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Rob cats for face
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Just a guy who enjoys miniature painting cats and being me
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andrewschreck.bsky.social
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
September 28, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all.
September 28, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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propublica.org
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.
September 26, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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smotus.bsky.social
September 25, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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mford.bsky.social
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.
September 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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theguardian.com
Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour to benefit humanitarian aid organisations
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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September 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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joshcrewsreally.bsky.social
Mr. Freeze and Nora by Lee Weeks.
#comics #art
Beautiful watercolor illustration of Dr. Victor Fries and his beloved Nora. From DC comics Batman books.
September 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
Really eloquent writing here bud! It’s a wonder the screenwriting career never panned out.
September 23, 2026 at 2:04 PM
robloewen.bsky.social
Guns have always been censored in strange ways in childrens cartoons. Batman tas had tommy guns instead of pistols the amazing Spiderman tas everyone was using lasers. X-men 1995 had so many laser guns.
ventcard.bsky.social Jean-Karlo @ventcard.bsky.social · 7d
Important to remember: people were REALLY sensitive about guns in the wake of 9/11. Even Gundam Seed, which aired late at night, had to replace its pistols with neon-tubed laser blasters.

This wasn't just 4Kids, this was post-9/11 culture at work.
September 22, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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unbuildingwalls.bsky.social
Damn, didn't realize the gender pay gap applies to sexual scandal payoffs.
Among the most prominent allegations are that Boebert conducted a four-year "romantic and sexual relationship" with a senior female staffer, named as Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, then paid her $200,000 when Ratzlaff broke off the affair and threatened to file an ethics complaint of her own. Additionally, Wheeler alleges, Boebert had a sexual relationships around the same time with Raven Finegan, a congressional employee and the congresswoman's district chief of staff, and Jeffrey Small, who was her chief of staff from 2021 to 2025. The complaint includes detailed financial records of Boebert's congressional spending, and payments to staff that included more than $450,000 to Finegan to June 2026, and almost $780,000 to Small. Ratzlaff received more than $461,000.
September 21, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza

Server: that comes with three sides

Me: I know what shape it is
September 16, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
We punish young women more for being “disobedient” than being abusive, cruel , entitled or harmful

Which really makes the “good girl” rhetoric a lot harder to deal with but more necessary
September 18, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
Omg, I love it.

The Civil War ended 1865. African American newspaper the Freedom's Torchlight, was teaching folks to read. 🥹

"To Make Negro Literature"
by Elizabeth McHenry

Read free #OpenAccess
#Blackademics #BlackSky

library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

(Also The Emancipation Circuit, T. Davis)
1.2 Front page of Freedman's Torchlight (December 1866), a newspaper designed to provide basic literacy instruction, reading material, and lessons in political responsibility to African American adults for whom formal schooling was inaccessible. Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
May 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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johnsipher.bsky.social
September 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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atrupar.com
footage is making the rounds on Facebook of a canvasser wearing a Stronger Maine shirt (a super PAC that supports Susan Collins) stealing a package yesterday
September 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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silversarahj.bsky.social
I know I’m getting older because they rearranged my most frequented grocery store and I am so mad about it.
September 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM
robloewen.bsky.social
Dear Marvel writers im sorry when i was younger i didn't find it believable that Norman Osborn as the head of the Avengers and Hammer (Shield with a rebrand) could ruin the country and escaping comeuppance time and time again no matter how slimey he acted..

i get it now
September 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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merrittk.com
sculpted this dude's skin-cloak, added the chains and helmets. he is inviting you to an honorable duel and is definitely not going to shoot you in the face with the martian death ray behind his back
September 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
“Now seeds,” said Toad, “start growing.”

Toad walked up and down a few times. The seeds did not start to grow.
Toads studies his garden, waiting for the seeds to grow. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*
September 15, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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michaelwarburton.bsky.social
JEFF DANIELS ain’t buyin’ what Hollywood’s sellin’.

Love it.
September 14, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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kallycutie.bsky.social
When you see a politician throwing a minority under the bus, or using them as a scapegoat, remember that if they will do that to them, they will do it to you, it's just a matter of convenience.

Either they stand up for all of us, or they will sell out each of us, one at a time.
September 13, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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danlikescomics.bsky.social
God I wish I was logan
Storm and Wolverine by Terry Dodson
September 13, 2026 at 4:36 AM
robloewen.bsky.social
Hidden cat!
a big grocery bag that contains 90% of a cat with a cute little tail sticking out
September 12, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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mark-carney.bsky.social
On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.
March 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Dear Democrats,

You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition.

The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out.

Stand your ground.
September 11, 2026 at 1:06 PM