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@mal-rambles.bsky.social
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Politics are stupid & so am I.

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Patrick Stephenson @patiomensch.bsky.social · 2h
Mob justice occurs in the absence of real justice. They deserve so much worse than losing their jobs and getting called out on social media.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reading some of the responses to this, it occurred to me that a lot of people (mainly dudes, natch) don't understand that the topic "too many women are terrified of too many things because of assaultive men" is a completely different topic from the (banal) topic "women should take precautions."
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When women were young girls, we were told “it’s different for girls” so we’re not allowed to do certain things. It’s only different for girls because the society, including the parents of sons, refuse to tell boys and men they can’t do, be, or have anything they want.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No "brotherhoods" for men and teen boys, you can't be trusted not to turn them into rape havens 👇
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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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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 3h
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Demy @demytra.bsky.social · 3h
This is rape culture, full stop. An unrelenting and vicious hatred for women and rape victims by people who are protected by power and privilege and in turn are supported by so many people who would want to do much the same if they had the opportunity.
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merritt @merrittk.com · 3h
we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone
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Mal @mal-rambles.bsky.social · 4h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M78O...
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We need to convert the Cornell 57 rage into consistent rage until change happens
YouTube video by Tallgirl6234
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9h
Today in "absolutely not"
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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 8h
my most vivid memory of the women's march was how many people were carrying signs talking about taxing billionaires it was co-opted immediately to push focus away from violent misogyny. IMMEDIATELY.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 6h
Men on the whole have made it abundantly clear they will not listen when women speak. They will not believe us. They will not fight with or for us. They will never choose women over their own cowardly, entitled need to submit to what another, bigger man tells them.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h
A problem is that many people know that the vast majority of the people who voted for the fascist in chief in 2024 would vote for him again today. So folks know that many people are politically untrustworthy. It adds to the malaise.
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Gwyn Thompson @gwynthompson.bsky.social · 8h
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Magpie 🐦‍⬛ @themagpiesmiles.bsky.social · 13h
Maybe when they separate the middle schoolers into their sex ed classes the boys version should concentrate heavily on the definitions of abuse and how to avoid becoming a scumbag piece of shit.
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Jezebel @inconspicuous-girl.bsky.social · 11h
It’s one of the shared experiences women have across all intersectionalities. I hate it.
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janekiller pain @spiderdork.bsky.social · 11h
i was at the Folsom street festival in SF this weekend and had one of the most radicalizing experiences of my life watching cis dudes try to rush the entrance to the "no cis dudes" area, get repeatedly intercepted and turned away, and then immediately try again when attendants were distracted
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Dizzy ★ @tindizzy.bsky.social · 10h
There has been an ongoing war on women for centuries. We never legislated men’s anything and have always been forced to fight, not just for our freedom and autonomy, but to even be considered human and not chattel or possessions for men – and even some women – to do with what they please.
There is no "gender war."
Women didn't take away men's right to vote. Women didn't ban men from education or property.
Women didn't write laws controlling men's bodies.
Women didn't build systems that stripped men of their freedom. The imbalance never ran both ways.

@sheinspiresstrength
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Edgar Cairo, Illinois @nickbpss.bsky.social · 6h
And basically every major internet channel comment section is a firehose of misogyny.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
Run, don't walk, to vote.nyc/page/register-vote. Register to vote by October 24 so that you can vote on faster, more efficient government.
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Register to Vote | NYC Board of Elections
You can register to vote online, in-person, or by mail.
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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 7h
Transphobic ghoul loses court case.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h
Google working as intended
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h
I wonder why more people aren't using Malaise to describe the current mood in the U.S.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 8h
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 7h
we need to think about how we hold supreme court justices accountable for crimes against humanity.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 7h
re, what you need to teach boys about sexual violence. a lot of people have had good thoughts. I guess I'd just add that boys are not infrequently sexually harassed.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h
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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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 9h
This is very moving. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Prison Letters: the teenager writing letters to jailed climate activists – documentary
A teenager struggling with climate anxiety searches for hope in an unexpected place – writing letters to imprisoned activists. Max, 14, is on a quest to understand the human stories behind direct acti...
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 10h
this is a function of gop media bubbles. the right is simply not used to anyone doing even minimal fact checking on egregious bullshit. there's no incentive to try to get things right at all.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 9h
People should use the block button on here it works.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 8h
I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h
Expanding on this, this is why the Diddy case and the Cornell case got reopened and it shouldn’t take embarrassing national outrage to produce these decisions if these offices were doing the job they’re imagined as doing.
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Porky Bernmeister @porkybernmeister.bsky.social · 13h
It is crazy how regulators and government have just outright decided, without our consent, that laws and regulations do not apply to technology companies.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22h
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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mnachos.bsky.social @mnachos.bsky.social · 17h
You also don’t get bonus points for telling me privately, afterwards, that the other man shouldn’t have said that.
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Hokius (Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter) @hokius.fromthehawkseye.com · 17h
This is corollary to the guys who think being a good father is being willing to die for their kid, not being willing to pick their kid up from school.
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Meechy Dorko @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 16h
same with white people calling out racists. you can either fantasize about being one of the good ones that gets everybody clapping or accept that calling out a racist might have negative social consequences for you and accept that as the price you have to pay to be a decent human being
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Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 16h
Want to add that I've had multiple conversations with multiple men who have been shocked by the behaviour of their male friends towards me. They all say "I wish I could do something" but not a single one has raised it or said a thing to their friend. Not one.
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Captain Hat @captainhat.bsky.social · 15h
Not only is this true, but a lot of guys have trouble coping with the idea that there *should be* no reward. This should be *baseline.* I am not owed anything for treating women (and trans & racialised people etc) like real human beings, that's just what you're supposed to do all the time anyway.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 18h
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming
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Rocko’s Modern Basilisk @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this convenient/idiotic myth persists that innocent men are constantly being threatened by false rape allegations when in reality most sexual violence never even gets reported because this is what happens to the victims when it does
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Maia Ettinger @maiett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that there is no men's anti-misogyny movement the way there's anti-Zionist Jewish organizing and anti-racist white organizing tells you all you need to know about the good men. I am truly sorry, my cis het sisters.
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