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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 8h

This is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 7h

The far right power grab is global and entirely organized, moneyed & interconnected. No matter where it happens, every pillar of free society that falls has been and will continue to be everyone’s problem. It’s a domino effect.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 10h

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 9h

Did you know the trick of putting a little water In the pan and letting them cook then adding oil

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ceej @ceej.online · 9h

mushrooms are cool as hell

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 16h

It's how demagoguery and propaganda work. People make decisions based on emotional appeals, usually fear, and then rationalize them after the fact in whatever way makes them feel better about themselves for believing utter BS. That doesn't explain every conspiracy fantasy, but many of them.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 16h

Re this story, many people relate to national politics the same way a fair number of 'high information' voters relate to local politics–they know very little and are voting either for or against the status quo ('throw the bums out'). Not excusing this, but that's the reality. 1/x

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 16h

Yup. The gap between the oligarchy and normies is that LLMs don't actually do much that normies need, but are extremely valuable to the oligarchy, because they can generate plausible and *highly personalized* bullshit at scale They have *completely revolutionized* the propaganda/persuasion industry

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

The guy who literally laid out how he planned to stigmatize a concept using anti-Blackness as an advocate of colorblind meritocracy until he strays from that is a pretty clear admission of the dynamic. They’re urging him to stick to what they’re comfortable with.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

As long as he’s aiming his invective at concepts associated with Black people he’s perfectly fine, once he strayed from anti-Black racism the mainstream press began to notice his bigotry.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's just a harmless little nod to the works of the important British literary figure J.K. Rowling

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's fascinating how two years of fascist consolidation has driven political change at levels that 4 decades of leftist contradiction-heightening and progressive moralizing could barely aspire to Honestly won't surprise me if some of the states just openly defy DC within the next decade or so

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/10/2026

why it's almost as if the affluent brunchlords in charge of a consolidated media actively look for the kind of employees who won't actually speak truth to wealth and power in any meaningful or useful way

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/10/2026

an Atlantic political columnist "not understanding" that Chris Rufo is a virulent bigot and far right propagandist is very on brand keep up the good work, brunchlords

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The thing about Bayes’ Theorem is that while you can use logic to propagate probability distributions through chains of thought, doing so without data just makes the result a new set of priors. The result is just belief expressed as a degree of surprise.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Omar El Akkad. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Alfred A. Knopf; 2025.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky

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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax

There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is one reason why the “polarization” discourse drives me up a wall. Not only do pretty significant majorities agree on a range of issues; many elected officials from both of the nation’s major political parties align on the OPPOSITE SIDE of many of those same issues.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Me too Worst of all, I'm having trouble convincing myself that there's anything I could possibly do to change that outcome

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Narrator: "Citations were not provided." [scene changes to protagonist, sitting in a small prison cell] Protagonist: "I sincerely regret implying that members of the United States Federal Government cannot simply be taken at their word. It will never happen again. May I please have some food now?"

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lot of you trust Dems to "focus on affordability" without taking into account that the current leadership's conception of the economy is that it's strictly a neoliberal "trickle down" system If you think Dems are "fighting the last war" now, wait till you see how they get after midterms

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Replies disabled. Citations needed, but presumably not forthcoming Some of y'all are clearly the kind of people who sit down to play poker without thinking about how much you can afford to lose bsky.app/profile/nied...

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone is responding to this by pointing out there's no evidence Netanyahu believed Biden (plus lots of evidence he didn't, and some evidence Biden didn't mean it in the first place and it was just kayfabe) but for some reason there's been no response to that bsky.app/profile/hark...

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🚫👑Is he dead yet?🚫👑 @its-its.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These rapists getting off with a slap on the wrist while protesting the genocide in Gaza gets a more severe punishment is REALLY bothering me. #CornellisTRASH #CornellProtectsRapists #FUCKCornell

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Little Girl Says "Fuck This Shit" in Field

ALT: Little Girl Says "Fuck This Shit" in Field

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Re last boost, I want to clarify that it's the baby's first steps version of a much more harder but also more valuable lesson, which is that the core problem isn't that the in-group are clowns The problem is *you* are a clown, and you will remain a clown *even after you realize you're a clown*

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

one of the most important things you should learn from arguing online and other places is that the way to be open-minded is not to be more accepting of the outgroup -- rather you should be more willing to consider that the ingroup are clowns

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

What I wouldn’t give to go back in time and tell people they built a machine that is supposed to think for people, makes the President look like Jesus, and they hope to store our souls in a file forever but you’re all going to love it to a bunch of Southern Baptists.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're under 18ish you're going to want to be aware of this problem, because as bad as antisemitism is, in 10-20 years climate migration will inspire levels of general xenophobia unseen since WWII You can't beat demagoguery with nuance. You have to provide people with something else to focus on.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Think of LLMs "agents" as extremely enthusiastic but catastrophically incompetent colleagues. Also anything they do is legally 100% your responsibility If you can't figure out what that means, or don't know exactly how to share passwords with those people, you cannot possibly use LLM agents safely

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Britt was the next Republican Senator up after Eric Schmidt. Was Schmidt’s little Hawks/Hawkeyes gotcha planned by the whole committee staff? Was Britt planning to ask about it before Schmidt imploded?

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BTW, the lesson is not it can happen here, but it *has already* happened here. So maybe we should start organizing some kind of political opposition before it gets military After midterms there's gonna be six months, maybe a year, during which we can (maybe) keep it from spiraling out of control

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's only sobering if you abstain Me, I'm drinking and toking heavily already and I'm trying to find a source for plain old fashioned heroin because no way I'm touching the industrial strength stuff Also why I'm waiting for someone else to be like #421 on the quoted post

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People told me the PATRIOT act would be reversed in due course and that I was a wrecker for criticizing Democrats over it Even after that, I wasn't woke enough to avoid falling for Obama Live and learn

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok you got me I literally laughed out loud This has been today's edition of No Citations Available, with a special guest appearance by That's Not How Any Of This Works

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

"irreparable harm" is donald trump getting his feelings hurt over being told no and not people being deported to countries they have no ties to with no resources and no support system

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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Stancil and the leftists have been shouting the two parts of this sentence at each other for years now when they should just be shouting the name at the top to everyone else

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026

If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.

The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way

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himham @himham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Good Place:

Kentucky figured it out? Kentucky?
This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a technology for people who already mostly live in a frictionless transactional world and hate our messy reality

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's worth being explicit: How individual journalists rationalize their own failures to acknowledge obvious connections may vary from one to another, and some are truly just stupid The reason media owners *reward* that behavior is it encourages *you* to question obvious connections *you* notice

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Number of times the word “Black” appears in this article: 0 Number of times the word “immigrant” appears in this article: 0 Number of times the word “abortion” appears in this article: 0

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The article is actually aggressively awful, but it's a great example of how media pretending to be neutral leaves people *more* vulnerable to demagoguery, not less People have been studying and describing that problem since before Levitz was born, and it's gotten worse and worse the whole time

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone on earth should see Naza — except Palestinians, who are excused for having to live it and having told the world this was happening for the past 3 and/or 80 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBR...

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NAZA - official trailer

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, when someone shows up asking you to invest in a plant that turns sawdust into gas, you don't need to know the Secret Magic Process to know that it's *always* going to require orders of magnitude more energy than gas from fossil fuel But because the tech industry already had so much cash...

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when the Obama administration drove Aaron Swartz to suicide because he broke into a website in order to share information with people? Sam Altman's done far worse & the government's probably going to give him billions of dollars: patreon.com/BeatThePress... by @deanbaker13.bsky.social

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