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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 3h
While my wallet regrets my rapidly switching ADHD hyperfixations, my desire to avoid surveillance capitalism does not: Amazon believes I've got a whole bunch of hobbies that I very much do not 😅
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
[edit] The book Venn I am going to suggest: This is WHO: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + This is WHY: Caliban & Witch + This is HOW: Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark anyone you see missing in that formulation is in: Golden Gulag.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
If basic human rights are predicated on whether someone committed crimes (see the "except as punishment for a crime" clause in the Thirteenth Amendment), then you create perverse incentives for those in power to create as many "criminals" out of the opposition as possible. Prisoners are humans.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
so now i am on a bus, i do not know who has taken us or where we are going, i have either been taken tenderly into the embrace of the EU regulatory framework, or someone has kidnapped me and a bunch of other tired and confused PNWers
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gavin Newsom caved to that pressure. So did Xavier Becerra. And eventually, so did Attorney General Rob Bonta, agreeing to a weak settlement that will be exceedingly difficult to enforce. People want champions who are not afraid of rich bullies. Newsom, Becerra, and Bonta did not meet that mark.
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Kiyara ΘΔ Hagfag @kiyara.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Mom says it my turn with the legs!
maned wolf with bush dog legsbush dog with maned wolf legs
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm assuming he's expecting to have a third child at some point, and I just want to know what he'll do if he has twins
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
I can hammer on this forever: dehumanization is the root of all evil. The moment any group is "less than" or "expendable," you're doing present evil & enabling future evil... To borrow a different slogan, dehumanization anywhere is a threat to humanity everywhere There's ALWAYS another group next
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026
It reminds me of the underreaction to half the country becoming livestock in the eyes of the law after the Catholic extremists on the Supreme Court overturned Roe. "Fifty percent of the country isn't functionally free anymore! Anyhoo,"
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh look: a face that regrets losing its nose
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The existence of The Fall...shows utter contempt for the medium, attempting to boil the work of hundreds of skilled workers into slop produced by a tiny team. It's so terrible it'll make you appreciate human-made art all the more."
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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 16/09/2026
“The perfect book doesn’t exi….”
A book sitting on a ledge in front of a beautiful nature landscape, the book is called a place for every book every book in its place the betrayal of librarians and video games. It has a sprite of a librarian behind a desk. 
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/09/2026
What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? When Alexis and Ted mutually realize that their relationship has gone as far as it can and they agree to it's time to end it. It's vanishingly rare for a show to do this, and I desperately want more of it.
Alexis and Ted's farewell/breakup dinner
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/09/2026
I had forgotten about Aella's Birthday Gangbang AND the Zizians AND HP:MOR... I'm very sorry to have been reminded of all three at once
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Democrats really do not think marginalized groups are serious about their civil rights and I am so sorry for them that they keep having to learn the hard way.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All of this thread, but especially this:
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
IMO, the solution should not be to browbeat people into an old standard, but rather allow people to wear whatever they want. If someone can wear ducky pajamas in public, you can wear tailoring in any cut, color, and material. As options open up, dress can then be a source of pleasure.
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reskeeting with alt text
Headline reads "E.P.A. expected to erase limits on climate pollution from power plants" and subhead reads "Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States."Headline reads "Breaking: EPA will test drinking water for abortion pills & contraception" and subhead reads "The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure" and the byline is Jessica Valenti
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 14/09/2026
This fucking fraud again
DiCaprio making a toast image with words reading "As always, fuck Bernie"
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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Linking it here so you can also bless your eyes www.tumblr.com/parawyrm/824...
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 19/08/2026
I like my Xteink X4, but this sounds like an interesting alternative
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/08/2026
Do you believe in better schools and education for everyone? Do you believe in teaching consent from kindergarten onwards and ending rape culture? You're already on your way to bring an abolitionist and you don't even know it.
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 19/08/2026
TIL this is who apparently runs the Grievance Committee of the HWA. Patrick's still running unopposed. He's posted a weak statement on his substack saying he's grown as a person since creeping on Theo and "let the voters decide." There's no one else to vote for. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_T...
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Brett Talley - Wikipedia
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW DAY LETS TROT
meme that says 'how i sleep knowing i am infinitely unique and there is nobody as good at being me as i am. my existence alone is proof that love is real and each new day is not just another chance to 
experience this love, but to share it.' below this is a photo of homer simpson he is sleeping INCREDIBLY WELL tucked into bed
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
RFK Jr. cancelled research into a #vaccine platform that could potentially cure a #cancer I have personally seen kill someone within 2 months after diagnosis, the fastest I have ever seen #cancer take someone’s life
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/08/2026
NEW: Citing reporting by ProPublica, eight Democratic U.S. senators have criticized the Trump administration’s demands to access the health data of millions of people as a condition of giving lifesaving aid to other countries.
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Senators Criticize Trump Administration’s Demands to Access Health Data as a Condition for Lifesaving Aid
Citing ProPublica’s reporting, eight senators wrote a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio questioning the administration’s approach to foreign health data. They said it could set an “alarming pre...
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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 18/08/2026
Librarian and former English teacher... All of it counts.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 18/08/2026
Jeffrey Epstein ran a child rape factory. Many, many academics participated in Epstein's world — knowingly profiting from his child rape enterprise. The British press — in fact, no press — has hounded any of them the way they prosecuted Jason Arday.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"As of July 23, more measles cases have been reported to the CDC than in any year since 1991. It took less than seven months to blow past the three-decade high recorded last year." New, @sheinvestigates.bsky.social @propublica.org
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Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Everything that is worthwhile is going to cost something
CNN’s Erin Burnett noted that his protest as a sitting Air Force major could lead to serious consequences, including removal from the service and loss of pay and benefits.

“Everything that is worthwhile is going to cost something,” Watson said.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wait, so everyone is twelve theory already had a name?
I think it's really funny that Japanese also has a word for 'edgelord', but theirs translates to 'eighth-grader'.

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It's not even 'eighth-grader" it's even funnier. chunibyo is eighth- grade syndrome. like explicitly a diagnosis. I diagnose you with edgelord
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Photographer Peter Maier captured this jaw-dropping timelapse of a cloudburst over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria. Original post
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
See NYT asked me for an op-ed on the Colorado River water issue. So that's what I told them. And the editors panicked & cancelled the piece. In case we're wondering why "nobody can figure out how to solve this difficult issue." We absolutely can, a lot of our professional talkers are just cowards.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Like, a lot of us right now have a prior assumption that "AI is driving water shortages." And no, it absolutely tf is not. It's agriculture. It's always been agriculture. Most of us have spent our whole lives not seeing it. We need to stop that ag water blindness before it screws us all over.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW Aug 17 2026 - Stow, MA Stow police officer (Jason Rogers) accused of misusing Flock system to track former partner
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Stow police officer accused of misusing Flock system to track former partner
A Stow police officer is facing possible disciplinary action after the department found he repeatedly used police databases to obtain information about a woman he previously dated.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yes bsky.app/profile/cama...
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Nefarious "Pogna" Hexnificus, noted hoydon @gaudymouse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This this this this this right here
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