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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

respectability is a fake idea, everyone knows it they just think nobody *else* knows it

the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally writing essays trying to explain "epistemic injustice" because nobody can comprehend that maybe they should like listen to me when i point out that Being A Woman is not the central causative feature of 99% of women's problems

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

genuinely fucking insane when professional girlies are like "um yeah transition was hard for me too" and then this is the pull, as if i'm supposed to cosign their confirmation bias that everything got worse after transition based on professional vibes. are you fucking kidding me

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i love my friends but im getting tired of giving them the same advice over and over about the basic skillset necessary for emotionally surviving adulthood. like you can do it buddy just try even once

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i mean i have to be honest that these ontology arguments about transness imho help us none. it is more helpful to point out that the entire anti-trans sports bent is being done by competitive white women who think it is an own on the patriarchy to become a professional athlete. thats it

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I really dislike, intensely, how people resort to the basest ablism to answer this one. "Well, artists are often crazy, or depressed, they don't know what they've got, if they knew how famous they'd be they'd feel different." Oh! So if I am depressed, you'll act on my behalf? good to know, about you

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

if you posted this job description today you'd get 400 applications

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

im vibrating w/ excitement too see new schoenbrun, just rewatched World's Fair this week which is my favorite of their work. maybe the most devastating ambiguity in there

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

we are the screams of the cats you've already fed dinner

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the culture is at a point where i am having to have serious sit-down convos w/ friends about how maybe Believing Women and becoming a sex-negative paranoiac are not the same thing. will this work ever be done. can you ladies talk to each other about it maybe just to save me the time and trouble

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

trying to watch the Odyssey and tbh i'm just sad to see how far Dad Movies have fallen

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(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 25/08/2026

I think about what Roger wrote about Dolly Parton in his 9 TO 5 review any time I think of her: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/nine...

“Nine to Five” is a good-hearted, simple-minded comedy that will win a place in film history, I suspect, primarily because it contains the movie debut of Dolly Parton. She is, on the basis of this one film, a natural-born movie star, a performer who holds our attention so easily that it’s hard to believe it’s her first film.

There have been other debuts this unmistakable; you could name Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, John Travolta. And what you’d be talking about in each case would not necessarily be a great dramatic performance in an important movie. You’d be talking about a quality of presence, a personal life force that seems to take over the screen.

“Nine to Five” is only a fairly successful comedy. It has some very funny moments, and then it has some major ingredients that don’t work, including some of its fantasy sequences. But then it also has Dolly Parton. And she contains so much energy, so much life and unstudied natural exuberance that watching her do anything in this movie is a pleasure. Because there have been so many Dolly Parton jokes (and doubtless will be so many more), I had better say that I’m not referring to her sex appeal or chest measurements. Indeed, she hardly seems to exist as a sexual being in this movie. She exists on another plane, as Monroe did: She is a center of life on the screen.

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

back in kc they call me "low-hanging fruit" on account of im gay and my balls--

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

it would be cool if understanding how respectability politics works would free me from the need to ever give a shit about respectability politics instead of simply making it harder to do so

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

do the suffering and appeals of the vulnerable have a claim to my attention? am I implicated in their state of affairs? no, and here's a Fancy Magazine with Fancy Smart Writing to help me feel that it is them and those who care who must be overly emotional, out of touch, and in the wrong

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

im sorry im screaming with laughter about the CIA Tgirl story. no notes. i no longer feel bleak about the future our present reality is far too absurd to be upset about. also the atlantic maintaining its position as the most depraved outlet of all time, they truly cannot be normal about trans people

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Woman's Hell @hecuba.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

when you understand the world around you really well

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this article is a banger. zero self awareness. before you click through take a guess what her job was

theatlantic.com

The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

fun fact about philadelphia: philly boys love to sing. i have never lived in a place with such a high proportion of people who sing to themselves while they're walking down the street. delightful

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

never underestimate the power of the real kansas motto: "don't fucking tell me what to do"

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

this is a wonderful thread

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Like, right out of the gate!

Okay. You're an ethno-historian, is that correct?
A. Presently I'm considered an ethno-historian. I've had a rather lengthy professional career, but most of my work is involved with ethno-history, at the present time.
Q. What is an ethno-historian?
A. History of non-Western peoples. In the United States, it's usually considered American Indian Tribes.
Q Is this a specialty within the general branch of history?
A. Yes.
Is it recognized by some professional organization or
group?
A.
I think ethno-historians recognize themselves and each
other. There is an American Society for Ethno-History
and a publication that has the same name.
Does this Society certify people as Ethno-Historians?
Historians seldom apply for licenses, sir.

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

dear lord i repent for being the most interesting person in every room, i pray only that i may be a beacon to other interesting people to stop apologizing for it and just go off about their bullshit, specifically to me, i want to hear it

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

lmfao every angry reply to this demonstrates my point perfectly: people who hate AI have literally no idea what it is or how to use it. if you don't know what i'm talking about you can always just not speak?

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

this is the kind of thing that makes me feel like the people who speak loudest against AI have no idea what it actually does to fill the gaps for people who are not, say [checks notes] seasoned professionals who have "editor in chief" in their bio & resume

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

unfortunately most of the "good faith people who care about women's sports" care more about their right to make money in women's sports. that's what all of this shit is about, its the continuation of an ever-moving sex-based competition for money & prestige

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

frankly the guys who are trying to mentally brace themselves for an imminent collapse of infrastructure are going to be pretty helpful to have around during your next horrible infrastructural collapse / natural disaster. they're just also extremely homophobic

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

btw i wrote something about that little fascist aneurysm hegseth and also about tboy anxiety, never let it be said that i am not trying to do everyone favors

artofgender.substack.com

on testosterone

welcome to hormone hell

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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

bluesky has advanced to a 9th grade reading level, alarming experts with the possibility of a "Mass COGIATI Close Reading Event" on the heretofore pussyfree platform

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

thinking about this in relation to yes, 1984 "newspeak", but also in relation to like. the dev hierarchy of color words in literally every language & the way that the west continually assumes that one who cannot speak "well" must have no mind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_t...

en.wikipedia.org

Color term - Wikipedia

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

we gays spent so long complaining about "hate" that we forgot hating politicians and celebrities is normal. you can talk all the shit you want they have bodyguards

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

just got back on t maybe i will start cumbrainposting more often. finally i can become normal

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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

in time your bottomless appetite for attention will turn you into something worse than a corpse in the sight of all who now love you. In your own sight too. You will look in the mirror and be lucky to see a human face staring back at you

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

simone weil magical girl transformation

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

reading walter benjamin "art in the age of mechanical reproduction." oh he is so mad!! he is so mad about the reproducibility of images!! ohhh web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/...

web.mit.edu

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the philly phag @cogito-ergotism.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

there is a difference between class consciousness and class resentment!! i don't want to hear "eat the rich" unless you're at least mixing up a nice sauce for em, hunny!!

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