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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really great thread here and this essay is wonderful. It makes me feel more sane for being long repulsed by this ghoul of a show.

It is a performance of joy so excessive, so desperate, that it reveals the void it attempts to cover. It is the logic of the assembly line applied to human connection. What Fallon offers is a standardized production of “fun” that feels increasingly like a desperate plea to ignore the crumbling world outside the studio walls.

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 11m

It’s truly incredible how hair-on-fire mad many liberals will become when someone in a solidly red or blue state does a purely symbolic protest vote.

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 6m

it's not "pedocon theory," it's an observable modus operandi

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10m

Florida Man

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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 38m

One of the first features I ever wrote was for the Mizzou football game program. It was a big deal as a student worker in sports info to get to write it. Who is being robbed of this opportunity by this nonsense?

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 2h

will you people shut the fuck up

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farner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 11h

men who sacrifice liberty for bibberty deserve neither

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

We are vindicated yet again

I'm tired of touching screens. It's time to retvrn to buttons and cranks and knobs

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 3h

Every film or TV show from now on should be required to have a character based on him in it whose entire role is to at some point fall into a pool of piranhas.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 3h

me: let's tax people heavily over a million dollars guys making 37k a year with no benefits: absolutely the fuck not 😠

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3h

Unstoppable force (100-year-old unretirable CBRN guys in the Air Force who believe Russia is conducting gain of function experiments on plague to make it cause real-life zombie disease) versus immovable object (their idiot boss who loves Russia)

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 9h

It's pretty funny to say this right now, when the world's dictators and aspiring dictators are demonstrating their extreme non-benevolence and commensurate inefficiency. Was invading Ukraine efficient? Were the gulf princelings cheerleading the disastrous Iran war efficient?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10h

Aside from the obvious unfairness of people getting rich off of uncompensated stealing of creative works, we should think really hard about what it means that the people who keep winning economic jackboxes to become oligarch-rich are the ones who are willing to cheat and break the law

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

this is where I am as well, unfortunately

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12h

Econ 101

Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11h

No analysis about any of the incentives pushing things, how institutions have created this situation or reform or changes needed. Just AI slop mixed with some of the cringiest supposed comedy and tireless focus on Trump. If I consumed this stuff for more than an hour I'd walk into a wall.

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 11h

it's kind of a green lantern theory of posting

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11h

I imagine it's linked to the constant and marketed fantasy of living in a different reality where the only problem is Trump and the institutions and their servants will put things to right, but the resistance culture has taken to AI as much as anyone and its solipsistic uses are welcomed happily.

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 11h

the depressive's dilemma: whether to bike to the gym for an invigorating cardio workout, or languish on the couch alone until succumbing to the urge to nap all mid-morning until past noon

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spirit airlines presents: airplane fall @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 11h

dennis hastert is survived by fellow wrestling-and-sex-crimes enthusiast jim jordan

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 11h

He's like if a neighbor's dog who spends literally all day barking could talk instead

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

What the Laquan McDonald cover-up guy advocating against holding people accountable for doing things like wantonly killing people under the auspices of public safety?!

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11h

Any Democrat who says something like this is likely corrupt himself and should be investigated.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 11h

Answer to this is slightly complex: "yes, but they're very stupid and don't know anything, so it doesn't mean much"

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 11h

massive pedophile dennis hastert has been killed by the ravages of time, his body pummeled to a pulp by existing for too long. he is survived by perverts

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 12h

So much of the "quit wasting time and money on humanities programs" comes from dudes with humanities degrees from the Ivies. They get to have a broad, liberal, meaningful education, but it's narrow, lifeless career prep for the rest of y'all.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 13h

Pass an...ethics reform package? What an asshole.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 11h

Semi-transparent image of Rahm Emanuel with the words NOBODY WANTS THIS next to him

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 11h

"Rahm Emanuel opposes Trump impeachment" lol sure okay, let's all tune in as Screwtape advises us how to correctly handle Old Nick

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 12h

The true sign that Chicago's Spookiest Season is upon us

A pile of the Injustice Watch "Check Your Judges" newsprint supplement, in a coffee shop

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 13h

People in jail have the right to vote, but it's rarely accessible. I wrote about how Dallas election officials basically mocked the rights of the legally innocent. boltsmag.org/dallas-count...

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Dallas County Jail Adds Election Day Polling Place After Pressure from Activists - Bolts

Last summer, Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown sat inside her car to record a video to post on social media talking about voting inside her jail. Progressive activists had been... Read More

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If you ever need to just stare into space for an hour or so, just start thinking about how a former Speaker of the US House of Representatives admitted to molesting teenage boys and was convicted and imprisoned for related crimes and NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT IT.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 13h

the reason im obsessed with this obama quote/joke/moment is because IT WAS OBAMA who said this. the high priest of post-partisan civility and kumbaya. and after being president for 6 years or however long it was, this was his POV. it's kind of like if Marx had said "class struggle isn't real"

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22h

If basic human rights are predicated on whether someone committed crimes (see the "except as punishment for a crime" clause in the Thirteenth Amendment), then you create perverse incentives for those in power to create as many "criminals" out of the opposition as possible. Prisoners are humans.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23h

Do you know why I think every prisoner should get to vote in prison? Not only are prisoners counted in the census and are most affected by policies (check out prison gerrymandering), but also if you don't, regimes could simply round up 1,000s of dissidents and minorities to reshape the electorate

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23h

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 13h

This take actually seems pretty popular on Bluesky but I don't think anyone living in a coercive environment like prison has the ability to cast a free and fair ballot.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 13h

The CTA has unveiled a 1950s neon-style sign at a revamped Blue Line stop. buff.ly/5Ifslf9

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ren faire @lathrys.at · 05/10/2026

thank you for saying this more calmly than i was able to bsky.app/profile/lath...

yeah idk girl maybe living, breathing humans should be afforded deference and dignity and control over themselves as a basic universal right and maybe that has nothing at all to do with the little guys in the machine and maybe you have an extremely deflationary idea of what kind of thing a person is

kinda really fucking stupid and insulting, actually, to equate those things

sorry not sorry i like humans more than the fancy tamagotchi and i don’t think that’s a bad thing

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 05/10/2026

And when you make this argument, you are subtly equating [some historically marginalized group], who are real people, with Claude, which is Anthropic’s mascot, and the refusal to give Claude human rights with the oppression of real people. You should not then be surprised when this offends people.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 13h

my hot take is people should stop doing this dumb discourse that treats a piece of software as a living being you’re not god. it’s just a chatbot. you can turn it off and it’s not the holocaust

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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 14h

Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 13h

Whoa, one of the pedophiles responsible for the GOP's political power just died. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other one. No, not that one, the other wgntv.com/news/chicago...

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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84

Former U.S. House Speaker John Hastert has died at the age of 84 from natural causes.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

Fascism, neo- or otherwise, isn't like an oppressive hereditary monarch. We're dealing with a mass movement. Anti-democracy, anti-rights, anti-liberal. In numerous countries, with considerable transnational solidarity. For example, this crowd wasn't reluctantly forced into it. They're ecstatic.

Trump 2024 rally with the crowd waving "Mass Deportation Now!" signs and smiling.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

this is such a cliché. super hacky.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 14h

I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings

The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scam

The cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.

A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hi friends. I’m trying to get my bills current and eventually relocate, which I urgently need to do, but it’s been especially hard since my car was repossessed and I lost my SNAP benefits (due to an administrative screw-up). Anything you can send me would help a lot! 💕 Venmo/Cashapp: claymationary

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