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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Gumby screens that feel like Elden Ring @gumbyscreens.bsky.social
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
do the men in the group chat like each other, i wonder flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...
Do the men in the group chat like each other, I wonder-these men expressing such unmistakable, unrestrained glee as they stain their souls forever and ruin their classmate's life. I can't decide whether they're more odious if the answer is yes or if it's no, but I can't dismiss the question as unimportant, either. These fraternities that the public rarely hears about, except when their members kill or rape: do they foster the bonds of friendship or just cheaply mimic them? When some ex-frat boy needs a lawyer or an introduction to a senator later in his life, when that boy digs through the network of other boys for a hookup, what is the nature of the bond he's leaning on? I want to diagnose it. I'm the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
thecut.com
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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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Go Bills
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Spent the evening watching the docuseries “9/11: One Day in America” (cw), and I averaged about one cry per ten minutes. I had to do something with my hands, so I drew this based on a frame of the footage. 💙
A drawing of the twin towers smoking
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I love how Nintendo hypes up "fully voiced dialogue" but actually it's only in a few cutscenes and once again it's the worst voice acting you've ever heard.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I thought @bridgetgillard.bsky.social’s book on MLMs was great to think with on how right wing movement building is intertwined with grifting in the US. And I couldn’t help but think in terms of consumer protection. My (long) review: lpeproject.org/blog/big-lit...
lpeproject.org
Big Little Lies
What the history of multilevel marketing can teach us about our political moment — and potential ways out of it.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Anyway sorry to get all Buddhist on here but AIs cannot be conscious because the key aspects of consciousness aren't reasoning or logic, they're desire and suffering. "Can this do reasoning?" is just the Fascism-adjacent hierarchical thinking that rates how good people are based on their SATs.
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Sopranos S6 episode “Mayham” was written by Matthew Weiner and is so funny it feels like a spec for Mad Men. It also feels remarkably similar to the LOST finale — which was also directed by Jack Bender! This episode is like the epitome of the 2000s prestige TV.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026
ICYMI: I talked with Mohamed Barry, a longtime resident of Indiana, about what it was like to be taken from his family and expelled to a country he’s never been to on a hellish, 26-hour flight. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
'What America Did to Me Is Wrong': Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far
BY GILLIAN BROCKELL
AUGUST 31, 2026
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.For the first few hours of the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight over the Atlantic Ocean, Mohamed Barry continued to act like himself, which is to say, he expected to be visible to the people around him.
So as GEO Group flight security guards stood over him and the other shackled passengers, chatting casually with each other, he asked them what country he was going to be deported to. They didn't answer.
When the guards started drinking from red and blue plastic cups and the smell of alcohol wafted over to his seat, he asked one of them point-blank, "Are you guys allowed to drink on the job?" No response.Then a man from Eritrea or Somalia, Barry isn't sure which, began to beg the guards to let him use the lavatory. Barry chimed in with an appeal to decency, telling the guards, "Please consider us as human beings." But the guards were boisterous by that point, he said, and they didn't appreciate the man's increasingly loud and desperate pleas crashing their party.
Barry watched as a guard turned and looked at the man dead in the face and said, "You. Can pee on. You." Another guard laughed.
"After seeing that, I just kept my head down," Barry, 52, told me over the phone last week.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly's cover of Stairway to Heaven, by the way, is the best, most imaginative cover of that song ever recorded. I actually think it improves upon the original because when Dolly sings it, you get the feeling that the narrator believes heaven in hell are real and you better watch yourself. 
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sad news, our friend @sorayaroberts.bsky.social has died. www.justatad.xyz/p/soraya
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Soraya
I sat on the aisle at a movie the other day.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 24/08/2026
the sophie cunningham drama was created not to further trans genocide but to keep america from realizing its next gronk is a lesbian from minnesota
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 23/08/2026
Happy Nancy Day!
theatlantic.com
A High-Water Mark in American Mass Culture
Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running comic strip, Nancy, helped establish the way we think visually.
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katherine fitzgerald @kfitz134.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
browns trail 31-7 as they show AI photos of fans on the jumbotron
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Deone Walker is gonna be a star. Adding DJ Moore and a healthy Palmer will really open up routes for Shakir. Cole Bishop can take a step up this year. TJ Parker raises the floor they never had from Epenesa." Jesus, do I hear myself? Just shoot me now.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 03/08/2026
Remember when the NFL banished Colin Kaepernick for life for kneeling during the US anthem to raise awareness about police brutality and racial inequality?
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“power LinkedIn posters”
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I have an indoor air quality monitor in my kitchen (mostly to keep tabs on the gas stove) and the PM2.5 has gradually been increasing all day!
