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scalzi.com
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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lesliejanderson.bsky.social
You guys wanna see a dead body?
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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nora.zone
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
October 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Oct 1
Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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jbau.bsky.social
This whole section really.
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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jakeweindling.bsky.social
Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · Sep 11
The flags were lowered last night around the base by order of President Trump after the killing of Charlie Kirk and will stay at half-staff on this U.S. outpost in southeast Cuba until sunset on Sunday.
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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taliajane.bsky.social
you wouldn’t know this but i’ve covered how tpusa built itself up & took advantage to force themselves onto campuses where they were unwanted.

(i assume you also are unaware of the massive protests against their events, too).

so let’s recap!
September 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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daniel-barker.bsky.social
I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.
September 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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queenofthesouth.bsky.social
Anti-vaxxers aren’t questioning the science, they’re questioning who deserves to live
September 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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edroso.bsky.social
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
[twitter] Jesse Spafford @jessespafford Can't believe the evil Dems made Trump appoint RFK: [embedded video of Ham-Face bloviating] Erick Erickson @@EWErickson • 18h My wife is caught in the crosshairs of the CDC mess and vaccines. The left says "you voted for this," but they built the foundation for RFK's rise. x.com/i/broadcasts/1..
August 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire

www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit
“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
www.ballsandstrikes.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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nome.bsky.social
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.

Two genders - male, and political.

Two religions - Christian, and political.

Two races - white, and political.
August 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
jbrinke.bsky.social
Google used to have a googlesearch command in sheets that allowed for dynamic updates (I used it to track "magic numbers" in MLB playoff races)
They shut that down, I'm assuming because it was occasionally inaccurate, and a resource hog.

And then this comes along.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 19
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ... theverge.com The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5 successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting with in 2023. Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output." The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses." Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary ...
August 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
I'm not sure if anyone noticed this but Microsoft are not only offering a system that returns inaccurate values in Excel - they warn that updates to copilot means spreadsheets will be returning values that *wrong in different ways each time*

This is going to be absolute chaos
Notes: The COPILOT function requires an active internet connection to access the AI models, which are hosted on Azure. The COPILOT function only has access to data provided through the context arguments. It does not have access to: Other data from the workbook Enterprise data Information from the internet Currently, the COPILOT function uses gpt-4.1-mini (2025-04-14). The COPILOT function's model will evolve and improve in the future and formula results may change over time, even with the same arguments. Only use the COPILOT function where this is acceptable. If you don't want results to recalculate, consider converting them into values with Copy, Paste Values (select values, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + Shift + V). Your prompts and data supplied as context will not be used to train AI models. For more information on Copilot in Excel, see Frequently asked questions about Copilot in Excel
August 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
James Dobson won't hear how you hope his spirit is tormented by demons for all eternity, but other evil people who've contributed nothing but misery to this world might and hopefully they'll know people will celebrate when they pass away too.

Ask not for whom the crab raves, they rave for thee.
a crab is crawling on a sandy beach with trees in the background
Alt: a crab is crawling on a sandy beach with trees in the background
media.tenor.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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anthonymoser.com
telling the truth is increasingly incompatible with respecting the pretenses, by which i mean the obvious lies, put forward

of course it did not save money. *it was not intended to save money.* it was intended to gut federal capacity and make way for private contracts. by that standard it succeeded
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 13
“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .”

- Vital Knowledge

@politico.com 🇺🇸
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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astrokatie.com
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
A song written by AI isn't a song any more than dust is skin
August 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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itswil.bsky.social
hey man i dont mean to freak you out but when you coughed into that stark white handkerchief? yeah, blood. im sorry man it was right in a rule of thirds sweet spot and contrasted against a darker chaotic background. and i hate to tell you this... it was only there for a few frames. its terminal
annabookwriter.bsky.social Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · Aug 4
Bro, it’s probably nothing but your theme in the score has a very ominous leitmotif. Lots of triads, a couple of crashing minor cords. I don’t want to make a big deal or anything but I couldn’t help but notice it’s really dissonant???
alannamode.bsky.social Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Aug 3
Listen bro I'm just a little worried, cause in the trailer your voice spoke over the group shot but you weren't on screen

And we were in our heroic glow-up third act outfits bro

Why haven't we seen your third act fit???
August 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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pbump.com
Not hard to imagine a “Trump wasn’t involved” public statement coupled with a commutation.
emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Jul 22
Trump's defense attorney is going to meet with the sex trafficker.

This may be the most corrupt thing that Bondi/Blanche have ever done.
ustice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know? At @AGPamBondi ’s direction, I’ve contacted her counsel. I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits. Statement from @DAGToddBlanche : This Department of Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor from the responsibility to pursue justice wherever the facts may lead. The joint statement by the DOJ and FBI of July 6 remains as accurate today as it was when it was written. Namely, that in the recent thorough review of the files maintained by the FBI in the Epstein case, no evidence was uncovered that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties. President Trump has told us to release all credible evidence. If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say. Therefore, at the direction of Attorney General Bondi, I have communicated with counsel for Ms. Maxwell to determine whether she would be willing to speak with prosecutors from the Department. I anticipate meeting with Ms. Maxwell in the coming days. Until now, no administration on behalf of the Department had inquired about her willingness to meet with the government. That changes now.
July 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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laurachapin.bsky.social
Jordan Lasker is NOT AN ACADEMIC HE'S A RACIST SHITPOSTING ON THE INTERNET FROM LUBBOCK.
STOP WITH THIS. BEING A WHITE MAN WITH CALIPERS DOES NOT MAKE YOU AN ACADEMIC.
@maxtani.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
“the fact that you all talked about what gullible pinecones we are proves we were right”

bitch they call you the gray lady because you’re supposed to be SERIOUS
petersterne.com Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Jul 7
This does not inspire much confidence in the NYT. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
Despite some public criticism and internal grumbling, the paper’s leadership has continued to back the piece. One person familiar with the editorial process noted that the Times’ senior editors were aligned on whether to publish the piece, which was read and greenlit by multiple top editors before its’ publication. Others on staff that spoke with Semafor on the condition of anonymity said the reaction to the piece showed why it was important to tackle it. “The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting,” one senior reporter told Semafor.
July 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM