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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

as near as i can tell from watching the whole exchange, tucker's contention is that the UK becoming a conquered territory of the nazi reich would increase the possibility of hypothetical fascist vassal uk ruling india for longer & this is obviously preferable to hosting allied us troops

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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you remember the cardinal rule of perm maintenance is that you're forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours after getting a perm at the risk of deactivating the immonium thygocolate

Katie Britt, looking stunned and upset at a senate hearing

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Tyler 🏳️‍🌈 @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's a dagger pointed at the heart of MAGA because The Thing that attracted so many of them to Trump was QAnon. It turns out there was, in fact, a cabal of pedos running the country. They're just all working for the Trump administration.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Real-Life Coyote vs. Roadrunner!

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Woman accuses Idaho drag performer of exposing himself, uploads edited version of his act blurring out what she claims are his private parts. After he sues her for defamation, her appellate filings misstate and hallucinate Idaho law. Idaho Supreme Court upholds $1.1 million verdict in his favor.

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$1.1M Libel Award to Drag Performer Who Had Been Accused of Exposing Himself Upheld

Idaho Supreme Court finds false caselaw quotations, after jury found false factual assertions.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you say "The economy is far better than 2008" people do not parse that as an objective claim to be assessed. They see it as you announcing your support for the powers-that-be -- some unholy amalgamation of centrist Democrats and now, the Trump administration as well.

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Ben @liztruss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Pride cometh before the fall” - a guy who just learned that June is before September

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tapping the sign

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So much of civil society and the political establishment did a lot to prevent Trump 1 from being like this. Neoliberal economics and blob imperialism were never good, but they were not the worst things could get, either. The deep state had standards. This time, their brakes are worn out.

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TF2 Professionals Have Standards

Alt: TF2 Sniper saying Professionals Have Standards

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 21/09/2026

There is a school of thought that says we now have no choice but to 'punish' Dems by somehow ensuring Talarico loses. But there is no offramp from this battle. The centrist transphobes will fight for this *no matter what happens.* This is about narrative, and we need to stay engaged.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 22/09/2026

As my colleague ably points out: if Paxton wins, centrist transphobes will simply say that Dems will have to turn up the bigotry dial. If Talarico wins *we* can emphasize Paxton's scorched earth anti-trans campaign and say, with justice, that transphobia is a vote loser.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 22/09/2026

There is no outcome that will automatically shame your Matts Yglesias into quiescence. Least of all Democratic defeat--indeed part of why this is happening is precisely *because* Harris lost in 2024 and these people mythologise about that damn Kamala is for They/Them ad.

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Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic

2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 21/09/2026

If it doesn’t work for what you do, that’s fine, but there’s a whole lot of people who are automating things with AI that are actually freeing them up to do the parts of their job they’re more fulfilled by

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 21/09/2026

I do think there’s a pretty big divide in the discourse about AI between people who have non-traditional employment and people who have white collar jobs. There’s a lot of stuff in white collar jobs that is actually drudgery and there’s real gains there that people like.

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well, I’m glad I don’t have to hand-wash or hand-make my clothes or spend the whole day cooking over a fire or haul water to my house from a well or buy ice blocks to keep my food from rotting or chop wood and then stoke the fire so I don’t freeze, but maybe capitalism has brainwashed me.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 19/09/2025

I don't know if I can speak for many places outside of the Anglosphere, but it's remarkable just how many people in the US in particular are clearly living lives where they'll openly tell anyone "oh yeah, it's not my job to figure out how anything works, that's for someone else to do".

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This man, two days after this, was invited on ESPN College Gameday to chat football. This is how you normalize political violence.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Putting forward a bill banning genital inspections of kids and daring Republicans to vote no

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i think that this is both true and that it was important to spit in the face of the people trying to terrorize us into making him a martyr

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026

You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Many birds, one beautifully unified movement. Original post

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(1) Artists are justified in being angry about AI and we really shouldn’t use AI art where otherwise we would have hired an artist. Art isn’t really about productivity growth and automating it helps no one. (2) Programming is different; we are bottlenecked on software and need more of it urgently

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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is extremely true, but its so red hot spicy that neither the OP or anyone else in this convo will touch it. Also...AFAIK, MAHA is a predominantly, overwhelmingly white movement? Which you wouldn't necessarily expect if this were just about being failed by the health care system.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One of the few things of value I took away from my time as a Reddit bro New Atheist is the phrase "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themself into," and I think the corollary is that you can't compassion someone out of a position they didn't arrive at through compassion.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Being angry about how the medical establishment treats women/mothers is good, correct, and necessary. That must be channeled into making the medical establishment work better for women/mothers, not abandoning it for the Miasma Theory Power Hour with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (speaking of misogynists!).

