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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October issue
The cover of Vizier Monthly with a shapely big-haired woman in a loose blue gown with a trailing yellow scarf, seated in a throne-like chair. Headlines around her read:
"Some of us are hot": Urda the Fair on the Politics of Pleasure
Ladies of Miss Rule: Tyranny knows no gender!
Oh My Goddess! Simple Ways to Make Him Worship You
Poison Rings: Hot or Not?
It's Lit! Arson, Parliament, and You
So You've Been Overthrown: 10 Tricks to Get Back on Top
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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let's fucking go!
Powerpoint slide projection for Ray aka CityNerd's live talk in Philly.
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Noppy @thomasnoppers.com · 25/09/2026
A hero's final rest. #lego #bionicle
A colourful drawing of line art and watercolour of bionicle Toa Tahu. The Red Orange one. Resting against a tree in the woods. At his feet are the 5 masks of all the other original bionicles heroes. A Spot of sunshine comes through the trees. Wide enough to form a circle in the shape of Tahu and ailluminate him in the otherwise dark forest. Toa is covvered in rust and dust. Leafs spout from his shoulders and mask. His plating looks old and battered. One may wonder how long he has been here.
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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me too, my personal release time is 10pm Eastern tonight after my workday is done and I've gotten my son to sleep.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 23/09/2026
New chvrches song means one thing: I regret to inform you that we will win. pitchfork.com/story/chvrch...
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Chvrches Return With First Song in Three Years
“Roses” tees up a new phase based on “the most coherent vision we’ve had,” the trio says
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
there are not enough federal goons to hold a single american city of a million people
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18/09/2026
i gotchu
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Neon Liberalism #51: The Meme Politics of "Hearts of Iron"
Join host Samantha Hancox-Li as she explores the concept of "meme politics," which pervades the current Trump II administration, through the historical grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV. In realit...
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A24's 40 Year Old Virgin mads mikkelsen: do you know how i know you awre pwobably homosexual? you collect action figures. (dissonant orchestra) robert pattinson (hands shaking on controller) can we just play mortal kombat? mads mikkelsen: our couwrse we can. we awlready awre.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18/09/2026
The oracle told Trump that if he attacked Iran, republicans would be contesting elections in places they never had before
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Millennials on 9/11 every year for the past 25 years
Ryan from The Office 

"I think I never really processed 9/11"
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thanks, Rita's
photo of a street sign for "Rita's ice • custard • happiness." Below the main logo, the changeable letter board reads: "DIETING IS HARD" on one line and "GIVE UP" on the line below it.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
he’s right and he should say it
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
september issue is out
The cover of Vizier Monthly with a young woman and young man in quasi-Tudor clothing. She has a sash with dangling skulls. He has one hand with poison-green rings on her shoulder and the other hand concealed. She looks at the viewer, hands on hips, while his head is in profile, though still looking at the viewer. Text reads "JUST KIDS: the next generation of potentates. KASSERI THE ROSE OF BLOOD AND SALOIO DUKESBANE ON MAKING THEIR OWN WAY. SPECIAL ISSUE"
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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When I put lao gan ma and toasted sesame oil on my haiga rice.
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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great article on The Odyssey.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
mechwarriors are bullies. "mechwarrior" is an oppressive class, like Gen-X people or WASP people.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Everyone involved in this needs to be dealt with.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026
we've got a reporter on the ground in Gary, Indiana where an impoverished minority community went without power for 2+ weeks. the climate future is here, it's just unevenly distributed prospect.org/2026/08/28/g...
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
they expect one of us in the prompt, brother
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 27/08/2026
Poland the moment the first Russian tanks cross the border into Latvia
Poland nato article 5 meme
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
imagine telling people back in 2016 that this is where we are at:
Jeb Bush telling you only had to clap
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 26/08/2026
“computers can’t be held accountable” joke but it says “a computer can never wear a giant white tuxedo / therefore a computer must never ask itself well, how did i get here”
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
my very normal opinion on clanker discourse: 1) it's a slur 2) not all slurs are equally bad 3) they're all at least a little bit bad 4) this is one of the least-bad ones 5) unless you point it at a double amputee in which case what the everloving fuck is wrong with you 6) 😡
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's book thing is maybe the most successful and effective celeb philanthropic venture in the history of this country. Rip to a real one but 80 is probably a good age to go
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We can fit so many fucking justices on that bench you won’t believe it
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Someone once described LLMs as "turning language into a shape rotator task" which explains a lot of why this might be so instinctively offensive to a lot of us wordcels
Similarly, when we forgo writing for ourselves and instead allow an LLM to generate our words for us, we stop going through the rather painful practice of teaching ourselves how to shape, organize, and reason through how we think about the world around us.

