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There should be a name for the diseases you contract in the first year of your child's life. I don't think I've had a sore throat this bad since I was a kid

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DSA (((Spreadsheet Campaign))) Caucus, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michael Tracey is the kind of guy who thinks he’s less of a man because he’s never raped a woman

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He's trying to deliberately wreck the grand jury and get the victim SLAPP-ed. Vile stuff.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why multiple classes of shares should be illegal. Markets don't regulate themselves.

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If you have a child and you—sorry, no, at some point you must manifest humanity regardless of your exposure to children. Otherwise, join Stephen Miller

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Speaking as an undergrad STEM/philosophy guy, I think it violates their experience of how it *is* (for them). IMO the greatest divide among humanity is between those whose lizard brain gets an equal say and those for whom it is a distinctly minority stakeholder

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pretty sure you could show genocide deniers literal scenes from Schindler’s List with Palestinians subbed in and they’d find a way to rationalize it

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the name is CHUMP THEORY mattweiner.net/On%20Chum%20...

mattweiner.net

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The people who decide the US foreign policy consensus on Israel and Palestine genuinely can't imagine a better settlement than South Africa circa 1984, and once you realize that a lot of these baffling arguments start to make more sense.

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You either die cool or live long enough to see yourself become a boomer

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“Death comes for us all”—an anodyne truism. “Boomerhood comes for us all”—oh, fuck.

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It is divine fucking justice that eventually the “ok boomer” generation will inevitably become boomers

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Sure, we’re “apex predators,” but only because we are Of A Certain Age, i.e., for reasons that have essentially nothing to do with who we are, which is just another fucking ordinary generation doomed in time to obsolescence and irrelevance

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

Sorry way too many of you are liking this and it is uncomfortably close to boomerslop

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ryan grim and matt stoller are single-issue pro-sexual violence voters

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Instead of listening to beltway consultants about how to win in purple races, maybe Democrats should listen to Democrats who win in purple races

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

How are Andy Beshear and Abigail Spanberger to the left of Gavin Newsom on trans rights

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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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

Kiddo definitely dinged on Friday and dumped all her stats into STA and CON. Been a weekend of physical milestones. Today she rode her bike all the way to the park, uphill

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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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Sean Satori @seansatori.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

who would choose Texas anyway

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Behold the field wherein my fucks are sown; The earth lies bare—no single fuck has grown.

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Jeremey @jeremey1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You seem like a reasonable person so I gotta tell ya—“useless” just ain't it. There are many other arguments against it but it is sadly not useless

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Bigger benefits from AI compared to beef

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Well, healthy-ish. Roided up and on a path to recovery

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Much appreciated, truly, but we’ll be okay. I’m putting on some water for pasta now (wife went to ER, I put the mountain climber to bed) and there will be alfredo and a healthy son before the night is done

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Our little guy was apparently a few minutes from needing to be intubated, which is something you never want to hear

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He'll be fine, it turns out, but the drive home was quite scary. Some noises you never want to hear out of your baby

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(Not a huge mountain, but 3.5 mi / 1,000 ft is nothing to sneeze at with all of four summers under her belt)

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One kid climbed a literal fucking mountain at 3.5 years old and the other is in the ER with croup. Mixed bag

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Also I forgot about parmesan or romano in that list but if you’re not vegan they do enhance the flavor further

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Don't skimp on them. Their grassy fruityness is essential to the flavor

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In the final reckoning we may find that Donald Trump did more for the environment than every Democratic president put together, simply by combining the worst evils of the GOP with his own bottomless stupidity

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There’s no humble way to say this: it is.

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I consider any emulsion of nuts and herbs to be a pesto. One staple at our dinner parties (back before kids, when we had dinner parties) was my pista masala pesto: pistachios, garlic, ginger, cilantro, jalapeños, lime

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Unless he ends the war and somehow reopens the strait this will have roughly zero effect, cars will continue to become more fuel-efficient because consumers will demand it

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