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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Words to live by from Dan Campbell. If you’ve got a kid who plays sports, doesn’t matter what it is — find them a coach who talks to the team like this and they’ll be influenced forever

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Ben Raven @ben-raven.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MLive's Jake May killing it with the up close and personal postgame photos of old pals Dan Campbell and Aaron Glenn

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 17/09/2026

This is what USAID invested in: knowing where hunger was headed before families began skipping meals. FEWS NET now warns that parts of Malawi could reach Crisis levels by October. USAID built this system to turn data into early action, before hunger became catastrophe.

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Malawi Food Security Outlook Update: Crisis (IPC Phase 3) expected in the south as purchasing power weakens, August 2026 - January 2027 - Malawi

Analysis in English on Malawi about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition and Drought; published on 9 Sep 2026 by FEWS NET

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s terrific. I blurbed it: …transforms our understanding of money, sex, power, and gender in U.S. history…. Startling, heartbreaking and terrifying, Live Laugh Love is a key volume in the new history of how we come to this contested moment.

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I tell you what it is stressful having pretend sons playing in the NFL

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Wendy Wetzel @wendymwetzel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

September weather. Lions on. Game food. The good life.

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Jessica DuLong @jessicadulong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Great Boat Lift — the largest maritime evacuation that rescued 500,000 stranded people from Manhattan — began seconds after American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into 1 World Trade Center at 8:46 am on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Wendy Wetzel @wendymwetzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Saying farewell to a coworker today. 😞

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When Trump took office, most of the people ICE arrested were convicted criminals. Today, only about 1 in 5 are. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Back to school. ❤️

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

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WIRED @wired.com · 11/08/2026

Americans’ increased familiarity with generative AI coincides with negative attitudes about it, according to a recent poll. Brands are also seeing a growing rejection of generative AI in marketing.

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The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

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Wendy Wetzel @wendymwetzel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sign me up!* *and give me the money

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 05/08/2026

There are reasons almost all indexes are created by actual human beings Hire an indexer; save yourself some grief

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Wendy Wetzel @wendymwetzel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New AI metal band name idea: Sandbox Suicide

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Coming here again. I was told there is a particular section of #NewOrleans which does not have any food pantries close by. Many people are hungry but cannot access a food bank. Looking for churches/good human beings that can help me help people on the ground get food. Can you/locals help? I'm in NY.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I skimmed it real quick for us: Walmart, Amazon, App based delivery services, Fed Ex, the variety of Dollar stores, and McDonald‘s are the top employers in most states whose working adults depend on SNAP assistance. Then particular sectors: home health care, early childhood, hospitality, food serv.

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Weird Al Lyrics @weirdallyricsbot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

pausa de hidratación

UHF movie scene where Stanley is telling the cowboy hat kid in front of the crowd he get's to drink from the firehose

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/07/2026

"Every one of these children had a name. They had dreams, loves, and futures. Their lives were as valuable and special as your child’s or mine. They were loved, and somewhere, their families grieve for them."

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Yes, the Cuts to USAID Have Killed

Elon Musk dismisses the human toll of the Trump administration’s gutting U.S. foreign aid—but it’s real and it’s measurable.

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

Large language models are not reasoning machines. They’re plausibility engines. It’s not just that they don’t test their outputs to make sure they’re correct or logical, or that they fail to do so in certain instances. They can’t, and they’ll never be able to on their own. They can only assess which answers are probable, based on the data on which the models have been trained. And that holds true whether they’re trained on the full breadth of human output or only on peer-reviewed scientific articles. It’s baked into the way they operate.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

Google basically say: it's all worth it. But is it? Google now has to burn 1.5x as much energy to make the same $1m in revenue. Compared to 2021, are you getting 2x the value out of Google's services, to justify 2x the climate disasters they'll cause? Is this a good trade-off, to you?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lawyer friends and other experts, all who know, please advise us. What can we do about the most recent Supreme Court Ruling on TPS? Local laws? Call our representatives?

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Wendy Wetzel @wendymwetzel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I love that we’re doing this so so much. Too many good choices this year!

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 18/07/2025

Friendly tip to writer ppl who don't know: Share your shit shamelessly on here. It's super easy to miss bc of chronological feeds. The algorithim ain't gonna do the work for you, your work deserves enduring the slight embarrassment of reposting. If people judge you for it, that's not a fair critique

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned

I can summarize that for you

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21/05/2026

Trump negotiating with Iran.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

1000% going to use "circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so" as my reason for not attending various events.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20/05/2026

“…in the months leading up to a fast-moving Ebola outbreak, the Trump administration slashed aid to the country, leading to a cascade of consequences that probably hampered the detection of the outbreak and the response to it, six people involved in or familiar with the efforts in the region said.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New piece in Science: Sudden elimination of USAID grants triggered waves of violence in affected regions in Africa, undermining civic governance and fueling civic unrest. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.org

Aiding peace or conflict? The impact of USAID cuts on violence

Less than a week after its inauguration, the second Trump administration issued a blanket stop-work order for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the largest national human...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New from @econroy.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern? FAFSA is a big deal for college access. Progress has been uneven, but over the last decade policymakers and a government team have made it significantly less burdensome. It is possible to fix things. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/good-news-...

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Good News! FAFSA is Actually Working

It is possible to fix burdensome administrative systems

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Wendy Wetzel @wendymwetzel.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I have a wonderful mother and I like spending time with her. I’m also happy to be a mother to my daughter and enjoy when she expresses appreciation. Also, Mother’s Day is stupid.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/05/2026

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Wrote a piece for Religion News Service on how the false virtue of colorblindness paved the way for the Supreme Court's devastating ruling on the Voting Rights Act...and how the church buys into the same illogic. religionnews.com/2026/05/01/c...

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/05/2026

Hmm. I just took a ~1500 word piece that I wrote word by word the old fashioned way like the actual writer I am, and ran it through an AI checker just to see what it said, and it highlighted 13 separate phrases that it thinks were likely AI generated. *sigh* This seems bad.

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Wendy Wetzel @wendymwetzel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I was only a bad waitress for one year and I knew this.

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Wendy Wetzel @wendymwetzel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Lines up with leader of an AI webinar today saying she uses a second laptop and dummy accounts for her AI agents because “you just never know.” #thisisfinetho

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/04/2026

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

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