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Just trying to find my way in the big, crazy, mixed-up world. He/Him Punch a Nazi everyday!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h
Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 6h
How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case www.thecut.com/article/corn...
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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Gerald @xedregulus.bsky.social · 18h
1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
cbc.ca
Researchers are discovering more infections that can cause cancer | CBC News
New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, it happened to me. Check out my brief investigation into TechBullion, content farms, and one completely made-up article. thenerdybird.com/thank-god-fo...
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Thank God for Google Alerts - The Nerdy Bird
"None of this Is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Disgusting, desperate behaviour from Bradford here. Please share and support the incredible folks at the National Observer!
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Dr. Jim Getz @jimgetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Televangelist meme of a man saying "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me."
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Chelle @gamingpixie.com · 28/09/2026
When even the "Jewish space lasers" lady is calling BS, you know there's a problem
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I'm Just Em @emlikesthis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hellboy? Hell yes!!! Get it ALL for $25 on Sweet Shop!
sweetshop.app
It's ya boy!
If you wanted a lot of Hellboy, we have a lot of Hellboy and some friends he made along the way.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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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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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/09/2026
There were no handshakes between Ireland and Israel players before their contentious Nations League match, with the Irish team wearing black armbands for its 3-0 win.
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Ireland players wear black armbands and refrain from handshakes in soccer game against Israel
There were no handshakes between Ireland and Israel players before their contentious Nations League match, with the Irish team wearing black armbands for its 3-0 win.
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Gerald @xedregulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On this Day in 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in his laboratory. This discover has saved countless lives around the world over the last 100 years. Not mine though; I'm allergic.
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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 27/09/2026
What I know from speaking to people in the building, this would not happen. BUT if you get this player survey you should still tell them Absolutely No!
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Michelle Rapp ➡️ MagicCon Atlanta @kilnfiendpotter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's the same reason divorce rates went up in the 60's. As it turns out, people don't like being abused.
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Ally Roth @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
it's weird how some people wake up each and every day dedicated to doing whatever it takes to harm the earth and all its inhabitants in ways that will be generational and potentially extinction level.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/09/2026
Police are investigating the killings in a country with one of the highest femicide rates in the world.
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South African police discover body of 10th woman near Johannesburg
Police are investigating the killings in a country with one of the highest femicide rates in the world.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guys! Susan Collins just said she's having 'doubts' about the President's plan to murder us all! She is hinting that she could be voting AGAINST this new bill!! I told you she was the last reasonable Conservative politician and YOU didn't bel-- Oh, she just voted to murder us all. Never mind.
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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 24/09/2026
Welp. Can’t unsee that.
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Gerald @xedregulus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is Israel erasing evidence of "alleged" war crimes in Gaza? www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
cbc.ca
Is Israel erasing evidence of alleged war crimes in Gaza? A visual investigation | CBC Accessibility
CBC’s visual investigations team uncovers satellite imagery that shows the IDF removing rubble from sites in Gaza that it bombed, which experts and human rights advocates warn risks destroying evidenc...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/12/2025
As a starting point I think the CEO of every company offering chatbots should be *personally* liable for all the text their chatbots produce. as though it was a direct conversation with them
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Michelle Rapp ➡️ MagicCon Atlanta @kilnfiendpotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
FWIW, I feel safer with any of my Furry friends than anyone from the Republican party.
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VAL🦴HAL @valhal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The teeth are getting extra gnarly after the potatoes oxidized
The same pumpkin but the potato teeth look rotted and gnarly from oxidization
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Editorial cartoon: I couldn't decide which idea I preferred so I drew them both. It's incredible how some politicians don't hesitate to embarass themselves.
caricature of Tommy Tuberville speaking while Baloo and Don Karnage stand in the background
TT: Would you be comfortable with a mentally ill furry being your pilot?
DK: He is to be talking about us, yes no?
Caption: Sen. Tommy Tuberville says 'Deranged' furry culture is flight safety risk
Forbes.com Sept24/2026cartoon: Peanuts style of Tommy Tuberville standing next to Snoopy as the World War One Flying Ace with his Sopwith Camel
Caption: GOP Senator Ahead of Midterms: Furry Airline Pilots are 'Terrifying'
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Chelle @gamingpixie.com · 24/09/2026
On top of being illegal, this does not seem politically sound
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
War criminal and perpetrator of genocide Netanyahu mentioned Hasan Piker in his UN speech, and insodoing made this a clip that exists
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Look a child in the eye and treat them with respect when you talk with them. You might find they're wiser than you are. Teach them. Motivate them. And for god's sake, make them laugh. They need it. And you need it, too.
