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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 2h

Organic social media, where you choose what you read, is great, a powerful force for democracy When Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg et al. control your feed, it's bad and dangerous... social platforms and AI should be nationalized and regulated

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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 4h

I’m very grateful for @48hills.bsky.social continuing @https://www.sfbg.com/ excellent history of covering SF’s intricate, all too often politically incestuous power structures: and these power centers’ immense consequences for San Francisco now - and in the last few decades as well as the next.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 4h

So the grieving truck driver who struck and killed a 20-year-old Haitian man was a J6-cheerleading Trump supporter, whom the Atlantic saw fit to characterize as a "lifelong Democrat"?

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 5h

beautiful news on a bad news day

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 5h

The far right power grab is global and entirely organized, moneyed & interconnected. No matter where it happens, every pillar of free society that falls has been and will continue to be everyone’s problem. It’s a domino effect.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 5h

one good thing would be a global movement to quit Facebook and Twitter

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 6h

Sam Altman's sister has released part of her deposition in one of the lawsuits she filed against her brother, she is knitting while being deposed

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

bleak future ahead for brazil. something must be done with the growing global fascistic movement if we want any future worth anything

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 8h

The tech bros turned out to be a hundred times more pathetic, and destructive, than my wildest imaginings. Harry Potter fanfic orgy cult! Studio Ghibli deportation AI slop!! Everyone will DIE! maybe! unless you give us all the money! but we can't turn it off!! so hurry!!!

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 12h

I cut off my Trump-voting family in 2016. My unvaccinated brother, an extreme right-winger, died of covid in 2021. His dying wish was for his kids to get vaccinated And you're asking me to have LUNCH with these people. to UNDERSTAND their DIFFERENT VIEWS got news for you bub, I DON'T LIKE THEM

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18h

Finally!! only throwing the book at the Trumpists will even begin to start this process. Release the Epstein files, support Ukraine and EU, and impeach the hell out of the Republicans nonstop

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18h

extremely cool, congratulations!!!

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23h

Also, more and more reports are confirming what should have been admitted for years. The Trump administration has business deals ready to go with Putin, once they can bully the Ukrainians into surrendering more of their land and people. This is the real Trump/Kushner win-win.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026

Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 04/10/2026

His most popular move so far was beating Cuomo and the Dem machine, and then maybe putting the Knicks games on at the bus stops Trying to belittle this man is so comical, New York is suddenly the envy of the world because the mayor is trying to help his constituents instead of billionaires

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 03/10/2026

Alan Moore & Zach Rabiroff have a great line in this interview where they compare the work of history to laying bathroom tiles. Just as we use grouting to connect these tiles together, so too the historian tells a story to connect otherwise disconnected facts. flaminghydra.com/issue-619/

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Crouching in the long grass

Alan Moore on the invention of history, interviewed by Zach Rabiroff

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I felt the presence of my phone in my pocket whispering to me to try to take a picture of it all to alert the world to what the world actually is but then snapped to my senses and stood down. I cannot translate this for any of you. Cannot break this news. flaminghydra.com/what-it-has-...

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What it has always looked like

October 18, 2025 The four of us stumbled out across the sand in the dark toward where the tongue of the water lapped at the high tide line and stood silently for some time listening to the collected ...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 01/10/2026

did you know that @katewagner.wehwalt.net writes wonderful and quite scary short fiction (that would be so great as a film)?? she does you can read it at @flaminghydra.com

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/10/2026

Read @raxkingisdead.bsky.social's brilliant essay about the rape at Cornell, and how misogyny is largely a performance by men, for men (small paywall, worth hopping) flaminghydra.com/issue-659/

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Real good buds

Rax King considers the camaraderie among men at Cornell University

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026

Karl Rove now pretending he isn't a Nazi, isn't a MAGA etc. If he really opposed this catastrophe, he (and the Bulwark, and the Lincoln Project, etc.) would be in favor of *dismantling* the Republican Party

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026

Thrilled to have no idea re: this awful essay everyone's so upset about... thank you again bsky for the galactic block! it works!!

