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Mallory

@malentine.bsky.social
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Therapist by day, nerding out by night. I love literature, trash, and all the middlebrow shit in between.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 1h
I hate every single person who voted for this man.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h
I don’t support AI companies banning people from hurting the feelings of AI but I do support BioWare banning players for cheating on Liara in Mass Effect because she’s your blue wife in STEM and you need to honor that relationship
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 18h
Wake up new Optimism October stat just dropped.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h
ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19h
Sherrod Brown's new response to an anti-trans ad is remarkably different from many other dems. Instead of accepting bigotry towards trans people, he pivots and links his Republican opponent to the Epstein files. It is notably different from his earlier ads. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Sherrod Brown Answers Anti-Trans Attack Ads By Tying Jon Husted To The Epstein Files
“Jon Husted? He protected men who abused young girls by voting in the Senate to block the release of the Epstein files.”
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 19h
proposing we get rid of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and have one day called primary object relationship day. And instead of getting gifts they have to go to mandated group therapy with their associated now adult subjects of their early caregiving environment or pay a 5k fee to the adult every year
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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 20h
I love that the Talmud predicted modern Jewish issues in this story where Rabban Gamliel goes to Rabbi Yehoshua’s house and is like “you have a JOB? 🤯” and Rabbi Yehoshua is like “yeah dumbass…we have no money” (Berakhot 28a)
Rabbi Yehoshua. When he reached Rabbi Yehoshua's house, he saw that the walls of his house were black. Rabban Gamliel said to Rabbi Yehoshua in wonderment: From the walls of your house it is apparent that you are a blacksmith, as until then he had no idea that Rabbi Yehoshua was forced to engage in that arduous trade in order to make a
living. Rabbi Yehoshua said to him: Woe unto a generation that you are its leader as you are unaware of the difficulties of Torah scholars, how they make a living and how they feed themselves.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the blood and soil guys are right to some extent. your heritage and birthright are being forcibly threatened by violent thugs. and that heritage and birthright is called a secular multicultural democracy with vague pretensions towards egalitarianism and lawful order
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h
we're seeing it in the senate and we're seeing it in the house: a lot of Rs who haven't had to run a competitive general election in years - or ever, really - are suddenly in a position where they have to, and none of them know how to do it
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h
The most common type of false allegation of sexual violence is DARVO complaints made by perpetrators against their very real victims. DARVO stands for Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s a way perpetrators avoid accountability by accusing their victims of wrongdoing.
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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 09/10/2026
this is literally the worst time in history to buy computer hardware
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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just to be clear: we are fine in Minnesota. We are not being taken over, though there are more rabbits in our yard than some years. Also we still need to address creeping bellflower. But otherwise all good. Don’t need rescuing or another murderous occupation.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026
This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What the fuck man did Marshall also push over someone’s grandma to take the last Marble Rye
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
william tecumsah ossoff has the rebs on the run in georgia
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's quite literally human sacrifice. They continue to cargo cult fascism, because "fake it until you make it" is the only thing they know. They're hoping a ritual public killing will bring their flagging power and legitimacy back, no different from previous sacrifice religions.
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amb @amb.fyi · 08/10/2026
the onion saw this coming back in april
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Mallory @malentine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
whenever I think he's hit rock bottom, he finds another sub-basement of evil to disgust us
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Mallory @malentine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It makes me happy to see Anne Carson poems everywhere and it's not because she died, this is great
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love

Anne Carson

I like being with you all night with closed eyes.
What luck—here you are
coming
along the stars!
I did a road trip
all over my mind and heart
and
there you were
kneeling by the roadside
with your little toolkit
fixing something.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And Claude’s in the cradle and the high P(doom) Agentic AI will be conscious soon “When you comin’ home, dad?” “I don’t know when, but I’ll write some good posts then” I’m gonna post on LinkedIn then
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Reached by phone, Carson told the Swedish Academy she was currently in Iceland 'listening to the wind,' and that she was taken by surprise but very happy." she's stealing my bit www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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Canada’s Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘her bold and inventive oeuvre’
The 76-year-old modernist poet, translator, classics scholar and Member of the Order of Canada is the third Canadian to be awarded the prize given to a living writer
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At last we have created the Wire Mother from the groundbreaking research study “Don’t Create The Wire Mother”
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Mallory @malentine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can't even think of a friend I could pass it along to, honestly
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Mallory @malentine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's always a good opportunity to buy books idk (and yes I use bookshop dog org now!)
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Mallory @malentine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I feel mostly complimented by some of these but have no idea what opportunistic book buying means My skin care routine is still excellent but we're not doing ten steps anymore. In this economy??
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@planetgraves

So. Bad news. We have to keep going tomorrow. Good news is that I'll keep going with you
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
man oh man
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i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
played a bit of final fantasy vii revelation today and the way my brain instinctively was like "KISS KISS KISS" when i saw this
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Mallory @malentine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
every time I see a post mentioning "SI" I think it is about suicidal ideation, rather than a computer program that may or may not encourage and amplify your suicidal ideation
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
what I had to say turned out not to be a column
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Something Like People
A poem
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
images that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Abusive parents blaming therapists for kids cutting ties is just an evolution of abusive husbands blaming therapists for wives divorcing their asses. The epidemic is dogshit people hiding behind the title of "parent" finally being called dogshit people
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 07/10/2026
I really think that if a therapist has a client who is presenting with new symptoms- grandiose/paranoid/agitated or with sudden loss of self-esteem, increased isolation Or with increased conflict/argumentativeness in their relationships or social transactions Assess their AI/LLM use:
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

kittydesade

Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/10/2026
however the election shakes out, a minor lesson of 2026 is that maine is basically an alien planet where everyone is a grumpy old salt retiree at birth and we should consider giving them to canada as an apology and goodwill gesture for what we did to the Expos
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I say again it’s sort of amazing the libs are getting both Great Books and the Protestant Work Ethic in the national divorce
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 06/10/2026
Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS’ statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.”

A DHS representative did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/10/2026
jenna maroney behavior
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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