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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm working on some ideas for a short story about my upcoming layoff. Give me your best (or worst!) performance review stories! I'll start: I was once laid off during what was supposed to be my performance review! #horror

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We will be saved by their incompetence...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gave my first "Vote!" spiel in class this week. Key points: People who don't vote get screwed over by people who do. The only message you send by not voting is that you don't care. Voting isn't the only thing you can do, it's the least you can do. Who shows up is as important as who wins.

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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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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

To my Jewish friends and neighbors who will soon be observing Yom Kippur: May you be inscribed for a good year in the book of life.

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And there it is. The reason why Anthropic and OpenAI and all the rest should be put out of business IMMEDIATELY. They are thieves. Nothing more, nothing less. And they built a machine to execute their thievery on a GRAND scale. Don't use CoPilot, or Gemini, or Grok. Don't be a thief.

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I were in DC, I would be here tomorrow. Join my childhood idol and many of my theatrical friends! #handsoffthearts

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This man is either evil or incompetent. Perhaps both! #vaccinateyourchildren

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If anyone out there is confused about the "AI doomerism" that is running around out there, listen to this episode of "Better Offline" and you may or may not feel better. Oh, BTW: those folks are in a cult. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · September 16 · 1h 6m

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Coming very soon.... as soon as we know where we are... "Dripping" by Tom Witherspoon, featured in the next issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly. weirdfictionquarterly.com/coming-soon-...

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Coming Soon: Liminal Spaces & Beings

We found the "Liminal Spaces & Beings" manuscript and are publishing it before it disappears between dimensions again!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Weren't we supposed to get some tea on @fetterman.senate.gov ? Well? Where is it?

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So, AI is gonna replace writers, huh?

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14/09/2026

I am so fucking tired of the daily ‘should trans people be allowed to exist’ argument. The vast majority of society dgaf about us until democrats and republicans alike decided to turn us into their niche culture war issue after people like Jesse Singal and JKR decided we needed to be eradicated.

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love everything about this.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/09/2026

Because I’m white, it was easy for me to conflate the solidarity we witnessed on the ground among New Yorkers on 9/11 for some kind of colorblind national unity in the months and years that followed. The reality is and was vastly different.

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wrote something for today. www.tommyspoon.net/post/a-poem-...

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Post | Tom Witherspoon

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tommyspoon @tommyspoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We were united for about 24 hours. And then the fascists made their move. I'm ashamed to say that I did nothing to stop them. But trauma is a great tactic to use when you are trying to take over a country. Would you like to know more? Then read "The Shock Doctrine".

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Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's not a real political party, folks It just isn't

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.