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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”

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'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours

Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Got political mail? Go to paidforby.info For federal races, you'll immediately get detailed information about who is behind the mail and their donors. And all uploaded mail will be reviewed by an independent journalist. (It also works for ads on TV and YouTube.)

paidforby.info

Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter

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Xan @comicsbyxan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Forever shouting out Marco Albiero, official Sailor Moon artist for a bunch of the more recent releases and merch, who also does pride flag edits of his art You can tell this guy's a real fan because when was the last time you saw official art of Ail and An?

Progress pride flag featuring Eternal Sailor Moon holding the Moon Power Tiare, standing in front of stripes made up of appropriately colored characters and items

White: Sailor Iron Mouse, Prince Demande, Pegasus, Helios, Silver Crystal, Queen Serenity, Artemis

Pink: An, Black Lady, Chibi Moon Compact, Sailor Chibi Moon, CereCere, Star Seed, Hawk's Eye, Disguise Pen

Light blue: Sailor Aluminum Siren, PallaPalla, Sailor Neptune, Star Seed, Sailor Star Healer, Fisheye, Viluy, Berthier

Brown: Sailor Lead Crow, Rubeus, Kenji Tsukino, Sailor Star Maker, Haruna Sakurada, Naru Osaka, Gurio Umino

Black: Sailor Tin Nyanko, Sailor Galaxia (Chaos form), Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Star Fighter, Sailor Pluto, Star Seed, Luna P, Luna

Red: Princess Kakyuu, Star Seed, Sailor Chibi Chibi, Another Star Seed, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mars's Crystal Change Rod, VesVes, Ptilol, Kaolinite, Queen Beryl

Orange: Golden Crystal, Sailor Galaxia, Star Seed, Sailor Venus, Sailor Venus's Crystal Change Rod, Tiger's Eye, Calaveras, Motoki Furuhata, Sailor V, Shingo Tsukino, Key of Space-Time

Yellow: Princess Serenity, Sailor Uranus, Star Seed, Mimete, Neo Queen Serenity, Eternal Moon Article, Orgel, Another Star Seed

Green: Star Seed, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Jupiter's Crystal Change Rod, JunJun, Tellu, Petz, Esmeraude

Blue: Star Seed, Saphir, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mercury's Crystal Change Rod, Cyprine, Ail, Ikuko Tsukino, Wiseman

Purple: Diana, Queen Nehelenia, Star Seed, Sailor Saturn, Zirconia, Mistress 9, Professor Tomoe, Koan, King Endymion

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Someone in a "Sexy" Jeremy Parish Halloween Costume @jparish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That… is a lot of Castlevania music. Our poor mail carrier, a tiny older lady, had to ask me to come pick it up from her truck because it was too much for her to manage on her own. It’s a LOT of music

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

hollywoodreporter.com

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 17/09/2026

A primary goal of war-waging has always been to destroy knowledge and culture.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.

boltsmag.org

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts

A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Like, you know there's an internal refugee crisis facing the US with trans people fleeing their home states, right? Can you understand why trans people might be more than a little on edge, stressed, angry because of the way we're treated? Perhaps extend a little understanding and empathy.

advocate.com

Transgender Americans are fleeing hostile red states. Seattle says it’s overwhelmed

Seattle officials say anti-trans laws in red states are driving a queer migration crisis in the Pacific Northwest.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When shit feels bad, remember that WE ARE CURING CANCERRRR

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"People who are still on X" is such a problem in so many areas, it's ridiculous. Leave the damn Nazi bar, it is turning you into a Nazi!

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nintendo eShop $200 Gift Card Code is $173 on Newegg DOTD w/ code LUYRF384 buff.ly/lZXsN5g #ad eShop balance works on Nintendo Store (hardware, consoles, physical games, etc.) Wallet limit is $800

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, offers a probable cause for Trump's sudden beef imports: corrupt alliance with a Brazilian beef magnate previously singled out by then Sen. Marco Rubio. "According to the The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump announced his intention to allow duty-free ...

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 31/08/2026

This summer's food recalls are broader in scope, longer-lasting, and more severe than past years as regulators are slow to respond. The parasite surveillance staff at the CDC, which responds to outbreaks (such as cyclosporiasis), was downsized last year by DOGE from 11 people to three.

