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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"Donald Trump’s disgusting racism is what he uses to convince his supporters to ignore his pathetic job performance. And it works. Trump is objectively bad at running the government, but he’s objectively good at running a Klan rally." @elienyc.bsky.social nails it here

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Nothing Works in Trump’s America—Except for Racism

In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores Trump’s stunning incompetence. Plus: baseball is back—for now.

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 16/03/2026

one must imagine batman happy, and when one brings numbers into it, one is like wow this guy is gonna get there FAST qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: Batman, who was great at fighting crime, smiled. His one-man war on crime was going great!!

T-Rex: It HAD to be!

T-Rex: Because dressing up as a bat and punching criminals until they stop doing crime isn't the sort of thing you'd keep doing if it WASN'T having a solid, sustained, and measurable impact. It MUST have been going great for him to not just keep it up, but invest in a Batgyro, and Batmobile, and Batplane, and so on!

Utahraptor: Yeah, it makes sense that Batman would be super effective! He's BATMAN.
T-Rex: Exactly!

T-Rex: So Batman's SO good at fighting crime that he HAS to win, right? He decides to fight crime - the very CONCEPT of crime, an impossible task - and he DOES it, because he's BATMAN. So Gotham ends up crime free and nobody's parents get murdered in any more alleyways, THE END.

T-Rex: Therefore, LOGICALLY, all Batman's adventures MUST take place in the brief interval AFTER he starts fights crime but BEFORE he defeats it, which given his skills I estimate to be about 2 weeks, tops.
Off panel: But -
T-Rex: EITHER YOU ADMIT I'M RIGHT OR YOU'RE SAYING BATMAN SUCKS

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Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make it viral.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

One of the best literary journals anywhere, outside and in, is @winterpapers.bsky.social. Their open submissions period for the 2026 issue is 14-28 February. Everything will be read and replied to early August. The editing is excellent: acute & sympathetic. Have a go! winterpapers.com/submissions

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Winter Papers Submissions

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Once again, one of the most consistently replicated findings in the history of experiments is that giving people cash with zero strings attached has massive social benefits for those receiving the cash as well as the community around them

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 03/12/2025

🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of Poetry Review contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025. Next is Chris Arning's pick: High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett (Banshee Press). Thank you, Chris!

Chris Arning recommends High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett and says: I just thought - what an audacious conceit to pattern a whole volume on the concept of the high jump. There is a lot of daring work in it.

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Gemma Matthews - The Sewing Songbird @thesewingsongbird.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It’s a collage type of day. 😉 16 little snippets of details taken from a variety of my embroideries. I hope it brightens your timeline… 🪡🌿🌺✨🌱🪻🪷 #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The flip side of this is the male author who was asked about his writing routine, and who talked about how much he loved the feeling that he could close his door and then “the day is completely yours” to focus on writing. He had, at the time, two young children… and, of course, a wife

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I'm sure that Jimmy Wales has many bad opinions. But Wikipedians aren't a pro-Wales cult. He's not growing rich off clicks. Some very rich, very awful people are determined to discredit the last mega-website that isn't run for profit and being actively made worse in the pursuit of that objective.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/10/2025

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe…

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

‘We offer our soldiers socialism to go abroad and defend capitalism, and I was too poor to say no.’ Great points, delivered in a blunt, articulate way.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this: everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r... It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

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Let's All Remember When We Saved The World

To remind ourselves we can do it again.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

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John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Can I ask my writer/poet/artist friends here to consider signing this statement in support of Sally Rooney and the right to peaceful protest in democratic society? chng.it/DP4sSJ9N4d #sallyrooney #palestineaction #peacefulprotest #democraticsociety

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I wrote this in January, about the issues we face when responsibility for covering the irony-poisoned and extremely-online trolls of the far right, falls to journalists who can't rotate a PDF. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

The same sturdy media apparatus that so assiduously pores through court documents — or uncovers spending gaps or analyses executive orders — is not well positioned to tackle a movement entirely predicated on bad faith gestures designed to shock and confuse — not least one whose roots are in labyrinthine internet subcultures that modern, professional journalists will have avoided their entire lives. And so, buffering at the sight of the world’s richest man delivering a fascist salute to the cameras of the world, they froze on the spot. Within hours, the sensible and serious moderates everywhere from the BBC to the New York Times caveated their coverage with quote marks or qualifiers; “what looked like”, “what some are calling”, “what many interpreted as”.

It is a deliberate nudge and wink to the far-right ideas you actively hold, bathed in a self-defensive layer of irony from which you can always wriggle, on the grounds that it was just a hilarious joke. “I’m an edgelord, not a Nazi,” you continue to tell yourself even as your every viewpoint calcifies toward the politics of Genghis Khan.

This kidding/not kidding tactic forms the entire story of the last two decades of angry nerds on the internet. We have seen it play out everywhere sad men congregate to complain about their unhappy lives and get told that someone else — someone foreign, different, or weird — is to blame. None of it is mysterious. None of it is innocent. None of it is new.

