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CD Covington

@exaggerated.bsky.social
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Writer, linguist, Germanist. Roller derby official in Berlin, Germany. Freelance copy editor and translator. Links-grün versifft web: www.cdcovington.com Mastodon: @exaggerated@wandering.shop

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 14h
I’m gonna tell you how she gets black women to support her, if the anonymous ones are real Bc she attempted to do it to me and for a second it worked, until she mentioned the a name i actually knew and it clicked
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 29/09/2026
this is tonic masculinity + semiotically clever as hell 👍
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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thread. I "attacked" her by trying to warn people that this is what she uses her discord for after she was posting invites to it. I'm sure I will end up on her abuser list for *checks notes* leaving the discord amicably bc it was straining my mental health, then trying to keep others from same 🫠
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
Once you learn that not a single major US news outlet used the phrase "Hamas-ran health ministry" until after 10.17.23 you really start to see how pernicious this stuff is. Nobody really disputed that the GHM was accurate, even Israel admitted so, but that didn't matter. Anyway now it is spreading
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 29/09/2026
I love this. (and the people following the #linguistics tag need to see it too)
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026
Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube
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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For Americans, the names that jump out are Airbnb, Expedia, Motorola and TripAdvisor
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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I want to screech every time I see someone post "why don't they teach media literacy in school?" Well I hate to break it to you but all those Arts & Humanities you systematically defunded and devalued WERE the media literacy.
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CD Covington @exaggerated.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cee's books are good and they should be more widely read!
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CD Covington @exaggerated.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just one day, I would like for none of my circuses to have problems, rather than at least two of them having anything from a fire in the big tent to the monkeys going on strike all at once.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi everyone! You fundraised for one of my trans former students leaving Kansas - that helped and they are now safely in Colorado. I'm now asking you to help againnnnn Let's get Siobhán Kirchstein's fundraiser to goal! She is 100% a real person, I know her and just spoke to her today. Threading:
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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein
Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The newspapers now are essentially gaming apps with an op-ed page attached that occasionally calls powerful people to ask what’s going on and reports what they say as news. Journalism as we think of it does not exist, at least at the national level. And the local papers are dying by the day.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s not just the both sidesing and normalizing Trumpism. It’s the fact that the national press has deliberately decided to stop doing investigatory journalism. The NYT doesn’t do investigations anymore. Their “reporting“ is 99% just calling up the administration and asking them questions.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 04/09/2026
Support Carey here, if able: www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...
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Donate to Help us keep living while I sew, organized by Carey Means
We started this business with money that Carey got from conventions and used a sewing mach… Carey Means needs your support for Help us keep living while I sew
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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS
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CD Covington @exaggerated.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me: I did shit at anthropeum today My score: Anthropeum.com · Sep 27 2026 🟨🟦🟦🟦🟩🟩🟦🟦🟦🟦 90,052 · top 1% of players today! Uh I guess I let my first (wild, really bad) guess color my perception.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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CD Covington @exaggerated.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This happened to a man in Berlin around the same age. His neighbors fought for him and with him. He survived long enough to win his case www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei...
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85-jähriger "Manne" Moslehner darf in seiner Wohnung bleiben
Der 85-jährige Reinickendorfer Manfred Moslehner darf in seiner Wohnung bleiben und muss dort auch für mögliche Sanierungsarbeiten nicht ausziehen. Das entschied das Berliner Landgericht in zweiter In...
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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But wait, the people paid for by the developers to lobby for developer interests keep saying that we'll stop this if we keep building luxury condos. I am so confused.
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Hannah Posts @hannahposts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A tweet from @hagfail

