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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Omelas is clearly unethical, which is why as an enlightened society we've ended up with the opposite system - we give one or a few people all the resources and everyone else is tortured and miserable

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worm @ninebaal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm watching this guy review a Linux distro that really emphasizes "ai agents" and this looks like hell. People really live like this? This is how they manage their computer experience? Failing to change their computer wallpaper and toolbar? [I cut down this SIGNIFICANTLY from 6 minutes too]

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blumpkin spice latte @klingonhousing.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"How many genders are there" is a silly question, like "how many polygons are in a video game" The quantity depends on how much time you spend on this. Too many genders will cause lag and performance issues, too few and you can't make much sense of the world.

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Principia Discordia @principiadiscordia.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“Yeah, man, I tell ya what, man, that dang ol’ samsara, man, you just go around and dadgum around, talk about forming dang ol’ attachments, mean you got yourself hung up on dukkha, man, I’m talking about dang ol’ hungry ghosts, man.” -><-

Alt-text: A meme combining Buddhist religious art with Boomhauer from King of the Hill, holding a beer can. Behind him is an ornate Tibetan-style Wheel of Life (bhavachakra): a huge circular diagram crowded with Buddhas, spirits, animals, humans, flames, clouds, and scenes of suffering and rebirth, gripped by a monstrous black deity with bulging eyes and fangs. Boomhauer stands impassively at right, visually absurd against the intricate sacred imagery. Large yellow subtitles give him a rambling, folksy Buddhist monologue: “Yeah, man, I tell ya what, man, that dang ol’ samsara, man, you just go around and dadgum around, talk about forming dang ol’ attachments, mean you got yourself hung up on dukkha, man, I’m talking about dang ol’ hungry ghosts, man.” The joke translates Buddhist concepts of cyclic existence, attachment, suffering, and hungry ghosts into Boomhauer’s famously rapid, drawling “dang ol’” speech pattern.

Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Biked to the farmers market, found fresh morels!

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I built a campervan and follow van camper communities - and something i've noticed in the last year is a shift from mostly recreational content to more and more people posting about camping in vans and cars out of necessity. Possibly one more sign the economy is much worse than generally reported.

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Based on the screenshot, i am guessing that's a vinyl sticker cutout and not paint. If you have or know someone with a vinyl cutter or are good with a hobby knife, you could easily make something very close to the screen used one!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days. The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Who is asking for magical thinking? ICE is killing and detaining thousands without trial. They should be shut down. Yes, that's unrealistic in current congress, but why start negotiations as voters from a compromised position. I'm not going to ask for "just a few less killings please."

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I guess we should just say, "well we can't get rid of ALL the assaults, concentration camps, extrajudicial state sponsored killings, etc. So we should just try for small achievable budget cuts instead." Everyone disenchanted with politics are going to run to the polls if we just compromise more!

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Again, lawmakers need to compromise, especially in the minority. That doesn't mean as voters we should compromise in our demands. Express what we really want, but understand that the result might be incomplete. Why are so many on the left so eager to attack people for not compromising their values?

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'd argue that position is why Democrats are seen as ineffective. They start every negotiation from an already compromised position to make it more palatable to the opposition. As lawmakers this has some validity, but as constituents we should be advocating for what we really want. Eliminate ICE.

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

There are real products, but they are mostly trash and impractical (imagine just the smallest puncture or snag!) That image is fake, however. Water/beer is really heavy, and that photo contains gallons of it - it would be pulling down with a lot of force and stretching the coat a lot more.

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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I think about this a lot.

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Another amazing advancement in cancer care, this time in early detection! Peer reviewed and published in Nature too! Will be excited to watch where this goes

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Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Japan is in no way perfect, it has many flaws, but this sort of thing is fucking phenomenal and I so desperately wish we had an approximate of it becuase fuck man it sucks that so much of our lives get dictated by corporate morality

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i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency

in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion

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How does that barcode system work? I've never heard of something like that.

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1. you add whatever porn games or movies or books you want to your cart and go to checkout

2. you select cash payment at conbini as your payment method

3. youre emailed a barcode that you take to the conbini

4. you show it to the cashier, they scan it, and you pay what you owe. note that the cashier does not see what youre buying

and the transaction is complete

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This is an incredibly promising development in cancer treatment! So excited to see where this goes

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Absolutely. Government should be run by people with a future in the country who will live with the policies and decisions they worked for.

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My latest campfire dinner while out in my van - rehydrated chicken gumbo (from a small company out in Louisianna), added chicken andouille sausage and bell peppers, with some shrimp i grilled over the fire. Food always tastes better when camping, but this would have been a good meal anywhere!

Photo set in an open grassy campground with trees around. In the foreground is a paper plate of chicken gumbo with 2 charred whole shrimp on top. In the middle distance is a small cooking campfire, and behind that is a white camper van with the door open and a bicycle resting behind it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 19/04/2025

Anyway abolish ice means one thing. Abolish ice. All of it. And I don’t believe in borders. They are arbitrary lines enforced by violence. I don’t believe anyone doesn’t belong anywhere & I don’t believe accidents of birth should grant anyone special status anywhere.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/04/2025

When everything gets overwhelming, I make a point to seek out the natural world. The trees and mountains stand witness to the fact that every despot and petty tyrant is nothing to the grandness of it all. It truly is healing to me. Blue Mountain - Missoula, Montana

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🍁Capt.John E. Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Dear Democratic Members of Congress, Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it. Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it! Signed, Americans

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I get sports now. It's about reducing a man to numbers and then making those numbers do imaginary fights in your head.

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Jessie 🏳️‍⚧️ @decultured.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

You weren't elected to point out what's wrong. You were elected to fix it. You might not be able to directly counter this, but you have so many levers you and the rest of the Dem leadership just aren't using at all. Do something or hand over the leadership to someone who will.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races. This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/02/2025

As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.

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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/02/2025

Hey you - yeah YOU, person who called your senators, visited their office, attended a rally, or sent an email this week. Check out what you're capable of. Keep it up.

An NYT headline that reads: Schumer Urged Democrats to Oppose Trump Nominees in Protest of His Policies
The Senate minority leader had initially said he would not lean on his colleagues to reflexively oppose every nominee, but changed his stance after the president’s actions generated heavy pressure from the left.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/02/2025

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

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Attorney General Neronha and 14 attorneys general issue joint statement on protecting access to gender-affirming care | Rhode Island Attorney General's Office

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

if you tried to pitch A Bug’s Life today Disney would chop you up and feed you to Bob Iger

You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life! It's not about food, it's about keeping those ants in line

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

@meredithshiner.com's assessment of the Democratic Party is sadly spot on (as is her suggested solution: Run against them!). The most direct way for us change the party is refuse to wait for our collectively turn to lead. newrepublic.com/article/1909...

How did it come to this? Democrats have built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship as an outcome, as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians into roles in which they can make impact or articulating, defending, and expanding the role of what government can do to improve the lives of others.

We’ve seen the most dramatic, damaging outgrowths of this approach to Washington politics, in the form of the protracted propping up of the late Dianne Feinstein as senator and Joe Biden as president, not to mention Democratic-appointed Supreme Court justices preferring to die or risk death to being replaced by a Democratic president. But this deference also has poisoned our politics in corrosive ways, with institutional seniority locking in apathy and entitlement among Democratic leaders. The party’s unwillingness to separate themselves from age-old, meaningless decorum that rewards length of tenure as opposed to strength of conviction in its elected officials has meant that the people in charge of Congress’s most important panels are often the oldest, and most out of touch.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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