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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 12h

great Build-A-Blocklist Workshop in the replies here

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 15h

This is so dumb. How to destroy a capable military.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 9h

In retrospect, my original response was too charitable

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 12h

not great that we're at "Mamdani is a Jew-puppet for doing hatecrime protections" imo

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 10h

“Is it not wiser to pay less attention to what the enemy can do, and pay more attention to what he will do?” That the US *could* defeat Israel does not mean that this would have been a credible threat.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 14h

anyone remember that time Blücher got so drunk and depressed he thought he was pregnant with an elephant? and the whole Prussian army was still like "yeah he's still the guy we need to beat napoleon" (they were right)

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 16h

Hegseth has decided we should emulate the Russians in this meme.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15h

I don't believe that every trans person in America should immediately be made aware of every single evil bill introduced by some podunk state rep in a random red state they don't live in I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14h

"the ivy league faculty will never understand you" the faculty: SEND ME TO FIGHT THE SLAVE POWER

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 17h

Nothing really prepared me for the whiplash that came from Israel/Palestine transforming from famous shorthand for “an extraordinarily complicated mess with no good outcomes” to something “so simple, you’re an evil moron if you disagree with me.” It literally happened in the discourse overnight.

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Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 19h

So far my favorite response to this thread are the folks asking "Well if this is such an intractable problem with no simple or good solutions, what's your simple & good solution for it huh?"

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 19h

People yell about the Median Voter not understanding things, but truly the lowest form of hominid is a Gen Xer that voted Green in 2000 and hollers like a hit dog every single time you invoke the name Nader.

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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 20h

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23h

Said this before, but you could write an interesting book on the books/films/music that were huge in their time but rapidly disappeared from any collective knowledge. Only hardly anyone would read it, because they wouldn't recognise them.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A good case from @dickpolman.bsky.social that this man’s selfish short-sightedness set us on path to where we are today. Excruciating insights on the wreckage of a legacy. dickpolman.substack.com/p/ralph-nade...

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Ralph Nader is still a pariah. He deserves to be.

Tilting the ‘00 race to Bush was his original sin. We’re still suffering the consequences.

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i had to cut it for length, but the main argument against "we need wealth taxes to lower wealth inequality" is that there's no historical evidence of wealth taxes lowering wealth inequality to any meaningful degree at any point in time anywhere in the world it's just kind of begging the question

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Centrist Madness Election Center @centristmadness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Biden dementia theory has been conclusively disproven, as has the theory that he didn’t use leverage to force Israel to accept a ceasefire (which they did multiple times). No one will ever admit they got these things wrong.

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Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sayed’s in a tough race, but we need to be very clear that coddling MAHA increases the number of people who do things like forgo vaccines and get kids killed.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Coat of many colors” Does this imply Saruman was wearing tweed

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The reason writing is important is that it puts you on record with the claims you’re making and other people can check to see whether or not you’re spewing bs

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The secret to not being annoying is to also be a contrarian to yourself (including your own contrarian tendencies)

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s been striking to me as an Elder Millennial is how certain narratives about the economy got frozen in amber at the end of the Bush administration, and never really got updated again. Wages are flat, millions of uninsured, sometimes you even hear about preexisting conditions!

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don’t shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be rounded and the plant kept close to its proper soil—experience.“

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026

if you want to be the party of government, you have to be the party of good government. this is another way of saying details matter. if you want to attack inequality, you need to make sure it *works.* and it turns out the design of tax systems matters quite a lot.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“It’s human nature to want to do labor, like {HOBBIES OF THE ARISTOCRACY}”

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sucks, but there are way more people who pine to do creative work than society has use for. And there is a shortage of people who pine to do shitty infrastructure work. Having a partially open market allows the creation of incentives and disincentives necessary to solve this supply/demand issue.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“It’s human nature to want to do labor, like {HOBBIES OF THE ARISTOCRACY}”

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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 29/09/2026

this feeling is just depression

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this 1/3
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"government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support

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It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point 3/3

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/09/2026

So-called “inclusionary zoning,” the practice of requiring home builders to rent new apartments at a loss to low-income tenants, is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing shortage and raises rents overall in exchange for a handful of means-tested units. It’s bad policy!

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Greater Boston builders say affordable-unit rules stall housing, but Boston won't budge

Developers and city leaders across Greater Boston are clashing over whether affordable-housing requirements are helping address the region's housing shortage.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't understand the need to say dickwad CEOs can't make good stuff. This is the world we live in. A lot of my favorite things in the arts and sciences come from absolute bastards. The real argument should be about how to channel dickwaddery into good social outcomes, not whether the stuff works.

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The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It turns out that if you make a Special Sad Birthday Boy or Girl carveout for insane antisocial behavior, you get a surfeit of people making their very special and very sad birthday a form of identity

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

California's ballot proposition system is not *only* a rent-seeking venue but it is largely for rent-seeking disguised as unmediated democracy

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sure, go ahead, post about a relatively important distinction that matters, I say to myself. People can handle it without being too weird, I reassure myself.

Me: think we need to differentiate between "Al uses a lot of water!" (not necessarily bad on its own) and "Al stresses local water supplies" (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even "modest" use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers

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think we need to feed you to the ocean
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I'm right here at the shore, I could hold your head beneath the waves for an easier experience of providing us with better writing
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every person on this website who says they've never heard an Ed Sheeran song or heard of the song Choosin' Texas is gonna have sooooo many opinions about what the mainstream US voter actually wants to hear from the Democrats this fall.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes, i am saying this. literally this. i am saying that you should not care about water for 16,000 people when "growing alfalfa for export in deserts with approximately zero precipitation" is literally orders of magnitude more water and vastly more pointless.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That one was my favorite but I think this one is my new favorite.

Tweet from @serene_ necrosis (the Irish American lady who wears a secular hijab-inspired accessory and told the Massachusetts covid conscious lesbian bar that she hoped someone firebombed them for making masks optional one night a week)

Nurses are to disabled people what cops are to black people, and if you're black and disabled at the same time, you're basically screwed, and according to disability scholars racism is socially disabling, so there's no such thing as a non-disabled black person.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The thing is that a narrative doesn’t have to be entirely true to be useful—you can say a whole lot about “how we live together” without forgoing prosecutions. You very much want people (even people who don’t deserve it) to be able to tell themselves what they need to to defect.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is true for MAGA, but this kind of motivated bad-faith reading is also applied to other Democrats.

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