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Iron Goddess of Mercy

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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The year is 325 CE. The bishops have gathered at Nicaea. Constantine grants an interview.
Well, look, you know, this isn't like I'm building a building, which I can do out of my back pocket. It's easier to do that for me, and it's what I've been doing. This is a whole new world, probably mostly good, but some bad too. And it's a very powerful world. It's a very
—potentially really could be good for medical.
I mean, some of the things they're coming up with now that they never even thought about.
But with good comes bad, and we want them, we want all of them to behave for themselves.
Tomorrow's meeting. What time is that meeting tomorrow? Two?
Natalie Harp: Noon, in the East Room.
Trump: So we have everybody. Give me a list of the people at the meeting.
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great to see Sen. Tim Kaine campaigning in VA09 (for Joy Powers) and VA06 (for @bethmacy.bsky.social) this weekend! bluevirginia.us/2026/09/va06...
Lexington and Rockbridge and Buena Vista Dems FB post: "Nearly 200 folks turned out for Sunday's Beth Macy for Congress rally with special guest Senator Tim Kaine. The momentum to elect Beth and replace Ben Cline keeps growing. Thanks for the support!"
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy
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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Professor Kruse has put on the full armor of God for this one. 🫡
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My man looks like a Teddy Ruxpin doll programmed by the Heritage Foundation
thedailybeast.com
JD Vance Called Out Over Hypocritical Racist Dogwhistle
The vice president’s remarks about America becoming “dirtier” sparked fierce backlash.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My man looks like his TelePrompter has a line that says [HOLD UNTIL BOOING ENDS]
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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Extra-uterine implantations, please. Pregrancy implies the possibility of birth.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
tag yourself
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Carole Tarrant @carolet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Campaigning with pad and pen in hand, Macy says she aims to ‘connect pain to policy,’ and she criticizes both major parties for a system that fails those in need.” That’s the @bethmacy.bsky.social I know! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... #bethmacyforcongress
washingtonpost.com
This Appalachian memoir author is running as a Democratic contrast to JD Vance
Beth Macy is challenging Rep. Ben Cline in a bright-red Virginia district, hoping her own story and the stories she told about the region will win back rural and working-class White voters.
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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...
production stills of Curry and McShane in costume
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METR @metr.org · 26/08/2026
METR and Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
2/2 Titian by himself in the 1550s. Igoring you = ignoring the mirror, not self-absorbed, but a thinker in/about the world. Rough paint for those great gold chains, the shirt, the hands. The hands!
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I can highly recommend @hopenothate.org.uk ‘s report Race Science Inc. as a good starting place to understand how a eugenicist like Nathan Cofnas can get hired at two prestigious universities over more qualified candidates. This is a major far right project to give the academy’s legitimacy to them.
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk
Race Science Inc. | HOPE not hate
Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
remember: track aipac is a nazi psyop, and the people platforming it are not your friends
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Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yes. They will draw you in using a free or cheap product and then when you can't live without it they will enshitify the fuck out of it and raise the price.
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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Anger issues. Angry at the reporter, or just consumed with anger.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just noticed that someone else in a relatively small developer community I belong to added Claude as a "contributor" to a shared project, without asking anyone else first. I am LIVID.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Produce workers don't have access to real bathrooms, is really the long and short of it
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Shit Happens in the Fields - Davis Vanguard
Recent analysis indicates that recurring foodborne illness outbreaks are directly attributable to systemic labor violations, specifically the denial of essential sanitation facilities for agricultural...
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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Yes!!! Had no idea Maine did this. Should be a right everywhere.
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EurekaMSP @eurekamsp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I’ll keep saying this until I can’t: I can’t think of a demographic whose vote is more critical than those who are ward of the government being elected. And no citizen should ever be stripped of their vote. This is the greatest lever for accountability and reasoned legislation I can think of.
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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
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An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If Kaine is calling it murder then I think some folks in Tampa ought to be getting increasingly sweaty.
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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I see we’re doing Eugenics Lite again. Fun times.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026
How to account for this wildly, expensively irrational corporate leadership? Suresh places the blame in the hypnotizing, mesmerizing power of the AI demo. For example: Hermit Tech is often engaged to set up a database product called Snowflake for its customers. 44/
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Decorative Praisegourd Barebones @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
There probably was someone called Emily Wilson who wrote a critical review of Nolan’s Odyssey, but most of what we now think of as “Wilson’s review’ is probably the result of codifying a long tradition of anonymous Bluesky posting.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
[trying to be nice] Television...is a visual medium...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
People losing their shit over a Black woman being cast in The Odyssey — a fictional story — need to remember that they literally made a Treasure Island movie with MUPPETS, and it remains the definitive version.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Historian here, I made this point over 25 years ago. share.google/H8vu6cAxY1tL...
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The Counterrevolution of Slavery
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern se...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Platner has royally screwed his party and his state. He should get no right to dictate anything other than a letter of apology in which he withdraws from the race and then leaves public life.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026
It matters to mention that Philando Castile was killed while obeying a police officer & fully complying with the law.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026
For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
James Forten heard the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1776; he participated in the American Revolution & fought for its ideals long after the war. A skilled entrepreneur & ardent abolitionist, his wife & daughters founded the 1st interracial antislavery society for women.
Watercolor portrait of James Forten in profile wearing coat & tie painted around 1818. Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
tomorrow is a significant bicentennial anniversary, too
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: "The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery." #ThatPart 🗃️🔥
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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Either Dem leadership has no strategy re court reform or they have a bad one. 1. They should have a comms game teed up to advocate for court reform. 2. Today’s ruling should have triggered it. Suspect this means they don’t have it teed up. Which suggests they’re not even strategizing on it.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/06/2026
Not hyperbole. 100x the rate. There are ~50 million immigrants. There are ~50 million Black people. Find an innocent immigrant that *has* been pulled over by ICE for no reason. Rare, but happens. Find an innocent Black man that *has not* been pulled over by cops for no reason. Rare, but happens.
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
britmonkey.com
2020s Political Compass Test
In this era of post-materialism, where the traditional left-right divide has given way to more vibes-based politics, this test hopes to refresh the outdated policy-oriented political compass tests …
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My man looks like Dick Van Patten playing Rhett Butler
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Iron Goddess of Mercy @hominid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
quick question. is the thing that comes after an MoU usually called a Deal?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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