The act of writing—crafting an argument, short story, or a simple email—is the act of making our own thoughts coherent in a structured manner.

When we wish to say something serious, we have to confront what we know about a topic, what we don’t know about a topic, and what we have to make informed judgements about when we offer up our views to the world.

To create even the most basic sentence, we’re forced to choose specific words and manage the construction of that sentence in a way where we feel confident that our meaning is intelligible to another.
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Assignment Understander @90sslowjamz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Anakin/Padme meme with Anakin saying “Well, here we are in the catacombs.” And padme says “For the Amontillado?” And Anakin looks back at her and she is partially covered by a brick wall
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/08/2026
Today we begin publishing the chapters of The Reconstruction Papers on our site as individual articles. (The entire book is already available in print and as a PDF.) Here is Chapter 1. "There is no going back. Nor should we seek to." www.liberalcurrents.com/introduction...
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Introduction: Beyond Resistance, Beyond Reform
Chapter 1 (pp. 4–7) from The Reconstruction Papers.
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Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
At the end of the 60 day deadline, Iran is in a stronger position because the credibility of Trump's threats are so low: youtu.be/BEtlo6FmIqQ
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Trump is stuck in Iran #francisfukuyama
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Watching the CENTCOM Commander write WSJ Op Eds about how amazing the war is going and how the morale has never been higher as we drag on into the 6th month of the 3-day special military operation to denuclearize Iran
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/08/2026
friend sends
the "oh they got this all screwed up" meme from thesimpsons, but it goes from "PIVOT TO ASIA // NO MIDDLE EAST WARS" to "PIVOT TO ASIA? NO, MIDDLE EAST WARS!"
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Enjoying the bluesky speed camera debate
Weightlifting skeleton meme: “American culture is a machine that turns leftists into libertarians”
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Chat, it came to me in a dream
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Are you ready for the Civil War Band of Brothers series we've needed as a nation for decades? Either way, you're getting it, and we're starting with the end of the Mexican-American War, the Compromise of 1850, and the radicalization of the North against slavery by an increasingly insane South.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/08/2026
President Pedophile is starving the troops who are burning through a decade of munitions stockpiles losing the war of aggression he started for no reason
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.
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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I would defeat them in the marketplace of ideas 😆
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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Franklin Fountain's original Mint Chocolate Chip. The current iteration is still very good but the original had Jaquins Creme De Menthe laced through it in addition to the ice cream itself being mint whereas the current version uses a fresh mint paste instead of the Jaquins.
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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My 4.
Dril's tweet about being ordered to take off a v for venderta mask and having joker makeup on underneath. There were many other dril tweets I considered but this one is my personal fave.Maybe better than the gods 😉Godtier tweet from Noah parson I can read perfectly in David Suchet's Poirot.Basil's firebomb a walmart electoral strategy tweet.
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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
such a classic scene
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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ernest goes to MI6
Fictional character Ernest P Worrell
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, there is only one working class paper, the financial times, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic Party
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Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐 @joshuaaslan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
No cheating post your lock screen
NASA Artemis Photo of Earth rise from lunar orbit.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
america was already great
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