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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hi. I have something to say about Cornell and who needs to learn what about consent.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please watch this. Sex ed doesn't stop rapists, but it helps *everyone else* understand that they need to intervene, and how. Sex ed is crucial for ending rape culture and keeping more people safe. I'm a proud member of the @educateusaction.bsky.social advisory board for a reason.

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N.S. Dolkart is gathering signatures @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was talking to a progressive who ran for state rep a few years back, and he was all excited about Yes on 3. That’s why I’ve been resharing my explainer video every day: a lot of people who should really know better have been taken in by the slick Yes on 3 campaign’s misinformation.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I choose to remain hopeful that one day we will remember that nobody elected these nine petty kings and queens. Power in a democracy flows from the people, and if the people ever remember that, this Supreme Court can be stopped." - @elienyc.bsky.social

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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've been wondering what's actually up here for a while + you're not going to believe this but the answer is, once again, private equity. www.avclub.com/shout-factor...

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Shout! Factory put old "lost" TV directly into fans' hands—until one day it didn't

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/10/2026

*stokes anger* *pooh-poohs anger^

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

calls to mind the douglas adams anecdote about the sentient rain puddle enthusing about how perfectly suited the hole it’s in is for it

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of my formative political experiences is the anger that I felt when, after Clinton achieved robust short-term federal fiscal health, every GOP-run state used the opportunity to cut their taxes, *then* Republicans gutted federal revenue the moment they had the chance.

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 02/10/2026

Sitting in Revival in Davis gazing out at the new Elm St quick-build SBLs, and it’s great to see kids riding here, a thing I unsurprisingly never saw in the ‘before’ state.

Four bike riders on a quick build bike lane

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Christians would rather fuck a couch than go to therapy

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Musk terrorizes his daughter; Vance makes life hell for kids who look like his own. Conservatism has always championed abusive discipline, but now it feels like they've awakened an ancient curse: a deep hatred of one's own child.

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Anna Maltese @annamaltese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My archery buddy and writing partner's newest book, The Cutting-Off Way, was given an awesome shoutout by Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com. She maps TCOW onto our present timeline and the insights she draws resonate. Very cool. Depressing, and cool. 👍

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From measles to gun violence this country is way too accepting of preventable death. And each one of those deaths is an abject policy failure.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i've prepared November election guides for a decade—many of you have first followed me for this. the one we are publishing tomorrow? the biggest i've ever done. can't wait to share it, though you might all have to free up your entire October to explore all of it!

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Judith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the type of activity that needs to be lionized and eventually pardoned. In Nazi Germany they killed people for stuff like this, if we have the chance to mitigate these consequences we should.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is why I've always disagreed with the idea that "art" is purely subjectively defined. Art is a communication. The listener/viewer completes that communication in recieving it, but it is the intentionality of the creator that makes it art. "AI music" is no more music than traffic noise is.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

...even then. Obvsly, the pro-colonialism side won the argument. But it's important to remember that despite all the Lockes and Colberts who shouted for colonialism there were always voices like Las Casas and Kant making a case against it. If you're European, you can pick the tradition to embrace.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Historians rightly say people's actions should be judged by the standards of their time. But what often gets lost is that those standards weren't what we think. Many 18thc Europeans hated colonialism--as an e.g., here's Immanuel Kant in 1795 castigating it as "truly appalling." It was contentious...

"Excerpt from Kant: "If one compares this with the inhospitable conduct of the civilized—and primarily commercial—states of our own continent, the injustice they display when visiting foreign lands and peoples (which they equate with conquering them) is truly appalling. To them, upon their discovery, America, the lands of the Negroes, the Spice Islands, the Cape, and so forth, were territories belonging to no one; for they counted the inhabitants as nothing. In the East Indies (Hindustan), under the pretext of merely establishing trading posts, they introduced foreign military forces—bringing with them the oppression of the natives, the incitement of the region's various states into widespread wars, famine, insurrection, treachery, and the whole litany of evils that afflict the human race.