Home Assistant graph of an IAQ monitor, with a trend line slowly rising since 2 a.m. to PM2.5 80+
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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Reader union is in the middle of contract negotiations, and we could use your support.
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
why do so many people on reality shows chop ingredients using paring knives? is nobody in America learning proper knife skills?
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"I built a good life for myself thanks to a union" (mild applause) "and got JACKED" (rips off shirt, flexes) (crowd goes nuts)
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Just discovered the treasury of insight that is the IMDb user reviews of Meet the Press
"Featured Review" - 5/10 stars

Chuck Todd Needs to Stop Lowering his Voice!!

Love MTP and Chuck Todd is great EXCEPT he needs to stop lowering his voice at the end of some sentences. When his voice decreases to almost a whisper at the end of a sentence, it becomes necessary to watch with close caption in order to know what he actually says.
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
screencap from "Last Salute to the Commodore": Lt. Columbo holds up a stenciled sign that says "LISA S."Columbo: "No, that's too obvious."The sign says "L. SIMPSON"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.
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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 08/07/2026
Posting this for a friend. If you're anywhere near the Maryland/West Virginia border, please share.
Missing cat flyer.
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I’m genuinely baffled any time I see a glowing demonstration of consumer tech AI. All these tasks take less than a minute to do yourself and the most complicated task here—“reply to an email”—doesn’t even work.
youtube.com
Apple's New Siri is Actually INSANE
YouTube video by brooke tierney
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/07/2026
"Oh, this is going to be so sweet. My name might even become a synonym for one’s signature. 'Just put your Elbridge Gerry right here,' people will say."
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It’s Time to Sign the Declaration of Independence, and I, Elbridge Gerry, Will Have the Biggest Signature of All
“Oh, this is going to be so sweet. My name might even become a synonym for one’s signature. ‘Just put your Elbridge Gerry right here,’ people will say.” july...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Trump is not America. He's anti American. America is eating birria with some randos on folding chairs in the parking lot of the Food 4 Less watching the world cup on a flat screen wearing my knock off Mexico jersey.
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Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Nantsuba&
A drawing of Nancy in the style of Yotsuba
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
this one at the Guardian, both reflections on the sins and possibilities of our complicated country. I will not be releasing any essays today, in case you were wondering.
theguardian.com
What is the United States of America now? | Rebecca Solnit
The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
But the heart and soul of Springfield’s in our
Maison Perrier
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
These U.S. kits are pretty good but I don't like how there's a big blank space for the numbers that interrupts the stripes. There should be, like, a blue patch with white numerals instead. Or better yet, just have a field of stars we can count every time we need to know a player’s number.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
See who at Scientific American shares your hot takes about books and reading, then join the #SciAmSummerReading challenge for a chance at some excellent prizes: www.scientificamerican.com/article/join...
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 11/06/2026
The stuff of movies #NYK
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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
i believe the american experiment is fundamentally good and worth preserving
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 07/06/2026
God what a fantastic piece
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Who knows if this will get through this round, but it's notable that we're starting to see proposals like this floated. As @amandajean.bsky.social points out, part of the logic here is subsidizing education is bad because it keeps people from having babies: www.heritage.org/education/re...
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Calling the office of the POTUS “the President position” is a classic Dumb QB thing to say
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Along with the great points here, I think people long for tactility. Everyone I know hates the touch screens in cars and prefers dials. A physical media collection is something you can display and organize. A Walkman hums in your hand.
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Javert needs a hobby.
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
What I would give
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff struck student protesters with his car. This is why.
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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.
nytimes.com
Cornell President’s Car Bumps Into Students After Confrontation Over Gaza
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Stephen "Steve" Winchell 🇵🇸 @sawinchell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Simpsons joke of the Cane in Citizen Kane, but this time....it's a little different.... Lisa is saying "Wait a minute, there was no Sorcerer in 'Sorcerer.' and there's a picture of the Sorcerer from DND 3rd edition players handbook in the case
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The Tampa Bay Lightning staging a moment for the crowd to sing the *American* national anthem felt very tacky
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 30/04/2026
Last night in Chicago, Bruce Springsteen dedicated his show to Renée Good, Alex Pretti and uniting against ICE. Near the end of his performance, he handed his harmonica to a boy in the crowd. What he didn't know when he did is that the boy is the son of Marimar Martinez's attorney, Chris Parente.
Bruce handing his harmonica to a boy in the crowd dressed as Bruce SpringsteenBruce looking at Chris and Ollie ParenteOllie holding up Bruce’s harmonica
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Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Some of my favorite Roger reviews are when he’s like “This movie is well-crafted but made me feel bad” (Aliens) or when he can’t help but wax poetic about how much he likes boobs (Striptease). Always a human response.
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