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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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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7h

"We find a significant and highly robust empirical relationship between gender conservatism and protectionism," since 2008, extending across parties and sexes and "robust to the inclusion of controls meant to isolate gender conservatism from other expressions of conservatism."

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Gender-Role Traditionalism and Opposition to Trade in the United States | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Gender-Role Traditionalism and Opposition to Trade in the United States

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 20h

seeing their names next to trump’s like they run sovereign states is a real cyberpunk moment

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 19h

TERFism’s proposition to cis women has always been “What if you accepted having fewer rights than men in order to guarantee that trans people have fewer rights than you?”

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 18h

Wow, it just so happens the special session to giveaway even more state perks to the steel company...(have photo ops?) Happens to be timed for Oct 2nd, what a crazy sweeps week scheduling by total accident Calling this the biggest economic deal in state history is purely factual and not about nov

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Special session called for planned $15 billion steel mill in Iowa

DES MOINES, Iowa — Governor Kim Reynolds called a special session in response to the announcement that a multi-billion-dollar steel mill will be built in Iowa. On Monday, Reynolds, alongside …

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 2021, chappelle was going on how you cant do comedy anymore while Che was dropping Shame the Devil on netflix without, gasp, the same pushback as Dave. Hint, it wasnt because Dave is more famous. You can talk about any topic so long as you dont faceplant and execute Che > Chappelle Shots fired

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

W Tracey, i'm struck by the "im doing journalism" bit of preemptive counterframing. It might be a goto exonerative move for him but imho, any real journalist isnt so openly dumb as to pretend they are ignorant of rape shield laws and are familiar with why they exist and have a newsroom w standards

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Frfr, i have developed elaborate backstory for the buck mason male models and would like a podcast of them specifically talking about their career and the continuity of the mason job The one older white model is the trivago guys dad, headcanon But yes, i remind myself it all looks good on THEM

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would read a batman comic purely from the pov of the Batman/Wayne industries PR firm and their high stress, 24/7 battle to constantly differentiate batman as a costumed *superhero* out for vigilante justice, not to be confused with a costumed *villian* out for vigilante justice Team Ulcer

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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“greater comfort” making the hierarchy explicit here. there are young people entitled to comfort, and others who are expected to supply it for them

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is someone out there who has not heard that Ella Langley song AND has not seen Star Wars and idfk why they are waiting so long to cannonball into the internet deep end The discourse is yours for the taking

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meanwhile, Dracula hasnt aged a day Ruh-huh-im, shhhhot! Simon's quest, my personal fave

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a philosopher of mind I’m fascinated by so many people having to confront the nature of consciousness, and also think the most important thing is that Sam Altman goes to jail.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More man city posting is needed, this is the sports app, cmon Gakpo probably real happy that deal fell through as of this morning

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

please explain or meme why

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I like kai but its hilarious a radio guy has opinions about optics Man, idk if you wear pants on-air, shoes on or off, i dont care, its not critical, its not a zoom

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In relative standpoint terms, this would be a really funny jewish-american jewish comedic tradition roast of israel if larry david said it, ilana glazer could work a room on this til it deconstructed into atoms... Alas, they are no ilana glazer, and its wasted as a shitty "bad jews" putdown

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good piece on this new variety of American fascist preacher. To my mind, there’s not much that’s original about these guys. This is just old school Christian Identity doctrine ca. 1940-1990s rebranded—the stuff Wesley Swift or Richard Butler were preaching. religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...

religionnews.com

The rise of the Jim Crow theobros

(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The attempt at Tarkovsky to chihuahua videos pipeline is real

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

xkcd.com/1494/

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Insurance

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing with fascists, mussolini was great at it, is playing the contrite broken clock, who knows exactly what his opponents want to hear, and suggesting "you got it all wrong, gee, isnt fascism secretly the real best expression of [insert any competing politics)" Chameleons w no values

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh, that fielder movie is gonna have a crazy sequel too isn't it

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Elise @eliserobinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s death by a thousand paper cuts. They’ll say they’re not cutting the *program*, just removing it from the core, and then when enrollment plummets they’ll use that as the rationale for getting rid of it. It’s an old playbook. An old, disgusting playbook. #academicsky

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The ABA as sole accreditor isnt perfect but look forward to lawschool accreditor, the federalist society or somesuch bs

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hasan Piker may not matter as much as anyone wants except his mom, including liberal posters

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 24/09/2026

It's the meme! It's the Stalin meme! It's happening in real time!

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books

Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 24/09/2026

it's like a limited part of this but MAN does all the "isn't it sex-negative to point out when people are being obvious predators?" stuff rhyme with the classic nerd failure mode of "since we are all in our way outcasts we must include everyone, no matter how bad their behavior"

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Turek beating hinson is a decent sign of good iowa midterms results, but realllly, the dream? Willems ousting our worst AG and Chris Jones actually winning his secretary of ag race.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is maha to blame for all the protein products? I just wanna kno how goldfish: protein came about

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No ethical consumption under capitalism, but if you're reading ad copy for your podcast and you crash hard into the "Problem gambler? Call 1-800-MY-RESET" that's gotta feel bad man.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Voters in perpetual renfield thrall that any day now, master will elevate him to be his right-hand bug-eating man At least, on screen, gary oldmans an undead snack, as the kids say

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 23/09/2026

One thing I appreciate from the (currently ongoing) Death of Online Anonymity online conference is the discussion about how LLMs (and widely accessible consumer AI generally) are power tools for deanonymizing people online. This is going to be a major problem for online harassment.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

...because of white supremacy. Close the circle. Bring it home. Say the obvious. "This program used to be used for diverse people from many countries but now only white south africans" ....because....? Put it in. Put it in.

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Closing down safe and legal routes to claim asylum in the UK is a form of social murder. The Fascists wish to wield it and *enjoy it*. "Fascism transforms social murder into a new subjectivity, it makes the evils of capitalism into its weapon, its own ecstasy." prometheus-mag.com/2026/03/26/t...

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The Promise of Cruelty: Fascism and Social Murder - Prometheus Magazine

Adam C. Jones discusses the relationship between social murder, capitalism and fascism

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