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The *only* reason M'benga didn't end up on an express shuttle to Planet Leavenworth IX to face court-martial for killing the Ambassador is because he's in the opening credits.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 1h

Whereas I found "Under The Cloak of War" to be nearly as huge a betrayal of Trek's underlying morality as discovering that the Federation used synths as slave labor on Mars and crushed a revolt. Doctors do not fight, or lead commando missions. Doing so makes hospitals "legitimate" targets.

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Tonight we read the heartrending words of those who lost Israeli loved ones on Oct 7th — and Palestinian loved ones in the three years since. We said kaddish for all of them. We refused to compromise on anyone’s humanity. No amount of shouting stopped us. May their memory be for a blessing.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3h

Upsetting the MAGA people is a selling point.

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The media's dilemma: should we cover that a guy contemplating how to dispose of Jews is cited by the VP as an intellectual influence or write another piece about vague connections between Democrats and Hassan Piker? 🤔

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I forsee a pioneering business opportunity in putting people like McAfee into hospitals. Or the poorhouse.

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One of my favorites. Bertie is a dear.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

It only stashes the kids in *clean* microwave ovens! Most of the time. It does clean up afterwards, though!

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Here is what you can do to help me: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Has anyone thought to email C.J. Cherryh? She and Jane live in Spokane!

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5h

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Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions

Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

When and where is this conference? *Ponders the logistics of showing up with the demo kit and a tote of inventory.*

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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Linear time is weird, man.

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Correction: Their youngest son just completed his Ph.D. Their oldest grandchild is now in middle school.

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I moved out of state four months later. They still send Christmas cards. I think she's either forgiven me or decided I'm far enough away that I don't matter; she held grudges. I'm not willing to pry. Their grandson just got his Ph.D. So, sometimes, yes, men will go to therapy! And it will work!

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He got married a year later. She was one of my exes; it had ended poorly for us. Bridges burned, ashes mixed with acid and bile. One of the last times I saw them was at the wedding. He thanked me at the wedding and said without me, he'd've screwed this relationship up before it got that far.

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However, later that weekend, he said he'd thought about what I said. Really thought about it. And with introspection born of a hangover, realized that the only common element in these relationships was him. And these women had all wanted to be with him until they didn't. He went to therapy.

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"You don't have bad luck with women. You've got a knack for dating awesome women. You'll be dating again next month. You're bad at relationships. Before you fuck that up again, talk to a goddamned therapist." He came close to throwing a punch. Not sure he had the balance to connect if he had.

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While he was confessional drunk and I less so, I asked him to name one good thing about any of the women he'd made a litany out of trashing. He couldn't. Two of them were total smokeshows. One paid off her student loans by posing for Playboy! So, I said something unwise but true:

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"She kept nagging me about stupid shit!" And he could never name the stupid shit. "She kept wanting to know where I was all the time!" Except he had a habit of blowing off engagements and meetups. "She just went crazy, right?" With fighting and arguing and abruptly moving out.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 6h

I had this conversation with a male friend in the Clinton Administration. We were both recently dumped and commiserating as men in their mid-20s do...and while we're both hurting, I noticed that every tale he had of his exes hit the same three notes, sometimes in different order.

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One thing I've learned for dead certain: A man who has a bunch of "crazy" exes is an abuser. They acted "crazy" because he drove them that way with gaslighting, insults, and constant emotional turbulence. Most make a full recovery when he's gone. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/theres-no-...

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There's No Way Every Woman You Date Has BPD

When therapy culture comes for the "crazy ex-girlfriend" archetype

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6h

Any tech geeks out there available to help Jon? This is like... important webcomics history!

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 6h

Normally a sitting President encouraging a foreign enemy to nuke two strategically critical American cities calling over 4 million American deaths "a small price to pay" while building a bomb shelter into the White House would be, you know, a bigger story.

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Ed Overbeek @edoverbeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would point out that there’s only one of them on that stage who helped overturn Roe v Wade, and that’s her

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12h

Feeling some kind of way about Cornell and rape culture? About the election? About ICE? So show up and do something! BIGLY ORGANIZING TRAINING TONIGHT!! Register here 👇

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 6h

Hamilton is briefly mentioned in my upcoming book “Complexity and Emergence” — she programmed the computer simulations that inspired Edward Lorenz to found modern chaos theory.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 6h

Content warning: detailed account of a rape from the survivor. That the survivor is a Democratic House candidate in a MAGA district in the northern suburbs of Phoenix... I wish her healing. While unlikely, I hope she wins.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 6h

Nicaea wasn't the first time I had gotten a death threat for designing a game - that was This Guilty Land - but it was the first time I got the threat before the game came out, and the first time it was also a rape threat fun bunch of people

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22h

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness

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Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane

Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 9h

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 8h

I've seen "Digger." It'll be a commercial flop. It's the "Dr. Strangelove" of our era and is satire so black that Anish Kapoor had to be talked out of filing a lawsuit by his lawyers. It will be studied by film schools and political historians, assuming copies survive lighting the world on fire.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 10h

He's an actor in his mid-40s trying to remain employed by "not pissing off conservatives." He gets cast as a lead in a lot of action movies. He (or his publicist) missed a memo if we're being charitable, or he's a Nat Sec/Cut My Taxes Republican who's stuck to Trumpism and trying to wait it out.

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Because the chiaroscuro of their off-screen breakups are more interesting than the plot-by-numbers roller-coaster of the actual movie. :)

I kind of liked the implication that Crisp Rat and Bryce Dallas Howard's unmemorable characters always break up off-screen after each dinosaur trauma-bonding event. She runs to her new cause, burns out, they have another trauma bonding event, with makeup sex that can't be shown in a PG-13 movie.

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There are mayors in the US who'd do this, but most are too afraid of their re-election repercussions when the Police Union campaigns against them.

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So, no, the words he emotes on cue, and the characters he inhabits, may not cross the "I'm a wealthy guy" threshold to impact his beliefs. Sad, but unsurprising.

But Glenn Powel, a Generic White Guy, with enough Botox and never being seen with gray hair, can still be a bankable box office draw into his late 50s or early 60s. He's got another 15-20 years of pulling down multi-million dollars per gig! And he does Action Movies, not Art Feeelm!

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Female actresses have shorter careers because sexism. Deep down, they know "I'm probably not doing this in my 40s." (One of the best parts of ScarJo in that awful Jurassic World movie was seeing her get to be a _mercenary in her 40s_ on screen. It was still an awful script.)

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Acting careers have a huge survivorship bias: "My success is entirely due to my innate superiority and Work Ethic!" -- working actors work *hard*. Everyone who works in film and TV works hard, because the ones who don't, don't get callbacks or new gigs. Game dev is the same, without the unions.

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