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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21h

no matter what happens on election night, these bozos had their hands on every single lever of power. they had all of our most powerful institutions tripping over themselves to comply. they had the media swearing that we were in a new golden age of conservatism. now they're worrying about NEBRASKA

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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aliii✨✨ @gigixmelo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Also don’t invest in Space X… Per ig: @/your.richbff

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Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 how 👏🏼 you 👏🏼 do 👏🏼 it

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The more these evangelicals try to become the government the more people they will drive away. They are only accelerating the demise of their institutions by merging them with the state. The evangelicals of the founding era understood this dynamic, which is why they wanted church/state separation.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/03/2026

If you ever think your vote doesn’t count…

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pro-algae, likely paid @hndrcks.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I heard it in the car and started yelling. Assigning agency to a computer program is journalistic malpractice

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/02/2026

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

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Welcome The Stranger

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

PS if you do have kids & you want them to continue to like you into adulthood, supporting them when they put in this kind of effort (or at the very least having open-minded dialogue with them about it) is the best path forward They are fighting for their future. They need to see you fighting, too

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anonymouse.myatproto.social @anonymouse.myatproto.social · 26/01/2026

We saw this in Finland when they required at least 30% of corporate boards be women, the boards got much more competent. It wasn't qualified men being replaced with unqualified women; it was mediocre men being replaced with exceptional women. The same thing in reverse is going on.

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anonymouse.myatproto.social @anonymouse.myatproto.social · 26/01/2026

Trump replaced a lot of competent women and minorities with incompetent white men. Not just at the top of the departments but throughout. Staffed with incompetents, the Trump admin struggles to craft even simple regulations. That's why they're turning to AI.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

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2timesgrumpy_owl @2timesgrumpyowl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is such valuable advice and put plainly. Please take a moment. TY @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Excellent analysis/thread on Social Security.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

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Absolute Immunity

Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

once again we are all tapping the sign

Claire Willett
@clairewillett

honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Good demonstration of why today's windstorm along Colorado's Front Range is more dangerous than Wednesday's. Wed wind left vegetation critically dry. Any 🔥 that ignites will burn hotter and faster than if trees held more moisture.

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Freya Keddie @keddieff.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Another reason why this is *such* a dumb decision is that it will reduce the pool of eligible blood donors in the future I know someone with O negative blood type (i.e. a universal donor), who could never donate because he had hepatitis as a kid (was so ill that he was hospitalized)

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This is the ad for which Trump thinks Democratic lawmakers should be executed:

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Democrats to Troops: Don’t Follow Unlawful Orders #shorts

YouTube video by New York Post

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Barbara (she/her) @bhowe.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I stayed up way too late last night finishing A Far Better Thing by H. G. Parry. It's a retelling of Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities with fairy magic, as narrated by Sydney Carton. I absolutely loved it.

The cover of A Far Better Thing by H. G. Parry, with vines and flowers around the title. A small image of a guillotine is in the upper right corner. The words under the title are "I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse."

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Even in the extremely unlikely event of an actual home invasion, unless you're special-forces trained, having a gun just makes it more likely your or a family member dies. Meanwhile accidental shooting or manslaughter is exponentially more likely. It's pure insanity.

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Jazz Is Not Dead™ @blackohiosky.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

"Someone has decided that wiping out the world's biggest economy is a good idea. It's hard for me to wrap my head around it but it's happening and it's being done on purpose. Once the food chain is broken the chaos will begin. Whoever profits from that might be the culprit." Jenna Zaquá.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/11/2025

Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries. No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.

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Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I ran the USMC marathon not long after 9/11. And you could still see the scars on the Pentagon from where the plane crashed. The visceral hit of seeing America's buildings damaged by people ruled by hatred & anger can't be overstated. Just thinking of that when I see these photos.

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

True, but there are signs. My mother was a war protester in the 1960s and they had a fairly straightforward rule on identifying feds: anyone suggesting violence is a fed. It's not the only tell, but that's a pretty good tell.

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Beef @vaporousbeef.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Since the other person blocked me, I am going to share this tool once again so hopefully more people can see it. If you're taking photos at a protest, make sure you're blurring out people's faces unless you have their permission to post them. And scrub your metadata 🙌

everestpipkin.github.io

Image Scrubber

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Emoria - Aftertaste is a Horror Novel @emoria.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Also, PLEASE don’t treat protests like a social media photo op. That endangers the very people you are there to protect. Clout can wait.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

People once again need to internalize that "generative AI" is a small subset of machine learning, that machine learning is a critical tool that you cannot run a site without past a certain volume Bluesky has long since exceeded, and that it is FAR more reliable than user reporting.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

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Asigot Finland @asigot.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

anti-abortion = anti-women, it doesn't get more simple than that.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Opposing political violence requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s death. Opposing political violence also requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s life. Charlie Kirk spent his life encouraging his allies on the far-right to think violence was legitimate and concerns about it were fake.

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Sweetiesue1111 @sweetiesue1111.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Let's talk about the ACTUAL COST to taxpayers...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

And for the folks who think "oh, there won't be a midterm" or it won't be fair - you know who thinks there will be a fair midterm? Senate and House Republicans. Because they're panic-retiring or heading for state-level elections to avoid the blow-out they think is coming.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

DC residents are more afraid of the occupying forces than of the "crime" they are supposedly eliminating

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Jack Pondit @jackpondit.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The Democratic response should be —It is very clear Putin knows what is in the Epstein files and can tell Trump to do whatever he wants. Why else would Trump be actively undermining our economy and national security?

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years. So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.

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Heather 💙 🐸 💙 @featherfrodis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

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