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Re: Kaepernick: “I don’t see all the social injustice that some of these people see,” Ditka said Monday. “There has been no oppression in the last 100 years that I know of.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you.

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nationalizing SpaceX and deporting Musk to South Africa for lying on his citizenship application is the MODERATE POSITION!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I think the median voter believes in Natural Prices, and these are about how much things costed at the most recent point in their mind where they felt relatively financially stable. They expect politicians and businesses to honour this and take steps to ensure things cost their Natural Price.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anyway, I know that the "we're all going to die by a robot army" hype is really fun for folks, and so that's going to have way more power than the "nah, dawg, that's dumb" skepticism. That's my cross to bear. But please do consider the possibility it's just very silly hype.

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Constant Velocity @constantvelocity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@jessethorn.bsky.social I shook my head when I discovered you had never heard, let alone been scared of The Goofa Man. Yet here I’ve living in ignorance all this time of… youtu.be/I9pQNCATn5U?...

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Peter Wolf AKA The Woofa Goofa - WBCN Radio DJ

YouTube video by RustedTelevisione

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The kind of sweaty conservative defensiveness I think we're all familiar with even today

Within two years proslavery writers had answered Uncle Tom's Cabin with at least fifteen novels whose thesis that slaves were better off than free workers in the North

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Is it an advance copy of the book in which they’ll tell us in one year?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Anyone else get the sense that she's not mad that the world now knows the depths of her devotion?

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/08/2026

pray for us St Giorgio, now and at the hour of aesthetic discourse

Giorgio Giugiaro in a documentary with the VW Golf GTI behind him. Subcaption reads "Giugiaro: [speaking Italian] Curved lines are actually bullshit. Interviewer: Elaborate on that. Giugiaro: No."

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This Christmas. Four men. Four movies. Four stories which changed the world forever. John Lennon. drunk Peter O'Toole. Charles Manson. and the drummer from The Kinks. The Fab Four.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Obsessed with the reported letter where natalie harp is like "I wish we could just talk and talk about all the non-work stuff" like I don't want to know but I've gotta know what the fuck these two shitheads are talking about

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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

look maybe he’s not wrong

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is just another way for institutions to individualize a serious systemic problem, while they cater to their real audiences: their boards, and tech companies. And this is not to say that assessments should not change--of course they should.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

From seven years ago

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COINTREAUPRO @strings.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So… they’re working

Atlanta says these bike barriers are protecting cyclists. Drivers keep crashing into them.
AJE

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Because now you live in a field and own only a folding chair.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

People will say the big 3 didn't see it coming but US auto executives knew this was happening 15 years ago and largely acted accordingly, making huge investments in EV tech and lobbying the US govt for subsidies to those investments. Then Trump got reelected and it all got thrown out the window

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Everybody is pointing out, correctly, that he does not remember that batteries exist, but let us not lose sight of the fact that for him the worst imaginable consequence of a life without electricity is not being able to watch television.

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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

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Constant Velocity @constantvelocity.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Again, this is such an opportunity for some academic institution to take a hard line against AI and proclaim itself a bulwark against the unreal.

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Young Pete Toms @petetoms.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Thinking of the most romantic places to get married. Madison Square Garden, of course, Bank of America, one of those cable company storefronts that’s totally empty except for an iPad on a podium that’s bolted to the floor, the streaming service Fubu

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

While some of you may be yelling GO SPAIN or GO AUSTRIA I'm yelling GO CARLOS II AND THE PURE-BRED HAPSBURG SUCCESSION

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

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Hank Yarbo @ocmdthalassophile.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Three cybertrucks!

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The crazy thing is that for most of my life I would go ten, fifteen, sometimes even thirty minutes at a time without thinking about the Reflecting Pool.

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Imagine thinking this was a pro-AI argument.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 14/06/2026

Mitch McConnell will receive a level of medical care he has spent his entire career preventing other Americans from having

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

dave you should meet one (1) black person

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Something pretty obvious I was talking about with a Dem strategist the other day:
Nobody in the party has a problem celebrating Islam, Hinduism; any faith brought to US via later immigration.
But celebrate Christianity loudly and other Dems look at you funny, assume you're RW.
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I just love the idea that after presumably coming out to her community, doing IVF and raising two children with her non-Muslim, tattooed, lesbian life-partner, the woman in question remains committed to full Islamic
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Can a man die from booing? We need to know for the sake of science.

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Maybe Scorsese said he embraces AI because he thought it stood for Avengers InfinityWar. He loves those movies.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Amazing how few of these guys can go down with even a shred of dignity left

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Constant Velocity @constantvelocity.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Fun to see someone you know personally appear organically. Brian’s art has been all around me for decades.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

yes. this is mostly correct. The Plot to Enslave America and this thing are the same thing by the way.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"I ask all of you to think of it, graduates and families alike, let yourself dream of a future in which we can harness this amazing new technology to eliminate entry-level jobs entirely. Indeed, that work has already begun, and that future is now." /college kid booing intensifies "Wow okay,"

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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Musk has been publishing gutter racist, antisemitic garbage conspiracy theories to millions of followers for years now. And the media treats him like a quirky industrialist. This is part of the fucking problem.

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Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

tfw you’ve been partying with REO Speedwagon

Jesse Ventura: I'VE BEEN PARTYING WITH REO SPEEDWAGON.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Alright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse: Bluesky is a record store davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...

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Bluesky is a record store

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Quizatz Haderach @lhamilton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Always true

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

From the Point of View of a Cat
This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some!
He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs.
Let me out!
I don’t know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime.
He keeps my rooms clean for me.
In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love.
Often at night when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don’t imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood.
But don’t think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices.
Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This site needs to let you mute reposts. No offense but some of you have terrible taste.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 01/05/2026

Moonrise, an maudlin in the mirk, we coorie in, hoose selt, hame hawked, oor labour thirled tae yesterday, the morra pawned fur brick-a-brack… —Janet Paisley, “Aw Jock Tamson’s” published in THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF SCOTTISH VERSE, @canongate.co.uk 2021 #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay #poem #poetry

Aw Jock Tamson’s
Janet Paisley

Moonrise, an maudlin in the mirk,
we coorie in, hoose selt, hame hawked,
oor labour thirled tae yesterday,
the morra pawned fur brick-a-brack.

Thieves tout the mercat, flashin cash
in credit caird tricks yince cried tick.
Gowks gawp. It’s easy money. Hauns
dip threidbare pooches skint by lees;

yin cat feeds fat, an hunners sterve.
Dunderheids, we bocht intae grief,
gied up sense fur greed, furgoat brass
barters work, its worth inventit.

A dreich rain faws oan rentit roofs.
We pey tae drain the run-aff, pey
again tae pipe it back. Nae debt
is gain. If lochs fill, mountains droon.

Yit bairns sleep an dream, fit tae bigg
a warld whaur love gies shelter, breid
daily, care redds up, prood tae bide
an fecht whaur fowk cry foul at cheats:

nae man worth mair. It’s wha we are.
Tak tent. Waukened, sleeves rowed up,
drookit, set tae work, a new stert.
Day breks, mornin sun ay rises.

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