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Victoria Stewart @victoriangothic.bsky.social · 19h

If you wanted someone to get to know you, what horror movie would you show them? Mine is apparently too obscure to have a gif but kusama’s the Invitation (2015.)

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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026

For years, Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has set out to erode our system of checks and balances of power and to concentrate power in the hands of one person: President Trump. Now he’s quietly making it all happen. 🔊 Listen to this episode: propub.li/3TzIyaA

“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” - Russell Vought, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whether it’s Obama saying “yes we can” or Donald Trump say “we’re gonna shove it up their ass” both presidents adopted divisive slogans.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/10/2026

Message from Beyond - art by Edward Gorey (1996) www.tumblr.com/atomic-chron...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

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Victoria Stewart @victoriangothic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lucky enough to see Killer of Sheep on a big screen and hear the man himself discuss it.

Charles Burnett accepted an award at UCLA

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

priceless 😜😄

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Victoria Stewart @victoriangothic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I could not pick Hasan Piker out of a line-up and I know nothing about him except the the GOP keeps trying to make him the face of the Dem party.

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Victoria Stewart @victoriangothic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My husband was playing Valley Girl by Frank Zappa for my 13 yo and it was hard to explain novelty songs. I think it’s strange how they have completely dropped off the map.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Victoria Stewart @victoriangothic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A couple of months ago, I was playing charades (yes, charades) and I got this as my prompt….

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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

Wow! Can we clone this man? Asking for every American City! 😍

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Victoria Stewart @victoriangothic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I doubt my 16 year old and 13 year old living in LA have heard this song either.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They are playing in our faces

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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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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation, the largest conservative think tank, is leading the charge against America’s public school system. See the post below. As I discovered, they’re simultaneously trying to replace public schools with Christian nationalist ones: civildefenseinstitute.org/features/her...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When OpenAI asks for a bailout—not if, when—say no. The chances the company can honor its financial commitments are very low. They’ll say they’re too big to fail, and taxpayers should cover their losses. Govt will have to help unwind commitments and contain the damage, but shouldn’t save OpenAI.

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Kevin Vognar @somnule.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think the logic is that there are two groups: straight white conservative men, and everyone else. And that those two groups should be equally represented. 🙃

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CaptainWonkoTheSane @captainles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE now says the Doordash delivery driver was shot because he tried to flee. People need to go to jail. Cops aren’t allowed to shoot people for the simple act of running away.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When you’ve lost white people in Florida.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026

Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

But there's a second hurdle that makes it hard for a small but important subset of humanity to understand that chatbots aren't people: the billionaires to whom nearly *everyone* isn't a real person.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

Anyone can help you with the smooth parts of becoming a better writer. Only a good teacher can help you find and refine the *texture* that will make you a *unique* writer.

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The Deportation Project tracked them. forbiddenstories.org/the-deportat...

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Protesters outside the Kennedy Center singing 'America the Beautiful' 🥲 #KennedyCenter #protests

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the thing about Trump we know from an entire lifetime of him building things is that he can post about how his arch has gun turrets and death rays and a rocket launcher and then when it's built it'll just be a guy up there with finger guns making pew pew sounds

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Victoria Stewart @victoriangothic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Bitch of Living from Spring Awakening is on a loop in my head. Rest in peace, Duncan.

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DCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 19/09/2026

At the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1000s have linked hands and are demanding “Hands Off the Arts” while surrounding the center.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 18/09/2026

US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026

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Truthout @truthout.org · 18/09/2026

The Trump administration is reportedly considering a dozen data center projects to be built on public lands, a plan that would grant tech firms at least 17,600 acres of protected lands across six states — Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.

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There Are 0 Data Centers on Public Lands. Trump Is Considering Building 12.

The Trump administration quietly fast tracked a data center project in Nevada earlier this year.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

goddamn that feels good to hear

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026

Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, including renting out a private island. National security experts say it raises an urgent question: What motivated Kremlev to spend a fortune cultivating the connection?

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, we are here, now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

bari weiss' entire career is built on the fact that she is really good at one thing: convincing powerful people that she is smart and competent and on their side david ellison is not playing three dimensional chess, he thinks bari weiss is amazing and she's going to build him a media empire

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.

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