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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

-Sorry, What happened to all those nice socially liberal lapsed Catholics who used to live here? -They’ve gone sir. They’ve all gone. And we’re *back*. -Who? -The incredibly right-wing Pentecostals who still inexplicably hate the Amazon.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

I asked him if he ever got any bulk orders, or had thoughts on how to scale up or manufacture them more efficiently. He looked at me like I was crazy. He *likes* doing them one at a time, it's his passion, and since he lives in a civilized country, he doesn't *need* to worry about scaling up.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I broadly agree with much of this thread but I will say - part of the challenge opponents of this motion had is that the proposers of the motion were completely intolerant, incapable of negotiation in a way that is very alien to Green culture.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had to check the @britishelectionstudy.com numbers on this. Not very steep gradients, but propensity to vote Labour rises with household income group - both at the 2024 general election and in voting intention from May 2026. Conservative support dips slightly between about £50k and £150k...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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Iain @discobanana.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Official Opposition in the House of Commons, in case you were wondering how UK politics is going.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 02/10/2026

> an increase in thin papers of narrow scope, as well as ‘salami’ papers, where a single work is broken up and submitted as a set of smaller papers. There is also a marked increase in dense, AI-written papers. AI tools are making it easy for authors to flood arXiv [and others with] low-value papers.

A histogram showing the incredible increase in submissions.

> In September of 2016, arXiv received 9,869 submissions. In September of 2024, arXiv received 20,569 submissions. This September, arXiv received 40,363 submissions, which in turn generated almost 9,000 support tickets for arXiv staff and moderators. In only the past two years, submissions have doubled.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorry, but "only high T alpha males and aneurotypical people" is such a funny internet-brained retrofit of traditional patriarchal politics to fit a situation they were never designed for.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've said this in some of our book talks, but as an advocate I think spending a lot of time trying to find common ground with "someone on the other side" is generally a waste of time. It's much more effective to identify latent supporters of the things you want in the world and get them to join you.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

"In the real world outside of philosophical abstractions, a racial liberalism saw nonwhites’ rights as relatively expendable. … This racial liberalism isn’t dead: we see it in every reactionary centrist plea to collaborate with racists for short term political gain." (from December 2025)

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A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory

Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love people who have Fuck ICE or Fuck Trump or Fuck the IDF or Fuck Billionaires in their bio who then defend AI companies

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We can now look forward to a long appeal process, I know. But we can also say, now, "Manchester City, who were found guilty of 114 charges..." every time we mention the club's name; and I believe we should. No more "allegations". They were found guilty, and that is a fact.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyway. Not a scam. Totally legit business. The secret to never ever having Ai leak your shit is to never use them

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a country we put in these absurdly burdensome and bureaucratic systems in place, they don’t meaningfully reduce the cost, and opposition politicians say that the problem is not enough bureaucracy, because they are incapable of thinking more than five minutes into the future, rinse and repeat

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Others will have their say about this, but I think it’s worth pointing out that this - or laundered versions of it - are accepted wisdom amongst a big chunk of our political and media classes and it is simply bad for society when the elites have little or no understanding of *the systems they run*

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hanania has gone out of his way to try and persuade the mainstream media types and readers he wants to woo that he is no longer a racist. I don’t buy that, but he is at least putting on *the act.* So it’s extremely telling that this is how he continues to talk about women, rape, and even Epstein.

This manifests in Hanania's contempt for victims of rape and trafficking and his repeated support for age-gap relationships, even those that would constitute statutory rape in many jurisdictions. When The Bulwark broke news on Monday that Gen-Z looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular had been accused of rape, Hanania sprung into action discrediting the allegations. On X, he posted
Women who claim to be sexually assaulted or raped and then continue associating with their alleged attackers deserve zero sympathy.
They re either
1) liars; or
2) making it impossible to differentiate between real and fake allegations, hurting other men and women and society as a whole
A sane legal system would take this into account and not trust such women in criminal or civil lawsuits. They should also be socially stigmatized as bad people.