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Sesame Street: Kermit and Joey Say the Alphabet
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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Chelle @gamingpixie.com · 24/09/2026
So yeah, I won't be eating beef again until at least 2029
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Gerald @xedregulus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
FAFO www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
CEO who posted about wearing 'Lake America' sweatshirts to Halifax is no longer CEO | CBC News
The Michigan tourist who recently went viral over a Facebook photo where she and three family members appeared to be wearing "Lake America" sweatshirts has parted ways with her employer.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Men have NO business telling women anything about their bodies or abortion. This woman ATE him up.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
83% agree that everyone should have access to the same reproductive health care & rights. 71% said they are proud of Canada’s support for abortion rights & reproductive health care worldwide. Previous research shows when abortion rights are attacked elsewhere, it strengthens *our* pro-choice views.
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Canadians support access to abortion services at home and abroad, poll shows
Even as Ottawa focuses on trade and security, respondents overwhelmingly want the government to be a world leader in reproductive health and rights
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour to benefit humanitarian aid organisations
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Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour to benefit humanitarian aid organisations
The US rapper, removed from Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after voicing support of Palestine, has convened a charity show that will visit Dublin, Paris and London, with a North American run to be announced Macklemore has announced a “Free Palestine” tour, a series of live shows that will feature the US rapper performing alongside musicians and friends to raise funds for humanitarian causes in Palestine. The news comes after Macklemore (AKA Benjamin Haggerty) was removed from Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour after he called for a “free Palestine” onstage and said he wanted the people of Gaza and “the occupied West Bank” to know “we have not forgotten about them”. Continue reading...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“And that, my friends, is the new climate denialism to a tee, with an Orwellian spin on ‘sustainability’ and utter defeatism with respect to how to jointly tackle the affordability and climate crises.”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/09/2026
US Secretary of State Rubio said the summit would be an 'opportunity' for Putin to engage with other world leaders.
aljazeera.com
Trump invites Putin to Miami G20: Why that matters
US Secretary of State Rubio said the summit would be an 'opportunity' for Putin to engage with other world leaders.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 24/09/2026
in which I get real pissy about Newsom enabling the Paramount merger, vetoing protections for abortion & gender affirming care providers, and pulling policy fakeout after fakeout while acting like he's the saving grace of the left
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sorry but even though it’s an unpaid position, this strikes me as extremely weird!!!! Appointing his own wife? Seriously?
CBC headline reads: Diana Fox Carney appointed Canada's 1st ocean envoy, chair of Our Ocean Conference

Halifax to host international conference on ocean conservation in 2027
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Rocked @rocked.net · 24/09/2026
The Podcast That Rocked for 9/23/26 ft. Lern of The Rizzuto Show and 105.7 The Point. Louder Than Life, Riot Fest, and Shaky Knees VS MOTHER NATURE, another Kid Rock festival craps out, more. SONG OF THE WEEK: Architects “Machine” rocked.net/festival-woe...
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FESTIVAL WOES at LTL, Riot Fest, Shaky Knees | The Podcast That Rocked ft. Lern | Rocked
The Podcast That Rocked for 9/23/26 ft. Lern of The Rizzuto Show. Festival Woes at Louder Than Life, Riot Fest, and Shaky Knees , another Kid Rock festival craps out, more.
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Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 24/09/2026
Her name was Kerri Moynihan www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
Parents' suit alleges sexual harassment at Activision drove their daughter to suicide
Lawsuit filed by parents of employee who took her life at company retreat alleges Activision Blizzard failed to prevent pervasive sexual harassment.
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here is a really fascinating history of Asterix the Gaul, which is one of the truly great comics in the world. Just incredibly well researched talk. youtu.be/A7sxrGKasyc?...
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How Asterix the Gaul made modern France | Untitled History Podcast Episode: 27
YouTube video by The Untitled History Podcast
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Gerald @xedregulus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today's alternative Headline: "How is Trump Being Hypocritical Today!?" www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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ANALYSIS | Trump loves Chinese trade — as long as it's with the U.S. | CBC News
American officials have scolded Canada for making a deal with China. But the numbers show the U.S. does vastly more business with China than Canada would possibly dream of.
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taking brisket away from Texans might be what turns Texas blue
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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