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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

p̞̈͑̚͞ā̤̓̍͘ỉ͔͖̜͌ṇ̤͛̒̍ ā̤̓̍͘t̲̂̓ͩ̑ t̲̂̓ͩ̑ḣ̖̻͛̓ẹ̿͋̒̕ p̞̈͑̚͞ư̡͕̭̇ḿ̬̏ͤͅp̞̈͑̚͞

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

there should be no such thing as ‘elite journalists’ incentives are ass backwards that way. a journalist should be a grubby and suspicious little fuck

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Drac @dracula-factory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Local Shovel Merchant Concerned People No Longer Believe There's Gold in Them There Hills

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026

remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy”

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'oh so you want china to beat us' bro what the hell do i care leave me to the humble life i am trying to build for myself

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me in 2050: …and that’s how Macklemore became a civil rights icon. My son, Dale Jr.: Wow his music must’ve been incredible. Me: Dale Jr.: Like so many good songs. Me: Dale Jr.: Was he the A Change Is Gonna Come Guy? Me: Dale Jr.: Me:

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

what you’re missing is that guys are a structural problem

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That's gonna be an lol from me dawg.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I am not complicit" I'm gonna say this all day

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Take shamefully stolen from eugenics twink but it is funny how porn is often considered one of the major vices of the digital era but unlike infinite scrolling algorithmically curated content it has a very obvious end state where you get on with the rest of your life

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

I do not think anyone has to leave twitter for bluesky but I do think everyone has to leave twitter

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

we need more bats on here

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After three years, today is my last day at Anthropic. They found me hiding in their bathroom's ceiling and kicked me out.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is so real. The shit people would say to my white mother was so heinous that she cut off multiple friendships within days of the attacks. A lot of people asking if my dad knew the hijackers or about The Plan. Oh, and my mom thought he’d died in the towers while being asked all of this.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 11/09/2026

If AI CEOs knew how into becoming Barrett Wallace I am, they’d chill on these data centers.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

reading various accounts of AI psychosis and a) the people behind chatgpt 4 should be sued into oblivion, especially for reintroducing it, and b) even for less vulnerable people and non-sycophantic AI there is an enormous danger in AI presenting itself as a frictionless friend.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk theonion.com/report-you-to-be-fired…

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Roaring 20s are back baby, everyone is still mentally ill from a plague and a war, importing Canadian booze is illegal, James Carville is alive

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hello im the CEO and i can’t do anything without the support of the simpering vizier that lives in the computer. in order to keep collecting an offensively meager paycheck you too must consult the vizier regularly. don’t worry he has lots of uses other than just hopefully putting you out of a job

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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I'm too talented to need shortcuts" goes so fucking hard.

youtube community post from Huggbees that discusses why he does not and will not ever use AI in his art

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Almost let the day pass without posting this one!

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romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026

a perfect biscuit

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026

nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?

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