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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Apartheid: "a policy of political, social, and economic discrimination against the non [ethnic] majority in the" state Democracy: "political, social, or economic equality : the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges."
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
. . . like we have the word chutzpah as well as an entire culture of extremely, extremely colorful and vivid curses . . . but I don't think there's an appropriately strong Yiddish word that covers this
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026
i heard woke is trying to do same-sex bathrooms now... they want our sons pissing next to each other to turn them gay
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this is wrong for several reasons, chief among them the fact that at least one person is on record saying L. Ron Hubbard was good at sex
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yet another example of "the politics sickos need to read more military theory" is the fact that so many politics sickos seem to be wedded to the idea that a decisive battle is the One Simple Trick that will result in eternal victory
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ok but once you think DSM stands for "da sanity manual" it's hard to remember what it really stands for
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One year one, what I am struck by is that on the day, and in the immediate aftermath, there was this palpable sense that this was going to be the big moment of final ultimate retribution where the right was going to seize total control with fire and fury-
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The wealthy countries seem to have a core of 15-30% of their voting populations who *just fucking hate foreigners*. This section of the electorate are for various reasons disproportionately well represented among the ultra-wealthy and thus are able to secure some favourable media coverage.
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A24 is potentially doing something really fucked up here, but also they have the opportunity to do something extremely fucking cool and make the movie Creative Commons people would still pay to see it in theaters. but you want to benefit from a community project? then contribute to it
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/09/2026
A bunch of Israeli politicians said “we will destroy Gaza” and then the IDF blew up the hospitals and shot starving people with snipers and killed everybody in the NICU so all the preemies died but prominent people will still argue with you under their own names about whether or not that’s genocide
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026
Any nation that is not white and thinks the US will spare them if they just do as they say will find out the hard way that you can't appease fascists. They will exploit you, kill you, and laugh at how ignorant you were. Mark my words.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
dumpster beef! "TRUMP IS GIVING YOU DUMPSTER BEEF THAT OTHER COUNTRIES THREW OUT" that's gotta be the message, man
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.
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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Eh. This strikes me as a very top-down Man-flavored response that doesn’t take into account how women (esp. Moms) wind up in MAHA spaces. Many MAHA-adjacent Moms are there because they have been talked down to & dismissed by medical establishment when they raise real concerns about their kids. 1/
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Guy artist creating Albert: gotta give the ladies a little something-something, am I right fellas? Ladies: Zork could fuck me in half and I'm not even joking.(9,467 likes)
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“The sages said [of the creepy incel insisting he’d die if he didn’t shtup this woman,], ‘let him die.’”
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Sanhedrin 75a:2 | Sefaria Library
§ Apropos the discussion of the obligation to allow oneself to be killed rather than engage in forbidden sexual intercourse, the Gemara notes that Rav Yehuda...
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Kevin @kevinmattick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is giving me flashbacks to when hbomberguy found a webpage listing nationwide police fatalities and then realized that basically all of the fatalities were police dogs and then realized that basically all of those police dogs were killed by police.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
no, you can't trick me into participating in your humiliation fetish. I'm not gonna insult your intelligence while you stroke yourself to climax & this is obviously a ploy to get me to do just that. you could only cook up an idea this dumb if you needed me to call you a moron in order to finish.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/07/2026
Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/
I recently discovered Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature which tells you which words are the same age as you.
I'm convinced there are 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe your vibe.
Mine (1987):
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-adhd
• brain fart
-dad joke 
-potty-mouthed
-thirtysomething
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Shiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 29/07/2026
I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
"A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information," it continues.
"Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an Al model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated.
The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one."
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 30/07/2026
The great thing about today's Nazis is that they burn books for both ideology AND profit
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
perhaps the most fitting memorial ever www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.

“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We can take economists seriously if and only if they can identify whether a wildly unprofitable machine what keeps harming vulnerable people, is a good thing or a bad thing to base half your economy on
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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bathrooms were never just abt bathrooms (but rather the ability to exist in public). Health care was always abt bodily autonomy the same as abortion. And at core, this is abt forced compliance + control for everyone. Anyone who thinks they're exempt is deluded. Even the boys with their T shots.
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
when the cdc didn't care and the federal government attacked them, remember that taco bell stood with the people
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
the future is here and it is picking images for news alerts
HEADLINE: Taylor Farms pulls iceberg lettuce linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak (CBS News)

IMAGE: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
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MENTALES @mentales.com.br · 17/07/2026
excelente recauchutada parabens pelo divorcio
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gryphoneer @gryphoneer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
small domino: SA forums banning hentai

big domino: being unable to safely eat produce
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Fat Nixon is a Traitor 🇺🇦 🟦🟧🚩 @lbusdoor90.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I completely understand 1930-40s Germany now.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16/07/2026
imagine thinking we get here w/o “normal police brutality”
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
if i were a man who was, you know, normal, well i'd be mad as hell every time some guy got on a microphone to talk about what a big stupid lunkheaded alcoholic rapist i am
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Why I’m not a fan, this is amazing
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
technically this is a close to useful as trump has ever been in terms of maintaining a healthy information landscape - he had the opportunity to fan the flames of conspiracy & chose not to - but it's incredibly funny that he couldn't remember "aortic dissection" and instead said the senator blew up.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
i will voluntarily pay extra taxes to any country that agrees to drag our cops and elected leaders before an international court
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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Again, the field of extremism studies will never advance unless we start openly talking and writing about violence inflicted by the state. Specifically how state violence is the direct result of the government’s official foreign and domestic policy being based on a racist conspiracy theory.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
thank god we have kelly. this is such a perfectly phrased reminder of something i’ve been ruminating on a lot lately. this hit me like a lightning bolt. stop inviting people to surrender.
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