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@brittonk.bsky.social
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Only punch to the right. gay! | leftist! | nerd! | lawyer 😑 nyc (optimistic) | he/him | 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌻

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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“No one has ever heard of Hasan Piker” is at this point a shibboleth for people who are proud of not caring what people under 40 think or consume. Stop repeating it. Clearly, a lot of people have heard of Hasan Piker, and once again the bad guys figured it out before you lot.
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is impossible to maintain an attitude of “I believe that we will win” when we are talking about Ralph Nader in 2026
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Trash @trashxdiscourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey man, if you're out there, if your mom wrote this letter to Abigail Shrier about you, please drop a gofundme and we will get you the fuck out of there.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
really learning how many people out there have never worked in the arts, where not only are we all drinking coffee all day but it is just assumed the executive director keeps a bottle of desk whiskey
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Context: from any federal judge this is mortifying to be on the receiving end; SDNY judge, it’s a reason to change careers. When it comes from the Hon. Colleen McMahon you have to stop and ask yourself if she just hit you with the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique and you are already dead.
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isla @demomolos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[seeing my intestines splayed out by another warrior’s blade] no worries if not
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A “like” is inadequate; this is one of my new foundational texts
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sorry I don't think that the Democratic party is capable of leading us through the current AI bullshit. I think it should be clearly said so that community leaders emerge.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 09/09/2026
(in the family group chat): that wont matter. without radical change all of this is meaningless in fifteen years. we have no idea how dire things are (in the communist group chat): they should make a turn based final fantasy again with the two minute summon animations
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mgayultra 🎃 @mgayultra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Popular mayor turns out to be deeply disrespectful of such time-honored liberal traditions as “never message your wins” and “do your best not to be caught doing anything”
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hello I’m just a leftist on the internet but I feel like @newkingsdems.bsky.social and @katmabu.bsky.social could and should have a conversation about reaching young and increasingly-motivated voters who feel unrepresented to organize using tools like this 👀
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We really need this one to penetrate the mainstream
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Update your priors, when you see "Johns Hopkins" you shouldn't think "good school" or "medical research," you should think "hedge fund that lives off taxpayer money and drops its claimed standards to collaborate with fascists" because that's what the school decided to make itself.
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Conservative Scholars Are Rare. Johns Hopkins Wants More of Them.
Ronald J. Daniels says the ideological imbalance is bad for the academy and for the country.
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Israeli military and affiliated extremists are laying siege to an American citizen’s property, and if he weren’t American, he’d probably be evicted or dead by now, like his neighbors, and our government supports Israel in acting like that Repeat that one in the red states
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not me liking and reposting this in the afternoon because I was up too fucking late pondering existence only for it to punch me in the face again in the morning
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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Don’t believe in American exceptionalism, but Dolly Parton was an exceptional American.
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I plan to rely on the vast army of spreadsheet people who aren’t such fucking Spreadsheet People
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Guys I’m sorry to be selfish but there are too many people getting too riled up about too many dumb things on my breaking news slash mental health advocacy slash niche hobbyist weirdo site so idk go on a fucking walk or something
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CocoEagle @cocoeagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Me on an hourly basis
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m not joking, what does it take to get people outside his Brooklyn offices with signs every day? I have the time on my hands and so do a lot of our neighbors @indivisible.org @bkindivisible.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
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Side-Eye Cyd @objectivecyd.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026
Are people on Bluesky aware that a Black man was found hanging from a tree in Raleigh NC yesterday afternoon, near the CaribMask Carnival. Making this the sixth or seventh Black person found hung this year. Also? Black. People. Do. Not. Hang. Themselves. From. Trees.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The same people who want you to show specialized government ID to vote in popular elections don’t think you need to show *proof of life* to vote in the *United States Senate*
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Trans women stay showing us how it’s done
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m grateful at least I was not aware of this playing out in real time because my entire world has been Kill Bill sirens since catching up
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
lmao we could tell, hon (derogatory)
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Falling back on “well what would you have done” is so, so sad. It wasn’t *my* job. Voters have never been expected to supply policy proposals, solve legal knots, or draft plans for executive action. We elect people we expect to do this for us and sometimes we even become upset when they don’t.
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Every time this happens I wonder if maybe this is the time everyone goes “wait guys is our religious devotion to these fake numbers leading us to consistently misunderstand reality in a way that is consistently to our detriment”
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
Just trying to engage in basic communication with humans is going to cause me to crash out.
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Photo of Abdul with “it’s time to vote blue no matter who” in black blue and red on white in front of him
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hitting this vape like an inhaler
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The ballad of an anonymous millennial: Cold Open. Gen X Punditocracy. Bioterrorism. Welp, Bork. Steampunk. Snark. ASD; ADHD: Incognito Mode. Wake-and-Bake; Jack Into Virtual Reality, Degenderized. Food Coma, Final Girl. Point-of-Sale Physician-Assisted Suicide.
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
*sucks teeth* No sorry that wasn’t what we were looking for, and please do remember to phrase your response in the form of a question (like “how can I do better?”)
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
I’m just gonna say this here because idk where else to say it but we can tell each apart from neurotypicals in the wild & we are fully aware neurotypicals are ready to throw us under the bus
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We laugh but there is already a traceable web of people of who hate one another’s guts reposting or replying to this like “this explains everyone who disagreed with me today” and they aren’t actually kidding
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I remain neurodivergent and unsurprised slash tired of being right too early
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The way I scream-laughed reading and relating to this
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Not saying this to criticize Kat but you know how every time there’s graphic media of violent atrocities going around, we gently remind each other that we don’t need to inflict psychic damage by sharing or bearing witness? I’m beginning to unironically feel that way about Will Stancil takes, too.
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Alex says "man, the world is such an unjust place." She gets to work constructing a weird little guy and says "I'm fabricating a fucked up little sculpture to express my feelings..." Another woman passes by and says "hey, that's cool. You wanna join me volunteering at the food bank?" Alex says "Pass. I'm really exhausted from making the sculpture."
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When you mock or fail to understand someone who would choose the 50k in hand, on average, you are mocking someone for having a personal experience of deprivation or poverty. Congratulations, quants. You sure showed ‘em.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If this horrific police execution video crosses your timeline consider: - we don’t have to physically witness a murder to know it’s horrific - people who are subject to this type of violence do not have to be repeatedly traumatized by it - you do not have to push violence into people’s timelines
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
ZA/UM is to my passion for video games as SpaceX is to my passion for space exploration
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I became a lawyer because I imagined there would be Sages and then I found it was Yirmeyas the whole way down
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Never ever ever post: this is where it gets you
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham’s Christofascist, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and (yes!) homophobic legacy is a perfectly appropriate subject of conversation at all times, including upon the occasion of his passing. If you cannot agree with this, you need to reflect on what it means to be part of the problem.
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Tonk @brittonk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Good for you, I’ll be remembering Lindsey Graham for his litany of bad deeds, each of which I found extremely disagreeable
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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