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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨 GEORGIA, PAY ATTENTION. Georgia’s Republican election board just invited the Trump administration to assist with voting machines…weeks before the midterms. Even the Republican chairman voted NO. Protect every vote. #USDemocracy www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Georgia election board asks for Trump admin to help go after state’s voting machines

“I think this is federal overreach," the board's lone Democrat warned.

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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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JazzComposer @jazzcomposer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"...the Trump administration’s fiscal 2027 budget proposal proposes removing another 900 positions from [The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency]." federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-news...

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Lawmakers call for investigation into CISA workforce cuts as threats increase | Federal News Network

CISA has also experienced leadership turnover during the second Trump administration.

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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 26/09/2026

If I'm not mistaken, she's worth more than when she started giving money away.

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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 25/09/2026

“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” - James Baldwiin

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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 24/09/2026

They don't mention that you'll be fired for calling them on it.

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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DaBean. @honeybadger10.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow. The Truman show is the perfect analogy.

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Historians will look back and say America's downfall started with one simple mistake — not putting Trump in prison within 24 hours of January 6th… Merrick. Garland. Was. A. Disaster. 😎✨

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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 21/09/2026

"It's difficult to win an argument with a smart person. It's impossible to win an argument with a stupid person". I've adopted this approach, and it's saved me massive amounts of time, and I'm an exponentially happier person.

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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 21/09/2026

For your perusal, Caitlin Jenner and Melania Trump. I'm guessing they have the same surgeon.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They’re not rejecting Trumpism. They’re fleeing the consequences.

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The One and Only Diabolical DISK DOKTOR @diskdoktor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wot a git. We voted for Hillary, Joe, and Kamala because the Dems refused to run anyone better. That's not a chioce. That's corporate-captured political duopoly, and the oligarchs hedging their bets. It saddens me that the bulk of our electorate can't figure this out. SORT YOURSELVES OUT!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“So the bottom line is Trump doesn’t do the show anymore.” “Yeah.” That time Dave Letterman said Trump stopped doing the show unless he apologized for calling Trump “racist” — and Dave wouldn’t do it.

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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 20/09/2026

This is a little bit of history in context to a statement Stephen Miller recently made on the "imported" labor class.

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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 19/09/2026

A keynote speaker at the midterm RNC Convention will be Ross Ulbricht. If you don't remember him he used to go by "The Dread Pirate Roberts" when he started The Silk Road marketplace, the first modern darknet market. Narcotics. human trafficing. Murder for hire. Trump pardoned him.

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Ross Ulbricht - Wikipedia

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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 18/09/2026

First Tucker Carlson and now this rat are running screaming out of the hold of this sinking ship. Congratulations on waiting until you've gutted our nation, our military, and the government before jumping ship.

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Joe Rogan Calls Trump Fans 'F**king Nuts' And Says He's Been 'Left-Wing My Whole Life'

The podcaster disputed people’s perception of him in an eye-opening show.

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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 18/09/2026

Jon Stewart: "So you're saying if you have a media machine that purposefully lies to its people to maintain a political fiction and get themselves power, that that is the hallmark of an authoritarian system, not a democratic system?"

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/09/2026

Ingraham: "Even the neoconservatives are saying, 'If you'ge going to go in [to Iran] just go in full.'" Trump: "Well, maybe I don't do that because of the election."

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