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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h

Whether it's liberals debating health care reform or conservatives debating the "Indian question", there are plenty of provocative debates on both sides.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h

Democrats blast Trump for frequently falling asleep during official events, but we saw the exact same thing from Joe Biden. And by "the exact same thing," I mean he never actually fell asleep in public but it totally felt like he might. by Jake Tapper

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thepinkmonkey.bsky.social @thepinkmonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Airball Eric. We need to make that stick!

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Carl Feher @carlfeher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social Senator Eric Schmitt does character assassination the right way. By Ezra Klein

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Donald Trump continues to publicly support Pete Hegseth amid the Iran War debacle, but privately he is telling friends that when handing the world's largest military to an alcoholic cable news host, he should have picked someone from primetime.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Analysis | A Democratic midterm rout could end up as a gift to Mr. Trump, setting him up to end his term as a pragmatic, centrist unifier—drawing upon his decades in business to deliver results for the country.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Democrats are leading in the polls. But are they leading in the vibes?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unsurprisingly, there are almost no Russian-made components in Russia's new Geran-4 drone. While Chinese parts surprise no one, how a Texas Instruments onboard computer got there is a major question. #cdnpoli

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Carl Feher @carlfeher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Why Does the Times Care About Mark Zuckerberg's Style?" Actual headline. 🙄 @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since returning to office, Donald Trump has made over $2 billion from bribes and crypto schemes while driving up costs for everyone else in the country. His political opponents say this is a bad thing.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Donald Trump is an active threat to American democracy and the global order —causing everything from mass inflation to disease outbreaks. But Democrats have failed to be truly exciting and inspirational. It’s little wonder so many voters will sit this election out.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We wanted to understand how the next generation mRNA shots might be used to treat cancer. So we talked to three trad wife influencers at a Sodalicious in Pleasant Grove.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In this Western Massachusetts town, it was a tradition: plate of gluten-free toast, big glass of soy milk, then over to the old lesbian bar for a little N95 time. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey my muchachos, I've had a run of very bad luck. Please retweet for visibility. Thanks. t.co/QXnWEWjuW5

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Carl Feher @carlfeher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tommy Tubberville is dumb even by football coach standards.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Minnesota is a shit hole that I’m embarrassed to live in. Here’s why Minnesotans should make me their next senator. by Michele Tafoya

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My kids have measles, I can't afford gas, my country has been humiliated by Iran, and our senile rapist president is going to allow unregulated AI to destroy our civilization. But a lesbian bar in a town I've never heard of still has a mask mandate. I have never felt more politically homeless.

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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lauren Boebert Allegations

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Carl Feher @carlfeher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hope you're having a good time in Europe @sethcotlar.bsky.social Things have certainly taken a turn towards a 'Let's storm the Bastille," feeling while you've been gone. Especially over the last several days.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If Democrats continue to focus on elite issues like the price of diesel fuel instead of on kitchen table issues like chem trails and racial purity, they're going to get walloped in November.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If Republicans are seen as the party of day drinking, doing coke, and sleeping with staffers of both genders while Democrats are the party of recycling and eating your vegetables, guess which party voters are going to pick?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Whether it's ICE sending a man to prison for distributing anarchist 'zines or the kids at Middlebury heckling Charles Murray, there's been plenty of authoritarian anti-free speech activity on both sides.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Civil engineers say it would be catastrophic to put a military target in the middle of an urban traffic circle. An AI video shared by Natalie Harp shows it would be super badass. For busy presidents planning triumphal arches, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Source: Trump’s revised plans for triumphal arch include a moat filled with sharks with laser beams attached to their foreheads.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A Melissa Ethridge show at Hammondsport's deep blue Point of the Bluffs vineyard might seem like a strange place to meet Trump supporters, but over an encore of "Come to My Window" you can hear whispers that that DEI is the reason the Blaufränkisch is $35 a bottle.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I lost my healthcare, I can't afford gas, and I can't sleep due to the hum of the data center across the street. But at least Trump is pressing forward with dismantling the International Criminal Court.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In this Philadelphia sports bar, OpenAI still means no one is guarding Allen Iverson. But they do know this: Even if the machines take all of our jobs, we'll still need real humans to boo Santa Claus.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes, the price of gasoline is rising on a daily basis. But the prices of $TRUMP and $MELANIA cryptocurrencies are down 97% from their peaks. Inflation is a matter of perspective.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The fact that very few highly educated people support Donald Trump shows just how biased our educational system has become.

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Puget Sound Whale Sightings @pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

💛🩶🖤 Sat, Sep 19 While inland waterways remained whale quiet yesterday, there was an abundance of beings beyond Puget Sound proper: Bigg's, humpbacks, minke, & SRKWs reported southbound in Strait of Georgia. 📸 J pod member spyhops in upper Admiralty Inlet. By Hongming Zheng, Wednesday 9/16 #psws

A resident orca, a member of J pod (endangered Southern Residents) spyhops (rises above the water to look around) in glassy golden waters during sundown.

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

¡ THIS ¡ is The Kennedy Center! 💥💯 ❤️‍🔥👑🥲😍🤩😘 #KennedyCenter

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cowbell sold separately.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Doctors say that the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is likely due to low rates of vaccination. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his van says it’s caused by chemtrails. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Opinion | It is highly antisemitic to not love the music of Ed Sheeran. by Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The world's leading AI firms say the technology is careening out of control and could cause a global catastrophe. A sundowning octogenarian president who uses AI to post images of himself looking like Rambo says this is a Chinese hoax. For busy technologists, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did DEI close the Strait of Hormuz? No. But it hasn't re-opened it either.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump's nominee for special counsel of the United States wrote "I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time," intensifying the need for every elected Democrat to go on Sunday morning shows to denounce Hasan Piker.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Macklemore needs to keep politics out of his act. by Kid Rock

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Humbled by losses, a chastened Trump strikes a new tone. New York Times, November 5

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did Trump just pivot?

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