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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The reason some Jews are so skeptical of criticism of Israel, (and this is explanation and not defense), is that you start with "the Israeli government is racist" and end with what the Green Party actually adopted, which is, "Individual UK Jews can be punished for attending shuls we deem Zionist."
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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My rough definition of “Zionist” is “supports the existence of a Jewish state on some land in the Levant”, and I think that’s also the definition of most of the folks who want to root out all the “Zios”
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Samuel ✡️ 🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s literally a game for these people, and not even a new one. This post echoes a quote that is over a hundred years old about how people delight in accusing a Jew of theft particularly because they get the joy of watching him turn or his pockets to prove that he hasn’t stolen anything.
If the headline motion is itself racist, the refusal to even pretend to make a carve-out for Jewish members of your own party is perhaps most revealing. Evidently, a majority of Green Party members who voted for the motion and against the amendment simply have little interest in finding an accommodation with Jews.
And I think this speaks to what a lot of people fail to understand. That for Jew-haters, antisemitism is fun. Even better, it frequently forces Jews to play the game of emptying their pockets and patiently explaining why this obviously horrible, racist thing — a slogan, a placard or a burning of ambulances operated by a Jewish charity
— is in fact antisemitic. That, too, is part of the fun.
You don't need to label every antisemitic terrorist attack (and there are horrifyingly many to choose from this year alone) a "false flag" or suggest that "Zionists control the media" to oppose a terrible war or in any way dilute support for Palestinians. You certainly don't have to, as Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories claimed in a recent interview, say that Jews in Nazi death camps were called "Muslims".
I could attempt to explain why they do this. Why so many people believe that Jews, whether stabbed on the streets of Golders Green or murdered in gas chambers, are molecularly incapable of being victims. Indeed, how and why the Holocaust itself is an example of Jewish power and privilege. But that would be to play the pocket-emptying game.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
fatbikes should be regulated like motorcycles, with registration & license & age limits & helmets, and also there is NO EXCUSE now for anyone to buy, or for that matter sell, diesel or any kind of internal combustion engine moped/scooter/moto. just don't spew garbage & noise into the air kthks
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026
I'm sorry that your groupchat called you a bad feminist for getting your legs waxed but sooner or later you're going to have to accept that that's not the same thing as the pervasive, all-encompassing pressure on all women to marry a man and raise kids.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 01/10/2026
"the president has ai psychosis" is a cursed set of words
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excuse me wtf is this. We all know what's missing here and the obvious absence just makes it more noticeable.
Magic card called Dance with Goblins. David Bowie as the Goblin King is there but his signature bulge is not.
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Liam @heptadecagram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A cross-eyed Abyssinian cat, seated, sniffs a blade of grass.  His nametag on his orange collar says “eaf”.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Liam @heptadecagram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You joke, but the lack of a dedicated Cyber branch is a very large risk that people like General Nakasone and other have been yelling about for decades. The fact that the US launched Space Farce when this cyber theater is still underserved is… questionable.
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Big Tiddie Quattro Bajeena @samlapis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I spent DECADES hating myself for feeling normal human desire, for wanting to be desired in turn, for feeling like I was a monster, I was shameful, because of what my body felt on it's own, and the only people who have ever helped me are the sort of folks that get sneered at, horny 'freaks'.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Nikki M @powderedsugarbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You have been blessed by the friend onion :).
A clear container with fried onions in it the sign says "friend onion".
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, in Russian propaganda:
Schaeffer Marlyse. @Schaef... • 6h
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I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyEls van Veen O
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I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemyNadja @EuropaNormal • 9h
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I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyDday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Grayscale image, originally from XKCD, showing a complicated structure of rectangular blocks all stacked on top of each other, with a single thin rectangle hidden in the corner holding the whole thing together. The structure is labeled "All American Jewish culture," and the thin rectangle is labeled with an image of Sunkist Fruit Gems.
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barleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Never forget that your plagiarism machine is only capable of generating Alf dong because of the hard work of talented artists brave enough to first ask the question "What if Alf had dong?".
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY POINT IN HISTORY WHERE IT HAS BEEN IN THE BEST INTEREST OF WOMEN TO DEPEND UPON THE BENEVOLENCE OF MEN
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
LOUDER FOR THE BACK ROW
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026
it could be the softest cuddliest most vanilla sex party in the universe and it would be *as wrong*, frankly, that would already be maxing out the meter of ethical violations of consent and autonomy right there in and of itself and i appreciate this thread a lot for focusing relentlessly on that
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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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 25/09/2026
used to be SSA data was kept separate, and then they started using it to ferret out trans people applying for passports, and now they're using it to go after immigrants too.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On Boston marriage, 1894
BOSTON MARRIAGE

What the Scarcity of Men in Massachusetts Has Brought About

The funniest of all social developments is that which goes under the head of Boston marriages. Two women, as well known as Susan Channing and Edna D. Cheney, have made separate appeals for this new departure of female habit, and have defended it with considerable success.