It's no mistake that this is all entangled with Hanania's horrific defenses of Jeffrey Epstein and the abuses on his private island. Hanania has posted that "Hating Epstein represents the essence of antisemitism. The resentment of mediocrities, conspiracy thinking, and chud moralism."
He went so far as to baldly assert that some of the women not only had it coming but even benefited in the end from Epstein's systemic rape operation:
One of the Epstein "trafficking victims" is a prostitute who he met when she was in her twenties, who had sex with him and reported that he gave her an orgasm.
There's more evidence of Epstein being a stud than there is he's what conspiracy theorists
claim.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IMO it’s clear from Richard Hanania’s own words that he believes that rape, both statutory and violent, is the right of a certain kind of man. Elite men It’s appalling that this man is given a drop of ink or a second of interview time in our media. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...

liberalcurrents.com

Richard Hanania Doesn't Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism

Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kind of grimly fascinating as always, coming from the former director of strategy to a Labour PM. There just isn't a future for a centre-left politics that is this hostile to pretty basic progressive values.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Iain @discobanana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Crazy thread. This experience seems very on brand for British Airways.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 23/09/2026

Gosh, the bond market seems interesting these days. I wonder if there is a KILLER book that tells the fascinating story of its 900-year history and helps me understand what's going on and why it maters?

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You are a sixty-six-year-old retired white Republican! You are responsible for the decline in the national discourse! And of course you think the state was kind, it was set up entirely for people like you!

Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired
I think we are following the nation. We used to all have different opinions on politics, and we could still all get along. There were compromises, but we could be with family. One might believe in one thing and one might believe another, but we could all still be together. And as it is in the country, I think Texas is getting further and further apart. It’s gotten very nasty. We’ve always been a very kind state, I’ve always thought. And I don’t feel like we’re very kind anymore.

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every median voter's opinion boils down to "can't we all get along?" No, you stupid fucker. One party wants to destroy the nation, and if we lay back and let that happen you'd hear endless complaining from this same moron. There's a bonus, here, too: brainless national deficit sentiment

Sebastian, 50, independent, white, utility manager
I think it starts with our national deficit and just government spending overall — get that under control. Because I think everything flows from that. I mean, we’re writing checks that somebody’s got to cash eventually, and we’re just spending money left and right. Our deficit is in the trillions now. That’s not sustainable for the future. And the fact that they’re not working together, just constantly — they can’t agree on the color of the sky.

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new NYT focus group is out, and it's bound to be full of the same morons that are present in every NYT focus group, but because I love making fun of the median voter I'm going to be posting my thoughts on it

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Opinion | Paxton, Talarico and the Senate Race in Texas: 12 Voters Discuss

The group discusses the economy, the president and the U.S. Senate race in Texas.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kentucky has seized State Highway 6 and will be tolling any oil shipments until further notice.

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Iain @discobanana.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

FBI warns chuds: "Women just really aren't that into you."

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I also find that people in the West are generally unaware of just how harshly the CCP's official historiography judges Mao's policies

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Iain @discobanana.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of the most pernicious aspects of modern technology is the ease with which appointments can be made & subsequently broken at the last minute.

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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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Iain @discobanana.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A reminder that if you're still giving the NYT money, stop it. Just stop fucking doing it.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is a winning line and I *heavily* encourage the GOP to stick with it. voters want to hear how they should pay more for Trump's war.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I mean, instead of arguing about the correct definition of associate membership, perhaps the UK could focus on the general geopolitical situation which has motivated Canada& the EU to work more closely together, and discuss how the UK wants to position itself in this new world?

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Census Bureau tells staff not to talk publicly about its new rule, which would dramatically shift how the survey is conducted and redistribute political power from blue states to red ones.

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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule

Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

UPDATE: pidge has risen, Lazarus-like. Walks around for a bit then flies up, does a couple of laps of cow corner and wings it to somewhere out of the ground where it’s less likely to be ambushed by a cricket ball. #TheCricket

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So on the one hand if the question is, "do the Greeks and Romans have a sense of 'scientific' racism based on genetics" the answer is mostly no, but they *do* have all sorts of other bigotries, some of which are based on immutable characteristics that would fit a looser definition of racism.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I were the other members of that Portugal squad I’d go on strike at this point

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion and policy from its origins and intellectual center, because its center is a sex cult started by a fan fiction author. If you want to be taken seriously you have to hide that.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I maintain that the primary obstacle to understanding Russian strategic goals is the ability to read a transcript of what they say and take it seriously

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The important thing to understand about Russian geostrategic outlook is it's mostly mirroring. They genuinely believe that everything bad that has happened to them is the work of the collective West and therefore they can do that to us and it will work

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyway shout out to a handful of wealthy octogenarians for being our last bastion against incipient fascism, which they accomplish by assuring voters they love cops, war, transphobia, tech scammers, and mass deportations even more than the fascists do

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Amazing: Trump's super PAC is spending or reserving TV ad time in 17 House districts that Trump carried by more than 5 points, per ad tracking data we obtained. That includes 6 districts he won by double digits. The map is expanding big time: newrepublic.com/article/2155...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the media's total failure to responsibly cover batshit claims that software has gained human-level awareness and will soon kill us all

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AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control

The press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.

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