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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was also basically Pelosi’s point when she said that line about needing a healthy Republican Party, and not a party of destructive maniacs who are incapable of doing anything good

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something I think about a lot is how nice it would be to have two parties that were sane that I could choose between

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 12h

In a lot of his movies, John Wayne isn’t really the protagonist, he’s a conundrum that the protagonist has to deal with. There’s the hero, the threat they need to defeat, and in between the two is this rigid force of nature John Wayne. The movies ask if he does more harm than good.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 12h

Red River is interesting. I don’t really know if it’s true but to me it really really looks like it was leading to a final act where John Wayne’s character was revealed to be a truly heartless maniac, but they chickened out and swapped out the final 20 minutes with an upbeat ending where they hug.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 6h

This was the content of an email sent from someone I knew to a group of our mutual friends on 9/11, before the sender knew if my family and I had been killed, and it still stings.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 8h

What she just can’t bring herself to do: tell her followers to vote for Kamala Harris, bc she was morally compromised What she can: tell her followers to empathize with terrorists, and who cares if they’re morally compromised

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 8h

Every time something like this happens, before we know anything about the motive, people come out of the woodwork to say that they don’t approve of these attacks, they just have created a headcanon where the attacker is a tragic and sympathetic figure who has the same goals as them

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 8h

See also: that guy who spent the night of Yom Kippur replying to me about how the Belleville synagogue shooting was justified resistance to Israel and Zionism, and then the shooter turned out to be right-wing former military who thought Jews created COVID.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 10h

“You can’t make good art with AI”

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1h

This isn't even the worst urban slaughter in an ongoing major conflict--the Sudanese RSF murdered more than 100,000 and possibly as many as 200,000 human beings in and around the city of El Fasher over a few weeks in Oct-Nov 2025.

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 7h

I said that in response to her characterizing a philosopher disagreeing with her as a "bot" and I stand by that. It's all part of the same package of treating academics with relevant expertise like online trolls, which is unacceptable conduct

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 9h

No, you just need to not be an asshole to people you don't know

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 9h

In what world do you think this is acceptable behavior? Scouring bluesky for months-old replies so you, with tenure, could put a postdoc on blast in the name of...what? Because I think AI's lack consciousness for different reasons than yours? Or are you just trawling for academics who look like me?

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 9h

Still waiting to find out whether 'anyone in Israeli leadership who let October 7th happen should not have a molecule of power today' is a Zionist or antizionist position.

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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 16h

There are a lot of hit dogs hollering about this one, but it’s worth remembering that by his own standards, Nader’s campaign was a failure.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 8h

I really wasn’t trying to start a fight with Prof. Bender but now that she has created a long thread subtweeting me and her disciples are all yelling at me, let me just say that this is the crux right here. She seems to respond as though I am describing something a priori impossible.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 6h

I get yelled at here whenever I describe what the political effect of Biden's very overt pressure on Bibi was and what worked and what didn't, because I'm essentially telling Americans that foreign media and societies matter and are useful to learn about, and Americans are incurious so they lash.

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 1h

This post makes no sense. I have the sex I have because it pleases me. I eat this food and not that, listen to/sing this music and not that, because they please me. At no time do I consider what "the mainstream" thinks. Looks like OP still does

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 6h

even if you take 100% at face value that no one's safeword is being disregarded and that everyone going there knows exactly what is going to happen (a big if), that is clearly a "yes, I am more likely to view you as qualified and hire you if you have sex with me" from an attendee's own mouth.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 7h

There is a type of nerd snipe where you see a smart person ignoring the evidence of their eyes and you feel deeply compelled to fix it

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Davy Crockett @davidcrockett08.bsky.social · 3h

It’s not explicit to this post but I’ve always been struck by the fact Peter Beinart went from a feverish Iraq War supporter to a campist anti-West zealot who wants a one-state Israel/Palestine outcome without ever losing his serene arrogance he can remake Middle Eastern countries by American fiat

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Darius Smith @dariuspsmith.bsky.social · 11h

This is how you get leftists saying that we deserved 9/11 and that Osama bin Laden was right. We didn't, and he wasn't.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2h

Said Fremen Mirage is believed in most passionately by the most effete, soft-handed elites of the supposed Global South, such as, for instance, full-time writers.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2h

Sorry not sorry, if you think crashing a plane and killing a bunch of people would have fought "genocide" because the victims would be Israeli, it seems to me like you're the one who's desensitized to mass killing and places no value on human life.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2h

Existence is genocide. Genocide comes from the Jews' craving attachment to not being exterminated. Genocide can be ended. The way to end genocide is the Eightfold Hitlerite Path.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 6h

Like I'm sorry, you don't get to go on a rampage through a neighboring state's border communities publicly massacring civilians to the exclusion of combatants and then run back home - with hostages in tow - and yell "BASE!" as if nothing happened.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 14h

now this feels like a possible Vibecession Explanatory Variable.

