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Katie Jones @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social · 1h

Last night, I talked to not 1, not 2, but 3 people(!!) in a Mpls apartment, who were unsure that they would vote. I convinced them to vote by talking about the amazing work of @keithellison.bsky.social We need your help to reach voters. It’s go time: tinyurl.com/doorknockmn

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Dan Moore is at Monktoberfest @mooreds.com · 1h

Great insight here that I haven't seen mentioned before (w/r/t AI rollout). Many folks say "AI can be deployed at the speed of software" but there is lots of process re-engineering that needs to happen too.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 55m

And we already know from Anthropic's own code release that they do absolutely *wildly* inefficient stupid shit like "download the entire database each time you need to do a search operation, in a dozen different places"

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 2h

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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large language marge @mcdonalds.help · 1h

If you sue a doctor for malpractice, what happens is an adversarial process where other doctors testify about whether the defendant met the "professional standard of care." What Altman and Kennedy want is for that power to be taken away from them and given to AI companies.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2h

they COULD design their app to make it actually serve the customer, with an easy “reorder” button that would duplicate the order exactly without error it would be: 1. utterly reliable 2. faster 3. cheaper so much “ai” is a sloppy patch for learned helplessness at the corporate level

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tomorrow: sharing a brand-new talk on understanding the psychology that empowers people to invest in metacognitive strategies and the collective problem-solving we need right now. Our usage of technology *and* the way we built it is shaped by the beliefs we have about how our minds work!

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 5h

We really don't talk enough about the Chinese Exclusion Act as an immense tragedy (probably because doing so would raise uncomfortable questions about our current very restrictive immigration laws). city.mofad.org/chinatown/hi...

At the time, there were virtually no restrictions on Chinese immigration to the United States, and by the early 1880s Chinatown teemed with department stores, laundries, curio shops selling paper fans and jade rings, and small restaurants. Soon the thrum of Chinatown spilled out into adjacent streets like Bayard, Elizabeth, and Mulberry. But this expansion came to an abrupt halt after 1882, with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act by Congress, which slowed immigration to a trickle. In the year of the act, 40,000 people of Chinese origin arrived in the United States; in 1887, the country allowed entry to only 10.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 5h

It's good to see that start to change, but there's a long way to go. bsky.app/profile/greg...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 2h

A little context to add here: The fight for the soul of Title IX is longer than this post suggests. It started with attacks on sexual assault survivors in 2015. And that underscores OP’s central point. Schools capitulated then and look where we are now.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4h

It’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 6h

This comes up in SO many contexts (Church/Jesuit stuff too), that "oh we can't do X because donors will be upset!" a) it's usually a bluff b) what new donors might you *attract* with a change? c) how much is your soul actually worth? seriously: what dollar amount would let you tolerate immorality?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

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Silmaria 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 3h

They're looking to hire a law firm that's famous for union busting to defend Mayor Her against the police chief's lawsuit. St Paul, you were supposed to be the city that wasn't a clown show!

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 7h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h

well my day is improved approximately 10 trillion percent

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 5h

Here is an excellent example of framing issues using the appropriate and socially relevant terms, directly addressing the power dynamics embedded in institutions. I wish people would do that more often, especially in the MSM and academia itself.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 5h

A corollary to this important point about AI & invisible labor is that, 100% of the time, the dudes most obsessed with onboarding LLMs into classrooms either suck deeply at teaching or are not teachers at all but instead lifelong administrators who think teaching is “generating feedback” & that’s it

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Ms. K tweets @whatmsksaid.bsky.social · 17h

Cedrick wants to invest in the victims’ services division of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. harm reduction, this is the way. Vote Cedrick Frazier on or before Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2026.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 15h

In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876

A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 15h

Last night, I used some of my extra vinegar to make vinegar taffy. It is surprising ly tasty. 1/2 cup vinegar 2 cups sugar 1/8th ts cream of tartar Pinch of salt 2 Tb butter Cook to 254F (depending on elevation). Pour onto big sheet of parchment paper and cool to touchable.

