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Anna Rompage

@annarompage.bsky.social
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Foodie, crazy cat lady, general social misfit, Portland OR

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DEMOCRACY DIVA @greenmamalama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
URGENT TEXAS VOTERS! Month ago young voters registration showed correct precinct. TODAY it shows their precinct 25 miles away! Texas is CHANGING voters PRECINCTS this last month- Which means NO GUARANTEE it will be changed to the correct district. You have to call the district for “guidance!”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Huh.
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Unpacking allegations FCC Chair Brendan Carr was in 'sex trafficking cult'
The organization was an Alcoholics Anonymous group in Washington, D.C. Former members said Carr was part of the group, but wasn't abusive.
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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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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not to alarm anyone, but if you think times are rough right now economically, wait until after midterms when it all starts kicking in.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Grandma thought it was just a sweet photo with grandpa at Disneyland, until her entire family surprised her for her 70th birthday. Original post
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pretty insightful stuff here from Bret Stephens, who admits he's literally as out of touch as possible with every New Yorker alive right now. Zohran is the most popular politician in the country, Dem leadership is historically unpopular, and he's just... the opposite. And he works for the NY Times.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and
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Bopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🐈🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌎 @bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Macklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬
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Just Jack @jackhealy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hope Texans choose wisely
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/09/2026
MSNOW aired the part of the Talarico interview that Fox isn’t showing: REPORTER: …you said ‘there are 6 biological sexes.’ Do you still believe that? TALARICO: I think the reason that politicians… across the street want to talk about 6 sexes is because they don’t want to talk about $6 diesel.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anthropic’s CEO says that the company needs hundreds of billions in revenue or they’re going to go bankrupt. Awww…Maybe he can only drink coffee at home, get a second job, and work a lot harder. Polluting the environment and creating societal nightmares must be so exhausting
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Texans: Make sure you are registered to vote. Being on the voter suspense list does not mean your voter registration has been purged. It simply means that local officials need an updated address before October 5th – the voter registration deadline in Texas.
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We spent thousands of years trying to produce enough food, shelter and energy for everyone. We finally became capable of doing it. Then we invented shareholders.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farmer complains he can’t get workers to pick peas after offering free housing & $1,400 a week. Where are the Americans who will do the work now that ICE has driven away undocumented immigrants? I guess elections have consequences. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is quieter than most of seattle's arterials where our zoning code limits dense and affordable housing (ducks)
greenwood street with 77dB ballard intersection with 74dB noise level
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing newrepublic.com/post/214946/...
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You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing
Here’s a list of every food item that faced a recall in August.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A Florida “Deputy of the Year” resigned after an investigation found he used Flock cameras to track his ex, put a gun in his girlfriend’s mouth during sex, used racial slurs and apparently gave a Nazi salute. This seems to have been the final straw for Flock in Florida.
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MamaSuz @mamaskc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.votetexas.gov/register-to-... www.vote.org/am-i-registe...
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Update your Voter Registration in Texas | VoteTexas.gov
Learn how to update your voter registration in Texas. Find out how to change your address, name, or other personal information.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/08/2026
“It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” one career diplomat said about the second Trump administration's wholesale slashing of foreign aid. “Who knows how much damage was done.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Speaking of US military might: “Donald Trump’s war on Iran has driven the US military into a severe financial crisis, with the US navy forced to transfer money from its payroll and other sources to cover the costs of combat” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews reveal
Exclusive: Experts and former officials say accounts are running dry, and funding a war with no clear endgame is the main challenge
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999
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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You’re nothing more than a cheap, disposable means for a few people to profit & become obscenely wealthy from We’re the wealthiest country in the world - everyone deserves dignity, healthcare, assistance, and a living wage job
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2026
Fucking good. Congrats @karenattiah.bsky.social!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026
Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked."
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's the fucking Tanton network, you know the one I've been screaming about for like a decade? The one I said never to allow into power? Well guess what
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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Where do bad rainbows go? To prism, where it’s a light sentence
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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If they cared about the law, Trump would be in jail, and Blanche would likely be too
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity. Original post
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In Anthony, New Mexico, ICE goons pulled assault rifles on an unarmed family, aiming weapons at women filming on their phones and children still weeping from being pepper-sprayed for daring to ask questions. ICE and HSI’s sickening excuse for terrorizing kids? Officer safety and an imminent threat
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Delta Airlines charging me for my bag? That's obnoxious. Delta Airlines charging me to book a seat? That's obnoxious. But Delta Airlines working with ICE to ship people to concentration camps is COLLABORATION. Boycot #delta
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Seems like the kind of thing a minority party in Congress would normally raise hell about
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is the former roost of notorious liar and fraud, good friend of Trump, Tim Ballard. What these guys do is take a private planeload of donors to another country, and for fun, they harass and attack the locals there, under the guys of “preventing sex trafficking”. They do NOT help, they ONLY harm
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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Joe Biden has cancer while Donad Trump IS a cancer
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
You can help support my work by spreading the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. Thanks, Marc demdock.com/4w6emld
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Wes Warren @wes-warren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This video helped me find a chuckle after seeing another "men have been abandoned" headline. If they'd just try not being mean to women; it'd probably solve their whole debacle.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This was a great ad. #Michigan @abdulelsayed.bsky.social (H/T @underthedesknews.bsky.social )
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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I drive a hopped up True Temper Rat Rod body, hand built custom rails out of local ash, and aftermarket high performance solid tire with bronze hubs- never experience a flat again
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A small act of kindness toward someone vulnerable just went viral, proof that you do not need grand gestures to make a real difference. Sharing food, helping a hurt animal, aiding a stranger, this is
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
CBS has become another Faux News outlet, peddling lies, disinformation & outright propaganda www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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Fired ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Cecilia Vega says she was told to report events ‘that never happened’
Two months after she was fired from “60 Minutes,” Cecilia Vega is sharing details about the troubling editorial pressures she said she faced after Bari Weiss was placed in charge of CBS News.
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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The schmoodles
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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The schmoodles is pretty darn happy
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This whole thread
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Anna Rompage @annarompage.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Every day I wake up with hope, then I look at the news and found out it didn’t happen overnight, yet again…. Then the dread of the cruel inept bunglefuckery of what lies ahead of us today kicks in…
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
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