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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 12h

hellen keller denialism is very popular in the stupidest social media circles around

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

israelis are notably a minority within the territory they control and are (quite plausibly) doomed without western support, though i think neither of these things change the moral valence of israeli apartheid whatsoever

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Fruitless @fruitlessmedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW EPISODE IS HERE! On today's episode, my brother finally got me to talk about a Star Wars thing: @greezymoney.bsky.social and @jackaljackal.bsky.social joined me to discuss season one of Andor. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s interesting that the discourse has been about whether you’ve heard “Choosin’ Texas” because in a few weeks voters in Texas (and 49 other states) will be “Choosin’” their elected representatives in the midterms

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A Frogs Gent @frogsgent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Does the rationalist movement have a misogyny problem?" is a question with a pretty clear answer. Just look at what Yud's willing to say out loud.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 28/09/2026

maybe worry more about the giant mccarthyism coming from the dang white house

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WE ALL LIVE IN BUBBLES BECAUSE THERE IS NO MONOCULTURE ANYMORE BECAUSE MOST CULTURE IS GUIDED BY PLATFORMS THAT USE ALGORITHMIC SUGGESTION. ARE YOU 50 YEARS OLD????? TV??? RADIO??? NO KIDS USE THAT ANYMORE

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John Dipshit @wokeoaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can’t just keep calling it the Burgerreich 😭 The US:

Donald Trump stood in front of American flags, a McDonald’s arch. Text reads THE GOLDEN AGE
LOCALLY OWNED * NATIONALLY LOVED
MCDONALD'S IMPACT SUMMIT 2025

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Teddy Meatballs @leftbanksy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seahawks are underway in the 2nd half

That achewood panel where he tells everyone he just got yelled at

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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

A decade of the worst columnists in the British media being allowed and encouraged to write the most abject nonsense about trans people, with zero pushback, has encouraged them to think they are experts when it comes to all medical conditions

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very cool that Rolling Stone is trying to get people back into Texas Is The Reason.

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Oswiu☦️ @oswiu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What some folks really mean when they claim to have never heard Dopesmoker by Sleep

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At this point, though, if someone contends they've never even heard of "Gloria" or Mineral, it may say more about the listener than the song. Perhaps there is a deeper reason why people say they haven't heard the song and feel the need to make it known: cultural cachet.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Idk, I’m broadly sympathetic to poptimism as a general idea, but I don’t understand why it so easily turns into pop exclusivism. "Pop music can have artistic merit and is worthy of analysis": totally agree. "You’re an immoral snob if you don’t like pop music": chill tf out.

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve been into whiny emo music most of my life. This was cool for about 5 seconds when I was a teen. Since then it’s been something a lot of people ridicule and mock. In all that time, I’ve never thought I needed to write a defensive article about it. What is it about Top 40 that inspires this?

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Brian Schefke @brianschefke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the end, I think this article could have been more interesting about music segmentation if it hadn't been so much about validating the author's artistic and cultural preferences.

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Cultural cachet." I think it has more to do with monoculture being eroded enough that it’s very easy to go about life not hearing much top 40. I haven’t heard the song because it’s not on my algorithm and I haven’t had the desire to seek it out. I don’t think this makes me cool!

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LBark @pontevedrian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Short-form video and "How is this random event about ME" syndrome have unfortunately proved to be a lethal combination for many psyches

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m so fucking sick of the pretending these are rational agents with free will

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Josh, Occasionally on Fruitless @champgnome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thought I had a pretty good handle on Yud’s orgs/circles, but the details on the youth outreach/recruitment stuff is new to me. These men need to get their asses beat and then forced to work in food service/hospitality for the rest of their wretched, pointless lives.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This thread is a description of the ways in which the west deliberately smashed up the Russian economy and gave all the infrastructure and money to a small group of corrupt oligarchs, followed by this, where they say it's all a conspiracy and Russians not taking responsibility.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

nobody is responsible. an openAI-involved leaking

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Josh, Occasionally on Fruitless @champgnome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Big AI guy bragging about not remembering his address and phone number aka everyone’s homework assignment on day 1 of kindergarten.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I do sort of think the flattening of a lot of class distinctions has something to do with this. Why is this guy who's dressed like everybody else from my apartment building acting like he's a Vanderbilt at the Applebees

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another component of this (sorry to be spamming my thoughts here, but I’ve been thinking a lot about work culture the last few years) is that service jobs *did* have more dignity to them in the past. The wages were worth more before inflation and there was less constant surveillance of workers.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a lot of society is built around renting the fantasy of having servants and people go insane when the help doesn't adequately fear them

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of this discourse is downstream from the changes that 2020 brought to work culture and the backlash from employers trying to discipline a recently graduated working class that realized jobs didn’t have to be constantly humiliating and miserable, and most of them are fake.

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Josiah Sutton @josiahwsutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly, this has got me thinking maybe bringing an iced coffee to a job interview might be a good test for the employer. If it’s a workplace with a bunch of arbitrary, unwritten etiquette, it’s probably going to be a miserable workplace.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly.

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Friendly Pumpkin @pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is one of those where yes it's probably true, but if you're really down in the trenches having a flame war with the coffee kids over it I'm going to ask why you're defending those stale old norms so hard

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think this is probably normatively true in most cases but goddamn do people with jobs to hand out have an incredible amount of self-importance! this is basically letting AI screen resumes based on a weird bias towards dying social norms. but fr don't bring an iced coffee to your interview.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ed Sheeran dropping Macklemore from the tour to placate Robert Kraft, leading to all of Sheeran's band and openers dropping out, and his career sustaining damage, and now his shows at Kraft's stadium this weekend have been cancelled because of the weather....