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I Dream of Mini

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Northeast United States. I have Mini dreams.

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Sunsette / Cynthia Skye @sunderedmarches.com · 9h
There is absolutely nothing but cruelty accomplished with this execution reminder that capital punishment was slowly being phased out until the right wing had oppositional defiance disorder about SCOTUS trying to make it official
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
Mamdate of Heaven is multi-sport
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 9h
I’m not morally opposed to the death penalty, I’m procedurally opposed to it for ordinary crimes because I don’t trust the American carceral state to fairly apply it. I think it’s necessary in cases of crimes against democracy, but even there I think the condemned deserve a quick merciful death.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
yeah this is my ethos at this point. some people deserve to die but only when their crimes are in and against the public
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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 9h
i cannot think of anything more directly forbidden by the teachings of the roman catholic church than what the catholic supreme court justices did today
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 9h
I think you can have a justice system that is about holding dangerous people away from society and hopefully rehabilitating and treating some of them. Or I think you can have a torture barn. And I think as long as you insist on the torture barn, you can’t have the first.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h
there's a big difference between not deserving/being suitable for living free and deserving of being removed from the earth with no possibility of recovery
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h
That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."
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Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 8h
someone get CC on BlueSky, his posting is too good to be burned over there
CC Sabathia posting an image of a Red Sox fan in a paper bag hat after the Yankees dusted them in the Wild Card Series
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 8h
just like the Fugitive Slave Act, conservatives demand that they can impose their evil systems upon liberal states, democracy be damned, but if liberal states so much as offer a mild disincentive for evil to make conservative state maybe Suck Less then it's unconstitutional tyrannical overreach
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 7h
If we are to do capital punishment then we should do everything we can to not distance ourselves from its barbarity. Otherwise it's just another willing dismissal of object permanence.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you have no concept of how people engage with music
nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
X.com
I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 12h
Jfc man
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 11h
byron donalds’s running mate gave a speech in spanish, got heckled for it and now the republicans on x the everything app want to deport him just in case y’all want to know how normal things are down here
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 11h
God do i hope that the bottom falls out completely and Republicans lose seats in fucking Idaho and South Dakota to independent candidates
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h
if you are a republican vp and you’re pulling the fire alarm about fucking idaho before the first day of october, you are in very, very bad shape
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 10h
>>>>>>win first playoff series in 20 years
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Artificial Taco 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @crunchyfishtaco.bsky.social · 8h
#ETTD
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 16h
The Bible actually does have something to say about this: Exodus 20:16: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h
that’s what this ridiculous, insulting, unprofessional farce is about and the people being ordered to attend should be blisteringly furious about being used as props for his future campaign
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
why is the water thing the only thing anyone cares about when it's the only argument against this stuff which isn't real
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h
> @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/p...
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 17h
It is maximally profitable right now to either sell panic *about* trans people, or sell panic *to* trans people. Both impulses feed the media consumer's desire to feel mastery over events. One is simple bigoted conspiracism, the other is a defensive crouch that offers a false sense of security.
Emily: I think about this as a journalist and a novelist: I cannot control how the reader takes what I write. Especially when reporting, I try to be as careful as I can, but somebody might read what I write and conclude, Well, we're all going to die. And there's such an incentive structure to walk right up to the edge of catastrophe or even stick a toe over the line, and even publications I think are terrific will get as close to that line as they can because they know that drives subscription dollars and clicks. That's not just true of trans media; it's true of the media writ large. How do you think about that incentive structure, especially as it relates to social media?

Me: There's two ways to generate clicks about trans issues. One is to sell panic about trans people; the other is to sell panic to trans people. The social media incentive structure there, as it is with so many issues, is the septic, perverted version of that old classic about local TV news: If it bleeds, it leads.

Selling people that sense of control is, as I noted, the same thing at the root of a lot of conspiracism: not to trust mainstream sources who tell you things aren't quite so bad or things could get better or don't panic. It's the cinematic logic of a disaster movie where the people who are saying, "Actually, you should panic!" are correct. Think about everything from the narrative structure of Independence Day or Mass Effect. The catastrophizer is actually correct against all the people saying, "I'll calm down. It won't be so bad." That story structure is very, very popular, and it gets you invested in the protagonist with a pleasing sense of dramatic irony for the audience. They know something many of the other characters don't or refuse to accept.

