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Cyclist (gravel and MTB), leftist, sci-fi enjoyer, bi, probably exhausted. Any pronouns.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14h
This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 21h
What the fuck is this shit? How is that a "fact check"? What Jackson said is just entirely true, so they're just pretending he said something else and fact checking that?
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 22h
People her age. Maine is the oldest state in the country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There really is no floor to how stupid they think their supporters are huh?
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dinosaurs — who have been dead for 65 million years — are maybe going to end up killing off humanity. And not even in a cool "Jurassic Park" way.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I actually kind of wonder if this is just a ruse and their intelligence on customers is much better than this. It's hard to imagine that a massive tech company in 2026 with access to shit tons of data can't do better than "if customer bought [product] customer loves [brand]"
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Actually looking at these is pretty funny because I had assumed Amazon's tech would be better. I bought a tape measure once and Amazon is like "we simply have got to remember his love for this brand he purchased a thing from once"
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They got me with this one though:
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lmao wtf Amazon
Product preferences: is not a particularly strong person
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/10/2026
You probably think this is a touch of hyperbole. If you do, that just tells me not only are you not paying attention, you are actively ignoring all the trans people this has happened to. This is life in the UK as a trans person in 2026.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 07/10/2026
nobody finishes a book and concludes “that was great; now I shall never read another one.” other writers are your teammates and coworkers, not your competition.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I see Microsoft also subscribes to the School of randomly Capitalizing certain words for No discernable Reason
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Help, I can't breathe 😆🥊
LADY BOXERS. Lady boxers are not new. A challenge to fight and an acceptance between lady boxers appeared in ‘‘The Daily Post' as far back as 1728. The advertisements are too long to quote in full, but the challenge was issued by ‘‘Ann Field, of Stroke-Newington, ass-driver,” to Mrs ‘Stokes, styled the English Championess, “to a trial of the best skill in boxing, for 10 pounds, fair rise or fall.”” Mrs Stokes acoepted the challenge, none too politely, it must be said. She referred to ‘‘the famous Stoke-Newington ass-woman,”’ and went on to say ‘‘the blows which I will present her will be more difficult to digest than she ever gave her ass." Perhaps some sporting enthusiast will be able to tell us result of this encounter.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's called an INVESTMENT
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Holy cow if only there existed some independent entity that could assess whether what Susan Collins and her team say is true or not. (It's not.) What absolute junk @randybillings.bsky.social / @pressherald.com. Running errands for a flailing, corrupt politician. Aren't you embarrassed? #MEpolitics
Press Herald headline: Susan Collins camp releases new info disputing alleged pay-to-play scheme
The campaign released documents and photos they say undermine a recent ProPublica report.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Talkin’ rape with Richard Hanania” really distills most of the MAGA project into a few words. Hard to be much clearer than that.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Listening to a *blockchain* guy's opinion on what's efficient is absolutely hilarious.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump's propaganda for an illegal invasion and occupation.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BARS
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The earlier you vote the more time you have to devote your energies to getting others to vote. The earlier you vote the sooner groups that organize can take you off their list and focus on getting iffy voters to vote. #MEpolitics
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The guy I took it from is semi-pro and (I think) set it accidentally during a training ride a few years ago. Part of me hopes he comes back and rides it like a TT to retake it — in the process he'd inevitably set a time *so* much faster than mine than I could just forget about it 😂
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holy shit I got a KOM! Have been trying on this segment for years, took a run at it today but I was so sure I was too slow that I kind of forgot that I had tried until I finished the ride and checked Strava. (I'm really not a Strava guy at all and I fully admit this is completely meaningless)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look at that third sentence. An LLM wrote that. Letting billionaires control art is a disaster; they don't understand or appreciate any of it.
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.
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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In addition to the direct harm, this is also blatantly unconstitutional. Of course, the NYT refers to this act of dictatorial lawlessness as "creative ways to work around Congress."
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 22/02/2026
Literally
@tonyhawktruther

american: i can't afford the doctor

european: Ö you don't hjåve hjëalthcare for frëe? Very fjünny because here in EU we are riding trølley or mjötorbike to djöctor at no cjøst, in fact is considered rüde not to
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump Hormuz’d the labor market.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy CANNOT be the Democratic nom in 2028
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
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Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
girl i don't think you need to worry about that
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.
New York Times homepage link reading: 
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trans lifeline (877) 565-8860 is another good option, and I believe unlike Trevor it is available to everyone, not just youth.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Or text START to 678-678, or visit chat.trvr.org for web chat
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can read the Advocate article (which is the source for the HHS quote) here: www.advocate.com/health/menta... And if you are or know an LGBTQ child in crisis, be aware that the Trevor Project still exists, independent of 988, and is available 24/7 via phone, text, or chat. Call: 866-488-7386
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, while we don't know (because they won't say), it sounds like they will *intentionally* use deadnames, wrong pronouns, etc. when dealing with trans kids in crisis. If that's the policy, it'll very likely cause deaths. I *hope* I'm misunderstanding, or being overly cynical. But I fear I am not.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So... who actually answers the LGBTQ youth line now? Unclear. HHS wouldn't tell The Advocate much when they asked. But they did say this: “HHS remains fully aligned with President Trump’s [EOs] to defend women from gender ideology extremism and restore biological truth to the federal government.”
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The LGBTQ+ youth line part of 988 used to be run by the Trevor Project, which is trans-affirming and has counselors specifically trained in crisis counseling for queer youth. Then Trump killed the line. Now, they're bringing it back, but the Trevor Project is NOT part of it anymore.
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PLEASE READ: You might see a headline that the Trump admin has resumed the sucide hotline (988) for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis. At face value, that sounds good, but it's probably very bad. Here's why (THREAD):
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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been trying to think of what to say and I can't, so in the meantime I'll just make sure this gets shared
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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This type of dude is always comparing online discourse he doesn't like to being *burned at this stake*, because (of course) this "issue" has never affected his real life in any way whatsoever.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They won’t tell you this in school because of woke but this was a vuvuzela.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brought to you by Susan Collins. #MEpolitics
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As heating oil prices hit record highs, Mainers are eyeing winter with growing trepidation
At the Farmington Fair, western Maine residents said they're taking a hit from higher prices, and some are worried how they'll make it through winter.
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