It was removed from Tubu. Heebee sold the IP. Poodee won't play it in your region. It's not on Dippy. You can't find it on Weeno. Gumpy lost the rights to Pheebo. Poob was removed from the app store. The FBI have issued a warning to Poob. 3 Poob executives were arrested today.
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CD Covington @exaggerated.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is where I grew up. Sadly it's not surprising. My high school had a mandatory pregraduation ceremony that involved Christian prayer in the 90s.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 26/09/2026
From @gaigedavila.bsky.social : Time is running out for the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, once called a "crown jewel" of protected spaces in the U.S. Can one last lawsuit slow down the border wall until Congress can act?
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Santa Ana's Last Stand
Congress repeatedly shielded the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge from the border wall. Now, construction has begun—and an irrigation district lawsuit may be the only option left to buy time for…
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"There is also a “natural link between cuteness and deception … I call it ‘charming and disarming’, because one of the things cuteness does to us unconsciously, it’s just how our brain processes it, is lets down our guard. We can’t really help it.”
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can verify everything in Jason's below posts. The ongoing harassment of Jason, Erik, etc etc is *years* long now. I will point out that amongst Emily's "abusers" is one of her own damn authors, who was only recently released from contract after speaking up in support of Emily's victims.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
SANDERS: Trump claims we pay lowest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Wow! Is he telling the truth? OVERTON: There has been immense progress- S: Do we pay lowest prices like POTUS said? You just told us you're gonna stand up to him O: We have seen- S: Is it true? O: *more dissembling*
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 23/09/2026
Katharina Dröge (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) entlarvt im Bundestag live die Methode der AfD und von Alice Weidel persönlich:
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CD Covington @exaggerated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have a mighty need
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey pals… A good friend and coworker was recently diagnosed with cancer and is out of work for treatment. It really sucks. His brother has started a GoFundMe to help (because American unaffordable healthcare), and I’d appreciate any shares if you could www.gofundme.com/f/support-cj...
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Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already
Alt: Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already
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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!
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Donate to Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland, organized by Tobias Buckell
Hi, I'm author Tobias S. Buckell, and these are my two cats, P… Tobias Buckell needs your support for Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland
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Evan Maple VO @evanmaplevo.com · 22/09/2026
it’s been said a ton already but I really do appreciate mamdani so throughly dismantling the core democrat ideology of “we actually can’t ever do anything helpful or good because of. circumstances”
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We wrote this 18 damn years ago.
A script from episode 102 of Leverage with the dialogue for defense contractor Dufort:”You know the great thing about Congressmen? Fifty, a hundred  grand well spent will get one elected.Once they’re in, they have an incumbency rate of over ninety-five percent. You get, on the average, eighteen to twenty years of use out of one. (beat) In these uncertain times, buying a United States Congressman is one of the best investments a corporation can make.”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
grateful to J.Co for proving it is absolutely possible to verbally obliterate Chris Christie without making a single fat joke, a lesson I wish people would learn
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Periodic reminder that Gavin Newsom sucks.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Y'all are so lost
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 22/09/2026
Die Union, wenn die AfD erfolgreich ist: "Wir müssen die Sorgen der Wähler ernst nehmen und Gesetze brechen, um sie zu erfüllen." Die Union, wenn die Linke erfolgreich ist: "Wir müssen die Sorgen der Wähler unterdrücken und Gesetze einführen, um sie zu verhindern"
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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
„Es gibt in Deutschland keine Enteignungen von privatem Eigentum“, sagt Merz. Das stimmt so nicht. Beim Bau von Autobahnen wird das etwa praktiziert. Grundlage ist Art. 14 GG. Finde solche Zuspitzungen daher schwierig.
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Enteignungsverfahren im Straßenbau: Freie Fahrt für Enteignungen
Eigentlich ist die FDP gegen Enteignung von Privateigentum. Außer, es geht um Autobahnen. 2022 gab es 127 Enteignungsverfahren.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
meta: blazing new trails in identity fraud
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cozybooksonly.bsky.social @cozybooksonly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please donate. If you are rooting for someone, no matter the odds, give them some $$. Remember that this ghoul is dropping millions on maga candidates.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Separate from the details of the actual Paramount/WBD deal, we're going to need non-Hollywood writers to do a little homework and understand that "zombie cable arms" are, in the case of WBD, *40-60% of all revenue* depending on the year. It ain't dead just because the streaming enthusiasts asy so.
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 21/09/2026
Die CDU fliegt aus dem ersten Landtag, die AfD verdoppelt sich und Merz will weitermachen wie bisher. Der deep dive, warum genau sein Kurs die AfD stark macht und die CDU überflüssig, den das politische Berlin jetzt lesen sollte. volksverpetzer.de/analyse/wie-...
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Niemand spricht über den wahren Grund, wie Merz die AfD verdoppelt hat
CDU fliegt aus dem Landtag, AfD verdoppelt sich und Merz will weitermachen wie bisher. Der deep dive, warum genau sein Kurs die AfD stark macht und die CDU überflüssig, den das politische Berlin jetzt...
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