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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 4h

Trades. crafts, apprenticeships all gaining in respect as alternatives to absurdly expensive college ... unless the trade in question is perceived as women's work. Cosmetology doesn't pay as a craft/trade because it is licensed & regulated in a way that ensures it doesn't.

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 21h

Okay this is EPIC

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

RHG and his ilk's response will be to do some racecraft, insisting that these are Berbers and thus not really racially Black (while ignoring the ample evidence for dark-skinned Romans) and/or to just botch the chronology and claim that this was part of Roman decline.

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Sa-ilent Hill Bajaj @sahilbajaj.dev · 30/09/2026

The Bronx zoo has a Himalayan Snow Leopard cub and her name is Sarka 🥹

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

Not to insomnia-weigh-in on the concept of restorative justice, but I thought long and hard ten years ago about what I would say if someone asked what Alex Kozinski could do by way of restorative justice. (Nobody ever asked.)

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is a difference between saying ignorant things out of, well, ignorance (which is almost understandable, since we weren't widely visible until recently) and openly deciding that some people don't count as fully human and can be traded for votes. That second one is where we are.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, what a nice idea. (Closing streets for a safer Halloween.)

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Your periodic reminder that the decision to pursue a professional ballet career happens at similar or earlier age to most youth gender affirming care and has significantly more lifetime impact on peer socialization, how the body looks and overall health than social transition and puberty blockers.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just. Two thirds. That's what they're saying, assuming they're not simply spouting nonsense. If we take them at their word, they believe two thirds of the country shouldn't be here. There are only ~150.7 million non-white people in America.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026

This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've never understood why prostitution is illegal, since most of the ugly and dangerous things related to it are caused by that illegality. I finally get it. Making it legal would create oversight, interfering with trafficking and pedophile rings--things wealthy men love.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have to admit, I find Hegseth's "I'm not touching you" version of fascism, where he does white nationalist and christian nationalist things, but always with this pretense that he isn't doing that, even when he wrote books about how we should do that, just so very tiring and annoying.

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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.

Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“

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RPGnet 🦌✨ @rpg.net · 16/09/2026

Surprise, we have another giveaway! We will have more after this, but this is our last dice give away (for now at least). Interact with this post, the winner will be chosen on October 2nd. Good luck everyone! #freedice #rpgnet #giveaway

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interrupt this criminalization at every turn. @interruptcrim.bsky.social is an excellent resource.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never actually talked to a parent. I know this post is about America. I don't fucking care. When the small one hit three and was finally eligible for the three-hours-a-day five-days-a-week 2/3 of the year government-funded playschool here in Ireland? I stopped slowly dying of exhaustion.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The two teams are: Desperate to change our systems and structures of power, and desperate to maintain them. There are more of us. Even if they have the resources. Solidarity is the *only* way home.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Details = "what economic and government system" not "does everyone get human and civil rights and enough food and somewhere to sleep", I might note and even some of the "how are we gonna get there" but as the kids' shows say, everyone means everyone.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great thread. Revive the OTA! This is also why I do not support term limits in Congress (at least not until other issues are fixed), because they would increase the churn and lead to even more reliance on lobbyists to explain complex issues.

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Heart-Pages @heart-pages.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This guts me because we need the OPPOSITE of this. We need more adults saying "fanfiction is healthy, actually"

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The timing on this ruling, as we are all learning more about the assault perpetrated by young men at Cornell, is just impeccable

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Ferdinand Ferret 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @ferdinandferret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I see photos of black footed ferrets and for 32 years I think, "I see, we're the classier version of our domesticated cousins. Reserved, proper, cunning...majestic!" Nope. This shit:

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hey @magic.wizards.com I never got into magic myself (I'd like to someday, but won't if--) but I know a BUNCH of people who aren't on social media as much and don't do newsletter stuff who will absolutely dump you if you go forward with any HP content. just wanted to put that out there

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 25/09/2026

I am dyslexic. Contrary to popular belief, I am not a bad reader. I am a very good reader. However, I am also a very slow reader. By the time I was in high school, I could not finish a lot of my reading assignments by the deadlines. Graphic novel adaptations saved me.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Current mood: Make "Diamond Age" Mandatory Reading

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026

Science fiction is currently roughly six percent of the current fiction market in North America and fantasy is (again, roughly) four times that. There's definitely more money in fantasy. In all genres, I will note, the money is very unequally distributed. (Horror... fluctuates)

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.

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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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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/09/2026

Sweet bleeding Mithras y'all, I get being an unhinged Astarion fan, that is one messed up guy, I like him and I don't usually have time for vampires. But you do realize that he's, like, pretend?? And that someone can have a different take on who he is or his story, right?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The thing that's infuriating about our squeamishness about consequences for traitors and corrupt officials is that we are one of the most punitive countries in the world in most other respects.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/09/2026

Look, I don't know if that's true, but air travel is one of the safest forms of travel, so THANK YOU FURRIES, FURRIES WIN AGAIN

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Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The phrase "At least Carnegie built some fucking libraries" has been bouncing around my brain for almost 2 years

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This would have been such an easy yes. I don’t want to hear one fucking thing about this guy as a presidential candidate.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.

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