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@approxatbest.bsky.social
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I can never give a direct explanation of what I experience or think. Best I can do is an approximation. Broken brained Wannabe shitty writer (mostly surrealism and body horror)

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3h
If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3h
Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15h
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was a juror on a rape trial of a sex worker and the dominant belief among my fellow jurors was that when the worker accepted money she lost the right to object to anything that happened subsequently
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
consequences =/= punishment, social sanction =/= penal power
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are so so many social dynamics worthy of critique that are not carceral. I spend a great deal of time talking about them myself! Which is why they are worth the time and labor to develop an accurate analysis of, a vocabulary specific to them.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s pretty disgusting to me how often I see “carceral logic” deployed in a self-serving way to avoid personal consequences. So many essays penned, videos and podcasts produced, that manage to talk at length about the “carceral” without ever meaningfully referring to the realities of incarceration.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If it’s a social dynamic worth critiquing, it’s worth critiquing with accuracy. Find a way to do it without flattening the differences between an interpersonal conflict and the organized violence of mass incarceration.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminder that “carceral logic” is literally about state and medical *incarceration* in its various forms. It is NOT a shorthand for “any social consequences happening at all.” If a response doesn’t include involving organized authoritarian apparatuses and agents: it’s not carceral!
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 28/09/2026
She's gonna be the next ghislane Maxwell. Wait and see
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This disgusting depraved man.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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50joules.bsky.social @50joules.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Au contraire. These vile goons do the same to their wives and kids what they do to all the people they brutalize on behalf of the state
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Paid for by the U.S. Government @bluefrommagioh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the irony that these are the same people who objected to wearing masks during covid.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
Thank you, @ahylton26.bsky.social for breaking this story. A mask shouldn’t mean immunity.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Amy J @amyjded.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A cat’s favorite plaything is its human.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 26/09/2026
“As long as I am sheriff of Frederick County, we are going to work with ICE,” Sheriff Chuck Jenkins said in 2015. “We are going to take the criminal aliens—as many as we can—out of Frederick County.”
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 “We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impossible to ignore.
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Remember the time this clown had the cocaine sweats on Piers Morgan after Brian Thompson got shot?
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good morning
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CoreCivic CEO resigns due to cancer diagnosis
Patrick Swindle steps down after less than a year in position; Lucibeth Mayberry appointed in his place
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026
In modern terms, Rusty iron shows what happens when it’s unused, and water starts to go bad when it’s just sitting around. The same goes for your mind — if you don’t use it, it loses its strength.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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join neno! @ann.neno.social · 25/09/2026
Support Ferguson Uprising Political Prisoner Josh Williams Returning Home! givebutter.com/support-ferg...
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Support Ferguson Uprising Political Prisoner Josh Williams Returning Home!
Josh Williams is being released in early November - let's put some funds together to help smooth his transition back to freedom!
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 25/09/2026
Netanyahu sounded delusional as he ignored Gaza horrors and painted Israel as a moral champion
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Netanyahu sounded delusional as he ignored Gaza horrors and painted Israel as a moral champion
Most delegates walked out of assembly hall for Israeli leader’s address, but an Irish representative remained
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't cotton to politicians bcuz they all lie. But, being condemned by a war criminal like Benjamin Netanfuckinyahu has got feel like highest praise. Like:
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Daniel Craig's Smug Look at SNL
ALT: Daniel Craig's Smug Look at SNL
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m genuinely shocked at the people on here who think long covid isn’t real. Seriously? Your actuaries, departments of health even the freaking department of defense know it’s real. Apparently people used to think MS wasn’t real. There’s a long history of telling sick people they’re crazy.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"James Heneghan, a 33-year-old Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy, was arrested Thursday morning on a warrant charging him with 441 counts of intimidation, official misconduct and fraud. Detectives allege that Heneghan made over 6,190 searches between Dec. 2024 and March 2026..."
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Indiana sheriff’s deputy allegedly used Flock cameras to track wife, ex-girlfriend
GREENFIELD, Ind. — A central Indiana sheriff’s deputy has been arrested on accusations that he misused Flock cameras, conducting over 6,000 illegal searches. He now faces over 400 felony char…
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Any teenage girl from the 80s knows the actual answer is the journey of natty gann, stand by me, and say anything, lol
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DV workers have had to do these trainings bcz when it comes to DV, too too too many people don’t take strangulation seriously or as a sign that it’s attempted murder.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am extremely passionate about this. Strangulation in DV situations is understood by people that work w victims as the step before they kill you. Police are trained when they find out strangulation is involved to counsel victims and work w them to help them leave.
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just saw the news. The religious fundamentalist family that had big old scandal cuz their son ‘confessed’ online to ‘laying hands’ on his wife? Got arrested for DV with strangulation. This man tried to *kill* his wife.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
He did it, this is the final boss level of white people going can I say it?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Welp. Learned who Tarrare was today.
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Approximation, at best @approxatbest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This. He's one of the elite. He doesn't play by the rules because he doesn't have to. Nothing proves that more than our milquetoast ass legal system. Even if you win, you lose because they just buy their way out of accountability
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 24/09/2026
3 but I would accept 4
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Gyratorio @gyrate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Physics. It’s not just a good idea - it’s the law.
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A man is dead after crashing his car into a tree, catching it on fire while fleeing from ICE in Grand Rapids over the weekend. He was identified as Mario David Coronado Juarez. No traffic stop should end in a fatality. #ProudBlue #FuckICE #Michigan #ICE www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Man dead after fleeing ICE agents in Grand Rapids
A man died after crashing his car while fleeing ICE agents in Grand Rapids. Michigan State Police will investigate.
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He understands 💯 but wants daddy to watch….
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As we suspected:
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
They even made DoorDash apologize.
DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.
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