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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 3h

39 years ago HR from Bad Brains with his trademark backflip on stage with the band in Munich, October 1987 Photo by Rusty Moore #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #HR #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: CEO said a thing!

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 17h

In case you weren't aware, the only competent Republican speaker of the House in the modern era was also a child molester

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geographyofrobots @geographyofrobots.bsky.social · 16h

NORCO is $5 on Steam until Thursday October 8th.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23h

To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎶Here I come to save the day!🎶

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Plangdi Neple @plangdi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pub day! I'm so glad that Nameless Saviors is now available to read at @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social What if you could save a country that would rather kill you than admit its problems? It has government corruption, drunk shenanigans, and final year stress 😌. www.tractorbeam.earth/story/namele...

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Nameless Saviors | Tractor Beam

Uncle, why does our house always smell bad?

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026

Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i'm not watching it now, but since other people are and i did watch it recently twice, i really enjoyed #TheLastVoyageoftheDemeter and would be down to watch the sequel that seems implied at the end #FrightClub

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Jobe @jobe00.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is also artwork like this from @lartist.bsky.social. He-Manos and Torko.

He-Manos and Torko riff art on the movie Manos: Hands of Fate. Artist is Lar DeSouza aka lartist here on Bluesky

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This year is the 35th anniversary of Timothy Zahn's HEIR TO THE EMPIRE, which touched off a wave of Star Wars novels that has never abated. So naturally I had to write about it.

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Star Wars: Reading “Heir to the Empire” by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 1)

On Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire, the first novel in his acclaimed Thrawn trilogy, which relaunched Star Wars franchise fiction after a half-decade hiatus.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the lyrics were fake, but he still did a song on kid rock's christian album

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's funny because I feel the same way about smart and well-intentioned people falling for a scam being perpetrated by Silicon Valley guys who have done nothing but run scams that made them rich after the tech press told everyone that these guys were geniuses.

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the kind of work the current FBI could definitely get up to

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Defunding policing was and is the floor.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…

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Boo-face Sicko @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I tried making a sarcastic joke on this, but it didn't work. I think anonymous internet users trying to drive every successful Black writer out of publishing with the latest pseudoscientific lie detector test is bullshit actually.

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His Novel Had a Shot at a Top Book Prize. Then Someone Ran an A.I. Test.

“It Was Either That Or Die,” by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 25/09/2026

A fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies sat waiting for a post-credits scene at the end of My Dinner With Andre. paletteswap.site/dif...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The racist thing. The most racist thing he can think of is “the kind of thing Trump likes to do.”

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel like you're probably cooked when Amnesty International calls for a wing of your actual government to be entirely dissolved (also yes it should be, actually the entirety of Homeland Security should be dissolved because it's a super recent and dumb invention we never needed in the first place)

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 25/09/2026

Fighter pilot J.J. Hyde, son of Joseph and Millicent Hyde, of San Juan, Trinidad. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit, No 132 Squadron. Took off at 15:25 hours on 25 September 1944. Shot down during battle of Arnhem, he was 27.

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why does it look like a weird stormtrooper head?

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026

hey, so here's a hot take: even Elon can barely carry the whole Elon schtick off anymore, and his little engineer foot soldiers aren't even close this is nontent, nobody wants to hear this

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everything for our kids. Because all our kids are all our kids.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i was on the train today and answered my phone twice. i didn't realize it was the quiet car until i got off though. since then i've felt very bad and contrite

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

discord's determined i'm an adult. little do they know i'm actually a pyramid of toddlers

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

democrats really need to learn some things from south korea and hungary

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn." They'll probably fire him eventually too

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Frog and Toad were sad for a while.

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