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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 15h

Is it more evil to destroy books than to kill civilians? It is certainly diabolical.

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 22h

I almost don’t care if it works, the idea is so nifty

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, it's National Poetry Day. Please enjoy this moving meditation on life and death by Norman Nicholson, whose anthology is here: www.amazon.co.uk/Selected-Poe...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎯🎯🎯

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 23h

Overton window snuck off to the left while nobody was looking

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 30/09/2026

Under Bush, Pentagon lawyers who opposed his policies "did not face reprisals." Today, says former Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora, "the function of the lawyer in the Pentagon has been severely constrained and ridiculed, in part, by Secretary Hegseth." 🧵

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do we teach skills that are useful in the workplace? Fuck yes we do. Did I become a history professor because I'm passionate about vocational training? Fuck no i did not

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No one alive has seen a president choose to walk into the teeth of American greed. A THREAD. PLUS: Ask me anything.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

While waiting for Trump to enter the signing of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement at the UN, they chose “Send in the Clowns” as the background music. Yes, it’s real.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Before Sept. 21 is over, celebrate the joyous creativity and generosity of @electrolemon.bsky.social — watch them all! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwG...

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9/21/16

YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you have not read it, it's a fine day for "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send... Published on the second day of the first Trump White House.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19/09/2026

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

True. Rewatched it recently and it holds up.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A point made in this piece is that Trump has destroyed an entire community. For people outside of DC, I can understand why you may not understand. But for those of us from here, its the culture he is destroying that hurts so much. The building is secondary. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

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Column | The Kennedy Center is empty and in peril. Its community is in anguish.

The fiasco of this week’s closure reveals the truth of President Trump’s motivations — and what the arts community stands to lose.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dear Dems and libs: Stop helping Republicans muddy differences between the parties on AI and data centers by acquiescing to the "bipartisan opposition" frame. Rs are laughing at you while polls show Rs now leading Ds on these issues. Instead, tie Rs directly to Trump's AI/data center malevolence.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The invaluable @lizagoitein.bsky.social writes that Congress should terminate the 25-year-old post-9/11 "state of emergency" that every president has abused in their own way. She calls it "deeply dangerous to our democracy." Thread==>

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Watched this again recently. It holds up. One of the great horror films IMO

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My alert system failed! Cannot believe I missed "The Journalist and the Firefighter" and the follow up when they came out. www.kcrw.com/shows/questi... Bravo to the staff at @kcrw.com's Question Everything and of course to @bartongellman.bsky.social The rethink in journalism that I've waited for.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11/09/2026

Smoke alarm battery

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Once again, reality outpaces dystopian satire

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some days you wake up and find a really strong wikipedia page with first-rate clockwise captioning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_...

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Crimson @crimsontentacles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reading this AMA is healing my soul in ways I would not expect. God, its so good to read someone who's so earnest and passionate about art and making things weird and magical.

For example, I said all the walls and the floor in the Pale Man’s lair have to be blood red. Now, this is apparently a big gesture, and we thought about it, and our production designer, said, “This makes no sense.” And I said, “It *will* make sense visually. It *will* feel natural.” And most people don't notice a lot of little details in that room, like, most everything is a mouth, because it’s about voracity. Most of the doors are shaped like a mouth, the chimney is a mouth, the archways are mouths. The corridor is a mouth. These are things that people don't notice, but I'm proud about the way the real world and the magical world are designed so differently.

Just in the way that 80% of our communication is nonverbal, I think 80% of a movie exists in a liminal layer beyond the conscious. I think the great language of Kubrick, the great language of Hitchcock, the great language of Buñuel— *David Lynch*. God damn it. David Lynch. Fuck me blue. That fucking guy was skating on that liminal layer his whole fucking life. These are things that are unprocessed, skateboarding on the subconscious. And I think the brain catches all of it. And processes it at a human level that is not linear, that is not ideas that have been approved before.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I told John Stoehr of @editorialboard.bsky.social that reporters "know Trump’s brain is broken. But their bosses would punish them if they said it loudly and clearly, because the bosses know Trump would punish their news organizations for reporting that. So they try to stay out of his crosshairs."

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The more he fails to dominate, the more insane Trump gets

Can reporters see it? Yes, Mark Jacob told me. But they are afraid.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have often said that Donald Trump’s plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat. Now we know what that will look like in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/here...

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Here is Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms

We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have been beating the drum on this for a long time, but here's yet more survey evidence (from @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social) that campaigning against corruption by linking it to affordability is a winning public opinion issue navigatorresearch.org/americans-ar...

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dude is the poster child for Critical Legal Studies

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

The first item on a typical Amazon search results page is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. The top row is 25% more expensive. The best result is usually on the second screen, somewhere around the 17th position: pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/s... 34/

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Pluralistic: Big Tech’s “attention rents” (03 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of the great literary quotes of all time

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Congressman Wesley Bell @repwesleybellmo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy belated 102nd birthday to the first Black pitcher in Cardinals history, Bill Greason! From being one of the first Black Marines and fighting in the Battle of Iwo Jima, to the last surviving Negro Leagues player, to a pastor for 50 years, Bill is a LEGEND and an inspiration. Happy birthday!

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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"on my way to become your cetacean"

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It is so goddamn perfect out in Cambridge today. Here's your plan: 1. Wander to your local bookstore 2. Buy a book on a whim. (Don't overthink it, don't make it hard) 3. Get a tasty beverage 4. Set up somewhere outside & read for a bunch 5. Remember you deserve joy

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