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Balderdash
@poppycock.bsky.social
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We live in the dumbest and most corrupt timeline.

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chadstanton.blacksky.app
Between this and Jay Z this is the most Kaep has been in the press in years and I think it says a ton the people still holding anger behind him protesting the police are billionaires and Fortune 500 CEOs.
October 5, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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risabrooks12.bsky.social
With Hegseth in the news this week, I’ve noticed him using a particular rhetorical tactic: packaging highly ideological messaging to the military & public w/ (superficially) reasonable & substantive policy proposals.

Before I explain what he is up to and why it matters, here are three examples:
October 4, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
You can find this image on the artist's website (donatoarts.com/middle-earth). It's oil on panel, painted 2011. It's a well-known piece (although it was new to me!).
MIDDLE-EARTH
Welcome to Donato Giancola's official website, featuring over thirty years of art excellence in science fiction, fantasy, and imaginative realism. Renowned for his meticulous detail, Giancola offers a...
donatoarts.com
October 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
No ulterior motive for the federal government to leak a story to the NYT about gangs of teenagers selling guns to cartels. The main people trafficking guns are cops.
www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime
These high-powered weapons are only meant for police. How are they ending up in criminals' hands?
www.cbsnews.com
October 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and the environment, saying ‘our nation can’t afford to lose’ the race for AI dominance.”
Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.
www.theverge.com
October 2, 2026 at 9:44 PM
poppycock.bsky.social
Lethality Pete is on a bender. Impeach this clown.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7d
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, having a totally normal day: “Lord, here I am. Send me. Send me to fight the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me.”
September 30, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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katz.theracket.news
Well looky there. Never too early to preorder! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Legend of Skokie: A Story of Free Speech and Fascism in America
An eye-opening reckoning with the most mythologized free-speech case in American history—a legend that has shaped politics for half a century.In 1977, neo-Nazis announced plans to demonstrate in Skoki...
bookshop.org
September 28, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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faineg.com
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below.

Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
Ann Pierce @itsannpierce 20h I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology. I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again. This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein… People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc. Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!) Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun! I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great! Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky. Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone. And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity. I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
September 27, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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christianaellis.bsky.social
Bowie Day 336 “Perfect Day (Cover)” (1997)

Bowie is just one of MANY big names contributing to this cover of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day”, made as a charity single to highlight the range of musical offerings on the BBC. Debated whether to include it here, but it’s lovely.

youtu.be/wP-uxfmD6dc?...
Perfect Day - BBC promotion (With Artist's names)
YouTube video by TDpictures
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September 25, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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fpwellman.bsky.social
Enough is enough. Public service shouldn't mean personal enrichment. Ann Wagner has lined her pockets and served her donors instead of us. I know what service means. I'm ready to go to DC and fight for the working people of Missouri.
wellmanformo.bsky.social Wellman For MO @wellmanformo.bsky.social · 11d
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#TeamWellman
September 26, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter.
HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO.
Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government.

Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.
September 26, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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akivamcohen.bsky.social
Listening to the hearing in the challenge to Trump banning Politico/MSNow/etc from the WH

Parties will get 20 minutes a side. Judge starts with "where I'm at, so you can tailor your argument"

"I have to start with the DC Circuit precedent that exists ... DC Circuit held in Sherrill there's a
September 23, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
It is tremendously funny that a group of out-of-state professors who were appointed by a conservative governor suddenly pretend they have faculty governance rights, by doing things like taking votes of no confidence when they don't like how their political project is going.
September 22, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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weakinstrument.bsky.social
1/n: Because of record-breaking diesel prices, the Trump Admin is reportedly considering a diesel export ban. There is one part of the country that this would squeeze tremendously, risking physical shortages that would prevent people from heating their homes in winter: New England (PADD 1A).
September 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
At least some members of the Supreme Court will say "yes, this is what the founders wanted. They wanted the President to have the power to use his public office to punish his political enemies. That is what the revolution was for."
September 20, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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waxmonkey.bsky.social
yes but lets call them what they really are, organized crime doing business as a sovereign state
September 18, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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masonfromtwitter.bsky.social
For example here is one where they think they can out run a woman athlete in a sprint.
September 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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ivanthek.bsky.social
He will never understand monetary economics. He was a non-investment grade issuer in the private sector. He does not have the capacity or the curiosity to learn fiat currency economics.

Note, he doesn't mention Warsh.
September 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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unclefishbits.bsky.social
Sensationalism clickbait media & Silicon Valley narrative-crafting bullshits hubris:

There is likely less threat from AI vs AI research hitting a wall w/ no growth, AGI is nowhere near.

Convenient to "slow" AI development to protect the accounting grift that is the AI bubble coming for them. FACTS
September 14, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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doctorow.pluralistic.net
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus:

pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
September 12, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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generalboles.bsky.social
Congratulations to whoever decided to put the notoriously size-obsessed Trump next to Ireland's biggest unit
U.S. President Donald Trump attends an arrival ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin on September 12, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. Behind him is an Irishman in military uniform who is a good foot taller than Trump
September 12, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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theatlantic.com
After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats, and Americans are still living with the consequences, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
A Quarter Century of Panic
After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats. Americans are still living with the consequences.
bit.ly
September 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”
September 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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walterolson.bsky.social
The Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute convened "Civic Right" gatherings for conservatives who support democratic civic norms. New report distills eight takeaway themes plus various state-specific observations (Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Alaska, Wyoming, Pennsylvania). /1
snfagora.jhu.edu
September 10, 2026 at 8:43 PM