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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just listened to an ep. of Jesse's podcast and was surprised to hear him mention Bluesky within the first few minutes, then again a few more times. You would think he spends a lot of time on here or gets harassed a lot but it looks like he barely posts and they mostly get no engagement. Weird

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/09/2026

I find this maddening. People on Bluesky are caping for the most insanely condescending, transparent, cynical form of neoliberal benevolent racism. And getting mad at the journalists who helped uncovered it! jessesingal.substack.com/p/nature-you...

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Nature, You Need To Figure Out What You Do

You had allllllllll summer to think of it

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/08/2026

I propose a 24-hour Christmas Truce of sorts between X and Bluesky to celebrate the lawful detention of Milo Yiannopoulos

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/08/2026

*Jason Arday* approached a Guardian journalist to try to get him to cover claims like him receiving a severed pig's head in the mail. The journalist looked into those claims, found them to not be credible, and published an investigation. Now idiots are accusing The Guardian of murder. It's sick.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/08/2026

Because so many of the horrible people trying to destroy the career of a black Guardian journalist are based on this site, just want to cross-post this. You are all being insane. You should stop.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think if Twitter/Bluesky bifurcation has accomplished anything for the world it’s been breaking the illusion that whatever is trending on some app represents anything other than the dynamics of that specific app.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/08/2026

This sounds like something that would happen. I attacked black women and then I went to a listserv and was like "Check it out -- I attacked black women." It makes too much sense to not be true. The one thing she's leaving out is that after that, we high-fived and ate ice cream.

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Kyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cheers Jesse. I thought about it all summer, and this is where I landed. More about how I got there in this substack of mine if anyone's interested. kylesaunders.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

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Let’s Talk Course AI Policy

I’ll show you mine too...

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/08/2026

This strikes me as a good and levelheaded way of handling AI in education. No blanket bans but clear communication that: 1) end of the day you will not be able to rely on it in the highest-stakes evaluations 2) its errors are *your* errors, full-stop 3) you need to be thoroughly transparent

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Kyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here's my AI policy for Parties and Elections this semester, plus a link to my substack where I explain how I came to it in the next reply. Every assignment in my course is AI-encouraged with required disclosure or AI-prohibited (the in-person exams). Disclosure of use is never penalized.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 22/08/2026

1/ Getting mad at Bluesky for being crazy is like getting mad at a toddler for not knowing which sppon to use at a fancy dinner party, but to be clear: This is really crazy. Cofnas is obviously being investigated in relation to the Arday thing, and that is obviously bad, because it's obviously good

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dachte @dachte.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's up to you to decide whether to try to convince others that your concerns and beliefs are worth adopting. Showing up doesn't mean you'll win, but not showing up means you'll be fringe. There are no awards handed out for telling the world you're exhausted that most people disagree with you

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 07/05/2026

people on this site need to calm down so badly. it's just such an unhealthy way to be

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/03/2026

I don't think Matt Yglesias is a Nazi collaborator

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 26/02/2026

New from me: Elon Musk, Standpoint Epistemologist (on his claim that if you don't have kids you can't do AI alignment) jessesingal.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

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Elon Musk, Standpoint Epistemologist

It’s all the same nonsense

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 26/02/2026

This is groundhog day medical misinformation hell. Not OP's fault: 1. Most science journos have been laid off 2. Mainstream outlets rarely touch this meaningfully 3. This leaves a gap that's filled with partisans chanting TORDOFF 2022! TORDOFF 2022! etc jessesingal.substack.com/p/researcher...

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Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite. (Updated)

A critique of Tordoff et al. (2022)

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 26/02/2026

I'm baffled by the designation of SEGM as a hate group. I reached out to the SPLC repeatedly to try to get them to explain it to no avail. I've never seen anything that would justify that label and the SPLC's written claims were truly bonkers. jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-disast...

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The Disaster At McMaster, Part 1

Scholars are being “traumatized,” a long-running collaboration is being torched. . . what is going on?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 25/02/2026

The 1% quote is made-up in the context of youth gender medicine, unfortunately. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... See also Kinnon MacKinnon There's also a broader point here about using regret/detrans in the absence of more robust measures. But we don't even know the regret/detrans %.

