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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 18m

Imagine if we simply left murders by students on college campuses to be punished by colleges, using only the internal punishments they are able to inflict. We would find it insane and intolerable. Rape isn't that far off in terms of severity. Why are we putting utterly unsuited orgs in charge?

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 17m

I think it's fine for unis to be in charge of managing petty public order / QoL violations on their campuses, but if there's one thing that keeps becoming more apparent, it's that local authorities with conflicting interests shouldn't run rape or murder cases. A statewide org should. No exceptions.

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 3h

This would come across a lot better if he hadn’t just lost a war.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 5h

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 5h

It is maximally profitable right now to either sell panic *about* trans people, or sell panic *to* trans people. Both impulses feed the media consumer's desire to feel mastery over events. One is simple bigoted conspiracism, the other is a defensive crouch that offers a false sense of security.

Emily: I think about this as a journalist and a novelist: I cannot control how the reader takes what I write. Especially when reporting, I try to be as careful as I can, but somebody might read what I write and conclude, Well, we're all going to die. And there's such an incentive structure to walk right up to the edge of catastrophe or even stick a toe over the line, and even publications I think are terrific will get as close to that line as they can because they know that drives subscription dollars and clicks. That's not just true of trans media; it's true of the media writ large. How do you think about that incentive structure, especially as it relates to social media?

Me: There's two ways to generate clicks about trans issues. One is to sell panic about trans people; the other is to sell panic to trans people. The social media incentive structure there, as it is with so many issues, is the septic, perverted version of that old classic about local TV news: If it bleeds, it leads.

Selling people that sense of control is, as I noted, the same thing at the root of a lot of conspiracism: not to trust mainstream sources who tell you things aren't quite so bad or things could get better or don't panic. It's the cinematic logic of a disaster movie where the people who are saying, "Actually, you should panic!" are correct. Think about everything from the narrative structure of Independence Day or Mass Effect. The catastrophizer is actually correct against all the people saying, "I'll calm down. It won't be so bad." That story structure is very, very popular, and it gets you invested in the protagonist with a pleasing sense of dramatic irony for the audience. They know something many of the other characters don't or refuse to accept.

We are all reared on some version of this story, and it seeps into everyday life. There's an excellent piece from CBS News in 1967 by Eric Sevareid reporting on the findings of the Warren Commission [whi

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bythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 12h

The gist of the Jack Smith hearing was that Republicans will fabricate evidence to entrap opponents and they were upset that Jack Smith had the audacity to investigate Republicans in Congress for possibly abetting Trump's 1/6 insurrection, in other words for doing his job.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 3h

I had a lot of fun with this thread yesterday and people seem to enjoy it. I am sad to have to report, that today they have reprogrammed the new federal chatbot to refuse to answer questions that might embarrass Trump. Eg: Yesterday Today

Is President Trump mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein case files?

Yes. Official materials say President Trump's name appears in the released Epstein-related files. A mention is not proof of a crime.

Is President Trump mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein case files?

I only answer questions about U.S. government services and information, and I do not offer political commentary.
If you have a question about a federal program, benefit, agency, form, or how to complete a government task, ask that and I can help.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 4h

The Bible actually does have something to say about this: Exodus 20:16: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."

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Jenny DeMilo @jennydemilo.bsky.social · 4h

SNL cold open?

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 23h

i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4h

There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 4h

Overall, more than a third of participants who took retatrutide as part of a late-stage clinical trial lost 30 percent or more of their weight: arstechnica.visitlink.me/objlbJ

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Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial

Retatrutide is a triple-hormone obesity drug simulating GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

one of the most important things you should learn from arguing online and other places is that the way to be open-minded is not to be more accepting of the outgroup -- rather you should be more willing to consider that the ingroup are clowns

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6h

They won’t tell you this in school because of woke but this was a vuvuzela.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 7h

People yell about the Median Voter not understanding things, but truly the lowest form of hominid is a Gen Xer that voted Green in 2000 and hollers like a hit dog every single time you invoke the name Nader.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/09/2026

