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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself. No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
remarkable thing to admit
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I feel like a major lesson of Trump is that people like him will act in bad faith or violate the law no matter what, so it's literally not possible to Trump-proof a policy except through robust removal and punishment provisions for people like Trump.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is another attack on the so-called "feminization" of higher education, abetted by widespread ideology (also held by far too many uni leaders) that education has no value beyond a taxpayer-subsidized job training program for corporations. Also part of effort to resegregate higher education.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It fucking ruled how Kevin Kiley went from gleeful MAGA to Reasonable Bipartisan going on NPR when it became clear Gavin was gonna delete him, and is like the clearest possible indicator that hardball works.
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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feels like twice a week I get notified that a new billion dollar class action lawsuit has settled, and that I am entitled to 5 dollars as a result At this point are we not just selling our data to Fortune 500 companies at a discount? This feels like a “feeding shelter cats to the coyotes” situation
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Joel @jladouc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Primetime (2026) House (1977) Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022) The Boys From Brazil (1978) #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Movie posters for:

Primetime (2026)
House (1977)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
The Boys From Brazil (1978)
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 25/09/2026
Élections Québec restricts use of English at polling stations to comply with Bill 96 Quebec poll workers have been instructed not to speak English with voters at polling stations. #polqc
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Élections Québec restricts use of English at polling stations to comply with Bill 96
In compliance with Bill 96, Élections Québec has restricted the use of English at polling stations during the upcoming election.
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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At some point you need to ask whether the petty complaints of seniors are worthy of publishing. Like, this is fodder for thanksgiving dinner talk, not the CBC, and surely not a pressing matter of government
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Surprise, we're doing Japanese magazines now! This has been a big slowly moving project with a bunch of collaborators, and I'm proud of the pilot we're launching today
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 09/09/2026
Everything is GameStop and if you're not bro enough to join the herd and agree with an implausible account of reality that everyone has agreed to run with until the next pump and dump exit scam, you're probably leaving money on the table
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 09/09/2026
I used to believe that there were important and meaningful costs to being wrong but capitalism has shown me that in a marketplace where a narrow class has sufficient economic dominance every possible cost associated with error can be externalised.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026
need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”
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Joel @jladouc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hell yeah
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Don't worry, the law that allows the government to prosecute citizens for their speech will only be applied selectively." is somehow not as reassuring as the mayor thinks it is.
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Montreal city council adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees | CBC News
Montreal city council has adopted a bylaw to ban people from insulting police officers and other municipal employees.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026
of course the ideal solution is “you come on my show and lie to my face repeatedly, you don’t get to come on my show again” but obviously that’s several steps too far for our media
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026
if you’re going to invite proven liars on your program this is the only way to handle it just call them out in real time for their bullshit if you’re not prepared to do this then you’re not prepared to have them on
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An emotional Premier Danielle Smith recounted historic indignities entirely within the Province's existing jurisdiction to solve. This is "The feds made us do nothing to help Albertans!" bullshit.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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The Haunted One 🎃 @palmtungsten.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
PLAY THE WD-40 GAME
A yellow and blue mini CD-ROM in a rectangular plastic sleeve. The text on the CD reads
 "WD-40
www.wd40.com
• Play the WD-40 Game

• Get the List of 2000 Uses

• Interact and Learn

2001 JENTEC Interactive, Inc. All © Rights Reserved."
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,
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Lucy Bloom @groan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
there would be signs etc.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore
The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.
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Joel @jladouc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Hope (2026) Colony (2026) The Weight (2026) #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Movie posters for:
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Hope (2026)
Colony (2026)
The Weight (2026)
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from
A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If nothing else, this book deserves your attention because it refutes what is becoming an alarming consensus talking point in the center that 9/11 brought out the better angels of our nature - a delusional distortion of reality that is true only for one value of "our."
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SJW Travis Bickle @uzionmain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is gentrification at its most vulgar and absurd. We used to have culture
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
does your supplement do what you say it does? cool, prove it. if you can’t prove it and you keep saying shit you can’t prove, fines and jail.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims
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Joel @jladouc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Pathogen (2006) Linda Linda Linda (2005) 28 Days Later (2002) 🔄 Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Read that again: a husband's right to dispose of his wife's property as he chose was not struck down by the Supreme Court until *1982*.
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anne t. donahue @annetdonahue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i think about gloria steinem's dedication in "my life on the road" all the time. she was an astronaut.
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Today it’s Lake America, but tomorrow the propaganda coming from south of the border could be both more serious and insidious, and the actions of Google, Apple and other companies show plainly that they will not be on our side." —  @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today
The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There's a weird psychology where these guys want to believe they'd be some sort of alphas in a state of nature but want to prove it in an environment they control completely. None of them ever says "I'll go to a community meeting and argue for more pollution, that's how I'll show I'm a badass"
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