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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 28/09/2026

Ya know, it’d be really neat if companies stopped sneaking AI features into their products and forcing us to use them.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The underappreciated point here is that taking the messy, contingent nature of scheduling, communication, and navigating social relationships is something that AI people think these tools can do. When in fact it is quite difficult and takes a lot of social skill.

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Secret Ingredient - Gator Days

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026

Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hilbert, 1930: Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen! Hilbert, 2026, aus dem Himmel: SO GEHT DAS NICHT!

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the most capital-R Romantic things I believe is that the notion of authenticity is both very real and very ethically important

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 28/09/2026

By my wonderful colleague Katy Gero: A 4-month artist residency, Feb to May 2027, at the School of Computer Science at #USyd, "to support artists working on projects that involve serious consideration of computation and its related subjects." Share broadly, and apply! www.writefutureslab.com/air/

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Artist in Residence

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

call me when there's an AI agent onto which i can offload my chronic sense of dread that just around the next corner is an existentially important task i've forgotten to do that's about to bite me in the ass. i am not interested in models which require me to turn the dread into tasks myself

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can do it. We can replace academic journals with a vast network of pen pals.

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time I see this argument, I think of Steve Jobs. He always said that the undergraduate class that had the most impact on him was calligraphy. Today he’d only be allowed to take computer science and never encounter the learning that changed the world.

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A.L. likely @alvildalikely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What if the quicksand we were concerned with as kids was a metaphor for the cycles we get ourselves stuck in as adults?

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Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 26/09/2026

Me, a human woman in the ER: I’m in a lot of pain. Them: No. You’re not.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 26/09/2026

Incidentally, the pattern on custard creams represents ferns. More generally the style is that of William Morris, in tiny biscuit form. I was not aware of any of this when growing up, only that being allowed to have a second one was a rare treat and having a third decadence beyond imagining.

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

it's so funny niels bohr was a naturally gifted athlete. imagine challenging the father of quantum theory to a friendly game of ping pong and he proceeds to thoroughly push your shit in

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charact... There's an interesting linguistic problem going on in China called character amnesia, where using convenient digital input methods kinda wipes the memory of the character itself

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Character amnesia - Wikipedia

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I was a kid my uncle had a pet shop, which, when you think about it, is a pretty odd thing to have as a pet.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Agreed. Find your own sexy man, you lazy git.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.

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Vaishnavi S @vaishs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saw a student wearing a T-shirt which said “Iced coffee club” today and dissolved into peals of laughter that I could not possibly successfully explain to my very-non-Bluesky colleagues!

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Linda Hamilton @daydreamflowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New work: Invasive species made with paper. #sciart

Phragmites, Water Chestnuts, and Water Soldier paper sculptures

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I apologize in advance for the cuteness I am about to unleash upon you I went outside again, you see This red squirrel had a little shelter of sticks and he stepped out into the sun to show me his FEETS 1/

SQUIRREL FEETS in the sun. They are attached to a whole squirrel. But the fact is we are looking at very cute little squirrel feet here, top one percent for sure

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Do what you hate first thing in the morning to get it out of the way" Me: *wakes up*

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 24/09/2026

"Day 223, orbit 3456 — We’ve all heard the saying, “Don’t play with your food”... To be honest, in microgravity, it’s hard to resist!" says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. 🎥 ESA/NASA #εpsilon

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026

this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory

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Toby Murray @tobycmurray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sick of hearing about #AI #agents breaking containment? Want to apply formal methods to develop secure, verified sandbox tech atop #seL4? Want to work in beautiful Melbourne? Multiple #postdoc roles available at various levels. Apply now unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UOM_Ex...

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Role type: Full time, Fixed-term until November 2027 (part-time considered) Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Salary: Level A - $87,266 - $118,416 p.a. plus 17% super Level B ...

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.

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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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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Wasn’t even that old, probably a millennial” is absolutely ice cold.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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AuntieTennis.bsky.social @auntietennis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is all kinds of awesome 🩰🎾 #Tennis #Ballet #CarlosAlcaraz

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