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER [to himself]: now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. KENNETH BAINBRIDGE [to Oppenheimer]: now we are all sons of bitches BUGS BUNNY [present at the Trinity nuclear test, July 16, 1945]: Get a message to Uncle Joe, tell him I'll be at Potsdam with a surprise.

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Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Zohran’s Wario Wohran Wawdani?

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 04/09/2026

HOLD UP THEY EXTENDED THE TIME LIMIT ON VIDEO UPLOADS??? BUT THAT MEANS... I CAN FINALLY UPLOAD THE ENTIRETY OF 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐋𝐄𝐄'𝐒 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 PLEASE ENJOY "NAME YOUR POISON" FROM "THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE" (1983)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026

I know we're all supposed to be herding onto the anti-data center bandwagon, but man, I worry a *lot* that it's going to overspill its borders & become a more generalized anti-wind & solar, anti-battery, anti-grid-infrastructure, anti-transmission, anti-anything mega-glonzo that leaves us worse off.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is in significant part because their staffers are all 4chan / Kiwifarms style scum, because most anyone saner or more employable has left or been driven out.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 04/09/2026

this is so cool like, an under-reported thing about the sand that thinks playing Go is that we've managed to *learn things about the game* from it and, ourselves, become better players as a result, and this is proof of that, I think so fucking rad

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Autumnal Astrid🍂 @namitomoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Shoutout to every leftist cartoonist who made comics with this vibe You didn't save a single child from a bomb but you contributed to weaken the position of feminism inside the Left so now we have abortion bans, trans refugees and people cheering for women being stabbed in broad daylight. Congrats!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/09/2026

it's a very old rule of moderated digital spaces that you need an "i know it when i see it" clause for harassment or else bad actors will aggressively toe the line without ever technically going over. that's why i don't think the "why cant you give me an exact definition" replies will go anywhere

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please stop forgetting how elections work i beg of you @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Remember back in the 90s when Nickelodeon had an annual event called "The Big Help" that encouraged kids to volunteer in their communities? The tagline was "If everyone does something small / It'll add up to something big, that's all." When did the left lose that?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2026

This is exactly why privacy advocates have pushed back against age verification measures. These companies are reckless with their data and it can easily be compromised. It can leave people vulnerable to identity theft, doxing, and targeted harassment.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2026

This is an absolutely catastrophic data breach of an identity verification vendor 150+ million drivers license scans that includes photos, address, license numbers etc. It includes Pete Hegseth, security researchers, and even the deputy director of the FBI. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...

A screenshot of a search result on a website titled "NEXUS | Identity Document Database" showing a locked Minnesota driver's license record for "PETER HEG******." A driver's license portrait of Peter Hegseth appears on the left, next to mostly redacted information fields, including ID number, birth date (1980), and address, followed by a prompt to purchase the full record for $100.00.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"until all the wealth piled by…years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Civil Rights Movement was often all of the things people say were the problem with ‘wokeness’: could be disruptive, or alienating, or cringe, had people grifting off of aspects of it, etc because literallt every social movement of sufficient size is going to have those issues. But it “won”.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pro-tip: For anyone out there who sees the distinction between generative AI tools for... this and generative AI tools for coding (which includes me) and is surprised the average person conflates the two, 1) you shouldn't be surprised 2) you'd better start articulating that distinction

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 30/08/2026

Will asked what issues Dems are to the right on compared to 10 years ago, and got this laundry list. The problem is literally every single item here is either factually backwards or completely misunderstands how politics works. Let’s walk through it:

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 30/08/2026

You don't have to love party leadership or think they're doing enough, but if your argument is that the party has moved right since 2016, listing six things where the party is either provably to the left or doing standard governing isn't going to cut it.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 30/08/2026

An autistic man who has spent the past 37 years on this planet still couldn’t pick the world’s most famous celebrities out of a lineup if his life depended on it, it has been rumoured. Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheDailyTism...

A man stands in a street with he hands up looking very confused

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Moxie Meow @moxiemeow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Their "nonsensical culture wars" cause real harm for minoritized groups. I am a trans woman. Trump's statements and actions on trans people have harmed people like me tremendously. My rights are not merely a "distraction". Immigrants, Muslims, pregnant people, etc... all harmed.

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