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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 20h

I bet plagiarists really love AI

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hello Bluesky. I have no idea what engagement is like on this platform, I have very few followers. But I am raising money for a documentary I directed & I’d love to get some reposts. Go to www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeffreydinsmore/any-way-the-wind-blows to learn more.

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Any Way the Wind Blows

A feature documentary about loss, hope, art, theater, and how to survive a fire.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/09/2026

Some Dems are running away from trans people. Abdul El-Sayed, Dem Senate Candidate in Michigan, is running towards them. When asked, he fully and unequivocally support trans youth care as a matter between parents, patients, and doctors. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"The Decision Ought To Be Between A Patient And Their Doctor," Says Michigan Senate Candidate El-Sayed On Trans Care

Even conservatives “agree that the decision about healthcare ought to be between a person and their provider,” El-Sayed said.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

can someone please teach politicians how to post, I'm begging you

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Can everyone in the free world please stop misrepresenting the idea of "defund the police" in complete bad faith pls ok thx

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It makes me sick to my stomach that I've seen Jason Arday referred to as a "serial fabulist" in almost every news piece I've read about him but none of those journalists ever bothered to lift a finger to figure out if it was true. He really did run 30 marathons in 35 days.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The real answer is option #3, rules don't apply to him. How the fuck are people still learning he's a hypocrite

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

At some point (hopefully) we will see a Dem speaker who knows how to do their job and makes it look easy and we will be aghast that we spent so many years tolerating Hakeem Jeffries

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Meanwhile, the right never meant any of it. They moaned about "cancellation" for a decade but embarked on mass firings as soon as they took power. They pretended to care about "free speech restrictions" and "educational indoctrination" while embarking on them every chance they got.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Never forget the reason Jan 6 happened was because Trump was terrified the democrats would throw him in jail for the multitude of crimes he committed during the first term, never imagining anyone could fuck up such an open and shut case that badly

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

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Franck @franckchester.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

How come super villains have become reality but not super heroes? Why can't a stupidly rich person make it their personal mission to crush these people? Doesn’t even have to be out of the goodness of their heart, I'd be happy if they did it out of pure spite, whatever it takes

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@ProudSocialist "This is barbaric. New video released of ICE agents kidnapping a teenage boy in Glendale, CA. The teen can be heard crying out for help and crying for his mother as ICE takes him away. 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗜𝗖𝗘. @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 30/07/2026

She hunge on my gunth till I hotgoo

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026

I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan & Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026

probably a real market opportunity for someone to open up a retail store chain that operates as they did 20 years ago.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Apologies if I sound angry, but it is a real problem that the 'smart' commentary on this war is trying hard to avoid the core lesson ("the president is a fucking moron") because it doesn't sound very clever when it is absolutely the most important takeaway from this debacle.

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I mean yes this sucks but I bet right wingers are cackling over this the way we all cackled over Jon Ossoff yesterday

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

‘guy who died while we were waiting to hear if another guy died’ is a fitting and worthy epitaph

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

lib men go gaga for a walrus stache, they're powerless against it

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Competitive high school sports are not about gladiatorial domination; they exist to teach kids teamwork, comradery, promote exercise, and give them a sense of accomplishment. I can think of no better way to accomplish those goals than to compete alongside our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings.

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Mr. Pleasantries @jeffreyd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Kinda nuts that in 10+ years of sounding like a broken record I have never heard anyone tell Donald Trump he sounds like a broken record.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

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The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

POWER TO THE PEOPLE x FIGHT THE POWER ✊🏾

Public Enemy joins an all star line up to fight the power

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I’ve been saying this for a few years and I won’t stop - almost all of the gop shit is easily branded as a “war on kids.” Genital inspections. Abducting immigrant families. Cutting health care. Gutting education. It’s a War on Kids.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Hmmm I wonder how warm it is outside. Pull out phone See email notification Open email app Answer a different email Put phone away 5 minutes later: Hmmm I wonder how warm it is outside.

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 17/05/2026

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

I think this is valuable! It is also an argument that is very commonly made, so I would not be contributing anything unique by highlighting it. The point I am making is one that is rarely made: the pressure to be practical at all times is dangerous to our humanity.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Amazing to me that people keep screaming about security failures in a situation where security did not fail. Bad things didn't even happen to bad people, so you can stop pretending to be worried about that. Stop whining for a bigger, badder police state.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Nothing happens even when everything happens. This is an era of boring insanity

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We go way back

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.

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Natalie Dee @nataliedee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The main topic for today should be how none of our representatives or senators stood up for us or tried to do literally anything to help us yesterday. They were okay to have us all at the brink of nuclear war and had nothing to say about it. On one of our darkest days, they abandoned us.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Fair point.

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

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The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review

Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

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