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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 10h

On the off chance you never got around to Adios, please please grab it on sale. It's a giant punch in a small package.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 10h

She had even (an infallible mark of good reputation) been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for distribution among the proles. It was nicknamed Muck House by the people who worked in it, she remarked.
There she had remained for a year, helping to produce booklets in sealed packets with titles like Spanking Stories or One Night in a Girls' School, to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the impression that they were buying something illegal.
"What are these books like?" said
Winston curiously.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 14h

waking up every day in 2026 like:

a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 14h

Remember: no paint job is complete until the mini is based and the rim of the base is painted. #paintingwarhammer #lvo #miniaturepainting

A middle aged man making a fool out of himself in front of a full-size storm cast eternal figure.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 13h

This is a good read -- unsettling, but it helps explain a lot of stuff going on around us today.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 14h

I tell you hwut, a collection of people from all manner of trades, scientific discipline, and ages came out to watch the equipment operator hit *FINE* grade with their bulldozer moving snow around. 1/2" tolerances on the gorgeous Snow Ziggurat they made. A lot of "Nice!" and "DAMN!!!" was exclaimed

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either.

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 17h

A few years ago, this post of mine went viral (millions and millions of views) and it continues to circulate every few months. It seems to be making the rounds again. Posting it again here in case anyone needs this today. - Doug Murano, Founder & CEO, Bad Hand Books

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

to have political stability you simultaneously need to actually beat the other guy politically but you also need the other guy to acknowledge your win, usually through some kind of trade

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 17h

"Most concerningly, [Trump] has suggested a political basis for his requests, maintaining that the govt should reinstitute this criminal prosecution 'especially since' Mr Hearn has donated to ActBlue ... and is represented by @normeisen.bsky.social . ..." 1/2

Most concerningly, he has suggested a political basis for his requests,
maintaining that that the government should reinstitute this criminal prosecution
"especially since Mr. Hearn has donated to ActBlue, a Democratic Party-affiliated fundraising platform, and is represented by Mr. Eisen."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

This is a fantastic essay using @milhistlee.bsky.social's book on The Cutting Off Way (of war) in Native North America to think about how warfare is changing today. I think you can actually push the analogy even further though, toward overall strategic aims.

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Akephallus @cryptotheism.bsky.social · 17h

Darling you simply must help me, I can't make heads or tails of this delightful little blue dog or her wonderful little clues

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Adina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another thing most people don’t get: it was fairly common in early modern Europe for non-Jews, incl. Jewish converts from Christianity, to have printed compendia of salacious things they had (or claimed they had) found in the Talmud. Online antisemites have returned to the politics of 1475. Yay.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe, just maybe, this fucking website could one day stop valorizing people who are abusive to *anyone*, instead of throwing shitfits about rhetoric that is 1/5 as severe as the rhetoric they themselves throw around on the regular.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 18h

And yes, Lincoln did appeal to unity and peace! But the lesson of the First Inaugural is that he wouldn't surrender everything just for the sake of peace and unity. Enslavers demanded compromises he wasn't willing to make. "And the war came," as Lincoln said in the Second Inaugural.

Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

"One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves not distributed generally over the union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19h

"the periphery will be easier to control if it is fragmented into many warring statelets" this is some late roman empire ass thinking

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 20h

At least once a week Ossoff cold-calls people in Georgia: mayors, school principals, clergy, farmers and so forth. Political affiliation doesn't matter, and the people have no idea it's coming. To some degree the last set of calls dictates the next one. It is smart for several reasons. First -

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 20h

Economy’s in the shitter, guys

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World War I As It Happened (1914) @warhappened.bsky.social · 20h

Some Indian nationalists, not inherently friendly to their British overlords, are still supporting the war effort: "It has taken us 100 years to teach the English how to govern us and we can’t afford the time to begin again on the Germans."

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Israel's horrific, in your face conduct, combined with the suppression of antizionist criticism by pro-Israel political and social elites, has created a kind of cognitive permission structure to deny that Jews face any oppression whatsoever.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, gonna go ahead here and pull my "I have a history PhD" rank and say that you need to get fairly into the weeds before the Russo-Japanese War is likely to be covered in any depth. It's going to get name-checked in a 20th century world history survey, but not much more.

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Charles Snart (Histobat) @thehistocrat.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

September 30th October 1st

Marge Simpson (cartoon women with yellow skin and blue hair wearing a green dress and a necklace of red pearls)

Marge Simpson with her hair exploding into bats (from the Halloween Horror episode where she is revealed to be a witch)

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Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the White Sox and Phillies play in the World Series I think Pope Leo has to excommunicate Alito at the Stadium before the first pitch

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People forget that being smart is a superpower in warfare and plenty of drugged up roided up meatheads got dog walked by someone with half their body weight who was using their head.

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cynthia loves u @lesbiats.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

im gonna be a little old trans lady one day and im gonna hold my little old trans lady wifes hand and im gonna give her a little kiss on the cheek and we're gonna be like 80 and we're still going to be alive and we're going to be happy

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Digital Poppy Poppy Zone @poppyzone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fuuuuuck, I accidentally let my two ADF-11F Raven UAVs 'Hugin and Munin' escape and now they're trying to upload 'sociopathic silent jet pilot.exe' to every single HP printer on the planet 💀💀💀💀

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Pat O'Leary @patoleary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The village of Muff has a similar problem

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"We'll make sure that any potential identity thieves can easily determine which mail includes your passport"

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fencepostmalone.bsky.social @fencepostmalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am not joking when I say this. If you take the ingredients for your favourite recipe and just put them in a giant bowl and use a big spoon to shove it in your mouth, it is just as good as following a recipe.

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Packy Anderson @packyanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like this is up @damnyouwillis.bsky.social's alley.

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The Hungry Wolf @hungrywolf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“You would charge headfirst into hell, so long as you could complain the entire time.” Rarely have I felt so seen. @tkingfisher.com can distill an ethos with remarkable clarity.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a map company has the opportunity to perform the greatest bit in cartographic history

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my most right wing coded opinion is that I don't hold with armor transmog in games, if you want the cool look you should be willing to overcome the shitty stats

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 30/09/2026

Heading to Alaska to get Backpack to sign the release forms.

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Asher Langton @asherlangton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

7 years ago. (Now, as they start the college application process, I regret teaching them to read for an entirely different reason!)

Facebook post from me, 9/30/2019:
Starting to regret teaching them how to read and write.

[Picture of a half-eaten tray of rice krispie treats with a hand-written note: "STOP eating so much Rice Krispie Treats, DAD!"

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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