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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
turns out the real National Treasure was the Nicolas Cage we made along the way
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026
Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.
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diana @dianasroom.org · 11/10/2026
I'm still sorting through these but like this thing has folders which contain hundreds of joel valentine's original sound effects for powerpuff girls and this is like fucking christmas for sound effects artists. this is like finding the ark of the covenant
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Com-👻Boo!👻-ter Crimes 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
that pointing soyjak meme template except the foreground guy is the 19th century Japanese depiction of an American.
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Carl Clapham @carlclapham.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This raises some serious questions as to the extent to which the BBC present digitally altered images as reality. This may just be a show about dancing but what policies do the BBC have in place so that this doesn't occur during it's news broadcasts.
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
Kansas
A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question
The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot 
Text: 
Gadget Revieu_

HOME Y

EMERGING TECH / AI

Virginia Data Center Ran
Diesel Generators for 24
Hours. Residents Fled Their

Homes

+

Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

review
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Tracy @poppyphlox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So thanks to this week’s Law and Order I had to try my best to explain what Ai is and isn’t and how it is a bubble about to burst to my Mom… after 30min she just pointing asked “so it’s a Ponzi scheme, a big scam of this guy lying to rip of this sucker and then that sucker turns around and does it
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 11/10/2026
"Acting on their own" is an absurd way to phrase this. These "agents" don't have agency, they just sit there until you tell them to do a task. They were instructed to do *something* by a human, and perhaps misbehaved, but they didn't just decide out of nowhere to start gathering government info.
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.
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shameless wrestling addict @draculaflowniece.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
id die for you. [realises that doesnt mean anything] id kill for you. [realises that's just poser talk] id cook you little meals.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 09/10/2026
Reposting from a(nother) green room:
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mr. Northern Flicker shows off his black cravat and moustache. Always in style #birds
Woodpecker perched on the edge of a birdbath in front of a single, golden elm leaf floating on the water. Bird has black polkadots on its front, topped by a black chest patch that looks like a cravat. He also has a black moustache. This bird exudes confidence.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

kittydesade

Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
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nda🔞 @ndasfw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
THE BURNINATOR
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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
うもむしが出た
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次郎 @batten12.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
bobcat in a box
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026
i know it's one of you | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: A GRIZZLED MAN pacing in a grey hallway on a spaceship. He's wearing a boiler suit and holding a knife.
GM: NOW I KNOW ONE OF YOU BASTARDS IS A SECRET "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" SENT HERE TO KILL THE REST OF US.
GM: AND *WE AIN'T LEAVING THIS ROOM* UNTIL WE FIND HIM…AND KILL 'EM!

PANEL 2: Three more CREWMEN respond.
CREWMAN 2: I- I TOLD YOU SIR, I'M A HUMAN! FLESH AND BLOOD!
CREWMAN 3: ME TOO! I SWEAR!
CREWMAN 4: HEY, HOW DO WE KNOW *YOU* AIN'T IT?

PANEL 3: Back on the GRIZZLED MAN, who pricks his arm with knife, dripping a small amount of blood.
GM: PLEASE.
GM: HOW ABOUT THE NEW GUY. YOU'RE AWFULLY QUIET.

PANEL 4: Just to the right of CREWMAN 3, a COMPUTER MONITOR is on the table, with a pixelated emoticon smiley face on it.
COMPUTER: Hello there! It seems like you're looking for who the computer might be – I bet I can help! Let's all take a look at the facts together.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If every time you "reach across" the "partisan divide", you pull back a bloody stump where your hand used to be, the shortcomings and naivete of this strategy become evident.
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Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Right at the end of growing your own tomatoes season too 💔
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
anyone else feel like this
A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 02/10/2026
the new castlevania being dead cells x hollow knight is one of those things that makes total sense but also feels a little like when star trek picard started directly ripping off mass effect lol. that’s the wrong away around bro
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
yesterday I told this cat he was a good boy for "hunting" a sock and bringing it to me in the bedroom and this morning every one of my socks is missing
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Oh hey look: exactly what a bunch of us said was already and would keep happening— data centers being placed in spaces where their harms will fall on those already most marginalized— is, in fact, happening.
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Noka 🐌 @noka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
dying in old mmos is really funny
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AI bros suggesting the models have some form of personhood reminds me of that thing when business people make an LLC and then make an LLP to partner themselves with it, so they can pretend the business is a separate entity from themselves and defer consequences to it. corporate veil, that's it
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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Sophie Pilbeam 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophiepilbeam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My collection of Madame Web merch
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well yeah she's an adult
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 31/07/2026
My car went rogue after I turned on cruise control and jumped out
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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you, like me, have a congressperson up for election in a safe blue seat or precarious purple seat, it doesn’t hurt to start calling them now, demanding oversight like no one’s ever seen come 2027
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Gen @gentrigger.com · 10/11/2024
“You’ll find plenty of shrines at the edge of town. Shrines to little gods who listen to our biggest worries.” #SwSttrpg #pixelart #ttrpgart
A pixel art illustration from the tabletop roleplaying game Songs we Sing. It depicts a cylindrical shaped owl statue being guarded a horned person wielding a sign like a polearm. The statue's body is covered in a mix of variously shaped and colored stickers. Its eyes glow an amber yellow and two small round brown owls roost ontop of its head. The person guarding it wears a yellow hooded coat. The sign they hold has a U-turn-like symbol and is yellow. The background has swirling clouds and the silhouette of a town
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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G.Face @damdonjulio.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#Sinners
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 27/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "nobody's gonna look back fondly at this shit"
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 27/09/2026
Freshly made is the best! 腕を振るいましたっ☆
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Doomscrolling break... 10,000 years old
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