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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If your news network is interviewing a guy who claims he spent 18 days in heaven hanging out with Jesus, that is not actually a news network.

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

COMIC: 100 Billion Stars

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Hot Metal and Methadrine @unityandsolidarity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So It’s another fucking Ponzi scheme to funnel tax dollars to these dipshits. In my 17 years/7 combat tours fighting in the GWOT, never once did it occur to me “you know what would improve this? Some ketamine addled nazi dipshit, a fat, smarmy ham faced fuck, and a failed video game developer.”

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

eliezer yudcosby. come on guys. make this catch on

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 21/09/2026

"Can't hear what the President's saying." Honestly, who gives a fuck what he's saying? It's some kind of hateful and self-serving lie, whatever it is.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Particle board, particle board There’s a big pile on the office floor What in the world are we saving it for? Nobody knows Particle board

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

David Heinemeier Hansson called for the extermination of Romani people, comparing them to animals. An entire roster of tech tycoons responded by each personally giving him $1 million for his open source software project, even though he’s already wealthy enough to have a personal race car team.

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 17/09/2026

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to start a sex cult as somebody nobody would ever want to have sex with

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 17/09/2026

The Roku Basilisk: if you don't actively contribute to the formation of superintelligent AI, its eventual inevitable embodiment will resurrect a simulation of you and force you to watch an infinite amount of cheap TV.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s alarming how much influence Hasan Piker may potentially one day have in the Democratic Party. by Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, David Duke, Thomas Rousseau, James Fishback, and Alex Jones

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 03/09/2026

Yet another way AI is ruining the internet: online shopping

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In July, a new ICE agent with a history of domestic violence and mental illness killed a man in Maine who even ICE admits posed no threat to him. Now we know that internal whistleblowers at ICE were sounding the alarm about the agency utterly disregarding normal hiring rules.

In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a dire warning.

The Trump administration, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the law and fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency — and its law enforcement operations — to “grave national security risks.”

Citing an “unprecedented lowering of standards,” the career ICE official said that “systemic breakdowns” had allowed applicants to receive job offers before they had passed basic fingerprint, identity or credit checks in a preliminary vetting process. Political appointees had unjustly skirted background investigations and received national security eligibility.

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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

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ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’

ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s what the Sermon on the Mount gets wrong.

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Air Budd Dwyer @deliciousmalk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026

thinking about how they were having to fire & arrest people to try to bully them into being sad about some of these fuckers, and if you want the whole world to stop and grieve your loss, there's one simple life hack: be a good person who just wants to do good things

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

alternatively

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL CORVIDPUNK with last word in green and black type

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 20/08/2026

might be an awkward time to ask but what's a spreadsheet

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 20/08/2026

anyway this is maaaaaybe the most perfect shot I’ve ever taken; it’s not fancy, but I’d just watered the yard and the African daisies were just… out there, looking this good for no damn reason on a Wednesday

An African daisy of orange and yellow gradient, with a dark purple/red center and droplets of water on its petals. Taken with an iPhone and a cheap clip-on macro lens. No filter, just tidied up for contrast.

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Gary, IN has been abandoned just like so many other predominantly Black cities have been when disaster strikes About 40% of the city's 67,000+ residents have been without power for over a week. No refrigeration or AC during the heat of summer - I can't see this happening in a majority white town

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‘I can’t take it’: Thousands of Gary residents go over a week without power after deadly storms

Residents in Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas are struggling to stay cool, fed and connected after storms cause prolonged power outages.

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Our Lady of Perpetual Disappointment @rkfatheree.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Finally found a dead person voting and it’s a Republican senator.

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Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Headline: AI May Be Able To Cure All Diseases. Sure. My cat may be able to grow thumbs and develop mind control to take over the world, but I feel the Great Reign Of Queen Miss Luna Ferocity Shadow is more likely that universal cures from slop.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 18/08/2026

Facebook Marketplace is the best way to show things to Puerto Ricans, but boy is it also fraught with peril. And no, after a "review", they still blocked the ad.

We rejected your Marketplace listing
Why this happened
It looks like your listing sells an adult product, or contains sexual content.
[Ad text:]
Cachorro macho muy amable
[picture of puppy]
This goes against our Commerce Policies on Adult Content and Sexually Positioned Products.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 17/08/2026

My novelette "Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" (which is a Hugo finalist this year, yay!) is coming out in audio on Sept 1. It's a Murderbot Diaries story about ART: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... the text version is here: reactormag.com/rapport-mart...

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Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy Audiobook on Libro.fm

A 2026 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novelette!Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover...

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

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With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 12/08/2026

A serious candidate for president in 2028 MUST be running on the no compromise platform of holding criminal trials for every ICE agent and every administrative official behind these decisions

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

He may be waging an illegal war nobody wanted that’s getting Americans killed while making things more expensive for you and also send his masked secret police to harass your neighbors for no reason, but at least he’s crashing the economy also for no reason

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 05/08/2026

I love studies of how people use the same words to talk about wildly divergent core values like "democracy" or "freedom".

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A Stillness In The Air @verasev.northsky.social · 05/08/2026

I remember this dude in highschool used to shove his hand down the crack of his ass and make people, usually girls, smell it by shoving his fingers under their nose. this is his era.

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The Answer-Man (Thaddeus Howze) @ebonstorm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I can't believe we have to pretend this fuckwit with his vaccine skepticism is the hero in this story. TEN THOUSAND EXPERIENCED SCIENTISTS AND DOCTORS say he is wrong. Why is he in charge? To misinform people. To allow people to be preyed upon by business groups. To ultimately kill people.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We're doing this because it is critical that people in the same physical community interact with each other more in low-stakes, positive ways, and also it makes life more fun. Maybe you know someone who needs a pep talk/off ramp from the stranger danger mindset. www.eventbrite.com/e/1994617919...

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How to Talk to Strangers

There are 8 billion new friends out there. Or at least encounters that can make memories and good stories. And that’s all life is, really.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 01/08/2026

Hey @ebonstorm.bsky.social, May 8 of last year you posted a fantastic analysis of tech in Star Wars, but I only had a Facebook link to it. Any chance you still have that? Fuckin Facebook.

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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

nearly 5 years later, i've finally gotten around to cleaning up the p5.js version of this sim and putting an interactive version online for scicomm reasons. increase trails for a trippier educational experience. michaelchimento.github.io/p5_githubpag...

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Cultural diffusion simulator

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Amazing what happens when you put an anti-science, terrrain theorist crank in charge of public health and let him and his cronies fire anyone doing science-based work.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Reading some of the commentary on the Odyssey movie, I'm reminded of how lucky it felt to be doing Beowulf as a kids' book, in that you kind of can adapt an older morality (harm foes, help friends) because you're depicting kids, for whom that sensibility is natural.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

You know what’s fucked up? That’s right, everything.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Liberals say that our democracy is dying. They’re wrong— our republic is dying.

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The Answer-Man (Thaddeus Howze) @ebonstorm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A TRINITY OF PRIMES Student magi, including a precocious urchin, a clockwork android, a demon-using prince and his thread-binding servant prepare for their graduation unaware it will alter their nation's perception of magic. thaddeus.substack.com/p/a-trinity-... #Omniverse #Fantasy #Magi #Fiction

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A Trinity of Primes

What if mathematics was not a tool for magic, but the heresy that unmade it?

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 23/07/2026

Our Equitable Federal Workforce team has been following some labor-protection struggles: 1/3 unbreaking.org/issues/equal...

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Equitable Federal Workforce: Timeline — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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