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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today I visited the SDOT staff in front of the Queen Anne Trader Joe’s tabling on the proposed parking changes and they were taking some abuse from angry neighbors. If you see them, let them know you appreciate their work.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Setting up a Hibachi table at a job interview

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Cmon now CA and NY are absolute powerhouses economically and socially, with excellent standards of living, clean water and clean air, paid medical and parental leave, word class education, and so much more. Pandering isn't gonna win elections or pass bills.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well super disappointed in @robsandia.bsky.social and wish I could get my donations back. If we don't stand in solidarity, what are we even standing for? Besides, this only opens girls and women to more scrutiny, harassment, and invasive testing, all to prevent a problem that isn't even a problem.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/08/2026

The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.

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Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The same thing happened to me on DoorDash - I was able to place an order at a restaurant that had gone out of business and even got a text saying it was ready for pick up!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Many people say because of unions, laws etc it's impossible to discipline bad cops. But many tools to discipline and punish cops exist, they are just deployed exclusively against whistleblowers and honest cops so corrupt cops can drum them off the force

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 12/08/2026

On The Climate Brink, I write about how the U.S. is getting smokier due to wildfires. Bad news for those of us who enjoy breathing. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/smoke-gets...

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♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫

and your lungs, your blood stream, your brain, just about everywhere

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/07/2026

real art isn't in the cinema. it's not in books or libraries. it's definitely not in the TV. real art only exists on youtube channels with 3,000 followers where a guy who calls himself MicrowaveBen reviews tv dinners on a strange but internally consistent 7-point scale he calls the Flavornator

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Why is CNN waxing eloquent about Lindsey Graham without mentioning his legacy of warmongering and shame and hate?

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Today I learned that the plural of "stadium" is "stadia". Thank you for your insightful reply.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I relocated to the beautiful Twin Cities earlier this summer! I was greeted with lush greenery and amazing food but not being able to get outside for the last couple of weeks (between the extreme heat and smoke) has been getting me down. Locals have any tips for coping? 😞 #TwinCities

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The joke is about horrible taste and fit, not gender conformity. He dresses like a bad recreation of what was a sexy man's outfit in the early 2000s.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm new to the twin cities and have been wondering why Allianz Field feels like it is randomly plopped along i-94

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 17/07/2026

i will remember those of you who did not stand with taco bell in these trying times

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Could someone check in later this afternoon and remind me that I’d planned to get my shit together and turn my life around today?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"If you’re worried about population collapse, then I have two solutions for you: attract many more immigrants, and figure out how to loosen the patriarchal bargain’s grip on the masculine imagination." publiccomment.blog/p/if-you-wan...

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If You Want to Raise Birthrates, You Need to Fix Men

New evidence that patriarchy plus economic growth leads to declining birthrates

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This sent chills down my spine. And all for what?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/07/2026

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

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U.S. gave Tehran details on Iranian asylum seekers, lawsuit alleges

The claim, outlined in court papers, contends information shared with Iran could jeopardize the lives of pro-democracy protesters, religious minorities and LGTBQ people.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Less than 24 hours after RFK Jr. became health secretary, his press secretary delivered an order from him to the CDC: Take down your ad campaign promoting flu vaccines. That same day, the CDC reported flu-related ailments that season had killed 68 children — 11 that week alone — and 16,000 overall.

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Inside the C.D.C.’s Mad Scramble to Meet Kennedy’s Demands

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

A screenshot from here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years

It explains that the machine learning involves only the detection of ink

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ah look it's Friday late afternoon and the markets have closed.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/06/2026

The Vanderbilt report is a key part of this - an effort to invalidate peer-reviewed humanities scholarship as illegitimate in order to replace us with "civic centers" that won't question the end goal of taming universities for big tech. asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...

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Producing Epistemic Doubt About the Humanities For the Sake of Profit: AI's Version

The Center-Right's strategy to discredit cultural knowledge draws from the same playbook as Big Tobacco and Big Oil because humanist reason threatens their bottom line.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy." ~Wab Kinew, Premier of Manitoba, addressing cancellation of a data center project

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Sometimes it may feel like we aren't making progress in the fight against RFK Jr.'s destruction of US public health, so I wanted to share some of the successes that we can look to for motivation: 1. Stopped the illegitimate ACIP 2. Ended said ACIP's anti-vax recommendations

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Have you been following Ashley St Clair?

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Elon Musk is not only the richest man in the world. He’s the richest man in the history of the world. And he spends an inordinate amount of his time spreading paranoid disinformation and inciting racial hate and violence on his own social media platform

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

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Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Shortly after these portraits were taken, the US limited migration from Southern and Eastern Europe, as those people were deemed "less desirable" than those from Northern or Western Europe.

Three women from Guadeloupe (apparently actually en route to Montreal, Canada).

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's neat how this happens across the US, possibly thousands of times per day, yet all of the moral outrage and concern is over ebikes, bikes on sidewalks, scooters, and pedestrians wearing headphones.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Honda Fit is a sleeping dragon, pop-culturally. If you made a heist movie like the Italian Job where all the characters are doing cool shit in their Honda Fits it would go absolutely crazy

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Owning a house and keeping its value artificially high and rising over time by preventing others from having houses is NIMBYism. You can decide whether that's moral and ethical.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Someone should explain to this "science nerd" how harmful urban sprawl is to orcas, especially how car tires impact salmon supply the orcas rely on

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Reminder: The next time we get the chance to take down Confederate statues and monuments, they need to be burned or melted so that they can never be put back up.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 18/05/2026

Most Americans live in and around cities. Therefore, urban areas are the American heartland.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The man who bankrupted a casino has now also managed to produce the first football world cup nobody wants to attend, there has never been anyone else who ever possessed this level of ability at failing

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I have analyzed the census data in Seattle and found that 90% of the car free households are in denser solutions than a single family home and yet we shove them on the busy car streets and leave quiet low car streets for single family homes. We should reverse that zoning plan

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 08/05/2026

Discover Airlines, a German leisure carrier, resumed its seasonal service to Minneapolis today. Imagine arriving from Frankfurt, excited to go shopping at Mall of America, and the first thing you see is an asshole in a mask, unrolling a full-body straightjacket restraint for ICE. 34 loaded today.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Call me crazy but I never liked store-bought pesto

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Universities have failed students. They deserve space for learning that is uncluttered by predatory, pay-to-play technology.

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Hansi Munasinghe @hansimunasinghe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's ok guys - Anders just wants to be invited on to a superyacht this summer

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