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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 13d

DIDO: Remember me, but ah! forget my fate on this device

Paul F. Tompkins: Something so poignant about "remember me on this device"

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 16d

People don't explore art because they've been taught to dominate it vis-a-vis their relationship to it. They buy it or own it or beat it via critique or click like. It's all impositional. It's all imperial. Just a billion little empires.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17d

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18d

CHOTINER: And when was that?
MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago
CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a-
MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish-
CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17d

Half-baked but: I keep thinking about shame, and how in the past people in government might have had a sort of built in firewall against doing the most egregious shit we’re seeing. But now the info environments are so separate that they get *positive* reinforcement for just absurd action.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17d

chotiner: u always order "...and fries for the table"

me: sometimes people's meals do not come with fries

chotiner: does your meal always come with fries

me: ...yes

chotiner: is there anyone else at the table

me:

chotiner: we can revisit this later

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 20d

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 20d

Trump: FDA will be updating label of existing drug

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 19d

i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade

what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with

404 Media @404media.co · 19d

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of Women Being Shot

YouTube removed a channel that posted nothing but graphic Veo-generated videos of women being shot after 404 Media reached out for comment.

www.404media.co

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ceej @ceej.online · 20d

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 20d

I think two (2) of the things people are really responding to when they watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social are 1. Sincerity and 2. Fearlessness and the Democratic party, as it currently stands, is afraid of sincerity.

Both of these traits are free and anyone can start right now. Post something true.

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 21d

I just made a soup consisting only of green cabbage, potatoes, 1 tsp onion powder, and vegetable broth and it was the best goddamn soup I ever made

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21d

cabbage is the unsung MVP of the brassicas

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 22d

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 22d

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23d

you can't force me out of my epistemic bubble. i have rent control

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · 23d

As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall chuse to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 22d

*inventing Bluetooth* Well, it works about 60% of the time. That’ll probably be good enough forever.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28d

Good piece here; still feel like this should be refrain from Dems every single day. Literally no one would be honestly for it if they could be convinced its happening.

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 29d

Here is a nice mushroom

A red aminita mushroom with a white stalk on a forest floor

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · Sep 11

I was just there a few days ago! #denali

Denali National Park with brilliant reds in the foreground, a braided river, and yellow trees in the background.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 9

Told you so.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oh that’s so wonderful to hear. It’s been too long since I’ve read MP. I have to revisit… sometimes it’s infuriating (Maria and Edmund’s behavior) and sometimes it’s soothing to me and I can never predict which! But it’s always brilliant and I always feel so connected to Austen.

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · Sep 6

Wow, thank you so much for sharing and your kind words! 🥰 We’re honored to be your favorite podcast - I’m sorry for the long hiatus, but we’re hoping to get back onto a more regular schedule!! Thanks for listening :)

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Sep 6

POV: you've just been thrown off a balcony by the beatles (Beatles are looking down and delighted that you are splat on the ground)

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s(pace) j(unk) @sprayadhesive.bsky.social · Sep 3

lots of stuff! but most notably,

a post from me from january 2nd 2025 that says "marriage is incredible there's just a guy in my house who lets me have mental illness at him and he's like 'i love you let's eat cheezits'"

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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problem goose @mammothfactory.bsky.social · Aug 29

this is the hot celeb couple everybody’s talking about, every man wants to be the bird and every woman wants to be the buffalo that’s got the pointy bird

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