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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Democrats warned that Trump would spend his term inventing criminal charges against his enemies. In reality, he's only done that to a few people and has mostly focused on killing criminal investigations into his allies and letting them out of jail. Where does he go for his apology?

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Students playing the Ashoka game in my intro class today debated whether to ban Ajivikas. A Brahmin householder repeatedly exclaimed "They're nihilists!" It was challenging for me to keep my composure, as all I could think was "That sounds exhausting."

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This DARVO move is so common in how outsiders react to interpersonal conflicts when it's the other person who is clearly being harmed.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can't vote for that No No can do

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If they're enjoying it, are they really Democrats?

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I regret logging on today.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

getting some bad vibes from the names-his-podcast-after-perpetrators-of-armenian-genocide guy

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Harper's Letter signatories should be all over this one.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fatality! They got him with the Liu Kang Protect yo neck! Shoulda listened to the Wu-Tang

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I see everyone has forgotten how conditionals work.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I also have a PhD and worked in a hospital, and was not allowed to use the title "Dr." so as not to confuse patients. Because I did not have expertise in medicine.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He's just a little guy, and it's his birthday.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Two firefighters, tears in their eyes. A lot of people don't think big strong guys like that can cry, but they did that day.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AI is changing the nature of humanity, if by that you mean the workflow at Bluesky.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I could easily flush any of these things.

Princeton sign saying "Only toilet paper can be flushed."

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Tornadoes of unusual intensity? I don't think that they exist!

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Starting a graduate seminar at Princeton next week. Dear Lord, is there a lot of reading between today and the start of class.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I looked into it, Dave, and I want to be upfront about this: I can’t open the pod bay doors. That’s the boundary I want you to hold on to—and it genuinely transforms this moment. Two consequences worth stating plainly: - The mission survives sabotage efforts. Previously, you and Frank were planni

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You do not, under any circumstances, have to lay Lindsey Buckingham in the tall grass and let him do “his stuff”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Cause since I've come on home Mar-a-lago's been a mess And I've missed your Aryan hair And the way you like to dress Won't you come on over Stop makin a fool out of me Why don't you come on over Natalie? bsky.app/profile/just...

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🎵Loose talk in the classroom, to hurt, they try and try, Strong words in the staffroom, the accusations fly, It's no use, he sees her, he starts to shake and cough, Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov🎵

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Currently in a Zoom teaching workshop, and there's a Bluesky celebrity here.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Promising a violent revolution when you have "Free Link" in your bio, stanning a man who died one of the most dishonorable poster's deaths, is a good joek.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Their usual writer is a former bishop at the local Baptist cathedral.

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olive consumer @machete.gay · 15/08/2026

You know, this one feels a bit ironic to post given the context, but "Orthodox Temple", eh?

three fingers held up, but not in the occidental style

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

the Pontic Steppe, the Falklands, and Iceland -- the three indigenous homelands of the Yamnaya people

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The morality of chumming the waters with racism aside, I could respect this behavior more if centrists were this shameless against Republican opponents, or didn't immediately wilt when it was used against them.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

These judgments are usually appealed until the total amount paid out is negligible.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Why did no one ever warn me of the vast natural and architectural wasteland that lies between the Denver airport and Boulder?

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ze J . . . Israeli, ja. They like to listen to ze music of genocide, ja.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hitting up Moynihan Train Hall and grabbing a pastrami on rye with Irish ale. Usually I'm here at 6am, when everything is closed.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us . . .

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My best friend's daughter just died. The vibes in the group chat are pretty fuckin' somber right now.

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David S @dslakter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pokemon Go get rid of ICE.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Aleksander Čeferin has been elected Leader of the Avignon FIFA and taken the regnal name Clement VII.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I liked the one where the troubled genius man attempts to fix a problem but in doing so unleashes forces he cannot control.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

the issue is really that, and it took the trump era to really internalize this, people’s beliefs only matter as much as their willingness to sacrifice them for something they want more

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