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Crystalorbie

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New taxes are already prohibited without ballot measures in California. Props 41 - 44 are designed to negate the billionaire tax. That's all. Prop 45 removes environmental restrictions for data centers. We're so easily fooled, it's sad. YES on prop 40 (billionaire tax) NO on props 41-45.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h
damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry
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Jennifer "AlonWoof" Dehan @alonwoof.moe · 05/10/2026
....yeah, I might be more screwed financially than I thought... if anyone could please, PLEASE help.... I do work hard, I do want to fix things... it's just... it's been tough lately www.paypal.com/paypalme/Alo... Once it cools down, I'll bless y'all with some cute and funny art, I swear
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Pay Jennifer Haden using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/Alonwoof and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
i like the idea of will smith being an apex predator for chris rock and only chris rock, like he is the metroid to an x parasite
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Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS KOSA failed to pass in the US Senate (thanks to Paul, R.), but remember this was the FOURTH attempt from American politicians to get it passed. Expect another attempt in the next term; stay vigilant, and do not let the USA adopt ID-collecting laws such as the SCREEN Act & KOSA.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
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Aseprite @aseprite.org · 01/10/2026
Aseprite is 40% off during the Steam Autumn sale, until October 8th! Get it directly from our website: aseprite.org/buy/ or from Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/431730/A...
Aseprite is 40% off
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〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
already getting outreach on switch port work which is suprising!! i'm gonna write a doc but some initial points: -i can give you a good deal, but this is still a port job; ~2.5-3 mos fulltime work at minimum, keep that in mind! -1080p60fps is a tough ask - not even nintendo hits that, typically.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18/09/2026
it’s going to be very good if ossoff manages to run up the scoreboard on this kind of messaging
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Arrest him?
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Joanna🌱 @rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Have you ever tried just.. lying down? Holy shit. Amazing.
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Armchairshrink @armchairshrink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the biggest issues with discourse on this site is that a lot of ppl have no theory of mind for people who don't think exactly like they do They just toss them in the NPC category and while that's tempting you can't really understand anything if you don't know how other ppl think!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A305
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL. U.
CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 14, 2026]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is denied. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court's preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U. S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026
Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.
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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
bad news: austerity is coming good news: the only way that a democratic administration is going to survive politically is by giving the people something they want, which is to criminally prosecute everyone in this administration
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026
yeah the one plausible silver lining of “the budget is turbofucked” is that because you can’t deliver massive new policy programs the best way to show you’re Doing Something is to be the Consequences President SCOTUS reform and new states would also help
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine has SUCCEEDED in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. Phase III trial results in MORE THAN 1,100 patients shows the vaccine SIGNIFICANTLY extended the time patients lived without their melanoma returning AND reduced the risk of metastasis.
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Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.
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🌟BraveDoodle🌟🐺🏳️‍🌈 @bdoodle13.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Big Yellow @bigyellowsilly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
new zelda looks pretty nice imo but we will have to wait and see how long it takes king zora to move before jumping to any conclusions, we can only hope the switch 2 is strong enough to handle making the cutscene longer
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 08/09/2026
give me your phone
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CheeseGX @cheesegx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NO IT JUST FUCKING HIT ME
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
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Ladies And Gentleman, We Got Him Press Conference
ALT: Ladies And Gentleman, We Got Him Press Conference
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No dying,

