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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@goingmedieval.bsky.social weird medieval question! My understanding is that medieval Europeans had some ideas about what “paganism” was, but that (almost) all pagans were wiped out hundreds of years before. So, where did the common medieval understanding of paganism come from?
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lot of fish can be labeled as "sea bass", so until I hear otherwise I choose to believe that trump was served Toadstool Groper.
Headline of an AP article that reads, "Trump's state dinner for Xi features sea bass and a long list of tech titans"a picture of a red fish resting on some rocks on the bottom of the ocean. It is a Trachypoma macracanthus, also known as a Toadstool Groper.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I mean, unless we're using the definition that violence intended to inspire terror isn't terrorism if a state does it, this is just kinda true AQ is (in large part due to regular and continuing US violence in the GWOT) kinda chilling in the backwaters most places
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One way, I think, so see Piker is as an Overton-window-shifter. He has a platform and uses it to say things that are very leftist, and some might even see as extreme. That creates drama and so gets media coverage, and those ideas gradually begin to seems less radical as people are exposed to them
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"GE warns its toaster may grow human arms and shoot you with a gun" Ok that sounds like their fault. They should do something about that
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
just speculating, but you gotta wonder if they're trying to build a pretense—that their tech is too dangerous to not be under USG control—so the USG will invest in/buy/bail out the company before the AI bubble pops in this increasingly precarious market (and possibly taking the whole economy w/ it)
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Roko's Basilisk has always been dumb and is just Christian particularism for "secular" chronically online tech bros.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 09/09/2026
you know who won't echo right wing 9/11 propaganda? BIRDS!
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#waroncars
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Jacquelyn Rhys 🍂 @fuliginflipflops.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Liz Lemon saying “What a struggle to be born into the new world, huh?” and Jack Donaghy replying “Lemon, it's the time of monsters.”
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I had to find out from my wife several days later that Wendell Berry died, which makes me seriously worried about what kind of people I’m following on here
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/03/m... #WarOnCars
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MIT professor hit while riding his bicycle in Cambridge last month has died, university officials say - The Boston Globe
Thomas Rose, 37, joined MIT in January and was set to begin teaching courses this fall.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I want to ride the everyone mocks Seth Moulton train until the end of the line
An Instagram post from @salemtrash 01970 showing Seth Moulton's office with a Spirit Halloween sign taped on it
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Massachusetts has 351 municipalities. Moulton won in 12
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026
Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and
The results chart from Massachusetts showing Markey winning nearly every city by over 40 points
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just when we needed it most, a new meme is made
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Actually you know what, let me just
A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My conspiracy theory is that Apple’s updates don’t actually require *that* much space but it’s a ploy to get you to buy more storage/ bigger devices
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Andrew Janjigian @wordloaf.org · 02/09/2026
the Earthsea series is RIGHT THERE
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tbf, “Gulf Stream stops in the Trump Ocean” does have a ring to it
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Occasionally I'll see a guy (always a guy) in a parody maga hat and, dude that is not doing what you think it's doing. If I can't tell it's not a maga hat from a 1000 ft away, I'm not double-checking.
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A post of the Norman Rockwell meme which reads "Young people cynically used by large political campaigns, abused, and then marginalized while they reckon with a world of climate disasters and genocide are primed for radicalization, actually."
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Non-denominational churches will have names like “church of grace and love” and then have theologies like “fuck all queer people”
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Simpsons: Mayor Quimby - It's Too Hot Today
Alt: Simpsons gangster - “It's Too Hot Today”
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The problem is not that we’re divided, it’s what we’re divided over.
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Our startup will create toddler car-to-crib transfer devices for uninterrupted sleep. We estimate that parents will pay $7.2 Gazillion for this technology.
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Our startup will create toddler car-to-crib transfer devices for uninterrupted sleep. We estimate that parents will pay $7.2 Gazillion for this technology.
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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 17/07/2026
UPDATE with photos: Hundreds of Mourners Fill City Hall Plaza to Mourn Louisa Gag and Demand Safer Streets mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/16/v...
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Hundreds of Mourners Fill City Hall Plaza to Mourn Louisa Gag and Demand Safer Streets - Streetsblog Massachusetts
“We cannot replace all that Louisa would have contributed to our communities in the years ahead, but we can take collective responsibility for carrying her work forward and honoring her legacy,” said ...
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oak Square remembers Louisa Gag. #safestreets #boston
A memorial for Louisa Gag set up next to the Oak Square , along with yellow flowers and a white makeshift sign that says “Oak Square remembers Louisa Gag. RIP.”
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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 14/07/2026
SCOOP: In 2023-24, @mayorwu.boston.gov's streets cabinet IDed hazards and prepared safety improvement plans for the intersection where a driver killed Louisa Gag last week. But under her new second-term administration, those plans never got built. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/14/w...
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Wu Administration Shelved Safety Plans For Mission Hill Streets Where Driver Killed Louisa Gag - Streetsblog Massachusetts
"We knew there were dangers. We had a plan to make it safer. It is blatantly irresponsible for the city to make a deliberate decision to not follow through."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is what’s wrong with AI
An image from a Google search for “American Pie lyrics” with the AI assistant saying the song is by Madonna from the year 2000. Everyone knows the song is by John Mayer in 2015
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A lost screenplay by Jim Henson was turned into a graphic novel, and it’s really good!!! #booksky
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026
Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
oh no i cant believe it but it looks like donald trump inserted himself into a story captivating the worlds attention, overshadowing a unifying event with overt corruption, in an attempt to seize attention and credit for himself
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Colin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.
Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 05/07/2026
Compare to the way people listened to State Police and evacuated the Esplanade when a possible lightning storm approached. Sometimes it's just good to be in Boston.
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princess fingerblast 🪬🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Emergency Alert

MA State Police: Please evacuate
Esplanade. POPS and fireworks are delayed. Follow staff instructions for shelter. Boston side: evacuate to Boston Common Garage, Storrow Drive. For Cambridge, use Galleria Mall, MIT Hayward Garage.
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If we were talking about any other authoritarian nation, the idea that wanting a change of government is the same as “hating” that country, would rightly be seen as ridiculous.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/06/2026
The critical thing to understand about this air conditioning debate is that fossil fuel companies should be held accountable for destroying the planet.
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Watching the latest @jamellebouie.net video & couldn’t stop thinking about this scene
From Star Wars: A New Hope. Peter Cushing in what is totally not a nazi officer uniform is saying “the senate will no longer be of any concern to us.”
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
is it just me, or has CAPTCHA become more bullshit?
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🧵If you're not in the heatwave but you're reading about the heatwave & esp if you understand the heatwave in its context of broader climate crisis & system breakdown, you may be tempted to embrace the high of *having been right* as a temporary antidote to fear of what our lives & deaths may soon be
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2026
now in video form
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J.D. Vance Versus The View
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Me: Here's a word I know how to spell Word: oh wow, that's so wrong! I'm gonna underline in red how wrong that is Me: you sure? What's the correct spelling? Word: oh, no I don't have a better suggestion Me: ... what if I delete one letter and then type it again? Word: Looks perfect, no notes
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I, for one, love that there was a UFC fight in front of the WH and it was fucking crickets on this site. Even on the NYT, I had to scroll down to find anything about it. Not giving it attention is the best revenge
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hey, it seems like some Americans are actually watching the World Cup!
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Ian @uudude.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
So, AI wrote a song about a technology that is objectively evil but hard to resist, and took the perspective of the villain? That's... interesting. it does slap tho
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Lord of the Rings Disco: One Funk to Rule them All | Music Video
YouTube video by WickedAI
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