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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fair, but also I feel like asking "is this a bot?" is now standard practice when encountering literally anything on the internet

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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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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Never let them deny your truth

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Clark retrofitting Musk's "woke mind virus" to any concept that doesn't fit his mental model of AI research is a good example of the way that "AI" functions as a political project with bizarre ideological component.

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I had the exact same thought, something is wrong with that

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This reminds me of the time the tobacco industry did a cost/benefit analysis of public health smoking restrictions using "lost enjoyment of smoking" as a cost

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John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jeopardy: The answer is “You are.” *dog contestants cock their heads to one side

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Freelancers work harder and with more bravery than anyone

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What is going on with that jacket?

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At this point we should be telling people to not vote by mail, right?

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What are the strongest and/or most common results?

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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

That's some good Wisconsin trolling

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

People seem to have liked this post, so here's a good example thread if you want to feel the thrill for yourself www.reddit.com/r/PickAorB/s...

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

encouraging everybody to follow @capitalbgary.bsky.social, one of the few outlets doing sustained coverage on the power outages in Gary

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ok sure, there's a trend, but is it significantly Wednesday?

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Wife: The trash is overflowing. Can you-- Me: Well I can't take it out but here's what I'll say. We need a strong trash can. And I'm committed to reforming the kitchen so the trash doesn't pile up

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is like some kind of recursive Turing test mindfuck

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One Medical used to be good. I was a subscriber for years. Then Amazon bought it and things that used to be easy to do online started requiring an in-person visit, presumably to maximize billing.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 01/08/2026

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is it, the entire conspiracy: In early 2020, Fauci and a bunch of scientists thought the virus could be engineered. Then they did more research and found that it didn't show any evidence of that. Nothing we've learned since has overturned this finding.

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Anything can be reduced by 600% if you're bad at math enough

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Is this like that Twilight Zone where it's normal to look like a pig alien

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Susie To Go @susietogo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@bridgettodd.bsky.social and @tangoti.bsky.social are doing some really good episodes about this, btw, in case you're interested.

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This thread provides great context, ty

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Does anyone have a good link to an explanation of how these gas stations are supposed to work? The USA Today article is shockingly light on detail

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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 06/07/2026

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

A screenshot from Adobe Acrobat showing the toolbar which includes the following options:
Edit a PDF
Generated Podcast [New]
Create PDF Space
Export a PDF
Create a PDF

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):

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The US Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer. What’s the Holdup?

An extraordinary cancer statistic recently dropped in a major medical journal: zero.

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thanks for the informative read. I hope those strategic considerations factor more heavily into the US's decision than how much graft Turkiye is willing to give Trump or his children

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Loitering" is such a weird verb for a national memorial

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

BIG NEWS! New podcast coming out THIS MONTH! Native people have been left out of the story of America—but without us you don’t know what happened. FIRST AMERICA tells the true story of how this country started and how we got here. Subscribe now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Illinois expanded vote-by-mail because we believe voting should be easier, not harder. Now, Trump’s handpicked Postmaster General is threatening to withhold mail ballots unless states turn over voter rolls. That's not election security. It’s voter suppression.

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Arboreal legal drama on reddit is one of my favorite content categories

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Police unions are a real stain on the union movement overall, in practice

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It looks like the Charlottesville Unite The Right march

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Mike @mikeamato.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Incredible use of alt text 10/10

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