A Boston marriage is described to be a sympathetic union of two women, who have not been able to make good and agreeable matches with members of the opposite sex. Miss Cheney is of the opinion that in our present state of civilization they seem to be necessary and should not be interfered with. Miss

--The Evening Herald, 21 Feb 1894Channing also believes that since in our present state of civilization marriage like wealth is getting to be more and more the privilege of the few, the women unsought in wedlock or unable to get the men of their choice should have the right to form sympathetic unions with each other.

What is to hinder a Boston couple from adopting a child or even more than one? Why not grow a household in this manner? The meanest thing about old-maid life is that it takes to cats, or parrots, or poodles -- generally cats. I see no reason why a cat shall not have a share of sympathy but it has no claim upon a love it cannot appreciate. Besides, cat-love is a dreadfulapology for baby-love. By all means let our Bostonese adopt children. In this way, while there is no increase of children, there will be a decrease of homeless children.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026
ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it does seem suspicious that Lady Gaga would choose to have her baby at *checks notes* the largest hospital system in Southern California
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Asmadi Games (Chris) @asmadigames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So Discord is somehow determining whether accounts are 18+ or not, and it's surely not by random chance, so I'm left with the inevitable conclusion: they're feeding everything you've ever done into an LLM. Always remember, folks: nothing you do on Discord or Slack is truly private.
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barleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Batman: TAS implies the existence of Batman: Any%.
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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Liam @heptadecagram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I actually know very few trans people. Just the one, she’s down in the basement and doesn’t talk much. Naw, I love it here, I have no reason to walk away from Omelas.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"No, it will take too long. Let me sum up:"
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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A great thread with many thoughtful replies (rare thing!) The harms inflicted on my hometown and its arts center feel personal to me. It is definitely not as important as harms inflicted on people, but it is the same root cause: the whim of a senile dictator who needs to do damage to feel alive.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I saw a “I have two wolves inside me… I’m applying for the FBI” joke and I thought all the jokes were all done but
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Apparently there are men applying to be FBI agents who are also choosing the bear.
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The Azure Guardian 🔵🛡️ @theazureguard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit...
Zelda
28 Feb - @TheZeldaZone@mastodon...

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

16:18 - Feb 28, 2025

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boonque שארלוט משאול @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As often with Jews, it seems it was the *elites* who went to bat for them, arguing "maybe we shouldn't be quite so cruel to these people who aren't observably different," and it was *commoners* who insisted on staying weird bigots. There's a lesson about allying with poor racist white people here.
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mammon @derekhill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this website isn't nor has it ever been about conversation of any kind. this website is about conditioning your friends with praise to utter increasingly demented sentences while they do the same to you
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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alebrelle.bsky.social @alebrelle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is 0 percent hyperbole for those of you who don't know the history of fanfic.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/09/2026
Yes I know you all heard that joke from South Park and just for the record: you should probably reconsider like every single thing you ever heard from South Park as probably bigoted. yours sincerely, the guys behind it got kicked out of my high school for Reasons
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/09/2026
okay while we’re all having a great time dunking on Ed Sheeran, and don’t let me stop you, but I just wanna pop in quickly and remind everyone that the “redheads don’t have souls” thing comes directly from medieval antisemitism, like directly, so let’s give that a miss. okay carry on
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
imagine being so privileged that you think trans activists were busting our asses on sports while we were and are all dying from violence and poverty and healthcare denials i wasn't allowed to buy insurance bc i was a preexisting condition & they think my priority was sports. my friends were dying.
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Kdin Jenzen 🏳️‍⚧️🐺 @kdinjenzenvo.com · 15/09/2026
Ravenous Samus & Voracious Kirby... these two spacefaring warriors have a hunger that can no longer be satiated… Comic by @iahfy.bsky.social All voices by Kdin Jenzen/Me~
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tklv.bsky.social @tklv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I've seen a lot of "who even cares about the Kennedy Center" sentiments, and let me tell you: people who live here care. People who went to those shows, the people who performed there. It may be easy to write it off as a Broadway tour stop, but it was so much more than that.
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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reading Moby Dick is either 200 pages at a sprint OR I get stuck for months because Ishmael won’t stop measuring a whale. I’m miserable. I’m obsessed. I want to throw myself into the sea. I want to give Herman Melville a wedgie
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qntm @qntm.org · 13/09/2026
Canis latrans for the coyote and Geococcyx californianus for the roadrunner, in case anybody was wondering what the actual binomial names were
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Atkinson @maddavenport.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yes, this is a trauma response. One of the big skills they teach you for coping with CPTSD is “noticing when the present is safer than the past.” It’s vital to learn. But surviving prolonged trauma requires the flip side of that skill: noticing when the present is not, actually, safe.
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