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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15h

I prefer the incremental solution that can be implemented through bare-majority legislation (240 Supreme Court justices) to Third Way's radical plan, which requires fully amending the Constitution (term limits)

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can't imagine we're going to see a better performance this year than Marian Bailey in Tender Loving Care. The movie is about what so many of Leigh's films are about--the desire and need to go on, as hope and joy war with despair. It hit me hard. I hope people watch his movies forever.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I also saw Tender Loving Care tonight, and if this is Mike Leigh's final movie, as he says it likely is, what a high note on which to end a singular and utterly distinguished writing-directing careers. This one starts as amiable, even cheerful "minor" Leigh, then sneaks up and guts you. >

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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 15h

please help… my son…

photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms

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Hit 'Em in the Bskets @wykstrad.bsky.social · 10h

The Ebert review for this film is great: "Those who are appalled by the mass execution of human beings sometimes have no problem when the state executes them one at a time." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mr-d...

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Mr. Death: The Rise And Fall Of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. movie review

The hangman has no friends. That truth, I think, is the key to understanding Fred A. Leuchter Jr., a man who built up a nice little business designing Death

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Stephen Mann @themann1086.bsky.social · 15h

TRUMP: Trump ballroom. Practical Trump event ballroom CONGRESS: No, Trump. You can’t have a ballroom. TRUMP: Good ballroom good Trump give beautiful Trump deserve president CONGRESS: Trump, we simply can’t afford a ballroom. It is an unjustifiable expense. TRUMP: jealousy legislator

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

nice

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

🫡

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

coward (adv.): in the direction of the cows

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 17h

When even Bono can dunk on you...

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Hit 'Em in the Bskets @wykstrad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tobias Fünke, sponsoring Factor Meals: "Perhaps an add-on you shall crave."

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Incredible lede on this article www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Hit 'Em in the Bskets @wykstrad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Using their impenetrable slang, the youth of today inform me that Ben Rice is "Unc."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026

I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...

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Dressmaker on Steam

Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

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

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 29/09/2026

A very good read. Pirating the Pirates - Notes from the underground of film preservation, by Devan Scott mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pi...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the plainly stated thesis of this article is that democratic voters disproportionate want and would benefit from a policy proposed by the party, and therefore they should not pursue that policy. apart from being tautological this is bizarre.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

American media: time to come up with the dumbest possible discourse about a Billboard hit British media: You are like a little baby. Watch this

Opinion - UK politics

What ‘Choosin’ Texas’ tells us about Burngam’s social care obstacles

Stephen Bush

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Chris Kenney @ckenney711.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Skinniest OLine in Nebraska high school football history #Lanterns

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Bottlerocket is at work @bottlerocket.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Antkind

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When Smeagol is your Evri courier

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Hit 'Em in the Bskets @wykstrad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I guess Sluggo was getting a pretty good deal after all.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

spilled iced coffee all over myself interviewing for a job at a bank & an HR recruitment coordinator shouted "this applicant drinking iced coffee" & everyone laughed.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026

Every day we get closer to this:

Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Western Massachusetts is none of our business" was Lovecraft's only insight that aged well

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The White Sox have to retire Munetaka Murakami's number immediately. This is the greatest interview of all time.

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Murakami loving his first clubhouse celebration 😂

YouTube video by Bleacher Report

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you use Newman’s Own Brand Hemorrhoid Cream, they give a deserving person a free hemorrhoid.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girl dinner

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Hit 'Em in the Bskets @wykstrad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone needs to tell these Montessori parents that, when it comes to development on land near your kid's school's property, you get what you get and you don't get upset.

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

mitch mcconnell, sit your white ass down and listen! NO NOT LIKE THAT!!! -how you all sound right now

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey @abridged.org why are you platforming NIMBYs in a wealthy suburb (majority white, median household income $124,000) fighting an affordable housing project? Why don’t the reporter attempt to fact check any of the health and safety claims being made? Is this your standard of reporting on housing?

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Rocklin advances affordable housing complex, putting a Montessori school's future at risk

Parents and educators worry building an affordable housing complex in Rocklin could put the school's future at risk.

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Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’ turns 30 today. I wrote about the album, its immediate failure, its delayed success and how it has aged alongside how I’ve aged. A toast to God’s horniest soldier! defector.com/revisiting-w...

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Revisiting Weezer’s Cringe Masterpiece At 30 | Defector

The second project is probably always the hardest. This is especially true if it follows a successful debut. You make something great, and by some act of the gods it catches fire and becomes the new, ...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Onion Sports @onionsports.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rockies Pitcher Pledges To Give Up Home Run For Sick Child theonion.com/rockies-pitc...

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rich men used to fear that a mob from the town would show up and seize their factories and mansions. That ceased to be any concern a long time ago so now, they fight like lions to ensure random dorks on Twitter dot com aren’t telling each other not to buy Hank Wank’s new album because he is a dick.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

yeah the sentencing for this is bleak, the attack is awful, no one's really talking about it, didn't even occur to me that actually yeah this should be making everyone ANGRY angry because i just went "ahh this is fucking dreadful, at least she survived"

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