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Peanut the squirrel honor guard 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 7h

Wait ok no one told me the sequences kick ass lmao I can read guys reject the scientific method from misstatements of quantum mechanics?

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

His buddy ate 15 but “everyone is a winner at a pie eating contest”

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Pusheen @pusheen.bsky.social · 17h

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that this idiocy got past an editor in a book on godamn punctuation shows how deep the ignorance of Judaism and Jewish history is in the wider culture and how that ignorance is being weaponized so as to create a better scapegoat for Western uses

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 02/10/2026

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They cannot "run" a program, because they don't have legs

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(((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Jews are the ultimate white people" is core to contemporary leftist antisemitism.

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New York State of Good Repair @ludmirdevotee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think the American Georgia is bullshit because we should not have kept a place named after King George after independence. And I think the Caucasian Georgia is bullshit because the endonym is Sakartvelo and we can easily call it Kartvelia or something in English

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(((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Re: "the IDF is evil, therefore the IDF must also be incompetent" strain of thought.

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spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

pro tip: Including a sentence in your prompt instructing your coding agent to put on her cat ears before beginning work improves performance on low level or system-y coding tasks by as much as 12%

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מיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

actual false flag operations are vanishingly rare, nowhere near as frequent as conspiracy theorists make it seem, and are usually exposed incredibly quickly (sometimes while they're still ongoing: see this 1999 example from russia)

something from the official Duma record: a remark by the speaker, Gennady
Seleznyov of the Communist Party, on the morning of September 13, 1999, just
hours after the second explosion in Moscow. According to the transcript,
Seleznyov interrupted the proceedings with a surprising announcement.
“I have just received a report. According to information from Rostov-on-Don, an
apartment building in the city of Volgodonsk was blown up last night,” he said.
In response, the nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky chimed in, “And there is a
nuclear power station in Volgodonsk.”
Yet there had been no explosion in Volgodonsk on that day. A bomb did indeed
destroy an apartment house in that southern town, but three days later. Nineteen
people were killed.
When the news of the actual Volgodonsk blast reached the Duma chamber on
September 16, Zhirinovsky spoke again: “Mr. Speaker, please explain, how
come you told us Monday about the blast that occurred on Thursday?”
“Thank you, I have noted your remark,” responded Seleznyov, and promptly
turned off Zhirinovsky’s microphone. On the video of the Duma session,
Zhirinovsky can be seen gesticulating wildly.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More detailed thread here on northern Gaza demolitions that aren’t yet reflected on Google imagery, and the timeline of how it happened (short answer is that if fall 2023-fall 2024 was the year of the 2,000-lb bomb for the IDF, fall 2024-fall 2025 was the year of the far-more-thorough bulldozer)

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Right now you have a push on one hand to undo that shift and return to the norms of early 1990s and bracket out the Linke as unaccetably far left and relegitimize the national conservatives. At the same time, much of the AfD is now far more extreme than the old Stahlhelm faction of the CDU.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In fairness to Senator Schmitt the two teams romanization is very similar if you don’t check the original characters.

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

17th century warfare en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_...

en.wikipedia.org

Prince Eugene of Savoy - Wikipedia

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 29/09/2026

OMG someone decided to take the obvious biphobia of people saying they wouldn't date bi men and spin it as bi men being incels who demand sex thecritic.co.uk/there-is-no-...

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There is no right to sex | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine

The idea that sexual preferences must be interrogated for prejudice ends somewhere deeply unpleasant

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is a vision of what the Real Electorate is in the minds of people like this that is mostly about their own experience of their long-ago childhood and is not troubled at all by reality, in which women in lower income households are overwhelmingly part of the workforce and long have been

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 29/09/2026

I actually think the way she pronounces shibboleth is really exotic and beautiful

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(((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thread, on what I agree is the best historical analog to the situation in Israel and the West Bank.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'you're cognitively offloading'. yes. correct. that is what i wish to do. i do not wish to expend cognition figuring out which pharmacist takes my insurance and is closest. i want to offload it & be told who that is. you are free to continue manually doing this task you evidently find so meaningful

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EPP/ECR frugality TLDR version: "We must cut...no not that my voters like that...not that I need it in our core region...not that either my infra needs it....but we must cut something!"

