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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1h

It would be interesting to check back in with this guy in like a year or two to see what his thoughts are, given that he has his mom and her friend pouring poison in his ear about how pierre was a white-hating suicide bomber & bad waiter, & the other trucker is still complaining about immigrants

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 1h

A few assorted thoughts: - this article is sad af man - bewildering that there are people out there who voted for Trump for the first time in 2024 - truck driver's mom pissed me off so bad

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Both sides of this are just so incredibly French. One simply cannot imagine British sixth formers going on violent protests about ***checks notes*** educational standards???

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yes you could say i’m a centrist

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The one thing about this discourse is that I'm more confident in my ability to incapacitate a man than a bear. And I don't like what it says about womanhood in our culture that we're always focused on which one is the threat and not which one we can take down if needed

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of my goals in writing this book was to get a copy in every college library so that survivors entering the Title IX system would know what they were getting into—and be able to use that knowledge however they wanted. But a lot of schools banned the book.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Captain Anarchy; Niche Internet Micro Celebrity @captanarchy.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/09/2026

If the tide really does turn, and I hope it does, do NOT forgive those fuckin dipshit bloo no matta who votescolds. Fuck those people who thought it was okau to sell oit our trans siblings for nothing

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JSpaced10 🏳️‍🌈 @jspaced10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Wow, guys! My dog sometimes sounds like he's saying hello when he barks. Listen!" "Rehro!" "OMG, that's so cool. Anyway, I've got him a headset and a bank account. He's now in charge of all my personal meetings." (Some time later. Holding a massive bill: "Listen buddy, we have to talk." "Ruh-ro..."

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eugenics is the tool of the oppressor. We do not need it. We will not use it. Hate to break it to you, but this means: Mentioning “the gene pool” The concept of IQ and BMI Standardized tests “Gifted” AND “special” education Rawdogging viruses “Social Darwinism” “Effective altruism”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s not unusual for a wartime president to ease up before a domestic election but usually they’re smart enough not to announce that it’ll start again as soon as the voting’s done.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can't decide if my favorite part of the story is the story itself or the helpful fact-check downthread which points out that he was only given lifetime use of the house and the infinite beer was delivered in cases, not by pipe

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chat finds a way.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember when they said (lied) that USAID was corrupt? $400 million was handed out to 30 countries, with no real oversight and with workarounds to bypass human rights safeguards typically given to U.S. foreign assistance payments. Immigration is just a giant trough of corruption right now.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Using generative AI means that you can't answer the most basic element of research, which is "where did you get this information?"

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think a large undervote that ended Kaptur's career would be an effective and relatively low-cost signal to stop this nonsense.

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's this one coworker who calls me "sir" about one time out of three but also takes time to explain how to do things I already know while ignoring when I say "Yes, I know" So, yeah, it's going okay

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 23/09/2026

I have a lot of discussions with people who just don't believe individual action can have much of an impact even though world history is full of examples proving otherwise. By the way the two women who spearheaded this were Mary Manning and Karen Gearon. Nimrod Sejake was in Ireland in exile.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1: For every hour you travel from the nearest clinic, the odds of detecting an outbreak decreases by about 1/3. 👉 For policymakers: the best thing we can do to catch and intercept spillovers before they become epidemics is build rural clinics and pay for diagnostic machines and supplies.

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Steve E. Tricks @refreshingtime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

happy bi visibility day from the nobody believes you hand sofa

bisexual visibility couch with many disturbing hands reading "when you change or to and nobody believes you"

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Neé Neé @queerministry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When I worked for an lgbtq org and pushed them to service Black areas, they legit asked me if those areas were "ready" for the work. White queers really believe this and perpetuate it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

no, it is the other way around. if you are looking at D+14 (or D+12 or +10 or even +8) generic ballot then there is basically no point in trying to tamper with anything. you are going to lose, the only ? is how bad it is going to be. it's when the election is *tight* that tampering makes sense.

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a parent who is going to have the same choices NHJ has had, I am going to approach it differently than she did, but the choices are still going to be the same and still going to be dogshit, because this society hates Black children, and no one white sees fixing that as their responsibility.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026

You'll never guess what this is in reply to.

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The destruction is intentional. They don’t care if this loses money. This is not meant as an entertainment offering. This is a cultural and political project meant to destroy Christianity in the Western imagination, and they’ll happily lose money to do so.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026

"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seems like the worry is it'll pave the way for a minimum age for abortions or other reproductive healthcare. I don't really get the logic, though www.newsweek.com/california-c...

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California child marriage ban faces opposition from Planned Parenthood

Abortion-rights advocates argue that a imposing an age requirement could hurt minors from accessing sexual health care.

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 17/09/2026

Large kitten the size of a small kitten

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If we are serious about a vengeance tour, every person who appeared in court, making this happen should lose their law license for good

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know "have they no shame?" is one of those self-answering questions. But.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm currently going through Python code that a smart human already wrote & re-implementing it in R, so I understand exactly what the code is doing to my data. It's not that I don't trust the code's authors, but this way I'm learning it at the same time and also it's fun

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Literally all we want from life is for people to know things

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm admittedly not an early child development expert but it does seem the ideal scenario for any baby is being collectively raised by a traveling women's professional soccer team

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ok yeah, we don't know what consciousness is. But we do know the experiences & behaviors that made us think there might be a thing called consciousness in the first place So weird as it sounds, we can know that LLMs (or rocks) don't have the thing even when we're not sure what the thing is

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm gonna need @dieworkwear.bsky.social's commentary on this picture

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 15/09/2026

Many friends are rightfully pointing out how great they are at stuff, but also... have y'all tried effing around with art forms you haven't mastered and making bad nonsense? It is fun as hell and also a worthy endeavor.

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