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D.B. Zbornak

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’ve been hearing for 20 years plus how we should just sit down and have a meal with people who think black, Latino and LGBTQ people are subhumans who must be killed. No.
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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Someone made this event 10 years ago and it’s fast approaching and while I said I was going as a joke way back when, I think this is very important and I will be there with any priestly amulets that are needed to make this come true
Facebook event

Friday, January 1, 2027 at 12 AM - 3PM
Open the Cloud Gate and Summon Anubis to Smite the Unworthy
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Tim @timzhu.io · 19/09/2026
Trump getting true full-blown AI psychosis with six weeks to voting would be wonderful
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D.B. Zbornak @dbzbornak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gonna go ahead and leave this stone unturned.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good writing in my view - while some commentary on here has framed Sheeran's justification as a demonstration of the hollowness of "neutrality", as a professional moral philosopher it is also what we in the business refer to as a "lie" and it may be helpful to refer to it as such
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/09/2026
Sorry to ruin your gloom but:
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The will to live
Plate of poached chicken breasts, white yogurt, white rice
Caption: What's missing here?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
this somehow manages to be wilder and funnier actually hearing it. it's not some vague "boo-urns" kind of thing. it's full on "ted you suck"
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want us all to become more intolerant to bullies in our daily lives.
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D.B. Zbornak @dbzbornak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'd try Kickstand Comedy!
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 06/11/2023
Of all the ways for a teenager to be this is easily The Only Wrong Way To Be. It would freak me the fuck out so bad if I was a parent and my kid came home as a Little Businessman. I would immediately take them to get drugs.
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bel @steelybel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
when u see claude on the github repo
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My favorite Mr. Beast moment was when he got punched in the stomach by Mike Tyson and for the briefest of moments, Jimmy Donaldson's lazy grin was replaced with an expression of animalistic fear. For an almost imperceptible window, there were no metricd or merch opportunities, only flesh and pain
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Lord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
idk why do 60 year olds with erectile dysfunction like reading the same article over and over
atlantic article screen cap: WHY DO RICH KIDS LOVE SOCIALISM?
By Tyler Austin Harper
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
what's also gonna really excite young people is watching your grandparents, your teacher/boss, and the senile pedo president all using "AI" to irrevocably enmesh themselves in a world of baby-brained dogshit, which they all value more than your future or the idea of life on earth itself
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 30/08/2026
always repost the capybara yuzu onsen
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 30/08/2026
SungWon Cho seems like a pretty chill guy who doesn't easily get mad so it's kind of sad that he's had to make this
youtube.com
a formal request for anyone who sees me in public
YouTube video by ProZD
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Waiting on that fucking autumn to hit
The pumpkin people of Pottsfield from Over the Garden Wall dancing around in a field
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Once you have a lot of money it becomes easier to get more money by doing nothing, which disincentivizes work. This is why all our billionaires post insane bullshit all day. If they had to work they'd be too busy to act like this, doubly benefiting society
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/08/2026
Probably fine to raise your kid like he's an orphaned condor
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Incredible stuff
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 29/07/2026
If I had to describe the heart and soul of Bluesky it would the following: a guy who didn’t actually read Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s Odyssey movie defending it against a guy who didn’t actually watch Nolan’s Odyssey movie
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026
The important thing is that that’s not a Him problem. That’s a problem of white people being extended unearned credibility by virtue of racial status. A lot of people should examine themselves after this debacle. And anyone who fell for his shit should always second guess their barometer.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026
9 months ago. Quite simply, he had never imagined that a person could see him & immediately clock him as unsafe & a danger & the enemy because regardless of how many red flags he emanated, the white people around him never did. All the way up until he was one seat away from the senate.
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Lisya Myata🦊🐾💜🚄🚅💹🐱‍🚀🐱‍👤 @lisya.cute.foxgirl.kitsuneshrine.moe · 21/07/2026
kill these guys with hammers
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
SHAME is underused by Democrats, especially in light of how much Republicans try to deploy it, particularly Trump -- think of the many times he says someone should be ashamed of themselves
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ossoff's framing is perfect: focus on how Trump's supplicants are humiliating themselves
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I wish this "speed cameras are cash grabs" trope would die. We have recent studied in the U.S. showing that after an initial surge in ticketing, fines decline as behavior changes and people speed less.
As I’m not a fan of them I’m all for leaving Cash Generating Camera’s off the list, wait sorry “Speed Camera’s”. Bike Lanes like c’mon in urban areas they work pretty well if planned out properly.
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
whenever dee and I watch old movies everyone in them has aged really badly and our theory is the chain smoking and lack of sunscreen. comparing famous people who are 40 now and in the 80s is a trip.
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Cai : go see DIGGER @annenotation.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
occam's razor is that this was a prank mcconnell was doing which he discontinued as soon as lindsey graham died on account of it becoming distasteful, like when Mr Peanut's rebirth was stalled due to the inopportune demise of kobe bryant
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
pausa de hidratación
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
in many ways its worse for adults than teens. i still think a lot of teens intrinsically know that social media is kinda bullshit. the same can not be said for A LOT of adults
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I don’t have strong opinions about banning teens from social media except that I think social media is very nearly as bad for adults as it is for teens.
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max graves @maximumgraves.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
a behavior i find really annoying is people who constantly assume others' taste in movies, music, whatever is pretentious and "fake" bc their own taste is so shallow they don't believe anyone could actually like anything unusual or challenging
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
For me, those phrases are an indicator that someone has either been violent themselves or they are invested in protecting a perpetrator in their life. People committed to non-violence see those phrases as the confessions they are.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In my own work, I’ve interviewed quite a few college-educated perpetrators. They justify their violence with a lot of the phrases we’ve heard floating around this week like, “It wasn’t rape—it was just nonconsensual,” or, “Yeah, it was bad, but should it ruin a guy’s life?”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Here’s the study link. This study upended the idea that campus rape is perpetrated by a small group of sociopaths. In all reality, most rapists are just ordinary men who hold sexist views, hang out with other men who hold sexist views, and seek power and status.
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Trajectory Analysis of the Campus Serial Rapist Assumption
This cohort study investigates whether most college men who commit rape do so consistently across time.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
African, can confirm: every moment of your life has been spent during an atrocity somewhere, perpetuated or exacerbated by a larger number of countries and corporations than many care to admit.
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rules-bound international dundridge @xenofawn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
listen HP fans: they are trying to keep the real hogwarts away from you. go on the bridge, jump towards the train, a world of magic awaits
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