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Alice's Restaurant is No More

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eh I think it’s a pretty accurate mirror for how much of society thinks about violence and SA against women
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.
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Alice's Restaurant is No More @adrenrocker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you take rights and safety away from millions you deserve to be hounded forever and to never know peace.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026
good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
JFC this is some tremendous ahistorical bullshit. Another Atlantic piece blaming the "woke left" for the actions of the right. The argument hinges on a lie: that Heritage and the voucher movement simply recognized an opportunity in the 2020s "culture wars" to push for vouchers.
theatlantic.com
How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk
Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

    97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).
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bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Democrats have to start raising taxes on all of those motherfuckers. Tax rates like during WWII. Close all the goddamn loopholes, etc.
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Julia Grant Reed @juliareedwa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No, you’re providing concentration camps that hold people against the law in horrific conditions without access to counsel.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is among the most under-covered stories in America — Israel is now holding *THREE* young Americans in prison, and no mainstream media is touching it
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They live in a false, constructed reality. Cult shit. Just saying things that are literally the opposite of being true.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
James Medlock tweet: The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules. 

above a graph showing that revenue per audit skyrocketing above $90,000 while cost per audit increases only modestly.
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
tweet by kedrick james: Unknowingly wore my Kalshi hoodie to the gym this morning and an older black gentleman compared the damage Kalshi is doing to young black men to the KKK and so I think I might have to keep this one in my closet going forward because I don’t need to have that convo again

reply by GL: 
Kalshi is objectively detrimental to society and you should be reminded of that every day
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of the business of the past few years is silicon valley radicalized because for a brief moment there was social pressure that they couldn't be non-stop sexpests.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My reaction to the whole iced coffee Discourse: can you imagine giving a fuck if someone brought themselves a beverage?
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build
NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the sort of thing I had in mind when I wrote about anti-trans policies being used as the thin end of the wedge in areas including academic freedom.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 24/09/2026
Her name was Kerri Moynihan www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
Parents' suit alleges sexual harassment at Activision drove their daughter to suicide
Lawsuit filed by parents of employee who took her life at company retreat alleges Activision Blizzard failed to prevent pervasive sexual harassment.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s a saving grace that the Trump admin is *incredibly* incompetent.
The source in Politico's story was not speaking against the White House's wishes, but spoke in an authorized call during which reporters were instructed to attribute information to a
"senior administration official."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The position of the White House is that it is banning media sharing false claims about national security while the reality is that the White House is the source of those claims including…:
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I personally don't think it's healthy when it falls to an outlet of half-reformed neocons to (correctly!) exert party discipline on the Democratic Party's behalf against the party's House leader himself
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
are you fucking serious newsom and bonta should be raked over the fucking coals for settling
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is such a strawman! The problem was ICE pushing to have him discharged from the hospital before the bullet was removed.
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
holy shit www.law360.com/delaware/art...
law360.com
Tesla Atty Misled Witness Days Before Bias Trial, Judge Hears - Law360
The California Civil Rights Department asked a California judge for a protective order Monday on the first day of a bench trial over claims Tesla Inc. fostered racism at its Fremont factory, after a w...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Time to bring this back
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A big part of Susan Collins' deal is that you get to vote for a Republican who doesn't feel like a Republican. And what this must remind us is that the pose itself is a corruption that makes all her other corruption possible.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dude thinks he's appealing to "moderates" (really just a handful of right-wing podcasters) and can't stop printing out receipts that say "Gavin ain't got that dog in him." His veto may as well have been sent from another planet where Republicans don't instantly breach every supposed norm.
While I share the author's views on the importance of protecting these important healthcare services, extradition is an exclusively executive function. When discretionary, that discretion is appropriately placed with the Governor. I am troubled by the precedent that would be set if an outgoing administration agreed with the Legislature to erode the executive authority of an incoming Governor based on their shared policy preferences, regardless of how righteous and well-intended those actions may be.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
it's simple, everyone who moved to my neighborhood after me is a yuppie transplant, and everyone who moved to my neighborhood before me is a gatekeeping squatter
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/09/2026
Because 'teen takeovers" aren't crime you fucking dipshits. You can't just call the police at everything you don't think should be happening!
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