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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026

one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Isabel @isitis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I like listening to it! I like breaking it out every once in a while and pretending like I'm going to learn it! I especially like that my college prof gave me the option of choosing the chaconne or the other four movements of the partita!

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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Someone telling me they're spending their Sunday cooking: Ooh, nice! What a cozy-sounding day! Someone telling me they're spending their Sunday "meal-prepping": Oh. I see. Have fun in your self-imposed gulag, tovarich.

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 24/09/2026

Feels like a lot of the "AI will rise up and lay waste to us all!!" being peddled by the various companies themselves is primarily in service of avoiding responsibility for crimes.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.

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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We messed up 🥺👉👈" this is how stupid they think you are lol. I actually think if you steal 131 million dollars from people making poverty wages, you shouldn't be allowed to be a company anymore!

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From my new essay about the new social contract AI/AGI is actually meant to force us to sign: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef...

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

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Isabel @isitis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This was a regular staple in my house growing up!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

juliaserano.medium.com

On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads

and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses

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NJB/North Minneapolis They/Them @knittingdyke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hey. I live next to Camden High in North Minneapolis. The cross country team coach is raising funds for these kids to participate in the sport. Can you help? Every dollar matters. app.schoolfundr.org/fund/camdenh...

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Camden High School Cross Country Fundraiser | Schoolfundr

Hello! I'm raising funds for Camden High School Cross Country Fundraiser and would love your support. You can click here to make your donation - thank you!

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shalise manza young @shalisemyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

pretty sure the wnba was fairly united for its first 29.5 years, aka until a couple of months ago. I wonder what happened??? 🧐🧐

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Isabel @isitis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's gotta be some frat hazing thing

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

talarico reminds me of how democrats spent years trying to "moderate" on immigration and getting nothing in return and now we have the best funded paramilitary force on the planet disappearing people across the country while running a system of concentration camps with no oversight

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."

The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.

Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.

forever-wars.com

Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore

Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner

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Isabel @isitis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

No, culture explains why. "Good" and "bad" sounds are not universal across the world, there is no immutable characteristic of music that is not affected by the cultural context in which it exists. Math and music can be a fun relationship to explore, but math does not "explain" music.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 04/09/2026

re last repost: I stand by my assertion that if someone is being "deported" to somewhere they didn't come from, the correct term is simply "transportation" as in the Victorian practise of shipping convicts off to colonies, this is barbaric 19th century shit and "deportation" is a euphemism here

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Swan Boy can have you rooting against something with violent passion and then make you celebrate when it happens.

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Isabel @isitis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like to read swan boy by zooming in as it's loading so I can read it as close to one panel at a time as I can, and it paid off in a massive way today, one of the best it's ever been

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/08/2026

this is the same exact dynamic that drives me nuts about everyone trump nominates for anything just blanket vote against them all, if they’re being nominated it doesn’t matter what their background is or what they say in a confirmation hearing they are a villain and disqualified by definition

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i don't know how we get justice for what people like Castro and other ICE goons did to my state, but i don't think Republicans want to hear the alternative to "extradite them when we've charged them"

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 26/08/2026

Funerary rites are for the living, and one of the aspects of modern mourning that I take strength from is that whenever anybody beloved dies, the stories that pour out make me want to live so much better than I do.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is one of those things that is genuinely hard to overstate: rural life in America is, in many ways, as globalized and homogenized as urban life, if not considerably more so. And that's largely down to the construction of a pan-"rural" identity dominated by a basically suburban group

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I get that there’s something genuinely rewarding about getting super into food and wine and noticing the subtle interplay of tastes and textures but there’s also something genuinely rewarding about getting fucked up at Olive Garden so there’s lots of beauty in the world if you are willing to look

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Upton Sinclair - “In my 1906 novel The Jungle, I wrote about the horrors of the meatpacking industry as a cautionary tale.” REPUBLICANS - “At long last, we have created the horrors of the meatpacking industry from the classic literature novel, The Jungle.”

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sie ✨ @nowyousieme.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

and you're telling me they weren't pretending to be women? they just walked in there? huh!

screenshot of article on yahoo sports by trevor connors on aug 20, 2026. headline reads: Hockey coaches suspended after U-13 boys repeatedly entered women's locker room at Toronto arena

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's already very illegal to kill someone with a gun but not by policy or for profit. Just sort of an unfair bargain we have going here!

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Take it from Kat: now is the time to become the most vocal you have ever been about trans people belonging in sports. You need to tell your mom and dad, your friends in white bear, your cousins in perham. If you are cis, this is how you will help.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is absolutely insane, all of these undercover agents going into churches to surveil constitutionally protected speech. But it really says a lot about how they did all of this and found so little that violated the law. The administration was publicly shamed globally because of this resistance.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yall are always trying to pit two bad bitches against each other and for what

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Maybe Angie is being abandoned by voters because she has bad vibes and is unpleasant to be around

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Another beautiful fucking day to be from Minnesota.

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✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026

The coolest thing about a book is that another person wrote it. But people are just viewing books as “content” now, and that severely devalues what they represent.

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Isabel @isitis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

excuse me??? (the last bit)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

its true that what sophie cunningham said unequivocally sucked. it’s also true that i had never heard of her before the past week or so. it’s become pathetically easy to rocket to relevance by being anti-trans. is there a way to acknowledge the harm while also depriving it oxygen? i don’t know.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 09/08/2026

It’s important to note right wing activists crave women’s sports leagues having “explicit” transgender inclusion policies because it will either be exclusionary and good or inclusionary and they can rail against it. Not having it written down acknowledges trans participation isn’t a big deal.

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Isabel @isitis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

like, the gm of my longest-running game definitely had his "...how much time did you spend on this?" moments, but they only ever made me more excited for whatever was coming. if your gm is into it enough to go over-the-top it's gonna be a good game.

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Isabel @isitis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

both? but like, in a good way

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Noel Mummy 🤕 @noelmu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Whether the movies are good or not, I like it when The People determine what the true title is for a film. SEX PURGE. SPACE JAIL. THE BEACH THAT MAKES YOU OLD.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 05/08/2026

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

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