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kibblesmith.com
This is what living in the year 2026 should look like this is the coolest shit I’ve ever seen
January 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
Incredible self-reveal that the thing he likes most is it compliments and agrees with you no matter what you say
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24d
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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tkingfisher.com
Just @ me next time…
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26d
“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw
December 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
Just in case any journalist or editor reading this is tempted to minimize Trump's Reiner post because it's a "showbiz thing" and "real" stories are happening: No. It's a President thing and a decency thing, and if you don't understand that those things are newsworthy, you are failing in your duties.
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
instead of reposting that horrible screenshot of that horrible man's post, consider sharing the incredible stories about what sweet, thoughtful man Rob Reiner was and flooding the feed with them
drewmcweeny.com Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 26d
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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abeewords.bsky.social
POV: you are trying to sit and read but live with a spaniel
My view as I sit in a chair with the book I was intending to read, except a lemon roan spaniel has jumped in my lap and has her paw over the book
December 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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antlervel.vet
WARFRAME 1999 (video game, 2024)
Tumblr post liquidstar Aug 12, 2024 Last timeloop I gave you my heart.... taran-wanderer Aug 12, 2024 but the very next day... I gave you my heart.... liquidstar Aug 12, 2024 This year... Is the same year... I'm stuck in an endless timeloop
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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rhi.bsky.social
Delighted by this story of a rogue beaver in Norfolk. Particularly the line - At first he wondered whether “some small boy with an axe had somehow found his way into the woodland.” And the concept of ‘beaver bombing’.

apple.news/Ar3iJ-4XOQ-6...
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years — The Guardian
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
apple.news
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
… and he SERVED ✨
Bugs Bunny in drag
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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kennylogins.bsky.social
Magnets @magnets.bsky.social sometimes i remember "calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque and i get so pissed off October 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
Mabel insisted on sitting with me when I got my haircut which hasn't happened since my grandma did the same thing when I was in kindergarten.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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ips-dc.org
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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heatherpaterson.co.uk
Sharing this again as today's news programmes seem yet again full of those pushing the obscene suggestion of us leaving the #ECHR
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
YouTube video by The Guardian
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November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
Random musing on detransition narratives
Random musing, not a final thought, but—I’ve been wondering how much the word “detransition” exists mainly to Other trans bodies. For many detransitioners, even and perhaps especially those who aren’t doing so for safety or political reasons but to reaffirm a gender identity they once claimed, they’re still transitioning. The self they “return” to is never the exact self they had before; even the act of exploring other gender expressions changes you. You come back with more knowledge, and hopefully more clarity of self. Like all of us, they’ve moved through different ways of being. We can never return to a past, only move forward as a synthesis of these explorations. But the “detransitioner” narratives weaponized by anti-trans politics cling to the idea of an “original” identity that is ruined by transition—usually framed around medical changes like HRT or surgery—to claim that gender-affirming care is harmful because it breaks some imagined natural state that a detrantioner can never return to now because they have been “tricked” intro transition. Yet no one can ever return to an untouched original self. We all change. We all move forward, not back. The real issue facing many“detransitioners” is often a material one: they often step away from transition because the path offered to them didn’t fit. Instead of being supported in exploring their own terms, many were handed a narrow, binary script of how we think of gender affirming care (get top surgery, start hrt, wear these clothes to affirm your gender). Our culture loves to prescribe identities, not enable people to discover them. Continued form part 1 - The real issue facing many“detransitioners” is often a material one: they often step away from transition because the path offered to them didn’t fit. Instead of being supported in exploring their own terms, many were handed a narrow, binary script of how we think of gender affirming care (get top surgery, start hrt, wear these clothes to affirm your gender). Our culture loves to prescribe identities, not enable people to discover them.
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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prokopetz.bsky.social
Trials of Autism #137: is this person REALLY being inconsistent, or did I mentally add extra stipulations to something they said because I found it annoyingly imprecise, decide that's what they "must have meant", then forget that those qualifiers weren't present in what they actually said?
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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dimcheff.wtf
this is the future that liberals want etc.
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · Nov 6
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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aoife.bsky.social
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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danmentos.com
oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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hbomberguy.bsky.social
"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure
September 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
The COVID-19 pandemic undermined the right in several key ways:

1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them.

2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything.

2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election.

4) Government relief proved popular and effective
August 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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tuck.bsky.social
my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)
a green square that says "fast food meals. new phenomenon burger taste. $19.90. order via seamless" and in the corner is a non-euclidean cluster of chicken finger. a very normal 5-star review that says "I would be lost without restaurant. I would like to personally thank you for your outstanding product." - Nina Margaret, CEO apple. another normal review that says "without food, we would have gone bankrupt by now. thanks food! the service was excellent." John Doe, manager. an AI image of a pastrami sandwich. not to overuse the word non-euclidean but what else can I say to describe these layers of meat? this one also has some kind of yellow sauce leaking out of the bottom, and another yellow sauce being sensuously drizzled on top. in the lower right corner are baffling tubes that sort of look like if roasted carrots fucked a soft pretzel.
August 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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existentialcomics.com
The legendary debate on the bodybuilding dot com forums on how many days there are in a week has finally been solved, all thanks to the magnificent power of AI.
Breifly, Is it okay to do a full body workout every other day? ChatGPT said: Yes — for most people, a full-body workout every other day is safe and effective, as it allows roughly 48 hours for muscle recovery. You said: Cool, so my four days a week is enough recover time? Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday? ChatGPT said: Yes — that schedule gives you 1–2 days between sessions, which is plenty of recovery time for most people doing full-body workouts. You said: To reiterate, working out 4 days a week (every other day) always gives one day break needed for a full body workout? ChatGPT said: Yes — a 4-day every-other-day schedule always gives at least one full rest day between sessions, which is generally enough recovery time for full-body training.
August 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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kottke.org
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery. “The math world was taken aback when Cairo announced her counterexample to the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture.” [quantamagazine.org]
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM