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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Apparently William Shatner went on Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes' podcast and talked about the 2025 gay romantic film PILLION. @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social @brendelbored.bsky.social

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Noah @ncallaway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If 9/11 happened on Trump's watch, these people would be fucking *celebrating* it

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/09/2026

this bigot is a republican

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am always saying that we need to weaponize Nathan Fielder against the police and now we have an angle that appeals to him

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Again, the president has a chance to lead by example here and have these centers constructed next to his shitty golf courses and his tacky senior center in Palm Beach

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/08/2026

randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have

Screenshot of tweet by Eminem. Text of Eminem's post reads:

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

Attached is an image of a classy and generous letter Dolly Parton sent to Eminem after missing a chance to meet him at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Leezus H. Christ 🏳️‍⚧️ @langhuck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

my favorite anime? why, it's Neon Genesis, uh... *looks at smudged writing on hand*

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, August 6, 2026:

Jeff Vandermeer's ABDICATION, the last novel in the Southern Reach series, in which an ornithologist exiled to a remote coast stumbles on a terrifying secret, a self-proclaimed king pursues a mystery hidden in a strange weather station, and a man who can become a cormorant is tasked with a deadly mission through a future landscape transformed by Area X, for publication in October 2027, in a significant deal, to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, by Joseph Veltre at the Gersh Agency and Alex Kohner at Yorn Levine (world).

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LuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 31/07/2026

this is my new favorite diagram

Brachiosaurus projectile vomiting: forces generated and resulting traces
Assuming 50 kg (110 Ibs) of regurgitant, impact velocity from 14 m (45 ft) height, and hard-packed sand as impact site.
h = 14 m (45 ft)
Impact velocity = V = V 2gh = 16.6 m/s; kinetic energy before impact = 6,860 J
Average impact force = 68,600 N

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/07/2026

Those New York Times focus group features always make me feel better about us boiling ourselves off the planet

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell are demonstrating the kind of leadership that I hope other Republican legislators follow.

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/07/2026

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 05/07/2026

Trump is watching the Fox News feed of himself watching Fox News

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 29/06/2026

Checking in on MAHA day at the American State Fair. Managed to get pretty close to the stage

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In his decision for SCOTUS published this morning, Justice Alito dismissed the idea that the Trump administration would halt all asylum seekers as a mere "hypothetical" not even worth considering.

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

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The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds

A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

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Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“With tears in their eyes, they said ‘sir’ please never come back to a Knicks game.’”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Bass is an incumbent with establishment support but deeply unpopular and that anger is fueling Pratt. Nithya Raman is an experienced candidate with progressive values who is FAR BETTER than Pratt and also isn't Bass.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

Really have a hard time getting over all these guyAIs looking at this world simply teeming with problems with well known solutions & deciding the best way they can help is to create whole new global problems that no human alive even remotely understands never mind knows how to actually fix

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Excerpt from the book How Democracies Die.

"America's democratic norms, then, were born in a context of exclusion. As long as the political community was restricted largely to whites, Democrats and Republicans had much in common. Neither party was likely to view the other as an existential threat. The process of racial inclusion that began after World War II and culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act would, at long last, fully democratization the United States. But it would also polarized it, posing the greatest challenge to established forms of mutual tolerating and forbearance since Reconstruction."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/04/2026

A constant message from fascist leaders: "our opponents have gone so far that we no longer need to restrain ourselves from violence." You could find a conservative saying roughly this every single day for the last 30 years, somewhere on RW media. It's a constant drumbeat & permission structure.

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

BREAKING: president trump escorted out of press dinner after ripping farts so hard they were mistaken for gunshots

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ceej @ceej.online · 09/12/2024

(someone commits political violence) Revolution!! Viva la... (reading the first page of the manifesto) ...Foreskin Restoration??

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"When Trump pulled out of the Obama agreement and replaced it with nothing, Iran did not have a single bomb’s worth of uranium "Then it started enriching with a vengeance.. "Today, Iran has 11 tons of uranium.. With further purification, that is enough to build up to 100 nuclear weapons" 🎁🔗 below

Trump Seeks to Abolish Iran’s Atomic Stockpile, a Problem He Helped Create

President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 07/04/2026

imagine being the farthest anyone's ever been from earth and still having to hear him

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SquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Here's my full interview with author of 'To Catch a Fascist', @letsgomathias.bsky.social We discuss my personal connection to the book, how to become an Anti-Fascist, what skills Anti-fascists use, and why so many 'Antifa' are Trans youtu.be/_OCON1FITts

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How to Antifa Destroys Fascism from the Inside: Chris Mathias Interview

YouTube video by SquidTips

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