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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/10/2026

A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 7h

When I was in college (very red town, very blue school) local Republicans had the polling place on campus shut down and then when the school set up transit to take students to the next closest one, the College Republicans set up shop at the pickup points to try to intimidate people

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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Every issue poll be like do you want thing? Yes: 78% No: 15% Do you want thing with inevitable inseparable unavoidable consequence of thing? Yes: 31% No: 58%

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/10/2026

Corporations publicly celebrating LGBT+ equality is a good thing and I am glad to see it coming back.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Let me make a sort of orthogonal point: I don’t get the attacks on immigrants - that even I’ve experienced - that sound like “you came here from a bad place.” Yeah man I know. That was the whole idea of coming here. To come to a good place where you can make something of your life in freedom.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am always pretty leery of the idea that marginalized people have a responsibility to handle disputes "within the community" to avoid making their group look bad, because that is traditionally how a LOT of abuse gets justified and covered-up.

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Lucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Democratic polling be like: - Should Rubio rot in jail with the rest? - YES +71 - Life or death for Jake Sullivan? - DEATH +34 - Does the sword which glitters in the hands of liberty's heroes resemble the one with which tyranny's lackeys are armed? - YES +63 Is Kamala still brat? - YES +38

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You gotta stop (at the city limits). Your English too fluent. Your job too bougie. Your cocktail too craft. They’ll Hukou you.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Microglia enjoyers: does this mean the brain is actually 3 organs

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Or qualify it with "I don't mean all transplants, just ones who [do thing that makes city worse]" when the people who make the city worse by opposing housing, bike lanes, infill, etc. are almost always longtime residents who think owning a house gives them the sole right to dictate the city's future

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hamilton fan who faked having HIV (and belonging to every possible minority group) so she could write an HIV-themed high school AU

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm one of these immigrants. 10 yrs here, arrived at 18, PhD from a top uni. This rightly highlights the economic impact but on a human level, this is my home. I would be a stranger & outcast in the country I left. F1/OPT gave me a life I thought impossible. In return I make therapeutics.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It is very sad and I agree. Ds can be moved on trans rights, Rs can't. It's that simple. This is why I find trans groups hard to be around & do my rl organizing with other groups. The death cult stuff is both mentally unhealthy and politically unproductive

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I suspect a lot of trans people here have essentially a death cult mentality where they think everything is hopeless/they will be imminently killed anyway so what's the use in mitigating damage by voting Dem (saying this as a trans guy).

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think what most progressives today take away from ACT UP is that radicalism works, but a big reason it worked for them was that it was paired with policy & willingness to work with the enemy if they thought it would benefit them

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The second layer of the ACT UP story is that they were radical but also did "boring" policy work which was instrumental in shaping govt response & accelerating drug development, just as much as the radical protests. They called it inside/outside. The eventual fracture was over which to prioritize

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The protest at St. Patrick's Cathedral where they desecrated hosts was supposed to be a silent protest until people went off script. The women's coalition tried to get an AZT clinical trial for pregnant women shut down. They had a proto-Twitter anon newsletter they used to trash talk each other!

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Like ACT UP didn't form until 6 years into the crisis and it split 4 years in from bitter infighting over whether to prioritize wonky treatment/science approaches & working with the govt vs. larger movement building. The former group were called sellouts, the latter wreckers

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

IMO our perception of message discipline of past movements is also clouded by hindsight. The AIDS movement was successful so we backfill that history as an uncomplicated united moment for queer people. In reality that movement had the same kinds of bitter infighting we see now

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!

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Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️ @satyrs.eu · 20/08/2026

Please. “Spreadsheets” is a constricting term that stifles the true manifold nature of people’s lived experience. We prefer “people experiencing tabularity”.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You're laughing. This guy has end stage carbrain and you're laughing

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The specific phrasing plus earlier reference to Palestine makes me think this is supposed to be a riff on Marwan Makhoul's poem. New condos = genocide and apartheid I guess

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yeah like there are certainly people who make so little that I would expect this but I'm skeptical of the # that are truly paycheck to paycheck like this when so many people define it as "I have no money after savings, retirement, restaurants, etc". That's just having a budget.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I make below six figures and I'm baffled by the replies suggesting this is checking your bank account before buying groceries territory? I max my 401k and never have to do this. Unless you have kids I think some of these people are just bad with money and resentful people like Stancil aren't

