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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10h

a lot of heavy stuff in the news right now, take care of yourselves. we weren't made for this much horror.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3h

“It was the second time this year that Tennessee has been unable to carry out an execution: “In May, state officials called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers after executioners tried and failed for over an hour to place an IV to administer pentobarbital” apnews.com/article/chri...

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Tennessee governor halts executions after Christa Gail Pike survives lethal injection attempt

Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10h

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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Gillian "JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW" Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 23h

I'll be at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social TODAY, 9/30 at 7pm in conversation with @brackenmacleod.bsky.social! Come join us on the last day of September for a book launch.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 23h

As a former litigator, I cannot imagine going into actual testimony as unprepared as Eric Schmitt and being so roundly humiliated with casual knowledge. Not even specialized understanding like in My Cousin Vinnie, but just knowing the difference between the names of sport teams!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How your email finds me

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"One reason rape culture is so difficult to dismantle is that doing so requires us to abandon one of its most comforting myths: that rapists are fundamentally different from the rest of us," @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social writes

andreavbecker.substack.com

The Myth of the Monster Rapist

On the Cornell 7, rape culture, and why I no longer write about rape

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yea. My hard drive died. I'm pretty sure I backed up everything suuuuuper important... except maybe the latest rewrite edits on my novel in progress. *le sigh*

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Canada vs USA UFC Canadian beats the living shit the shit out of the MAGA mouthpiece! #cdnpoli

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This poor little book has had a rough go of it. First publisher (a solid guy) decided to close shop, and Amazon has given the successor publisher such absolute hell he finally gave up. I need to get it back in print.

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Christopher Buehlman @buehlmeister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Truly haunting and macabre cover art for the Italian edition of Between Two Fires, Tra Due Fuochi, published by the excellent team at Mercurio. 🖤🖤🖤

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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WIRED @wired.com · 24/09/2026

Since joining the tech company in 2025, Gary has noticed that naming his employer prompts brutal reactions from prospective paramours. One woman, he says, called him the devil; another asked how he lives with himself. www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

“When I started thinking about questions around genocide and the technology that kills or tracks or excludes. I realized that the things these people are building are secretly, or under the surface, really nefarious, and I could not personally be with someone who is a puzzle piece in that tapestry.” - Helen, a 28 year-old who works at an impact investing firm funding technology for underserved communities

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026

Time Magazine Feb 1993 www.tumblr.com/envexe/82486...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Given Melania’s close ties with Jeffrey Epstein, human trafficking may be one of the rare issues to which she brings expertise.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love this show so much. Somehow, despite it being recorded with an audience, I'd always imagined the panel all just sitting at a long convention-style table, maybe with printed name placards. There's an actual set! Peter Sagal has a PODIUM!!! WHAAAAAAT!? (realizing my impoverished imagination.)

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026

Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-…

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is absolutely bonkers. I'll give it to the guy for making the attempt, but WOW!

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Me when an editor reviews one of my run-on sentences with a million commas and em dashes and questions my basic sense of the English language

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm presently reading, "How to Survive Authoritarianism: A Russian's Phrasebook for Everyday Life in America." It's basically a 200 page glossary explaining shorthand terms for ideas or practices in an authoritarian regime, comparing both Soviet and Putin Era Russia to the present day United States.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the museum sounds great i hope they also build one for women

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

i assume this would be for murdering civilians

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m so tired of people saying that AI can be useful. So was asbestos. And lead. I don’t expect to halt the use of AI but I do wish we could just say “there are harms and we don’t know enough to call it safe or exciting”. And we definitely shouldn’t let it be used in schools.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026

Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...

The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Meh. We've been through this before. Until there's a something better than his social media manager slash surrogate daughterwife taking a day off, I'm not getting my hopes up.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Andrew Vachss was talking about this back in 1996. "How will fascists achieve their 'pure' race without inbreeding? Because their ideology is a celebration of incest, it is easy to understand the fascist tolerance of all forms of child sexual abuse." web.archive.org/web/20240406...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this is literally how we should all be feeling youtu.be/zLO5IZcNOXg

youtu.be

Howard Beale in Network 1976 I'm as mad as hell

YouTube video by Doug Stewart

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Gillian "JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW" Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You can win a free copy (again) of JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW over at Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s the 90th anniversary today of the publication of a children’s book which Franco denounced because its lead character was a pacifist. Hitler ordered the book burned as “degenerate democratic propaganda”, and various Americans saw it as promoting fascism, anarchism, or... er, communism

themarginalian.org

The Bittersweet Story of the Real-Life Peaceful Bull Who Inspired Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s Ferdinand

A journey to the abyss between the real world and the ideal world, and a romp across our mightiest bridge between the two.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Everyone still using X is using a website that produces and distributes CSAM. It is disgusting and immoral and nobody has any excuse for not being fully aware at this point.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a new spell in D&D 5.5. Fuck's sake, I've been casting this one in real life for decades!

Feign Interest: Trick others into thinking you're fully focused and that you're paying attention.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. The novel that started it all for me here and in France, launched barrio noir, and became my first film option is just $2.99 right now! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D8...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

See, the only reason people are making such cruel jokes about Charlie Kirk is that he was a vile white supremacist and his followers are objectively terrible people

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I see the Daniel Krauss Whalefall knockoffs are beginning to hit.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Got an unexpected package from a dear friend today. Exactly what I needed at exactly the right time!

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I can't believe I'm only learning about Vanessa Funke now! Her stuff is GREAT!

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I've learned through bitter experience that the enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but just another person who'll use me as a weapon they can aim and discard. Become useless! Live peacefully!

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