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nice handsome boy @edward86.bsky.social · 14h

old man yaoi

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leon @lacroixboi.bsky.social · 17h

Twitter is obviously worse than most but I feel like this is true of all social media on some level

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

remarkable thing to admit

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It annoys me greatly how easy it would have been for everything to be okay. Not perfect, not even great, but just 5/10 "I can slog through a day in undisturbed mediocrity without the Health Secretary declaring soap causes autism while the president literally shitposts about his war from the toilet."

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 19h

Many people on here have convinced themselves that twitter is *exclusively* fascists now, and it’s simply deluded. There are in fact still many normal people there, including people on the left, as well as whole communities that never even talk about politics.

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 01/10/2026

America yearns to know why they should care about a random streamer they’ve never seen or heard that doesn’t have any position of power

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At some point a people On Here adopted the position native to the post-CRM right that you could say astoundingly bigoted shit but as long as it didn’t have a Forbidden Word Of Power attached to it it was not only not bigotry but anyone cottoning on and condemning your bigotry was the REAL bigot

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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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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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aly @aly.codes · 30/09/2026

Completely dishonest framing just being echoed without commentary, very cool. You mean the app progressively locking itself down in a years long effort to enable lock in is doing this? wow, must be AI

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

newrepublic.com

In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hope everyone has a Hussein

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀 @danmynrd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The GOP: i despise transgenderism because it produces pedophilia, which I’m ambivalent to positive about

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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jen @thejenlife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THE COVID CONSCIOUS LESBIAN BAR IN WESTERN MASS HAS A **SMOKING AREA** This is the best update of all of them bc that means none of this was serious and we can wrap it all up now.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of the business of the past few years is silicon valley radicalized because for a brief moment there was social pressure that they couldn't be non-stop sexpests.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

atlas.jazco.dev

Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought

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Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is a second way to prevent this from disrupting your reading experience: focus on the things you were already focusing on in your reading approach, and leave the AI paranoia at home. You can oppose AI gen literature w/o treating "accidentally liking something AI gen" as making you Unclean.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 25/09/2026

AH FUCK OH SHIT OUR WALLETS

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lemurian haruspex @holy-mountain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well, I don't care for that very much I reckon

A Family Is Begging for Help - Please Don't Let Them Down Of reposted your post . now .

Dont text daddy any guro while he's driving kitten

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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tone policing used to mean, "You aren't automatically right just because you stayed calm, and it's justified for marginalized people to be upset over their oppression." Now it means, "I can say whatever horrible shit I want, and if you object, you're oppressing me."

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alex @dhul-qarnayn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can't wait to see this murderer dragged out of a spider hole, covered in dirt and his own filth.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gotta emphasize once again, these are just bad people

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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 24/09/2026

caleb heron a real one

midwestern gay football player Caleb heron (who also is a comic) being arrested at a protest. wearing a shirt that says fund people not bombs

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badgersnmaps.bsky.social @badgersnmaps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

and no real source of revenue beyond the owner (i.e. bag holder) working 4 jobs to pay rent on it, trying to drum up a small amount of dosh by trying one night without a mask requirement One story is romantic and tragic, the other is dry, predictable and a bit recriminatory Which do folks choose?

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badgersnmaps.bsky.social @badgersnmaps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is the preferred narrative: Marginalized group nobly snd bravely come together and make a thriving space and refuge that is now being ripped away from them like a stuffie from a sweet toddler And what is happening: A bar that actively avoided profit is going under, is lightly attended

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49th Minarcho-Cascadian Shitposting Regiment @minarchosoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's just wild how across all aspects of society we're suffering at the hands of the Asshole Losers

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"You're making fun of queer people" I think most people are pretty sympathetic to the queer woman living out of her truck, $50k in debt, abandoned by her business partners, who thinks she is obligated to sit through 3.5 hour accountability sessions for the crime of wanting to keep the business open.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

The problem with saying this unambiguously true thing is that it puts you in a position of contradicting something a more vulnerable person sincerely believes, making you (by the rules of the Social Justice Game) a fair target for dogpiling and/or firebombing

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

happy first (full) day of fall, bluesky

ina garten in a witch hat saying “If you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it

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leon @lacroixboi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

unparalleled visual storytelling

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

no demand we make will ever be clear and coherent — if we claim that we want X, we will angrily insist it is actually Y — how dare you accuse us of wanting X —- while simultaneously arguing that wanting X is good and uncontroversial. Nothing we say can be taken at face value, everything’s a wordgame

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

when people point out how unpleasant we are, we claim to be a small bean and deny everything we just did in public while also simultaneously saying the targets deserved it and threatening to hurt anyone that points out we are lying by doing the thing we deny doing.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them.

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leon @lacroixboi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Heartwarming: reactionary aristocrat still does race science the old-fashioned way

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

some small possibility the public will, in their dim minds, associate the "transgenders" with "when we had money" and turn them into raindance gods or something

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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is a real cleave in the bigot community between the casual bigots and the ranked competitive metagame-optimizing bigots; and the thing about the casual bigots is that it's all just a game to them and they're more than willing to put the controller down when they're losing or not having fun

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

nytimes.com

F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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bikesforcenturies @theodora2b.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now the Lucas county Democrats have joined the call for Rep Kaptur to take down her transphobic ads.

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Your Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

it is CRITICAL to crushing the right that they be mentally interpreted as the whiniest plebbit tumblroid wokescolds in existence

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Pope Leo's baseball bat 🇺🇦 @shitpostwizard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Telling other people to kill themselves is okay because I agree with them and also it is advocacy" holy shit dude

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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.

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A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe

Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.

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