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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the most heinous examples is Matt Walsh suggesting that, actually, Jane Doe raped the frat boys because they were also under the influence. I thought it bore a certain resemblance to some of Andrew Johnson’s comments on slavery. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
But Walsh isn't satisfied with victim blaming. He goes so far as to assert that, given the consumption of drugs and alcohol, the fraternity boys couldn't possibly be held responsible themselves:

I'm not kidding when I say that the Cornell frat guys should file a counter suit accusing the woman of raping them. According to her own testimony, some of the men were drunker than she was. By her logic, and the logic of her supporters, they were even less capable of consent. She was the rapist in that case. There's no way out of our current madness except by holding feminists to their own standards.When I read Walsh's comments I see a level of male supremacism that leaves my jaw on the floor. It also reminds me of a quote from President Andrew Johnson delivered to Frederick Douglass when pressed about protecting freed slaves:

If I know myself, and the feelings of my own heart, they have been for the colored man. I have owned slaves and bought slaves, but / never sold one. I might say, however, that practically, so far as my connection with slaves has gone, I have been their slave instead of their being mine.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 3h
A white and gray bunny sits on beige carpet with a tiny yellow rubber duck balanced on its head.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 8h
SCOTUS in a 6-3 decision decides states must help enforce the fugitive grandchildren act
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 5h
our parrot has decided he loves campbells tomato soup. since he can only drink like, a shotglass full of it, we always have a bowl (minus one shot) of tomato soup leftover. because of this i have perfected my grilled cheese procedure:
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 9h
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5h
can i get an AMEN from the congregation bc this man is preaching
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 4h
Why do I keep scrolling. What am I expecting to happen that hasn't happened already
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 13h
What is a "homelessness-related offense"?
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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 14h
The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. Congress can, in fact, say the court got the Constitution wrong, on such questions as: - Should there only be 9 Wizards in Robes, or 47, or 100, or 250? - Should the Wizards have a building? Clerks? Docket control? - Should they ride the circuit? On horses?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h
damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry
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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12h
I’ve been wrong before, and might be wrong now, but I sort of feel like it isn’t necessary or helpful to parse trump’s most deranged utterances and give the the most charitable possible interpretation. There isn’t a clear meaning, there’s almost never a clear meeting, and that’s often on purpose.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 11h
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13h
The Onion newspaper cover from October 22, 1929: 

Stock Market Invincible
'Buy, Buy, Buy!' Experts Advise
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12h
This strikes me as really fuckin bad
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h
Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 14h
In 2010, Ellison again tried to bankroll a movie for himself to star in. He wrote a script for "Northern Lights," and almost signed Taylor Lautner to co-star (for $7.5 million!) but then Lautner backed out when he found out Ellison was trying to co-star hahahah
Screenshot of 2010 Deadline article by Nikki Finke reading "So I’ve got to ask: If Taylor Lautner was supposed to be paid $7.5 million to co-star in David Ellison’s Northern Lights, then what’s Liam Hemsworth worth now to play the same role? Say, half? A quarter? The project by the son of Oracle’s Larry Ellison has seen several young actors pass ever since Taylor dropped out. “It’s scaring some actors off because David has written himself a big role in the movie which he’s also financing,” an insider tells me. [Ellison’s people say he is not financing the pic, just producing it.] “What, you’re going to work for your co-star who doesn’t have a big body of work? I’ve never seen anything like this before.” You may recall that Lautner was being paid per ab, making the then 17-year-old the highest paid Hollywood teen. Northern Lights was supposed to have a start date of April 1st. The pic is about extreme flying and follows four young pilots as they compete against the world’s best. It’s being made by David Ellison’s new company Skydance Productions, and Paramount has a first look at his development."
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13h
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
Trump said the June 2025 B-2 strikes “ended” the war with Iran, despite launching the current war on February 28, 2026.
meidasnews.com
Trump Says Iran War Ended Eight Months Before It Began
In a rambling Baltimore speech, Trump claimed the B-2 strikes of June 2025 effectively “ended” a war he didn’t launch until February 2026. Seven months later, the fighting continues, U.S. weapons stoc...
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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 20h
I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11h
popping in quickly to post the new toon: tinyview.com/this-modern-...
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A modest proposal
TMW cartoon for Oct. 6, 2026.
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 16h
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 11h
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11h
they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.
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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Alpha treats software-measurable signs of attention and compliance as evidence of learning, then gives those measures authority over a child’s time and opportunities. ... facial movements cannot be reliably translated into specific feelings without context." Perverse incentives encoded...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 05/10/2026
Public officials accepting tips should be illegal. Here's why.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Trump isn't beating the "can't walk in a straight line" allegations
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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Annie Altman @anniealtman108.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB youtu.be/akjrfwYPvy8?...
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First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB
YouTube video by Annie Altman
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CBS Philadelphia @cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert — the former House speaker who was later sentenced to prison time over hush money payments made to cover up sexual abuse of teen boys — has died at age 84.
cbsnews.com
Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’d missed this: Annie Altman, Sam Altman’s sister who alleges in civil lawsuits that he ​sexually abused her repeatedly — starting when she was 3 years old — uploaded the first hour of her deposition to Instagram (and YouTube) this weekend. It has about 38k likes. www.instagram.com/reels/DeAx3h...
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Annie Altman (she/her/human) on Instagram: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset to once again hav...
39K likes, 916 comments - anniealtman108 on October 2, 2026: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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Daily Wah (red pandas) @dailywah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Daily red panda carving a pumpkin!
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For all the talk of Ai replacing creatives, the reason this "Tiffany Sloan" is stealing other comedians' jokes is because Ai can't write jokes. LLMs are built on anticipating what word or piece of information you're looking for and comedy is built on surprise. Also, Christ what a weird fetish...
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
chat is this good
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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/10/2026
Especially since he claims in the story he was only vaguely aware of the things people were saying about Haitians in Springfield online. If he was spreading that slander himself, that seems real relevant
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i’m not accusing the atlantic reporter of malice, but i do think these posts bring up questions that are pretty foundational to the framing of the story and ones that deserve answers.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
sure, i guess it’s possible that jack buhring voted for biden on november 3, 2020 and by january 11, 2021 he was posting support for trump’s insurrection contesting the results of the election. but even if that were true, it belies some pretty complicated politics not articulated in the story.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Abstract interests like having accepted a job and moved your family to a red state.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can’t believe the price of power converters these days. Voting for Palpatine
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