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Isaac Loewen

@midoctkirk.bsky.social
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Lifelong horror fan working in publishing. (He/him)

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 10h
a lot of unfamous but working comics have been able to eke out a living in large part due to royalty checks from siriusxm's raw dog comedy channel. six months ago, sebastian maniscalco bought it and the channel now heavily features already famous comics, and the checks for smaller acts have dried up
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Siriusxm — Stand Up For Stand Up
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 8h
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The "Is AI alive" conversation is 100% this, too. If you can be conned by a chatbot, I fear for your general safety. You are the guy at the stripclub who think the dancers really like you.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There are 1000 reasons to hate generative AI, but the one that goes undetected is the complete and total destruction of humanity's core epistemological understanding of the world. Everything else is downstream of that, and the consequences are only going to get more horrifying if this isn't stopped.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Way to center the story on the wrong damned person.
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
one of the core stories of the “woke 1” era was about a rapist who was rewarded with a seat on the supremely court in direct response to his victim coming forward, that subsequently ruled that women have no legal ownership of their own reproductive organs
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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
trans lives are playing pieces on a game board to cis ""allies"". they pass ally points back and forth with each other while using us as tools with which to post dunks instead of helping us in any political or material way. they're not really our friends and will get angry at us when we speak up.
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allison gill, @muellershewrote.com, posting a facebook meme from jaye mcbride. it says this stupid bullshit:  

"I'm renaming
'transgender'
as 'Super Gender'.
Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every day
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 03/10/2026
Lethal injection as a "humane" way of killing someone has always been about the people watching, never about the human experiencing death at the hands of the State.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this would genuinely hit much better if he hadn't chosen to throw trans kids under the bus
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Bex 🖤🏴 @thinlyveiledtruth.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/09/2026
Protect her. Hide her, move her, crowd around her, whatever she needs and consents to. Community defense now.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joe Biden didn't put Trump in jail and he's on the hook for everything that's going on with Trump 2 up until now. That's on him. But we have a chance to course correct and clean up the mess. We can't do that with weak leadership unwilling to protect this country and the people in it.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you claim to have never heard Crazy Frog’s “Axel F,” it says more about you than it does Mr. Frog. This about virtue signaling that you are better than entire genres of music, that your friends are not in the custom ringtone game.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i am growing very close to convinced that Andy Beshear actually Believes in Things.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unironically the PNW mindset lol
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Skeleton Crew ruled. Tons of fun. The problem is, as I’ve said before, Star Wars fans are very good at articulating what they want and very bad at wanting what they’ve articulated.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Any Republican senator can be racist, but it takes a special one to work in racism while expressing the rare good position!
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's important we listen to the man who spent over a billion dollars to make Quibi
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This genuinely has to be one of the worst 'best of' lists I have ever seen. Like, are we really gonna pretend Bob's Burgers doesn't make this list but Louie does??
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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 25/09/2026
the conversation over Iced Coffee isn't about iced coffee it's about the social contract breaking down younger ppl have seen that employers are not upholding their end of the bargain (stable career) so they're not bothering to uphold theirs (playing the stupid corporate social games)
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you post “What if his neck just did that?” on the wrong day, you’ll get a suspension. If you post “trans people chose to be sent to the camps” (paraphrasing), the head of “trust and safety” will write a ten-post thread about why he can’t even give you a warning.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i have said it before and ill say it again every single financial institution would benefit from paying a pink hair communist with a septum piercing to walk around the office all day saying “how fucking stupid are you people that you actually believe this shit?”
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It tells you all you need to know about the role of policing in general that the people who are constantly shrieking about low-level crime and homelessness and bike lanes (lol) as intolerable intrusions on our quality of life have no problem with this
Private cars completely blocking a public sidewalk near a Bronx station house, rendering it unusable
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read in ages. This is not accurate. This is some sci-fi bro woo woo nonsense. Please do not take this seriously.
Will Stancil writing: Yes, Als think. You can read their thoughts as they have them. Al companies hide the Al's thoughts because other Al companies might read them and use those thoughts to train their own Als. This is all very strange and astonishing science fiction territory but it's real.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this shit does not work on me. go try it on the centrists who call trans women "biological men."
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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.com · 13/09/2026
James Talarico saying very gently, very sweetly, “Obviously trans girls aren’t ACTUALLY girls, and in fact may be inherently dangerous to REAL girls,” as an olive branch to Texas conservatives on Fox News is infinitely more violent and dangerous than the rhetoric of a powerless trans person venting
George Pearkes • @peark.es
The position "I would mass murder [any group] for any improvement of [other group]" is indistinguishable from Nazism. This is one of the most disgusting political opinions I've ever seen posted on this site (though of course the only person who needs to answer for it is the poster themself).

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Just to make our position clear and obvious for all the bigots who are going to be seeking clarity and what is surely ambiguous messaging to them: I would happily grind every cishet centrist liberal into catfood if doing so made one working class trans life better.
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Somebody was opining the other day that Crockett should have gotten the Dem senate nomination instead of Talarico and…lol.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026
“everyone on bluesky is 38” is a defense mechanism
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the right wanted to turn Charlie Kirk into their Reichstag Fire, but instead they accidentally turned him into their Harambe
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
All I ask is for political journalists to get merely as angry about this as they did when Obama tried to move Fox News's seat to the second row in the WH briefing room.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Seriously if any president ever did this besides him he would be gone in 5 seconds. Yet it won't be above the fold every day for the next month and it won't be the leading story on cable news every day until the midterms even though it should be.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
Today in "fuck this administration"
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Isaac Loewen @midoctkirk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There’s nothing I hate more than a Canadian who wades hip deep into American politics and then tries to back out at the first sign of pushback. How many residential schools were in your province?
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Pitch perfect description, succinct as hell. This is a scam foisted on morons who aren't smart enough to realize they're stupid. The scammers themselves can't build shit (Musks track record in this space is well documented) but the suckers are unwilling to accept that. Perfect storm of foolishness
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Isaac Loewen @midoctkirk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
None of the Muslim kids in my class came to school that day. Someone had a cell phone and called one. He said their parents were terrified of what we would do to them. We were 13 and couldn’t comprehend the violence that was coming for Muslims and Sikhs across the US. That’s what I remember on 9/11
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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
thought I remembered this guy from somewhere.....
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If Democrats get to 50 or 51, he's going to flip. Which is why if they get to 52, they should strip him of his committee assignments and exile him from the party. No tolerance for this shit. Democracy is on the line.
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