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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Two people who each thought they were entering a loveless marriage find out on their wedding night that theyv actually entered a love full marriage. #PlotTwist

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Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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If I don't get more Eloise / Queen Charlotte scenes, I will [REDACTED]

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Also, is Eloise my favorite character?

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Can you imagine if it happened on a holiday? Like Christmas, or New Year's, or Independence Day, and the two events are forever linked? That truly would be the last laugh.

Damn, why they have to make the black Duke an righteous asshole? Well, at least he's dead.

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And why are they being so mean to the Featherington Ladies? (I promise not to live post this show)

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I can't believe Bridgerton's original premise was the "let's pretend to be in a relationship" trope. Unbecoming. (I'm slightly late to the ball)

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just remembering how TechnoFascists gets so incredibly *ANGRY* whenever their AI agents show any kind of "wokeness" because they *know* people will blindly believe whatever the machine will tell them.

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IT HURTS TO BE THIS FUCKING STUPID OH MY GOD #chess

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"your neighborhood" is the tell

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I may be naive, but I think most folks, even politically unengaged people, understand what a Dem Congress can only do so much especially if they have Trump out there Trumping it up every day. Dems just have to be all "we're tryingb to lower costs, but then there's this fucking guy over here"

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder if folks who lived before historical Bad Times knew if the bad times were coming?

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MLBPostseason Predictions AKA "Baseball 2027 is saved" World Series

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's so great that Texas Republicans are gonna cheat and that quite literally nothing is going to happen. No one will get fined or fired, sued or jailed, pistol whipped or tree of libertied. Nothing.

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The guillotine is the compromise

Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got my second Shingles vaccine yesterday and oh boy, it is knocking me on my ass! Been up since 8 and have spent maybe 4 mins out of my bed. Lol

George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'd get hired as a reporter, ask my initial question, then I'd ask "wait, what the fuck are you talking about" and then I'd get fired.

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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 17/09/2026

"transgender ideology" is a phrase that should be treated with the same revulsion as "woke mind virus"

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

See, when you play the field in softball, and a pop up comes your way, the reason you take a few steps back first, is so that you don't find yourself trying to field it while peddling backward, and you don't miss play it, and it doesn't smack you in the forehead.

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trying to find which Dev fix broke our code

Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Like, I completely understand why everyone is dunking on the leagues for this. Having said that, yes, there should be harsh penalties for bettors that harass people.

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 15/09/2026

“Why do people hate that I don’t want kids to be killed and starved?” — Ms. Rachel talks to Rolling Stone about the backlash she faced for supporting Palestine, recalling moments when she felt like everyone hated her. (www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...)

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Donald Trump admits what DOJ and most of the legacy media refuse to. The U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule was a partisan effort to help the GOP. SCOTUS' decision was, in his words: "a big loss for Republicans."

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Of course Alito and Thomas dissent like the whiny pains in the ass they are.

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Derek Straker @dstraker22.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can't wait until he's gone (from power)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Supreme Court refuses to lift the injunction against Trump’s plan to mess with mail voting. Only Alito and Thomas dissent. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: A whistleblower is alleging that immigration agency USCIS directed officers to misrepresent themselves to access state voter records, then label people "unlawful voters" — including U.S. citizens — using unreliable data. Story to come.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.

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If he doesn't care about human life, why are we to care about his life?

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What's worse? The Supreme Court allowing this blatantly vote suppressing USPS rule, giving us 2 months to develop alternate voting plans? Or the Supreme Court blocking this rule, and the USPS implementing it secretly, illegally, because they're run by a bunch of criminals doing criminal shit?

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I HATE FOLKS WHO CAN'T TAKE THEIR LOSSES WITH SOME DIGNITY. WHAT? YOU THINK YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO'S FRUSTRATED BY THIS STUPID GAME? JUST RESIGN AND KEEP IT MOVIN' #Chess

The fucking POTUS: "I'm gonna cheat and try to steal this election!" The Media: "The President is engaging in some intense campagining."

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