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Cactusdan

@cactusdan.bsky.social
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PNW. Leftist Politics, Nature, History, Art, Design, and Making/Playing Games. Solidarity with all Humans and Workers. cobralilygames.itch.io

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h
I think it will be good for The Narrative if El-Sayed puts Rogers in a dumpster
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is also The Plot to Enslave America — monomanical focus on destruction of our education system comes first
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i get that this is in some sense a bribe or whatever but also lol these idiots have no idea what theyre doing
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
burger joints push nuggets and chicken sandwiches when beef prices go up. (trump take beef)
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Like the great recession was very long and painful - much longer than anyone thought it would be in fact - but like 6 years later we were mostly out of. We're now on like year 15 of e.g. "it's impossible to afford family-sized housing in SF, LA, NYC, Boston, etc" and it gets worse every year
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe the reason the economic vibes are so off isn't that things are *worse* than the great recession but because back then we all thought the pain was temporary, whereas the things that are wrong with the economy today have all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they like rape and rapists, is the thing.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h
I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s happening again: Elon Musk is spending thousands to elect his data center champion Tom Barrett.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 19h
Called it. He knew. It served his purpose. He wanted his casus belli. He wanted it to go far enough that he'd have popular support for the extermination he has openly yearned for.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 16h
This beautiful ring is carved from a single piece of amber. It’s Egyptian and dated to the New Kingdom, so 16th-11th centuries BC. The inscription shows hieroglyphics but I can’t find any information that has a translation. Grateful if anyone knows. 🏛️📷 BM
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 21h
lol
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
kgw.com
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 23h
why must everything be so fucking stupid
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 20h
IMEU
POLICY PROJECT
The following Senators voted YES on a resolution that would require the State Department to investigate and report on Israel's rampant human rights abuses against Palestinians in the illegally-occupied West Bank, as well as Israel's killing of 9 US citizens since 2022:
• Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD)
• Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

• Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
• Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)

• Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
• Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)

• Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
• Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

• Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
• Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA)

• Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

• Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
• Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)

• Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)
• Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)

• Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) • Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV)


• Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
• Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)

• Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
• Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

• Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
• Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

• Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
• Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

• Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
• Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)

• Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
• Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

• Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
• Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)

• Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
• Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)

• Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ)
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

• Sen. Angus King (I-ME)
• Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)

• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

• Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)




• Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21h
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21h
Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 22h
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/09/2026
this is wickedness
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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This from the @nytimes.com is an appalling choice in a news story. One can vote for a millionaires tax out of resentment, sure. Or a sense of fairness. Or awareness that a K-shaped economy is unsustainable, a genuine danger to the country. Opinion as lede makes the whole story suspect.
Voters in Washington State will soon be asked to decide which they resent more: rich people or new taxes.
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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ayup. I work in antibody discovery in big pharma our hit rate for in vivo & in vitro screens is ~60% I've screened over 10k predicted molecules from partners at the big AI labs in SF this year. They have produced a total of 2 hits, both of which were plagiarized from molecules on the market already
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
a fake crisis that was uncritically accepted and promoted by the Most Serious Journalists in the country
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
They manufactured a shoplifting crisis which were characterized in hushed tones by inventing shoplifting gangs all over the country the last time the police did a slowdown.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
get in folks, we’re breaking new ground in state created danger doctrine
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"meet your new ai agent!" no. fuck you. fuck off. eat bee piss and then the bees. fuck you
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lula bans online betting in Brasil
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been surprised by how much capital has been willing to sell out the labor it needs to operate but I guess everyone has a limit
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk O @elonmusk
Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.
What should be done?
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
4:51 AM • Mar 27, 2022
Read the full conversation on Twitter
y
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
yes if the democratic socialist does a good job governing people will feel like they can elect other democratic socialists that is generally how it works, good job
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They agree with Trump and conservatives and are trying to help their scheme to destroy education in America.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I saw someone earlier today asking about how Rahm Emmanuel keeps getting major-outlet profiles written about his Presidential candidacy despite zero public interest and that's a similar case and one with a, to me, very obvious explanation (Rahm's brother owns a major Hollywood talent agency)
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I hope all the middle-aged women whose lives have been vastly improved by an ADHD diagnosis understand that we’re on the list after trans and autistic people. RFK Jr thinks we should be sent to camps instead of taking a daily medication to bring our dopamine pathways up to a normal level.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How is not using a product you purchased fraud?
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Anne with an “e” @redheadinthecity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Axis of Evil.
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