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This morning at JFK, waiting for my flight, and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs" was playing in the background and I CANNOT GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD now many hours later.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 8h

We'll be updating it weekly between now and the election. Try it out! Stop pouring your money into places it doesn't matter! For federal races, we'll soon incorporate recent fundraising data to show you which opportunities are underfunded - and actually worth giving to. votemaximizer.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

I think the entire right wing media ecosystem was primed to make this a huge deal, they all had their talking points ready to go and this was going to be THE big gotcha that brought down Jack Smith and they are just scrambling because it turns out the whole thing was an embarrassing mistake

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Huggers23 @huggers23.bsky.social · 7h

Abstention is always a vote for evil. I tried to explain that to a bunch of idiotic Kamala Harris protestors at a rally in Philly in 2024. No dice. No thought. No brains. And... here we are.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10h

The thing about abstention is that unless you do massive amount of other political or organizing work* it appears to all observers to be “nonvoting due to not giving a shit” *posting is not political work

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 55m

this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1h

Incredibly stacked for a two season Noggin cartoon from twenty years ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Grady

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O'Grady - Wikipedia

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Kheti The Scribe @kheti.bsky.social · 2h

Something like $500 per room in a budget hotel (Best Western/Holiday Inn level) apparently. youtu.be/JlP5FZI4cKs?...

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AlderFish @alderfish.bsky.social · 2h

@fakegreekgrill.bsky.social still pulling off “lib mom in her forties” when she’s over 300 years old!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10h

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 2h

Waht she mean 'looke cute" ?!

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3h

stop apologizing to people who come at you over this and just block them. they aren't engaging in good faith and they don't have a good or justifiable argument. they are actively fighting against the adoption of common-sense gender neutral language that helps everyone

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3h

the campaign to accuse anyone who refers to a trans woman in the abstract/nonspecific case with "they" rather than "she"is in fact not about including trans women;it is very specfically an outgrowth of the active effort to purge nonbinary people from trans spaces that took place over the last decade

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Nick Peterson @thetecheng.bsky.social · 6h

"I dont think this is controversial" they say to a question philosophers have been debating more or less continuously since at least 400 BC when Diogenese refuted your platonic definition of a human via a plucked chicken.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3h

"knowledge" whose source is community legends circulated within marginalized communities - aka whisper networks - can be useful in some limited contexts, but if you let it form your entire worldview, you live in a nightmare reality. you need more than that

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 5h

the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

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Rosemare “Eek” Looney @bsky.dad · 12h

Slam in the back of my Jack-o’-la

Haunted Lego jalopy with big mean pumpkin in the derrière

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The corollary to this, though, is that pretending the crisis is worse than it is ("I'm not going to have kids because they'll be dead by 2050") serves as a paralytic for a lot of people and gives them an excuse to check out and ignore the issue entirely because "we're all going to die anyway."

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, there have been real, substantial improvements! Acid rain and ozone depletion are distant memories. Renewable energy is now *cheaper* than fossil fuels. Global poverty numbers have collapsed. It really is a much better world.

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Valentinexyz @valentinexyz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favorite part is where Maury fucking Povich does a segment on overpopulation and government-mandated contraceptives a good twenty years before poor family planning became the cornerstone of his entire career.

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Albert Lee @albertl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've had this mockumentary shot in 1970 on my to-watch list for a while over related reasons

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is instructive to look back and see how much people believed this, for instance, in the mid to late 1970s.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2h

the tech industry wants us to trust this stuff with our banking, meanwhile here's a screenshot of a computer that thinks it's Jan 1, 1970

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3h

your computer doesn’t have a “clock” that tracks “time.” It increments a variable based on quartz resonance, and it fails spectacularly at tracking time whenever leap seconds are factored in

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Noah Weinberger @noahweinberger2003.bsky.social · 2h

This is not true. The universe began in New Jersey on Dec 31, 1969 11:59:59pm UTC-5. Everything revolves around Bell Labs. Life before then is a simulacrum

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end"

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3h

I hate Democrats for being too soft on Republicans, who I am neutral to positive on

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

LOL -- Trump tries to shout out Ted Cruz in Texas and *not a single person applauds* for him. Not one!

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Amanda Boooomfie 👻 @thatisabigmood.bsky.social · 7h

lots of people on this site seem to believe they have the right to be abusive to staff without consequences. I'm glad they don't

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 5h

That candidate does not exist. We could nominate AOC, and the same people who spent the Biden administration screaming that he was trying to murder us all and then 2024 calling Harris a genocidal transphobe will say the same sorts of things about her.

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 4h

When they need a reason to find voting for her morally unacceptable, that, or something else she’s kind of weak on, will suddenly become the omnicause.

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Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 5h

AOC is also happy to collaborate with the MAHA 'some of these kiddos may die of viruses but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make' types, too, which is a thing these guys at least pretend to care about.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

animals will roll over and expose their most sensitive organs to you because they love and trust you. that’s what it means when your dog or cat flops over. its not just cute. its the ultimate statement of faith in you, a mysterious giant with godlike power over their lives

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 7h

Jews are absolutely under existential threat right now internationally, because the actual argument often made to Jews is basically "well if you don't side with us in wanting to see the people who slaughtered your coreligionists punished, shame if something were to happen to you."

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 7h

I think that is something that opponents of the Israeli government have a strong emotional reason to believe is true that does not, imo, survive contact with the actual cultural reality of how leftists have consistently responded to dead Jews anywhere for any reason.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 7h

But you know, I'm biased, I only saw what felt like the entire left, all of whom claimed they would totally defend us from antisemitism, explode in rapturous, jubilant celebration of dead Jews in the streets on 10/7, & then respond to each atrocity in the diaspora since by running defense for it.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, the thing that amazed me about that is that we don't wear our prey down so much as chase it so relentlessly we force it to overheat and collapse. Absolutely brutal application of thermal advantage.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 7h

Humans are like The Terminator for the rest of the animal kingdom

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 7h

I'd say it's the biggest reason but not the one (1) reason Advanced tool use and capability for persistence hunting were certainly major factors as well.

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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 7h

advice for junior developers: you are no longer a developer you are a builder you are a solution provider enter every room and make things happen learn when no one is watching create because you can fix problems because they offend you bend the world to your will and take credit

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 7h

Sorry, the same was true when everything went from monoliths to microservices, you either adapted to the market trend changing or you moved on. You didn’t show up to a job that explicitly listed working in micro services and started talking about how much they suck and we should be on monoliths.

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clever display name lacker @pfish.zone · 7h

Ashley Z casually drops a statement about how bleak terrestrial radio was even before AI: her day job is at a station in Traverse City, MI, but she’s doing voice-tracking for a station in Portland

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 10h

The key to understand here is that in a two-party (plurality rules) system is that coalitions form prior to elections Multi-party (PR rules) system allow for parties to form coalitions after the election

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 10h

Alright class, lets gather around and discuss parties as coalitions as the ability of members of legislature (MLs) to credibly challenge or defect from party leadership.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

I prefer the incremental solution that can be implemented through bare-majority legislation (240 Supreme Court justices) to Third Way's radical plan, which requires fully amending the Constitution (term limits)

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