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*looking at the worst post of my life* I must not post. Reactive posting is the mind-killer. Dunking is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the Bad Take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the TL refreshes there shall be nothing. Only I remain.

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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 4h

this is just a worm and people have gone to jail before for creating one. again: they are being allowed to break the law in order to puff their product, and sooner or later people will die because of that. there are *already laws* that cover all this.

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p(Dulany) @dulanyw.bsky.social · 11h

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Person who wrote the layout engine for Microsoft Word: absolutely not

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 16h

Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 10h

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 13h

Late night in Kyiv. Another drone threat has just ended. I cannot sleep. Ordered some books. The publisher whose warehouse was hit the other day suggested buying the books that survived. They have traces of fire or water damage. They called the initiative ‘The Fire Didn’t Finish Reading’.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10h

Every word of this thread 👇

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10h

You know who never makes this mistake? Scorsese. When the story is about gangsters in the 1970s and 80s, the music on the soundtrack, and in the bars that they stole from the rightful owners, is songs they liked when they were kids or adolescents, or stuff their parents might've played all the time.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 10h

As Weird Al once observed, a television like this was like having a drive-in movie in your own living room! #TVHistory #histSTM #histtech 📺

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Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 15h

Prompts a fun question: whats the most niche historical inaccuracy in a piece of work that annoys you Not like 'oh they were referring to the wrong king' , more 'they had the wrong king on a banknote in one scene'

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 10h

You want me to use something built by these guys?

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12h

Facebook back in 2021 temporarily turned off the “drive people insane” setting and it completely changed what people were seeing. They turned it back on when engagement dipped by like 1 percent.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 10h

Hi @vauhinivara.bsky.social — I love your work, including this Atlantic piece [ www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1... ], but was really surprised (not entirely in a good way) by the way you presented Pangram: ↵

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Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

The prestigious Caine Prize, announced last week, went to a story with many red flags.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 11h

Blocking didn't really work on Twitter. You couldn't stop ppl quote-tweeting you, you couldn't change who could reply on a post-by-post basis, including after publishing. You could only lock your account and marginalize yourself. It was cruel by design.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 12h

I have issues with Bluesky but I generally enjoy it in a way that I never enjoyed Twitter Because Twitter was always optimized for harassment, from the very beginning.

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zem42.bsky.social @zem42.bsky.social · 12h

it's like how no conservative social media site has ever succeeded because most conservatives' reason for being online is to pick fights with normal people

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12h

Any version of Imperial Rome not *absolutely covered* in Graffiti is bullshit. Rich people would pay poor folks to put messages up on random walls, to sway public opinion. Advertisements too. The most accurate scene in Gladiator is one they cut - Maximus doing an Olive Oil brand endorsement.

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Annoyed Maximus in Gladiator Arena

ALT: Annoyed Maximus in Gladiator Arena

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Mike Beckstrand @beckstrand.bsky.social · 13h

In continuing #FuckICE news, SPPS just announced an enrollment shortfall of *hundreds* of students, many of which are ELL. The social and economic fallout of Operation Metro Surge continues to hit St. Paul and the Twin Cities at a time where these costs are hardest to bear, to boot.

Each October 1st, SPPS compares the number of students attending our schools with the enrollment estimates used to develop our annual budget. This year, our preliminary enrollment count shows that we have several hundred fewer students than we anticipated and fewer students attending SPPS than last year.

We know there are many factors affecting families and communities across Saint Paul right now. Operation Metro Surge, changes in immigration, and fewer new families settling in our community are among the circumstances reflected in our enrollment. Many of the students who are no longer enrolled with us are English language learners.

Behind every enrollment number is a student, a family, a teacher and a school community. We deeply miss the students and families who are no longer in our classrooms. Their absence is felt in our schools and throughout our community.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

rainbow capitalism is important not as a statement of any corporation’s values (for that, look where they donate money and talk to LGBTQ employees!), but because they have access to consumer data we don’t have and they’re conservative by nature. a pendulum swing right now is useful data

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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don't want to go through shit that doesn't kill me but makes me stronger anymore

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12h

Doing Redactle every day is a STRIKING illustration of how underrepresented women are in Wikipedia because searching for "him" almost always yields at least a handful of results and searching for "her" comes up blank a disturbing amount of the time.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20h

Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13h

I did not expect to be as riveted as I was by this article about an ecosystem in a state of imbalance and competing uses of marine resources.

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In Washington State, the Oyster Industry Is At War With Ghost Shrimp

For decades, Willapa Bay kept native shrimp in check with pesticides that are now banned. New solutions have been hard to come by.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13h

Rep Ilhan’s success is a threat to the mediocrity of racists.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18h

So they’re torturing this guy.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

Oh Wow.

Tweet one:
James Talarico posts a picture with Kacey Musgraves.

Tweet two:
Kristi Noem responds "I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.

And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico."

Tweet three:
Kacey Musgraves responds "I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it."

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zem42.bsky.social @zem42.bsky.social · 13h

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? AI researcher: you are perfectly correct, the dates don't line up, and that's on me.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 14h

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? cartoonist: that's where the employer subconsciously decides what activity is suggested by the presence of those two jobs on either side of the gap

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 20h

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18h

Exactly as predicted: Elder abuse. This is from Danny Trejo’s son, Gilbert Trejo. Not only did Ben Shapiro’s camp trick the elder Trejo about what the movie really was, he apparently signed a contract barring him from even putting out a statement about it.

