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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i dislike this thing where people on the left keep saying that people are only ugly because they are evil. michael tracey is ugly because he is apparently trying to grow combover mullet dreadlocks
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/10/2026
lol eat shit AI bros
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mattschmer.bsky.social @mattschmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wisconsin hospitality in a nutshell.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Lyme, CWD zombie deer, hantavirus, & MRSA country that's actively bringing malaria, dengue, & measles back: Africa ew
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate planning for gay Halloween. What do you mean you're going as "Sexy Porfirio Díaz"
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.
A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.
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Tim Backes @timbackes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
-team ends season with 5 straight losses including season ending hilariously embarrassing collapse against arch rivals -team president endorses and extends everyone involved anyway, signals team can not do or afford any better -team enters season looking utterly lifeless who could have predicted?
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
TFW your entire country's path into the future gets fucking bodied by a 10-year-old named Riley Grunch
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Median Voter in November 2026
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"It is a technofeudal fantasy of frontier developers like Sam Altman and Elon Musk to enclose the general intelligence of humanity in a statistical model, accessible only by chatbot, and censorable by them personally."
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More than 3000 people died of AIDS every year in NYC between 1987 and 1997. Between 1991 and 1996, it was over 6000 per year, peaking at above 8000 in 1994 and 1995. The scale of suffering and loss was magnified by the fear and stigmatization attached to it. Unimaginably tragic.
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Emphasizing purity over power is the biggest problem of the progressive movement. Many people proudly declare they would rather have perfect allies than tangible gains. When they cannot actually purge their coalition, they spread a stab in the back myth, and sell apathy and despair.
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mattschmer.bsky.social @mattschmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This has serious meme potential
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Literally every fucking election, except maybe 2 of my adult life
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/09/2026
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Neutrality always faults to the benefit of the authoritarian. This is why the mainstream media inadvertently ends up in a trap of normalizing what's happening. We need independent media that doesn't feel bound by those things and can just tell the truth."
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i suggest we actively get on with the very hard work of Fucking Changing Everything. literally nothing left to lose except everything anyone has left
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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"The plan? Get an alternative comedian best known for surreal anti-corporate pranks to follow me, a disgraced businessperson, into prison, and then just make as much eye contact with him as I possibly can."
Nathan Fielder in a suit and leather chair from "The plan?" meme
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Are they going to just do this until the election? Has any Republican been asked to react to Elon Musk's long record of outrages now that he's inserted himself in this election in a way Hasan Piker could only dream of?
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Photo of a female Canadian military diver, in the style of Kendrick Lamar's DAMN album
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He's just going to has the post office throw out the mail-in ballots for entire counties that didn't vote for him in 2024. It's the most efficient way to get what he wants.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/08/2026
like come on bsky.app/profile/cing...
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mattschmer.bsky.social @mattschmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some heroes wear buttoned up plaids.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
a west coat skater in buttoned up flannel saying “I’m a local” is not a brag, that’s a warning. “I’ve got homies watching this right now who will fuck you up in seconds”
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mattschmer.bsky.social @mattschmer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This sounds a lot like Berlin in the post WWI years.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The "school security industry" is a way to bankrupt school districts by redirecting funding away from teachers and giving it to various kinds of cop-adjacent chuds instead. The Plot To Enslave America
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The way Donald Trump serves a tiny, inordinately rich group of donors without even pretending that he’s trying to help anyone else is the most Republican thing about him.
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I also bristle at the idea that academic freedom means you can say any ole thing without evidence. Hell, if I say the police are predatory in my research, I have to pull fifteen thousand cites, but race scientists get to call me inherently dumb because I’m Black just cause? Absolutely not.
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Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In France, he’d be given up to 5 years paid medical leave and he wouldn’t go broke paying for treatment since 100% of the treatment cost would be covered by Sécurité Sociale. We could have these things too but the rich would be just slightly less rich so not sure it’s worth it.
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grave rob @broccolirob.gobirds.online · 20/08/2026
It’s very simple: we can either have a society where anti-vaxxers feel heard and understood and not discriminated against, or we can have a society that actually functions. We can’t have both.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is a truly INSANE story.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We have a major Democratic law firm, two major party committees, and two media outlets dead to rights suppressing research into how digital fundraising firms scam seniors and barely a peep from the national press corps or elected officials. A goddamn shame.
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Wabi Sabi For Costco Frankenstein Heads @wabisabi4robots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Werner Herzog with a word balloon
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.
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Booo-ca Soppres-satantic. @lucasalami.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Have seen people call speed cameras modern redlining and just nope. The usual reply seems to be they're just revenue generating schemes, and like sure cool whatever. If the state wants to levy a tax on me I can choose not to pay by not speeding then let's fucking go. Optional tax!
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The same people who want you to show specialized government ID to vote in popular elections don’t think you need to show *proof of life* to vote in the *United States Senate*
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026
It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This dude has a pathological resistance to anything that is different or new. Everything he does is either something that he's done a million times before (e.g., only going to his golf courses) or he shamelessly copies from elsewhere (the Arch). And it's infected the entire federal government.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
like the reason they do not speak up for Palestinian activists on campus but DO speak up for The Racism Professor is because they are not for the principle of free speech on campus. They disagree with the Palestinian activists but agree with the Racism Professor. bsky.app/profile/jand...
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