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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 4h

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.

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Kathryne @kathrynesings.bsky.social · 6h

Wow, I was looking forward to this already but now it’s at the top of the queue.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14h

Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13h

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12h

Like, every so often, someone comes rushing out to say 'I think we invented AGI' and, if that were true, the next words out of your mouth ought to be "and so we now have moral obligations towards this new being we created" and somehow that is not generally what I see comes next.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 12h

there’s too much likability in this photo, you can’t look directly at it

Yo-yo ma being embraced by Zohran Mamdani

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Kathryne @kathrynesings.bsky.social · 23h

My sister and brother-in-law were both stage carpenters who changed careers in their thirties because their bodies were starting to break down. An uncle had to leave house carpentry in his 40s. Fortunately he had a master’s degree he could fall back on.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My total time working in concrete added up to about 10 months. It left me with carpal tunnel syndrome, a back injury, and a bunch of the skin ripped off my left arm from a supervisor's easily avoidable error. I loved it, learned a ton from it, but I'd be on my way to an early grave if I'd stayed in.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 02/10/2026

Lemme just post another stellar quote: "Polarization is the country’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, reputation, and democratic self-government."

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe frat houses should not exist if they are such deadly, dangerous places! (They should not)

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Women and girls get harassed and assaulted everywhere. Many women and girls are constantly taught any mistreatment is their fault. Many women are taught not to expect accountability, talking to police can deter victims, and rape kits can go untested for years: www.endthebacklog.org#explore-the-...

endthebacklog.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026

good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

stop treating the culture wars as an exogenous shock. political actors made strategic choices to create and weaponize them. they are not a curious weather condition public schools failed to dress appropriately for.

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

how hard is it to stand in solidarity with women and acknowledge that rape is wrong without feeling like it is a personal attack on you if you are truly innocent

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i cannot think of anything more directly forbidden by the teachings of the roman catholic church than what the catholic supreme court justices did today

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 30/09/2026

Biden and Congress should have done more to lock Trump and his colleagues up and block them from holding public office. Failing that, he should have asserted that 14AS3 prevented Trump from assuming the presidency and forced the crisis to happen *and be resolved* while he still had power.

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What can any of us hope for if not that the people working for and around us take care? To consider us as individuals, to take their time, to refuse the endless pressure for efficiency and automation in favor of CARE. The care to write a speech or plan meals or read to a child.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

If you buy that they care about women's sports, you're a mark and you're going to get financially scammed someday.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

I'm so tired of everything about renting that I think I might scream and i am firmly of a generation in which there is essentially no way that we will ever own homes without losing someone we love and honestly, I think it's starting to get to me.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/09/2026

This is relevant, too: men don’t see women being treated this way because men don’t behave like that to women who are accompanied by another man.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS is an instrumental part of rape culture. This is the wider societal enabling of rape and smearing victims. This is what survivors often identify as the most traumatic part of the experience, and as a journalist who believes survivors I can say it’s one of the worst parts for me, too

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People are also upset about non-economic things that get expressed in economic terms, like the fact that everything seems wildly out of control and we have a maniac in charge of the country

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every once in a while, The Disc Horse meanders from satire into simple truth.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not a peep out of them when the main cause of the fuel increases … Trump … was in the country. Not even a token tractor in Doonbeg! And obviously they have no problem with public transport fare hikes … funny that!

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll support AOC whatever she decides to do, but Democrats *need* a serious, unapologetic progressive to run in the presidential primary to pull the field to the left. Without one, we'll have Newsom, Buttigieg and Cory Booker trying to out-centrist each other and it will be a disaster.

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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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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026

The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...

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