDFVtCYI9...