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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Marx described commodity fetish as the imaginary of capital being more alive, having greater agency, and requiring more deference than the worker who produces it

For people who deny Al personhood for any Al model at any point in the future, you're going to need better arguments than this. There are arguments out there, but once agents can solve Navier-Stokes, write music and poetry, and provide people with seemingly fulfilling life advice, this kind of line is just not going to be persuasive. "YOU'RE CRAZY" no longer lands.
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Why? Do you think it's insane to think Al might be conscious?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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P.B. Cooley @cooleycreates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the quirky things I actually kinda love about Bluesky is, if you search the term "Atlantis" you've got about a 50/50 chance of getting either the gay cruise or the Disney movie, but about an 80/20 chance any given tweet will be sexually explicit or not. Skeet on, ya lil' freaks. Skeet on.

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Follow me on twitch 👀 @zambicandy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Time for a game of disappearing bears 😈🐻

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I will note, however, that so far everybody's gay Jesus is a top, and I personally believe our Lord would be a very generous and skilled bottom

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Terry Midnight tried to tell you! @docmidnight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Do not even pirate that hateful bullshit! If you don't fuck with it then don't fuck with it! You wanna stand with the homies then fn stand with them! You can't be like, I watched it cuz I need to see how bad it sux so I can shit talk it on my podcast, fir free.... Fuck you. Ignore it, Hoe!

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Techbro fash armies cut to pieces, ammo running dry because of botched supply, "ai"-run artillery barrages annihilating their own troops in hallucinatory frenzy. Falling to queer militias whose mentats perfected logistics coordinating their polycules and could basically run normandy in their sleep.

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it's charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 25/09/2026

"Why do you need cis people to be the ones to stand up for you?"

screenshot from Control Resonant. Dylan Faden stands in a fight ready stance, weapon in hand, in an open area with no apparent features. text above him reads "Cannot Transition During Combat"

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Not them asking for a little privacy 😭😭😭😭

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that the conventional wisdom that came out of the AIDS crisis on this sort of thing is that yes it’s perfectly acceptable to out our people who harm our people and I won’t be fighting with you about it.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Netflix business model combines with distrust sown by shows like ‘Lost’ failing to pay off on their narrative promise

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026

These clowns want to cede the most important decisions in comics storytelling to a fucking bot. And you know this would lead to further underpayment of artists. Boycott any book or publisher that uses this.

Walk me through what the platform actually does.

You put in a manuscript. The system spends time studying the story, including the thesis, the background, the protagonist, and the emotional beats that pay off for a reader, and produces a storyboard that gets you to roughly 60–70% of a finished product. Then an editor, the author, and an illustrator go in and shape that further, because a purely AI-generated output tends to lack soul and be generic. This is not a self-driving car. It's more like handing a Ferrari to someone who already knows how to drive.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

anyway, kudos to Bluesky for…not having pro-Spanish Inquisition posts with 1000s of reskeets, I guess

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If it seemed like a major newspaper making some conflict at a random dyke bar a national news piece in a push to depict trans and higher-risk folks as inherently unreasonable was suspect af...well, it was. Y'all who were breathlessly sharing that story? You were just being played. Have some sense.

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally illustrated this idea like I’ve wanted to do since I posted this three years ago!! 🌿🖤

A woman who is covered in a splotchy nebula texture of blue, green, purple, and pink. She is leaning forward with her hands behind her slightly arched back. In her hands are a lulav (long rod made of three different tree branches), and an etrog (a fruit with an elongated and bumpy lemon shape/color).

Her leg is signed “M.Nutz”

Surrounding her in bold black handwriting is the quote: “Joy is a deep release of the soul, and it includes death and pain. Joy is any feeling fully felt, any experience we give our whole being to. We are conditioned to choose pleasure and to reject pain, but the truth is, any moment of our life fully inhabited…any immersion in the full depth of life, can be the source of deep joy.” — Rabbi Alan Lew

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It never occurs to conservatives that we should create bathrooms that actually preserve privacy at somewhat greater expense. Half of this debate is because they build gang showers like it's the military for schools.

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P.B. Cooley @cooleycreates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just blew my left nostril so hard the pressure caused a tear to squeeze out my right eye. Wtf even IS the human body?

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Steven Sloss 🛸 @stevensloss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s a special rung in Hell reserved for every single person involved in this atrocity

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apartheid: "a policy of political, social, and economic discrimination against the non [ethnic] majority in the" state Democracy: "political, social, or economic equality : the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges."

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Soccer_Rabbi, Mark Asher Goodman @rabbimarkasherg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy day after yom kippur you deserve a rest but you only sort of get one bc sukkot is coming to all who celebrate

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

2014. But, y’know, Macklemore apologized for making an honest mistake, so he is definitely someone equipped to adjudicate when ‘anti-zionism’ shades into antisemitism.