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 28/09/2026

It's very important to me that you know that all grains are a neutral base that can be either sweet or savory

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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tolkien trying to figure out how to explain the liberties taken by the King James Bible to his son: So imagine a Hobbit

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is kinda key to their level of concern about AGI, actually. they think a large enough pile of well-organized compute can skip all the experimental steps between "wanting to kill all humans" and "actually doing that"

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should raise taxes

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, exactly. i am adjacent to rationalists because i have worked alongside rationalists for a decade. some are very earnest EA monks who more or less give away the huge amount of money they make. some are neoreactionaries with essentially Satanic values. the monks and neoreactionaries get along.

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(((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At most American universities, especially elite ones, engineering students in *our* universe are required to take a certain (small) number of social science and humanities courses. History is a quite common choice.

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The reason we need these is not for consumption it is because they are soft enough that you can throw them full force at a 13-year-old’s pimply face without causing any damage

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Engineering is not essential to a republican government" is as daft as saying history is not. All the successful republics of history had concern for the built environment and for the material & technological bases of commerce, war, the infrastructure needed for republican social stability...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WHAT AN AMAZING DAY

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If the CDU/CSU views it as a means to blackmail the SPD and Greens rather than as a principled stand against Fascism then the Brandmauer with the AfD has ceased to exist already

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If the CDU/CSU threatens to make deals with AfD without clarity about its red lines in coalition talks with a party German security services believe is still in parts anti-democratic, then SPD, Greens, Linke need to ask how far the CDU/CSU is still committed to the constitution

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Redwall Feasts Bot @redwallfeasts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Up and about since the crack of dawn, they had rekindled the fire and made a meal. Warm barley biscuits with honey, fruit salad, and apple juice.

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Rotating Handles @davidhdaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the outcome all the wishy washy Talarico stuff is looking for. This isn't a getable voter but it is a goawayable voter.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If in 50 years we have to write a history of a fall of Israeli democracy one of the primary causes will be excessive meme consumption

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 24/09/2026

We don't need Prop 45 to build new housing - recent state laws have already streamlined approval of new homes in existing cities and suburbs. Instead, Prop 45 would rubber stamp sprawl in wildfire zones, and make California's insurance crisis worse. Vote No on 45.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I apologize for my earlier article, which did not undergo proper legal review, and will not be able to be present on social media for a while.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.

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(((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Consensus in the press seems to be that the only disqualification that will be upheld is a specific one for the head of Balad (secular nationalist), leaving all the Arab parties in the running. See eg www.kan.org.il/content/kan-..., www.ynet.co.il/news/electio...

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No doubt the EU needs reforms. But calling both for a 'Europe of nations' and the EU as a global power is an example of where this 'big nations' thinking that led to Brexit has brought us.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is why an absolute Brandmauer against the AfD or isolating the Linke are not workable long term strategies. It is more viable and sensible for CDU/CSU, Greens and SPD to set tough conditions any party that wants cooperation must fulfil. If they do great! If not, tough luck.

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TRUMP "I'm building a ballroom for entertaining." > "I'm building a ballroom for national security." "I'm building an arch to celebrate our greatness." > "I'm building an arch for national security." "I'm banning those reporters b/c they suck." > I'm banning them b/c national security."

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The major problem with this reporting - beyond its fundamental inaccuracy - is that when arrests are eventually made there will be no proper context and therefore it will seem like the state is smothering free expression.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I actually do love YouGov's modern attitude of "alright lads, time to poll last month's TikTok discourse" Anywho as a bi guy these are among the least surprising numbers ever, if anything I am surprised the willingness-to-date numbers are that high for bi & gay men.

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