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The people who run our government are are obsessed with appearance, unfamiliar with blue collar work, and worship President McCheese

In a Facebook post, the American Federation of Government Employees TSA Council 100, the union that represents the officers, expressed concern over the agency's "consequential decision.
The ergonomic chairs, the union argued, provide safety and support for officers who stand and walk on hard surfaces for extended periods.
"TSA is treating this matter like it is a privilege, the union said in its statement. "It is not; it is basic safety and common decency for the workforce."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the boys from hanson with a speech bubble

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Lori Not Laura or Laurie @lorimmiller.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Not a hot take, I don't think - but I was reminded again after watching Miss Austen just how much the alternate life path, shall we say, of Edward Austen Knight is kind of there in the background of several (most?) of the novels.

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Andrew Bloom @andrewbloom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Mr. Knightley musing about how he loved Emma from when she was a baby is creepy as all hell. Also, I made some gruel from the recipe on Max Miller's Tasting History show, and it was pretty darn good! Mr. Woodhouse is right to like it so much!

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

When I saw the movie I was 13 years old and not wise in the ways of movies, and had no idea what was coming… and man that SHOCK was so pure!

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Absolutely correct. Every novel asks "how do we live together?"

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TH @tylerhower.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

No hot take at all, but I still think almost 35 years later about being told she was one of the most important moral philosophers ever to have written.

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ooooh have to think about this some more!!! Frank Churchill = Henry Crawford? Mind is blown

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Theodora Ruhs @theodoraruhs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Crofts in Persuasion are Austen’s platonic ideal of a married couple rather than any of marriages that any of her protagonists end up in. While she has some couples that are clearly parody, I’d say all of her couples have some satirical elements, except the Crofts.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

RIGHT one of the things that Austen does extremely well is elucidate that some of the most reliable friends in your life might be people you personally find annoying. I think of Mrs. Jennings and Sir John and Mister Collins (who tries badly to do the right thing!) and Miss Bates

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"i'm on the struggle bus today" bro i am driving the struggle bus. and if it goes slower than 55 mph it's going to explode

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James Lyden @jameslyden.com · 16/03/2026

Exactly. It's sending a Benihana chef to interview a live shrimp.

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Dododoo @lalala54.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Blast Bonnie Tyler Holding Out for a Hero from every ship the U.S. has in the region.

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I saw the Wuthering Heights movie and as someone who reviles the book, I was able to enjoy it - I liked the leeches

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Sarah Colonthree, unmoderated @sarah.northsky.social · 12/03/2026

Hormuz replacement therapy

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/03/2026

What in the absolute fuck is this.

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Not only is the bombing an unforgivable crime, but what about those people who had to pull the bodies of children from the rubble? They will never be the same and that’s a cost that we don’t seem to count

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Christopher D Bingham Photography @cbinghamphoto.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Firefall, Yosemite 2/2025 Horsetail Falls, illuminated by the setting sun for a couple of weeks each February…. #flowing #blueskyartshow #nikon #yosemite #landscape #landscapephotography

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Headline of a Q&A in New Yorker formatting

Headline: A panicked middle-aged man refuses to tell me directions to the bathroom.

Subhed: Please, I just have to pee. I'm in a hurry.

By Isaac Chotiner
March 4, 2026

Excuse me.

Oh, God. Oh, no. Holy shit. Get away from me.

I was wondering if you knew where the bathrooms are.

Look, I'm ... it's not a crime to scroll through your high school girlfriend's Instagram account. We remained friends after high school! I was at her wedding! It's only natural to see how she's doing.

I'm in a bit of a hurry, and I'm afraid that if I choose the wrong corridor, I'll be late for my train.

I think they're down that way, but I'm actually from out of town. Please stop talking to me.

Real quick, though. I agree that it's natural to be interested in an old friend, but aren't you afraid about the message you might be sending by liking a picture of her at the beach from 2015?

If that did happen, and I'm only going off your word, it was probably an accident. They put the ... scroll bars or whatever ... close to the thumbs up button. People have been complaining about that for years. I've been complaining about that for years.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 26/02/2026

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 25/02/2026

why do nerds suddenly appear every time I post here

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary

Two cats have jumped onto a sash window and climbed up under the blind, dislodging it

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

“masculinity has always had a liege” will stay with me

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The server complimented me on how prepared I was when ordering my food and coffee. It’s possible to win at ordering and this is a normal thing to want

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I have read Wuthering Heights twice and both times I felt like it was just kink. Someone’s elaborate private fantasy. Feels intrusive to read it.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I'm not trying to add snark. I keep hearing versions of this and think it's useful to consider. Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +

Don Moynihan

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Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

1. Catherine Rampell

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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped.

The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people inde...

www.reuters.com

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Everybody can reply

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Ok seriously what the hell is going on with these almost identical posts I keep seeing from different accounts? @bsky.app

Two Bluesky posts in a row with almost identical statements about not acknowledging Presidents Day until we have a president worth respecting

A third Bluesky posts from a third user with an almost identical message about not acknowledging Presidents Day.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/02/2026

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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Julian Frost @serviceurbanisme.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Calling an emergency council so we can all get on the same page about what the phrase “out of pocket” means

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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/02/2026

super bowl ads are always annoying and bad but i think this is the first year they were legitimately Evil

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I have agreed to travel to Bath, England to attend a Regency ball this year and now I need a costume that will seem like I didn’t order the cheapest thing on Amazon, and I’m panicking.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I once saw a skeet that was like "I love worldbuilding fiction because creative ppl will literally build whole imaginary societies just to talk about their fetishes and hyperfixations, it's all a huge self-report" And If a skeet could stab you in the heart, man

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Why is it that I just get rubbed the wrong way by Bridgerton? Like every single character bugs me. But especially Eloise! Am I an old grouch now?

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Kristin | First Impressions Podcast @firstimpresspod.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I dreamed I was @jamellebouie.net ‘s manager and had to tell him to stop making videos during his shift at my library, even though I love his videos and think they are so important for this moment, but I had to tell him no more videos on work time. And he got mad at me. I woke up devastated, lol

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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We as a society need to confront how I’m supposed to know that I’m allergic to Skyrizi before I ever take Skyrizi

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

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Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Tens of thousands have taken to the streets in Minneapolis, protesting and striking against ICE’s occupation. @mercadomedia.bsky.social

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

“Every good thing you have in your life is a product of someone else’s struggle.”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

people prob gonna get worked up about other stuff here but please understand: this is what hotel rooms were supposed to look like. we have lost our way

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