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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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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trying to watch the VisionQuest trailer but all I can focus on is the disco Sondheim

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026

Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach!

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really NYTimes? The OA but not Legion?

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 25/09/2026

My new favorite news photo. The ugliness of these people just leaps right out at you.

Reuters photo (I checked that it's real) showing Trump glaring belligerently at the camera, with Melania behind him looking like she'd like to rip the photographers throat out, and Xi watching them both with a mild bemused expression.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thought this was newsworthy enough to post a Twitter screenshot

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That was A Very Lindelof Lanterns.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/99J2YC

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OUTLIER · Day 122

gregor_samosa scored 867 on Day 122. Can you beat them?

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MacDowell @macdowell1907.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re hiring! Learn more: MacDowell.org/employment

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Dropcake Murphys

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Murphy's Slaw

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shana tovah. May the new year bring you blessings.

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Erica Schultz-Opinions are my own @ericaschultz42.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

DO NOT USE VOTESAFE.ORG! DO NOT USE VOTESAFE.ORG! DO NOT USE VOTESAFE.ORG! DO NOT USE VOTESAFE.ORG!

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@bcdreyer.social, my son's gf is working in the archives of the Bryant Library in Roslyn, where they found this local guide entry on the Roslyn Theater, and this hand-drawn map from 1973. Thought you'd get a kick.

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I want to love Dredge, but the core gameplay loop--fish, dredge, sell, upgrade-- is getting wearying and repetitive. The exploration is satisfying and the mood is great, but there's too little variation in actual play. Tapping out soon.

A fishing boat approaches a shipwreck in the game Dredge

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jstillhere.bsky.social @jstillhere.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The last four characters saved on your phone are your D&D party. Yikes

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Last four characters you saved on your phone are your D&D party.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

just got arrested for going up to a police officer while wearing meta glasses and saying "computer, transfer $100,000 from this officer's bank account into my account" and then waving my hands like a magician

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hi, I'm Len. I write musicals, though I'm currently revising a novella. The gutsiest lyric in song is the end of of Zevon's "Desperados Under the Eaves:" I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel I was listening to the air conditioner hum It went Hmm-mmm... What's a song to introduce you?

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough

Supermarket aisle sign with items listed top to bottom: Can Fish, Microwave, Soup.

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 02/09/2026

Every time I see this poster, this is all I can think of

The Last Temptation of Christ poster but the red thorns are covered with '90s Cherry Coke

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I'm begging of you, please go see that clown Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I swear he'll help you if you're feeling down

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

hachi machi

Dave Conte, responding to JCO mocking the idea that Real Time is "one of the best tv shows": Oh Lord. Out of touch on this one. Obama, Clinton, even Trump all watch his show. It’s not so much Maher himself but the way the show brings Dems and Repubs together to talk/debate intelligently and civilly. Again, 41 Emmy nominations. You should try giving it a watch. You might be surprised.

JCO: yes, I have seen Bill Maher but don't recognize much of what you say here. "talk/debate intelligently & civilly"---really? I must have missed this.
his entire attitude toward "woke" is superficial, predicable, & unexamined; he seems scarcely to comprehend out of what extremities & desperation "woke" arose initially, & confuses the annoying pieties & cringe-worthy foolishness of peak woke with the actual/literal/killing policies & actions of the anti-woke MAGA reactionaries. it's like equating an edgy Pogo cartoon with the KKK lynching civil rights activists in the 1960's. yes: they really did kill people! really, Bill.

you have to have a granite heart & head even to pretend that the two are in any way "equivalent" & that your reasoned position is to hover between the two like the Biblical Solomon.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy Birthday, Jack Kirby

A muscular looking humanoid or possibly robot with very large hands, colored brightly in blue, yellow, magenta, red, and green, standing in a green landscape under a blue sky. In a yellow word balloon the figure is saying ‘I love you because you’re different!’

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Greetings, non-Jews in academia! As we start another semester, here's your regularly scheduled reminder that the Jewish High Holy Days are coming up. If you wouldn't schedule an important meeting or exam on Christmas or Easter, don't schedule one on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry is survived by his frequent co-star, a big spooky mansion

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 26/08/2026

You can’t simply cloak bigotry in academic language and claim viewpoint discrimination like an Uno reverse card whenever an institution realizes that the choice is between you and an entire people group. IQ and eugenics are not just junk science, they’re sheep’s clothing for exterminationists.

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Tuxie @lawyerforcat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Phantom Tollbooth, Harriet the Spy, and the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/08/2026

Happy Leonard Bernstein's birthday! [📸 by Stanley Kubrick]

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Does anyone know Where his acolytes go When dementia turns Trump's brain to pudding? I've heard there's a chance They will all flock to Vance Even though he is boring and wooden"

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Gregor Samosa @lenschiff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger: Peter, Paul and Many

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

At "Rally for Democracy" protest in Mount Kisco New York, Aug 22 2026:

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yesterday was the Provincetown Carnival parade; the theme was Deep Sea Disco. This morning, we found these, abandoned next to our porch. I am sorry to report that a twink has been raptured. RIP my undersea queen. You died as you lived--a hot mess who couldn't walk in heels.

A pair of high-heeled blue-green glitter boots, one with a broken heel, abandoned in the grass.

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