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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 12/09/2026

Bluesky is $686 away from fulfilling the entire campaign fundraising goal of the Isaiah Harris campaign for Kansas house district 3. This is a rural seat for a college town that was blue 8 years ago. Isaiah is a unionized grocery worker. He can win this. secure.actblue.com/donate/isaia...

discord notification: #fundraising

we are $686 away from 25k

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 28/08/2026

Portlanders, if you like things like “accountability for police,” some businesses you might consider avoiding: Mother’s Bistro Le Pigeon Pink Martini Kachka Flor Wines Phuket Cafe Canard Langbaan Allora Hat Yai Papa Haydn Khao Soi Eem OK Chicken PaaDee Yaowarat Freeland Spirits Fields B&G Wilf’s

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For those who've asked, you can listen to KEXP's 7+ hours of Dolly today via their archive. The hits, the deep cuts, the covers and collaborations. It starts about half way through the 10am Midday Show and continues through the 4pm Drive Time show. Also: support local, listener-supported radio.

kexp.org

Streaming Archive | KEXP

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aaron @aaron.mn · 06/08/2026

If I ever update my website again it's going to look exactly like this. Society crumbled after we flattened all of our buttons.

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SpudFather @breadsmithing.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have been gripped with a powerful compulsion to install Linux on something

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Taking the opportunity to repost this story (from John Boorman’s book) about how shooting the last shot of Zardoz caused Sean Connery to fall into so fierce a rage it led to a man changing his identity

Zed eventually destroys the Vortex, giving the Immortals the gift of death. He survives with Charlotte Rampling and they have a child together. The final sequence is done in a single shot with a fixed camera.
Sean and Charlotte are sitting side by side in a cave with the baby. The baby becomes a child, the child becomes a youth, gets up and leaves them without looking back; they get older, then become ancient, and finally just their skeletons remain, which eventually crumble to dust.
Only then does the camera move. It tracks in to a handprint on the wall of the empty cave, like the cave painting of primitive man in Lescaux, suggesting that this future world could have been in the past, and that as that civilisation ended, ours began.
This shot took an entire day to shoot. The actors had to be removed and make-up applied incrementally to add the years. Sean has a delicate skin and hates make-up. He had to endure it all day. He became more and more irascible. This was the last day of shooting. We had the wrap party that night. Sean had a golf tournament to go to the next day. I had to hold him until the morning for the laboratory report. The call came at 6 a.m. There was a fault in the film stock. It would have to be redone. Sean was apoplectic. He stormed and raged, but it had to be done.
We reassembled with our hangovers and started again. A long day, hours of make-up, Sean smarting from his suffering skin. Finally it was done. The clapper-loader took the magazine from the camera to prepare

1973: ZARDOZ
it for the lab. A few minutes later he came to me, trembling and ashen-faced. He looked so devastated, I thought someone had been killed or that the Third World War had started. I was almost relieved when he admitted that he had opened the can by mistake and exposed the film to daylight.
Sean would not believe me. "Is this your idea of a joke?' he fumed.
Finally convinced he would have to do it for a third time, he erupted. It was a terrifying sight. He roared, he ran amok. He went after the clapper-loader. He tried to kill him. It took four strong men to subdue him.
Twenty years later I was drinking coffee in Starbucks in Venice, California, when I was approached by a man with a familiar face. I couldn't place it. He reminded me that he was the clapper-loader who had exposed the film. He had fled the country immediately after this catastrophe, changed his identity, and was now a cameraman shooting commercials in LA. As we parted, he said, with an ironic smile, but also with a trace of fear, "Sean's not in town, is he?'

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

just turned on a baseball game and saw that mitch mcconnell is batting seventh for the rockies. what the fuck are you doing man

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

never not thinking about this tweet when i look at erling haaland

@ryersonfc

realistically what the fuck are you even supposed to do in this situation id just start crying

quoting a picture of haaland running all scary

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

RIP to all the catholics excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Bills like KOSA (s.1748) and Stop CSAM Act of 2025 (s.1829) are nothing but mass censorship bils. Contact your reps (be it Dem or Repub) and tell them OPPOSE both bills. Here's some script to use/edit. #SaveSpeech Find rep: www.commoncause.org/find-your-re... To call: 5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

For phone/leaving voice-mails

As your constituent, I advise you to reject and publically oppose both
-"Stop CSAM Act" S.1829
- KOSA S.1748

Both bills claim to protect children, and neither do so, but both cause harm:

-S.1829 would destroy encryption, which given data breaches like Discords recent leaks, imagine similar breaches but with credit card and other vital info.
-S.1748 would cause drastic over-moderation, and removal of user-content regardless of legality (dire free speech issue).