We are all reared on some version of this story, and it seeps into everyday life. There's an excellent piece from CBS News in 1967 by Eric Sevareid reporting on the findings of the Warren Commission [whi
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 20h
The man who found a way to bankrupt a casino is on the verge of bankrupting the Kennedy Center. Everything he touches he destroys.   The reflecting pool, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, & every monument in America belong to the PEOPLE. They're not his to remake, remodel, or destroy.
washingtonpost.com
The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16h
The MTA on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports are on track to add $1 billion to the price of New York’s new train cars and buses. gothamist.com/news/mta-say...
gothamist.com
MTA says Trump's tariffs added $1B to cost of NYC's new train cars, buses
New York's train cars and buses are manufactured in the United States, but they rely on loads of components manufactured all over the world.
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 21h
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 19h
"BMW to do a stack rank and lay off low performers for a stock bump, using AI as this year's rationalization"
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 16h
I don't want to hear another cabinet member say the word "testosterone" for the rest of my life.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 16h
"Former Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Dies of Sepsis After Botched Black-Market Penis Enlargement Injections" - headline five years from now
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h
this is a man who knows he’s getting canned or impeached after the election and who is trying to set up a future political career
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 16h
Was talking about gender as performance in one of my classes yesterday and, man oh man, is it hard to find a more prominent example rn of a guy whose masculinity is built more obviously on inadequacy and insecurity than Hegseth.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 20h
My student loan repayments are going to double from what they were under Biden thanks to Trump, so you can imagine how I feel about all of the "these changes are worse than nothing" bullshit we got at the time
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 22h
jfc man, Republicans are gonna get absolutely waxed this year
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 23h
The vibes they have shifted
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 23h
static.klipy.com
He Man's Skeletor: I Chose Evil
Alt: He Man's Skeletor: I Chose Evil
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let’s remember that Sen. Eric Schmitt is a white nationalist who employs other white nationalists while spreading white nationalist/racist conspiracy theories. missouriindependent.com/2025/09/15/m... White supremacists never fail to demonstrate how they’re inferior:
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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
taking a break from defending the sanctity of women’s sports to dunk on people for watching women’s sports
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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
yeah I think there's some work left to do considering that fraternities still exist, half the members of Congress belong to the Gang of Pedophiles, there's quite a few civic institutions infested with predators, that college authority figures still operate with impunity, that some men are "back" now
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 29/09/2026
Tired: Still relying on the B-52 after 74 years Wired: Re-flying an SR-71A that's been on display since 1999
aviationweek.com
NASA Asked Several Former SR-71A Staffers To Help Secret Restart | Aviation Week
Nearly 27 years after the final Blackbird flight, NASA quietly launched a project last summer to return an SR-71A to flight.
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the many lessons of the Trump era is that rapists are very well-organized and actively work to protect each other. Fraternities serve that function in the open, and so they must be destroyed if we are serious about accountability for rapists.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/09/2026
The Family Research Council, once a political powerhouse on the right, is struggling to get Republicans to pay attention. www.thebulwark.com/p/an-evangel...
thebulwark.com
An Evangelical Kingmaker Is Lost in the Age of Trump
Four years after Dobbs, evangelical leaders are confronting a Republican party increasingly uninterested in abortion.
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Bimp @korbobimp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Federal subsidies for the arts Banning a company from controlling more than 10% of a market Civic engagement centers Throwing every cabinet official in prison and televising the trials Simple things that can be done to regain public trust
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"A Staten Island judge" stop right there we shouldn't have those
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
pete ricketts is also very famously a HUGE pro death penalty guy as in "it was banned in the state with a supermajority, overriding his veto, so he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money on a ballot initiative to 'repeal the repeal' so he, as governor, could execute people"
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit there is a whole website
rickettspardon.com
Pete Ricketts and the John Arias Pardon | Nebraska
Pete Ricketts voted to pardon John Arias, convicted of first-degree sexual assault and originally charged with weapon use, terroristic threats and false imprisonment, while victim Jody Snogren was not...
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the lede is good
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's a very real problem for the administration that rubes have figured out the confidence scheme less than half way through. This is normally when you fold up the tents and move on to the next town.
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