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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm rooting for the extremely autistic girl but Mo is also fun!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am slain by the adorableness of this season's Great British Bake-Off contestants, they're just unreasonably lovable. But Weaponised Autism Girl might be my very fave.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fucking Bone-deep sigh I let out

Ever since then, I've just done my job, you know?

It's not your fault that things are the way they are.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am not ungrateful for my work offering flu shots but why don't they start until 10/1 dammit. I am tempted to just get both COVID and flu knocked out at a pharmacy this weekend.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I didn't have the bandwidth for a whole other hellsite for a while there but now I'm hale and hearty and restored by Various Chemicals and ready to sort of exist online again, next stop existing in the real world

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Fluxion: extremely sensory friendly and unbelievably comfortable Spectrum Outfitters: aggressive compression. Like. AGGRESSIVE. Like keeps these G cups nearly flat.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Can I offer you a Mascarpone in this trying time

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

18 million is pocket change for an Oscar winning actor, it's disgusting that they're framing this as some sort of gluttonous excess

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Doing my T shot in my belly fat today and trying to will the little molecules straight into my uterus so they can sort out whatever the fuck is going on in there this week

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

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𝒕𝒚𝒊 | Mail club on Ko-fi 🦇 @tyiart.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

just a meme i wanted to draw in my style. available as a print and sticker on my kofi hehe #art

Digital drawing of skeleton lifting a heavy weight with flames around, titled "my body is a machine that doesn't work".

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Are the security guards also penguins

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

What's "just not true"? Do a single one of those headlines or articles clearly state that this is a bill to raise taxes on the poor, strip away Medicare and Medicaid, and give hundreds of billions to building concentration camps?

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

as a child I thought it was wildly unrealistic that Sims would immediately give up on all their goals and dreams if a single dirty plate was left on the ground but now that I’m an adult I understand that that was the most realistic part of the game

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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Just by the way, much of the basic research on the cognitive psychology of attention can trace its history to early support from ONR. The problem of vigilance and detection while staring at a radar screen led to support of foundational research on visual attention now applied far and wide.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

My latest — The accusations of antisemitism against NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani have been some of the most appalling smears I’ve seen in my years covering politics. I wrote about the concerted attack, & pressure for American Jews to define a local political race through the lens of Israel:

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The appalling smearing of Zohran Mamdani as 'anti-semitic'

It's Islamophobic. It's racist. It's also completely untrue.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

What's the rationale behind "winning" the Senate if only right wing policy could win it? Also, when has adopting right wing policy EVER caused Republicans to view Democrats favorably?

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Hi fellow white folks! If you haven't picked a specific place/organization for your Juneteenth reparations, or if you've got a little left to allocate, may I please STRONGLY recommend Black Mamas Matter Alliance? Their work is more crucial than ever now.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

At that stage of tattoo healing where I desperately want to just remove my leg with a hacksaw because a leg that isn't there won't itch anymore

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Oh fuck don't be, I'm absurdly bad off right now, there's about a gazillion things I NEED to be doing and instead I'm wallowing in the Big Sad

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This is how bad my mental health has gotten: getting myself a streaming service I've been wanting just so that I can start watching shows I actually enjoy instead of just background noise for my doomscrolling, is my biggest act of self care this week.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

College Kid: how much wood would a woodchuck chuck Jordan Peterson: define woodchuck CK: small mammal Jordan Peterson: so right there you’re denying the existence of fish CK: no im asking how much wood- JP: Listen to me! You’re speaking in abstractions, if there is no tree how is there wood?!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/05/2025

Terrible. documentary.org/online-featu...

Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist discussing an anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women’s March newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"These are often children; these are people in poverty; these are people with very few resources; these are people who use drugs,” Horvath told me. “If we’re willing to throw the most vulnerable people under the bus as a movement, then what the hell is our movement doing?”"

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What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?

Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Oh Jesus we're back on the "cognitive decline" shit. Ok Jake Tapper. Funny how not being adequately anti Biden is ONLY disqualifying if you're not a white cishet guy.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

What do you mean? Everywhere. Local, state, national, we're not obligated to elevate Chapo/Hogg types just because the old rich fucks suck. There are genuinely progressive people out here doing real and good work. The question is why is it so important that Hogg specifically lead the party?

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Like while people are out here trying to cancel Kenyatta because he was "too pro Biden" he's actually addressing real issues in the party. He was the one calling out Fetterman back when everyone else was completely duped.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

No, they don't need to be kicked out of the party. But they sure as shit don't need to be placed in a leadership position just because they're young/not the current leadership. Change is needed but it's important to change to something better not just different.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I'm not on the fence at all. It's absolutely true that Hogg is being fucked over by the DNC for all the wrong reasons, but so is Malcolm Kenyatta and yet.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Did you not see him on Bill Maher saying the left needs to focus on making sure young white cishet men get laid and don't feel like people expect them to be respectful?

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This revelation brought to you by the fact that yesterday I was really having A Day in that constant onslaught of minor inconveniences kind of way and then I had a "this is the last straw" meltdown and THEN I made myself go to the baseball game I was really looking forward to ANYWAY and had fun.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Two things can be true. We absolutely need the gerontocracy the fuck out of the Democratic party and need to either tear out current leadership wholesale and build a new party - AND Hogg is a misogynist who shouldn't be in charge of whatever we put in place

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This one should probably have stayed in the drafts or the therapy zoom, but anyway I noticed that my brain is wayyyy better at harnessing my single molecule of executive function in service of making me do stuff I hate than in the service of making me do stuff I will like and have fun doing.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Oh, and I, Borg absolutely bangs too.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Even though they're not DS9 relevant you need Measure of a Man and The Offspring. That's good Trek.

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Jake Christie @jakechristie.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

a Chris Murphy-retweeting pope. The ResistLibs really do have the Mandate of Heaven

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Pope Leo XIV (personal reasons) questionable for Game 3.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

great thread. Modern times have brought even greater clarity to the rights of all people

Four panel drawing shown a person at work, a person at rest, a person at idle pleasure, and the Philadelphia sports mascot Gritty, friend to all workers and scourge of the ruling class. Text: “8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will, 8 hours for Gritty”

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

There was a HUGE awkward silence! Basically I had some esoteric question about black holes, but I opened with"saw you on Star Trek last week" and after the 2 minutes of typing he went "thank you, I hope you could understand me with my British accent" and then he answered my question thoroughly.

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BADNEW @j-mike.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Look I know I've heard hella sketchy things about who Stephen Hawking was as a person but all I'ma say is when I was 12 and ragingly undiagnosed I accidentally wound up at a post lecture reception for him at which I was, well, 12 and ragingly autistic and he was so kind and gracious to me

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Eugenics and racism almost always intersect. It’s exactly what Imani Barbarin was talking about the other day. White supremacists get to define “normal”… which means anyone who isn’t like them will be “abnormal”. Disability justice is needed now.

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