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Hoosier in DC. I'm so much cooler online. Views are my own

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
They're not a Trump court, they're a Republican court, and the fact those two things align 80-90% of the time instead of literally 100% doesn't mean they're therefore admirably independent. To even describe them as ideologically conservative is too generous. They are partisan politicians.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
insane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Imagine if New Yorkers wore top hats as political costumes. We'd make merciless fun of them. Texans do it all the time though.
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MrSquid @mrsquid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My honest belief is that the dissenters should just be fully disbarred. You cannot sincerely believe the 14th Amendment does not contain birthright citizenship. To hold this is to be either so dishonest or so incapable of analysis that you cannot practice law.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
democratic governors doing stuff like this is worse for voter turnout than anything the american left has said or done
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exactly one year ago today:
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We should have never doubted this man
George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15/04/2026
US abortion bans came about amid racist panic following the end of the Civil War and during a period of immigration "The racist campaigns launched by doctors against Black midwives extended to anti-immigration legislative platforms targeted at Chinese and Japanese workers" It's 2026, let's level up
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The Racist History of Abortion and Midwifery Bans | ACLU
Today’s attacks on abortion access have a long history rooted in white supremacy.
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):
Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer. For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” 

Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.”

Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.”

“He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT.

In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.)

The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school.

“I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It’s so cool that the pope can’t stop tweeting about how much God hates the American government
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
i'm not exactly sure what "race communism" is but i'm intrigued and would like to give it a try
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RoBat out of Hellême @rbelleme.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I have seen one good example of this plate
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
sorry if this seems harsh but I don't think the president should be allowed to post "a whole civilization will die tonight" and still be president
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Chad Livengood @chadlivengood.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
NEW: University of Michigan Chinese researcher dies after allegedly "hostile questioning" by federal agents www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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UM Chinese researcher dies after alleged questioning by feds
China is calling on the U.S. to probe death of researcher after he was subjected to what they called 'hostile questioning' by federal authorities.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 03/04/2026
you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:
actual nytimes headline 

FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
the US is a terrorist state
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/04/2026
president baby went too long without his ipad time
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
wow you want to make murder illegal? what if it was a law that made it illegal NOT to commit murder? did you ever think of that??
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I have to know what phishing email he opened to make this happen
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Congestion pricing is a great example for leaders that if they can simply push through the Hill of Hysteria they will eventually see popular support for programs that were initially controversial
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
this image is about to get so much work.
darren rovell tweet from 2016 that says “i feel bad for our country. but this is tremendous content.”
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Has anyone asked Pope Leo what he thinks about Daredevil? He’s the first pope who might plausibly have Daredevil opinions
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I really like this post because it implies that Neil Armstrong is a damn coward for leaving the moon instead of staying there
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/03/2026
despite being concentrated in ameria’s largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
the absolute litmus test for every democratic primary needs to be “do you support Supreme Court reform that would replace the current illegitimate majority with a liberal majority, and do you support filibuster reform to get us there”
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
you're actually supposed to kiss your girlfriend. it's one of the top girlfriend activities.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Gaming Lover Dad Shirt for Him, Gamefather Daddy Men's T-shirt, Video Gamer T-shirt for Men, Father's Day Video Games Tee from Wife
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Rat Milk Oreos @morsmortis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Big iced tea matchup on Friday
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/03/2026
The last text message Zuck ever sent me was the night before they renamed the company to Meta, telling me to pay attention in the morning because he thought I'd be really excited by what they were going to announce. The next morning I kept waiting for the thing he thought I'd be interested in.
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ceddanne rafaela enjoyer 🧦⚽️🦅 @stylo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
these bitch ass clowns in congress want impunity to run over our kids in crosswalks. fuck that
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Counterintuitively, in congested cities 20mph or lower speed limits actually speed up traffic because when vehicles are moving more slowly, the stopping space required between each one is smaller and so the capacity of any given road is higher
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The Atlantic says Dubai is a haven for middle-class migrants and this is their evidence. You cannot make this shit up. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
this means it is not open for transit
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
There is within me an unslaked hunger for preposterous adventure movies. I resist the bad ones, but when a "Congo" or an
"Anaconda" comes along, my heart leaps up and I cave in. "The Mummy" is a movie like that. There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and we should treasure it.
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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Skeet that reads, “By the end of the decade the only people who will pay taxes are people making $80,000+ in labor income who rent.”
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Law school and the professor is writing like "laws = real" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 05/03/2026
I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
i just bought some cardamom at the store. they didn’t ask to see my driver's license since i’m a father
text of official creative commons license: "Jon's cardamom joke © 2026 by Jon Bois is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International"
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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Fitting that in America’s final form, the epicenter of evil will be a private golf resort for wealthy pedophiles.
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Ferdinand @macatan.gay · 28/02/2026
The letters are not even strongly worded anymore
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