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I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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Rylie 🌹 @rylieringtail.bsky.social · 3h

If you live in Portland and haven’t donated $5 to Mitch, please do so cause we’re in the final stretch!

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Haze Arquebus @reapthegirlwind.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

finally, bugfuck nowhere

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JoCat 🔜 Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 29/09/2026

This will be an easy way to find out what advertisers don't like it when you criticize isreal

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 21h

The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 16h

Daily bunny no.3457 always brings an acorn

A bunny in a blue dress brings an acorn to a small grey squirrel, who she is meeting in a clearing in the woods. The squirrel is dressed more rustically, accepts the gift gladly.

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 19h

A Maya monument depicting a man and his wife carrying a hunted deer. Its unusual openwork design makes it very interesting. It is called Estela de Tabí. Seen at the Museo Regional de Antropología in Mérida. #Maya #Yucatan #Archaeology

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 20h

I hope everyone has a Hussein

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Kat @griskitcat.bsky.social · 20h

do kind of wonder why with as addictive of a personality I have I've never felt the appeal of gambling (I believe it should be legal, it's your business) It feels like if back when I was unrecovered alcoholic I had to correctly guess which cup my next shot of vodka was under to keep getting drunk.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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🪸🫧 @itsclammy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

don’t just tell your friends you love them. show them. send them something that reminds you of them. show them something you know they enjoy. anyone can say it. not as many show it. small actions do more than anyone realizes these days.

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Crispy-Ghee✨️ @crispy-ghee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE One of my favorite scenes from O Brother Where Art Thou. I figured I should try to draw all 3 of the Soggy bottom boys, why not. #art #comic

🍳 A messy comic of a scene from O Brother Where Art Thou. Delmar and Everett are in a movie theater looking behind them in their seats. Delmar is saying " We thought you was a Toad" to a confused looking Pete (surrounded by question marks).

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like that the bird people from Wind Waker are basically just Moomin characters.

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!

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Kat @griskitcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hate my job and I'm terrified of losing it

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Kat @griskitcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

May you feel happy, loved, safe, and that you're right where you belong

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Kat @griskitcat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know it's completely beside the point but the amount of circumstances that have to line up perfectly in your life to live like this with no income besides government benefits are so hyper-specific that you probably don't know anyone who actually does.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if they seem confused, reassure them that you are committed to a traditionally pastoral British lifestyle and love to go cottaging in your spare time

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Kat @griskitcat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really wish I had an easier time connecting with people over shared platonic interests and parallel coexistence.

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Kat @griskitcat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think a lot of people's ideas about third spaces in the past just come out of the fact that loitering in liminal spaces was a lot easier in a pre-security culture world.

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you can’t even write jokes better than this

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

‘Dad, have you heard Choosin’ Texas by Ella Lang-‘ ‘Shut the fuck up, son’

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jessica jonestown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i actually desperately need like $10 now -_- im at the plaid to get pods and the price went up and i am freaking out that im SO CLOSE to being able to get my life saving nicotine PLEASE help plus look how dolled up i got to make a plaid run! vmo: ellemeff $fionasnapple paypal.me/ellemeff

me, right now, in a short black dress, perfectly framed in the light of the suburban shopping plaza

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finally, we're getting the darker and grittier version of Mary Poppins. I'd like to see you claim Hollywood is out of ideas now!

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A darker Mary Poppins TV series is in the works

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.

First tweet:
Harry Heymann @harryh · 16h
The GOP literally cut funding to IRS enforcement so more people could commit tax fraud.
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Reply tweet:
Austen Allred @Austen
It cut funding to IRS because the assumption that the way to catch tax fraud is to hire tens of thousands of auditors to look through paper tax returns by hand is insane
7:18 PM · Sep 26, 2026 · 196.2K Views

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026

as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OMG check out these adorable Polish trucks and vans

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HAYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @dirtcupart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this would've killed a couple years ago

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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 26/09/2026

Sure is nice to finally hold this in my hand.

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Kat @griskitcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I haven't heard of "Choosin' Texas" because I have not listened to newly released country since the 2nd Bush administration. (I like country music)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another interesting place to visit. The "Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen" is an open air museum, in Lake Constance in Unteruhldingen (Germany), that recreates Neolithic and Bronze Age pile dwellings, based on local findings since the 20s.

Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen. Recreation of three log houses and two houses with clay braided wall from the Bronze Age village of Bad Buchau (1050 BCE), built between 1923 and 1931, based on the excavations of the Wasserburg Buchau. More recent research considers that the village wasn't built on stilts, so this recreation is inaccurate.

Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen. Recreation of five houses from the Bronze Age village of Unteruhldingen-Stollenwiesen (975 BCE), built between 1999 and 2002. Nowadays an UNESCO World Heritage
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Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen. Two of the houses on the recreation of the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Sipplingen (3500 BCE), built between 1938 and 1940 after the model of the excavations in front of Sipplingen on Lake Constance.

Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen. Tower and Gate of the recreation of the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Sipplingen (3500 BCE), built between 1938 and 1940 after the model of the excavations in front of Sipplingen on Lake Constance.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Today I want to do something different and a bit special. This is a list of some of my favorite recreations of historical homes that you can visit around the world. Because of the limits of my knowledge it is going to be focused on Western history but please feel free to add your own: 🧵🔽

Middelaldercentret. Nykøbing Falster (Denmark)

Black Country Living Museum. Dudley (England)

Tenement Museum. New York (United States)

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This company just radiates predator energy

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

keith wilson litmus tests - fund shelters with temporary funding that will close a year from now - loot $600 million from public budgets to give to a billionaire - cut PS3s to fund vacant PPB headcount - set northwest portland on fire and blow up the steel bridge

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27/09/2026

I really don't think these "AI" fucknuts have taken into account the modern ability to hold a grudge. I haven't touched anything Metallica-related since before Napster, and good money says I'll outlive Lars. Your "AI" is nothing before me.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.

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