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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 12h

SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026

Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media

Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

flying coach is literal hell and this guy claims people are fine with it, this is some normalizing learned helplessness shit

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky, rationalist leader and AI advisor to Bernie Sanders (whose partner, Gretta Duleba, is mentioned as an instructor on the Slutcon 2026 program), wrote a rather notorious scifi story with some curious ideas about rape back in 2009: www.polemics.md/that-time-el...

In a conversation with the ship's leader Akon, the Confessor dispenses wisdom he's gained from witnessing the transformation of humanity into a space-faring race. During this conversation, he reveals that the act of rape is completely legal during Akon's time and had been legalized by humanity during a turbulent period in its past. Akon responds with shock, calling the ancient human civilization "prudish":
The Confessor held up a hand. "I mean it, my lord Akon. It is not polite idealism. We ancients can't steer. We remember too much disaster. We're too cautious to dare the bold path forward. Do you know there was a time when nonconsensual sex was illegal?" Akon wasn't sure whether to smile or grimace. "The Prohibition, right? During the first century pre-Net? I expect everyone was glad to have that law taken off the books. I can't imagine how boring your sex lives must have been up until then - flirting with a woman, teasing her, leading her on, knowing the whole time that you were perfectly safe because she couldn't take matters into her own hands if you went a little too far

"You need a history refresher, my Lord Administrator. At some suitably abstract level. What I'm trying to tell you - and this is not public knowledge - is that we nearly tried to overthrow your government."
"What?" said Akon. "The Confessors! '
"No, us. The ones who remembered the ancient world. Back then we still had our hands on a large share of the capital and tremendous influence in the grant committees.
When our children legalized rape, we thought that the Future had gone wrong."
Akon's mouth hung open. "You were that prude?"
I don't believe in condemning people solely off fiction, but this is the type of thing that one might find on the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own behind many tags and warnings.

Three Worlds Collide, however, isn't hosted on Archive of Our Own. It's hosted on Overcoming Bias, blog of George Mason University economist 1l Robin Hanson and the original home of LessWrong before it moved to its own website. Hanson is an economist at the notoriously libertarian George Mason university who has been repeatedly criticized for his views on women - one notorious blog post of his compared cuckoldry to "silent gentle rape" and he was dubbed
"America's creepiest economist" in a piece about his incel-adjacent takes.
Three Worlds Collide is over 15 years old, but it is relevant to current event. The Rationality community that developed around Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong has been marred with multiple allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct. These allegations were also the basis for a protest against a Rationalist organization by Ziz, the leader of the so-called
"death cult" that formed in the community and is currently suspected to be involved in several murders, including the recent killing of a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. I

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this has got to be the weirdest fake streaming movie site i've seen www.theknot.com/us/the-scout...

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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JLP @jlp.systems · 24/09/2026

I had to make this a jingle

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 26/09/2026

After a quiet week, fossil-fueled floods are battering the northeastern seaboard, powered by superheated seas.

Saturday at 12:59 am show a powerful cyclonic storm from Delaware to Maine

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026

A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:

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Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid

“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

depends on the crime, murder? yes definitely not appropriate. having a billion dollars on the other hand.... well

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

hopefully the mcconnell fiasco has killed imposter syndrome forever. this is one of the most powerful people in the world and all he's done in months is shit himself and get one true or false question wrong.

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

all mamdani had to do was invite netanyahu to NYC under guise of making peace and then arrest him and we'd be halfway to a decent world

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@cnnipr.bsky.social breaking news, i've never even sang before but now I can also sing! (with AI)

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

such an amazing opportunity for government to seize control of ai models and hire actual competent people from all over the world to be in charge of them

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

will this meme ever not be relevant

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

80 years since americans got off their asses en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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Battle of Athens (1946) - Wikipedia

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think it's instructive to think of capitalism as a prison and then to remember Victor Frankl's observation that it wasn't the good people who survived the concentration camps.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

usually when i hear people say that the moon is a planet, i just have to shake my head. like, yes, if it’s a full moon? okay. you’ve got me there. a full moon is a circle and therefore a planet. outside of that, though, a planet either has to be a circle, like jupiter, or a dot, like stars

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Scientists warned for years: if we clear 20-25% of the Amazon, we cross the point of no return. We've already cleared 17%. We are right on the edge.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"

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Retire in peace

McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

these people are paid by billionaires to ruin the environment, the economy, the internet, healthcare, etc and the most common comment is anger at them not working hard enough thehill.com/homenews/hou...

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House cuts week short, will leave DC on Wednesday

House GOP leaders have cut short the final legislative week before the midterm elections, announcing that lawmakers will leave Washington after Wednesday’s votes. The announcement, from the o…

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mamdani is writing the playbook for how Democrats must continue to communicate with voters after Election Day. He could have done the usual thing and disappear after winning but if anything he’s communicating even MORE now.

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@jazayerli.bsky.social woah woah rany, just started always sunny podcast and "Kansas doesn't have a huge place in American political history"? weren't they the central incubator for first early 20th cent. socialists reforms and later the ideas that made of the foundation of the progressive era?

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

it's incredible how poor journalism has gotten in this country, both due to careless AI use, see here bsky.app/profile/weat...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

happy to know now that Macklemore is pro Palestine. still waiting to hear if Guy Fieri believes 2+2=4

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fact that both Democrats and Republicans are racing to the 10 side of a 90-10 issue really tells you a lot about the state of our democracy (it's a corporatocracy), and how both parties view democracy in general (as a nuisance).

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you

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