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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i think this gets at the crux of it. It doesn't matter if they are actively preventing people from dropping ballots off, or if they're there by accident, or what--their presence could still be viewed as intimidating, and the solution is for them not to be *anywhere*

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every woman who comes forward and lays her trauma bare for the world to see does so hoping it will lead to a better world for women. It never does. And yet, we keep trying.

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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026

more business owners need to be like this

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I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

Brother it's no jokes or games & they can think we lying but the administration in charge of this country is deeply linked to the actual antiblack terrorist hate group the Klu Klux Klan, & that's why part of what happens under Trump is lynchings in the south.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

I’m not fucking joking y’all. The Trump administration is the Klan. Not figurative, literal. They’re violent antiblack bigots of incredible proportions ruling this country as serious white supremacists implementing it in policy & saying it overtly, & with political ties to the real KKK & fund them.

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Excellent thread. I would add that both cases, the pressure to adopt AI and to reject the trans community, are top down, big monied concoctions, with little to no organic constituency.

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Laura Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

cheddar... luck... next time? That's terrible (complimentary). I'M IN. 🧀📖

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Laura Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is from the middle of the (excellent) replies to a (n also excellent) post, but also worth a standalone quote

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 31/08/2025

This is the only acceptable AI music.

Android Data from Star Trek TNG is playing a violin

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Laura Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am mildly curious how many of my skeets are quotes that just say "FUCK YEAH [thing I quoted]" (too mildly to do anything like figure it out, but I bet it's a lot)

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The "fine intellectual dexterity" of knowing where you live

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Laura Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The NYT Cletus Safari heads down to TX. 🙄 Also Talarico caved on trans people for nothing, because every one of these dorks is still going to vote for Paxton.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

here’s a comic about ❤️being kind❤️

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hi, are you doomscrolling?

Max the dog rolling around in the grass. He is wearing a blue harness and a red leash.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So when we say "wow Talarico really threw us under the bus" don't come back with some bullshit about how we must love Paxton. The problem is that we wanted to be able to love Talarico. And then he decided that transphobia was the way to win elections and threw us under the bus.

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Laura Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1.) My version of the Niemoller thing: there's plenty of room under the bus. The bus is VAST. 2.) And even if they WOULD stop with trans people (which they won't!), I -- A Cis -- don't want trans people getting thrown under it anyway. Fuck that.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.

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Laura Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

👀 Gonna need to read this!

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Laura Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maybe not, but they're great little vignettes that are part of a bigger story about art and people feeling seen. "Writing X-Men, I'm telling you. It means something to people all over. It's a straight-up responsibility."

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this thread does not go where you think

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Laura Mac @lauramac95.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just yesterday I was just thinking about my niblings with regard to this. 😠

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TODAY'S COMIC: Someone! www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/someone/

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not to debase human life into electoral politics, but Black women are the base that has turned out reliably for Democrats in elections. Or organizing get out the vote efforts. What happens when that base is now in economic survival mode with no ability to organize for the next 3, 5, years?

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La Girafe @lashawndab.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Black women unemployment has surpassed that of Black men. I’m not seeing any targeted programs or policies to address this.

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KC @ixia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also like, if the governor of Virginia can do it...what is the rest of these asshats' excuse?

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Having met a few ultra-rich people in my life, one thing I can tell you for sure is that they are fucking idiots who believe money equals genius and hire people who tell them they are geniuses. Most don't get to inflict their idiocy on us. But the ones who do inevitably create chaos and harm.

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Bill Bushman @billbushman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Everyone in that room needs their asses kicked.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I keep seeing ppl talking online about how LLMs turned people to fascism and the lengths to which we will go to not accept that a whole bunch of ppl are just prone to being rotten will never cease to amaze me

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🦇🎃 Boo-ana 🎃🦇 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

unironically hard as fuck lmao

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Amid another day of legislative circus around college sports, I wish anybody in power could define EXACTLY what they want non-FB/BB college sports to be. Is the priority mass participation? Elite competition? Prep for Olymics/Team USA? Revenue? Educational support? Can't optimize for all of them!

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The reason all of these things are being debated in the court of public opinion and not actual courts is because not a single person can demonstrate any actual harm they’ve suffered by having trans athletes also compete in the same sport as them.

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Justin Ellis @justinellis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Never imagined I would be saying this: but My book is coming out in June and you can now preorder it wherever you buy books! This was a project I could never have dreamed of and I feel wildly lucky to have done it. Turns out there might be a lot to learn about our country from my hometown

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A revelatory look at one of America’s most progressive cities—Minneapolis—as journalist Justin Ellis returns to his hometown to grapple with the quiet histo...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have a cousin who was constantly putting me on game with ways that I could get out of my J-O-B and not do all that “smart shit cuz.” I finally explained to them that I LIKE all the smart shit, did in fact choose to do it for a living, and I am very good at it. They never really believed me.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it is pretty striking how the logic of the consumer citizen has put us on this trajectory towards none of us being consumers or citizens

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Xeno and his Iridescent Ibex @xeno-t.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

reporter: Isn't it a little crazy to impeach him for the 82nd time? congresswoman: you don't just stop arresting a criminal when he keeps committing crimes. what's crazy here is the fascist party members who keep voting for more executive branch crime. 9)

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

“If you’re going to be a hero, be a real hero… be strong enough to be gentle.” -Larry Cullen, making a suggestion before his brother’s audition for the part of Optimus Prime

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Nick from Toy-Fu @toyfu332.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Most popular thing I ever shared on Bsky was a drawing by the current TF comic artist of Optimus Prime protecting people from ICE:

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i need people to start responding to questions about trans women in sports with "what the hell is wrong with you?? why do you care about this all of a sudden? why do you want to impose insane, invasive rules just to stop some 8th grader from hanging out with her friends after school" at the minimum

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