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026

A thief stealing billions (also an airplane) from U.S. citizens offers 'nearly $100' to retired people whose fixed incomes will no longer cover gas or food, wow I bet they will love it

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026

In fact @timnitgebru.blacksky.app has a solid track record of having been right again and again about artificial intelligence, for years, and that's why she's worth listening to today. Musk, Altman, Karp, Zuckerberg, et al.??? not so much

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Charles Xavier Van Damme @charlesxavier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I lived in DC I had a friend who was a young black woman with a masters in poli sci. A conservative media org offered her a job that would have been 8x her salary. (She turned it down ) There’s *so* much more money on the right.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026

Scientists who comprehend the pleasures of discovery—the human part of science—are the bringers of progress, as Nobel biologist P.B. Medawar showed so entertainingly and well, back in 1969 Had a lot of fun revisiting this favorite writer for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-661/

“Critical reasoning, considered alone, is barren.” One might go farther still and say that critical reasoning considered alone is not in fact reasoning at all, but a mere simulacrum of reasoning—the thinking a machine would do—empty, directionless, asphyxiatingly meaningless calculation.

Medawar’s imagination reaches beyond science with an easy, graceful consideration of Aristotle’s “poetic truth,” which “enriches or replaces scientific truth by truth of a higher kind, that which represents the testimony of a deeper and more privileged insight—a truth so lofty that, if nature does not conform to it, why then, so much the worse for nature.”

Sir Peter Medawar in 1969, immaculate in a soft sack suit, he is elegantly greying, with very dark intense eyes, he is wearing a white shirt, slim tie, and a lovely watch

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This government has made life dramatically harder for trans children and their families. The human costs are enormous. Cal is not the first parent I know that has made the gut wrenching decision to leave the country. Read this then start fighting for a world where trans kids can live and thrive.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026

JD Vance has been a Catholic for like five minutes, I guess he doesn't know the rules yet

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Library Lagomorph @bunnyjadwiga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In libraries 📚 the purpose of the technology and the facilities and the administration and the money people and the politics and the fundraising... Is so we can DO LIBRARY STUFF. Books. Programs. Outreach. Literacy. Human connection. Third Spaces. LIBRARY STUFF.

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 02/10/2026

TODAY: @mkupperman.bsky.social on a bit of forgotten scientific lore. “Sick and tired of not playing God? I know just how you feel.” flaminghydra.com/the-insult-t...

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THE INSULT THAT MADE A MAN MAKE ANOTHER MAN

a fiery writer-owned cooperative

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Dr Joanna McKenzie @jobob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Still think when Google actually worked that was a better tool than any LLM.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/10/2026

Snidely Whiplash-level melodramatic evildoing

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John Saward @rbuas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Really been an especially great last couple weeks on @flaminghydra.com, The Best Website.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I like that Hydra publishes a wide variety of stuff, including work from a few really talented cartoonists and illustrators. @mkupperman.bsky.social's latest is a good gag. flaminghydra.com/issue-661/#t...

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Exquisite corpse / Science friction

Little-known history revealed by Michael Kupperman; a Nobel-winning biologist had the answer in 1969, says Maria Bustillos

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/10/2026

P.B. Medawar! The best!! an immaculate, elegant writer who also was a Nobel laureate for his discoveries re: organ transplants

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/10/2026

Never in a million years will you guess how @mkupperman.bsky.social's hero prevails over his enemy!!! flaminghydra.com/issue-661/

A 98-pound weakling at the beach vows his revenge ('The big bully! I'll get even some day'); 'The wedding is OFF,' pouts his bikini-clad lady friend

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/10/2026

One of my favorite writers ever, biologist P.B. Medawar, would have set everyone straight about the LLMs in about five minutes b/w a gorgeous and hilarious comic from @mkupperman.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-661/

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Exquisite corpse / Science friction

Little-known history revealed by Michael Kupperman; a Nobel-winning biologist had the answer in 1969, says Maria Bustillos

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