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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rhetoric like this is going to do more to ensure that young generations do not take the Holocaust seriously than any actual denier ever could.

“If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood libels, Navi Pillay wouldn’t just be a contender. She’d be a frontrunner.

Her role in the relentless, politically motivated demonization of Israel and promotion of the genolie speaks volumes.

Awarding Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t a recognition of justice. It’s the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice.

Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell.”

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Unpopular opinion: Coca Cola Starlight was liquid ambrosia.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saying... Plague is a disease that is endemic in Asia, the western United States, and other places. We know how to treat it with antibiotics. It is not extraordinarily transmissible. There are 1000 to 2000 cases a year across the world, maybe 10 in the US.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My mom and aunt, independently over text: "Hi Cugel, I don't know how often you check your emails, so I just wanted to let you know I sent an article to you." Folks, you could have just texted me the articles.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The games that made me. Many more played, some for much longer, but these left their mark. my9games.com/en/s/32093df...

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not so sure. An inspiring reconstructive agenda would bring competent and creative folks (many of whom are currently underemployed and/or unsatisfactorily employed) rushing in.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026

Ed is just like an Objective Journalist. openly and blatantly political in ways that are perceived to be uncontroversial, “I don’t take sides” on things that are

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You can just say it’s good that Kamala Harris is campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed and helping Democrats take back the Senate, you don’t need to scrounge for ways to use the news against your factional enemies.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The anarchist proclivity to confuse small, local action as being able to pick up the slack when the far-right kills a state program will always amaze me.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Facebook: "Tell us why you hid this ad" Me: "It's an obvious AI-slop fake product." Facebook: "Sorry, that's not one of the available response options."

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You know I suddenly actually completely understand why so many people were so reluctant to believe Data was a sentient person with will and agency in TNG. By the time we invent something like him so many of you will have completely fucked your brain thinking a talking toaster is an AI

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My middle school "world studies" teacher got a phone call shortly into the start of class on 9/11. We turned on the news on the classroom TV just in time to witness the second plane hit the tower live. It remains surreal.

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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ummm... how did this car get onto the I90 multi use path? Video from a user in the Seattle Cyclist Discord.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

posts like this are why I don't like hasan piker even though I don't think he's an anti semite who candidates should be denouncing or whatever. fetterman had progressive support, including from piker himself. take the L, learn the lesson, and move on.

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

We could have had a largely fine Connor Lamb but a lot of people, myself included, got bamboozled by Fetterman’s anti-establishment credentials and our distrust of “centrist Dems”. There’s a lesson there about treating outsider candidates with a little more caution than we do.

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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The L8 bus is now the G8 bus! Amazing what a bus lane can do for speed and reliability! Life changing for thousands of bus commuters in our City!

Group of people racing the 8 bus and losing!

Alexis and Noah Williams riding the 8 bus home.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Passion for History" #doomloop #seattle

[middleaged guy in front of vacant, boarded up building]
-I’m a volunteer landmark historian and I'm here to document this building
-In the mid-1980s it was Ned's Diner, the very first restaurant in the region to serve loaded potato skins
-a vital part of the foodways of Wallingfordian culture in the late 20th century
-if the city grants my historic landmark designation we can preserve this important piece of culinary heritage
-honoring our forebears and their innovations in casual family dining
-oh and also they won’t be able to put a 64-unit apartment building here

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"X, Y, and Z, are bad, so marks shouldn't be circumspect about A, which I ASSURE them is good." Just give to a real, reputable charity — not some rando poster posing as a victim (or a proxy for a victim)!

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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 28/08/2026

Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud’s non-recall of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was a media stunt that the mass media fell for Two disgruntled constituents had no legally sufficient grounds to start a recall of the Emerald City's chief executive, but Seattle newsrooms rewarded their ploy for…

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Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud’s non-recall of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was a media stunt that the mass media fell for

Two disgruntled constituents had no legally sufficient grounds to start a recall of the Emerald City's chief executive, but Seattle newsrooms rewarded their ploy for publicity with weeks of credulous coverage anyway.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It was extremely malignant how you got called a monster for doubting that the obvious botnet was actually going to help Palestinian families, and I assume that Molly Shah left this site for the same reason that Lyle Lanley left Springfield

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/08/2026

"Sure, this city isn’t near major job markets and doesn't have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency services, but it does have a series of dilapidated ranch houses located between a data center and a second data center that is currently on fire." buff.ly/03WTZvh

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Why Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else

“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ...

