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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:

paidforby.info

Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 17h

My kid turns 16 on Thurs. 😳 Other parents warned me it would go by quickly but until you're inside it, you don't appreciate how fast it really goes. ❤️

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18h

And I’d do it again too! Probably.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026

A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She is doing the math to see how much damage she can cause before switching to the next victim. Honestly, a more accurate sentence would be replacing "math" with "meth". (her nickname is Satan, she climbs blinds, curtains and flesh. Her energy "goes to 11" and lasts for 7 hrs at a time)

A gray, cream and buff dilute calico cat stares intently down at the camera from a white cat tree perch. She is judging you with her pretty green eyes. Behind her are frosted glass front cabinets.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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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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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing quite like having your arms full of grocery bags and then the rain pours down. Better believe I got all those bags in one trip though! 💪🏽 Pack Mules R Us

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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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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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I bought a 1000 sq ft roll of aluminum foil from Costco when my kid was a toddler and now they are legally able to drive and there is STILL foil left. 😂 Is it magic? Does the foil never run out as long as I play disco and dance while cooking? 🤔

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 30/09/2026

The FOIA Bakery has an op-ed in today's issue of Board Rule where we argue that annual stories about declining enrollment at CPS are actually about white fear

board-rule.ghost.io

Chicago School Board Prez Candidates on Special Education

Plus, school funding is based on property taxes, not enrollment. So let's stop telling scary stories about declining birth rates.

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My 👁️ Dr was amazing yesterday. After prescribing me $$$ eye drops, she called me back when she discovered my insurance won't cover them and she cancelled that order and pivoted to a stronger (less drops per day) type that was covered and will cost me $6. Almost fainted from the customer care shown 🫶🏽

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

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me at 4:15am after chonky cat managed to open my bedroom door... Being cuddled (and yelled at) by chonky cat desiring food. Being annoyed by satan cat knocking everything off the nightstand to get me up. Being resigned that sleep is over for me this night.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every woman you know 📢EVERY 📢WOMAN 📢YOU 📢KNOW has a story of sexual harassment &/or assault; most of us have more than one. I've been -grabbed & street harassed x infinity -dehumanized, grabbed, & harassed by men I thought I cld trust -stalked/followed at night -threatened (online & IRL) w/ rape

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every bit of this 👇

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“greater comfort” making the hierarchy explicit here. there are young people entitled to comfort, and others who are expected to supply it for them

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Private companies are hiding the Musk doc, while public funds are makin' Trump ads. If you are cool with it you can kiss my entire black ass and whatnot.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

jezebel.com

Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today I wrote about the Cornell fraternity brothers who saw the group chat about a rape in progress and chose silence. The high school that missed the opportunity to teach boys how to speak out against sexual assault. And the path of silence that connects them dot-connecting.ghost.io/the-silent-p...

dot-connecting.ghost.io

The silent path from Cornell to Hope High

Three hundred and twenty six miles separate Cornell University from Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island, but right now those two schools sit adjacent in my mind. Two stories of sexual assault...

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You want to keep women safe? Stop demonizing trans people and instead call for a public outcry against rape. Stop making immigrants leave this country and instead make rapists leave college campuses. Stop punishing women for ending unwanted pregnancies and instead hold men who cause them accountable

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Steppin Two - A Cowboy Boogaloo

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'd do that but he'd probably have sex with it, so I'll have to go with something else. 🙄 I'm possibly my own worst enemy so this could get humourous. Weekend at EMc2's!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026

The cervical punch biopsy and colposcopy was easily the worst pain I’ve felt in my entire life.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They’ll need to find someone nicer than me…

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This has been my inspiration since I first saw it

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tobias is a super rad guy and wondrous author. He’s had a right bureaucratic nightmare and if you can help a wee bit, that would be awesome.

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm moving boxes of books and furniture off the old carpet and onto the newly tiled floor so that new carpet can be installed. Satan cat, who never sleeps, has decided this is best time to attack my ankles, play with toys in my path and hide inside the painting tarps. When I die, she did it. 🪦

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every morning, I get a bird (starlings) abacus.

Cloudy morning sky through a dirty window. The bottom edge and left side have dark leaves against the clouds. There are 5 horizontal wires across the image, the top 3 have birds perched on them in groups of 3, 3, 2 and 6. There are 2 small vertical shade strings just left of center.

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Marguerite @marguerites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are also looking for volunteers and ideas, always. Part of our goal is to reflect an authentic modern Dublin (and Ireland more broadly) to the world, making sure all facets of this brilliant spec fic community are represented.

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Vigorous Biscuits @emcc28.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyone else remember when this 2004 PlayStation ad came out? It was pulled after an outcry but someone made it and thought it was ok. Racism in advertising, advertising racism.

A black & white, 2004 PlayStation portable ad showing a tall white woman, in white clothes with white hair, aggressively grabbing the face of a shorter black person who is in all black clothing with the ad line reading "PlayStation Portable White is coming"

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