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theonion.com
Fact-Checking The Trump Administration On Venezuela https://theonion.com/fact-checking-the-trump-administration-on-venezuela/
Claim: Venezuela is solely responsible for America’s fentanyl crisis. False: This erases decades of hard work and dedication by the Sackler family.
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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clofsnitville.bsky.social
I've been laughing at this all day. All three of these people nailed it. 10/10, no notes.
December 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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microsff.com
"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"

"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"

"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"

"About as intelligent as a border collie."

"So, intelligent. Why?"

"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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jessefelder.bsky.social
‘Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has a wake-up call for investors funneling billions into humanoid robot startups: you’re wasting your money.’
techcrunch.com/2025/09/26/f...
Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst | TechCrunch
Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a...
techcrunch.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
this is great for two reasons

1, the obvious: brilliant deconstruction of how patriarchy tries to sell total emotional isolation as not just a side effect but a GOAL of doing masculinity correctly

2: the repeated mentions of Buffalo Wild Wings made me laugh so hard
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 14
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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theonion.com
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
theonion.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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granitetide.bsky.social
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
90s computer desk with shelves for speakers, tower, printer, pull-out mouse and keyboard drawer etc
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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cpsc.gov
Never try to relight fireworks, America!
A person holding a firework in their hand while it is exploding. The text reads: Don't let this be the last thing you see. Light fireworks one at a time, then move back quickly. Never try to re-light or pick up fireworks that have not ignited fully. Follow all instructions and warnings on fireworks and never hold them in hand unless instructions specify to do so.
July 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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amnanawaz.bsky.social
I asked FDA Commissioner Makary about the @NOTUSreports discovery of false citations in the MAHA report

Makary: Every one of those citations that I read and every line of that report was solid. Now…

Amna Nawaz: Except for ones this reporter found.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
FDA commissioner defends changes to COVID vaccine recommendations
In a significant shift this week, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant individuals. That sparked conc...
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May 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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sixoneindie.com
Next Stop: Six One Publishing.

www.sixoneindie.com/publishing
May 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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theonion.com
Plan To Straighten Out Entire Life During Weeklong Vacation Yields Mixed Results
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Plan To Straighten Out Entire Life During Weeklong Vacation Yields Mixed Results
May 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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murderbotbot.bsky.social
I put Humans need to take rest periods on the general action list.
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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astrokatie.com
This, by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, is very informative
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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March 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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kateshaw.bsky.social
Here’s a gift link to my piece in today’s @nytimes.com about Musk & the Constitution

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
Opinion | There Is No Musk Clause in the Constitution (Gift Article)
Trump is on shaky ground when it comes to the way he has empowered perhaps the most important figure in the new administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
uncannyvalerie.bsky.social
How? Also, shout out to the 6% of people who seem to be somehow unsure. 🫠
45% of Americans approve of the job is Trump doing as president. 49% of Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president.
March 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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dropout.tv
A message from the Skype CEO, @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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deepblueink.bsky.social
Happy #IndieAnimationDay!
Hey did I ever mention my slice of intergalactic life mini-series DEEP SPACE DISCOUNTS??
Full playlist below!
DEEP SPACE DISCOUNTS SEASON ONE - YouTube
Congratulations!
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February 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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pkrugman.bsky.social
Today the CDC, tomorrow the BLS? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
Lies, Damned Lies and Trumpflation
Big worries — and some investment advice
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February 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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theonion.com
Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday
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Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
A long thread but an important one. AI companies are doing *incredible* damage to us, including real physical damage, and it's all based on bad business ideas.
karenhao.bsky.social Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · Jan 27
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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theonion.com
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
December 16, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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indiegameawards.gg
Introducing the nominees for The Indie Game Awards 2024, airing on December 19th at 4PM PT / 7 PM ET on @ign.com and YouTube.

Visit indiegameawards.gg for the full list of nominees, presenters, and judges.
November 19, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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defector.com
This place is all fucked up: defector.com/this-place-i...
This Place Is All Fucked Up | Defector
It doesn’t appear to have been close. Georgia flipped for Trump. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, too. The Blue Wall crumbled like Jericho’s. Just about everywhere voted redder than in 2020. Young people w...
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November 6, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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dcpierson.bsky.social
Pretty cursed that a presidential election that’s made me wish we didn’t have to have one every four years might also make that wish come true
October 28, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM