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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bolsheviks in July of 1917

bro, you’re fine. you just need an impossible sequence of events to play out in perfect order against all odds and you’ll be fine

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I fully expect a defeated Trump would treat the country like the Kennedy Center: If it’s not going to be mine, I’d rather destroy it.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ahem…

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 29/09/2026

HOW do you leave a song this good in a vault for FIFTY YEARS actually what is happening music.youtube.com/watch?v=o3HZ...

music.youtube.com

I'm Into Livin'

YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic

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vchapman.bsky.social @vchapman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just really disappointed in Marvel for not recasting Kang with Don Cheadle.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still find it baffling that, having established in-universe that people’s multiversal counterparts often look different, they didn’t just recast Kang rather than pivoting to Doom with no real setup. It sounds like it’s going to be a bit of a mess.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This whole @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social post is great. But as a guy who’s still out here fighting for the rights of trans people, immigrants, etc., I really want to endorse his last point. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/whats-gone...

goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com

What’s Gone Wrong For the GOP

And some speculation about why.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/09/2026

Many of us would have ducked out of the public eye and enjoyed a private life and dealt with Parkinson’s. Michael J Fox chose to be public. And not just to put his name on things, to go on video and give speeches despite his motor symptoms. Hero

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vchapman.bsky.social @vchapman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I note, approvingly, that this sounds like a book Marvin the Paranoid Android would write. Instant buy.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

xkcd.com/1494/

xkcd.com

Insurance

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Evergreen Tweet:

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if your pet had a bluesky account, what would they post about

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Others will have their say about this, but I think it’s worth pointing out that this - or laundered versions of it - are accepted wisdom amongst a big chunk of our political and media classes and it is simply bad for society when the elites have little or no understanding of *the systems they run*

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*whatsapp dads group chat* me: there's a list online phil: looking now jeff: what list me: best TV shows jeff: on it syed: done 3 opinions already me: I'm doing bluesky who's got threads phil: I did threads last time me: not doing threads syed: someone has to do threads jeff: fine I'll do threads

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great time for a mad king, too. Once in a bicentenary geopolitical shift? Check. Once in a bicentenary technological revolution? Check. Once in a geological era global existential crisis? Check. We hit the trifecta.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 23/09/2026

I think that Andon Labs' Vending-Bench is a nice illustration of the "just don't have that dog in them" theory of LLMs. This is a benchmark where an LLM agent is tasked with running a simulated vending machine, and scored on their earnings. GPT-6 Astra recently set the record at about $15k.

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Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs

We're releasing Vending-Bench 2, a benchmark for measuring AI model performance on running a business over long time horizons. Models are tasked with running a simulated vending machine business over ...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

one thing i'm curious about is what republicans do if november is truly catastrophic. like, if we wake up and democrats have flipped iowa and kansas and florida and republican candidates have lost to independents in nebraska and montana. how do they react to trump?

bloomberg.com

Trump’s Grip on GOP Slips as Midterm Election Anxiety Sets In

As Donald Trump took an aggressive stance on the global stage at the United Nations on Tuesday, several Senate Republicans were breaking from the president back in Washington.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...

After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.”
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics.
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 21/09/2026

I was once at a summit/think-tank sort of thing with a bunch of philosophers discussing social trust (only psychologist there) and I listened to them discussing how people make decisions about what they believe and I remember asking “do you think this is actually how people make decisions?”

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vchapman.bsky.social @vchapman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Relying on solar panels to power the rice cooker keeping the rice warm throughout the day. THIS is the future we were promised!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not me though. I can be trusted to have a large audience and still remain normal. Maybe even more normal than the gods.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As I have written many times the demise of the centre-right is the most important global political trend of our times.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Guy on the tube the other day was playing music loudly from his phone. I tried to adopt a different technique, asking him what he was listening to, and he told me it was stuff he made (using AI) and he wanted to see how the public would react. Now he keeps sending me the worst songs I’ve ever heard

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At the end of the day, beyond the hatefulness, he's really just a spectacularly dumb guy. Like I'm not sure he's achieved object permanence yet. He has to be reminded which hole the food goes in. His internal monologue is the sound of one hand clapping. He calls electrical sockets "finger zappers."

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 15/09/2026

hah! I resemble that thread. in general the transition from drugs as recreation and "it's like hacking your brain!" being deployed at most sort of insouciantly to it being a central, important part of how the richest people in the world manage their lives has been bad for everybody and bad for drugs

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Even a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What's the joke about how by the time you're thirty you need to have accumulated a "thing" that's associated with you, so that every time someone wants to give you a gift and is stumped for an idea, they can just give you another thing. You may not actually like the thing, but it must exist.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Strong endorse. Will say it again: the pundit class's choice (and it was a choice) to overread 2024 as a seismic cultural shift was a catastrophe for this country, emboldening Trump to go full fascist and encouraging institutional surrender in the face of it. This lives on amid his total collapse.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am so fucking tired of having to learn about the beliefs of cooked subcultures to understand world events

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I also do think it is again our old friend "website primarily populated by high achieving nerds struggles to grasp just how messy things can get and so doesn't understand why sometimes in life there is a real need for rules that are clear, simple and firm"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

we have had extensive ratfucking campaigns run by foreign countries in support of the republican party and it is high time the world's liberal democracies got in on the ratfucking in the other direction it's an existential issue for them

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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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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Listen up -- a new drug from Frisco just hit the streets. Our informant @unavaleable.bsky.social says it's some Russian shit, OKB 232 'Compound Glurgnov'. Originally de-icer, KGB brainwasher, billionaires and their buddies love it. Totally wrecks you and makes your junk stop working."

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026

I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

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