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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't think you get to just decide to call yourselves "Rationalists" and say you're advocating "Rationalism" and expect that everybody else is supposed to just swallow that uncritically and defer to your superior rationality. That's not how that works, even apart from the orgies and whatnot.
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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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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Only in America do they deny children free lunch while forcing them to read about Jesus feeding the hungry.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Eugenics is the tool of the oppressor. We do not need it. We will not use it. Hate to break it to you, but this means: Mentioning “the gene pool” The concept of IQ and BMI Standardized tests “Gifted” AND “special” education Rawdogging viruses “Social Darwinism” “Effective altruism”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As a society we must do a better job of listening to disabled people. As the incomparable Alice Wong used to say… we’re oracles. We can offer a window into what comes next for you and your loved ones. We have wisdom to share. We also know how to fight systems of oppression.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
All these athletes getting paid to be the faces of gambling sites should be ashamed of themselves. This will be a terrible look in a year or two, as Americans, especially young people, waste what little money they have on these sites that make the rich richer and everyone poorer.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Listen, i may not be a football girlie but game theory-wise i will say this: the way Robert Kraft collaborated with other NFL owners to get Macklemore kicked off of Ed Sheeran's tour speaks to why Colin Kaepernick was never given another shot after taking a knee for racial justice.
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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Newly disabled people, I say this with love: Two things are true. 1. Your expectations for your life have been disrupted. Maybe permanently. You have the right to take space and grieve that. 2. There is life beyond that disruption. Millions of us are living it.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.
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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Do not. Blame. Trans people. For being upset. When the Democrats. Throw them under the bus. For political gain. You do not get to judge trans people for being angry about this. You do not. Shut your mouth.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Democrats' failure to actually support trans people is obnoxious for a few reasons. First, I'd like to live, thanks. Second, it's a losing strategy. There's already an entire 'our whole thing is we hate trans people' party.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026
I just want to say, the fact that so many Dems are coming out and saying shitty things about trans people in the last two weeks is a case in point of what I have been working so hard to sound the alarm on. I've been so hard on each individual dem who breaks for years now. I feared this.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
GO TO THE FOOD BANKS!! Without detailing every important reason behind this statement, please go to the food banks if you need them. You will not believe the quality and variety of products and services available. Food waste is a massive problem and it's wrong. If you need help, please ask.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.
Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Facts! There's nothing that stops the doomscrolling dead in its tracks like "Go out & do something very direct & hands-on about the problem." And they'll pay 👏 you 👏 to 👏 do 👏 it! powerthepolls.org/creator-sara...
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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Most people who've never been abused are — full offense — truly clueless how this stuff works and they'll quickly and eagerly ally with the abuser, because that's what feels easier. They'll assume victims are somehow exaggerating or something. They ignore the situation, again just feels easiest.
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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn’t go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you’re disabled and being abused by the system or your caregiver… please know it’s not your fault. It’s not your shame. You did nothing to deserve it. Society has failed to protect disabled people & left us vulnerable to severe mistreatment. We all deserve better.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
a lot of Jewish people do in fact think that "never again" should mean, "never again to anyone."
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Charlie Jones @charliepsych.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That's cool if 'box breathing' can help to manage stress, but it's not a solution to the underlying causes of stress. Important to understand these things are separate.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 28/08/2026
Bike infrastructure isn’t about catering to existing cyclists. It’s about opening up access, independence, and opportunity for those who can't drive. Cities that invest in cycling are actively choosing to give more people the freedom to move through their communities. LISTEN: bccycling.ca/podcast
A collage of people cycling in the Netherlands including a family, an elderly couple, a man in a mobility scooter, a woman on a tricycle, and a group of young boys.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15/08/2026
When is it appropriate to call what we are witnessing attempts at Black scholasticide and the undermining and devaluing of Black intellectual labor?
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Charlie Jones @charliepsych.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dehumanisation is a psychological process that strips people of their humanity & dignity, leading to the justification of harm. When narratives casually frame people as 'other', it normalises actions that'd otherwise be seen as unacceptable. We see this everywhere now. Language- people in... 1/2
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Living with chronic illness is an exercise in patience. You must learn to be patient with your body. You must learn to rest when you don’t want to. You must learn to accept a loss of control. You must learn to deal with the unrelenting pain of being abandoned by those who should care for you.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Okay, gang. Let’s talk, because there are some things getting real stale. What does ableism mean? It means a power dynamic skewed in favor of people without disabilities or prejudiced against disabled people. Who can be ableist? Anyone. Yes, you, too. What does ableism look like? 🧵
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/08/2026
as a general statement, any time you see a news story with "So and So becomes the first [marginalised or minority population] to do XYZ the actual story is how many other qualified and capable people were discriminated against by the society publishing the story
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026
just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
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gwen pepperoni 🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼🍕 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 31/07/2026
trans people are not going to get quieter about harry potter and the new york times. you may not value our lives. but you severely underestimate how much we value them. way that you will never come close to feeling or understanding.
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Naomi Whittingham @naomiwhitt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I realised there was a part of chronic illness that I'd never actually written about. Not the grief or the isolation. But the experience of living inside a body that feels so unpredictable and unsafe. Now I’ve written it. I’d love to know if it resonates with you.
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The Burden of Chronic Illness That I Rarely Talk About
Being ill is hard.  What an obvious thing to say – and yet how often it goes unspoken.  I’ve written about many aspects of life with long-term illness: from the grief of dreams shat…
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 29/07/2026
I am all in favour of assisted dying in principle. In practice, knowing how disabled and chronically ill people are treated, I am implacably opposed until there is a thorough root-and-branch reform of our medical system. Because otherwise people *will* be murdered.
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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 29/07/2026
I think it’s just fine for a woman who is the foremost expert in a topic to be mean to a man who came into her sandbox and made a mess and had fun doing so. Let her cook.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
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Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
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nude antifa goat @goat.sex · 23/07/2026
the whole "women's sports exist to protect women from men" framing is hilarious, given that a lot of these divisions were initially formed because men were deeply embarrassed any time a woman beat them at a sport olympic shooting was mixed gender right up until a woman won the gold
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Okay look I love Jimothy as much as the next Washingtonian expat but I just read some abled nonsense extolling his resilience and honey Sweetheart Babygirl (gn) The raccoon does not have willpower. This is just how disabled life is. We survive because we have to. It’s not inspiring. It’s life.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Once again, many, MANY of us who are “always online” aren’t here because we eschew “grass touching”, it’s because people in our physical vicinity can’t or won’t meet us where we are, usually due to ableism. It’s great. I hate it. It leads to people assuming online stuff is less of a commitment.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 18/07/2026
One thing capitalism & whiteness do not allow people to understand is that you do have obligation to care for others. You do have duty to others. There are things incumbent on you to do to make sure others in the collective you are part of are well. @161bklyn.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social
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