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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 17h

hey there beautiful people!
do you wanna see a DRAG SHOW??? 👀
I'm gonna be at the District West Open Stage tomorrow!
Doors are 8pm, show starts 9pm!

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

You can change your mind upon the discovery of new information

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Over a third of the old internet no longer exists, 87% of all video games before 2009 are lost media, 40% of the Million Dollar Homepage was dead links as of 2019, etc.

*And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 2d

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. "
"You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 6d

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 3d

ha, ha, it's a "fun" time to be a classics-focused historian! 🙃 i hadn't heard about this particular stupidity!!

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 3d

My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...

The Arch of Trump’s Triumph and Downfall

Triumphal arches have been used for imperialistic ends since Roman antiquity, and the president’s latest proposal is no exception.

hyperallergic.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 5d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 5d

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 5d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 6d

Hey it's VERY last minute, but if anybody wants to come see some Drag and/or Burlesque, there's an Open Stage at Bossy Grrl's tonight, starts at 9pm(ish)! Fuck the man, see weird art!!!

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 9d

Alt text: A sign in a bookstore or library reads "Fuck social media. Marry books. Kill AI."

ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 9d

!!!

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 7d

👀

meme image: scruffy-looking guy wearing black t-shirt with SICKOS on it, standing outside a window looking in, saying"YES... HA HA HA... YES," with a happy but creepy exoression on his face.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 7d

please oh my god PLEASE LET US HAVE THE PASSENGER TRAINS PLEEEEEEASE

Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 7d

Yay! A step toward passenger rail service for Columbus, which has none.

But the photo/video attached is our governor holding up bags of quasi-edibles. Heckuva job, Dispatch AI!

www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

Screenshot of Dispatch article:

MORPC, rail partners commit $650,000 toward Chicago to Columbus train route
Nathan Hart, Columbus Dispatch
Published 12:22 p.m. ET October 15, 2025
Updated 12:32 p.m. ET October 15, 2025
Passenger rail
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Video of Governor DeWine holding up bags of what look like candy.
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The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission and its out-of-state rail partners are committing $650,000 to a Chicago-Fort Wayne-Columbus-Pittsburgh passenger rail line, MORP announced on Oct. 14.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 8d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 9d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 9d

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

www.ebar.com

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 10d

Quick reminder that Christopher Columbus was considered a vile, repulsive, evil man even in his own time. His actions as governor of Spain's New World colonies landed him in prison for his cruelty and violence.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 10d

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 11d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 11d

It looks like the CW drama I want it to be, it’s great to see some old friends, and I’m excited to explore more of the 34th century setting.

(Still nothing to disprove my theory that the version of the EMH here is the one left behind in the Delta Quadrant, who woke up in a museum 700 years later.)

TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 11d

Here's the new extended trailer for #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy, just out from #NYCC!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHDD...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)

YouTube video by Paramount Plus

www.youtube.com

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 11d

so not only are they homophobic as fuck, refusing to shelter queer people, they're doing... THIS SHIT. the Salvation Army can go eat shit

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 11d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 11d

just in general bending my life towards spending as much of my time as possible around freaks and queers and weirdos has been the best thing ever

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 12d

Good article! important to understand how nationalism uses & abuses historical narratives to fit their agenda.
I love studing history (it was my major) yet I'm frustrated so many don't understand how it's not a static thing, not a neutral thing; & our knowledge of history is connected to science.

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 12d

The late antique communion bread find was exciting. And it again came up what the oldest bread known is. As Stephanie Wong and I wrote about, the oldest extant bread appears to be from Jordan—not Turkey. hyperallergic.com/878348/disco...

Discovery of 8,600-Year-Old Bread Gives Rise to Half-Baked Claims

Turkey’s narrative surrounding “the world’s oldest bread” raises questions about how archaeological heritage is used for nationalistic ends.

hyperallergic.com

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Two-thirds God, One-third Man @shawnaldridge.bsky.social · 12d

Happy birthday to Rumiko Takahashi. Prob my favorite mangaka.

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