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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 29/09/2026

I'd love to know more about this cultural phenomenon, where people demand deeper meaning in cheap (often children's or YA) entertainment media instead of just directly learning about the things they want to learn about.

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 25/09/2026

I'm realizing just now that the Wayfair stuff might have been filling a gap in the public panic market, during a time when the longstanding kidnapped-in-a-mall-parking-lot myth rang less true because people weren't shopping in person as much.

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 27/08/2026

The most infuriating thing about the Kushner/Hasan 1-2 is that it makes obvious the fact that Jeffries doesn't believe that Trump and Republicans represent a grave threat that requires our immediate and undivided focus, despite that being an essentially unanimous belief among his party's voters.

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 21/08/2026

FWIW I'm not confident this style of criticism is particularly effective nowadays, especially in online spaces. It relies on the assumption that racists are embarrassed enough to not publicly state their beliefs, which Cofnas clearly isn't.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/06/2026

shoutout to everyone who recommended Apteka in pittsburgh. one of the best meals i have had this year

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 11/05/2026

Iran's already laid mines, haven't they

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 07/04/2026

We don't ever deserve forgiveness for what we're doing. How could we be vain enough to ask for it?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Bovino out is a great indicator. It’s a great start. But none of us can be appeased right now. It’s still abolish ICE. It’s still prosecute these fascists. It’s still destroy the whole apparatus that has been terrorizing and disappearing and murdering our neighbors.

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 26/01/2026

The people of Minneapolis are an inspiration. These folks rallied together against a violent siege enacted by their own government and won. They reminded powerful men that they aren't invincible, and they reminded us that loving your neighbor is the greatest weapon we have.

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 15/01/2026

Greatest website ever created by far. I want to see the day when the ideals of open access to knowledge and global collaboration are reflected everywhere in society.

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 28/09/2025

What's it called when every social encounter feels like I'm playing guitar hero and hitting 65% of the notes

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

China connecting the entire country via high speed rail and revolutionizing EV tech. The US:

MSNBC reports that Trump directs JD Vance to go after 'woke zoos'

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/03/2025

oh i think this is exactly right. people care about your views but they ALSO care about whether you seem real and authentic

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 20/01/2025

Milk is $20 a gallon here. My family can't take more of this.

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competentcuttlefish @cuttlefish.club · 14/01/2025

Almost every day I have had to tell myself that the best thing I can do to make the world a better place is to show kindness when others don't but boy is it hard sometimes.

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