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Evil begins when you treat People as Things

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Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm just going to leave this @washingtonpost.com headline here:
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clara from miranda @tropicalbeauty.blacksky.app · 5h
90/400 my gf still needs your help! Paypal: margaridamariabruxa@gmail.com 💸💕 🏳️‍⚧️🚨 Mutual aid #mutualaid #transmutualaid #BIPOCMA #helpsky
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final grrrl 𓂀 @finalgrrr1.bsky.social · 1h
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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 4h
All hands on deck! Ross explains how the EU Kids Act could end #StopKillingGames by collapsing the EU gaming market! youtu.be/mQRcK9nYg9g "The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you"
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This could legitimately end Stop Killing Games.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 7h
Today, @wired.com is publishing Choke Points, an 18-month investigation into how Israel’s network of checkpoints, gates, and roadblocks is reshaping daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A thread on the reporting, and what we found:
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 1h
The peace Conan describes here is what I find so psychotic about Capitalism: The unnatural systemic need for more, growth, bigger, up, is constantly making people feel - mentally and financially - like where they’re at is not what success looks like, even if it’s exactly what makes them happy.
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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h
We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 6h
Would love to see someone run on a platform of hiring a squad of forensic accountants and auditors tasked with locating every penny that was stolen from us and getting everything back. And sending the thieves to prison. Every single one of them.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 6h
Everytime I see someone talking about Talarico's chances in Texas, I just want to claw my face. I. Do. Not. Care. Manchin and Sinema and Lieberman and Fetterman should have taught you a lesson. If you betray trans people for "electability reasons" you are not to be trusted.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 6h
this picture is from 10 years ago in October. as students we took it upon ourselves to organize bystander intervention and consent workshops because our institutions let survivors down. it popped into my head this week considering how in some ways students today have worse material conditions
Lex in 2016 in college, holding a white board reading “it’s on us to end sexual violence because as a 2x survivor I am seeking justice by creating an accountable, healing and radically loving community”
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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ms. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app calls the doomtrolling bluff and practically sends an "OK doomer".
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Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
people like my parents or people back home often ask me if the reason why the industry is being killed in slow motion is due to AI, and it's a 15 minute long conversation to understand the real reasons why, at the heart of which are: people who own TV don't make TV and don't want to make TV
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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 12h
The new director general comes from Google... so, yeah, this very much tracks. Further evidence, perhaps, that AI use shrinks your brain.
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Marghoul @marghoul.bsky.social · 8h
I hate to ask but I haven't eaten in a day. Almost completely stuck in bed. Please help me order something. V: @marghoul CA: $helpmarghoul
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 21h
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 9h
Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.
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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 9h
wHy DON't WoMEn JuSt rePORT IT
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Evil begins when you treat People as Things @jackpower.bsky.social · 8h
Random thought: what would happen if Gadget and Gyro from DuckTales met for a brainstorming session.
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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Mark Grondin @spectrum-pulse.ca · 25/09/2026
Alright, Billboard BREAKDOWN is live late but it's here - new Jhene Aiko album bomb, that rules! Enjoy! youtu.be/wUu69BcB5L8?...
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Billboard BREAKDOWN - Hot 100 - September 26, 2026 (Westside Whimsy, So Good, onsra, Washed)
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Alex 0/150 🦂 🏳️‍🌈 @godwearsgucci.bsky.social · 23h
Gonna be offline tonight to give myself some peace from everything. Please boost this in my absence, we cant lose water access #mutualaid #transcrowdfund #Disabledcrowdfund #helpfolkslive2026 #helpsky
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HELP BEX! bit.ly/HelpBex @ovaettr.gay · 29/09/2026
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026
The performance of not needing to bother with knowing things about the world or how to operate in it as a pretension of fronting to higher levels of social value in the post-information age continues apace.
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𐇔 BeeVine𐇱𐇳 @succulentubus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WE SHOULD IMPROVE DEMOCRATS SOMEWHAT.

Yet you are trans. Curious.

Enjoy the camps
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump is flanked by, among others, Jensen Huang and Musk, with Mike Johnson visible behind them as reporters are hustled out of the room
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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For a good 30+ years of my life I had no concept of what "trans" was. I just knew I wasn't into guys yet somehow desperately wished I was feminine, and that made no sense in the "queer" spectrum I was aware of up to that point. I had no words to describe my feelings. Nobody to talk to, either.
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Noah @waldville.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's something perverse about this article's framing asking us to sympathize with the billionaires who, we're being shown, are actively trying to hide their money overseas to avoid having to contribute to the economy that made them wealthy.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A case that isn’t getting the headlines it deserves: an LSU student was raped by an LSU football player. He admitted it, but the school is still letting him play football. How multiple systems have failed this young woman & why she went public to get the help she needs: youtu.be/LihN7hsNKnw?...
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SHOCKING College SCANDAL EXPOSES Stakes Of Trump’s DANGEROUS AGENDA!!
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s also common for prosecutors not to comment on open cases. This POS is tainting the minds of future jurors by demolishing Jane’s credibility before he even starts reviewing. He still doesn’t want to prosecute this.
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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
AI companies when their finance documents are leaked
Very important people I invested it and turned it into 16000
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In the replies on this post I put links to the gofund me's of various trans people you can support by giving them money to help them survive.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bluesky's originally envisioned user base was *literally* meant to be all the sex pests at the Silicon Valley orgies @faineg.com has been talking about. Jack Dorsey *left* when trans people showed up instead of the expected Harry Potter sex cultists.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rape and pedophile party specifically use transphobia as a wedge to make *all* their intended victims more vulnerable, and Jeff Epstein literally advised them in many, many, many barely literate emails to do this.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Evil begins when you treat People as Things @jackpower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[D] Slim Goodbody's lesser-known cousin, Slit Goodbody
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam
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rooshoes @roo.shoes · 28/09/2026
very pleased that multiple people get this
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Coco @funyarinpa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Help Jane meet their rent by this coming Thursday!
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🏳️‍🌈Brendan Agnew🏳️‍⚧️ @blcagnew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Dude, that's fucked up" and "Hey man, what the hell?" are a good start - works equally well with friends / acquaintances or complete strangers. Don't let your mates get away with bullshit, and don't leave it lying if some rando starts it hear you. Chuds thrive on social permission - deny them it.
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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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