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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior

An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

we do not have to live this way.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 08/10/2026

We’re calling it “yes sir” money now

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Evan @ereller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I dunno, this feels more antisemitic than anything Piker has said

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Iran has no known, tested, or deployed missile capable of reaching Los Angeles or San Diego from Iranian territory. He knows that, we all know that. But repeated references to violence against an out-group (liberal Californians) changes the emotional meaning of that violence for an audience.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

feeling very easy to manipulate rn if any federal agents want to give me a good deal on a firearm

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think a lot of people who think this way probably feel guilty about an encounter where they were bad with consent. And I don't say this to imply we should assume everyone talking like this is a rapist, but that we should probably talk about how widspread it is to be bad with consent

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Put me in charge, I'll ban scented laundry detergent on day one, and on day two we're gonna rent a big ass wood chipper and do You Know What

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 07/10/2026

Wearing my weighted vest to Marshalls so everyone knows I'm going through it

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Federal government is currently staffed like the graveyard shift at a 24 hour grocery store.

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can you die of too many open computer tabs

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"they're crazy" guess what rape does to your mental health! "she's broke" guess what rape does to your finances! "he's bitter" guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world!

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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

not working has never stopped a death penalty, it's only fair to put a wealth tax on the books for the rest of human history

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

look. this app can be cringe but it's *ad-free* cringe

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cities are terrific. It's why most people want to live in them.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sorry this is just wrong and is the logic of Jim Crow. Do we disenfranchise people in abusive relationships? What about old people in a nursing home? People getting mental health treatment? People serving in the military?

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

politico.com

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.

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gal beyond the pal @giveemhellery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm guessing people see kids on e-bikes, alone or in groups, going very fast on sidewalks (if we're lucky) like they do in my area, and it's like oh that's a child on a motorcycle, acting how you would expect a child on a motorcycle to be acting

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 04/10/2026

how am I gonna explain to my therapist that 149,000 people on twitter want me dead

tweet that says “we need to go back in time and kill the wendys social media manager from 2017”

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

major democracies electing far-right populist governments

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October Dahlias, arguably the Best Dahlias

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

The best job in baseball is the organ player who gets to be like ok, send me this year’s pop hits

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026

Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview: A few hundred people are out protesting right-wing provocateur Jake Lang and his attempted "crusader march" on the local Palestine Fest going on nearby. Police in riot gear just formed a line, with Lang's group behind them.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families”

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a piece of shit

Headline from Fortune Google's Sergey brin has now donated more than $100 million to oppose California's billionaire tax

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