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Wait That's Interesting @waitinteresting.bsky.social · 13h

Society peaked with these

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone needs to write an essay about how the MAGA incarnation of the GOP is trying to manufacture the idea that voting for them as a Democrat provides a subversive buzz akin to sexual experimentation.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

philosophers should have simply *answered* the deepest and most intractable questions ever posed. instead they've chosen to fuck around. disappointing

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remember the early CD era of gaming, when devs suddenly had an extra 500MB of space they didn’t know what to do with after being used to floppy installation, so every game was basically 40MB of game + a whole audio CD’s worth of *banger* soundtrack?

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Bear witness,” in the biblical sense, means to truthfully tell what you saw. Staring at snuff films isn’t bearing witness. Fact is, you poison your brain with enough of that, I wonder if it will still be clear enough to bear true witness to anything else.

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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

Finally, a member of this adminsitration that tells the truth.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The anti-government ideologue's "I don't like democracy because I don't like government having power over me" always does seem to elide right over the question "if there's no democracy, who do you think is going to wield power?" The answer ain't "nobody", and it's definitely not "you."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been very eager to see this one by Matt Zwolinski @mattzwolinski.bsky.social at @liberalism.org . It's true, it's important, it's important to have BHL founder Matt saying it, and it's important to have lib dot org publishing it. www.liberalism.org/p/democracy-...

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Democracy Belongs on the List

Classical liberalism has sometimes been suspicious of democracy. But it shouldn’t be.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My personal life is going pretty good! Yeah, there's challenges and bad parts and sad parts, but overall I'm counting my blessings that the micro's holding up so well during this macro. Might change tomorrow, but why borrow that trouble?

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"But the people refused to listen to Samuel. 'No!' they said. 'We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.'" 1 Samuel 8:19–20

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Paul George Lombard Jr. @herroyalredness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Highlights from the Giants vs Titans today

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Johnson has no clue that Taiwan is not already formally independent. He thinks independence is status quo,

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Have I mentioned that...

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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social calls out Cornell University and shares her message to sexual assault survivors: “The fact that Jane Doe, that survivor, lost her education… and those men were protected by an institution and granted an Ivy League Education — never again.”

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when (Adams?) said he was studying war so his son could study business and construction so *his* son could study art and poetry? The point was a republic needs all that stuff!

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As Not A Catholic, I keep my opinions on the Catholic Church minimal. But I hope we see a day when she’s ejected the TradLARPers from prominence.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@faineg.com has done yeoman’s work summarizing the Silicon Valley Sex Cult, and what viscerally gets to me about the whole thing is, they’ve gone ahead and normalized Boys Will Be Boys, But Autistically.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

cornellsun.com

EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The rest of the world has got to start figuring out how to maintain continuity of operations w/o interfacing w/ the US, stat. Sooner or later, anyone who's truly indispensible is going to go insane with that power.

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 25/09/2026

turns out when you are reliant on abusing the legal status of your workers the threat of la migra is far more valuable than la migra

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Screw it. 3 Sid Meier joints. Fight me. my9games.com/en/s/833b942...

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 23/09/2026

Intelligence can help it find ways around an obstacle, it doesn’t establish that a workable route exists, or supply the energy, materials, equipment, and time to take it. “It’s smarter than you” is not an answer to “how does it physically accomplish that?”

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

JFC, there’s ignorance, proud ignorance, aggressive ignorance, and… whatever this is.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will be damned, they’re actually standing up for each other instead of feeding on the corpses this time

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

E.B. White established this in 1949! Move on already!

Screenshot from E.B. White's essay "Here is New York": "There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter —the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last— the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 28/03/2024

From Richard Jones (h/t to @johnlk.bsky.social for sharing it in Discord)

It's easy to think that Batman is a darker story than Spider Man if you mistake tone for content and colour scheme for narrative. It really isn't.
Bruce Wayne witnessed a tragedy for which he was not responsible and became Batman, a healing. Peter Parker witnessed a tragedy for which he was responsible and became Spider-Man, an open wound.
Being Batman is either good for Bruce or as good as it gets for Bruce.
Being Spider-Man is not good for Peter, a man who is emotionally unsuited to being a superhero in just about every way but who has got it into his head that people will die if he isn't one. Spider-Man is not okay. Spider-Man is a character who's quipping constantly to push the panic down, whose tagline was once "New York's Neurotic Super-Hero!" and whose signature power is literally weaponised anxiety.
Being Batman is Bruce's gift to himself. Being Spider-Man is Peter's gift to the world. Being Spider-Man is not good for Peter. One of the things DeFalco has said the MC2 is there t

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have never gotten as many positive reactions to wearing DSA or JFREJ for Zohran apparel than from other parents at the local playground that my wife and I jokingly call the Loving v. Virginia Memorial Playground.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 20/09/2026

Superintelligent AI: “Their civilization has an API. It’s called paying for things.”

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Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The 'we are all 12 now' rule unbeaten. "I want an arch" Of course you do, you are 12. "My arch will have snipers and machineguns" Of course it will, you are 12. etc.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Somewhere in the multiversal archives, this version of Earth is labelled "The Aristocrats!"

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Woke” in the sense of “Baller AF”. We’re making it happen boys.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17/09/2026

literally every time I interact with longtermists

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*Interacting with someone less autistic than me*

I detest your ambiguous rules and the cruel, unfair manner in which you expect others to intuit them. Your ways are illogical and illegible.

*Interacting with someone more autistic than me*

Damn, bitch, read the room.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Eddie. Baby. Don’t make this worse. You’re making it worse.

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Paddleboat Galactica @early-adopter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Josh Marshall on why you can’t just buy one article 🧵

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

you need me on that wall

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