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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026

Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is making the rounds but be aware: it's A.I. slop! First: having those big trucks with tanks full of fuel going that fast off-terrain seems highly unrealistic. But there's also a SUV and a guy appearing all of sudden and walking in the middle of it at the 17 second :P So yeah, don't fall for it

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 22/09/2026

Tomorrow, Discord will place everyone into an age group using account signals. They claim 90% of users won't have to confirm their age. They are also introducing new verification methods if you do need to verify that you are an adult, including Credit Cards and App Stores.

More than 90% of you won’t be asked to confirm your age. Since our last post about teen safety, we've had to launch age assurance solutions in more places, including Texas and Brazil. Laws requiring age assurance are expanding around the world. Rather than waiting to be told how to do it, we’re launching our own privacy-preserving approach: one that reflects your feedback.
You can check your age group status at User Settings > Account Status. We've estimated your age group automatically from account signals like how long your account has existed or the kinds of servers you're a part of. We don’t look at your messages, calls, or other content. We're launching this over the course of this week, so it may take a few days to reach your account.
If you're in the adult age group (18+), nothing changes. If you're in the teen age group (13-17), you can keep messaging friends, joining voice calls, and participating in non-age-restricted servers, but with additional safety protections that block age-restricted content, spaces, and settings. Otherwise, Discord works the same. More on this below.
We've added several new ways to confirm your age, including some that don't require an ID or selfie (including credit cards). If you're an adult but weren't automatically placed in the adult age group, you can confirm your age group at any time by going to User Settings > Account Status. More on the new options below.
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

250 donations away now 🫡

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Tristan J. Tarwater @backthatelfup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm reading Five Days at Memorial and boy howdy. Boooooooy howdy.

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Tristan J. Tarwater @backthatelfup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The problem with wool t-shirts is that none of them are band shirts, so I will never buy them.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

Also, these people’s central source text, their Bible, is a Harry Potter fanfic, and I am not kidding. These dorkass weirdos are unthinkably wealthy and powerful now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_P...

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Wikipedia

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If anyone has a video of that right wing streamer, Tommy, attacking Hollie at Sports Bra and Hollie hitting their head against pavement or a pillar could you link it here or send to my office? Councilor.morillo@portlandoregon.gov

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Tristan J. Tarwater @backthatelfup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's Hispanic/Latine heritage month 🥳

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 12/09/2026

Scam alert: @authorsguild.org warning abt fake meeting links. I haven't seen this but it sounds dangerous. Starts w/ email asking about proofing or editing services. Scammer sends link for video mtg, then says they can't join & sends new link mimicking a Zoom URL but leading to suspicious domain

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Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Renters: assemble

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Alexis Sara @alexissara.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey there true believers, the 5th exciting issue of Spider-Sappho is out on stands now. She faces her greatest challenge yet, bed rest! Get your gays, your drama and your feelings all here. archiveofourown.org/works/92357826

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The Spectacular Spider-Sappho #5 - Comfort After Hurt - AlexisSara - Spider-Man - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026

Every time I look online I see dumb shit that sucks

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the current fascist in charge decimates US science, medicine and technology research, all facilitated by petulant, dangerous and hateful tech leaders, and Dave Vorland asks if you can stop criticising the poor babies

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spooky sylvie 🦇 @luvcore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

when you bake chocolate chip cookies and you pull them out of the oven and the edges are golden brown but the rest of the cookie is still pale brown and they're very soft and you think "i should cook these for another couple of minutes" DO NOT DO IT. THAT IS THE DEVIL SPEAKING. TAKE THEM OUT NOW.

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Erin Returns From The Grave 🦇🖤🦇 @woodaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OBJECTIVELY the funniest screenshot in any nintendo direct im dying

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚨VICTORY: Missouri cannot use its gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm elections after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to wade into a purely state matter. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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In big win for voters, Supreme Court won’t revive Missouri gerrymander before midterms

The Court's order ends a year-long bid by Missouri Republicans to grab another congressional seat this fall.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Missouri’s emergency stay application leaving the 2022 congressional map protecting Black voters in Kansas City in place for the midterms. A victory for Elias Law Group, its client and voters of Missouri! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...

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🚨 von Glahn v. Hoskins

Learn more here.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NEW: This piece was originally written for Democracy Docket members. Democracy Docket decided to share it with everyone because the stakes for this election are too high not to. Premium members always get my exclusive analysis first. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/here...

