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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i'm not shocked at all, being insufferable and being correct often go hand in hand

Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A delightful Smush board with multiple pangrams today, slightly marred by not including hoar among the possible answers.

An image of a completed Smush board with all but one tile used up. Centre letter A - others are NCMHRSOI.

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Only my second perfect since the first one I did. Good to be back on the horse. And speaking of: no 'barded'? Horses need armor too @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social hankgreen.com/smush · 23 Jul 978 pts · PERFECT 💯 · 8-day streak 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞

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A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Curious whether @gailsimone.bsky.social had a hand in Prof X's tea with Polaris in the most recent ep of X-Men 97, or if other X-Men writers have also been mainlining Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss.

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Corrupt immoral coward Lindsey Graham has died after a sudden illness and history will remember him as an insurrectionist who did everything he could in public office to help a vile deranged treasonous felon commit election fraud and sedition against the United States.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A travesty, and also I would point out that it would be better for everyone - better for the refugee, better for integration, cheaper for the state - if we just let refugees work.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Normalise people referencing the characters and format of Disco Elysium like it's Shakespeare. This is the monoculture we need.

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Excellent, if somewhat depressing, thread on the failure of EV transition in the US.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 29/04/2026

yeah sorry but a wholesale Supreme Court overhaul has gotta be a nonnegotiable plank for any future Dem admin

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A thread worthy of prolonged consideration.

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Burnt Seanfferings aka Gay of the Dead @gayofthedead.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I just want to make stuff and give it to people. I honestly don't care about the money except that you need money to make stuff. I've given away so many copies of my book, plays, baked goods, writing, done theater with $5 tickets. I miss creating outside of capitalism.

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Great thread follows this - lots of great silent film thoughts.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Five books to get to know me by: 1. The World According to Garp (John Irving) 2. The Cartoon History of the Universe (Larry Gonnick) 3. Heir to the Empire (Timothy Zahn) 4. The Fifth Elephant (Terry Pratchett) 5. The Fifth Season (NK Jemisin)

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

What’s next:

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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/04/2026

This is my trans agenda

The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools already

Trans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for

To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults.

For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selves

Somewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.

When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The thing about AI is that I understand there are tasks you would like technology to do for you, makes all the sense in the world, but I have no idea why any of those tasks would be “write a book” or “perform a song” or “act in a movie” or a lot of the rest of this shit

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

There are AI boosters here wringing their hands about Bluesky users blocking the new algorithm/feed curation tool and… Dude, I just want posts from people I follow in reverse chronological order. I don’t want my follows buried in junk a machine thinks I want.

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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Evergreen

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.

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Tad Suiter @retius.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The dream of AI is slavery without guilt. That's the goal. That's why the billionaires are pushing for it. They just want unpaid labor.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reactionaries convinced us for decades that something like gender studies has no practical use in society, and I know many reasonable people also believe(d?) this. It was the butt of the joke for as log as I can remember. But OMG does this video drive home the point they were wrong.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

My wee home town's long-running parking fight has made the national news! North Berwick faces 'unprecedented' hostility over parking meters - BBC News share.google/QHY3rnHMuzbQ...

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North Berwick faces 'unprecedented' hostility over parking meters

The picturesque East Lothian town has become a battleground between some residents and the local authority over parking charges.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I'm typically frustrated by the British habit of covering political U-turns as if refusing to change your mind is a virtue, but it does seem like the Starmer government spills a lot of political capital because they constantly announce dumb policies only to have to roll them back.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.

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Freddy Tran Nager @professorfreddy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Scathing indictment of American #capitalism by a conservative economist. Explains why everything from jobs to shopping is getting shittier. We can evict the goons from DC (the sooner the better), but unless we rein back "financialization," the decline will continue. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

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Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/02/2026

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsible—directly or indirectly—for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year.

Elon Musk: Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another.
There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime.
Elon Musk • @elonmusk. 26m
SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon.
This will so insanely cool
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/01/2026

i think people need to calibrate their beliefs about the administration’s ability to “rig elections” with their demonstrated lack of ability to do literally anything

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.  ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The World Cup in the US must be boycotted by foreign nations. Outside financial pressure is the only thing the thugs in suits (as opposed to the thugs in camo) will respond to.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"Abolish ICE" is the moderate position. "Try everyone involved in ICE for crimes against humanity" is the progressive one.

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Martin Zeller-Jacques @gothamexpat.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I get that they can't say it aloud because they're dealing with a spoiled toddler with nuclear weapons, but every democratic world leader should be working towards a world order where they don't rely on America for anything.

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God @thegodshow.com · 21/12/2025

For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.

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