Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging. 252667704
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 7hah yes, the Constitutional structure, which was inconsistent with the 15th Amendment per Shelby County 010
Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 9hI have been to thousands of Catholic masses in my lifetime and the number of times I've seen anyone clap except at a wedding is zero. 1173
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 19hlook Yooty we manufactured an orphan-crushing machine, every billionaire invested in crushing orphans, the economy is riding on this, how dare you object to orphan-crushing?????????? 000
Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20hCan't watch Blues Brothers anymore, it's DEI (violence against nazis; soul music; papism) 56112
Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25594452945
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 20hquery: what about the new remastering of the OG album? any thoughts? 110
Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 8137451473
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 20hthere ya go: “SP's misspellings and punctuation errors are retained unless otherwise noted.” it’s a clean, bright-line approach, avoiding the vagaries of What She Would Have Wanted. (but I think it needs a period.) 000
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 20htextual notes excellent. the missing punctuation after “it” has always bugged me. TIL: SP had ! there through multiple typescripts, crossed it out at last—but didn’t add a period. (stylistically at odds w rest of Elm.) of course she never got to see it through the press. very conservative editing … 100
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 21hthe new collected Plath arrived. it appears to be a beautiful, meticulous edition. here are two of my favorites. 110
Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21hTrump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay." 167044321725
Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21hYes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity. 461346467
Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026First Monday in October feeling 110612
Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Many such cases. 0321
Reposted by Conte Mosca 🎃Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Fed. judge grants a habeas petition for immediate release (after 13 months) of an LPR who ICE was holding w/o bond bc even after ordering a hearing "Petitioner’s uncontested evidence on the systematic bias of the immigration judges is compelling." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 29338
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026agreed. there are sensible ways to read (parts of) Hegel, but that’s not one of them. 010
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026tbh not too far from Richard Rorty saying in 1989 that pluralist liberal democracy was pretty much the last conceptual revolution we needed in politics 120
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026congratulations Apple on making it obscure whether I have an alarm set 000
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026so transparent that FB & YT are pro-fascist. market competition as always folds before ideology. (Hayek was shallow.) 010
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“we see this is your most-played album. do you know fuck-all about it? we’ll guess ‘no.’” 000
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this is “you should be illustrating some novels” stuff 110
Conte Mosca 🎃 @contemosca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026wait isn’t this Keri Russell’s husband on The Diplomat wow these long gaps between seasons are unflattering 000