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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters:
I can comprehend, and do, that lots of people don’t believe climate change is real, but is there some great benefit in me listening, again, to those who refuse to listen to the global community of scientists and see the evidence before our eyes? A lot of why the right doesn’t “understand” climate change is that climate change tells us everything is connected, everything we do has far-reaching repercussions, and we’re responsible for the whole, a message at odds with their idealization of a version of freedom that smells a lot like disconnection and irresponsibility. But also climate denial is the result of fossil fuel companies and the politicians they bought spreading propaganda and lies for profit, and I understand that better than the people who believe it. If half of us believe the earth is flat, we do not make peace by settling on it being halfway between round and flat.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026
absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The emphasis on how autistic kids will "never pay taxes, never hold a job" (which is bullshit) gives the game away. He's a eugenicist who wants you to believe that people with autism can't be productive members of society and are therefore surplus to requirements.
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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 29/03/2025
We employ over 80 artists to carefully work on every single part of the animation and creative process. You will never get the nuance, complexity and beauty of a Ghibli film without the human hand and their love. We will never use AI to replace art in our works.
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𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Happy 226th Birthday to John Brown, the only white boy to ever truly understand the assignment
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...
President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 09/04/2026
Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.
The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy
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mertvayaruka.bsky.social @mertvayaruka.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Last words

Upon the reading of his death warrant, he supposedly remarked, "I see that you have made three spelling mistakes." However, this version appears to derive from a five-act play Marion de Lorme by Victor Hugo, written in 1828 and performed in 1831. Ferdinand Rothschild gives the quotation as "Permit me to point out that you have made three mistakes in spelling". One source says merely that "Favras then quietly corrects the spelling and punctuation errors made by the clerk in his statement".
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 02/03/2026
Uh no...we definitely realize it.
Quote from Washington Times editorial board

"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 09/12/2025
terrifying if true! Wondermark #1020; The Unknown Knowns
A guy with a Napoleon III mustache is consulting a newspaper and speaking with a fellow sporting epaulets.

FAUXPOLEON: I heard — and I don’t know if it’s true — that DOGS are just genetically modified HUMAN INFANTS. Isn’t that OUTRAGEOUS? Who DID that? What ELSE don’t we know about dogs??

E’PAUL: That is not true.

FAUXPOLEON: I don’t KNOW if it’s true or not. But just think of what it MEANS! People EXPERIMENTING on BABIES!

E’PAUL: Indeed. Good thing it’s not true!

FAUXPOLEON: You gotta ADMIT that it’s SCARY to think about!

E’PAUL: As a thought experiment? Okay. As a falsehood examined AS a falsehood on its face? Okay.

E’PAUL: As a valid piece of actual real information worth debating as if it WERE true when it is demonstrably NOT? No.

FAUXPOLEON: It MIGHT be true!

E’PAUL: It is not.

FAUXPOLEON: It might be SOMEDAY.

E’PAUL: Okay.

FAUXPOLEON: What should we DO about it?

E’PAUL: Nothing.

FAUXPOLEON: You’re so PASSIVE. You never want to take a STAND.

E’PAUL: For… for DOGS BEING INFANTS? This is the hill you want to die on, huh
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud *More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job *37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate *36% believe NASA faked the moon landing *1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
a graph showing the results described in the text
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Celestial Fang 🩸 Artist @celestialfang.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I am now 1/3 of the way through my lifespan pls share my art? :3
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Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The four illustrations I have created so far for the series "Animals in the Move" for @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social More coming soon! #sciart #art
Illustration of noctule bat chasing a moth #bats #insectsIllustration of hyenas #mammalsIllustration of bonobos climbing a tree #bonobo #primateIllustration of an orangutan climbing a tree #orangutan #apes
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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Karistina Lafae 🧚‍♀️ AuDHD Bedbound Faerie Godmother @karistinalafae.northsky.social · 24/09/2025
I'm joining the War on Autism on the side of AUTISM.
Screencap from the Moulin Rouge movie scene "Spectacular, Spectacular" featuring the main cast performing a ridiculous musical number in silly costumes.

Text reads: I'm joining the War on Autism on the side of autism.
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
There is no compromise policy Democrats can offer Republicans to make them act normal on this issue. We simply have to state the basic reality — immigrants contribute to our country in myriad ways — and fight for it. I don't know how so many journalists convinced themselves this isn't an option.
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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like. To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/08/2025
The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.
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Bryan Heemskerk @bryanheemskerk.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Week of Metroid day 4 🎵I love Metroid Prime... Prime #metroid #pixelart
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Lesly ✨️ @leslyoh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Maomao and Shisui 🥰 #ApothecaryDiaries #薬屋のひとりごと #shimao
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ABSingh @absingh.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Happy 39th Anniversary, Samus! I realized I never drew Zero Suit, so I opted to change that. While including violence 😂 #メトロイド #Metroid
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mertvayaruka.bsky.social @mertvayaruka.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Monstress is such an incredible graphic novel. Can’t recommend it enough.
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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Even if you don't purchase smut, it should be common sense that the right for anyone else to obtain it shouldn't be completely up to modern day crusaders and credit card payment processors.
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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It's my birthday, and I brought you cake! the best gift you can give is a repost 🙇
an illustration by Spindle of the characters Ottilie and Asimov. Ottilie (on the right, a brown/orange haired human sitting down and gesturing with her hands next to Asimov, who's lying on the floor in shorts reading a book.(on the right, white haired half-elf)
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wasp Kelly made me do this one. #smbc
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 21/04/2025
With Andor Season 2 dropping tomorrow, it's worth recalling that Season 1 contained the best bit of writing ever in Star Wars.
There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
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Freedom to Read Project @freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
As declared by the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books, today is We Need Diverse Books Day! Every child deserves to see themselves in the pages they read—and to discover stories that open their eyes to lives unlike their own. #WeNeedDiverseBooks #FreedomToRead #LetBooksBeBooks #RepresentationMatters
Group of diverse people reading books on a green hill surrounded by shrubs and flowersList of ways to support diverse booksContinued list of ways to support diverse books
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Anaugi [COMMISSIONS OPEN] @anaugi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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mertvayaruka.bsky.social @mertvayaruka.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Listening to the Independence Days episode of @mikeduncan.bsky.social ‘s amazing Martian Revolutions podcast.
A meme based on the But It Might Work For Us Meme. In the first panel, Tobias says, “Armed guards keep using neutron guns against unarmed Martian civilians.” In the second panel, Lindsay asks, “Well did it work for those people?” In the third panel, Tobias replies, “No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but…” followed in the fourth panel by him continuing, “…but it might work for us.”
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/03/2025
Aloy's story is about fighting back against the apocalyptic effects of hubristic tech CEOs whose greed and short sightedness destroyed civilization
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
100%
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
you want me to pray to god? the guy who killed jesus?
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Katelyn T Slater 🏳️‍⚧️⚛️⚧️ @katelynslater.com · 01/03/2025
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 01/03/2025
Like, I know so many editors and journalists and they’re so careful and thoughtful about their work. I’ve learned so much from them about using a public platform responsibly. And the NYT just straight up decided to make a power graph of which minorities and war victims are most important to them.
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
based on the power suit cuz i think the shoulders fit better
Samus in her new power up, the "Zoot Suit"
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
When volcanos spew lava what they're saying in the Volcanic language is "FEED ME BILLIONAIRES"
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The famous line about tech bros has been that their whole thing is seeing a person with a job and thinking "yes but what if they *didn't* have a job?" but now I think it's just looking at a person and thinking "yes but what if there *wasn't* a person?"
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