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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 12h
There’s lot to hate here but tech guys lobbying for favorable opinions from the pope is loser shit. New WPA to makes nerds feel bad about themselves again.
Statement from the pope that AI cannot make artNYT article on Anthropocene attempts to sway the pope’s opinion on AI
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It continues to be extremely odd that the group who most strongly wants the American public to believe things are going well right now is liberal technocrats 
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
found a new type of guy
r/AmItheAsshole
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AITA for correcting my girlfriend's family every time they mispronounce my turtle's name?
I have a turtle named Geoff. Yes I know Geoff is normally pronounced Jeff. His isnt. My girlfriend's family knows this and still calls him Jeff basically every time his name comes up.
His name starts with /dz/ instead of the normal American English J sound /d3/. So regular Geoff/Jeff is roughly /dzef/ and his is /dzef/. They are similar but they are NOT the same consonant. /d3/ is a voiced postalveolar affricate and /dz/ is a voiced retroflex affricate. Basically you make the beginning of "Jeff" with the tongue farther back/retracted, which gives it a harder, deeper "dzh" sound.
I'm really into etymology and historical linguistics so the spelling was intentional too. Geoff is already a weird spelling from a modern English perspective because gives you basically no reason to predict /dzef/ unless you already know the name. Obviously I am NOT claiming medieval Geoffrey was pronounced / dzef/. I
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dems position themselves as the party that cares about people but their constant chatter about how people are stupid undercuts that claim and there’s no desire to resolve that tension 
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This isn’t a societal problem we need to worry about as the number of parents keeping their kids in bad schools for ideological reasons is tiny. There are exponentially more nice liberal parents who pull their kids from ‘bad’ schools for amorphous reasons so I’ll continue to focus on that group.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The real AI risk is to culture, and therefore to humanity itself, albeit in a slightly different way than is being said.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reason-v-r...
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Reason v. Rule
The Real AI Risk is to Culture Itself
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Democrats whenever some dumb fool Democrat decides to open their dumb fool mouth to say something both dumb and foolish.
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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Who DOES this
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In the ‘10s libs convinced themselves that with solid evidence they’d get good bipartisan policy passed and that never happened because most people are driven by values not data. Anyway a lot of republicans don’t care about test scores because they value obedience over learning.
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 29/08/2026
You were the first real buddy I ever had.
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S01E01 Once Upon a Beginning 29 January 2004
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of my kids is off to college in a couple of days and something I’ve been noodling on over the last year is how the children of liberal, upper class parents can end up being valueless and swayed by reactionary politics because of the extreme emphasis placed on careerism 
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
did we ever get a good answer as to what time of day the after midnight rule ends in the gremlins universe
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We’ve kind of memory holed how crazy the right was back in the 90s like they were just as crazy as they are now but they just didn’t have a way to proliferate it like they can with social media
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
lmao this is what this guy actually looks like
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John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video: The Turkish catering truck nonchalantly moving from Air Force One to the other plane
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Booze Cruisetamante @danceofoi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Oh good, I was hoping someone with a podcast would weigh in
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In all seriousness, this is what has made the American public university system(s) globally superior
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is how I feel about Silo which has terrible dialogue for what considers itself a prestige show that even the show’s many incredible actors cannot save it
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Doesn’t matter how good your policy is if you can’t get elected and implement that policy and, just as importantly, keep it implemented. Evidence based policy has been completely poisonous for dems because it made them think they didn’t need to engage in the messy, humanness of politics.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
okay now we're really on a heater news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-ben...
news.bloomberglaw.com
Democratic Socialists Win $5.2 Million NYU Retirement Account
A deceased New York University sociology professor’s $5.2 million retirement account will go to the Democratic Socialists of America Inc. based on his 50-year-old beneficiary designation favoring the ...
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Uhhhhh…the St. Paul police chief has accused the mayor of sexual assault? kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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St. Paul police chief files sexual harassment complaint against Mayor Kaohly Her
St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her is being investigated after SPPD Chief Axel Henry filed a formal sexual harassment complaint were against her, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has confirmed.
