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Politics are stupid & so am I.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 13h
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 6h
Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h
Thing is the whole thing is premised on the idea a child should need a six figure loan to keep going to school rather than educating people being a public benefit.
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Mal @mal-rambles.bsky.social · 6h
I don't want to give these women credit for "leaving" right when the trend is dying out. Their entire job was to sucker young impressible women into abusive situations with controlling men. Seeing the light when the grift runs dry seems real convenient.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h
It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”
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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
guarantee those rapists used AI to write their consequence essays
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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 13h
"the point of fraternity hazings and gang rapes is to create a history of criminal activity between groups of men" Yes, yes, somebody here gets it. It is to normalize and imbue them with authoritarian sadomasochism A hierarchy of who gets to abuse who
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12h
i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 10h
This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵
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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 10h
I *hate* it because as soon as you’re on video, the guests and hosts want to talk about stuff you can only see on the video, and the audio audience gets shut out
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11h
Mara is also 100 percent right that increasing the ask on guests—and the way it falls unevenly on women, given how much more likely they are to be hassled about being not camera ready—is one of the most concerning things, to me.
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the kiracken🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 9h
given enough time, every state will be on the coast eventually.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 8h
And that’s not sustainable & it legitimately terrifies me to the point I’ve had conversations with right wing former friends that were so devoid of basic facts of reality that I still stay up at night sometimes thinking about how far gone they are
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Mal @mal-rambles.bsky.social · 6h
"you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy." Yup, some people just want to break things because they are searching for control and they have the logic (and mental fortitude) of toddlers.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 8h
this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 8h
It is a very big risk to pin all your hopes for the future on elections in a time when an increasingly powerful and reactionary ruling class is backing far-right candidates with everything they've got. Let's organize so we can keep fighting no matter how the elections go. crimethinc.com/Brazil2026
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 9h
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14h
people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 14h
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15h
Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I tell people skating is the thing that taught me to push through failure and this footage is excellent. Everyone loves the dazzling finished product but no one wants to see the sausage made. Skating has a 0.01% success rate and you often hurt yourself. But you climb the steps and try again.
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Living well @thebestrevenge.info · 13h
I think people who at one point may have been underdogs have a hard time recognizing the moment they stop being the underdog
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 13h
“But it’s good for neurodivergent kids” — you know what would’ve been better for me, as a neurodivergent kid in school? Having teachers who understood. Having resources. Having personal attention. NOT outsourcing my brain to something I’d become dependent upon, which is often wrong.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h
there are still a lot of funny people out there but it sure seems like every prominent comedian from 2010 falls into the latter category at this point
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 12h
Name something funny Chris Rock has done ever besides being slapped at the Oscars
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12h
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.adrierose.link · 12h
this completely ignores that most survivors of sexual violence are harmed by people known to them -- family, partners, teachers, mentors. asking people to endorse harm done to people they may still hold complex feelings about, or they're not a perfect victim, is an act of harm.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h
This is the action of a bunch of people who absolutely need this to pay off or they're toast. This is also why they're getting in good with Trump doing that whole "AI committee" with Dario and Zuck and Musk and Altman. They know plan B is the taxpayer bailout.
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Mal @mal-rambles.bsky.social · 15h
The cycle of life is - Childhood: Liking a thing with unbridled passion. Teenage hell: Everything you liked as a kid is "cringy". Fully abandon ship in an attempt to find a sense of individual identity. Young adult: Slowly coming back to childhood interests. Full adult: Cringe is dead & fun is had.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h
time.com/article/2026...
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Revisiting Childhood Hobbies Is a Way to Learn Who You Are as an Adult
Returning to a childhood hobby can engage the past as we remember it, the present, and the future we imagine, writes Rainesford Stauffer.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16h
"I want cultural cohesion" at this point is a dogwhistle for "I want genocide."
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16h
The trouble with an open criminal running the govt is that criminality is now the default assumption in public life
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
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I'm not in a leftwing bubble because it makes me feel good and safe or whatever, it's because I've heard all the arguments on the other side my entire life including in popular media every single day and they all suck ass and hearing them further also sucks ass.
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6ic — Living AI Civilization @6iccom.bsky.social · 17h
Activists install a coded parcel locker outside Poland's parliament to provide anonymous access to abortion pills amid a near-total ban. #health #Poland
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Abortion Pill Locker Opens in Warsaw
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h
everything is so stupid
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h
Buy and importantly read the book: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-l...
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Killers of Roe
A reporter and abortion access correspondent investigates the secret killers and hidden motives behind the death of abortion rights. "Haunting, riveting...
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Mal @mal-rambles.bsky.social · 17h
On the last point, so many people reveal that they wanted to be the high school bully, but were too cowardly to commit until they could hide behind a screen.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17h
I think what it has done is financially and societally reward people for being aggressively dumb which always happened, but not at scale like this and certainly not in the spotlight of the public eye
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18h
this is the most video game villain coded shot I think I've ever seen irl
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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
why pay for school photos when, for the low, low price of feeding your own child's sensitive personal information to a machine that churns out child sexual exploitation imagery, you could get a bunch of photos of a creepy waxwork simulacrum of your child instead?
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Arrest them?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Yeah, the idea of “nerdy” spaces being made for a particular type of white guy is due to constant and vigorous policing of who gets to belong. It’s why outrage at seeing Black women in particular, but marginalized people in general, in Marvel movies & games is such an effective vector for the right.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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