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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 4h

the institutional sanction of sexual violence against women and the state trying to kill a woman and failing. galling to take those together

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4h

The conservative justices of the Supreme Court are torturing a human being to death.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

the october surprise is october being tomorrow

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 14h

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 14h

This an incredible rhetorical device and I hope more people pick this up. Might be a critical part of a framework for moving through whatever this is we’re going through.

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Sun God Bran & the Louisiana Drug Deals @branbuilt.co · 30/09/2026

Evergreen:

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please give these journalists their flowers.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Update I crossed 2 things, both relatively low effort and one involving some vulnerability (submitting to a conference), off my goals list.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Can't nobody tell me NOTHING today; I crossed off a pretty low effort yet still scary thing of my list of semester goals.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Underappreciated in this clip: the very Midwestern kind of shit-eating not-quite-a-grin from Amy Klobuchar as she says, "Could it be the University of Iowa Hawkeyes?"

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Phat Bottom Betty @the-cigar-girl.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I’m a cusser. I love to cuss. And it has nothing to do with my inability to use other words to get my point across, I just like it. Shit!

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Trying to explain being Very Online to an aggressively normie colleague and she keeps looking at me like

An older gentleman in a tuxedo sits at a piano. He looks like he’s been tired since before Thatcher.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Free idea: a reimagining of The Parent Trap where Kate Berlant and Katherine Hahn are trying to get their shared elderly parents back together. Running Gag: nobody believes that they’re twins but they totally are.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

The joke is that I was an underemployed, overcredentialed, aggrieved young person BEFORE I started my Masters program.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminism has been a net positive. Period. Let's move along.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

One of the things that annoys me the most about being an adult is the lack of intellectual curiosity from other adults.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is no problem to which Rahm Emanuel running for president is the solution.

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anna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what do you know the most predicable thing happened when a bunch of you decided lolcow farming was ok when you do it

lastditchbar on instagram:

Our community should expect more details in
the future. Today we need to address the safety
of the community itself. Stop harassing Soe
Noire. It is neither productive, progressive, nor
valiant to attack and harass a black patron. He
has been a collaborator and performer of Last
Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his
mind about accountability and repair from the
bar. There are so many misconceptions due to
the disorganization of the Globe's article. He did
not call for a shutdown, nor did he call for the
bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not
disparage the owner for being homeless. As a
result of this abysmal journalism, Soe has been
getting additional threats, slurs, and
harassment, and now he is being reported to the
police over something he did not do. This is not
supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is at its core,
anti-blackness hysteria.

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Michael @scottgoblue314.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you liked "Musicology Duck goes on a wild bus ride to Vienna," you'll love "former Psyduck gets stranded by the airline in Reykjavik"

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

I cannot overstate the degree to which my ongoing and increasing difficulty with getting around using NORTA is unsustainable, nor the degree to which I feel completely unable to change the circumstances.

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frankie 😷🎃🍂🍉 @plant-witch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/samg...

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

I would proudly wear this pin. An actual artist should make this.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

I truly thing the replies to this are a huge part of the problem. Seems like many are responding to these findings by either a) rushing to say that the kids are the problem; or b) rushing to view this through the lens of their existing hobby horses. Much less taking young adults at their word.

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Magnus Lehnsherr @i-magnus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jonquel Jones hits the "too small" on Angel Reese. #WNBA

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21/09/2026

Chris Van Hollen issues the first ever call by a Democratic member of Congress for US officials to be sanctioned by other countries

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Gina! It almost certainly will be closer than this, but holy cow!

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

I see we’re in desperate need of a refresher on history.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Question for the data nerds: has any President done this badly or worse in any poll ever?

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Leg day got me out here walking like a baby deer 😭

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Starting off strong today, by oversleeping by 1.5 hours and, via the power of Anita Baker, still making a bus that would keep me pretty close to on time.

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Ryan Ottignon @ryaninevanston.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Evanston and Rogers Park: @thedailynu.bsky.social is investigating ICE agents appearing to injure a U.S. citizen near this intersection ~2h ago, and how the Evanston Police Department handled it. If you have videos, images, or saw what happened, my contact info is below. We will keep you anonymous.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

I’m working on a paper (that hopefully I can share soon) that sort of speaks to this from the perspective of sociology and Foucault.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 21/09/2026

This is why we need more trans people in media since points like these don’t get brought up in context from a cis perspective.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

What if the confluence of the big topics on here this weekend was that there’s actually lots of ways that living according to one’s ideological commitments involves navigating contradictions, the resolution of those contradictions can have tangible impacts on ourselves and others, the rewards can be

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Idk that the director did that on purpose given how this thing ends.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Very much getting the message from the universe today that any illusions I have that my time is valuable or important are a lie and that feels bad!

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

I think this has to be the lesson of the 21st century so far, and the fact that an increasing number of people are taking the opposite way (rules are for suckers) is maybe THE big problem of our time.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Seems like the only response to this is for every other member of the WH press corps to refuse to work inside the White House starting right now. Anything less is unacceptable.

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Cognitive Cunt @meelajay.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

USING YOUR LIBRARY CARD IS REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS ... PASS IT ON 🗣 September is national library card sign up month! Don't let the month go by without getting yours!

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

I don’t have the skills, but this needs a very specific photoshop. Yall know what it is.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

I do miss the mountain and the few friends I had there, but basically nothing else about Seattle

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

We have got to find a way to set and enforce a norm that you don’t block more seats on public transit than you physically must. This bus isn’t that crowded, and yet people are standing because multiple people are sitting in the aisle seat and not letting people into the window seat.

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