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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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джона хилл Jonah Hill
Alt: Jonah Hill looking like I feel aka trump jumping up and down on our last nerve.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
“If Mark Zuckerberg is talking he is lying to” is the only safe assumption. If you are using Muse I am afraid you are getting suckered yet again, this time with personal consequences instead of just societal ones.
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What is he doing with his hands? He looks like he’s going to break out the chicken dance. His nipples will of course, be starting two minutes earlier.
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Charlie Brown Does the Chicken Dance
Alt: Charlie Brown Does the Chicken Dance
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So yeah, if you suppress all knowledge of queerness, then on some level, you do end up with fewer openly queer people. You get to have more miserable, self-hating stunted people instead. YAY YOU WIN. If you just want us gone, then yeah, that's a victory condition.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Aaron Persky. That's the name of the judge who normalized wrist slapping for rapists when he talked about Brock Turner's lost future over the damage Turner did to that woman. I remember his name. I remember that California held a special election to yank him from the bench. And succeeded.
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There’s a lot but this one always has a special place in my heart
A still from Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire with the angel standing on the edge of a building looking down on the city. It’s black and white with the angel wearing a black trench coat.
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They weren’t so worried about their identities when they were bragging in that group chat.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026
Yeah Again irresponsible reporting sigh
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14 DAYS 'TIL ULTRON'S BYKE @rochardscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gen X, rolling up for Jasmine Guy:
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Avengers Assemble: Epic Endgame Battle
ALT: Avengers Assemble: Epic Endgame Battle
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s essential we teach our boys ongoing informed consent. It can’t wait for puberty; it has to start with the very first discussion of their bodies. It opens them up to communication and encourages empathy for their partners. Toxic masculinity is a learned behaviour so teach them something else.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
This whole article is so bleak. Maybe try accepting your kid for who they are?
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I fucking hate humans
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can guarantee that the folks who wrote “I can sing a rainbow” never encountered the colour of Alex Jones’ rant face.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
When people say "you can't do that these days" they always seem to mean "make a movie where you say the n-word" and not "rise up in rage and terrify the entire food and drug industry into putting safety seals on every product."
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And unlike conventional medicine that requires a giant list of all the ways humanly possible for the drug/treatment etc to hurt or kill you, Wellness never has a warning label or list of side effects and it absolutely never admits it could kill you.
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The ‘Wellness’ industry has a great name; who doesn’t want to be well? BUT it can kill you. The Greek health ministry says there’s no framework governing anti-aging clinics. The doctors should be punished and we need REGULATIONS in every country to prevent harm. www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...
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Doctors face life sentence over Greek pop star’s death
Doctors at a clinic where a major Greek pop star died last week in a blood cleaning treatment could face life in prison after prosecutors on Monday upgraded the charges against them.
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Jolene @sjbroadside.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Given their prior announcement of "we have no plans to collaborate with anyone on Wizard School IP", I want to assume that this is WOTC R&D wanting to have solid data with which to tell upper management "no, people do not want this and we'll be shooting ourselves in the foot if we do it".
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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Look, I don't want to dogpile on the OP, but the sentence "In what universe would an engineering student ever study history?!" may be the single saddest thing I've read all weekend.
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did someone disconnect his legs?
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
Not capable of closing one either www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLkO...
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Donald Trump just LEAVES his open umbrella outside the plane
YouTube video by Daily Mail World
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That’s a lot of less than muscular religious white dudes gathered there. Not entirely sure of the collective noun for them would be? A “blandness of” religious white dudes? Or a “bad hair year”…? A “potential sex crime”…?
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump has a rapist's idea of negotiation, foreign policy, and domestic policy. He gets off violating consent and DARVO'ing, making money in the process is just a bonus for him.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sanctuary animals showing their appreciation: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Important to remember that the uber-wealthy are an uncommonly anti-social, interpersonally repugnant group of people devoid of charm and values; it’s how they got that way. They elevate their own.
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@juliethecranky.bsky.social @zenobiapaints.bsky.social
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lmao
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is what happens when you let billionaires trash your media.
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How terrified of aging do you have to be that eating a cup of live worms a day sounds like a good idea?
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine if more people with money cared about saving lives
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Currently demolishing the world’s largest slice of chocolate cake and I have no regrets.
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Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf: Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
Alt: Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf: Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m guessing they just turn the chart upside down when they show it to him.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Once again, the man is an open white supremacist who is promoting a global movement in support of the ideology and he’s already denied resources to millions of people in service of it.
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Part of what (I think) this essay is pointing to is that we should, in a nuanced adult society be able to hold two positions at the same time; it’s possible to hate what was said but also recognise that dark place that it came from.,folk out here saying “I would never…” Well god for you but a lot +
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 22/09/2026
Kentucky State University women’s basketball player Amina Seck remains detained by ICE six weeks after her arrest while going through security at the Louisville airport. Her attorney says Seck has been in four different detainment facilities.
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Lawyer of KSU basketball player detained by ICE says the student missed court date for surgery
Kentucky State University's Amina Seck has been in ICE custody since Aug. 7, according to her lawyer.
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do wonder wether Phillip had realised the ears weren’t really the problem.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm so glad he did this so that cishet white people know how terrible he is before he runs for president. Because they were never going to take the word of someone different from them.
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merlinslaugh.bsky.social @merlinslaugh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I haven’t slept more than an hour and a half for two nights so apologies in advance if my brain starts to trickle out my ears.
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