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I used to be good at this.
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I will haunt anyone who does this of me
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Deeny(they/them)
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Everytime a lib comes up with a new pun to describe trump, im allowed to give a child one cigarette
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Design is how it works
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Jack Yeo but it's November now
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At the
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Max Read
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis
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Erin Kissane
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Banger alert.
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Leigh Walton
3 days ago
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For startersā¦
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e.w. niedermeyer
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People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are. How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
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Jay Rosen
3 days ago
One reason you need a public editor, representing the readers and their rights.
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I once corrected a minor, punctuation typo on a months-old slack message that came up on a search and that no one was likely to refer to ever again. Elite failure starts at having no self respect!
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Dave Weigel
4 days ago
Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
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My wonderful better half is doing a lovely thing for people in need, please help if you can
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Ketan Joshi
4 days ago
Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms š±
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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Waxy.org
4 days ago
DOCTYPE Magazine: Matt Round made a 1980s-style type-in print magazine, full of novel standalone web apps you type in by hand
https://vole.wtf/doctype/
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DOCTYPE magazine šāØļø
ā80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
https://vole.wtf/doctype/
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Tom MacWright
4 days ago
i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about
@val.town
: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people
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Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective
The whole story
https://macwright.com/2025/11/11/val-town
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Erin Kissane
5 days ago
I'm so psyched about
@bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy
's work on making the open social internet good for real communities by putting in the culture work right from the very beginning. I'm a scavenger and a pragmatist *and also* I think the way we do things matters.
www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/
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Sparks fly up
Once youāve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, itās hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.
https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/
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I have been cooking dinner most nights for twenty-plus years and for my family for over a decade. If I go even a few days without doing so it takes me a full week to get back to a basic level of competence. This is a post about AI.
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Dave Karpf
5 days ago
I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post.
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The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/the-shutdown-surrender?r=eeyg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Live your life in such a way that someone who writes your obit *four years* before you shuffle off this mortal coil isn't able to have the last word
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Not to praise but to bury
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Behold two of the laziest loafs Iāve ever made. Started over a week ago, constantly forgot about them. Turns out you can just bake things!
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One nice thing about the boys getting older is now instead of spending 30 minutes a week cleaning the bathrooms I get to spend two and a half hours a week haranguing them to clean the bathrooms.
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Fishbourne Roman Palace
9 days ago
Wow! š®š¤© There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! š¤
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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The best time to create a political movement dedicated to taking on scam culture was before it took over a sizable portion of the economy. The second best time is right now.
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Mark Lemley
10 days ago
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
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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.
https://electrek.co/2025/11/04/australia-has-so-much-solar-that-its-offering-everyone-free-electricity-3h-day/
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How being the right amount of online can be a salvation from slop and doomerism. Sharp piece from
@thedextriarchy.bsky.social
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Zohran Mamdani was the right amount of online
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The best media analysis of the most interesting political campaign of the year in the most media savvy city in the world comes from a worker owned news site. That rules.
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John Dickerson
11 days ago
We won a Cronkite award for our essays on @cbseveningnews Plus which went off the air last Friday.
www.cronkiteawards.org/uploads/5/1/...
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Smart thoughts from
@aaronrosspowell.com
about what makes decentralized social, including old-school blogging, exciting again
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Social media is a party and we can't party all the time
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Barthanie Flatt
12 days ago
I subscribed and I think you should too.
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ryan cooper
16 days ago
for all the culture war/forum drama etc, it is just undeniable that this is basically the only social media platform where journalists can publicize their work online
bsky.app/profile/sama...
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Micah
14 days ago
if our brains werenāt always being cooked by the horrors of real life this place could be Actually Fun and itās so nice to get a glimpse of what happens when it is even if you donāt like baseball this shit was fun, right? everyone getting swept up in the same thing? I missed this
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Adding this to my report that America has yet to recognize we have been living in a time of confectionary perfection for over two decades and are simply letting it slip away. Iām talking, of course, about the Take 5.
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Very fun story from my pal Saleem about the southern roots of electronic music.
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How the synthesizer became Southern
North Carolina is home to one of the oldest electronic music traditions in the world.
https://www.wunc.org/podcast/the-broadside/2025-10-23/how-the-synthesizer-became-southern
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Timothy Noah
14 days ago
The NYC lunchtime pecking order, late 1990s, sketched for The NY Times by a waiter at the Four Seasons. I sensed it would be of historic interest so I framed it and hung it on the wall at Slate.
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Rahawa Haile
14 days ago
Real talk? The Flytrap team were a big inspiration to me and others at
@coyotemedia.org
this year while we were getting off the ground. Please toss these amazing folks some coin, Bluesky. (And donāt forget to renew your membership if you backed them on Kickstarter!)
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I'm reminded of my key takeaway from reading Twitter and Tear Gas ā power learns
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Petter Tƶrnberg
17 days ago
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways š§µ
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On a day when we celebrate being all manner of fantastical creature, we should imagine a world full of Luddites. A better world.
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We should all be Luddites
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bryan newbold
16 days ago
wow, I didn't know how I missed this last week! this is exactly the sort of project I'm excited to see happening with the feed system: strong values/vision/opinion, collab with
@graze.social
, research background, user configurable
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Jonas Nahm
2 months ago
7/ The report notes Trump's election has accelerated this trend, with Chinese firms now avoiding not just US projects but "traditional re-export platforms, where investors worry about secondary sanctions." The decoupling is driving deeper Chinese engagement elsewhere.
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I have taken the works from the antique land upon which you were probably about to gaze and despair Forgive me they were mighty now so bare and boundless
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mandy brown
16 days ago
Iāll be opening a winter cohort of the sf writing work/shop soon, get on the waitlist if you want to be the first to find out! Space will again be very limited so that everyone can fully participate.
https://everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf
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speculative fiction work/shop | everything changes
A creative gathering to imagine the future of work.
https://everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf
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Doug Bock Clark
16 days ago
Few people outside North Carolina have heard of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the stateās Supreme Court. But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. Heās done this with the goal of delivering what heās called ābiblical justice, equal justice, for all.ā THREAD š
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emptywheel
16 days ago
At a time when US-based social media companies are platforming far right extremism in the EU, Meta is trying to get the Irish government to front their assault on EU privacy laws.
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Data protection rules ācompletely out of controlā, Meta tells Government
Facebook owner asked Government to lead pushback against data protection laws at EU level
https://web.archive.org/web/20251030133129/https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/big-tech/2025/10/30/data-protection-rules-completely-out-of-control-meta-tells-government/
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So we are exactly back to where we were before Trumpās idiotic trade war and because Xi knows MAGA makes America weak heās all too happy to give their special boy something he can call a win. Love this for us.
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derek guy
17 days ago
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. š§µ
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Elizabeth Spiers
18 days ago
The first session of my workshop on creativity and developing a writing practice went well, so I'm doing it again in December. I raised the price a bit to $65 because I'm thinking of adding a snail mail component, but it's the same workshop. Registration is here:
www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
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Well, well, well, look who has to A the Qās now (This is a terrific interview about a form that seems very simple but is quite hard to pull off)
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alice
17 days ago
bluesky mentioned in academic paper about puppygirls
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