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This is the real danger of AI, not some nonsensical theory that it might end all of humanity Whoever controls the bot controls whatever information it allows users to know

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If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

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Caren Gullick @carento.bsky.social · 19h

And then there was this as Amy Klobuchar humiliated Schmitt by telling him that Jack smith was at a Hawkeye game in Maryland on that date.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)

“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.

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Rich @typesandpatterns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026

I said we need the Senate Watergate Committee but for DOGE. I’m no Watergate expert (but my dad was at a Pennsylvania diner 😀 when Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of the tapes ), but there was a huge investigatory staff, right? Do that.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026

In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Ripley's Believe it or Else 🎃 @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Did you know from one cheap bag of ground coffee you can make up to four liters of delicious, extra-strength cold brew? YOU CAN! #comic #art

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's very good that Democrats are starting to embrace the idea that they will take back some degree of power in 2026, rather than getting bogged down in conspiracy theories where Trump declares himself god king and Mike Johnson conspires with the House clerk to invalidate the election.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Rich @typesandpatterns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fascinating discussion putting into perspective what’s actually going on with ai cultists & their doomerism

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump’s Monumental Obsession

The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Greenland “deal” epitomizes Trump. A huge amount of drama, a huge amount of damage that won’t be fixed for years and maybe never. And in the end he gets literally nothing but the diplo equivalent of Danish FIFA peace prize. 🏆 Stood down by Greenland and Denmark. Both hilarious and pathetic. Sad!

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Rich @typesandpatterns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of my lifelong favorites. R.I.P.

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Uncharismatic Megafauna @robrtdavsn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brava, Kate for this (paraphrasing): Democrats for once in your lives stop acting like you're the class president. Just say it: Six fabulously wealthy guys want to become even more fabulously wealthy by destroying your jobs with AI and destroying your communities with data centers.

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.

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Rich @typesandpatterns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Years back, a podcast wondered why Ted Raimi’s character was called “Neil”, in When Fates Collide, according to Whoosh & cable tv’s (?) ai translator. I found the answer & posted it to X, but deleted that account, & forgot what I wrote, so I researched it all over again…

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A modest proposal. The current people building the future are fucking it up. We want some better people to build the future. Perhaps even a future not built by pedophiles and oligarchs and fans of autocracy.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This post encapsulates a lot of my feeling about the Trump implosion—that the sheer scale of it is likely to provide Dems with a template for a pretty sweeping 2029 agenda.

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Rich @typesandpatterns.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring

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Rich @typesandpatterns.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just saw Weird Al Yankovic & Puddles Pity Party’s Oregon shows, & they’re great inspiration for my project (best thing next to Xena herself). Like a passionate stage recreation of MTV’s golden age, with full commitment to their roles. I always catch them anytime I can.

Weird Al Yankovic in Hawaiian shirt singing in front of spinning psychedelic colors

Puddles’ Pity Party, dressed like Pagliaci the clown

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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.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Elon Musk, the richest and most influential man in Silicon Valley, has spent the better part of the last month calling for women to no longer be allowed to vote. What Democrats would have to do to "win back" Silicon Valley is intolerable.

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Rich @typesandpatterns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

John C. Calhoun wasn't a conservative; he was a radical. Stephen Miller isn't a conservative; he's a radical. "Tradition" isn't a real thing that once existed and we can go back to, or something worth conserving, but an imaginary place that they'll destroy the current world to create.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We talk a lot about the importance of voting but in doing so, we romanticize it, and I've come to believe that's a mistake. It's not romantic, it's not glorious, it's not an expression of your ideals or your identity. It's selecting the best outcome for the most people. That's all it is. Do that.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Everyone have a nice two days and get it out of your system, because between Tuesday and Election Day, we are not doing the Bsky "You have to EARN my vote" and "I live in a blue state so my protest vote is fine" and "The two parties are the same" thing. Take all that look-at-me shit somewhere else.>

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

OMB is the belly of the beast. We’re here with @kamlager-dove.house.gov to say slow your roll to the Project 2025 Architect at the helm of the illegal take-over of our federal programs. Enough is enough. We’re fighting back to preserve the power of the people and Congress!

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Reps. Stansbury and Kamlager-Dove: It’s Time to Impeach Russell Vought

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2026

New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."

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Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation

“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Rich @typesandpatterns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Here’s a quick sketch of Eve, Xena’s daughter, done with ball point pen on shirtboard (which I’m really enjoying doing pen sketches on, the ink has much more character). Happy 31st anniversary of Xena Warrior Princess!

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bob Englehart instagram.com/bob.englehart

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So, the 1801 Congress cancelled the Supreme Court for a year. Really. If the Dems again control the two real branches of government, they should threaten closing the Court, because originalism, and then let’s talk “reform.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

if this happens, the democratic president should ignore the stay and keep tearing down the buildling

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🚨🚨👀 Clyburn comes out for Court expansion. Expanding #SCOTUS to rebalance Roberts MAGA Court should now be the standard position of the Democratic Party. #expandtheCourt

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John Jakala @jjakala.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy birthday to Jack Kirby, the ultimate Wife Guy (extremely complimentary).

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026

if I had presidential aspirations, I would be making clear that anyone who tries to take this sale has another thing coming

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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry was a beacon. everywhere he went he told you it was safe for freaks and misfits. After Rocky Horror everything he touched became more interesting. It had Tim Curry, it had to be ok. Special shoutout his Darkness in Legend. The velvety pinnacle of screen devils.

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

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Dem. appointees, #SCOTUS has *granted* the Trump administration’s request to freeze a district court injunction that had blocked the mail-in ballots executive order. But Trump’s EO remains blocked by a different injunction in a different case—at least for now:

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