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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 11m

Heyyyyyyy

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

What depresses me about this reporting is that it will lead to no introspection and very little accountability. We have just moved past any sort of world in which shame matters, or decency matters.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 5h

This extraordinarily vibrant green-glazed jar was made in China in the 8th century.

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 7h

oh fuck 🤤

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 19h

😍

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 23h

Grabbing the forward facing window seat on the train in Chicago sunset with a lil gummy. Nothing beats this.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

the characters in narrative don't exist outside the story you're telling and the longer you drag out a story into serialized storytelling the harder it is to maintain the illusion that they do, which is why serialized storytelling shouldn't go on forever

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 1d

I remember saying on the other site that nobody cares how much you’re reading if you’re not actually reading reading and I got jumped by so many people who were like “how do you know they’re not reading those four books a week in depth?”

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 1d

this is actually the problem for so many people lol

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Queer Privilege @queerprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

Jordan // 08.17.2025 // Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, WA // #35mm

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i love the idea that there’s definitely a few thousand people out there everyday that ask grok stuff like “is broccoli healthy”

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 1d

Theo Nash and his horrible classics takes making their way to Bluesky. No thank you! That guy is an idiot!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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