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Dr AbsP @absp.bsky.social · 16h

I had to wear socks and closed toe shoes today because it was rainy and cold. The weather is an insult to me, personally.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 18h

A rainy Tuesday everything, I made soup and took out the garbage, and now I'm free to curl up and watch a dense tutorial on embroidery software. Project Anonymous appears to be an adorable dad/daughter team.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 19h

it's literally this simple

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JBF @jbf.bsky.social · 20h

Gonna start a blog called Diary of an Anti-Fascist Soccer Mom First post starts like this: When I started volunteering my time supporting my local public high school’s boys soccer program, I didn’t know I was being sent into battle with private equity bullshit on a daily basis.

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Naty (Her/She) 🏳️‍⚧️ @daddy-gringa.bsky.social · 20h

I can't wait for Frey to block all access to it with fences on both sides so no one can use it. He's already done this to the other pedestrian overpass might as well make it less safe for people outside of cars like he prefers to do.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 21h

Holy shit. Friend of a friend encountered a driver on Sabo Bridge today. Driver apparently seemed very confused and lost. Howwww did they get past the concrete barricades on both ends? (For non Mpls folks: this bridge is bike/ped only & paths up are narrow w/ bollards on both ends.)

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Your annual reminder that any treats that have black icing are probably using activated charcoal for coloring which neutralizes meds like, say, birth control pills. Ask my cousin. Quint's 6 now. This also applies to antibiotics and head meds. Be careful, please.

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Libby @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 22h

Good 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and

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ICE OUT State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 20h

Tomorrow’s patch notes for Minneapolis: • removed glitch allowing drivers to noclip through bollards into prohibited areas

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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 20h

I am for this. More housing is good. But it also makes all the Roof Depot bs crystal fucking clear: Frey did not want to give up a piece of land that would one day be desirable for development, he wanted the city to have an excuse to hang on to it until the local gentry came calling.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When the ink is dry and they're all sitting in their offices after a successful midterm with no tanks in the streets, I'll ease up

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Nietifa Van Suiker @lukewanderer.bsky.social · 23h

You're proposing apartments literally bordering the best piece of #BikeInfrastructure in the US (if not on the continent) and you don't include direct access to it?! Point. FULLY. Missed. And that's not even considering all that parking.

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 22h

For those who have been awaiting the next instalment of Lill and Vanu's story … sextonscottage.com/products/the... And if you haven't read the first book: sextonscottage.com/products/the... 🦁🐍

The wait is almost over … Lion & Snake Book 2, The Summer Pass, is out tomorrow!

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certified boogeyman @jagheadroom.bsky.social · 21h

Save the Nut Goodie!

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 21h

I just want you to know that it only absolutely tracks that nobody's favorite # 5 cannot begin to fathom how many people out there do more than she ever could, better than she ever could, & not only without her level of privilege, but at steep disenfranchisement, in fact.

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Diaryofawimpykid Loser Gesture

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 23h

If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 23h

This is what's been so jarring about the evolution of any kind of "verbal commands" technology. It was advertised as being able to parse our sentences, but really ended up training US how to speak to IT. Which completely breaks when they change the programming and we start all over again.

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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw Goody Proctor at the Atlanta Hawks game on February 3, 2024

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Probably the closest local race MSP can help with

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And for knitters, you can get tweed yarn that has those properties, but isn't woven. The close-up shot of this sweater I made for Baz shows the blue in the brown, but you don't see it, exactly, at any distance, it's just a very nuanced brown.

The front of a cable-knit aran sweater in Jameison's Shetland Heather. Close examination shows flashes of blue, orange, and tan in the dark brown yarn

A young man with blond hair pulled back casually posed against a tree. He is wearing a saddle-shoulder aran with a shawl collar.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it.

A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

prescription drug coverage is some of the most demonic shit you will ever encounter in your life. my doctor prescribed me a medication and somehow there are now at least two third-party corporations involved for no apparent reason and nobody knows what is going on or what needs to be done

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 29/09/2026

Activists unfurled a 24-foot-long quilt protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence. Made of 11,000 individual patches representing individuals disappeared by ICE in the state, the “Stolen Neighbors” quilt was stitched together by dozens of volunteers.

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Activists Unveil Quilt Honoring Thousands Disappeared by ICE in Minnesota

The Stolen Neighbors Quilt features 11,000 hand-stitched squares in an indictment of violence against immigrants and a “call for political courage.”

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I resent that I feel weird about using a sankey diagram. Stupid weird AI sex cultists.

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