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nanzhounoodles.bsky.social @nanzhounoodles.bsky.social · 2h

YOU hate Nader for throwing the 2000 election. I hate Nader for ushering in the era of Consumer as a primary political identity, touting the tort system as an alternative to normal democratic deliberation, and making things generally work worse in the USA.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7h

FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 7h

*sigh* it was all so predictable

summer 2024 twitter convos about tariffs

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 9h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 10h

Jesus Christ dude

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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

Writing can externalize information that would otherwise have to be remembered. It can't put attention or concentration into the world. Those are processes one must still carry out while composing or using notes. Formulating an explanation requires selection, retrieval, organization, and revision.

One thread I didn’t have room to pursue in the essay is that writing is itself a technology for cognitive offloading. It lets us put memory and attention and concentration into the world rather than carrying everything in our heads. That is enormously useful, but it might also mean that we exercise some capacities less.
The humanities and social sciences are so lopsided in privileging writing — and I suspect ease of assessment is a major driver — that we have obscured the costs to these other capacities for thought and have become lazy about imagining alternative ways of cultivating them. AI dramatically highlights the same question.
What kinds of thinking should we be willing to offload, and what kinds do we want students to keep practicing for themselves?

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 12h

Wondering again, as I often do, what is going through the heads of folks like Reihan Salam or Vivek Ramaswamy or Usha Vance or Dinesh D’Souza or Priya Patel these days.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 12h

FWIW my read is that the rw media reaction to the Schmitt-Smith thing is a result of them being lazy and stupid rather than deliberately lying to create a false narrative for their audience -- the hosts here literally don't seem to know what actually happened. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 12h

I can’t get over how Republican leadership is a combination of morons and people pretending to be morons. It beggars belief that this collection of freaks and assholes have managed to hammer so effectively at the foundations of civil society.

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 13h

Everybody's got to stop thinking they're going to get some angel wings by pretending these plainly malevolent harmful assholes and bigots are really honored partners in the grand scheme of democracy. This debate society approach will end this country as much as the actual saboteurs.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Post Mo Thóin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 13h

What's hilarious is that this story was in Axios this morning in an attempt, I assume, to take advantage of all the positive buzz Schmitt was going to generate for exposing Smith as a fraud. And now Schmitt will never be VP.

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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028

Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.

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Walter Mondial @dabenner.bsky.social · 13h

I see what happened, all the Eagles involved in LifeSurge were too mad to play football

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 13h

They mixing up Iowa and a NBA franchise is going to get all of the attention here, but it's worth stopping to reflect on. how bats**t the conspiracy theory posited - Smith went to an Atlanta Hawks game so it follows he met with Fani WIlliams - is, independent of how wrong he was on the details.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 13h

MAGA is best understood as a religion that wears Christianity as a skinsuit but worships Trump as its god.

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 16h

The rules are that if you're a Dem and you refuse to answer questions they find your daughter's college roommate's best friend to give some quotes to form the basis of a new drumbeat story, but if you're a Republican 🤷

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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 16h

Millions of reasons why I hate this (and most of real life right now), but everyone acting like they have no free will might make me the angriest. "We can't simply make MORE money, we have no choice but to make the MOST money even if we're screwing our future selves. It's out of our hands!"

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How it started/how it’s going

Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in Utah

BREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV

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Stuffing the Passer @stuffingthepasser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Luther Burden is a man of compassion and forgiveness… *pulls out and cocks a pair of pearl-handled six-shooters* …too bad I’m Luther Burden the Third

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t believe it got this far tbh. I think it’s a very bad bill and hope it fails the house

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1. House is a complete unknown 2. This vote is hopefully some ceremonial Senatorial group hug they can do because they know it won’t pass the House 3. Long term I can’t see any arrangement of the current Supreme Court that wouldn’t see this as a restriction of interstate commerce

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

4. Plenty of time to continue pointing out to anyone who’ll listen that this is a wage suppression act 5. For real, fuck Nick Saban for pushing this

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I genuinely think the rape accusations are a bonus for some of these people. It's transgressive to elevate utter pieces of shit just to spite the libs. It's not like he's some incredible talent, he's just an unfunny dipshit who stupid people think is smart because he has a British accent.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is fucking disgusting man. And it’s just about the dumbest shit Israel could be doing. You want to send American Jews fleeing supporting Israel even faster, just suggest that your blanket backstop for their insecurities is, in fact, conditional. Get the fuck out of here.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One way to support struggling working class men would be to reform how unemployment insurance is financed so it no longer incentivizes firms to not hire entry level men. aibm.org/policy/fix-u...