ABSOLUTELY no dying until It Happens

(to a crowd of trans adults, trans kids, and also trans but he's looking at the guy's ass)
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Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say
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🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞 @onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#savespeech Check your voter registration. See if your state has mail-in ballot trackers. If all else fails, go to polling locations and VOTE to get trump's lackies & sympathizers out of office PS to everyone claiming "oh well they will just call it fradulent," shut up. Vote. Focus on the now
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Millions of Americans may not receive their mail ballots in time, or at all, because of a secretive, court-defying system being rushed into place by the Trump administration. Two months before the midterms. This isn't by chance. It's a blatant attempt to steal an election. Share this everywhere.
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USPS rush to implement Trump order could cause ‘catastrophic failure’ of mail voting, whistleblower claims
A whistleblower claims in a new report that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has embarked on a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s mail voting order ahead of the midterms,…
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“I'm pretty excited about it, actually, because what we watch is none of the government's business.”
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Adult DVDs are back thanks to age-verification laws
Rejecting streaming, embracing DVD.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In 2029, we are going to have to pass court reform to kick out Alito and Thomas, some of the Groups will probably be mad about it, and we need the next president to tell them to suck it up anyway
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026
I keep banging the “USAID was good and we must confront the obscene wave of death MAGA’s destruction of it unleashed” drum because I *desperately* want Democrats and the Left to prioritize rebuilding global aid. We should rebuild it better, but we can’t just let Musk’s global massacre continue.
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Guardian System (She/Her) @kodochara.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I've been asked to share this post, since Bella has already been getting chargebacks, and hasn't been getting traction. Her cashapp is @supersailorsenshi if you would like to make a donation. Otherwise, we will need new methods.
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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My close friend Jia is in need of a wheelchair motorized attachment so they can safely go out of their home! Please share this post and donate if you're able to below! This will greatly improve their life! We're over 25% there!! To help: ko-fi.com/jiakimchi
Help Jia get a wheelchair attachment! Image showing motorized wheelchair attachment hooked to a wheelchair. To help: https://ko-fi.com/jiakimchiHelp Jia get a wheelchair attachment. It will greatly improve their quality of life allowing them to go out and live their life! It will allow them to walk their dog more frequently! Think of the dog! Mobility aids like wheelchairs and their motorized attachments are life saving tools!

https://ko-fi.com/jiakimchi
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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Woke up to this news and I’m beyond disgusted. It’s a US *constitutional right* now to create and own ‘CSAM,’ as long as it was made with AI?? AI gen images are built from real images, of real children. This directly re-exploits every single CSAM survivor. (More in 🧵) #abolition #trafficking
A federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess child sexual abuse content created using Al if it does not depict a real person and remains in the home.
On Tuesday, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th District ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home. In his ruling, Judge Lee urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue of virtual abuse material of children in the age of Al, suggesting that technological advances complicate existing legal precedent.
The case Lee ruled on came about in 2024 when the Department of Justice brought charges against Steven Anderegg, alleging that he used Al to create thousands of explicit images of children. He was accused of breaking federal obscenity laws by producing, distributing and possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Anderegg sought to have the possession and production charges dismissed under the First Amendment. Last year, a judge in the Western District of Wisconsin agreed to dismiss the possession charge, prompting the federal prosecutors to appeal.
Lee, in his ruling upholding the lower court's decision, cited the precedent set by Supreme Court rulings from 1969 and 2002. One held that individuals have a right to possess obscenity in the privacy of their home. The other found that "virtual" child sexual abuse material, not depicting a real person is not child pornography.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Brutal Legend is free on Itchio for the next ~666 minutes (in honor to Tim Curry) buff.ly/OwIZtbB
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/08/2026
there is no level of fuckery they can manage that will counteract the blue wave that's coming in november and I hope every prospective dem officeholder is taking note of exactly how far this court is prepared to go to fuck them over in future, closer races
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
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What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Skye Centrella @skyeactual.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Looked into it, and I would like to upgrade my statement from "allegedly" witch hunting queer artists, to absolutely and without a shadow of a doubt this scam AI labeler is witch hunting queer artists. Read Emoria's thread.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Also, it's important to send the message to Trumpists: Trump will have no legacy but ruin and wreckage. He must not be permitted to reshape the image of American society
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
He clearly believes in “facts on the ground” - that once he builds it, no one will dare destroy it. It’s an attempt to force his image and name on us against our will. Call his bluff, smash it all into rubble.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I agree that dealing with the courts opens up a whole range of unenviable questions and choices. But the ballroom is non-negotiable. Trump illegally built a hulking monument to himself in the center of DC. It must be widely understood that no matter what, the moment he’s gone, the building dies.
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Jenn Barth @magickbarth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have changed from a person that used to look at new tech and say "Oooo! I'd love to buy that!" to a person that prays to multiple deities on a daily basis that her current technological items (car, laptop, phone, TV) never fail because she can no longer buy "dumb" versions of things...
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🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞 @onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#savespeech #notoDigitalID Fri. FYI - Non-US Megathread: - More evidence has appeared of the UK pushing their AVing & ID mandates onto the US through lobbying - France Constitutional Council says no on social media ban, Macron wants a new text www.marianne.net/societe/big-...
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The UK’s War on Anonymity Has Come to America — Effort
The NGOs Behind Britain's Digital ID Laws are Targeting American Statehouses
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🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞 @onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#savespeech #notoDigitalID Fri. FYI - Non-US Megathread: - Google will be locking down Android "sideloading" come September 30th. First for 4 countries, then worldwide in 2027. Do not let your voice go unheard. Follow the post below and act. bsky.app/profile/tuta...
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