China and Japan (Nippon)—having had experience with such guests—wisely restricted access: the former permitted entry but not full admission, while the latter granted even that limited access to only a single European nation, the Dutch, whom they nonetheless kept isolated from the native population, much like prisoners."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Eric Schmitt Vice Presidential Boom (September 29, 2026-September 29, 2026)

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Terry Schilling, a main architect of Republicans’ transphobic campaign messaging, has talked about the "magic" in spreading hate-driven propaganda. "How do win, how do we replicate this on other issues?” he asked on a right-wing podcast. What might those issues be?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

If you like me are a survivor of rape who is maybe losing her mind a bit this week, I recommend a few movies about surviving men/holding them accountable: “Sorry, Baby” “Is God Is” and “Supergirl” Supergirl was, in a way, about fraternity rape culture I discuss them here:

news.chanda.science

You should go see Supergirl

It's pop art that is unapologetically political.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

“We came up with some very astounding numbers,” Wellinghoff said. “If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the entire United States.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/m...

nytimes.com

What if America Went Completely Dark?

The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 27/09/2026

No one wants to admit it but the first step to fixing TV is going to have to be making it 4:3 again

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

back my book kickstarter ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OOOO OOOO I DO HAVE A COUNTRY MUSIC HOBBY Well, actually a *western* music hobby. Ghost Riders in the Sky has international appeal and I absolutely love seeking out Central/Eastern/Southeastern European versions. Enjoy Yugoslavia! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX5q...

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Iskre - Nebeski Jahači (Ghost Riders In The Sky)

YouTube video by Peđa Radović

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026

Already did it but otherwise cool idea youtu.be/1ripC8qLmW8

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I'll Follow You Into the Dark (Death Cab For Cutie cover)

YouTube video by John Scalzi

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 26/09/2026

Since we are posting Kim again the Breeders fun fact of the day is that the weird reverb sound on ‘Cannonball’ was achieved by singing through pinholes in red Dixie cups. www.musicmusingsandsuch.com/musicmusings...

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FEATURE: Hot Like a Cannonball: The Breeders’ Last Splash at Thirty — Music Musings & Such

FEATURE:     Hot Like a Cannonball

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the way.

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Furry Pilot

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of those facts that will make you feel insane is that we went to war in Vietnam in large part because a CIA asset fabricated an account of Viet Minh atrocities against Catholics that reads like Tracy Jordan’s monologue about how horrible his old neighborhood was

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Thomas Anthony Dooley III - Wikipedia

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So what Duckworth actually said was worse than that short clip I saw... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmYs...

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What should Democrats do if they win?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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Andrew Coleman Francis @andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Borrowed from reddit. U2 at Mount Temple, 50 years apart. #U2

Above: 50 year old photo of a young U2 performing on a stage
Below: Current day photo of a modern day U2 performing on the same stage in the same positions.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your beloved has brought you a plate of eels. This is good news! Right? RIGHT? Well...in premodern England eel was a common enough meal that it sometimes got used to disguise poison. What's that, you ask? Is it it time for a thread about murder-by-eels? Yes. Yes it is. 1/5 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of six people sitting at a table laden down with food, looking startled as a skeleton taps one of them on the shoulder. The skeleton is standing behind the person on the far right, tapping with its left bony hand & holding a class in her other. The tapee has his hand over his chest & a look of shock on his face: the sort of expression you would get if you walked in on your great aunt Sue in the middle of a menage a trois with some other folks from the assisted living facility.

The others characters at the table are all either leaning away from the doomed soul, or actually falling backwards in fear. Curiously, the one 3rd from the left, hidden in the shadows, looks like an angry Abraham Lincoln. But what would he be doing here? He doesn't look like part of the company; perhaps he's working with the skeleton to settle a score (one of 4, likely). The better angels of our nature, overcome by the skeleton of his revenge.

Meme text reads:
"This meal is
deelightfully deadly"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just saw a meme that said there’s only about 100 days left in 2026 and almost threw up. I don’t even know why, just visceral horror.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

my takeaway from this is that she is thinking of these things in the right terms. she is asking whether she truly wants to do it since, if the answer is yes, it is absolutely the case that there is no better time than now.

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