For anyone seeing this shit with my dad...
He was booked on a film, it's not pro-ice, it's not overtly pro anything. His agent described it as "a complicated story about a complicated time, where everyone looks bad except you, the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace"
He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy.
About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.
My 82 year old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro, I had to explain to him who that is, and what kind of guy he is.
My dad contractually can't bad mouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement he wanted to.
It's fucked up. He's handcuffed to this stupid project, and swaths of people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts.
Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of google's searches, and made us look like angry fools lacking any nuance. He wins.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14h

"There is no excuse for this and you know why I’m furious right now,” the judge said. “I was hearing from plaintiff’s side that this was going to happen and I said ‘no’ repeatedly, ‘I trust the government.’ I trusted you all repeatedly to not do what you have done...” www.ms.now/news/you-did...

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‘You did your absolute worst’: Judge blasts government after she says it defied her on D.C. golf course case

A livid U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes called an emergency hearing after the government flouted warnings to notify the court before cutting down more than 10 trees at East Potomac Golf Course; it cut d...

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 14h

As someone who has become a small business owner within the past year, and whose COBRA benefits will be expiring in less then a year... yup. Shit is fucked.

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 13h

This is so grim

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 13h

smoking is gross and smells gross and pollutes the air, ground, and water, selfish comemierdas

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Meanwhile, @calmerfuture.bsky.social just called this "Anne Frank adjacent."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Got asked this all over again in February, replied: We are facing such horrific brutality. Politeness is not really the problem. I think we got into this situation in part by a lot of people in the mainstream thinking it was more important to be polite than to call things by their true names.

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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

The writer and activist on how political change happens and taking the long view.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

hiya just thinking about how if the establishment and the media had spent the past decade hammering the right for actual bad shit they'd done as much as they hammered the left for shit they made up to hammer the left over we might be a bit better off ha ha just having a nice think about it

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Important watching for everyone and a good explainer of why what Zelensky just did is good for the whole world.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/10/2026

Can echo this sentiment (though at a much smaller, more niche scale)! I thought leaving Twitter would impact my reach and my livelihood. Nope! Turns out organic engagement still wins out over bot-bloat.

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Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

👁️ Delhi, India. Pandwala Khurd Community Centre. Civilians that attended a peaceful protest (including children) were kidnapped and beaten by authorities. 📸 from disha verma’s (@di_shawarma on X/Twitter) recount. Though the civilians have been released, international solidarity is needed 👇

$disha verma @di_shawarma ... This is the most horrific detention story you will hear today. At 8 PM, this bus stopped at a community centre in Pandwalan Khurd (see photo). Detainees fractured. Four minors present. Everyone barbarically beaten up. No lawyers allowed to enter. This is how we got here.$ disha verma @di_shawarma • 36m
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Peaceful protestors were detained from CP & taken to LIC—in a space sealed off from lawyers, journalists, crowds.
They were made to kneel down in a row.
Cops frisked them & physically snatched all their phones.
One by one, they deleted videos and photos, and kept their phones.

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Peaceful protestors were detained from CP & taken to LIC—in a space sealed off from lawyers, journalists, crowds.
They were made to kneel down in a row.
Cops frisked them & physically snatched all their phones.
One by one, they deleted videos and photos, and kept their phones.

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The detainees were told, time and again, that nothing will happen to them if they cooperated.
They did. And then they got brutalised. One by one, in those tiny bus compartments-everyone was hit.
An officer identified to lead this extrajudicial violence is named ARVIND KUMAR.

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They then profiled & selected some detainees and took them into buses used for convicts, with tiny compartments & no airflow.
@DelhiPolice then BEAT THEM UP, black & blue. It was described to us as "merciless thrashing" with only screams escaping that suffocating, jail-like bus.

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Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Urgent call for international solidarity with protestors in India. Please amplify this as much as you can. Source: x.com/di_shawarma/...

$disha verma @di_shawarma • 36m • • • Remember, no detainee had their phones on them. They had NO IDEA where they were. They had been on the road for hours. Beaten up. Several fractures. Dizzy. Scared for their lives. This includes MINORS. Shortly after, @DelhiPolice cut off electricity at the community centre.$ disha verma @di_shawarma • 36m
This bus circled around Kapashera and Najafgarh for an hour. They knew lawyers were waiting for them at Kapashera and Chhawla PS.
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They touched Chhawla PS by 6.53 PM & fled promptly.
By 7.30 PM, they touch Pandwalan Gaon. By
8 PM, they were forced into a community centre there.

disha verma @di_shawarma • 36m
This bus circled around Kapashera and Najafgarh for an hour. They knew lawyers were waiting for them at Kapashera and Chhawla PS.
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They touched Chhawla PS by 6.53 PM & fled promptly.
By 7.30 PM, they touch Pandwalan Gaon. By
8 PM, they were forced into a community centre there.

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Some brave detainees found a phone & called us with these updates. But they're scared that if seen with phones, they will be tortured again.
As of 9.15 PM, doctors are enroute Pandwalan Khurd. They will be delayed by closures in Central Delhi and other state forces.

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Here is what we need right now:
ALL EYES ON PANDWALA KHURD
COMMUNITY CENTRE.
A hostile crowd is now forming outside the centre. Cops are feral. Everyone is on high alert.
We need to ensure the detainees make it out
ALIVE, if not unscathed.
REPOST AND CIRCULATE THIS NOW.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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