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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13h
At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Profiles in No Courage
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
it’s whatever they’re mad about. always has been. it doesn’t mean anything to them, it’s just a place to store bad feelings.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
last week, my flight from SFO to LAX was delayed because we just didn't have a plane? and no one was sure where the plane was? kind of stuff that happens all the time and whatever, it was two hours, but there was one difference
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At the leadership level anyway the two parties are "represents billionaires with openly racist beliefs" and "represents billionaires who have mostly submerged their racist and genocidal beliefs." Which is why you can't get any party leadership to sign up for transformative change the people want.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The byline left up there like a head on a spike outside a castle
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this is absolutely insane, what tf are we even doing here
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
working from home
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
no but seriously democrats need to start going on the record with what theyre going to do to hold trump accountable so that we can hold them accountable
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/09/2026
They are boosting renewables more than any previous administration combined and now they are pushing vegetarianism.
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Local Man @localman44.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We desperately need some sort of American Confucianism movement to somehow remember that it is not good to be despicable all the time
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI critics: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination AI Stans: This is the greatest, most powerful tech in history. It is not a theft machine. There are no original thoughts anymore People Who Created AI: This is a theft machine for lazy turds with no imagination
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator
Sticker on a cooler at a convenience store advertising Arizona iced tea cans at $1.50 each.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’s very important to know you can just tell them their questions are dumb. It’s what Trump does! He’s been very successful at it! The media decided to stop asking actual important things to him because of it!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/09/2026
this, I think, is the actual centrist position on trans people in sports in this country I want a world in which trans kids play sports and everyone is welcoming and lets them be themselves and maybe a lot of the country isn’t there yet, but they also simply have other priorities in their lives
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026
we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Or … treat them like political enemies because they are enemies, tax them into poverty, seize all corporate and private assets, and then consider getting mean …
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Ally Roth @alinaisyou.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the thing i wish politicians like talarico would say, especially with this framing is, "trans people in sports are not a big concern for my constituents". because it isn't! stop accepting the framework of bigots it makes you weak!
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/06/2025
that lead chart but I've subtly improved it to read:

Generation Loko
Distribution of childhood Four Loko levels by age in the United States

Showing that anyone aged between 29 and 44 in 2025 has elevated levels of four loko in their blood
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Democratic Party is every bit as bad as the most outlandish parody of them would suggest
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I think Democrats should appeal to people who don't vote because they have no reason to believe you will improve their lives rather than constantly trying to bring in people who think you are a demon from hell literally like an actual demon.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 03/09/2026
The first wave of Democratic candidates to understand that “The Supreme Court is a corrupt cesspool of pro-Trump reactionaries and there is only one way to fix it” is a winning message will become stars in a hurry
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Democrats Who Are Still Afraid of Supreme Court Expansion Need to Grow Up
Democrats are finally grasping that their voters do not like the Supreme Court and do not want to be represented by politicians who defend it.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
not that they’re doing it correctly or well or rigorously or competently, but it is funny how these guys spend all their time doing gender studies
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
tax is policy. it's as much about what you make easy to do and what you make hard to do as it is about revenue generation. you can just stop or at least not incentivize so many socially destructive things
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
God help the GOP if "Nazi infiltration of the Republican Party" ever becomes an obsessive media discourse object the same way "antisemitism on the left" has. Even the world's laziest reporter could find three of these guys on every campaign. It'll be shooting gallery.
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You’ve got to understand the WNBA’s dilemma here: on one side are the hardcore, dedicated socially liberal fanbase who supported the league during the dark days when it was barely profitable and on the other side are the people who hate women and don’t think the WNBA should exist.
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