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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They are still finding the bodies of children abused by these nuns. This institution was open until the 60’s. Some of the laundries were open as late as the 90’s. Never forget More infant remains uncovered at former mother-and-baby home www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tuam: Remains of 10 more infants uncovered at former mother-and-baby home

Experts who are carrying out the dig at Tuam in County Galway have published their latest regular update.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

and i am sure that is a personal failing on my part, that i don't know that, and i'll take whatever lumps there; but i feel that i *should have been unable to not know that* also

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

like, at basic level, i literally do not know best practice for supporting someone who has been SA'd recently/a long time ago/whatever. and maybe the answer is "it's idiosyncratic" or "ask her" but maybe not?

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i think we probably do need to do more talking about how to help women heal from sexual assault and less talking about whether and how sexual-assualting men can or should be rehabilitated, based on that realization that i've seen a great deal of discourse on the latter and ~none on the former

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026

NEW: Georgia's election board asked the DOJ to investigate a leading nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program, potentially adding another hyper-partisan probe to the department's portfolio. The state has been central to Trump's allegations that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

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Georgia’s GOP-controlled election board wants DOJ to investigate nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program

Despite his request for a federal investigation into ERIC, the board's executive director appeared to know very little about the organization during a meeting earlier this week.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

there are a lot of hardcore Rs who understand that he’s doing kayfabe and just saying words and there are a bunch of independent types who are learning in real time that it was kayfabe

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...

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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelrooy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two weeks ago my voter registration in Texas was unavailable. Today it was active. Check and make sure you’re good to go!

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please. Photo from my collection, 1972.

Faded color photo of a shorthaired ginger cat raising one paw up to plaintively touch a screen door as if asking to come in. The cat is outside and the photographer is viewing it from inside the door.

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesus Christ dude

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our ability to project onto social media makes it all feel bidirectional, like a conversation, but that masks the fact that on these platforms we are 99.98% consumers, and barely producers. We’re not shaping the conversation waves so much as trying to keep our heads above water.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We don’t have to go to the mat for everything we have ever said just because we said it. Sometimes we’re wrong and saying so doesn’t have to be a psychic death.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway one of the key things is to be humble, and admit quickly and publicly and completely when you got it wrong, both to normalize it for others and for the sake of your own goddamn soul.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Uncle Bill’s not handing out mimeographed John Birch society flyers anymore, he’s forwarding slickly produced shit that looks convincing by its seeming professionalism.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I don’t trust the media, it’s biased” and “uncle Bill sounds pretty convincing” sit really comfortably next to each other with way too many people, especially when the vectors to deliver bullshit to *you* through uncle Bill are essentially unlimited.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trusting everyone to sort out what in their information environment is valid and true is a fucking disaster. We *all* get taken by bullshit sometimes no matter how good we think we are at filtering. We *all* have a tendency to trust charismatic people we like over people with actual authority.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I get why gatekeeping in its negative sense is bad but also it feels an awful lot like gatekeeping in the positive sense was a load bearing pillar of society.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Washpost Opinion section is mostly useless these days, outside of a couple of columnists from the old regime, and the absolute gangbuster AI summaries of reader comments.

* Conversation Summary Automatically generated from recent comments The conversation explores a wide range of opinions on the themes of "wokeness," cancel culture, and the political climate addressed in Megan McArdle's opinion piece. Participants express skepticism and criticism towards McArdle's views, with many questioning her understanding and portrayal of "woke" culture. Some comments highlight perceived hypocrisy in her arguments, while others criticize the focus on cancel culture as a distraction from more pressing issues. There is also a discussion about the broader implications of political and cultural divisions, with some commenters pointing out the ongoing nature of these societal debates and the potential for future conflicts. Overall, the comments reflect a mix of disagreement, satire, and frustration with the topics discussed in the piece. Show less

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The lede is like something a soldier might have written decades after storming Omaha Beach, and having lived long enough to tell his grandchildren about how he somehow survived that fateful day.

For years, the first thing I did upon awakening was check Twitter to see if I had been canceled. After a quick name search to ensure that there was only the usual amount of frothing denunciation, I could get on with my day.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's that other thread I mentioned:

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The real solution is collective, not individual: "Based on her study of more than 150 tribal societies, she identified what makes a society or culture “rape prone,” “rape free,” or something between the two.... in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety, and freedom."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And this passage in her powerful essay touches on something I was talking about earlier here: the constant insistence that victims and not perpetrators work hard at stopping rape, always with an absence of recognition we need the collective solution that is social change.