CSAM is already legally required to be reported when suspected.

"If you vote for either, I will be withholding my vote for you."

Dems: Talk about harm
Repubs: Talk about free speech, bug govt., censorship

Jot down for quick use:
- Your legal name
- ZIP code
- E-mail
- Address
-Phone #

Also write down all applicable representatige names & office phone numbers for quick calling

For email:

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Look, this is a terrifying collection of corporate power, journalists and political figures, but the thing I want to know, as a TTRPG GM, is how they managed to schedule regular meetings for over 20 years.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 04/06/2026

Not now, deadly screwworm

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The Picture of Doriane Gros @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 21/05/2026

The Portland Pickles just revealed the newest member of the roster: Wilma the Bat Dog. Wilma will make her bat retrieval debut during the team's home opener on May 26.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/05/2026

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

The months between signing and ratification were a busy period for the country. The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention had been kept secret, so each state needed to inform its voters of what exactly the proposed new government contained. Congress therefore directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state, with delegates specifically elected to approve or disapprove the new government.

However, this meant that each state from New Hampshire to Georgia had to receive a copy of the text, submit it to public debate, elect delegates, meet, vote, and return the results to Philadelphia. In an era where the speed of travel was limited by horseback, stagecoach, and boat, this was no quick feat. After the end of the Convention the news of the Constitution spread out in a wave, and thousands of copies were republished by local printers and distributed for debate. A flurry of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and public meetings followed, hotly debating whether the Constitution would be a good framework for a new national government.

Part of the debate and ratification process involved translation: non-negligible portions of the electorate spoke languages other than English. To reach them, the document was translated into Dutch in New York and German in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/05/2026

again the original meaning of "meme" as Dawkins conceived it is useful here. people are killing their babies because their minds got "infected" by convincing-sounding bullshit that spreads easily from person to person www.propublica.org/article/more...

propublica.org

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

i was trying to decide how best to enact this today and the obvious answer finally came: go see the new baby elephant

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

i love the nba but it's not a sport. any physical competition held indoors is not a sport, it's "horsing around," a category that also includes hockey and many baseball and football games. nascar's place in this discussion is unknowable as no one is certain of whether being in a car counts as inside

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

NUNS:
Reading
Praying
ECSTATIC VISIONS.
Gardening

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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SpudFather @breadsmithing.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Had a dream that I had some kind of doohickey that could tell me how annoying people found recent encounters with me and why they found it annoying. I think it could also erase that encounter from their memory.

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Jeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Rogue’s inventory is still incredibly cheap—in many cases with no bids yet. If you want to start a brewery, capital costs are crazy low right now. Auctions at liquidation are good times to buy.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

the thing about comedy is that im really worried nothing will ever again be as funny to me as Space Ghost Coast to Coast

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SpudFather @breadsmithing.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Every year I get the unholy temptation to play WoW and learn to tank

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 17/02/2026

It’s ruining my LIFE

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

HOOOOOO boy. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?" Lyons: "Yes ma'am." McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?" "Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

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Andrew Panton @andrewpanton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The difference in this Super Bowl rematch is that this time Seattle had Garfield on its side

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Just spitballing here, but maybe we should celebrate all this beautiful stuff and have a better country?

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 08/02/2026

👩🏿This is horrific! We can't allow these new facilities to open up! 👩🏼I agree! As Dems, we must fight the rise of fascism, random stops, and unjust detention! 👩🏿And also, we should shut down Rikers! It is an even more horrific place! And it's even bigger! All fascism is bad! 👩🏼No wait that one's OK

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NPR @npr.org · 31/01/2026

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

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A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/01/2026

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"If I create enough noise, my friends can get away." These kids have more courage than our elected reps or any of the rest of us.

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism. www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...

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The first General Strike in 80 years

We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before

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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/tiktok...