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Fix unemployment insurance to help young men into work

Experience rating in unemployment insurance taxes deters companies from hiring young men, who are viewed as being at higher risk of layoffs.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"X is better now than ever."

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Sam @bannedhat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is mostly just online removing the reasons kids went places. There are lots of other reasons these places have gone away or aren't utilized like they had been but kids being online and having cellphones is most of it.

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I appreciate this, which articulates some of what was frustrating me during the peak of DOGE activity. DOGE was never compatible with producing public good because their motivations and methods were structurally opposed to the public's

A table contrasting civic tech and DOGE across roots, points of entry, motivation, role of government, structure & leverage, view of law/change, approach to public employees, and assumptions about building change. In general civic tech is more incremental, people focused, and bottom-up, while DOGE is technology-focused, anti-government, and top-down

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Sam @bannedhat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No I wont stop sharing reels of Verlanders daughters running out to the mound when he comes out for the last time why do you ask? www.instagram.com/reel/DdxBIrT...

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Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bernie making pisspoor personnel choices?? Bernie listening to cranks????

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.

First tweet:
Harry Heymann @harryh · 16h
The GOP literally cut funding to IRS enforcement so more people could commit tax fraud.
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Reply tweet:
Austen Allred @Austen
It cut funding to IRS because the assumption that the way to catch tax fraud is to hire tens of thousands of auditors to look through paper tax returns by hand is insane
7:18 PM · Sep 26, 2026 · 196.2K Views

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water

Across the basin, alfalfa hay uses more than 5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — that's 26% of all the water consumed in the basin. One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two or three households.
In the Upper Basin, irrigated agriculture consumes 2.8 million acre-feet, or nearly half the water used by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, the environment, reservoirs and water exports out of the basin. Cattle-feed crops, like alfalfa, consume 90% of all water used by Upper Basin agriculture.
That means alfalfa uses more water than cities, commercial users and industries across the entire basin:
Collectively, these users consume about 3.5 million acre-feet, or 18%, of the river's water. The Colorado River

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 27/09/2026

This felt inevitable

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 27/09/2026

this story describes cult dynamics amongst a group of people who are all deeply unqualified for their jobs and an executive who is grossly incompetent and unfit for his position

politico.com

Serving at his pleasure: What it’s like to be in Trump’s Cabinet

What it’s like to be in Donald Trump’s Cabinet.

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

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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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have this weird memory of growing up in Southern California in the 1970s & 80s and the smog was so bad some days we weren’t allowed outside for recess, but then the smog mostly cleared up b/c of new fuel & emissions standards that measurably improved air quality & saved lives. So who’s to say.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

relevant to the topic I have studiously avoided on this app

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information

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Christina Kahrl @christinakahrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As if the Las Vegas ballpark wasn't indication enough, MLB has completely dispensed with its sense of obligation to its constituent communities, not to mention the sport itself. It has instead twisted itself into destination tourism packages while being fundamentally afraid of its core product.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

bring me the old republic give me revan, naga sadow, exar kun, nomi sunrider let the skywalkers rest

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

they sure did

Iowa fan in black jersey holding up pink sign that says Western Michigan Won" while sitting in the seats at the big house

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Sam @bannedhat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh Tebow is going to be on my TV at halftime? Anyone going to make a crack about sham Christian life coaching scams or not? I am sure it won't just be glazing him for being a UF hero....

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Frank A. Spring @frankaspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

doing the postgame with Arch when Colin Simmons turned in one of the best and most decisive defensive performances in Texas history really illustrates how stupid this whole fucking thing is

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There need to be penalties for the companies and individuals who bribed Trump, not just the Trump family for taking bribes.

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