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The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team:

In July, the school found Shanklin responsible for "forcible rape" and issued a one-year suspension, which is a full ban from campus and activities, according to documents reviewed by ESPN. After Shanklin appealed, an administrative law judge who handles appeals per LSU policy upheld the finding that the athlete was responsible for "forcible rape," but reduced the punishment to four semesters of probation with no restrictions, which allows Shanklin to remain enrolled and on campus and to participate in activities as long as he stays out of trouble.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

I don't take tips on virtue from a man who used a pic of his stillborn child for a GoFundMe campaign for his children's burial garden named "Lincoln’s Place" when the project was never built, and Ogles repeatedly refused to disclose what happened to the tens of thousands of dollars donated.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is exactly it. It's not about the executed and what they deserve or don't. It harms us all, compromises our morality and ethics.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Not all men" comes from a lack of understanding of the principle discussed in this thread from last year. OF COURSE women know some men aren't rapists! But they have to treat us all as if we might be in order to be safe.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@dominos-pizza.bsky.social Why is there no way for us beta testers to report an issue with the new app? Pretty sure I found a bug, but the only way I could find was to open a Customer Service ticket, and that requires* my phone number and street address. If you don't want to get bug reports, stop

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can anyone remember who came up with the Rogers Test for nontoxic masculinity, that is, if Steve Rogers or Fred Rogers would do it, it's probably OK? I just quoted that to someone, but I can't remember where I got it.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you may have forgotten that Joyce Carol Oates is a total shithead. I quote-post the below as a reminder.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.

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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.

As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is horrific. Please remember that information may change as facts are developed. Also remember to take anything that comes from Israeli officials with a grain of salt. I predict that they will try to connect it to Hamas.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

O my fucking gods, this is real. I thought this was Onion-style satire at first, but apparently it's a real practice that real people, albeit disgusting ones, actually do. 🤢 And now they're telling an LLM to tell them it's good, and taking its response as proof that it is.

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Fozofthedead @fozofthedead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I knew this would come in handy

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well clearly I should've checked the Internet yesterday instead of catching up on grading, because I never knew "not recognizing the names of Midwestern college sports teams" could make a senator look like that much of a fool.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

just can not get enough of the reaction of his staff when the realization hits lol (around 9:30)

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just watched Big Eden. I can unreservedly recommend it. Full of love and heart. It's a romance, so it has some classic romance tropes, but it's creative with them. One thing about it I really liked: it has no villain. The characters have conflicts, but there isn't a single bad person in the movie.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Anne @aegtx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Cornell, where protesters are more severely punished than rapists"

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm pretty sure none of y'all have forgotten that Tommy Tuberville is a piece of human garbage, but just in case: Tommy Tuberville is a piece of human garbage.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Henceforth, all references to Cornell will include "the rape school." "...but this n-dimensional geometry has more interesting aspects. Mathematicians at Cornell, the rape school, have discovered that..."

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lol

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

It's not "super intelligence." It's not even "intelligence." It continues to fuck up easy questions, like to whom I dedicated my most recent book. Also, Mike Johnson is a craven, simpering weasel and none of the people standing near him in this video respect him even the tiniest bit.

"To whom did John Scalzi dedicate The Shattering Peace"

"John Scalzi dedicated his novel The Shattering Peace to his longtime editor and friend Teresa Nielsen Hayden"

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cool math thing from @badastronomy.beehiiv.com.web.brid.gy (that is, @philplait.bsky.social). Seems to me it's in the same category as the Koch Snowflake, whose area converges but whose perimeter increases without bound. But this one isn't a fractal, which IMO is even cooler.

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A geometric shape that will destroy your brain

Gabriel’s Horn is bizarre and literally unrealistic. It’s also super cool.

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Just A Grandmom🇺🇸 @grandmompa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm on board with this. Along with very lengthy prison terms for treason.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My Sad Dead (Netflix) is very good, but really gory and horrific, and also depressing as shit. Terrible things happen to innocent people, and truly evil people go entirely unpunished. I'm not sorry I watched it, but it's close.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, he died. It was a couple of days ago, but I didn't think to post an update until now. Peacefully, in his sleep, I'm told. So that's something. Fuck cancer.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just found out there was a film of Agatha Christie's Evil Under The Sun in 1982, with an all-star cast (Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Roddy McDowall, Diana Rigg) and scored with Cole Porter tunes. Watching it. Prepared to be disappointed. If it had been a hit, I'd have heard of it before.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out

Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminder that consent is: Revocable Granular Occasion-specific Revocable: one can decide to stop consenting at ANY point. If it's past a certain point that justifies not dating them anymore (but you don't need justification for that anyway). It does not justify force, or "going ahead anyway."

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Minor piece of good news, but a morsel to the starving is a feast.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is extremely cool! (I do think we need to use the term 'cyborg' a little less freely. Ashanti appears to be playing wearable instruments, not in-body installations. I'm technically not a cyborg because all my implants are strictly mechanical. A friend with a DBS device is a genuine cyborg.)

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing.

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HallowBreen Season @breensims.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

somewhat along those lines bsky.app/profile/bree...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No thanks to you, you piece of garbage. You wanted to let him go with time served, and the JUDGE wasn't having it.

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not all men. Jesus Christ, don't you think women *know* that? Use your heads instead of getting defensive. Most of you would be terrified of swimming among sharks, even though sharks are stastically far less dangerous to you than men are to women.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

cutiepia @cutiepia8395 . 1c I'm sorry, the clip of Zohran Mamdani getting on a Citi Bike while someone yells out 'communist!" and him replying that it's actually pronounced "cyclist" is forever etched in my mind.
I aspire to achieve this level of quick-witted and respectful clapbacks!

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So part of the game I've been playing makes me count colors in an area, often four. So I count "1...2...3...4." Guess what my earworm is?

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watching Masters of the Universe. So far (7:38) a. Eternia has a shit culture that deserves to be destroyed, and b. Adam's father is an abusive piece of shit and I hope he dies. Am I going to hate this as much as it currently seems like I will?

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Darn, it's only that one brand. Can we talk this up like "Yeah, smartglasses can burn your hair off" and just not mention that Meta ones don't. No, that they haven't been FOUND to burn your hair off. YET.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been thinking about this for some time, but haven't put it in writing (anywhere I can find). I sure hope I'm never called as a witness in a court of law. I don't think I could swear that oath.

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