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It really, really isn't. Finland solved the problem almost entirely through Housing First years ago, and they told the Irish government how to do it - the Irish govt just ... didn't bother. This is from 2019: www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We need to treat social media as humanity's demented id - which is pretty much what it is - and stop feeling like everything on here is a thought out policy position that requires a response. Everyone on the internet is basically mad & drunk & has a real job/family somewhere they're neglecting.

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Detritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Rookie numbers y’all.

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

‘Sharp, funny & vivid, these stories are brilliantly attuned to the messiness of life.’ @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social ‘Gritty & soulful, spiky & incisive...A memorable debut collection.’ @colinbarrett.bsky.social @davetynan.bsky.social's We Used to Dance Here published today.

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

'You’re always trying to write what you don’t feel is out in the world already. Dave Tynan's We Used to Dance Here will be out in the world this Thursday!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Verification means we can establish what is true in ways we can trust, through journalism, science, courts, audits, transparency. Deliberation means we can reason together across differences, in parliaments, the press, social movements. Accountability means power can be held to account.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

To expand on some of the points I make in this, we often talk about democracy as if it lives or dies on elections. But elections are just one part of the picture. At its core, a healthy democracy depends on three functions working together: Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability, aka VDA.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Again, why critical thinking skills are crucial in education. If people are bombarded with a constant stream of algorithmically selected content that engages them emotionally and we aren't equipping them with critical thinking skills from an early age then things like this are the inevitable outcome

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the karyn in the woods 🎃 @karynmoy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

the turtle in particular keeps cracking me up he’s so ready for a scrap

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Erin Fornoff @erinfornoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I was Obama staff in 08 and I am begging you @barackobama.bsky.social please dispense with the causation and this what it is: open fascism. You should be losing your g-d mind, they should have to cut your mic….

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Erin Fornoff @erinfornoff.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Equivalent to the entire population of Ireland turned out to protest Trump and fascism this weekend

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

some founding mothers would’ve planned for this level of buffoonery

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

the founding fathers failed to anticipate how stupid we’d get

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 07/06/2025

MAGA calls most immigrants freeloaders and criminals, but when ICE wants to make quota they show up at workplaces around the country No judicial arrest warrant in sight because they're not after criminals 44 "administrative" arrests. 44+ lives upended www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Immigration officials target 3 Los Angeles sites in raids condemned by area leaders

“Approximately 44 people” were administratively arrested and one person was arrested on an obstruction charge, Homeland Security Investigations said.

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Tonight on Arena I'll be talking to Sarah Moss about her new novel Ripeness, @erinfornoff.bsky.social and Colm Keegan about their spoken word roadshow Every Blooming Thing, and... 🧵

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

If you're trying not to fall in love, it's already too late. Jessica Coles, in Slips Slips 📰 ❤️

IMPOSSIBLE: URGENT

If you plant a garden on a floodplain, you can't ask
the river to wait until after harvest.

If you open an umbrella, you can't beg
the barometer to control the density of clouds.

If you shout ludicrous confessions, you can't unvibrate
vocal folds into a whisper.

If you clip flowers from a bleeding-heart, you can't line
your tongue with insincerity.

If you offer a garden, you can't curl up
in a blizzard and become a snowbank.

If you collect sparrow feathers from a cat's mouth, the carcass has already been swallowed.

If you're trying not to fall in love,
it's already too late.

How many ways will you make me
tell you I would not change a thing?

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Erin Fornoff @erinfornoff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Launched my book this weekend - you can get it below. An epic (true-ish) story told in poetry about a 99 year old man moving back to the island of his birth and the friendship that sustains him. . salmonpoetry.com/details.php?...

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Across the board, every institution has proven inadequate to the moment, because they're all too concerned with what acknowledging the truth might risk them. So we keep teetering ever more impossibly far over the abyss

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The music of Seinfeld, divorced from the show itself, is nothing short of disgusting. Imagine if the show didn’t exist but the music somehow did. Hearing it, your face would twist in angry revulsion

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

5 mins before I had to run for a Dart & I got to congratulate @rurooie.bsky.social on her forthcoming #YA verse novel #shorelines w/ @littleislandbooks.bsky.social, give Marta @gutterbookshop.bsky.social a hug, & celebrate @erinfornoff.bsky.social 's new epic verse tale launching this evening! #busy

Selfie of Bob with YA writer Ruth Ennis & Marta Gutterbookshop.

Photo of Erin Fornoff holding her new epic verse tale We Are An Archipelago in the festival bookshop.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The logic is simple: if success is earned, then failure must mean you didn’t deserve it. So we blame ourselves. Or we blame others. But always through the lens of merit: who tried hard enough, and who didn’t.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Now add corrosive meritocracy. We grow up believing in meritocracy: work hard, make good choices, and you’ll succeed. But for many people, the promised rewards, security, recognition, belonging, never come.

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