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chappellpalooza 2026 @yasminp14.bsky.social · 13h

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Freira de Biquíni 👙 @keshi.bsky.social · 3h

Passou de 2030 é cada um por si

Camarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 1d

🙏🏽🇧🇷 Papa Leão XIV disse a Lula que rezará para o Brasil "até 2030", quando o país deverá ter cumprido sua meta de erradicação da fome pelo projeto Brasil sem Fome.

Leão XIV também afirmou que o Vaticano terá como prioridade no seu papado a erradicação da fome no mundo.

Lula e Leão XIV em audiência no Vaticano, com Leão mostrando algo para Lula, provavelmente algum presente diplomático.

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 15h

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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Soren Lorensen @vuintrieri.bsky.social · 5h

Vou entrar de sócio em uma empresa de e-commerce chamada TORN.

Eu separo os pedidos, a Natalie imbruglia.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 6h

Padme-Anakin meme: So we're doing solar and wind right. Right?

A graph showing that between 2009 and 2024, the price of new powerplants per MWh. It shows solar pv dropping from $496 to 60, gas peakers from $380 to 165, onshore wind falling from $186 to 49, coal falling from $153 to 115, and gas combined cycle plants falling from $115 to 74.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 15h

but enough about fifth edition dungeons and dragons, amirite, folks?

*I am promptly pelted by rotting fruit by a booing audience*

🪡 Ether GhostLace 🪡 (she/her—illiteratis did this) @laceslibgremlin.bsky.social · 15h

There’s a soul-destroying attitude that I have difficulty explaining but basically when people take the risk of people not liking their art out of art the art is worse

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18h

Not the point, but I love the vibe of knights in the Americas and just the transitional period from medieval to modernity in general.

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 15h

You can choose.

Door #1: Be interviewed by Chotiner

Door #2: Fight the Menswear Guy on Twitter

On the table, there is also a shotgun with one shell in it, picking it up locks both doors.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8h

I used to yearn to be able to express my darker thoughts in a manner that would not have my family noticing and doing wellness checks on me, so I love that I now have available "I think I am going to pick a fight with the menswear guy".

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 21h

the two types of racist are food racist and sex racist. all racists fall into these two categories. hitler? sex racist. mussolini? food racist.

stephen miller? sex racist. jd vance? food racist.

despite being racist about food sometimes, donald trump is a sex racist

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

Food racism drives you crazy faster than most forms of racism

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 8h

I, for one, welcome our new rodent overlords

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 8h

Very happy for Cabo Verde reaching the World Cup. I saw how much people love their football there last summer! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Cape Verde 3-0 Eswatini: Blue Sharks reach World Cup finals for first time

Cape Verde become the second-smallest nation to reach the Fifa World Cup, qualifying ahead of Cameroon, after the islanders beat Eswatini.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 8h

The MFA and its consequences have been a disaster for literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 8h

A hinged opinion as a palate cleanser: Dune (the appendices) > Dune Messiah > Dune (the book itself) >>>> the rest of the series

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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wombatpm.bsky.social @wombatpm.bsky.social · 12h

Dune was greatest piece of fiction ever published by Chilton. Their second greatest piece of fiction was the 1972 Pinto repair manual -no one would ever try and repair one of those POS cars.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion

Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Headgear @drheadgear.bsky.social · 16h

The human condition has been absolutely thoroughly explored now, thank you very much. Tell us a fucking story

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 18h

New case example for “test your shit before dropping it in production” just dropped.

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18h

The automaker pushed out a telematics update that evidently wasn't ready, resulting in cars losing power while driving and then becoming stranded.

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.

arstechnica.com

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 16h

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 9h

For a (certain kind of) computer science, everything is a stack

For a (certain kind of) lawyer, everything is a pyramid

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

a lot of people read like LLMs generate text: they don't actually comprehend the words so much as make a guess at what they think they are based on a few recognizable terms

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 1d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

Remember also that 19th century South American Simon Bolivar shared that disgust and also wanted to name a city after las Casas

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 1d

they gotta make sure you're not a robot, of course

a captcha page, showing a small creature that looks like a bird or leaf, and the text "this is a wug"
Below that, there's two, and the text "Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two" and a text box, with a verify button

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 1d

signing up for the hot new linguistic dating site

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 2d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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