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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h
one of the wildest stories we don't know the slightest thing about is the story of Phoenician mariners from Beirut seeking out, and eventually finding, the source of their tin in Cornwall
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think pretty much every woman can understand this impulse right now.
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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some Fortune's Weave from me other at @mothership.blog this morning! It's time to talk Dietrich and Fabio! I was surprised how much Dietrich's route was a kind of love story, one whose various peculiarities end up twisting and turning through questions of gender and expression.
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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave's most unexpected pair is a fascinating tangle of sex and gender
"I could adopt the form of a woman so beautiful I would shine like the moon..."
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You might also be aware that gymnasia predate modernity by around 2,000 years, so it isn't 'modern day' work that is the issue.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
crazy how accurate this is
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The people who'll laugh or shrug off the 'nuke Los Angeles & San Diego comment' are the same people who wanted Mamdani to not be at the 9/11 commemoration.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a righteous act
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
very unfair frankly
YouTube commenters making fun of us
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 25/09/2026
Sure, Google Docs. Go on and tell me how I should replace the word "unimpressive" with "impressive."
Blue squiggle appears under the word unimpressive and the dialog box suggests to replace it with the word impressive
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Spomer Hockey @spomerhky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My read: this is a CYA document. ASU attaches its safety policies but never explains whether key requirements were met. Instead, it proposes a blue-ribbon panel on “best practices.” Apparently, examining tomorrow’s rules is easier than accounting for yesterday’s decisions.
newsroom.asu.edu
Events Related to ASU Hockey Player Matthew Mayich | Media Relations and Strategic Communications
September 21, 2026President Michael CrowVIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSIONRe:Initial Report on the Review of August 20 Events Related to ASU Hockey Player Matthew Mayich Dear President Crow,
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m sure this was university directed but this ain’t it. For a guy who called his players pussies last year to refuse to answer any questions is coward shit
nytimes.com
ASU men’s hockey coach avoids questions about workout that left player on life support
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lmfao Jesus Christ.....this is so delicious, it simply MUST be fattening 😂😈
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
33yrs ago the New York Times published an article criticising Federico Fellini and other foreign language films — calling them "hard work". MARTIN SCORSESE sent this in response.
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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can trace the decline of American society through DraftKings/FanDuel ads. In 2015 when they first infected sports, fans were so mad they stopped. In 2026 every league & network gets a cut, so fans are still mad but we're forced to suffer. The customer is always wrong, now.
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remember when he and Putin got caught on a mic and Putin was rambling about how biotechnology was going to let people live forever and Xi was trying to make small talk.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21/09/2026
What better way to show off our city to 50 visiting mayors than from the roof of a double decker bus?
Mayor Mamdani and 50 mayors of cities around the world ride a double decker bus in NYC. Mayor Mamdani and 50 mayors of cities around the world ride a double decker bus in NYC.Mayors from around the world ride a double decker bus in NYC. Mayor Mamdani and 50 mayors of cities around the world ride a double decker bus in NYC. 

A smiling bicyclist pops a wheelie alongside the bus.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
If I was in charge they wouldn’t have called it a Peep Show they woulda called it a Peakeasy
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
so fucking STRESSED
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I crinkled his crinkle ball and no one has ever wanted anything with more intensity.
A tiny tuxedo kitten making 0_0 face at the camera, poised and ready to pounce as soon as I throw the crinkle toy
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minimum population size for local government in general would solve literally hundreds of problems. Lots of cities should be annexed or disincorporated.
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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Jim @jimstewart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Gambling problem? Place a bet and find out! - Draft Kings, official sponsor of the NFL.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay
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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Do you let your pets on the bed" If my cat had her way i wouldn't be allowed on the bed. Humans insisting on sleeping in her bed is one of the things that annoys her most about us
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My read is that there aren’t five votes to let Trump literally rig elections. Roberts and Barrett won’t greenlight overt election subversion or chaotic, illegal interference with voting. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch aren’t reliable but don’t love the chaos either. Thomas and Alito want to end democracy.
