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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A goose saying "what adversity?"
the same goose chasing a man yelling "what adversity was Deshaun Watson dealing with?"
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-dictat...
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They’re calling this guy a terrorist btw bsky.app/profile/cwar...
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
2027 calendar preords are online :) gdbee.store/products/vib... It's been a while since I've made a lunar calendar, so Vibes now comes with an extra lil 2027 lunar phase calendar!
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shy Aurora
Illo of a young lady sitting bashfully. She has aurora borealis-themed hair cascading down. She is wearing a simple constellation themed top and skirt. There is a circular aurora background behind her. Drawn by gdbee, Sept 2026, paint tool sai 2
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026
i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"
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David the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Have you ever bought hot sauce at a fair? This is what it's like to buy hot sauce at a fair.
Whybird posted:

There are two sorts of hot sauce. One is called Professor Von Prolapse's Rectal Genocide, the bottle will show a cartoon man being sodomised by an anthropomorphic chilli against a backdrop of a nuclear explosion, and it will be quite hot. The other will have a picture of a monkey and some text in Korean and it will end your fucking life.
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I actually feel like the world would be a way better place if everyone with Pope levels of power had at least one person in their life who was totally unimpressed by it. imagine if Elon Musk had a brother who made him come over and fix the printer. imagine if the royals had even one normie friend
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Ironbound @ironbound.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Man this guy sucks
Last September, when an aide told Fetterman that officials with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, wanted to meet because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, he was dismissive.
Fetterman
Why do I have to keep having to meet with chop
Aide
Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.
Fetterman
Well I'm not
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I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC
Source: messages reviewed by WSJ
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Cubit @elzey.net · 03/09/2026
Is it on the roadmap to implement battery level reporting and routing for EVs?
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Dave @chasinbirdeeee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Love it when @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social comes right out of the gate throwing 103mph.
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 02/09/2026
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I used to read this over and over when I was going through a difficult time a few years ago; his writing still means a great deal to me. A rare and unique life.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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A Vietnamese man was beaten on the tarmac in Fort Worth when he refused to get on the plane. Another man, who was shouting, “This is not right!” and “political things” during the flight, was knocked against his seat, dragged to the back of the plane, and put into the full-body straitjacket known as “the WRAP.” Guards stood over him and laughed. He doesn’t know when the man was let out of the WRAP, but he saw that he was back in his shackles by the time they got to Ghana. (All adult passengers on ICE flights are shackled and the ankles and wrists tied to a waist chain.)

Most of the guards were drinking alcohol from red and blue cups and laughing at the detainees. (Another passenger on the flight who did not want to be identified confirmed this.) If anyone stood up to use the lavatory, the guards swarmed them and shouted at them, “Get down now!” An older guard who was not drinking said this was going to be his last ICE flight, because he was going to quit.

The flight medic was repeatedly summoned to check on a man from Maryland, who had gotten a concussion a few days earlier when the driver of an ICE vehicle braked suddenly. The man kept passing out. He was shaking uncontrollably and saying his head hurt. The flight medic told him there wasn’t much he could do.
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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is amazing! SimCopter had a great soundtrack by Jerry Martin but the game’s files were highly compressed. So LucasVB got in touch with Mr. Martin and he was able to find most of the original high quality tracks! Awesome to hear “Hangar” in such clarity after 30 years archive.org/details/SimC...
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SimCopter original soundtrack (high quality)
SimCopter is a somewhat obscure game released in 1996 by Maxis, the studio behind the SimCity and The Sims franchises.In the game, the player controls a helicopter pilot in various missions across a c...
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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
spotted on threads
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
[Luna Moth]
A young fairy themed off a luna moth. There's a faint moon behind them. Drawn by gdbee in 2022-ish
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Asher is left to face the fall alone @asherball.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The A's just did one of the coolest things I've seen in their broadcast: Just unfiltered audio of the live director calling a Lawrence Butler plate appearance...that went about as well as they could have hoped for.
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Asher Langton @asherlangton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’m still seeing people recommend the Brave browser, presumably unaware that Brendan Eich is virulently anti-LGBTQ and an all-around asshole.
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
[Echinacea]
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We can’t end the filibuster because to do so would be an affront to the memory of Aaron Burr, pretender to the throne of the abortive empire of Mexico.
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Xploshi @xploshi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
the Mario Galaxy planet off in the distance with a boss waiting on it
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Cubit @elzey.net · 17/08/2026
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/b...
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‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent (Gift Article)
The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There are four overlapping scandals here: 1. Fundraising spam tactics are hallmarks of elder financial exploitation 2. The Dem establishment is in on it 3. Most of what is raised goes to fundraising consultants 4. Capitulation to legal threats by NYT and The Bulwark on a fully vetted story 🧵👇
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Cubit @elzey.net · 17/08/2026
This "AI" thing seems bad
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Sprouts 🌱 @ BLFC @coolartcorner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Life just be that way all the time 🙃
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
this is such a meaningful piece of writing, but I hope the takeaway is more about collective humanity than that preparation is pointless
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 12/08/2026
Aaron Rodgers is obsessed with his own privacy. His neighbors? Not so much. After moving to a new town, Rodgers used a cutout to secretly fund the local police department’s Flock-style surveillance program. www.foiaball.com/p/aaron-rodg...
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Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras
The QB used an LLC to shield his identity.
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Basically.
Illo of a dainty fairy in side profile with asymmetric text. The fairy is looking proud, and holding a long golden axe. The text reads “don’t get mad. get even.” Drawn by gdbee/ paint tool sai 2 / Aug 2026
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 08/08/2026
Dunno. I mean, I've told it to people, but I'm not sure I've told it in a public forum. It's a good one. Makes me cackle. I heard it from one of the people Lynch leaned on the hardest on that film, the guy who tracked down the warehouse space in Northridge that Lynch rented as a "soundstage." (1/10)
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How August kinda feels to me
Illo of an energetic young lady walking her basket bike through shallow waves at the end of the day. There's a bit of celebratory confetti sprinkled around. There are balloons tied to the bike. The lady has big coily hair, a bright pink top and a pleated denim skirt. Drawn by gdbee, paint tool sai 2 Aug 2026
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I’ve given it a lot of thought and you can really see the influence of this in his later work.
Notary Uchikoshi Eng @Uchikoshi_Eng (responding to the Pepsi account saying “should we create a Pepsi video game on
X.com)
I was a member of the development team for Pepsiman video game, released in 1999. If you'd like, I can reach out to the people who developed that game at the time. Should I do that?
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
[Phantom]
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The image is of a Twitter(?) post with the poster paraphrasing John Adams, "I must study war so my sons can study business so their sons can study art so their sons can write gay vampire fiction."

Below this quote is another post with an image of Ulysses Grant Dietz, great grandson of Civil War general and president Ulysses S. Grant. Yes, Dietz is an author of gay vampire fiction. 

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/10/a-u-s-presidents-great-great-grandsons-big-gay-vampire-novel/

#steampunk #19thc #acw #lgbtq
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Magnum Opus 🐦
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Cloud painter :)
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Cubit @elzey.net · 30/07/2026
Hey @discord.com, I will never click on and complete a quest with a temporary reward.
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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
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Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
experts may warn of "disaster" but I would simply fight fire with fire and fully privatize all remaining fire departments. it'd be a great use case for blockchain, a Pareto improvement for investors, and yet another example of how market solutions fix market problems!
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