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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 13h

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Toriiiiiiiiiii @grocho.bsky.social · 18h

I have to live my truth

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 15h

i don't think the state has any business torturing anyone to death

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026

your average Bluesky adventuring party has: - 1 sports person who is also a political sicko - 1 adhd chaos crafter who is also a political sicko - 1 sff writer who is also a political sicko - 1 romance author who is also a lawyer who is also a political sicko - 1 gardener recovering from being a po

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/09/2026

NEW: A court ruled that the federal agencies running parole and supervised release in Washington, DC broke federal disability law. The agencies ignore the needs of people with disabilities, putting them at constant risk of sanctions, including incarceration.

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really don’t think that’s the case. I do think that probably these people hate femininity, which they see as weakness. But that doesn’t mean that they are secretly gay or trans. And I think that it does damage to insist that they are. Maybe some are, but definitely not all.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has resolved THREE of more than 19,000 cases of racial harassment and reached zero settlements to address sexual harassment or violence since President Trump took office in 2025. (2/2) www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Inside school investigations frozen under Trump: Racial slurs, sexual harassment and more

The Education Department was in talks with dozens of districts at the end of the Biden administration. The cases have stalled since the president took office.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MAGNIFICENT find at the flea market today!!

Cell phone photo of a white female hand in a green sweatshirt sleeve, holding up a ceramic cream picture the handle of which is a polkadot cat with a striped tail. It is mostly an opalescent white, but the details are in opaque black.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Idc, I will get angry RESEARCH WOMEN FFS

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Hesper Budge (they/he) @hesperbudge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shout out to everybody who's also struggling to combat during transition ✌️😭

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smallest church @smallestchurch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

help a kitty, if you can 💛

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

History will not forgive us . We do not deserve it

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dear Jancd st hv it k%llevv iv fxx _cc in $ d in vvvkm. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a light skinned man wearing a white button up shirt with dark diagonal striped tie. He is sitting at a typewriter and laughing at the white and ginger tabby kitten who it standing on it closely investigating the inner mechanisms.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 24/09/2026

This reminds me that there was entire Warrior Cats RPG scene and they would do their RP in the reviews of ebooks on B&N. If you wrote shapeshifter ebooks you probably had at least one book full of kids in the reviews just talking to each other. 😂

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 23/09/2026

At least six major hospitals have entered into settlements with the Trump administration to stop providing healthcare to young trans people. This is nothing less than a crisis for families and transgender youth.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026

Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...

en.wikipedia.org

Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build and help them pull up the ladder” Fuck. Shut up being right

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have pretty good healthcare through my job, and even I have delayed medical care due to high costs and a cumbersome insurance system.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thank you bisexual dice polycule

image of a swirling purple background with light blue dice floating in the air they all have faces and look DANG GOOD. the text says 'congratulations. if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the bisexual dice polycule. they have cleansed your misfortune hexes have a wonderful day'

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas Ice Processing Center. He’s being taken to the hospital. He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side. He can’t move the left side of his body.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you gotta buy my pots cause actually they may one day grow to be Emrakul The Promised End and destroy all of humanity thats how powerful and important they are. Every time i throw a pot i am tempting eldritch power. Invest now in pots

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science

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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This thread is spot on about how companies will blame AI for things that screw over their customers, but make more money for them. AI doesn't do anything without people telling it to, and those people are currently not held accountable *unless* it hurts their bottom line.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," they say. Ah, and why does one sometimes *have* to do that? Because someone else, who could have chosen opposition to evil, instead opts to become a lesser evil for their own perceived advantage—leaving others to bear the burden of that choice

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 18/09/2026

Guide to the Ratbag Democrats. Transphobes are morally inferior and weak, and best avoided.

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