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Here is Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms

We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

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Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could

New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New swear unlocked everybody

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obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"
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this totally scans for a swear intensifier btw. what in the gluten free christ is going on here, Julia

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My friend explained to me how most games are designed like Opiates where the point is to escape reality and blunt the pain of day to day life. Built around convenience, addiction etc. She then said she wishes games should be Hallucinogens that would expand her reality, make her think. Legend

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hi! So our eSims are keeping a whole hospital going in Gaza, and countless of students who are studying for exams right now. Our funds are about to run out because the usage of those eSims are especially high. <3 #ConnectingGaza

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Chloē @comrad-chloe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Indie game scene be like:

Meme featuring text that reads, "When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor" and two image panels that show a photo of a cat yelping in pain as its paw appears to be bitten by a toy crocodile from the Crocodile Dentist board game contrasted with a photo of a cat wearing a crocodile costume.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is why that Wired piece was insulting. It started from a place of asking whether perimenopausal treatment was really all that necessary, whether it was overprescribed, whether women were imagining symptoms after seeing too many ads on Instagram. The piece did not ask doctors why they were shit at being doctors. It did not take on medical betrayal, or medical distrust. No, it only asked, with mock astonishment, why there are so many symptoms of perimenopause and whether some people simply "believe" they have it.

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Rhiannon Rasmussen @charibdys.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT collects dark tales that run the speculative genre gamut, concluding with the epic 16,000 word titular novella "The Maidens of Midnight." 12 eerie stories, 13 interior illustrations, 168 pages, limited to 150 copies. Coming December 2025. Pre-order now: bit.ly/3XyScs6

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

'We haven’t received any donation in 5 days😭 This is devastating for my family and me😩😩 We need to feed our daughter, and to afford the medicine I urgently need during my pregnancy🙏 Is food and medicine too much to ask for? 💔 I’m begging you to help us today🙏🙏'

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Donate to Together for Marah & Mila: Surviving the War in Gaza, organized by Mariana Moyano

“You are the only hope for a family that has lost everything. You… Mariana Moyano needs your support for Together for Marah & Mila: Surviving the War in Gaza

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Tristan J. Tarwater @backthatelfup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I work at a bookstore and the way some of these distributors ship books is absolutely dogshit, I am guessing people in the warehouses are rushed/tired and just throwing a paperback book in what is basically a paperbag that can bench its weight, I'd rather get the book later and in good condition.

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Sweet Baby Inc @sweetbabyinc.com · 25/08/2026

It’s really cool to hear how many people enjoyed the talk! Thanks to @gamescomdev.bsky.social for having us! ☺️

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Alerts from NWS Portland OR (UNOFFICIAL) @pdx.nws-bot.us · 01/09/2026

Air Quality Alert issued September 1 at 11:19AM PDT by NWS Portland OR Additional Details Here.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has continued an Air
Quality Advisory, which is IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON PDT WEDNESDAY.

An Air Quality Advisory for Smoke remains in effect. Wildfires
burning in the region combined with forecasted conditions will cause
air quality to reach unhealthy levels at times through noon
Wednesday.

Pollutants in smoke can cause burning eyes, runny nose, aggravate
heart and lung diseases, and aggravate other serious health
problems. Limit outdoor activities and keep children indoors if it
is smoky. Please follow medical advice if you have a heart or lung
condition.

More information about air quality can be found at:
www.orcaa.org
www.swcleanair.gov
www.oregon.gov/DEQ
www.lrapa.org

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Tristan J. Tarwater @backthatelfup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Many climate disaster events are going to be out of our hands and capabilities, but if you're in the USA + interested in learning how to help your neighbors, consider finding and joining your local Community Emergency Response Team www.nationalcert.org/state_cert_c...

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State CERT Coordinators

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Anyhow, a reminder that this sale's going on bsky.app/profile/deve...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is what happens when multiple disciplines get marketed as one to stop regulation What actually happened is bad code performed the way it was written

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 29/08/2026

Nope. There is no animus. You're playing with an automated algorithm that's being assigned too many privileges with outcomes based on probability. That's like "shit I lost control of this giant bolder I was rolling down a crowded street, it must be magic."

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the part of the whole ‘gta will save the industry’ theorising that scares the ever living shit out of me. GTA games have always been brilliant mid generation hits because by then the console to play it on had reduced in price to ‘rich guy impulse buy’ Unless they release it on vinyl…

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026

Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.

goelect.txelections.civixapps.com

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Elizabeth! @kikutowne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Periodic reminder for heatwaves… it drastically improves the temp inside if you can block out the light from getting in the windows etc. you can use sheets or cardboard or whatever you have!

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hey folks, adding ROUTINE to my Steam Curator with an extremely enthusiastic thumbs up, quite possibly one of the scariest games I've played as of late, it's a mechanically fascinating and engrossing experience with the central sci-fi gadget gimmick being so interesting to play with. I loved it!

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ROUTINE on Steam

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21/08/2026

Two people held at separate Multnomah County jails died within days. mrf.lu/2svf-

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aleta: (cries in spanish) @afiregender.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

had the call with the vet today and we are moving forward with a broad spectrum dewormer (unlikely but can't hurt) and a stronger probiotic. if those don't work then there's more expensive options. reminder that i'm underwater with vet bills and if you'd like to help: ko-fi.com/afiregender/...

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