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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 5h

@kodamojo.bsky.social dunno if you still check this but it feels useful to what you were trying to figure out before.

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BearhAHHH!!t @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026

You catch that big video essay last night?

coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not one for nuance, but RPGs need to chill and let me catch up a bit on my backlog, and my brain needs to cooperate more with that.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are progressive politicians so reluctant to admit that conservatives are wrong about something

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

meanwhile on reddit: OP's brother can't find an attorney willing to represent him in his case where he tried to kill his last attorney

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Criminal Defender Attorneys Refusing to take
My Brothers Case
Criminal Law
Location:
I'm not condoning my brothers actions but just tryin to figure out some options. My brother was arrested for felony assault causing injury against his criminal defense attorney in another misdemeanor case. The attorney is a pretty well known attorney in the area I guess. Now we are finding that other lawyers wont take his case which I understand is his fsult but what are our options if he is found too financially stable to get a public one? He has been in custody for months.

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think it's probably a bad thing that my brain has the same reaction to "I trusted AI and it fucked me" stories that it does too "antivaxx person dies of disease they should have been vaxxed for".

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Laura Stroup 💚💙🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🤔 @laurastroup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can we talk about this? This is not the Onion, but in Chronicle of Higher Education:

News piece of LA Gov. demanding the LSU provost have a caged live tiger at the college football games.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

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Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.

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SeekHigherGround @seekhigherground.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

still falling for it, I see. this guy regularly hosts white nationalist racists. why are you doing this?

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yessss do it. It's so petty and dumb. Associate your name with that.

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It feels good that they are getting new blood there. Especially if those three believe in the creative arts so little that they would leave for the giant theft machine.

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 23/09/2026

Patreon just lost their CTO/cofounder , their head of product and their head of engineering to OpenAI. And honestly, I think it can be a good thing. Their product was stalling and their software is slow, clunky and unreliable. Hoping the people taking these positions care more now.

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Cliff BOOoracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

if the left says don't hurt people and the right says hurt people, the fair thing to do is to hurt people only somewhat (people who are going to be hurt, please step back, you're not objective about this)

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bahaha I hope they succeed. This country is so fucking dumb.

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just the dumbest, weakest motherfucker.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was ready to say something cynical about the state of bribery laws, but this seems pretty much undeniable.

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I forgot to post for my new episode. Episode 1 of the new season dropping after episode 2 because I'm messy. Get your malifaux battle report data here. youtu.be/PEZXxivPRy8?...

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Russell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!!

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jokes on you, I lost my capacity to care a while ago. Oh I guess the jokes on me

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☀️ @stel.energy · 21/09/2026

i need all of us everywhere to understand the power we have to materialize social infrastructure and i am watching that realization spread and its so good . it doesnt have to be baseball it can be anything

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm very confused by this. Aren't most actual plays done by people not getting paid?

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IGN @ign.com · 21/09/2026

Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. bit.ly/4hhOjBo

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Either 1. A whole bunch of people hate trans folks enough that they would otherwise embrace fascism or 2. A bunch of centrist Dems are using the spectre of fascism as cover for their transphobic bullshit. I'm betting on the second.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

70% of Americans say more Americans working in factories would be better for America 33% actually say they'd be better off working in a factory

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why would you tell your 18-year-old self to read your book? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlc...

youtube.com

Celeste Headlee on "Freedom's Daughters"

YouTube video by Macmillan Academic

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The American people should never forget that when they faced exploding costs from a failed war in Iran and dangerous uncertainty from unchecked artificial intelligence, House Republicans decided to cancel work in Washington and go home for nearly eight weeks. Shameful.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...

reason.com

Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets

The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.

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R Subramanian (he/him) @rsubramanian.com · 17/09/2026

"NPR tracked down equipment and found that some of it was auctioned, donated or thrown in the trash... NASA donated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of radio communications equipment to Capitol Technology University without the knowledge of the scientists who used it"

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not mad. Probably a little disappointed.

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This new blusky plan seems to be " can we silence the people who are upset about hate speech". Bang up job there.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026

so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right.

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mike Johnson CANCELED ALL VOTES UNTIL AFTER ELECTION DAY

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WC_Cogswell @cogswell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/09/2026

It takes a special kind of Guy to look at all the circumstances of Brett Kavanaugh's career arc and reach the passive-voice conclusion that Kavanaugh "was forced" to join the Supreme Court's conservative wing. But Noah Feldman? He is that special kind of Guy. noahfeldman.substack.com/p/brett-kava...

On top of that, for years, Kavanaugh taught a popular course at Harvard Law School where he was straight down the middle, and conservative and liberal students both liked him. In fact, that’s how I met him.

Kavanaugh is personally engaging, and he enjoyed conversations with people across the whole ideological spectrum, and I think people mostly really ended up respecting him.

Then came Kavanaugh’s disastrous confirmation hearings, with the accusations by Christine Blassi Ford against him.

After Kavanaugh’s heated defense of himself and of his record, liberals pretty much turned against him. He stopped teaching the class at Harvard, he stopped teaching a class that he taught at Yale, and he began teaching only at more conservative schools.

I believe Kavanaugh really valued his ties across the ideological spectrum. The problem was that after the confirmation hearings, those connections across the spectrum were not really available to him anymore.

Justice Kavanaugh is a social person, he needs friends. But once liberals had turned against him, he really couldn’t afford to lose conservatives, because then he would have been entirely friendless — a situation not dissimilar to that experienced by Chief Justice John Roberts.

And so, as a result of the confirmation hearings, I think Kavanaugh ended up in a position where he was just forced into the conservative wing of the Court.

The result is that Kavanaugh has joined the hard right on a series of very conservative judgments, including cases like the birthright citizenship case, where his vote wasn’t even necessary for the conservative side. He cou

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4thstringer.bsky.social @4thstringer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are so many games that are just visually spectacular for so many different reasons. I called out a favorite artist, but there are so many other games that the art in them utterly consumes me.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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A Couple of Drakes @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dawn of the second day. Dead Net is 79% funded. Still on the lookout for some head-jacked heroes and digital ninjas to sign on for this run. Get 120 pages of solo netrunning cyberpunk corp-smashing goodness for less than the price of a month of Netflix. This Scriptkiddie gets it. Do you?

Young kid, maybe 10 years old, holding a Gameboy with an attached screen magnifier while he juggles an armload of accessories, earbuds in his ears. Game cartridges peek from his pockets and he holds another in his mouth. The whole image smells like 1991. It's captioned "Cyberpunk."

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