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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 19h

i need you to understand this every time they make a “the liberals are forcibly transitioning young men” ad, thousands of young men are very quietly praying they’re next

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 19h

according to Ryan Field Development Group, every band member had been issued a flying v guitar and backpack amplifier and are being encouraged to shred along with the AC/DC song "big balls," as a "band experience fans are excited about."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seattle Times editorial board complains about $30,000 bonus for Sound Transit head, but apparently had no problem with $50,000 bonuses for three Seattle police command staff (Barnes, Sayles, and Powell), all of them just thank-yous for taking top jobs here.

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Sound Transit CEO's $30,000 bonus shows a big disconnect | Editorial

When private corporations award employees performance bonuses, that’s between the corporation and their shareholders. Not so with a public utility.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Scratch a "health influencer" and you'll find three blubbery anti-semitic illuminati lizard brains stacked in a trench coat

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Ryan Ottignon @ryaninevanston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And a particularly gnarly photo from my colleague Jack Baker, because in the last little bit investigators with EPD flipped the car back onto its wheels:

The flipped car on its wheels now. It has no windows, with the windshield in a teal bunch of glass hanging on off the corner. Airbags are deployed throughout the car. The entire front hood and bumper of the car is mangled, with engines and internals visible.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WHAT A NIGHT FOR NORTHWESTERN SPORTS

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Ryan Ottignon @ryaninevanston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When people are incredulous about how Northwestern CFB is so good, I like to point to how great their transfer portal pickups were. The Minnesota-Duluth pickup was Dehnicke; Michigan State was Chiles; Florida State was Sawchuk; and UConn was Honig (among others). Now the core of this team.

'Cats snag four-star QB, bid adieu Welcing, Saka in transfer scramble. A map showing the transfer portal as of late January.

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On the other hand, Braun has been an underrated head coach. He’s always overachieved there, in the manner of a Dave Clawson or Jonathan Smith (when he was at Oregon State). This program is in much better shape than it was under Lt. Gen. Pat Fitzgerald.

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Brian @breezus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The whites’ sudden obsession over the “Indian Problem” is just recycled BBC nonsense

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

For Obama, the grassroots were useful for one thing: getting out the vote. The last thing he wanted was for millions of activated voters to turn into activists who'd flame him and harangue him and picket him if they didn't like his compromises. Boy, did Obama ever compromise.

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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A PR push of sorts and an aura of inevitability have pushed the 24-team CFP’s popularity up from catastrophic to merely terrible. But we’re still gonna do it!

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I reached out to Manhattan Institute, where Rufo derives so much of his legitimacy as a "senior fellow," to see if it has any comment about him pushing "The Indian Question." No response, will let ya know if that changes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Brian @breezus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the other hand, the assassination itself was a fairly conclusive proof that Park spent a lot of time cavorting with young women in private… Hence the “last bang”

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies

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Brian @breezus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I stopped shopping locally because of the lack of public restrooms. This is, by far, more pro-business than anything the Harrell administration put together.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Plus, the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities" signed by Trump, Google's Pichai, Anthropic's Amodei, Meta's Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Brockman, XAI's Musk, Nvida's Huang.

In order to build a positive future for the American people and the world, we believe every company is responsible for developing its own technology safely and in a way that builds trust with customers and the public.

This starts with every company that is training and deploying frontier models having robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved. Therefore, in addition to any other precautions, we believe each company should implement the following four layers of controls and audits:

(1) Implement robust internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models during training and deployment around areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and to ensure that its models do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.

(2) Empower an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended, and that any issues are remediated.

(3) Partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended.

(4) Designate an independent committee of the board of directors to oversee and receive reports from the teams operating the controls and the internal and external auditors and evaluators, as well as to ensure any issues identified are remediated.

Together, these steps will give each company, its customers, and the public confidence that the technology is operating as intended.

The participating companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices to improve the safety of their systems.

Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations. Regardless of whether this is required of companies, we believe that implementing these controls and audits is critical to ensuring a safe future for everyone, and each of our companies are ...

