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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

righteous among the nations

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

i'm going to go insane if i hear another defense tech guy out of SV talk my ear off about the drone revolution

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

Side note on this: wartime Benzedrine and other amphetamines were produced in such gigantic quantities for the allies that students in the UK and Australia after the war used to take them routinely when cramming for exams.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17h

at least Kissinger died with most of his sins known even if the reckoning of the elites never came for him. if we can't even do that for Elon, man.

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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 20h

🚆🔋 And now…the train. Metra is preparing to bring battery-electric trains to the Chicago area. Cars → buses → trucks → trains. Electrification keeps reaching places that once seemed impossible. #Electrification #CleanTransportation www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/29/m...

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‘First in the country’: Metra to showcase game-changing battery-operated passenger train

The trainsets initially will be deployed on the Rock Island Line, where they’re expected to improve air quality as Metra retires older diesel locomotives.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 17h

If anyone's ready for a break from "elections don't matter, we can't win, & both parties are the same anyway," here's one. youtu.be/GlxveqpM4iM

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Stop The Doomerism. Do It For Farm Workers.

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Princess Weekes @princesmweekes.bsky.social · 20h

Initially, I didn't plan to do a Star Trek video, but while I was in the shower, an idea popped into my head, and here we are. New Video: youtu.be/wmraygqDEx0

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How Star Trek: DS9 Saw 2024 Coming 30 Years Ago

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14h

"However badly Republicans are defeated at the polls in 2026 and 2028, they will still be given the opportunity to reverse those losses in 2030 and 2032. More to the point, Republican voters will continue to form a large bloc that will inevitably exercise an influence over our politics and society."

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Editor's Notes: Your Local Fascists

We know what to do with Trump and his stooges. The harder question is what to do with the ordinary Americans we will have to live alongside afterwards.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 19h

You want an example of focusing on culture war bullshit instead of warfighting, THIS is it. Hegseth isn't worried about the fact that he's set US policy goals in the Gulf back literal decades, no, he's too busy monitoring soldiers' testosterone levels and reveling in what slurs he gets to use.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17h

Unironically, the best thought-out retort to this BS. You can’t debate them. They think it’s funny when you bring out facts and figures and laws and then they just blow you a raspberry and say “nuh-uh.” They exhaust you until you give up and then claim victory. Fuck these goons.

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Jane @janee.bsky.social · 17h

I wonder if this is the national Prop 187 moment I’ve been expecting since 2016.

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 21h

Easy. The past sucked, and people in the past were frequently evil. If you were alive in 1858 or 1930 or 1939 or even 1955 it might have been hard to imagine the social progress we now take for granted. There probably seemed no path out due to the wickedness of men. Yet, somehow, we improved.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 21h

Frustrated with the slow progress on CAHSR? Apparently the California legislature isn't, given all bills to speed up progress died this year. Why isn't California's signature infrastructure project a priority? calmatters.org/politics/202...

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California’s high-speed rail authority made a legislative wishlist. It mostly stalled out

California’s bullet train agency said timely construction of the rail line depended on these reforms. They mostly failed.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 12/09/2026

I wanna make sure people understand the mendacity of this. Because below is what Becerra *actually* said. Erin lied.

Watts read the current law to Becerra, who ultimately supported the state law.
"I'm not interested as governor in having someone be bullied or someone discriminated because of who they are, simply for that reason," Becerra said. "And if the rules allow an individual to play in that sport, those are the rules and you should abide by them."

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Atkinson @maddavenport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Repeat after me: “If ‘just try harder’ could possibly work, it would have worked already.”

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Jane @janee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know Republicans are trying to make “SI” a thing, but it just makes me think of “synthetic intelligence” from Schlock Mercenary

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hypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the takeaway I'm getting is Sarah McBride is very good at her job and is figuring out how to wrangle think tanks effectively, including partially hostile ones

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

30% of central Europe died during the 30 years war, which also directly led to the worst collapse China ever suffered

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah MAHA is mostly antivax weirdos but let’s not forget that ‘reduce environmental toxins that impact public health’ is indeed one of the oldest planks of progressive public policy in the U.S.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fundamental problem with "superintelligence" in the "especially smart AI insta-conquers the world" sense is that there is no 'superintelligence' exception to computational complexity theory and even polynomial time is a colossal pain in the ass when n gets large enough.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By a certain definition, Claude is self improving Claude right now. But, it's by doing stuff like hyperparameter tweaking. There is no potential for an explosive growth in AI capabilities.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 29/09/2026

Notice this features a centrist organization (Third Way) advocating AGAINST abandoning trans rights. This is an important counter-example to include in your calculus about where Democrats stand.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

very few people actually behave as if they believe the AI takeoff stuff.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there literally is no system that is abuse proof, so at a certain point you’re just against the abstract concept of authority or power in general. I think about this when it comes to ALPRs for traffic enforcement. Like if you want to have laws at all, you have to give someone power.

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Cersei Trannister 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🦋 @qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 29/09/2026

Ignore the polls, make calls, knock on doors, find a cute doll, move to rural Vermont with her and let her keep you warm all winter long.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026

“Elon Musk is the single greatest counter-argument against capitalism to ever exist. The man has grown his inheritance of apartheid wealth into a business empire sustained by a seemingly infinite supply of failed promises and absurd predictions.” www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...

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Tax the Wealthy, Not Wealth

Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

STAND FOR THE FLAG KNEEL FOR THE CROSS

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ArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I support Rahm Emanuel running for President because he might distract the wrecker caucus online long enough that they fail to ratfuck the actual eventual winner because they were so obsessed with making sure he failed to reach 5% in New Hampshire.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weird how no journos dropped this tidbit before the 2024 election.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 29/09/2026

We got dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of people worth nine-plus figures that can’t accept they aren’t funny

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lando kardashian @adamsideas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the famously unconcerned-with-gdp-growth central government of the people's republic of china™

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is frankly climate denialism to say we're just going to rebuild these tracks over and over again at great expense and not move them off the beach (which is strikingly absent from this article).

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As for the fares: LA Metro is already inexpensive to ride! $1.75 one-way ride with two hours of unlimited transfers or a $5 daily cap! In fact, I only paid an $18 weekly fare cap for Metro during my recent trip to LA!! Metro also offers the LIFE Program: www.metro.net/fares/life-p...

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LIFE Program - LA Metro

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again, would rather see the return of: Metro Rail service every 10 mins. between 8 pm & last train of the night Metro Rail service extended until 2 am on Fri. & Sat. nights. Metro said that it would cost over $1B annually to make it fare-free. Improving night service would cost less than that.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 28/09/2026

A left that could say “the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it” was offering something people could want. Losing that voice to endless fights over whether wanting the future was itself morally suspect was a hell of a loss.

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like... H. Rider Haggard has Alan Quartermain specifically catch/correct himself re: "Nope, I don't like that word. I mean Africans, or Blacks." In 'KING SOLOMONS MINES" and that's a British guy writing in 1885 🤷‍♂️ (And the scene context is "IMO our 'civilization' aint so superior, actually")

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The entire state government of California is a parable about how giving people more opportunities to vote on something is not, in fact, the same thing as making your political system more democratic.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026

probably the most consistent error in american foreign policy, equally shared by the left and right, is not recognizing that other countries have agency and will exercise it

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