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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

lol i just discovered that if there's a goblin corpse rotting in your hallway in dwarf fortress, you can stop it from stinking up the place simply by hiding it. out of sight, literally out of mind! you don't need to throw out your trash, you just have to pretend it's not there

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"When other genders like women engaged with the community, it led to the common assessment that while men could continue acting as men, being a Wikipedian meant that a woman should 'stop behaving like a woman' (Menking & Erickson, 2015, p. 3)." Quoted from www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Becoming Wikipedian women: a sociotechnical history of the Gender Gap Task Force (2013–2023)

The summer of 2014 was a flashpoint of conflict between popular misogyny and popular feminism. While #GamerGate harassment campaigns raged across Reddit and Twitter, the experience of discriminatio...

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SonicAlligator @sonicalligator.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yupppp. Watched a very interesting video on Nova about how tornado alley is moving essentially here from out west, because of climate change. And I thought there were plenty of tornadoes in the Illinois cornfields where I grew up! 🌪️

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Absolute travesty. Academic freedom simply does not exist at Texas Tech University.

After appealing my tenure denial the
Tenure Hearing Panel unanimously found that “the promotion & tenure process was ‘significantly noncompliant with the university’s established standards and procedures’. The President however upheld his original decision to deny me tenure.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/08/2026

i think national dems should pay careful attention to the mayor of new york's willingness to think creatively and act swiftly to make big changes using the full scope of executive authority he has unique power to wield, and i think it's the kind of thing people are looking for in a president

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The BOP modified the rules of prison assignment in May.... The attorney general can now direct the BOP to transfer any particular inmate to any particular prison, based on the attorney general’s exclusive judgment," overriding any security formulas that would otherwise have governed placement. /1

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The Attorney General as Prison Executive

Why should the attorney general personally decide which federal prison any convict should be assigned to?

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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 04/08/2026

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Another day where the president & other national Republicans get to sh*t on cities/urban voters & we have <exactly none> of the National Conversations™️ about Civility, Tone, Respect for/Reaching out to Real Folkz, or the GOP’s problem of not offering enough Moderate Solutions on Kitchen Table Issues

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It used to be that you could type something into Google and get a series of websites related to your search terms. Now, after millions of dollars of investment and years of technological advancement, you can't.

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Trans people require lifelong medical care" Everyone requires lifelong medical care you fucking dipshit

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Look who’s taking the side of explosive diarrhea

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

found the reason why dwarf fortress caravans tend to be nothing but food: drinks count as negative food

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

These fucking morons are trying to blame BIDEN for the Strategic Petroleum Reserves being at record lows. You can’t make this shit up.

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GeoManKS, PhD @geomanks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Guess who I didn't see installing a new roof on a building in my hometown in 100 degree temperatures? That's right, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Markwayne Mullin, and Todd Blanche!

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This article about the threat that AI (and particularly Google AI) represent to anyone who publishes anything on the internet is absolutely chilling. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

In total, more than 50 percent of web traffic is now nonhuman, Cloudflare said. Between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to websites of businesses in industries like finance, publishing and retail dropped nearly 40 percent, it added.

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Mech-Might 🏳️‍🌈 @mechmight.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Google's new slogan is: "Find New Ways to be Evil"

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/07/2026

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

one of my old tweets

ME, AN EAGLES FAN: the eagles stink
YOU, NOT AN EAGLES FAN: yeah they're having a rough year
ME, AN EAGLES FAN: [suddenly simmering with rage] you... come into MY home... and you DISRESPECT the philadelphia eagles?

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Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Silly hypothetical of the day: Large dog, tied by a collar or harness to a stroller wagon containing two five year old children, being pulled down a public sidewalk. What laws, if any, does this violate?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We’re living in some perverse world of constant Make-a-Wish fulfillment ops and personalist authoritarianism.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Since the tragic and unnecessary ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, DHS has been on a rampage, sending out several anti-immigrant press releases just in the past few hours.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have a theory that when an immigration agency kills someone or engages in other forms of public state violence, DHS goes on a very transparent media blitz, ramping up its claims against so-called sanctuary cities and circulating more of its "worst of the worst" allegations against immigrants.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

>>“Today is the first day without him for all of us, and it is heartbreaking to know that my mom did not make lunch for my dad before going to work—the first time in their 30+ year marriage.” Immigration thugs took this family man away for no fucking reason. They are sadists, serial killers.