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A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net • Minnesota Reformer

Jalapenos. Frozen berries. Beef. Alfalfa sprouts. A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands, has raised many...

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Sa-ilent Hill Bajaj @sahilbajaj.dev · 31/08/2026

Hey y'all, My buddy at WIRED Middle East is looking to comission a games journalist familiar with the Middle East for a particular story and I was wondering if any of y'all would be open to covering this or know someone who would? If so, DM me and I can tell you more about this.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

a fun and telling thing to track will be whether twitch streamer hasan piker or sitting united states congressman max miller receives more mainstream news media coverage between now and the election www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

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Morning Digest: Thought Max Miller would become a GOP pariah? Nope.

Republicans in competitive races are still backing the congressman—and keeping his contributions

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

Like I said: SOMETHING will change. But yeah, no, the situation of Meta getting to pay ~1% of their yearly revenue and then getting to set the terms and paradigm for every other social media company that follows after them is Pretty Fucking Bad. I say again: Paradigmatic Capture.

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Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · 27/08/2026

The author of Kiki's Delivery Service sounds like a delightful person (shocking no one) and she has "thoughts" on AI.

Our world is at a complicated juncture. The voice of AI is loud and seems liable to suck us in. New technologies are sure to evolve at rapidly accelerating paces. I don’t know what the future will bring—it’s all a bit much for an elderly woman of 91.

But I have thoughts. Since the dawn of history, people have turned sounds into words and moved our bodies to acquire language. Bodies and language. The language packed inside a person. I think there’s power in that; I want to cherish it. Is it really okay to entrust everything to machines and abandon our rich culture of language so readily? If we do, humanity will probably lose the capacity to think, stop using our bodies, stop enjoying our imaginations, lose the power to create, and end up bored. Or will we instead aim to scale higher peaks? At 91 years old, I am interested, and I intend to observe from close up as long as I’m alive.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the news media understood perfectly that stuff like this was what was actually at stake in the 2024 election and told voters instead that the larger issue was that it was a scandal that Tim Walz retired after 21 years in the national guard

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm Christina I've been a professional illustrator since 2005 and a specialist game artist/ art director since 2009. I've worked for Mojang (on Minecraft), Netflix Games, WB Games I've been unemployed for 8+ months. I'm tired of rejection letters. Please help me find a paying project #gamedev

My cover illustration for the game Space Jam (on which I also did all the art and animation)

Bugs Bunny, Lebron James and Lola Bunny are posing in front of an enemy from the game, blending in as a star-filled sky.

a portrait of Otto Rehagel for Esquire Magazine

My terraria illustration for Lost In Cult's Deluxe Edition book on Terraria.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have recalled the groceries that are in your pantry and which you were probably planning to eat forgive me they’re full of salmonella and maybe broken glass

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Until there are real, actual, physical consequences, this regime will continue to destroy lives unabated. Screaming "but it's a crime" doesn't matter to criminals. They know. They also know no one has stopped them yet.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage" is this administration's general vibe.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is the sort of story that makes you say "Jesus Christ" in about four ways at once

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Yumie Tsuchinoko 🌸🐍🍁【lucid ☁️】 @yumietsuchinoko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🚨PSA For Twitch Streamers Moving to YouTube! YT has (unfortunately) automatically enrolled creators in AI features for over a year and you must turn off MULTIPLE settings in YT Studio to avoid it! ➡️Under Advanced Channel Settings, make sure to turn off AI Training, AI Dubbing, + AI Enhancements!

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12/08/2026

A reminder that the media is not liberal or objective. Notice the editorialization in the headline and deck. Why is it "stunning"? etc This is both agenda setting and manufactured confrontation, designed, over time, to make readers think a certain way. Also never see "limits of the Right" frames

A Stunning Loss in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Left
Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/us/elections/david-crowley-wisconsin-governors-primary.html

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Zombies. The undead. You know, ghouls. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Midvale School for the Gifted," I say every time someone pushes on a pull door, as if the reference is obvious to everyone.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 18/07/2026

dreams of murder

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 17/07/2026

Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/06/2026

every wealthy individual on the planet is constantly ruining everything and every hobby for their own benefit

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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 14/06/2026

this is like a simpsons joke from 1997 about what the white house would be like under donald trump in the year 2026

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

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