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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is something about the way Claude writes that makes me feel like I am having a stroke. It's simultaneously pedantic about details but also often subtly wrong and/or unclear in explaining and describing those details. It always feels slightly off in an unsettling way.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The biggest US transit story of this year has been the massive growth of Seattle Link Light Rail ridership in the wake of the 1 & 2 lines connecting The Link moved more than 5M passengers last month, up 39% from last year, and it's now America's biggest light rail network!

a graph of seattle link light rail ridership

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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train

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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok so basically what half these proofs show is that every beautiful and perfect result in mathematics is just another fucking Borwein integral under the hood and we never bothered calculating hard enough for the scales to fall from our eyes.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A tree that took 250 years to grow getting cut down by Donald's jackbooted thugs in minutes is the type of on-the-nose symbolism that would have a writer panned by critics as a hack.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 05/10/2026

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026

Everybody's loving this clip, for good reason, but it should remind everyone that cities therefore have an obligation to build enough housing that all these marginalized and outcast people can come and afford to live in them on minimum wage *without* becoming homeless. YIMBY!

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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think this one is my favorite I haven't already seen here

Original post: "happy earth day! fuck off mars, you piece of shit!!!"

An attached screenshot has Chrisjen Avasarala from The Expanse (played by the inimitable Shohreh Aghdashloo) saying this

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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

biden and lula both entered office without majorities sufficient to actually pass any real agenda; this is the root reason why both failed (well, lula might pull it out, but it'll clearly be phyrric). this should be motivation to lock in for midterms so the next dem president can actually govern

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i’ve got a new bit, now i just say “sorry i don’t speak chinese” in perfect chinese over and over until they get mad and hang up

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

if you’ve never chased your friend around a yard cackling madly and spraying them with one of these things you haven’t truly lived

Super soaker 50 20th anniversary edition

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026

"I'm supposed to be tough. What happens if I faint?"- here's fun footage of Curtis Sliwa & Mayor Mamdani getting their flu shots together, including Mamdani offering to hold Sliwa's hand 😆 (Sliwa takes him up on it!) (Flu season is approaching and NYers can find free flu shots at nyc.gov/healthmap)

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 12/09/2026

But there is simply no reason that I can see that an “advanced AI” must behave in this way. Humans, for example, famously don’t. Things that act like perfect expected utility maximizers over an open world are actually quite rare, and it’s not clear that we know how to make them.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sure, you are notionally shooting things, but the correct response to basically any kind of high value enemy target is strategems and making *heavy* use of orbital and eagle strikes. At least that's how it was when I played a while back.

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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i am experiencing

cat sitting under a ray of light. enjoying the light

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026

People are going to clown on this but we need to remember that planning for local context is important: a city with Los Angeles, California’s semi-arid Mediterranean climate only gets sunshine ~300 days a year; so it’s important to make sure you can never ever find shade in the middle of the day.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i feel like part of this is because we're slowly shifting back into a oral culture after being a written one i think writing does lend itself to slowing down a bit and also less direct emotive appeals

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want a Batman story in which Bruce Wayne invents video games, ultimately providing a low-cost home entertainment option that helps significantly reduce street crime from the mid-1990s onward.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

either this will be so obvious as to be insulting or it will come as a surprise, but the limiting factor on a bunch of projects for me right now in this bold new agentic area is my personal throughput on editing and rewriting copy with my own moist brainmeats

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cyberpunk 2077 is still mid at best even with the DLC, I’ll take cash or check thank you

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

genuinely I think we would be in a better place, morally, as a society if all of these fraudsters were in jail and people saw that there were consequences for behaving in such a flagrantly antisocial manner rather than endlessly lucrative rewards

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s nice to know that, as a nerdy and insufferable kid with good standardized test scores, I could really have turned out a whole lot worse

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026

reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 25/09/2026

companies should broadly aim to tolerate and even promote the maximum amount of non-harmful, non-antisocial variance in their employees, and this is the principle underlying DEI, which is still an extremely powerful force for corporate success and profits

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

some pilots are part of the furry community

An illustration of the Ralph Lauren Polo bear dressed up as a pilot and standing in front of a red airplane. The text says "Polo Aviator by Ralph Lauren."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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solavattam @honorabledoofus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People should buy these shirts before the Rangers owner finds out what this means

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

World Championship Pond Crossing at the Sugarloaf Bike Park in New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦 IG: @crankworxsummerseries www.instagram.com/crankworxsum...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

are you fucking serious newsom and bonta should be raked over the fucking coals for settling

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 22/09/2026

Has your loved one recently gotten into Warhammer 40,000 and now wants to talk to you about their new obsession? Don't worry, you don't have to leave them anymore! I am going to give you a handy guide to the 40K universe and factions so you know what they mean when they sound like a crazy person.

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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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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

kalshi and polymarket should be banned altogether, not allowed to encourage users to start margin trading

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026

A friend sent me this one last night.

Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
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just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

what is 'Latent Space' and how do LLMs get answers from it? The Jargon can be confusing, but the exaplanation is actually relatively simple: It is Hell. The Machine is getting knowledge from demons.

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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

they sent Pikachu to space without a plan to return. June 17th was when he ran out of oxygen. Goodbye brave rodent 🫡

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Russell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 21/09/2026

Airplanes don't actually fly, they just exploit pressure differentials across a cambered surface to generate lift exceeding their weight.

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