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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who is willing to perform lethal injection is not qualified to perform lethal injection.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This post explains why the intervention of Sheri Mecklenburg--the prosecutor Chicago US Attorney Andrew Boutros is trying to scapegoat for the Broadview 6 case--in the exonerees bid for sanctions is a mic drop. It puts Boutros in the center of the abuse. emptywheel.net/2026/09/24/s...

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Sheri Mecklenburg's Mic Drop - emptywheel

When Sheri Mecklenburg told Andrew Boutros she wanted to intervene in the Broadview 6 proceedings, which will make it far harder for him to scapegoat her, he threatened to fire her. So she quit. And ...

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As it's the topic of the day, I'll take a stab at the top 10 shows starting 2000 or later 1. The Pitt 2. The Wire 3. Andor 4. Avatar, the Last Airbender 5. The great British Baking Show 6. 30 rock 7. The Good Place 8. The Colbert Report 9. The expanse 10. Lucifer

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please let the Democratic nominee for president in 2028 be almost anyone besides Gavin Newsom.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The fact that they don't work is a distant third in my objections to LLMs

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

WTG MapQuest! ✊

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seven months after he was executed in broad daylight by agents of the state, ICU nurse Alex Pretti’s family “says it is still waiting for answers from the federal civil rights investigation and wants the two officers who shot him held accountable.” people.com/alex-pretti-...

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Alex Pretti’s Family Watched Him Get Shot and Killed on TV. 7 Months Later, They’re Still Demanding Accountability

Alex Pretti’s family is speaking out seven months after the Minneapolis ICU nurse was shot and killed by federal immigration officers, demanding answers and accountability.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

kids are the worst

kids biking on street

Annoying kids force drivers to lightly tap a pedal directly below their foot to engage mysterious and unused brake function.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2026

We argue constantly and at length about if certain groups actually deserve to be made fun of, but there is one true and unambiguously morally and ethically correct answer, and that is “people who remember 9/11 who still root their self identity in being a Slytherin”

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Unsanctioned Buffoonery (Dan) @offtheupright.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They're all trying to will this election cycle into being about something other than a referendum on Trump and his administration and my dudes it's not happening.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I think that not only is this good politics, but the stability of American society depends on it. Liberal American normies are out for blood, but *everyone* is in an anti-system mood. If we don't feed that beast some sacrifices, it'll find someone who can, and those sacrifices will be innocent.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Victim blaming is always gross and terrible.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Part of what's bizarre about this situation is how many small-and-mid-sized businesses despise it too. If you're not big enough to dump health insurance on a legal department and find creepy cost arbitrage wins, then it's basically one big paperwork nightmare and persistent large monthly expense.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"I'd like to keep this focused on law enforcement." Yeah, man, they're asking you about all your crimes.

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KevTheRev @kevtherev.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"I think California transplants like Ken Paxton can become Texans"

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Skeleton Stressed Working at Desk

ALT: Skeleton Stressed Working at Desk

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Sirius B @aowl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I keep this on my phone as a reminder—

Rev Cornell Wm Brooks explaining hope is a moral commitment

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've never been this close to a bus, but half this close to a car going 25 is scary. It's difficult to describe, but several things have to go wrong before a car is that close to a cyclist.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A professor once said something like, "it's not allegedly anymore, he was found guilty by a jury," and I think about that about once a month.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

at any given time theres a grand sum total of about a couple dozen trans kids playing hs sports spread out across a nation of 350 million. this is what weve been spending years arguing about. a few dozen kids theyll never meet

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/06/2026

The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I can't tell if it's a user error or a system issue that I expected this thread to be about advanced stats and flopping in basketball.

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SCerb @scerb.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Q. Who could have seen that coming?

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.

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Kevin Tompkins @ktompkinsii.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Occasionally, l'Il hit
somebody with my car.
So sue me.

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Steve Bates @casengo791.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Take the NFL franchises out of Florida; problem solved.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

As usual, I agree with President Obama. Even if done against people I think should be charged with crimes, the president should not be able to interfere with charging decisions.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I dunno if this is a spicy take, but I find firing squad significantly less offensive than lethal injection.

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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 24/04/2026

We have noticed a very pixelated version of this image kicking around. Here's a better quality one. Were you there for this photoshoot on 2nd Ave nearly 20 years ago?

200 people in cars, without cars, on bikes, on 3 buses on 2nd Ave - comparing the space each one takes.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Bike lanes are for people who are afraid of biking through traffic more than they are for serious cyclists.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

In addition to all the other reasons the world is terrible, one reason nothing sells for $1 anymore is some CC processing fees have a fixed fee per transaction of ~$0.30 (sometimes more, sometimes less) plus a percentage. That's one of many reasons it doesn't work to sell $1 worth of anything.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Does anyone have a link or a timestamp for just this part?

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Person who is two steps removed from a criminal must also be a criminal is always a bad take.

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Chris Geroux @cgeroux.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I think probably the one misconception that bothers me about bike lanes is that people assume they are for those who bike...when really they are for those who are too scared to bike.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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From Undiscovered Country to Nemesis: How Star Trek Reflects Society

It is a common cliche that Science Fiction says more about the present than it does the future, and perhaps no franchise embodies that more than Star Trek, which has always openly served as a socie…

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is becoming so common that the no bill laureate jokes are getting stale.

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kingkurt42.bsky.social @kingkurt42.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Yeah I agree with this Radical proposal. Follow up, I wonder if we could all agree that it's not okay to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law?

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind

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