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hatch @imhatch.bsky.social · 14h

go jays

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Matt Baline @mattbaline.net · 23h

Truly an all-timer that I have thought about often since you first posted it.

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Matt Baline @mattbaline.net · 1d

Hey! This is a good time to remind you to support public radio!

Matt Baline @mattbaline.net · 1d

Congratulations!

Matt Baline @mattbaline.net · 1d

Josh just sent me down a mini “comptroller” rabbit hole and now I just don’t know what to think. www.npr.org/2013/08/19/2...

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 7d

the evil Imperial News reporter from Andor

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

Principled conservative jurists ARE concerned.

The 6-3 majority thinks they can put their thumbs on electoral scales to stop Dems from getting a turn again, and if worst comes to worst, just change the rule again.

Scott Fenstermaker @scottfenstermaker.bsky.social · 8d

I’m hoping someone like @kenwhite.bsky.social can explain why conservative jurists are unconcerned about Dems availing themselves of all this unitary executive power when it’s their turn.

My guess is that safeguarding rights takes constructive action, and firing ppl is a destructive power.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

why not opt-in? just ask permission first

if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked

just ask permission first

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

More of this, please.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · Jul 2

i do not want to save to onedrive. i want to save to the documents folder. on my computer. that i have. in my house.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13d

Just imagine the kind of shitty person who wants to take these down. A sign about not crushing the natural plants? About how the place has been special to people for centuries?

Small, cruel people who want to make everyone live in their small, cruel world.

Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 14d

These two signs have been removed from Acadia National Park (Passamaquoddy and Penobscot territory).

I am not okay.

Source: open.substack.com/pub/barharbo...

Poster: “LOOK DOWN
The low-growing plants and shrubs on Acadia's mountains
are adapted to tough conditions of wind, fog, ice, snow, and direct sunlight. They are also fragile, and just a few footsteps can damage roots and expose soil to erosion.
More frequent storms, intense rain, and hotter temperatures make it harder for plants to grow back.
When visiting the summit, please stay on durable surfaces and marked trails.”

Sign on a sub-alpine granite ledge reading ” THIS IS SPECIAL
GROUND
Wabanaki people have long held this mountain, Wapuwoc, White Mountain of the first Light, as a significant place.
Today, visitors from everywhere find meaning on the mountain. Over the past few centuries, generations of people have made the journey, and many more will follow.”

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Matt Baline @mattbaline.net · 13d

I know the chorus doesn’t need anymore voices, but iOS 26 is bad.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 14d

Certainly no harm can come from me affixing my mental health to the performance of the Boston Red Sox. That’s never let anyone down before!

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 15d

The whole administration in one quote

Some ICE officials call Sheahan "Fish Cop" behind her back because of her previous stint running the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in Louisiana. Sheahan knows there are people who think that, without any law-enforcement background, she isn't qualified for a job usually occupied by veteran ICE officials. "I absolutely think Im qualified for the job," she told me. "Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?"

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15d

Make them ride circuit.
Cancel a Supreme Court term.
No more clerks.
And strip jurisdiction.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 20d

it is no coincidence that the worst fuckin people u know are utterly incurious, proudly anti-science, and completely lacking any sense of humor

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20d

Remember that authoritarians have ZERO sense of humor. About anything.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20d

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 20d

Huh, weird, it’s almost like the free speech crisis that we’re in now has nothing to do with voices on the left being too woke.

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 20d

Update: It's not just Nexstar

“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely” - per an ABC spokesperson

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 20d

This is...something

Nexstar, one of largest owners of TV stations in the country, is pre-empting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE "for the foreseeable future":

"Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming."

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 20d

it is really important for news outlets to be clear (unlike the nyt here) that Kimmel was suspended not because of some grassroots backlash but because ABC caved to threats from the head of the FCC

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20d

ABC announced that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “indefinitely” after his comments about Charlie Kirk’s death. nyti.ms/46vgZl3

Jimmy Kimmel is pictured in a black suit and blue striped tie. Headline reads: "ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments." Photo credit: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 22d

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22d

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25d

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

Alayna Treene
@alaynatreene
Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops to help with local law enforcement (without buy-in from the state’s governor) could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN

Now he’s going to Memphis

W/
@HBRabinowitz
https://cnn.com/2025/09/12/politics/chicago-memphis-trump-national-guard

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 28d

you really have to step back and admire it: they just released a winking SIGNED love note from the sitting US president to the most notorious pedophile sex trafficker in history, and nothing much is happening

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 29d

For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"

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