In our interview, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr. told me about what their dad cherished. They took turns ticking off what he loved to eat. “Chile relleno, pozole, chilaquiles,” they said. “Anything my mom made with love,” Ronaldo added. He supported their mom’s garden, buying her flowers to plant, and he loved a good deal at the flea market. Last week it was a “big pot” for tamales, which reminded the young men of their childhood where, while they didn’t have a lot, they never wanted for anything.

One thing Lorenzo especially loved was his John Deere riding lawnmower. It was more than just a machine to him. The yard in the Araujos’ old home was too small for a riding mower. But with the bigger yard in their new home he “was able to justify the purchase,” Ronaldo said. It was a symbol of pride and progress.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What Platner is doing right now is trying to ignite an intra-party nuclear exchange, so that he can tell the Maine Democrats that THE PEOPLE will not accept anything but him or his designated successor. This is the kind of thing Trump would do.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Author Melissa Whitney, who is blind, is refuting the argument that there’s no HEA in her romance books because her FMC is still blind at the end of the story. She’s right to push back because that argument is hogwash. #Disability #Romance 1/4

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Do you know how easy it is to NOT trip over your own dick into Nazi shit. To not go on Nazi podcasts or retweet Nazis or have Nazi tattoos. It’s the easiest thing most of us have ever done. We all do that every day.

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IEMBOT LOT @lot.weather.im · 05/07/2026

At 4:00 PM CDT, 2 NNW Elgin [Kane Co, IL] Trained Spotter reports Flash Flood. Tyler creek is out of its banks causing extensive flooding at Judson University. Several local roads are flooded and impassable. #ilwx Link

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/06/2026

MSG requested a permit for a watch party for 500-999 fans. We approved that permit for 999 fans.

Mr. Dolan has now decided to cancel the watch party.

I know this is breaking hearts across our city.

But if there's one thing Knicks fans don't need permission for, it's showing up for our team wherever we may be — no matter the block or the borough.

Knicks in five.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Ring ring: it's @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and me reminding you that early voting begins this Saturday!

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

James Dolan has me believing NYPD statements

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Computational Cosmetologist @dferrer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It’s weird because many dog whistles are in general a low info indicator of being a nazi but seeing someone say, “I am being persecuted for innocently using this nazi dog whistle,” is one of the highest info indicators there is

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/06/2026

this is one of the clearest ways he's aging - he used to snap about stuff, sure, but it was more calculated and under control he's really losing the ability to self-regulate and getting angrier and more erratic

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Isa Leshko @isaleshko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Spot-on: “…Platner’s rocket to political stardom reflects something ugly that’s developed, not only on the right but on the left too: The only acceptable form of ‘identity politics’ now is white-male identity politics.”

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 07/06/2026

My photos app reminded me it’s 3 years to the day since I first got glasses (even though I have had amblyopia my entire life, I just had to deal with it because I was never given an eye exam and was told my eyesight was “perfect” bc my parents had me read an eye chart at home)

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NeoTiamat @neotiamat99.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Johnson is truly fascinating, because he's a 'type' that appears often in fiction but very rarely in the real world - the bad person for a good cause. By all accounts, LBJ was a bully, a cheat, corrupt, utterly ruthless... and genuinely driven by a bone-deep conviction to justice and equality.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Sorry but the way we vote in L.A. makes no sense. Every registered voter is sent a ballot, votes, drops them off, and then an army of workers methodically and with full transparency works through them to ensure there are no mistakes and you get a text and email if there's a problem? That's fucked.

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Spooky Hair Forever @sansculottestoo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Just one more thing. If it’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” does that mean that Alvin isn’t a chipmunk?

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This is part of why I used the phrase "zero tolerance." I don't have much room for "a little bit of Nazism" or a "hint of Nazism."

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

As somebody who lives in a rural area now, I think this take completely misses the political difficulty of city (or city-coded) people saying “just put it in a field somewhere” when rural folks will read that as “let me repurpose *your* land to provide *my* energy.”

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