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The Detransition Rate Is Unknown

An official website of the United States government

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 07/02/2026

I wrote about Dr. Jonathan Howard's view that to ask the question "What is a man?" is to put people in physical danger. I also questioned doctors who are unfamiliar with the bare basics of research methods can provide good care to their patients. jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-can-do...

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How Can Doctors Like This Provide Competent Care To Their Patients?

Some beef with Dr. Jonathan Howard

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 04/02/2026

Bluesky users are objectively in favor of violent threats deployed against the 'right' targets. When Bluesky does the right thing and bans or suspends one of its many users who engage in violent threats, the only possible explanation is a conspiracy theory.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 02/02/2026

I think what annoys me the most is advocates for youth gender medicine simply *lying*, for years, that doctors only prescribe these treatments after careful deliberation -- long after we've known that this isn't the case. It's hard to fathom the recklessness www.thefp.com/p/a-legal-fi...

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A Legal First That Could Change Gender Medicine

At 16, Fox Varian got a mastectomy while undergoing a gender transition. She sued her psychologist and plastic surgeon for leaving her ‘disfigured for life.’ Benjamin Ryan reports from the courtroom.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 30/01/2026

I made it clear in the piece that I think violence is a bad and counterproductive solution. I don't think anyone can read it and honestly accuse me of endorsing violence. Plus Trump has (remarkably and against what I expected) dialed down the tensions a bit since then anyway.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz (Republican-appointed in ‘06): “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/01/2026

yeah i don't equivocate on this in the piece -- my argument is that prior, c2020 arguments against violent protest seem to no longer really apply, though there's actually been some de-escalation on trump's part (somehow) over the last day or so

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 27/01/2026

The Trump Administration Is Eroding The Case For Keeping Protests Nonviolent jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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The Trump Administration Is Eroding The Case For Keeping Protests Nonviolent

This is new

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Fertility decline is a huge social problem and will profoundly shape the world, but people outside the far right are neglecting it because of the unsavory views of those who are most vocal. Has to change. www.noahpinion.blog/p/lets-save-... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Let's save the human species!

There's probably a solution out there to fertility decline. Let's find it!

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 14/01/2026

That's me -- I forced mainstream trans activists and their attorneys to appeal this case to SCOTUS, to make a Title IX argument based on sex discrimination, and to then, when asked what their definition of 'sex' is, say they don't have any. I would have gotten away with it too if not for bluesky.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 29/12/2025

BARPod has a really good episode up today about milking minotaurs (sexually), which is a thing I've never done before but sincerely hope to at some point www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-fi...

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Premium: Finally, We Milk The Minotaurs

A very beefy episode

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imtravis (duck era 🦆) @imtravis.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

if you think i’m going to engage with any conversation with someone like Jesse, i got a wood chipper to sell you

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 16/11/2025

Bluesky's power users are in favor of violent threats, as long as the people receiving them "deserve" them. This is a much more complex and subjectivity-laden stance to take than the mods' stance, which is violent threats are always bad. The power users hate the mods for this.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 16/11/2025

What's the most violent thing I've posted?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 12/11/2025

What have I done to justify being kicked off?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 24/10/2025

New BARPod episode about Bluesky users, mods, and waffles www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-bl...

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Premium: Bluesky Users Go To War With Mods Over... Waffles

It's not about waffles.

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Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 06/10/2025

Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 05/10/2025

I have used the forbidden term (WAFFLES) so it is now a "Nazi dog whistle" Do BlueSky powerusers understand what a laughingstock this place is?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 04/10/2025

folks should definitely read this

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/10/2025

In my opinion if you are mad at Jay about the waffles thing -- which I agree was heinously, grotesquely offensive and possibly illegal -- it will be hard to look yourself in the mirror unless you stop posting here forever and go start a newer, better social media platform with more safety features.

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jazzcabbbage.bsky.social @jazzcabbbage.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

how much do they pay you to forget about your conscience? Try answering this one honestly Jesse: have you ever accepted money from the republican party or the heritage foundation?

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𝕻𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖊 ΘΔ @oorrggaanniissmm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This is like letting a serial killer stay in your home because he hasn't killed anyone "yet". You are complicit in violence, whether you are as ignorant as you pose or not.

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