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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 1d

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. HAVE YOU EATEN TODAY?

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 2d

This is actually very funny

#NutmegSky

Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 2d

Leaning into the witchy allegations hoping to catch your attention.

Healthcare is on the line, it doesn't take a psychic to see that.

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 2d

An image from from the film Avengers: Endgame. An older version of Steve Rogers (Captain America) responds with "No, I don't think I will," depicted as white text in the image. This older version of Steve Rogers has short hair and is wearing ordinary clothes: a plaid button-down shirt and a beige/grey windbreaker with the collar turned up. He is slightly smirking.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 2d

I got 2/3 correct; this was a challenge! If you've got a little time, check it out.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3d

Hey all, I'm trying to get a baseline for how good people are at detecting whether fiction is AI-generated or human-written (most of the research on this is for nonfiction and my hypothesis is we're better with fiction).

If you have time, give it a try?

jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...

AI vs Human Fiction Detection Test

jlp-experiment.github.io

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 2d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 3d

A shower curtain that is a screenshot of Ocarina of Time where the text “Water Temple” is on the screen, hung up over a shower.

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 6d

I sent my teenager into Market 32 last fall to get four books of stamps for holiday cards. They made him go back to the car and get me, because they thought it was "too weird" that he'd want all those stamps.

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 8d

This is really great, thank you for putting it together!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10d

Increasingly, I feel as if these self-proclaimed coalition builders talking about "winning the middle" aren't talking about the people they hope to win over. Rather, they're talking about themselves, and defining what it will take to keep them in the tent. Not opposed to purity tests; issuing them.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11d

I’m still processing what happened this morning.

Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11d

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16d

One of the big asymmetries in US politics is how Republicans getting more votes from men is a major crisis for the Democratic party that must be addressed, perhaps by abandoning some values, while Democrats getting more votes from women is a nonissue for the Republican Party, not worth discussing.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 16d

Has anyone made progress on a decent TikTok alternative?

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 16d

No one could make these things up. I once had to sweep the pavement outside of a loading dock because it was “too sandy” (there was a regular amount of sand on the ground)

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16d

Once she asked me what I was doing for work in Italy and when I told her we had spent that day picking up fallen leaves by hand because the unit didn't have any rakes she said "I understand if you can't talk about it if it's classified. You don't have to insult my intelligence by making things up."

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 17d

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 17d

The other 10% will probably be a new task force to study the housing crisis and make recommendations in 2030

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 22d

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 22d

Connecticut, please listen to me: we need something new. We desperately, desperately need more housing, and Lamont will continue to stand in the way. Do you know how your town committees select delegates for the state convention where the gubernatorial candidates are selected? Start figuring it out.

Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 22d

Friday night @ginnymonk.bsky.social housing drop?!?!

Must-read, as always
ctmirror.org/2025/09/19/c...

Political challenges of CT HB 5002 depicted in Ned Lamont’s texts

The texts show how affordable housing has become a political quagmire for Democrats, with some urging him to sign it despite voting no.

ctmirror.org

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Hugh Bailey @hughsbailey.bsky.social · 22d

Reminder that this group and their complete incoherence were what swayed Lamont to veto housing reform. Great people to take political advice from

Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 22d

Oh look, it’s Connecticut’s NIMBY group dropping the veil by commenting on the NYC Mayoral election and claiming that “DEI is the real cause of America’s housing crisis” (the crisis they claim doesn’t exist)

These are exclusionary charlatans and no one in CT politics should take them seriously

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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 22d

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 22d

Great to see comrade Scabby in attendance

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22d

Happening now: Protest to bring back Jimmy Kimmel outside ABC Disney Studios in New York City

Protester holds sign that says “where dreams come true”

Protester holds sign that says “the mouse is a rat”

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 22d

Rep. Himes (CT-04), ever the defender of decorum above all else, unsurprisingly voted in favor. I’m so fucking tired

#nutmegsky

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22d

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.

shame.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 282
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

H RES 719 YEA-AND-NAY 19-Sep-2025 10:53 AM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk

Yeas Nays PRES NV
Republican 215 4
Democratic 95 58 38 22
Independent
TOTALS 310 58 38 26

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Niki Dykstra @enephdee.bsky.social · 23d

This is an incredible thread of media orgs you should check out, and support

onion person @junlper.beer · 23d

it looks like the only way to have honest media is directly support them. i currently subscribe to WIRED and rolling stone, and about to subscribe to 404 media. any other WOKE and antifa media orgs i should support?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26d

This is out-Sovieting the Soviet Union. "You are free to express any opinion at all as long as it's the right one, and the consequences for all the others will be severe, and ratting out is an important part of our free society."

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 26d

they're going around and documenting flags that aren't at half-mast for Charlie Kirk

Vance Patrick
@vance_gop

Hey @Chase, why isn't your Barclay Circle Branch
in Rochester Hills, MI complying with federal and
state orders to lower the flag in honor of Charlie
Kirk? You've had since Wednesday to lower it...

Adam Gillen
@Adam_M_Gillen

I went on a personal crusade around Hastings
and got several flags lowered. Had to have others
join me in getting the Hastings ACE Hardware to
lower theirs, they said "Lowering the flag would be
making a political statement." Before they finally
caved under the pressure.
7:58 PM • 9/14/25

Donna Harvey
@DonnaHarve55152

This is a Shell gas station in Goldsboro NC. Who
didn't bother to lower the flag...

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