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 28/07/2026
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
honestly those people don't know anything
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My dislike for evidence based policy and technocracy is hard won since I used to be a policy researcher who did this work. Left the field in ‘18 because in was clear even then that it was a political loser so the continued peddling of the Chart Life ethos in ‘26 is amazing.
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I’ve voted for every loser the dem party has put up, at every level of govt, for over two decades but I will not vote for Craig
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A funny phenomenon that holds at every level of govt is that the more conservative candidate gets to be more openly unhinged than the progressive one and at the local level when two dems are competing this means the moderate one will act in a way they would otherwise condemn
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We really haven’t grappled with Roe going away. There isn’t a blueprint for a world where existing rights are taken away. Technocrats can’t wrap their heads around a world where that is happening alongside abundant consumerism.
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
People would rather be materially worse off in a world that is trending culturally better than be materially better off in a world that’s trending worse. That was post war promise (in fits and starts) and now it’s over and it’s not irrational for people to feel bad about it.
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Over on Threads where normies hang out there are tons of meme posts from Mamdani’s video while over here where the smart (highly questionable) people are it’s endless lecturing about how dems shouldn’t have to say anything about McConnell because they can’t do anything about it
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Once again, normal people want to see demonstrations that their political reps care about their concerns *even if they can’t do anything about it.* If your response to these calls is to roll your eyes and call people stupid you are at the least out of touch with how most people experience politics
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Helpful to contrast this with the whining that Beshear can’t do anything about McConnell. Mamdani can’t do anything about Netanyahu either, he says as much. Yet he’s out here giving a speech. Performance in politics matters!
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Refusal to engage is also on the part of dataheads who won’t do the tiniest bit to understand human behavior. This is not at all hard to understand. Non-economic conditions are worsening, but since what we measure are economic conditions, people are funneling their distress into that.
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
If you live in the US there’s an extremely good chance your ancestors came here in part because they weren’t wild about their birth family and wanted to get away from them
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is 100% online brain poisoning, very few Americans know who Hasan is
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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
cop passing out after touching a lettuce leaf
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
an awards ceremony where we give prizes for Best Graph and Smartest Boy so these people can know they’re better than everyone else so they won’t inflict themselves on others
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is true and this type of pedantry, which is rife among technocratic libs, is utterly poisonous. Of course this person knows what the OP meant by technology yet the main way that so many on the broad left choose to interact is through these priggish lectures which are repellant to normal people.
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Dr. Acula, M. D. @draculamd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
She sounds like she’s going to use a puppet to talk to middle schoolers about the dangers of weed.
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Why must we accept their insincerity yet they not accept our anger towards it? Like I’m not naive I know why they feel they must do this. All I ask for in return is a moratorium on these kinds of priggish lectures where pearls are clutched when the plebs dare to roll their eyes in response
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Perusing the ages of US Senators and it’s remarkable the extent to which some of them can hold one of the most select positions in government and still have almost no broad public exposure. Like Deb Fischer from Nebraska is on her third term, never even heard of this gal before.
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
To be clear, it’s so good and necessary that we have a place like Reddit where people can congregate and speak stupidly and pedantically in a never ending circle about their niche interests without (mostly) having that space polluted by highbrow concerns
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Being too online helps cons perceive normies better and makes libs perceive them worse
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 08/07/2026
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jessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE ACKROOMS
Cathy in the backrooms
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Dumb article but hints at something we should talk more about which is that we’ve treated abstention from vice as an unmitigated good but if it comes at the cost of community (which it sometimes does) then it isn’t unmitigated
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The political side of X understandably gets the most attention but it is underrated how X is also the preferred home of the toxic parts of other communities and fandoms
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
That was actually the Senate parliamentarian’s fault
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Bsky would be a better place if there were more smol bean lockheed Martin posters
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