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 4h

I saw someone sneeringly say "do you seriously think the Biden Admin did everything they could to pressure Israel?" and in my minds eye I see all the millions and millions, tens of millions of bodies of people who starved or died of treatable illnesses since Trump and Musk killed USAID

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Victor Frankenstein's Psychoanalyst @graay.bsky.social · 2h

Like I feel like pointing out that even Trump's attempted assassins didn't really have coherent politics. People who decide one day to go out and do mass murder, or high profile assassinations, generally aren't, like, normal. It's weird that "normies" try to project noble motives onto their actions.

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Victor Frankenstein's Psychoanalyst @graay.bsky.social · 2h

Anyway people should know that the vast majority of mass murders are caused by the killer having weird grievances and grandiose ideas of their fame and influence after their death, not like, actual attempts to enact real justice. People like, know that, right?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the average "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" guy is close friends with a bunch of people who are e/acc, works for an AI firm, and is implacable enemies with anyone who believes that Future Claude cannot psychically negotiate with Future ChatGPT simply by imagning what it wants very intensely.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6h

I hate how every crime or accusation has become a litmus test for "where you stand on the cultural issues of the day" to which the facts/evidence are a secondary (and often inconvenient) consideration at best. We've been trending this way for a long time and podcast culture has only made it worse.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 1h

I'm up to my eyeballs in worse daily, what makes asa so special? Magdeburg was multiple years of Gaza during a weekend and that's not even the only time Tilly's men did that

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4h

like, that's the basic thing. i get like three to five death threats from these fucking people a week. this person is posting in my mentions because i mentioned that an antisemite had boiled their brain this way.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5h

i don't like getting death threats.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5h

exhibit A: a person whose only form of recreation is viewing death, imagining death, imagining killing, imagining forcing people to watch death, masturbating. bsky.app/profile/othi...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5h

i'm almost certainly going to get sent one of these by someone reading it. but the reason isn't because i don't think israelis are committing atrocities with enthusiastic american assistance. the reason is that they like the idea of forcing me to watch it.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5h

there is no vision of any future after they put their enemies against the wall. there is just the wall and a hail of bullets aimed at anyone whose death they imagine themselves enjoying.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5h

it's not just that violence against civilians is understood as instrumental, but that it is the terminal objective. the gulag or the wall is seen as the site of the atrocities they will be permitted to commit, justified by the atrocities they share clips of and enjoy together.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5h

video of actual Israeli atrocities against Palestinians occupies the same central position in these networks as actual child pornography does in QAnon in that it is both the primary target of condemnation and the primary source of the sexual excitement which drives the movement

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4h

one way to put this is "a person who is screaming about how they would delight in seeing me die and who is using the fact that they were trespassed out of a Panera Bread for screaming at senior citizens to kill themselves as a signal of their credibility" is not a person whose feelings i care about

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Josh Yunis @joshyunis.bsky.social · 4h

The way this works in the US is the left defers entirely to the epistemic authority of Palestinians, regardless of how intolerant or illiberal their views, while granting epistemic authority to Jews only insofar as they can be called upon to explain why the objections of other Jews can be dismissed

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, gonna go ahead here and pull my "I have a history PhD" rank and say that you need to get fairly into the weeds before the Russo-Japanese War is likely to be covered in any depth. It's going to get name-checked in a 20th century world history survey, but not much more.

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 1h

I don't know what sql is. I should also be able to navigate my insurance

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Dumbstash @dnlmsstch.bsky.social · 2h

Authoritarian regimes also create a special more powerful corp within the military to enforce military discipline and allegiance to the regime (IRGC SS) ... and they aren't even talking about doing that and cant build one in the time they have left.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 3h

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7h

if this were /r/Seattle someone would quickly show up to be like "YOU'RE BELIEVING KOMO? THEY'RE REPUBLICANS AND THEY HAVE IT IN FOR KATIE WILSON" but like, Katie Wilson should in fact do something about this and I doubt this story is lies

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