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/08/2026

Driving a car is incredibly dangerous, it should be one of the most regulated experiences on earth, and it is very upsetting to watch people who correctly don’t trust the cops turn against automated enforcement because the alternative is relying on a cop’s judgement to enforce the laws.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This occasionally causes awkward situations irl. Someone once asked if I was a nepo baby because I live in a nice apt building (carefully budgeted for). I was surprised so blurted out, no and I don't really talk to my parents anymore and it's me sending them money.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's funny when people claim 70k (or 80 or 100) is "barely enough to get by" in a HCOL city and anyone who says otherwise must be subsidized by mommy & daddy. The fact they believe this IS ITSELF A SIGN OF ECONOMIC PRIVILEGE.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This gets misread as "you think poor people can't have nice things". I don't think that but let's not pretend there is no relationship between people's spending habits & their economic situation.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

People will say the increased spending on restaurants doesn't mean people are struggling when, e.g. education & housing cost so much. But the fact it's even possible for people who aren't wealthy to afford these luxuries is a sign of how unimaginably rich this country is.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is how you end up with people whose view is essentially, we need the revolution so I can have more stuff. The ultrarich get to overconsume so why can't I?

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I grew up in a developing country & the overconsumption, even from non-wealthy people, shocked me. At least back then (10 yrs ago) they didn't pretend it was leftist. I think a lot of people believe they're sincere in their leftism but it gets filtered through their ultraconsumerist factory settings

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think we're learning: -consumerism is an overpowering populist force in American society -the populism expresses itself as a base urge for greater consumption; it is not reactive to conditions on the ground -people are ashamed of this and often try to disguise it as other types of politics

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I truly believe it saved my life. It showed me there were others like me and there was a way for me to reach them, and I did.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

EB1 is the outstanding professor/researcher category, i.e. the one for "good" immigrants that the RW claims to have no problem with. 17 years. Yet in their minds, the process is trivial.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I came to the US in 2016 for college, got my PhD right after, am now applying for an employer-sponsored EB1 green card. ~2 years to approval for that, then 5 from green card to citizenship. So at minimum 17 years living here to become a citizen via one of the "easier" pathways.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/07/2026

a future D administration should make an easy pathway to citizenship specifically for foreign students

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Mariner's Revenge Song (alternate ending)

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our light rail has transit security checking fares (more often than I've seen anywhere else) and booting off disruptive people. They're not armed, don't make arrests, and often just make fare evaders get off at the next stop without fines. But just having them there makes people behave

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 22/07/2026

The idea that the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor are all in completely separate housing markets with no overlap ignores how things work in the real world. In the absence of new high end housing, wealthy people outbid the middle class for the best available existing housing and renovate it.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

To be clear, there are too many programs that DO pay like shit (or not at all). Ours wasn't one of them. But people seemed unable to distinguish between the actual reality they were experiencing and the general idea that lots of grad students are poor, and so decided they must be too.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Saw lots of this in grad school. Our ~$40k/year stipend wasn't lavish but it was enough to live on and one of the most generous nationally. Other grad students called it "poverty wages". Their spending habits didn't reflect this. But culturally pretending to be poor in grad school is what you did.

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Cities are good and those of us who choose to live in them need to stop with our self-flagellation about how we aren't as "authentic" as the bigots we or our neighbors came to the city to escape from.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Evan Mast has several papers related to this. New market rate housing *slows* rent increases in poor neighborhoods and creates a moving chain that allows people to move up into progressively better housing/neighborhoods. Seems like a win for all

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Research | Evan Mast

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Don't worry, they'll just use their perpetual misery as evidence policy doesn't actually work, and then accuse those who benefit from that policy of being assimilationist sellouts suffering from internalized transphobia.

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

We've done a mix of screening from AI-predicted binders and from immunized animals. So far letting nature do the work has been far superior. But it's also much more expensive, so even a moderate advance in sequence/structure prediction would be a big deal & democratizing for labs w/ less funding

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ImmunogoblinG2a @immunogobling2a.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm a neuroscientist and do early stage biologics dev and this has been my experience. AI predicts 100 possible antibodies against a given target but a human still has to screen. In vitro screens can be quick but then you gotta do mouse studies which can take months depending on the disease

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