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Release the bats
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Summer 2026
8 months ago
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michael röbbins
about 4 hours ago
I think all the time about Jack Kerouac heckling Frank O’Hara that he was ruining American poetry & O’Hara responding without a beat, “That’s more than you ever did for it”
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Mel Stefaniuk
about 7 hours ago
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
about 8 hours ago
Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics. Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Eileen Clancy đź§ż
about 22 hours ago
"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park." The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!
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Nathan Goldwag
about 15 hours ago
They think you're stupid.
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Christopher Mims
about 22 hours ago
yiiiikes
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Were Abby
2 days ago
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway]
2 days ago
at least back in the USSR the government had the decency to stealthily plant listening devices in your walls. now i gotta purchase my own device?
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Brian Gaar
2 days ago
Damn what a stupid post (sees that they follow me) lets hear them out
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Judd Legum
2 days ago
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2
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Simon Spanton
4 days ago
Portal number 997.
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Jon Davies 🦖
11 days ago
Okay so you might see this video with the audio muted. Now imagine how the music must sound like. I urge you to unmute and listen to what it's actually like because I guarantee you you're not prepared for it.
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Gary Dauphin
4 days ago
Pack the court
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Daniel José Older
4 days ago
This is not a knock on DMB but if you had told me twenty years ago that Dave Mathews would be this outspoken on an issue that Radiohead completely shat the bed on, well... I would've been surprised!
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it's gita time
6 days ago
wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation
aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...
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That's Not What Unc Means
You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.
https://aftermath.site/unc-aave-african-american-vernacular-english-slang-gen-z/
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Maybe It Will Happen Today
10 months ago
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Alexander Luckmann
4 days ago
I think I have found the conference room with the most threatening aura
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Covie
4 days ago
Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.
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CineCalendar (formerly Dates in Movies)
4 days ago
Apr 18th 1959 - When Marion Crane checks into the Bates Motel on December 12th, we see the last guest that signed the guest book was way back on 18th April. 📽️📅 Psycho (1960)
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M. T. Anderson
9 days ago
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Jason, ex Inferis
6 days ago
I’m not proud of it but if Forrest Gump started talking to me on a bench I’d have left
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Moby Dick
5 days ago
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Gerald Howard
6 days ago
Ragtime and Libra.
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Josh Marshall
6 days ago
damn, dark as shit
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Retro Computers
6 days ago
The Sharp Tranket transistor radio (1960)
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KAFUI 🇬đź‡
6 days ago
Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty
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A nice night in Berlin - thanks for coming!
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6 days ago
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D. A. Powell
6 days ago
Found poem
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Laura Lippman
7 days ago
It’s official,
@colsonwhitehead.com
has won this day in my humble estimation. (This is the dedication in Cool Machine, which will be published July 21.)
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Helen Barrett
8 days ago
Pencil logo sketches by Jerry Dammers for 2Tone, 1979. On show from Saturday at the new V&A East museum.
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“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
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Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/art-artificial-intelligence.html
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Comfortably Numb
9 days ago
WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great
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Aalia Mauro
9 days ago
To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.
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Frank Conniff
9 days ago
Safe and legal LSD trips were once a thing, thanks to Sid Krofft, a truly creative television artist. And these psychedelic experiences were good for kids, as the clip below clearly shows. Rest In Peace.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rA...
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Mama Cass Elliot - Different
YouTube video by fredstarNZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rAaYFFeZk&list=RDi7rAaYFFeZk&start_radio=1
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Mx. Tiffany Leigh
about 1 month ago
Discovered a cursed photo subgenre: "grift hands"
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laura olin
9 days ago
This is like a preview of what it's gonna be like When It Happens
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#BruceSterling
10 days ago
*I was a child in the 1960s the last time there was this much focussed hostility toward computation per se
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Freedom Writers Collaborative
11 days ago
The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote. Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name.
#HandsOffHerVote
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Contact Your MOC
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Al Sweigart
11 days ago
"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."
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Philip Bump
11 days ago
There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president.
www.pbump.net/outofoffice
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Mar Hicks
3 months ago
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00254-z
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Cap’n Watsisname
5 months ago
Pouring one out for the homies (dropping an excedrin under the fridge)
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⚔️ Michael Whitney
12 days ago
Think about how many brains are being absolutely COOKED by sycophancy right now
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️
12 days ago
Blacula (1972) directed by William Crain stars William Marshall with co-stars Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent and Thalmus Rasulala.
#FilmSky
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JK
12 days ago
If only there were some kind of democratic process we could use
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Amanda Katz
12 days ago
This is so sick. Israel struck apartment buildings, medical facilities, even a crowd of mourners by a cemetery, per FT reporting
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Moby Dick
12 days ago
Darkness came on
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"One paper’s acknowledgements thank 'Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise'."
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Los Angeles Times
13 days ago
The best books to read in groups inspire a dialogue. With help from more than 200 voters, we compiled an in depth list of the best book club picks here:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/list/best-book-club-books?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
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101 best book club picks for every type of reader
From romance and memoirs to mystery and fantasy, here are the 101 best book club picks, according to a survey of more than 200 authors, publishers, journalists and book club fans.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/list/best-book-club-books?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
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