Many people think of privilege and entitlement in positive terms, such as discrete additive benefits, but they are primarily defined by something else: the elimination or reduction of obstacles and costs that others incur. Is the Red Zone an entitlement?

Just before my daughters were about to set off for college, we got emails from their high school offering a self-defense class for new graduates, $100 a person. Only girls and their families got the emails. The message seemed clear enough: before sending your daughters off to college, make sure they can fight off aggressors. My knee-jerk instinct was to ask: who do girls have to defend themselves against? Mainly boys like the ones they grew up with. Boys were not also being offered a class, at a rate of $100 per person, but by the logic of the offer, they were the ones who might be accidentally or purposefully assaulting someone. All worry instead tends to focus, as preparation, on the possibility of false allegations, despite their rarity.

I understood why a self-defense class made sense and appreciated the effort. However, the class, as well-intended as it was, made me angry. The offering was yet another example of an institutional default: expecting young women to privatize the cost of preventing their assaults instead of preparing men, holding them accountable, or, in this case, suggesting they incur an actual financial price to supplement their education, socialization, and college preparation.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Soraya: "Experts and administrators are publicly agonizing over men’s flight from higher education but seem willing to tolerate communities, behaviors, and campus environments where persistent sexual violence is essentially a tool that is informally filtering and expelling women students."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Read this by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "Rates of violence against women are significantly higher on Division I campuses than at Division II, III, or universities with no athletic programs. Game days at top college football schools are associated with a 28 percent increase in area reports of rape."

sorayachemaly.substack.com

Unmanned

Talking about male supremacy, conservative backlash, managing tetchy feelings, and embracing joyful feminist refusal. Click to read Unmanned, by Soraya Chemaly, a Substack publication with thousands o...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"It may surprise some sexual assault survivors to learn that universities do not have a responsibility to report instances of assault to law enforcement authorities. In general, that benefits universities, not survivors."

shubinlaw.com

Who Does My University Report My Sexual Assault To?

Colleges and universities don’t have to forward reports of sexual assault to the police. In fact, many schools choose to handle these situations internally.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's a system set up to funnel young women into enemy territory, where this stuff happens over and over.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

p.s. "The National Panhellenic Conference, which governs the country’s 26 major sororities, maintains that sisters can’t swig booze in sorority houses — even as the fraternity down the street throws a keg party," sending the women into enemy territory to drink. Prohibition should be on frat houses.

washingtonpost.com

Why frat bros can throw parties but sorority sisters aren’t allowed to

The new Seth Rogen film explores why Greek men and women don't have the same rights

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

...or do anything other than validate hierarchies made-up by 18th century european chauvinists and 19th century imperialists

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

in gta vi there's going to be a mission where you do the ice bucket challenge with salt bae, blake bortles and bobby jindal. look when your release cycle is 13 years long this is just how it's gonna turn out

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

was talking about this with ganz on the podcast today, but among the many reasons that race science is obvious nonsense is the fact that it is a giant exercise in begging the question. not one person obsessed with "race science" thinks that it might prove "white" intellectual inferiority...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

I mean whatever if a bunch of grown adults want to be in a 60 person polycule with an org chart and a Slack than they should be allowed to do that

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

the hosts are all having the exact same reaction I do which is "that sounds really exhausting and it's not for me but I'm happy for them"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

It's endearing how the Boston NPR station is currently earnestly explaining how a 60-person Somerville polycule works

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 29/08/2026

If you’re in the US, expect maps on your phone to start showing you “Lake America” soon, now that the US Geological Survey has updated the GNIS. The USGS is a fabulous resource for spatial data in so many ways. And now it has to implement this stupid shit, for the most spiteful of reasons. Gross.

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Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed x

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Julian @minikinetic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Looking for hickory nuts.

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R.Case @rcase.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I FOUND IT!! So it's like the theme song to a bunch of Coyote and Road Runner cartoons, maybe the movie coming out pulled the song out of my subconscious. Im glad I was able to find out where it was from, thanks Tubi for having so many Loony Tunes shorts youtu.be/LRSKSVDZLsI?...

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The Solid Tin Coyote (1966) Opening and Closing

YouTube video by Tom and jerry fan 001

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Heilos @heilos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Make sure to go see and support this film if you can! It's gone through hell to get released and I certainly wanna see it succeed despite everything trying to kill it. ❤️ I think there are some available showings today as well depending on the threater!

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