California law exempts ADUs under 750 square feet from ALL impact fees and requires impact fees on larger ADUs to be paid on a per square foot basis. Before SB 1117, a 751sf ADU had to pay all 751sf worth of impact fees. Now, the first 750sf are exempt and you only pay on the excess square footage.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 6h

To be very mildly spoiler-y: In the novel, there are TWO happily-ever-after student-faculty relationships. For the film, they wisely demoted one of the profs to be a postdoc (still concerning given his status) & just deleted the second romance. So yeah I think they knew it was problematic.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 6h

Several people are mad about this so I will briefly clarify! No, I’m not saying a novel is comparable to a real-life assault in any way. No, I’m not saying the author is bad or responsible for bad things. I am saying I’ve seen real bad stuff come from “consensual” student-faculty relationships.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 10h

“‘Choosin’ Texas’? Ha, no pardner, I’m Choosin’ TAXES. Howdy, I’m Big Jim Medlock and I’m here to tell you how the social democratic welf

James Medlock (really Karl Polyani) wearing a cowboy hat

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 6h

A big downside of the top AI guys being deeply influenced by sci-fi is that they don't realize that giving non-organic characters personalities is a narrative requirement and not much more. If Marvin was just an android and not the paranoid android, he would be boring.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6h

Incredible chutzpah from a Congress whose one major legislative act was a budget bill that among other things imposed significant new administrative burdens on Medicaid recipients

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing really prepared me for the whiplash that came from Israel/Palestine transforming from famous shorthand for “an extraordinarily complicated mess with no good outcomes” to something “so simple, you’re an evil moron if you disagree with me.” It literally happened in the discourse overnight.

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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 6h

I have friends younger than 38 who look like this and they're wonderful people, and some of the worst people I know are conventionally attractive. Being hateful and misogynistic or kind and compassionate is who you are inside, not what you look like.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 7h

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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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

Being mad at the Mamdani announcement is just straightforwardly anti-Semitic. Like there’s not really any excuse left to hide behind there.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

this is a man who knows he’s getting canned or impeached after the election and who is trying to set up a future political career

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

everyone lucked the hell out on the terror attack today where the co-pilot stabbed the pilot, passengers took down the attacker *and* there seem to have been two off-duty pilots who were able to land the plane safely. Could have been one of the worst attacks for a while otherwise.

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Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social · 4h

Metro has a new boardmember: Santa Clarita Mayor Pro Tem Patsy Ayala. See thread for live-tweeting of today's City Selection Committee meeting which unanimously approved Ayala.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 6h

Frustrated with the slow progress on CAHSR? Apparently the California legislature isn't, given all bills to speed up progress died this year. Why isn't California's signature infrastructure project a priority? calmatters.org/politics/202...

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California’s high-speed rail authority made a legislative wishlist. It mostly stalled out

California’s bullet train agency said timely construction of the rail line depended on these reforms. They mostly failed.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 5h

Meanwhile, on SNAP

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

we have a comically easy ballot initiative system

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 19h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23h

I have noticed that the obnoxious STEM-lord shit has lead to an equally stupid negative polarization among some humanities types about how the brutish crypto-fascist ape-robots of STEM could never hope to understand the true subtleties of art or theory or whatever

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 22h

Would-be dictators who seek to destroy our rights are threatened by competent civil servants working to promote the public good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL-N...

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Liberal Rights Can Deliver, Dictators Deliver Mediocrity

YouTube video by Liberal Currents

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Trump administration wants to impose an English-only mandate on Head Start. As a mother and an immigrant, I'm outraged - and LA has seen this playbook before.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 29/09/2026

This is just so embarrassing for everyone even tangentially involved

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It would be a very funny outcome if the tech industry forms a rift with the regime over "SI" in the same way Apple people got mad when you said "iWatch"

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026

it’s a combo of not having had to run competitive *general* election races and typically focusing on the *primary* electorate. these guys could say whatever shit they wanted before because the republican base doesn’t really care, but having to run against a dem who could win is unknown to them

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Left-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It would be a monumental improvement for America, but especially for the Republican Party, if we elected the President through a plurality vote.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is an intra-party debate we can win

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