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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/03/2022

PSA to my fellow immigrants: white people are easy, you can control them with cheese

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 03/10/2026

Far too many young men are comfortable abusing young women I would see them made uncomfortable

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 03/10/2026

I think what’s most important for everyone to realize I cannot let you in anyway abuse my child

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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kyleraiser: Bloodline @kylebutoverhere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The NFL dorks trying to rehab DeShaun Watson's image is part of what leads to the Cornell 7. It's all part of the same cycle

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Mr. Dirt @dirtworldwide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

back home in WV for the weekend for a wedding, and we need to have a broader conversation about gas stations/chains colluding on pricing in the entire city of Charleston, there’s only a 5 cent variance among a plethora of chains and stations. why aren’t we “competing” for customers?

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 02/10/2026

Holding every NFL commentator at gunpoint until they specify what that adversity was that Watson went through

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Discussed this on @pablo.show a few years ago, but Watson basically bailed out sports media a couple of years ago by being bad. He was always going to be "redeemed" with a bit of success. This is who we are. www.pablo.show/p/deshaun-wa...

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Deshaun Watson Is Terrible at Football Now. Does That Give Sports Media an Easy Out?

EPISODE 9: Mina Kimes and Dan Le Batard are back for Share & Tell.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 02/10/2026

Watching the end of his political career is a delight that should be federally regulated

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charles (west coaster) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

all it took was like 3 games of him looking like an NFL caliber player again and now hes got the green light for alien-like rehabilitation. we need to start throwing hands

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🏴Omaha Autonomous Action🏴 @omahaautonomous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hi, all. We're trying to raise $500 to help out our unhoused neighbors who lost tents and tarps in Wednesday night's storm. We appreciate all the support from the community.

OUR NEIGHBORS NEED YOUR HELP!!!

Wednesday night’s storm ripped through many of our unhoused neighbors’ primary shelters.

We are looking to buy some extra tents and tarps to replace those damaged in the storm.

We are hoping to raise $500 before noon on Sunday so we can
purchase these urgently needed supplies. Links in bio.

Venmo - @OmahaAutonomous
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Jesse Farrell @jfsculpts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get that cheddar, New York artists.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/10/2026

It sure is interesting what things the NFL will not tolerate and which ones it will

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/10/2026

oh man, this is so ripe for so many things! the possibilities!

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Mr. Dirt @dirtworldwide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

y’all Erik Jones wore a polo and a belt to the Metallica concert

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Mr. Dirt @dirtworldwide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

awwww Cudi is officially Duo Dolo

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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

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Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it

In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And we need federal action to ensure that those who commit sexual assault and the institutions that protect them face consequences.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

LWT is usually good, but this episode is a standout and worth watching if you don’t already know about the chaotic, and therefore cruel way states administer lethal injection. its only role is to sanitize state-sponsored killings for *us.* so *we* don’t fully register the horror.

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Lethal Injections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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may @maysuser.name · 01/10/2026

6/10 men don't know this but it's actually really easy to not rape someone

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chuck Jones' Rule 8. "Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy."

The trolley problem. The road runner is on one of the trolley tracks, and Wile E. Coyote is in charge of the switch.

When he throws the switch, the trolley falls vertically through the tracks. A trick of the perspective means he is actually underneath, not beside the track, so he is flattened by the trolley.

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Phillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, AI tools/assistants that automatically agree with, flatter, or validate a user's ideas rather than challenge them in any way, are known as "Yes Machines". ..... and he wants to rebrand "ai" as "si"? It's funny because he would never, ever get why that's funny.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the government should fund a program qhere young people apprentice under him so someone still knows how to do this stuff

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026

The ACLU is suing a a Minnesota school district that has banned every sticker in an attempt to rid its campuses of rainbow ones. The school district is Detroit Lakes School District, and locals are up in arms at the sticker ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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ACLU Sues Minnesota School District That Banned All Stickers To Get Rid Of Rainbow Ones

“You created all of this disruption over a 2-by-3 inch sticker.”

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Mr. Dirt @dirtworldwide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: New Indiana State Flag Proposal

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Ally Roth @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For 15 years, there is no one I have relied on or trusted more than my friend and brother Mikey Goodmark. The support he shows to everyone he touches represents what every human being should be. But Mikey is struggling. And we have reached the point where we need help getting him back to safety.

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Donate to Keep Mikey and His Cat in Their Home, organized by Raven Jakubowski

Our lifelong friend and found family member Mikey Goodmark is currently facing… Raven Jakubowski needs your support for Keep Mikey and His Cat in Their Home

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this! also i dont think most people understand that people with medical backgrounds are not doing lethal injections. Often times it's performed by jail staffers with 0 medical training and sometimes the person it's done on isn't even unconscious

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 01/10/2026

there are many reasons to oppose the death penalty, and here is merely one of them: it is harder to kill a person on purpose than you think, and it will *always* be cruel, barbarous, and messy. a lethal injection is not more civilized than the rope, the guillotine, the chair, or the firing squad

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Mr. Dirt @dirtworldwide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…he didn’t even get charged for anything? he resigned in disgrace and was subsequently pardoned. he made his own deal, how was it raw???

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Mr. Dirt @dirtworldwide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think the folks saying this are bringing it up because it is a novel (yet unrealistic) idea

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Mr. Dirt @dirtworldwide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

idk how to explain this, but Olivia Rodrigo would’ve totally done a guest spot on Fairly Oddparents

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the 8th amendment is so deeply inadequate; it has failed to stop so much suffering and death in jails and prisons every single day. at this point it is practically a tool for professionalizing and institutionalizing violence against incarcerated people

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

if this country took the 8th amendment seriously, our jails and prisons could not function

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

READ THIS, and then call or write to your representatives, the governor, the UMN President and Regents. And vote in November for people who will fund higher ed. If you don't live in MN, this is happening or is going to happen to your public university soon.

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Mr. Dirt @dirtworldwide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what is murder if not cruel and unusual punishment?

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good and gutting. (No, really, it is very good—you should read it) David Perry, UMN student advisor, on what the university is for and how deeply the planned budget cuts will mess with that www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

And mostly, it’s worked out for the best. Even if we just assess for dollar value, a 2025 analysis found that for every $1 invested in the U, the state reaped $16.75. In other words, every Minnesotan benefits from our robust systems of public higher education.
It’s been striking to me that while conversation about the budget inside the U has been substantial, I haven’t yet seen Minnesotan politicians addressing these potential cuts as a crisis. Part of that is because public universities like the U have made a trade-off, growing increasingly corporate and independent (despite publicly appointed regents) as public funding has collapsed. As a share of the budget, state funding has plummeted over the decades, falling to about 15%, compared to 39% in 1997. If that’s what you want, then fine. But did we ever have a public debate about whether that’s what Minnesotans actually want?
If you don’t want to more significantly fund the university, which bits are you eager to cut away? If it’s instruction and student services, here’s what happens.

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Mr. Dirt @dirtworldwide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

which they’ve been saying about algorithms and AI since I was in college nearly a decade ago because the people making the shit didn’t change much, if at all

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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