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Rob Wesley @eastwes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I’m just pointing out that the X-Man, Xavier McDaniel, never played for the Hawks and I think, Senator, you might be thinking of Plastic Man, Stacey Augmon.”

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's crazy to have witnessed, in real time, over the span of about 10 years, Knowing Ball fully shifting from right wing-coded to left wing-coded.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Elvin Hernandez, a CT DOT worker, was killed by a driver on I-95 today. DOT Commish Eucalitto: "The complete disregard that some motorists continue to show our employees... is disgraceful. The moral outrage the 3,300 men and women of this agency are feeling in this moment is entirely justified."

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Governor Lamont, Lt. Governor Bysiewicz, Commissioner Eucalitto Mourn the Death of Connecticut Department of Transportation Employee Elvin Hernandez

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are a lot of people who spend a lot of their professional time making it seem like CT Republicans are the good ole moderates from 30 years ago, but in every piece of data that emerges, it's clear the party is untethered from the reality the rest of us live in. scholars.unh.edu/survey_cente...

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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whatever the long-term outcomes of our current moment, my lasting memory of Trump II will be the utter, pathetic spinelessness of people who have enough money and power to fight but bowed down like losers nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter...

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Hospitals Shut Youth Gender Clinics in Deal with Trump Administration

At least six hospitals have struck agreements with the Trump administration to pay fines and stop providing gender-transition treatments to minors.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In Connecticut, most of these people aren't taken seriously, but there is a little movement to put every single taxpayer dollar into the stock market. It's also why they want to appoint their rich friends — who can't be held accountable by voters — to invest our money as they deem worthy.

State Pension Fund’s Gains Do Little for the Private Sector

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[takes big sip of Storrs Central branded bourbon] now to read some posts

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No Escalators @noescalators.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@homefield.bsky.social is opening its first physical store in a basketball town

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A local restaurant in New London — a walk-up seafood shack — is opposing new housing nearby because they're worried about traffic. Everything is so amazingly stupid. archive.ph/f5815

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(Realizing it would sound petty if I just said I don't like your post) Your post jeopardizes an important election

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s kind of crazy that this is going to be revelatory for a lot of people while idiots who post online have known this incredibly important information for years and years at this point

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

how does Riley Grunch have a better handle on reality than the average US Senator?

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Urban Dispatch @urbandispatch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trinity College with an incredible new announcement They will be offering free college tuition + room & Board for any student who lives/goes to HS in its host city Hartford CT Is there any other program like this in the country?! Wow! hartfordbusiness.com/article/trin...

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Trinity College to cover full tuition, room and board for Hartford students

Trinity's Hometown Hartford program will cover tuition, housing and meals for admitted Hartford residents, while nearby counties get half-tuition grants.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

To use a Claude-ism, Anthropic's "economy adapts quickly" assumption is "load-bearing." If the elasticity of capital supply is on the low end, their own model shows AI producing Silicon Valley's feudalist dream: average wages go down, labor's share of income goes down, net return to capital goes up.

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Jack Clark: One thing that happens in the scenario model is just an implied higher rate of activity in terms of churn in the underlying jobs in the economy. Where basically we expect that AI makes the economy run faster in a bunch of ways. We’ve talked about the rate of creation of new firms. I think you would also expect this to lead to the creation of a bunch of new jobs, and then a key variable is how long does it take a person to go from say an “old job” to a “new job”, and also you might imagine how quickly firms rethink jobs within the concept of a firm and reallocate things — these are big variables. My expectation is the economy adapts around these things surprisingly quickly. Nonetheless, the rate of AI progress is so unprecedented that there might be a temporary mismatch as capabilities arrive faster than the rate of adaptation in the economy. Again, that’s a variable where we’re going to discover things in time.

Table 5: Scenarios in 2030 at four elasticities of capital supply.

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It now seems more possible than ever that Ms. Rachel will, at some point, shoot hoops with Senator Bernie Sanders.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day!

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 06/09/2026

Pro tip to any aspiring politician: Be sure to remove the private jet pass from your wrist before shooting an "everyman" propaganda video at the local football game. #GoBucks

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/09/2026

covering trans youth healthcare for years, I’ve known many trans youth and families who left states like Texas to preserve their child’s healthcare. some of those families have been left scrambling, shocked to see the admin’s anti-trans efforts reach them in Mass with its 14,000 trans residents.

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Even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it

Activists are calling on the state attorney general to take action against hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care programs after Trump retook office

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Joe Courtney what you doin babby

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Checking the "No food poisoning" box on DoorDash but it raises my price by $2 so I frown and uncheck it

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Dave @chasinbirdeeee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Love it when @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social comes right out of the gate throwing 103mph.

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sitting in a restaurant, I overhear two dudes at a nearby table: Dude 1: “Chipper Jones” Dude 2: “and Andruw Jones.” Dude 1: “mmm, right.”

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wow, that looks like a lot of really cool stuff for me to take

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cody Bellinger preserves the @yankees.mlbbsky.com lead with a perfect throw to the plate!

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“This is being done with your tax dollars by your government in your name. What are you going to do about that?” A week of ICE enforcement sees upwards of 100 detentions across CT, immigrant advocates say www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-08...

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A week of ICE enforcement sees upwards of 100 detentions across CT, immigrant advocates say

The Connecticut Immigrant Support Network estimates that at least 100 ICE detentions occurred this week as of Thursday night. Advocates say that number is likely far higher.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/08/2026

Can't parody this shit.

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No Escalators @noescalators.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

OMG OMG OMG

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The idea that there is a "Left" in American politics is an absurd right wing fantasy, which of course is politically useful to them, but unfortunately it's also useful to centrist media figures who need it to be true for their somber above-it-all commentary to make sense

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hell yea ctmirror.org/2026/08/23/c...

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

If you wanted people to be less hostile to "AI" then you should have had a different group of liars trying to push it than the ones behind the metaverse, crypto, driverless cars, NFTs etc. "Sorry but we're only so gullible!"

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In the interspecies battle of good vs evil, I’m glad we’ve got the electrified bug zappers.

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Tyler Van Buren @tylervb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the reason you know Axe is right about this is that the culture is always talking about political speeches. you don't need a hook or a bit, just 19 highly curated paragraphs read in a pleasant cadence at a cspan camera.

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