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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
constantly runs through my head that the level of service quality that would get you no-notice canned from a job waiting tables seems to be a-okay for the 6 figure jobs
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My bf got us rush tickets to la Bohème today 😱
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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Semipalmated Plover, the roundest shorebird in the western hemisphere.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was birding Wednesday morning and there was a wild number of raptors around. 3 Cooper's Hawks and I *thought* 3 American Kestrels chasing each other around. Then I looked at my photos and realized it was 2 Kestrels and a Merlin! I haven't seen one for 2 years. SO COOL. #birds
Photo of a Merlin swooping in to dive bomb a Kestrel who had been perched peacefully on a bare branch. The Kestrel has just leaped into the air and has its head craned to look down and behind itself casually, like, "Dude. Rude much?"
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yo la como
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
none of the people complaining about el-sayed saying this actually think it's a bad message. most Americans have agreed that 9/11 was cynically used to get us into a pointless war that cost untold lives for close to two decades now. what they are actually objecting to is a Muslim talking about 9/11.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm on a train.
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Road trip means I'm back on my bullshit
Screenshot of music app playing Martinu: Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra. Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Petr Popelka.Screenshot of music app playing Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World." New York Philharmonic, conducted by Alan Gilbert.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congratulations to the young multi-racial coalition of New Yorkers who are demanding better.
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 24/06/2026
went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
time for this again
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Can I get a FUCK ICE in the chat?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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jesse, head of endorsement deals at BOOingo Wireless @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/05/2026
For @ms.now I wrote about Barney Frank. www.ms.now/opinion/barn...
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Opinion | Why trans folks aren't writing Barney Frank eulogies
Katelyn Burns: Barney Frank's unfortunate deathbed message to Democrats
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/05/2026
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Slightly increase a band Los Dos La Tenemos
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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
We'll have to wait for the books
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I wanted to sleep more but the cardinal in the backyard had other ideas
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Help
Selfie of poster with a mustache and short hair, smiling a little in front of a long row of white daffodils.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 07/04/2026
Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The morning light at work was nice this week
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t
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Tsushi Tanuki @tsushi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
To the "civility" people, saying the word "fuck" is violence, but the cops shooting tear gas is "peace keeping", ripping a parent from their children is "doing their job". They want to control the definition of violence and their monopoly on the use of it.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
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Brian Barrish @brianbarrish.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🏒🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The irony that this sort of posturing to look strong and triangulating for votes (instead of having a backbone and standing up for others like trans people) reads as absolutely weak to me
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 06/01/2026
vaccines basically do nothing for me, because the medication i take to keep MS from killing me eradicates all my antibody producing B-cells. mild COVID just sidelined me for three weeks. get your flu shot so you don’t kill people like me just trying to buy groceries
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
magical
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Still thinking of her…
Selfie of user @bpgel in room in front of fish sculpture mounted to wall. Fish is smallish, cast potentially of plaster, painted lifelike in green, purple, and gray tones, with a black fishy eye.
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bpgel @bpgel.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
screenshot of Twitter post from user @ameliaelizalde:

thinking about how good it would feel to be a crab and see 'imitation crab' on a menu...everybody wants me, no one can have me...and on top of everything you're a crab going out to dinner....

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Ben “James Hell Brooks” Jay 🦇 @benjayingly.com · 10/12/2025
Here's a list of businesses supporting the Court Street Merchants Association lawsuit to remove the Court Street bike lane www.google.com/maps/d/u/6/e...
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Court Street Bike Lane opponents - Google My Maps
Businesses who have supported the lawsuit to tear out the new Court Street bike lane. Most of these businesses are here because they've placed flyers in their window with a link to donate to the legal...
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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
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Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
Iceland joins Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 contest.
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Seth Pollack @sethmpk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We ride at dawn
Brad Lander astride a cosmic silver Citibike next to none other than mayor elect Zohran Mandani
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/10/2025
For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again. Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...
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Fire The Consultants
The Democratic party must move on from the same old stale, carefully poll-tested politics and get back to solving voters' problems. There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Democra...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/10/2025
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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You Have to See This Mamdani Ad
I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
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Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Special thanks to all the worms in politics and media who tried to sell us “universally beloved saint Charlie Kirk” over the last few days. Sorry you failed but 1) not nearly as many people know him as you thought / hoped 2) he was deeply racist, like on a KKK level, and that’s kinda off-putting
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
Ezra-

Your piece on the death of Charlie Kirk was reckless, insulting, condescending, and worst of all, a piece of hagiography. For someone who claims to honor history and context in your work, it reads as if it was written by someone who respects neither of those things. 

What does it mean to practice politics in the "right way"? For whom does a "taste for disagreement" benefit? Certainly not the vulnerable populations—trans people, Black women, and more—who Kirk routinely targeted with hate speech and calls for violence. 

When I was a college intern at NBC News Washington in 2008, I would watch your MSNBC appearances on the monitor in our office. At that point I could only dream of having a platform like yours, which has grown exponentially since then. Now that I have a platform (albeit it much, much smaller than yours) and I couldn't fathom using it to gaslight the country into believing a hateful man stood for a public good. Maybe it's time to consider how you're using yours. 

Marisa
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