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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Somewhere else on this app, someone with a bunch of emojis in their profile name just had a heart palpitation and they don’t know why.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
When crime goes up, the media cries out how rising crime hurts us. When crime goes down, the media cries out about how ... DECLINING crime hurts us.
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Auto glass repair businesses suffer as Oakland break-ins decline
A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Pfffffff lol yeah as if. This take will not last, mark my words
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I grew up on slop — the vh1 series about each decade’s pop culture was something I rewatched over and over
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
so fucking rich that while he was talking AP reported this: "Writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million awarded to her after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed to stop the payment."
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If so it’s like how Trump is liable for sexual assault because NY state doesn’t consider digital insertion to be rape in itself
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Damn it I really should have put down that $1000 on Dems not taking the senate, I knew when the odds started to tick upwards that that was free money
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Metro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
What a wonderful day for discourse.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is one of the best ideas of the backrooms concept to me, it sits nicely alongside the inherent uncanniness of the spaces we construct and spend much of our lives in, where there is no inherent importance to the space itself but we can fill it with our own thoughts.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Anything in there about irreligion? I’ll check this out at some point
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
this is why corporations spend billions of dollars buying television advertising even though everyone in the world knows that tv ads are paid content designed to deceive you. they work anyway!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
even if you have an implacably hostile audience that is treating every claim you make skeptically, the way human psychology works, repeating the claim still reinforces it. many are likely to retain the false information and forget where they heard it.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i feel like the model here is anti-union captive audience meetings, which are stupid in the exact same way but absolutely do work. propaganda works, even if it's ham-fisted and obvious! it's tempting to think that it inherently backfires but it doesn't
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I dunno if it’s anti-psychology broadly, but it’s certainly skeptical of that process when two bad inputs are put in
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Yeah like… if the rest of the world is gonna pretend shit’s fine just like our media will do… then I guess shit’s fine then.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Q for the rest of 🌎: Did you really not see this coming? What did you think was going to happen when you let us host the world cup under this president?
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When even scientists are shocked by extreme weather, the only conclusion to draw: we're in trouble. Must-read story by @eroston.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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JCH @senorjarras.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The right to bear baloarms
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
How old were you when you first learned that JFK didn't kill himself? Tune in this Thursday for more undeniable truth.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I agree on that, the found footage was well executed imo but the only reason we have it is as homage to the YouTube series and because Clark wants video proof he’s not crazy. Which, if that’s seriously why we get the longer found footage scene, he gets that proof after ten seconds
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
people need to go to jail over this, its the only thing the democratic party should be saying right now. all of them, in unison, no matter the question or topic, needs to be saying “insider trading is against the law”
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So romantic 🥰
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
God damn it how do I filter out World Cup talk. I can’t just filter every country name.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I’ve not got a fuck to give about the criminal sports tournament sportswashing our fascist hellscape. But I’ve never been fun at parties, so.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Make things worse, be unified in making up bullshit about it being the other team’s fault, win power, make things worse. Repeat
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
it's smart politics, frankly. trump and republicans recognize that increased violence and crime rates in our society help reactionaries politically even if they are themselves the direct cause of the increased violence and crime.
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sherondasays.bsky.social @sherondasays.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Listen if New York pulling off free childcare, the rest of us finna start asking questions
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Would surprise no one that I don’t read much — I only learned his name recently; he was a successful defendant in a major fair use lawsuit years ago, and is now copyright-striking everyone who reacts to his content
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I think that’s a reasonable question, but I also think it’s important to give credit where credit’s due — clearly some people had very long plans to get us where we are now, just not every random powerful person we see.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If your Klein be Ethan…? (YouTube drama slop guy)
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Paine was also an early — maybe the first! — Land Value Tax Guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agraria...
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Agrarian Justice - Wikipedia
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. 

When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion."

Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935)
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
McAlsoran
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
People are still crying about this? Who am I kidding, conservatives have a fanny pack that they keep stocked up with petty grievances going back decades
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I was reminded of the passage when reading this part of @laurajedeed.bsky.social's thread on yesterday's celebration. The bipartisan effort set out to do this. Trump hijacked the effort so he could line his own pockets. bsky.app/profile/laur...
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
So, you know,, sorry to the individuals who wanted a nice thing but I wanted a nice thing too and instead I got thi Maybe, when you don't celebrate the whole country, EVERYONE who belongs here and lives here, the celebration should go to shit and everyone should be miserable
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What if I told you they are STILL GOING OFF, now, at 12:38 AM, and the smoke is so thick you can't even see them?
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Now friends, this has been a post full of schadenfreude We've all had a good time here What if I told you the best was yet to come What if I told you that after waiting for HOURS--miserable, soaking wet, desperate and disappointing hours--our view of the fireworks was.......this
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What if I told you that they've been going off for half an hour now and that at no point has anyone waiting anywhere along the line had a better view than this one?
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Standing, standing, standing. Quiet despair. One of the projectors shining on the Washington Monument briefly malfunctions so that, as God Bless The USA finishes playing, it reads REE instead of FREEDOM
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If the left even thought about blocking traffic to this extent the entire town would smell like tear gas and the NYT would already have written two op-eds about this Not Being The Right Way Instead, ambulances are creeping through at like 2mph, sirens blaring, as everyone gets soaked
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InfinitelyLoopy @infinitelyloopy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Maybe the next president can open a denaturalization proceeding against him based on the fabrications/false representations made in his visa process. You don’t think our democracy should exist? Good for you. Now get the fuck out.
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jungkafka.bsky.social @jungkafka.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Elon is one of those foreigners who never assimilated to American culture.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Bio-weapon by the us government
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
baby don’t be afraid
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thursday nights at 8 p.m. ET, all summer long! You can watch the first full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnz6...
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ALEX JONES IS DEAD - Real InfoWars Livestream
YouTube video by InfoWars
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I took 620mg of methyl brown and now I have uncontrollable diarrhea 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Fundamentalism is a brain disease
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