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Macklemore apologises for 'Jewish caricature' costume

The rapper says he did not intend to offend anyone with his "Jewish caricature" stage outfit.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

She's a good enough actor that it works to cast Anya Taylor-Joy against type as a secret agent or whatever, but I feel like at this point the industry is forcing her into human roles so much that it insults all faerie witches from outer space. Representation matters.

static.klipy.com

Anya Taylor-Joy: Striking Black and White Portrait

Alt: Anya Taylor-Joy

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated.

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Others have said this, but "trans people" are not identical with "the left" and it's dishonest to argue as much. This is, literally, identity politics: A group of people are being targeted on the basis of their identities. Some are leftists. All of them have human rights that are being restricted.

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P.B. Cooley @cooleycreates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Embarrassed (and honestly a little proud) of how long it took me to get the last word in this WordSalad puzzle. Just sitting here like, "They don't have Manx, but they've got whatever the hell THIS is?"

WordSalad puzzle #696: "Languages Of the British Isles"
A 4x4 square of letters with most already removed.
Row 1: (Empty)
Row 2: _,_,_,I
Row 3: N, E, L, S
Row 4: _,G,_,H

Words: Cornish, (unsolved, 7 letters), Gaelic, Irish, Scots, Welsh.

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Arvind Venkataramani @avenk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s really damn annoying that all academic publishers adopted AI before they gave us dark mode. The latter is approximate several tens of millions of dollars cheaper and makes vastly more users uncontroversially happy.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

People’s steadfast refusal to treat bigotry as a serious concern of material importance assisting bigots in forcing their targets to experience more and more material harm.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me too bitch, you're not special.

A Guardian headline which reads "Indonesian forager may have sucked on mond-altwring nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds"

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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I will not vote for, endorse, campaign for, or donate to any candidate or party that does not explicitly endorse FULL AND EQUAL RIGHTS to trans people in all areas of society. I'm not a full citizen, you don't get my second-class vote. Period. I don't think I can make it any clearer.

Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech painting with a femme person instead of a man with the head of Allison Reynolds

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mitch McConnell is so dead RFK Jr strapped him to the roof of his car and drove around Central Park yelling aWOOOgah out the window.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

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P.B. Cooley @cooleycreates.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I try not to get too political on here but, bring back Sailor Moon Drops!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/08/2026

canada: "fuck you, americans!" americans: "yeah, that's fair, fuck us up"

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☀️ @stel.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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P.B. Cooley @cooleycreates.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm bad at this posting shit, so more kitten pics cause it's on my mind and I have a second.

Image of black kitten (10-14 weeks old). She stares out at the audience from behind a square grate railing, angles so her head looks far larger than her body.

Image of black kitten (10-14 weeks old). She is laying on a slightly tilted stack of boxes next to a pair of throw pillows.

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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This shit is why you can't separate continuing to financially support the Harry Potter IP (whether by buying the games, merch, watching the new TV show when its out) from the consequences of what JK Rowling does with that money She's become so stiflingly powerful that even private docs arent safe

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CocoEagle @cocoeagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

China just sentenced a CEO to life in prison for causing a debt-financed bubble that led to an economic crisis, and in completely unrelated news Sam Altman for perfectly good and non-selfish reasons is very heroically and patriotically upset with China

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China Sentences Evergrande Founder to Life in Prison (Gift Article)

Hui Ka Yan’s punishment caps the downfall of a property empire whose collapse set off a prolonged crisis in the Chinese economy.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 18/08/2026

Suspense is not created by your audience not knowing what happens next. It's created by your audience CARING what happens next.

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Goddammit I wish I'd thought of this.

A man wearing a white t-shirt with an illustration of a muscular Rom from DS9 wearing leathers, labeled "Rom of Finland."

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

in a new survey, the vast majority of Americans especially millennials, Zoomers, or Gen Alpha, cannot locate their future unmarked grave on a map

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I know everything feels terrible and doomy but I've been working on surveillance issues for most of my adult life and I have never seen so much energy, momentum, and concrete VICTORIES happening as what we are seeing right now on Flock cameras and facial recognition in venues. Keep. Going.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"If Bollinger hopes to engender a consensus...it is unlikely to be built without the support of the many Americans who attend two-year and non-research institutions and who rightly understand elite colleges as gatekeepers of class privilege." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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What Happened to the American University?

Once the envy of the world, higher education in the United States is now in a state of endless crisis.

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P.B. Cooley @cooleycreates.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I don't really post here much, but I got a new kitten a few weeks ago so maybe I'll just start spamming with cat pics. See how that goes.

Black kitten (8-10 weeks) napping on some blankets, on her back, belly and under-chin exposed.

Cat-donut that looks a lot like a poké ball.

Black kitten (8-10 weeks) emerging from cat donut that looks suspiciously like a poké ball.

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