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i'm confused, are republicans going to start boycotting atlanta hawks games now or adopting them as their team

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 29/09/2026

perhaps there’s an awareness that any fuck up that also makes jack smith more credible and get a good news cycle is the kind of thing the big guy will never forget or get over.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I assume there was more going on that isn't reflected in the hundreds of pages of text messages SPD and the mayor's office provided. But I'm also a good enough reporter that I don't weigh hundreds of pages of evidence against one cop's comment and think, "that settles it, all the evidence is wrong."

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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.

Chart shows a close positive relationship between Trump's 2024 vote and Google searches for testosterone boosters.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 26/09/2026

And an offensive coordinator named Chip Kellyyyy

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

It appears that Eric Zhu, the "19-year-old entrepreneur" who the NY Times just quoted about sneaking into AI group house parties at the age of 13, might also be the same guy behind that bizarre sperm race event in April 2025:

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Bay Area student organizes 1st-of-its-kind sperm race to raise men's health awareness

Is sperm racing the next big thing? Well, it might not become an Olympic sport, but it's certainly creating quite the buzz. The so-called world's first sperm race was held in downtown Los Angeles and ...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18/09/2026

Historically the out-party wins about 70% of races Cook calls toss-up at 45 days before the election.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb

Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Economists saying “perhaps capital share of net income has reached inefficiently high levels” and socialists saying “DESTROY BILLIONAIRES” are really saying the same thing, the only difference is presentation

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

me: okay, now that I've finally left Mormonism, I can begin to forget all the stuff that my brain had stored about weirdo historical sex cults @faineg.bsky.social NOT SO FAST, NORMIE

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Brian @breezus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People asking a lot of questions answered by this shirt etc etc

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All I'm saying is, for the very first time, I do wish he would mackle more.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Give someone an Emmy for transitioning from the clock to Pierce Brosnan

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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 12/09/2026

Julie Kang: "public shovel turn ready lot" (where new housing should be built) The lot:

satellite view showing 130th and Aurora/Stone, where Julie Kang is referring to where new affordable and rental housing should be built. It is currently an emergency shelter and tiny homes site, next to the hazardous waste dump and a towing lot.

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jon Husted’s staffer took part in “Nazi military exercises” & had a “Tales from Rhodesia” Spotify playlist. The fact that significant swathes of the media ignore the multiple major Republican campaign staffers outed as Neo-Nazis (to focus on Hasan Piker instead) is journalistic malpractice.

Nazi military exercise from 2018 that Husted's staffer took part in. Credit: The Libs are Resisting

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This whole scene is even weirder when you consider that neither Ted Cruz nor John Cornyn nor Ken Paxton matriculated at UT... but James Talarico did

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Brian @breezus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This, in 2002, is the first piece of viral internet media I remember. (Remember Apollo Anton Ohno?)

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[노래] Fucking USA

YouTube video by 눈졸린

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11/09/2026

What I will never forget is Ari Fleisher posting his annual million-tweet tick tock of 9/11 for likes and Twitter followers and then becoming a registered foreign agent for Saudi Arabia.

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all

wikihow tutorial illustration with a man in baseball cap and pink shirt partially crouching, hands on thighs, and pivoting counterclockwise as shown by red arrows. Caption reads, "how to discretely get your balls unstuck from your thigh"

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The promise” they will print absolutely anything he says because they love him more than their own families

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't know enough about the particular out-of-town contractor Rivera is advocating to spend more money on, but it's interesting that the solution to every problem in Seattle seems to be hiring a consultant to study it and produce a report.

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 08/09/2026

In its official letter, the MAC says the Big Ten used a second clock embedded in its replay system, not the clock on the program feed like it's supposed to. They weren't synced.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/09/2026

I am so, so tired of this endless parade of half-baked bullshit, and the equally endless parade of braying rubes smirking at a camera next to the latest pathetic stock pump. I am begging people to have a little fucking dignity, for all of our sakes.

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Brian @breezus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Guess whose horoscope pinned “longform essays” as a “do” item today

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Brian @breezus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Starbucks Korea operating in the red for the first time this millennium

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Brian @breezus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Anyone else remember when Wile E was voiced? He had impeccable grammar and SAT vocab.

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Brian @breezus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I appreciate the complete lack of reference to this top Dem’s name

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