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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So great to see you, Connie!! Thanks for coming out!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s somehow more depressing that our constitutional order is being dismantled by people who demonstrably cannot find their own asses with both hands.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

omg. i love this version so much

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This has really cracked open something for me. I had been thinking about free speech discourse in terms of hypocrisy, but this illuminates a much more consistent throughline (derogatory).

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's terrible! In contrast, @alaskaairlines.bsky.social proactively gave us travel vouchers after a tarmac delay at Heathrow. No long call required. I hope air Canada comes to its senses!

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ooh! Could also be adventure! I wany to find them, too.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Traveling today. If people want to talk, I will ask them: Are you traveling for an event, or a quest? (I wanna find the questors)

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 19/09/2026

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

Ford app AI prompt, with the user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."

Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…

one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There is a scene in the movie Gandhi -- I'm not historian enough to know how true it may be -- where Gandhi is fasting to urge the end to sectarian fighting. And after he is quite ill from malnutrition and the fighting has largely stopped, he is visited by another delegation pledging peace...

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Also, if it turns out that NATS has been AI pushing or vibe-coding, I will be angry. And relieved that this wasn't much worse.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Of all the ways air traffic could fail, delayed and canceled flights aren't the worst. --me, reporting in from a plane that's been parked on the tarmac at Heathrow for 4+ hours, after a 9+-hour flight.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the real clock was the bees inside us all along

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pens. Maybe a fancy new pen? Have you tried the right color? 🫂🙏🏻

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Check that the lease isn't usurious... and all the other things you need an accountant and attorney for... and then take the leap! 💖

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How deeply sad it is for somebody to dismiss the improbable greatness of a great thinker or artist as merely improbable. The dismissal reveals their misunderstanding of their own talents and their cloudy discernment of complexity.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

But my inner saboteur looks so good in those short shorts! 😂

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

absolutely wheezing at an Instagram clip of comic Stevie Martin (who I love from being a maniac on Taskmaster) claiming that Shakespeare only had three plays: 1. “I’m Not a Good Monarch” 2. “I’ll Pretend To Be You, You Hide Behind That Plant, and We’ll Both Marry Her” 3. “The Lion King”

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry had such a genuine enthusiasm for performing that it was impossible not to love them for it, there were things more highly and lowly regarded in their bodies of work but both of them threw themselves into everything because it was pure joy for them and that rules

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026

let's do UBI for her, she'd want us to

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

People joke that Marx couldn't have written 9 to 5 but that Dolly could have written Das Capital. It's not really a joke to me because I believe it to be true: Dolly understood the pressures of class just like Marx did, but she was able to speak to the masses in a way that Marx could never.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Same. Jim Henson, Prince, Dolly...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/08/2026

Here's your daily reminder: Trump and Republicans are kicking 15 million Americans off their health care so that people like Mark Zuckerberg can buy another yacht.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lyin' Lutnick continuing to lie. 🙄

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This message and delivery? Outstanding. Bravo.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fresh tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, feta cheese, garlic salt, and a drizzle of olive oil. Yum.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Library funding is tied to usage.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I need a typeface that distinguishes lowercase L from uppercase I if you're going to post about Weird Al and AI at the same time 😂

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/08/2026

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

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The AI Demand Bubble

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Stateline @stateline.org · 04/08/2026

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, whose nomination advanced in the Senate on Tuesday, told faith leaders in a call that he would take action to restrict mail-order access to abortion medication, @kelciemmorris.bsky.social reports. stateline.org/2026/08/04/a...

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AG nominee tells faith leaders he will take action to restrict abortion drug access • Stateline

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche is one step closer to confirmation after the Republican Judiciary Committee voted to advance his appointment on a party-line vote on Tuesday, and based on pro...

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh they care about STOPPING it. Sports is where a generation of girls has gained empowerment and agency.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Oh you want to play sports, honey? Well, you know you'll have to show them... ::meaningful look and shame-avoiding squicky face:: THIS IS ABOUT SHAMING ALL GIRLS OUT OF SPORTS while ALSO persecuting trans folks.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's important to remember that this is targeted inequitably. It's not there to traumatize all kids, just all kids who want to play girls sports.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is depraved

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A must read for anybody delighted by smart women who advocate for good things, like tribal rights in the Upper Peninsula and elsewhere in the Great lakes. @alexisdahl.com I'd love to see a story about her. She may not be geology, but she had an iron core.

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Torrey Podmajersky @torreybird.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I love absolutely everything about this. Thank you for how your ::everything:: embodies her legacy.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

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