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Once again I am asking why this happens to indie games and not big blockbusters where you can fuck the bear or go to strip clubs. And once again I know the answer
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
RIP to the guy who convinced us all that Tina Turner was tall
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You cannot understand emergency management today without understanding how the Bush administration & Congress took advantage of the post-9/11 shock to create the homeland security apparatus.
Just a few months later, two planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the window was opened for the largest reorganization of the federal government since the National Security Act of 1947. US emergency management was turned upside down, as reckless policy decisions that contradicted decades of disaster research and emergency management expertise were imple-mented. 402 The cataclysmic post-9/11 policy changes laid the groundwork for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina and the levee failure only a few years later, 403 and still contribute to slow and ineffective responses today.The most significant of these changes was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. A month after 9/11, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) cosponsored a bill that took inspiration from the concept of the National Homeland Security Agency, proposing the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As had happened when Representative Thornberry introduced nearly the same bill in the House months before, hearings were held, but no vote taken. The Bush administration, with support from the Hart-Rudman findings, presented a similar bill to Congress in June 2002. With pressure from the White House, the bill finally passed, and DHS was created. FEMA was subsumed by DHS along with other agencies, including the Coast Guard and Secret Service. In the reorganization, FEMA lost its status as anindependent, cabinet-level agency. Across the country, emergency management agencies got whiplash. 404
As this drastic reorganization and refocus of the federal government was underway, Congress wanted answers about the circumstances that led to the 9/11 attacks including an analysis of how intelligence agencies had failed to communicate with one another before the attack. Most relevant for emergency man-agement, Congress also wanted a better understanding of the effectiveness of the response at the Pentagon and in New York City. The answers to these questions were compiled into the 9/11 Commission Report released in 2004.405 The 9/11 Commission's findings concerned many emergency management ex-perts. 406 The Commission found that the immediate life-saving response measures conducted at the Pentagon had been success-ful. On the contrary, they criticized the response measures in New York City as uncoordinated.This conclusion ran counter to the findings of disaster researchers in important ways. Disaster scholars documented first responders running into the towers, despite knowing they might never run back out. Inside the towers, people banded together to help each other out of the buildings, carrying coworkers who were disabled down dozens of flights of stairs, resulting in upward of sixteen thousand people evacuating in just 102 minutes.
Those who died were largely located on the floors above where the planes collided, making evacuation impossible.
Those who escaped the towers found people outside ready to guide them out of the dust. Local businesses opened their doors to offer refuge, and others handed out water or bandaged
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MasterCard Lola Powertrain Engineer @stuckfuelnozzle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He was calling the next 20 years on SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2001 If I had written these words on that day, and been THIS CORRECT, literally no one could tell me nothing for the rest of my life.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.
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J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is my 9/11 take. The Discourse over whether it was a time of "solidarity" or "division" (or whatever terms people prefer) is fundamentally a process of competitive mythmaking that we're seeing play out in real time.
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The country went a little crazy after 9/11" is broadly true but this country also went a little crazy in the Civil War/Reconstruction era, the Depression, the Civil Rights era, and COVID. Society has weird collective responses to traumatizing and scary events.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey New Yorker here The most awful thing that happened during 9/11 is what Senator Slotkin is doing. Someone with no actual ties , whose spent a lot of their time mocking the "wokeness" that made my beautiful city Using one of the WORST days of our history to steal our story for an agenda
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Bitter Burnout @mercurialjove.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is extremely true and I will add: it’s far easier to be traumatized than many realize, and also we have all been spared the most horrific and traumatizing bits of that day by the survivors in NYC who chose not to film it and cannot bear to talk about it.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Man they really bungled this whole situation in ways no one had considered bungling it before.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
72 Hour Special Military Operation to DeIslamize Iran Update: Fuck
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