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not gonna lie, the Seattle monorail honking is obnoxious as fuck. It has zero conflicting traffic—the point seems to be just to make unnecessarily loud noise.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gotta say, any actor joining on with the Harry Potter shit in 2026 is hella sus.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm infinitely better at Wordle in the pre-dawn hours of the morning when my brain is still enough to find simple words first over more arcane ones.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The need by some to wishcast a better variety of human into our historical record undermines our ability to confront modern presentations of human dysfunction.

A post from Dr. Sarah Parcak: "Hey Brett, respectfully, the archaeological data does we were peaceful, cooperative, and egalitarian for like 99.5% of human history. I can cite hundreds of books and articles in top journals for you to read. The is super not OK to say- maybe delete this+ log off for a while?"

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Stars & Stripes was operated as an independent newspaper from 1861 until it encountered Pete Hegseth...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Let me be exceptionally clear: the reason why minorities are consistently better served, across the world, by central and anonymous exams is because they are better served by a fair assessment process, and not one in which they are the victim of either witting or unwitting bias.

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Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 18/12/2025

Encouraging results from San Francisco's speed camera pilot. Speeding reduced 72% at the 15 camera locations. Tickets issued dropping week over week (tldr enforcement works) www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe...

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Woman shepherding two very small children to a seat on the train: "If you two take both seats, where will I sit?" Small child, mischievously: "Nowhere"

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think I think i might have a bodyguard

A squirrel, holding a stick, staring to camera.

The same squirrel, looking off into the distance, the stick now held at attention like a staff.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If the Democrats really want to run on an anti corruption platform (and i think they should), this means coming out against prediction markets, crypto, and sports betting, all of which are either directly corrupt or facilitate corrupt acts.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wish the incentive structure at my workplace weren't constantly demanding the opposite of this. We've been depending on LLMs to move at lightning speed, but it turns out the inverse of the old adage is true: Fast is slow and slow is fucking rough.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

As someone who can't swipe type worth a damn early in the morning, all I want for Christmas from Bluesky is an edit button.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"My country (whose faults I am intimately familiar with) is uniquely and extraordinarily bad compared to other countries (whose faults I am either ignorant of or have bought into propaganda on)"

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There's apparently a law office in my metro called DUI Heroes. You won't be surprised that these "heroes" are not leading prosecutions against drunk drivers.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"People litter in America because there aren't enough trash cans around. There is no punitive measure that will fix trash can availability. Increased ticketing will only plunder the lower classes while doing absolutely nothing to alleviate littering." I dunno, dude I'm not littering everywhere.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 05/08/2026

There’s a lot of talk about fare gates, and sure, let’s do it. But the real money is in cracking down on car tab evasion. Here’s the cost to renew my electric vehicle registration in Seattle. The $684 is the motor vehicle excise tax for Sound Transit. A lot of people aren’t paying it.

WA Dept of Licensing car registration renewal notice

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The real impasta @therealimpasta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

The effort to repeal the income tax in Missouri losing 80-20

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Blythe @bly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Replacing the dumb speech recognition in my phone with an extremely smart LLM is working out spectacularly

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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Good morning, Seattle! Here’s a little something for our transit riders to help with your morning commute:

oneraccoonaway.org

OneRaccoonAway

A pixel-art bus stop scene showing live arrivals and weather.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"The reforms that Steven imposes on the Gem Empire after the finale of the original series sure seem like just the Rose Quartz program with her name crossed out on the cover, like a revolutionary who’s fallen out of favor with the Politburo and been disappeared from official photographs."

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An Apologia for Rose Quartz

Last week, when I wrote my review of the 2013-2019 Cartoon Network show Steven Universe I talked about wanting to avoid the overplayed and overdone Discourse™, which I didn’t think I had anyt…

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I hope that we'll see transportation advocacy orgs represented in this search committee. The top public safety concern for a number of years from Seattle residents is dangerous driving. A new police chief should be able to engage with that reality.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.

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Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

*some idiot intentionally takes their scooter down a stairwell at 20+ MPH and dies* The media and misc. dumbos: "Wow, scooters are unacceptable death traps!!" 99.9% of scooter riders: "Yeah, nah, that guy was an idiot. Don't do stupid shit and slow down as needed."

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