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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 43m

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 3h

I would respect this whole conversation a lot more if "We have to use AI" finished truthfully with "because powerful people are forcing us" instead of leaving it like it could be pixies

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 15m

Bit of a hard sell these days. 😬

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18m

They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 22h

Paulinkskill Viaduct in New Jersey. Part of the Lackawanna Cutoff. "When completed in 1910, it was the largest reinforced concrete structure in the world." Soon to reopened for trains.

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Chambers St (J)ared @jaredjct.bsky.social · 8h

I will never forgive LaGuardia Airport for designing every aspect of the new terminals in subway tile and art while refusing to allow a subway extension

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 8h

Any comment Wes Streeting? Or will you call the coroner a liar as well?

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 13h

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 59m

In other news, satire found dead in a waffle house dumpster.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 3h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 3h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 1h

skyline of philly with speech bubble to quoted skeet

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 1h

Me: [laughing my nonspecifics off at 'wiggly air']

My wife: "...you're just jealous cuz electroswing is fun"

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 1h

First JKR, now Jordan Peterson living through their own personal Resident Evil 7's.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4h

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Pumpkin Spice Chicken @werechicken.bsky.social · 1h

$30 has been collected, bringing the total needed for 10/16/25 down to $385 remaining.

Thank you for helping me clear the first hurdle, and I’ve got a chunk of time left to go. Every bit and boost helps!
PayPal.me/chickenbokbok

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 1h

See it's actually the other way around, we told The Story of Johnathan so often we just started calling it The John-

wait where are you going

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2h

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2h

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

Here's a link for $10 off premium.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
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$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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ALCA, Goddess of Lust 💜 @flailmorpho.bsky.social · 1h

if you fill out your punch card you get to say a slur for free

ellie @ellieglassheart.bsky.social · 2h

I will never get over how unfortunate Sonic Racing Crossworlds having this in it's beta was

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 8h

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2h

Letitia James is a former public defender and public advocate. She's spent most of her career on the side of the marginalized and underprivileged. And let's be honest: Trump is attacking her because he doesn't want Black women in positions of authority in this country.

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 2h

Claim and celebrate ALL the victories

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

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Genderflux Superfluid @rewhan.bsky.social · 2h

Again, there's no legislative mechanism by which she can do that, and even if she does it anyways, it's all downside.

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 2h

Les Whittington: Alberta Premier Smith made it clear she would see anything but a go-ahead from Ottawa as a powerful accelerant for the smouldering Alberta separatist movement.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

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Hugester Leone @websterleone.com · 2h

So my job might be fucked and unable to pay me for a month, so, I guess if folks are interested in comms... websterleone.com/commissions

Art Commissions by Webster Leone

The terms of service and submission form to get custom art from Webster Leone.

websterleone.com

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Kernel Decoy @kerneldecoy.bsky.social · 3h

I badly need help... got a big bill coming up. If you can, please consider donating..
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3h

Indonesia is denying Israeli athletes entrance visas, which will prevent them from keeping in the world gymnastics championships.

This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like.

apnews.com/article/indo...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia will block Israeli athletes from competing at the upcoming gymnastics world championships in Jakarta, a government official said Thursday.

The decision to deny visas to the Israeli athletes comes after their planned participation had sparked intense opposition in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, which has long been a staunch supporter of Palestinians.

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